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Thanks for doing this interview dude. Good stuff.
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Neutralizing Physical Annoyances
If your ears are doing the "pressure change thing", like if you are in an airplane:
Pinch closed your nose, close your mouth tight, and try to "blow". The air has nowhere to go and it will "pop" your ears. Makes flying much easier.
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September 2016 Media Thread
Fiction Books Thread
Scott Bakker published the latest book in his 2nd Apocalypse series. The Great Ordeal. It's pretty awesome.
The series is 6 books in. The basic premise is that there is a secret monastery where people train to try and become fully aware of themselves, in the sense that they understand why/how they do everything. Mental martial artists, if that makes any sense, ultimate goal is to become "self moving souls", and escape the tyranny of cause and effect. Our protag has to leave the monastery and go out into the world, which is a typical fantasy bronze age hellhole.
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A model of arguments
Makes sense. You might want to draw the circles converging towards the end to represent one or both parties being persuaded, but that might not be realistic.
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No negative press agreement
This is pretty much just the Comics Code, yeah? It isn't going to fly in 2016.
Aw come on guys. Negative karma for literally pointing out a news site? What does that even mean?
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Open Thread, Aug. 22 - 28, 2016
Saw the site mentioned on Breibart:
Link: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/
Money Quote:
...Elsewhere on the internet, another fearsomely intelligent group of thinkers prepared to assault the secular religions of the establishment: the neoreactionaries, also known as #NRx.
Neoreactionaries appeared quite by accident, growing from debates on LessWrong.com, a community blog set up by Silicon Valley machine intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. The purpose of the blog was to explore ways to apply the latest research on cognitive science to overcome human bias, including bias in political thought and philosophy.
LessWrong urged its community members to think like machines rather than humans. Contributors were encouraged to strip away self-censorship, concern for one’s social standing, concern for other people’s feelings, and any other inhibitors to rational thought. It’s not hard to see how a group of heretical, piety-destroying thinkers emerged from this environment — nor how their rational approach might clash with the feelings-first mentality of much contemporary journalism and even academic writing.
Led by philosopher Nick Land and computer scientist Curtis Yarvin, this group began a ..."
I wasn't around back in the day, but this is nonsense, right? Nrx didn't start on lesswrong, yeah?
Aw come on guys. Negative karma for literally pointing out a news site? What does that even mean?
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Open Thread, Aug. 22 - 28, 2016
Saw the site mentioned on Breibart:
Link: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/
Money Quote:
...Elsewhere on the internet, another fearsomely intelligent group of thinkers prepared to assault the secular religions of the establishment: the neoreactionaries, also known as #NRx.
Neoreactionaries appeared quite by accident, growing from debates on LessWrong.com, a community blog set up by Silicon Valley machine intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. The purpose of the blog was to explore ways to apply the latest research on cognitive science to overcome human bias, including bias in political thought and philosophy.
LessWrong urged its community members to think like machines rather than humans. Contributors were encouraged to strip away self-censorship, concern for one’s social standing, concern for other people’s feelings, and any other inhibitors to rational thought. It’s not hard to see how a group of heretical, piety-destroying thinkers emerged from this environment — nor how their rational approach might clash with the feelings-first mentality of much contemporary journalism and even academic writing.
Led by philosopher Nick Land and computer scientist Curtis Yarvin, this group began a ..."
I wasn't around back in the day, but this is nonsense, right? Nrx didn't start on lesswrong, yeah?
I am curious as to whether you have tried the exercise (which is information if yes or if no). And if not - what kind of reasoning you could be used on yourself to convince you to actually try to do the exercise and reap the benefits of the result. (I don't mean to complain at you, or to accuse you at all, I am wondering about how to convince people to take action not just talk about taking action)
Yeah, I've tried to exercise as part of my weight loss strategy. Jogging, in particular, has been clutch. Putting out the stuff I was going to need the night before, not scheduling anything for running time...all the usual stuff was essential in pulling it off.
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