I don't, I'm afraid. The actual gravity is a function of temperature, I recall that, but I never got my head around why it's attractive. I'll try and ...
It's the post-truth era. It can be demonstrably true that free markets not only destroy the world but themselves and still the post-truthers will say ...
Okay, I get that. Thanks. There's a bit more to it about making certain states accessible that otherwise wouldn't be, which is what I had in mind. I'm...
Can you draw this? I'm struggling to see why a line on a 2D configuration space would be well-served by a third dimension representing the size of the...
Ah okay, thanks. That's interesting. Violence undoubtedly occurred, which was why I posted the second link. But this sort of thing was covered above t...
Guilt and that sort of contempt that unacknowledged guilt fosters. But even beyond that, it's difficult to imagine humans as peaceable. It's the WYSIA...
I know, right? It's actually really sad. Every time I think about your ability to read it gets me down tbh. In Libya? That was really recent though. I...
Encroachment was only an issue in hard times. I mentioned on another thread, when the Quebec government stepped in to protect the resources of the Cre...
I think that native American tribes formed part of the understanding of how warfare spreads from tribe to tribe like a cancer, but, yeah, there's noth...
You're looking at outdated interpretation of incomplete archeological evidence as far as I can tell. Can't even reach my justification's ass to kiss i...
Ah okay. This is just what I was talking about here: That there is a higher lower limit of the number of females who can have contributed to the human...
Yes, exactly this. And it's not just a case of remembering to use different words in the right places, but of replacing generic language rules with pe...
Yeah more or less. Thermodynamics is entirely reducible to statistical mechanics (which is in turn entirely reducible to quantum mechanics) which come...
Seems fine. When people like things, it's always positive. When they dislike things, it's always negative. I'm sure we can muster counterexamples (Sto...
Morning Pfhorrest. One of the Andrews is also a physicist iirc. @"Andrew M"? Yeah there's a few things you could be talking about here. There's dark e...
What the kinds of things covered in those articles tells me is that people will rationalise things in whatever way suits them. In the end, it is study...
This is perhaps a more on-point article: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/new-study-of-prehistoric-skeletons-undermines-claim-that-war...
Betraying my impatience (read: laziness :rofl: ), this first hit on my search seems fair-minded enough and describes the paleontological rethink I tho...
Literally as written. For most of our existence we haven't had racial conflict. Race hate is largely a white man thing. Which races do white men hate?...
Because similar groups of people survive to this day, and are a matter of record. Generally traditional societies aren't just tolerant of but cooperat...
You're still talking about recent humans, a few thousand years at most. You know we've been around a lot longer than that, right? I mean, a _lot_! And...
May I present you with your first like, and my first genuine one... Abolition, suffrage, civil rights, queer rights, trans rights, animal rights, cons...
No, it's not natural. Our ancestors got on peaceably enough. More traditional societies living today don't seem to suffer from it. Our younger generat...
*carries on speaking in propagandist cliche* I picture you typing this in foetal position, sucking your thumb, rocking a little, whispering "Everythin...
There's also the loss of self suffered by some schizophrenics who cease to be able to differentiate between internal and external events. This is acco...
For the vast majority of people, there is no distinction between sex and gender. For you, the pronoun denotes gender roles and identities, not birth s...
Utter nonsense. Doubling the employee pool was a boon for employers. It still needed to be forced to do it. If there's a way it can get away with payi...
Indeed. I wouldn't say Feyerband invented post-truth, but his "science fails, therefore God it is" brand of pomo oughtn't to have been difficult to de...
The idea is that by studying a text, we can determine which side of a dichotomy the author favours. This is usually favoured by treating it as a singu...
Deconstruction is a method of isolating the assumptions and biases of a text. Are you suggesting that we get closer to the truth by neglecting these, ...
I think it's worth letting the experiment run its course, but I don't imagine it will improve anything. I'm guessing the thinking is that it will act ...
The gender wage gap differs by age group and geographic location. For instance, in the UK there is no gender wage gap for full-time workers under 30 y...
You've reminded me of another concept that Kahneman talks about, WYSIATI: what you see is all there is. Despite it being patently obvious that babies ...
Yep. But the only thing more abhorrent to conservatives than the state paying for something is the rich paying for something. I think their preferred ...
The former doesn't contradict that our experiences of real, imperfect, circular things is prior to our concepts of circles. A perfect circle is precis...
This doesn't obviously seem to be describing knowledge but consciousness. It is doubtful for instance whether, as a baby, I form a long-term memory th...
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