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Robert Sapolsky- Behave

I know a couple that do lose a fair bit of nights sleep over their patients. Not the kind of doctors that cut up rat brains, but the ones handling dud...

Sapolsky Behave

I’ve lived with that since 1973

Necomer to this promising, laidback-ish looking thread. Scrolled a bit for that essay but didn't find it, can someone please repost it or the link to ...

Practical Reason is a very good one.

How is the Dunning–Kruger effect tied to persons leisurely discussing some lighter Philosophy? Remember my ”not stupid” in the heading. Only a stupid ...

something like that. And the more notable pro philosophers do in no way refrain from that. The philosophy history of Russel is great and amusing readi...

Another Idea is that people stay in the Bourdieuan habitat where they know the rules of that playfield and work with what they do best. An idea proven...

What haven’t I read?

Sure he can be casually analyzed. There are a heck of a lot in between repeating and scrutinizing everything with indignation cause what the dude says...

Thats a relief

Of course they do. There are times, like at work or in serious situation when you certainly do stay focused but my experience with friends being profe...

This bloke has 2,7k posts here... suppose he's the little sunshine of this forum.

Pinker was just an example. Read Enlightenment now. Just any kind of books not written for academy or wannabe academy. I’ve read throug stuff like S u...

Question 1: If there is such a thing as a "soul," where did it come from? Did God or any other diety create it? Guess evolution Question 2: If there i...

Been away half a year, saw this interesting thread start and went to the last page only to find people building drone view pyramids of arguments and c...

This bit about possibility and accomplishment... Silence can just be the current process. One want to comfortabily shut up. Gag the yapping neighbor t...

well there are openais to fix it up I suppose.

According to service for humankind. Intelligence and work ethics. Guess the richest guy or girl should be able to buy a kickass Mercedes and a Lambo, ...

Italian is the best language I’ve stumbled on so far, stringent, clear in pronounciation and well sounds pretty nice too. Like it more than French or ...

We get saturated in English from early age. Few things are dubbed except toddler tv programs. And we think american sounds kinda cool so yes we probab...

English only?

You don’t have to travel that far. Being a habitat journeyman from a lower tier Stockholm suburb one to an academical one will see that meaning questi...

At least, some channels claim to have neutral ambitions. Like our public media. It isn´t, in my opinion, bad at all. BBC, like. Unherd is another. I h...

Whats the truth about being able to do good computer programs? Or discussing say politics wisely? Whats the truth about abortion being right, handling...

Understanding something includes knowing when to take shortcuts. That AI example, ”a good chunk” of code (say a complex regexp) can be handed over to ...

Just throwing in a few things, like my 25c’s: - Laws of physics seem to be pretty universal. Reliable and boring. They seem to sum up all the stuff ab...

Of course, what "merit" is, would have to be defined and accepted. What a corntribution is and how valuable it is to society and mankind.

To back up to the OP, could there, even if all studied politics and so on exist anything as - a people? In something as big as a nation, even the smal...

Enfore meritocracy is by no means a contradiction, remember I am God. My goal is not the pleasure for mothers of rich cultural and social captial to “...

What is art therapy?

Yep, and even more that sketch where one of the pythons ends by saying to the cop,”wanna pop over to my place” “ok”, according to Cleese totally impro...

I come here because I have a naive love of knowledge. I don’t come here very often since the meticulous arguing and the logic part of philosophy is so...

God for a day, well first the normal stuff, erase poverty, clean endless energy sources to humans, enforce meritocracy worldwide and severe pain at ly...

On can chose not to accept it but solving anything non-trivial, one will bear it in mind. Was it Einstein that said “as simple as possible but not sim...

Two kids maximum is my policy, my wife raised havoc going for a third. But it seems probable that the world´s population should decrease nicely if you...

Until the charming teacher in first grade informs you that "santa does not exist", runing you whole day, sometime 1969 .still remember it, not with mu...

Glad for you guys if you can choose your thoughts. Mine just kinda pop up. Then, the logical guy up there starts arguing. But I dont think I ever choo...

A lot of good stuff said here since I was here about a week ago(working man). - uncertainties about the human part of the warming - people’s will to m...

Just a take on this : Philosophy is the strive to think and speek good. An absolutely vital part of any scientific project as well. The “observe” thin...

Who are "workers"?

Suppose most finnish people would have cheered at her sitting in a Sauna drinking from a bottle of Lapin Kulta and burping, while being whipped with a...

This is actually pretty smart, and an antidote to what progressive kids from wealty or academical families tends to go on about, wanting working peopl...

This has scared me everyday since 1973. And it aint getting better.

Good intentions might not be enough but they are at least a very good start. To acknowledge difficulties as what they are is the sign of a person not ...

And people, groups, nations, world haggle with that.

Rather a man who puts on an image of being right. Or at least, talking right.

Good question. Probably somewhere in the reigion of un-happyness and in the region of meaning. Maslow territory.

I was obviously the kind of person, do now have two kids in their tweens, so I can look back at familyhood. And “family” is kind of not a very definit...