He used a capital "I" in the username instead of a lower-case "l", which look the same in a non-serif font. Slashdot doesn't actually allow duplicate usernames, even though there are unique user IDs (after all, the user page needs a unique URL and those use the username rather than ID, e.g. slashdot.org/~Prune/comments ).
>One thing I do see a lot of lately is a backlash against PC and just being nice to people. Not being an ass isn't PC
Then why lump them together in your first sentence? I don't think you needed to mention that there's a backlash against PC, as it's a red herring in this discussion.
In any case, good luck with getting them through any potential bullying.
How did she turned out in the end? If it was a success, why do you think it was?
I remember some studies that showed that peers have far more influence on their children than their parents do, yet I find it difficult to accept that is inevitable--such a thing would only promote even less attention to proper rearing.
I've become convinced that places like 4chan breed sociopathy (conclusion from my own experience and that I've shared with others) by promulgating desensitization, a sense of being free from consequences due to (pseudo-)anonymity, and placing a user in an environment where schadenfreude is considered a virtue.
There are several dozen other studies you can find that show emapthy can be taught in cooperating subjects. Note, especially, that in the second link, it was the affective part of empathy that was increased rather than the cognitive aspect of empathy--the very thing that the doubters presume cannot be influenced (affective part of empathy is usually associated with antisocials/narcissists/etc., whereas cognitive empathy is more affected in autism spectrum disorders and such).
>Two year olds are sociopaths. Fourteen year olds shouldn't be- they can sometimes be stereotypically *insensitive* due to their brains still developing
More bullshit. The prefrontal cortex doesn't complete development until early 20s and in adults its dysfunction is closely associated with antisocial behavior. There was a study some years ago that showed most children and adolescents, compared to normal adults, have significant impairment in recognizing facial expressions of fear (confusing it with things like surprise or disgust)--just like psychopaths, and that was also linked to incomplete prefrontal cortex development.
Sure, but why not use the quote that has matching semantics and actually belongs to Madison? "The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." It is not stylistically inferior.
I guess everyone has their pet interpretation. But there are some especially good ones, even if most people are particularly familiar with Copenhagen and many worlds. Here's one and a few other people fancy: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105097http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412182 and associated back-and-forth between the author and critics (also available on arXiv).
"nearly infinite" is not a reasonable term. It's either finite, or infinite, where the latter can be further classified into countable and uncountable infinities, or higher transfinites in the Cantor hierarchy. The main question is: are the possibilities finite or infinite? If they were infinite, you could use this to encode infinite amount of information in the physical system (by setting up a superposition state where the probability density is specified with arbitrary precision), which would break the Bekenstein bound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound
While a video would satisfy an instinctual curiosity of "what it looks like", it would, in this case, provide essentially no insight. Since when was the job of science entertainment--or even the job of Slashdot, for that matter? Calling it "dry" is not a valid criticism for a scientific subject.
Mod parent down. His comment is valid, but has little to do with the topic at hand. The purpose of implementing the sort of suggestions the ICRC makes is to influence the psychology of players, not to have a direct political effect. Here's a much better post that, unlike parent, didn't miss the point entirely: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4314685&cid=45070369
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Mod parent up.
Your post was moderated "Funny", but it should have been "Insightful".
>I can scan the much larger format much faster and focus on what interests me vs having to click multiple links on news websites.
Yes! You nailed it. Same with the comment on pleasure reading.
He used a capital "I" in the username instead of a lower-case "l", which look the same in a non-serif font. Slashdot doesn't actually allow duplicate usernames, even though there are unique user IDs (after all, the user page needs a unique URL and those use the username rather than ID, e.g. slashdot.org/~Prune/comments ).
It's the parents of the perpetrators of the bullying that are most at fault here.
>One thing I do see a lot of lately is a backlash against PC and just being nice to people. Not being an ass isn't PC
Then why lump them together in your first sentence? I don't think you needed to mention that there's a backlash against PC, as it's a red herring in this discussion.
