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Well, the part that was claimed. "The brain has a narrow window for learning to speak beginning around ages 2 to 3, he explained. After age 5, the window for learning spoken langua…

if only this site could manage something more complicated than the dialectic of "not retarded enough for y-combinator" and "too retarded for y-ycombinator" one day, y-combinator wi…

> Power drives consensus. Power is able to manipulate consensus, but ultimately it exists despite consensus. Its existence is relative by definition. > Capitalism has uses other th…

> But no matter how well the gene therapy works, the researchers recognize that Aissam may never be able to understand or speak a language, Dr. Germiller said. The brain has a narr…

> It's fascinating how our brains are wired in such a way to enable read-only mode at an certain age in development. You're responding to a quote that is trivially false with a qui…

> Worth keeping in mind that Helen Keller didn't loose her hearing (and sight) until an illness at 19 months old. While this is in fact an important sample, this doesn't imply much…

Hellen Keller never developed the skill to listen to spoken language. I agree with you fwiw, but your argument needs to acknowledge the above statement.

> Gives me hope that one day my tinnitus may have a cure. We are all chained to reality. We must all accept reality or kill ourselves trying to.

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> Consensus would exist due to the power of the state regardless of the economic system. What does this mean? Genuinely confused what you think a state is in the modern age if not …

I mean, I'd also like to find elves. I don't see any reason to suspect either exists. There's an assumption that intelligence is a natural progression for evolution of life, which …

Do you have a point? Humans are self-evidently self-interested. You don't need to justify it.

> Prisoner's dilemma This falls apart pretty rapidly when you move beyond one person—groups of people don't tend to act collectively rationally. Hell, the entire reason "capitalism…

I can't be the only person who absolutely doesn't care about intelligent life. Either it makes its relevance clear or it doesn't. I see no particular reason why "intelligence" is n…

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