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I always advise in favor of a double major with one major being something sciencey and quantitative (math, natural science, engineering, computer science, et cetera) and the other being something you care about. If those categories overlap, then you have less work to do.
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Beyond the Reach of God
"Conway's Life has been proven Turing-complete, so it would be possible to build a sentient being in the Life universe"
Bit of a leap in logic here, no?
The leap is that the Church–Turing thesis applies to human (“sentient”) cognition. Many theists deny this.
I have three children. Does loving one mean that the other two are not special to me?? Does a parent only have enough love for one child? Why should it be so different for lovers?
I didn't understand this line of argument before I was poly, and I don't understand it now. Yes. Of course if you have multiple children they're individually less special to you! You have less time and energy for each, less brain-space to store facts about each, and you aren't even culturally allowed to have a favorite! There's a sense in which you "love them all equally", sure, but I'd be willing to bet that something like 75% of parents would be unable to claim that under Veritaserum.
As for why it should be different for lovers, the psychology about lovers and children is very different. It's a conceit of our current sensibilities that we even use the same word to refer to how we feel about those, our siblings, our pets, and ice cream. There is no reason in principle why we couldn't have been hardwired for extreme strict romantic monogamy and still love lots of children.
It's a conceit of our current sensibilities that we even use the same word to refer to how we feel about those, our siblings, our pets, and ice cream.
Which is why I sometimes taboo that word and try and explain exactly how I feel about my S.O. in other, more concrete, terms.
Though when people are immortal superbeings, I also expect it to become common that they'll spend a very long time if necessary searching for an instance of fairytale monogamy to be their first relationship.
I volunteer to be the evil villain who goes about poisoning damsels and locking them up in towers so that they role play rescues by knights in shining armor. I'll turn a few guys into beasts too in case they are feeling left out.
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Meetup : Research Triangle Less Wrong Meetup
I'm going to be out of town this week, but I'm pretty sure curiousepic will be there. Does anyone else want to commit to being there?
Sound like I'm missing a good meeting. Instead I was at a party with scientists.
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Meetup : Research Triangle Less Wrong Meetup
I'm going to be out of town this week, but I'm pretty sure curiousepic will be there. Does anyone else want to commit to being there?
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Overcoming Suffering & Buddhism
Break down the claims of Buddhism and test them individually against evidence. Bring me what's left.
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You might attract a broader audience if you removed references to Existential Risk and Transhumanism from your web page.