In any case, good luck with getting them through any potential bullying.
How did she turned out in the end? If it was a success, why do you think it was?
I remember some studies that showed that peers have far more influence on their children than their parents do, yet I find it difficult to accept that is inevitable--such a thing would only promote even less attention to proper rearing.
Because their parents were also rotten bastards, ad infinitum, ad ubsurdum.
He's surely trolling.
I meant that others have shared with me, not the converse. So much for proof-reading...
I've become convinced that places like 4chan breed sociopathy (conclusion from my own experience and that I've shared with others) by promulgating desensitization, a sense of being free from consequences due to (pseudo-)anonymity, and placing a user in an environment where schadenfreude is considered a virtue.
Mod parent down:
>you can't teach empathy
I call bullshit. For example, http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/05/20/0956797612469537.short and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2333803
There are several dozen other studies you can find that show emapthy can be taught in cooperating subjects. Note, especially, that in the second link, it was the affective part of empathy that was increased rather than the cognitive aspect of empathy--the very thing that the doubters presume cannot be influenced (affective part of empathy is usually associated with antisocials/narcissists/etc., whereas cognitive empathy is more affected in autism spectrum disorders and such).
Even in psychopaths, empathy can be increased (as measured directly by imaging of brain activation, rather than relying on self-reporting from unreliable subjects): http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/136/8/2550.full?sid=a0dd82b4-a4aa-4af8-a9d2-e3d1ad6d2e97
>Two year olds are sociopaths. Fourteen year olds shouldn't be- they can sometimes be stereotypically *insensitive* due to their brains still developing
More bullshit. The prefrontal cortex doesn't complete development until early 20s and in adults its dysfunction is closely associated with antisocial behavior. There was a study some years ago that showed most children and adolescents, compared to normal adults, have significant impairment in recognizing facial expressions of fear (confusing it with things like surprise or disgust)--just like psychopaths, and that was also linked to incomplete prefrontal cortex development.
Try this one http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105097 http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412182 Point made about interpretations being equally wrong, but to borrow the phrasing of Animal Farm, some are more equally wrong than others...
I'm not an aderent to many worlds, but your argument against it flawed. The less fit ones simply occur with a smaller frequency.
Here's another good interpretation that avoids mixing up consciousness: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105097 http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412182
Many worlds is just one way to resolve the problem. There are others one that do effectively, without resorting to consciousness: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105097 http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412182
Sure, but why not use the quote that has matching semantics and actually belongs to Madison? "The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." It is not stylistically inferior.
I meant "one I and a few other"
I guess everyone has their pet interpretation. But there are some especially good ones, even if most people are particularly familiar with Copenhagen and many worlds. Here's one and a few other people fancy: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105097 http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412182 and associated back-and-forth between the author and critics (also available on arXiv).
"nearly infinite" is not a reasonable term. It's either finite, or infinite, where the latter can be further classified into countable and uncountable infinities, or higher transfinites in the Cantor hierarchy. The main question is: are the possibilities finite or infinite? If they were infinite, you could use this to encode infinite amount of information in the physical system (by setting up a superposition state where the probability density is specified with arbitrary precision), which would break the Bekenstein bound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound
While a video would satisfy an instinctual curiosity of "what it looks like", it would, in this case, provide essentially no insight. Since when was the job of science entertainment--or even the job of Slashdot, for that matter? Calling it "dry" is not a valid criticism for a scientific subject.
Not to be a pedant, but there is no record that Madison actually said or wrote the quote you've posted. See here: http://technoccult.net/archives/2011/10/16/did-james-madison-say/
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4314685&cid=45070369
You nailed it; best post under this story.
Mod parent down. His comment is valid, but has little to do with the topic at hand. The purpose of implementing the sort of suggestions the ICRC makes is to influence the psychology of players, not to have a direct political effect. Here's a much better post that, unlike parent, didn't miss the point entirely: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4314685&cid=45070369