"The main strength of our species isn't that we're all really smart, it's that one really smart guy comes along once in a while and tames fire, invents the spear, invents pottery, invents calculus, etc, and the rest of us can learn from that person."
The spread of smarts (IQ?) is what works in our social species. Progress rests on our ongoing cultural store of knowledge, and individuals, no matter their IQ, are not pivotal in society's progress -- another individual will always come along who can see and voice it just as well.
The species, our society, move forward, the more we leave behind superficial and ideologically based rankings --and-- our pedestal obsessions.
"apparently I need to be a shit-ton clearer when posting on this site, because people here love to interpret things as negatively as possible so they can have a mental breakdown"
It's a big problem: things like people being unclear, people expecting everyone to have the same reference points, and people interpreting to fit their perspective. For example:
"Trade only in games / movies / music / books / etc that you can legally share with others. When media that can't be shared can't be sold... that will be the end of piracy and a great day for all of humanity."
"When you talk about sharing, I know for a fact you're talking about copying and giving someone that copy so they don't have to pay for it"
No, it's a major tuition increase. Minor increases to keep up with inflation have been happening each year for over 30 years but they have been called administration fee increases.
And why should tuition inceases be accepted in one place because they are accepted in others.
But maybe spanking is the way out for an adult who knows no other options or who chooses not to take the time needed to solve the situation otherwise which may or may not include changes in the adults behavior
"When a mother eats meat, her breast-fed child's brain grows faster and she is able to wean the child at an earlier age, allowing her to have more children faster, the article explains."
NOT what the article explains. They have a model that says carnivores wean faster than herbivores and omnivores (which humans certainly are, at least in our very recent evolution.) Then, they say their model's prediction for carnivores matches some human data. Which is odd, since we are omnivores, and our dental and digestive structure suggest we were previously herbivores. Possibly, other factors predicts larger brain size..
Article: "time to weaning predicted for a generic carnivore and non-carnivore with a brain mass equal to that of humans was compared to the actual time to weaning in a global sample of 46 human natural fertility societies. The sample fit the prediction based on the species in the carnivore group with regard to both mean value and distribution (left panel), but did not fit the prediction based on non-carnivore" THIS IS ALL THEY SHOW.
Plenty of chimps have varying degrees of monkey-hunting and other meat in their diet, couldn't they look at time-to-weaning within those chimp groups and see if meat consumption explains the variability? Or look in human societies if time to weaning varies with meat consumption?
Ridiculous article, stretched even further.
Sending DNA won't preserve human kind. DNA by itself is meaningless. DNA works within a complex cellular substrate. Human DNA without a human biological substrate cannot produce what we know as a human.
The paper is done by MITRE Corporation, I gave up reading it, scanned most of it and the results and method seem convoluted and unclear. By the way, the company's motto is: "Applying systems engineering and advanced technology to critical national problems"
Subjects use "arbitrary" factors to influence their decisions and they also take into account everything else to varying degrees. The brain "decides" the best it can and that includes relying on things like white matter, memory, and all its input up to, and, including the experiment's demand characteristics.
Assuming arbitrary and erroneous factors are quantitatively qualitatively different; we use all our resources to decide and if some of these factors and the degree they influence us seems arbitrary it is only because the decision process is more complex than we understand.
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"The main strength of our species isn't that we're all really smart, it's that one really smart guy comes along once in a while and tames fire, invents the spear, invents pottery, invents calculus, etc, and the rest of us can learn from that person."
The spread of smarts (IQ?) is what works in our social species. Progress rests on our ongoing cultural store of knowledge, and individuals, no matter their IQ, are not pivotal in society's progress -- another individual will always come along who can see and voice it just as well.
The species, our society, move forward, the more we leave behind superficial and ideologically based rankings --and-- our pedestal obsessions.
We need to value everyone more.
"apparently I need to be a shit-ton clearer when posting on this site, because people here love to interpret things as negatively as possible so they can have a mental breakdown"
It's a big problem: things like people being unclear, people expecting everyone to have the same reference points, and people interpreting to fit their perspective. For example:
"Trade only in games / movies / music / books / etc that you can legally share with others. When media that can't be shared can't be sold ... that will be the end of piracy and a great day for all of humanity."
"When you talk about sharing, I know for a fact you're talking about copying and giving someone that copy so they don't have to pay for it"
I'd use a different word because calling someone ignorant is taken as an insult by the average person.
Are you misreading what he meant on purpose
Who's insurance pays when a driverless car causes material damage or kills someone
s/better analogies/less polarized analogies
"Seriously, this is all about cementing a communist regime and preventing armed rebellion by the people."
Left-wing social dictatorships, right-wing capitalistic dictatorships, maybe we need better analogies
Reliable statistics are actually very common in all fields.
Guns enable many things one of which is violence
Changing economic focus can do wonders for employment, and the economy.
No, it's a major tuition increase. Minor increases to keep up with inflation have been happening each year for over 30 years but they have been called administration fee increases.
And why should tuition inceases be accepted in one place because they are accepted in others.
"The results of this study point toward contribution of minor and major perturbations in the two sub-networks of neuronal genes to ASD risk"
Notice genes *contribute* not cause, and they contribute to risk of ASD, not to ASD
Thanks
But maybe spanking is the way out for an adult who knows no other options or who chooses not to take the time needed to solve the situation otherwise which may or may not include changes in the adults behavior
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-meat-eating-reproduction-20120420,0,2388092.story
In the 1950s Robert G. Heath began using deep brain stimulation for many illnesses including depression.
Electrical self-stimulation of the brain in man
Modulation of emotion with a brain pacemaker
http://www.google.ca/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=Deep+Brain+Stimulation+in+Neurological+and+Psychiatric+Disorders&btnG=
Sending DNA won't preserve human kind. DNA by itself is meaningless. DNA works within a complex cellular substrate. Human DNA without a human biological substrate cannot produce what we know as a human.
Isn't that a big part of how the "rich" get rich in the first place?
Neuroplasticity-Based Cognitive Training in Schizophrenia
The paper is done by MITRE Corporation, I gave up reading it, scanned most of it and the results and method seem convoluted and unclear. By the way, the company's motto is: "Applying systems engineering and advanced technology to critical national problems"
Have you put any thought into whether that can actually be designed into a system ?
Conversely they are only mistakes if the intention was a perfect copy, which I doubt.
Yeah, as far back as we can see
Subjects use "arbitrary" factors to influence their decisions and they also take into account everything else to varying degrees. The brain "decides" the best it can and that includes relying on things like white matter, memory, and all its input up to, and, including the experiment's demand characteristics.
Assuming arbitrary and erroneous factors are quantitatively qualitatively different; we use all our resources to decide and if some of these factors and the degree they influence us seems arbitrary it is only because the decision process is more complex than we understand.