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How in the name of Hell am I supposed to know how you think? It's not my responsibility to think through your habits, it's your responsibility. Well, ...

I don't mean to be a debby downer, but people without insight typically don't know where they lack insight.

I'm not saying you like it. I think the deeper point of games people play is that it reveals that patterns and habits which are difficult to break usu...

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You can have pretty profound experiences on dissociative drugs, they aren't necessarily negative. You can also have fun ones. There are reasons beside...

There's a difference between dissociation in a controlled context which a subject can wilfully elicit and an involuntary response or neurological issu...

Freedom's always going to be particularised, if we're always in a state of freedom, that sense of freedom becomes politically irrelevant regardless of...

Funny how the Tories manage to get their shit together just after Corbyn's faction started appropriating public outrage and political class consensus ...

Freedom - the conditions under which autonomy may be expanded and maintained.

Will just leave this here.

No algorithm will tell you what to do, the self help books don't help you when you finish them. One of the first steps is to be frighteningly honest w...

Nonsense. You just intervene differently in the case of a clear systematic mistake and a random one. You can tell someone why, or guess how, they made...

The random/systematic distinction here I think more neatly maps onto mistakes being patternless and mistakes having a pattern. My little foster brothe...

Just in general, there's a mathematical field (well, statistics) devoted to figuring out ways to take difficult qualitative concepts and develop quant...

Go to a doctor about it if you haven't already. It can be dangerous. You should be screened for neuropathology. If it's mental health it's not an imme...

I have dissociative disorder. The fog's part of it. One way it's treated is similar to trauma therapy, exposure to the trigger( s ) for dissociation. ...

These are actually sets of the same cardinality. There's a clever geometric insight which gives you that result. Imagine a coordinate system, 2 axes. ...

First you have to understand the notion of the size of a set. The 'number of elements' definition makes less sense when considering infinite sets. Sin...

Part 2: Becoming grew bored of its tryst with gravity Seeking to play in the spaces opened by its neglect Learning new songs of creation Their sounds ...

The other one had a terrible OP Wallows, this one is better.

Doesn't the Robinson translation draw a line between interpretation and Interpretation anyway? The former's discursive in the sense of being socially-...

I'm wondering what kind of sampling mechanism could actually exist to generate individuals from previous time points. All probability is doing here is...

An Attempt To Write A Secular Human Creation Myth Part 1: It has been said that from nothing comes nothing This provides no problems for a history of ...

Stanford page on the 'capabilities approach', of which there are several. Probably worthwhile at least reading this before wading in, considering the ...

I think it's a myth that PC is destroying good humour. If it's destroying anything, it's terrible jokes with no insight. Compare: Bad: "Have you seen ...

I almost always get neutral good in these things. Though knowing the alignment system and the stats makes the tests easy to cheat.

Stupid fucking Murdoch public creating machine backing Boris Fucking Johnson grumble grumble.

Though it isn't so surprising that we learn how to look for things. :)

This makes the ability to identify someone or something, or diagnose the presence of some phenomena, an inter-relation between an agent and a social s...

Let's say I showed you two pictures, one of your friend Jim, one of your friend Sally. I asked you which one was Jim and which one was Sally and why. ...

If you can quote from the whole passage, there will probably be a contextualising example somewhere before or after it.

It seems to play a pivotal role in reflection though. Thematisation without writing is empty, indication without words is blind.

The nonsense is particularly easy to see when you look at the social sciences. They're certainly not in the habit of believing what they study doesn't...

new love An indifferent canvas Scored with the charcoal Of old flames baby (in a pram) back is on what was close mother no smell licked for arm body a...

I don't think it dominates the thoughts of practicing scientists. Ideal theories produce new predictions which can be checked, though demonstrable con...

Photons don't care about the existence of our eyes.

It definitely needs some redrafting. I'll probably steal your suggestion here. The second line was supposed to sound somewhat awkward and artificial; ...

I’m so sick of conceptualisation The insertion of imagery to express imagination The anxiety of each poetic device Summarises each lie I know I could ...

Not really sure what you're going on about. The energy of a photon is linearly related to its frequency always: E=hf If you have a cluster of photons ...

The division of one dimensional quantity by another with a different dimension produces a new dimensional quantity which is interpretable as a rate of...

Stop reposting this.

It was absolutely on topic. You even introduced it!

One wonders why regulatory capture and bribes for favours are necessary if the strong must survive unaided.

Your position is literally just a myth divorced from material circumstances. A myth that serves very few people, and is perpetuated to make us venerat...

People didn't fight Sauron because of some symbolic opposition between good and evil. People fought Sauron because he was a tyrant ruining their lives...

I'd be drinking wine from Southfarthing if it wasn't for all these genocidal skeletons on dead horses.

I know this. That doesn't mean support Sauron if you have to deal with all his shit you dolt.

Whatever fake sophistication is making you defend a literal avatar of evil, stop it. If you love the free people of Middle Earth, you fucking hate Sau...

Ahistorical nonsense. The Free People of Middle Earth united against him. They hated him. What fucking book did you read?

Tell that to the rest of Middle Earth man. Even the rest of the Gods hate Sauron.