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Because whenever we read something we have to guess the meaning. To the human mind, all communications are inherently contextual and metaphorical. To put it another way each indivi…

Kipple is Sturgeon's Law applied to household objects.

Blancmange and rice pudding? Yes, I'm definitely in favour of adding almonds to those delightful desserts.

Yes they get along with new people and have a large number of shallow relationships. Whereas I think normies and aspies tend to have deeper relationships with only a few people. Bt…

Agreed.

My predictably unpopular theory is that highly social people are really afraid of other people. Perhaps not without reason if one regards other humans as potential predators. So th…

Conservative in the sense of conserving existing knowledge and technology; not to try out new ideas. >This is a version of 'technological determinism' True, the growth of technolog…

Civilisation is a Red Queen; we must keep running just to stand still. Maintaining and conserving things is the job of conservatives, not entrepreneurs, and conservatives resist ch…

it’s meaningless to say human society had made progress without stating areas that you’re considering and not considering when it comes to assessing such progress Is it meaningless…

Staying at home with children is marvellous. Interactions with adult friends are staid and stereotypical by comparison. Plus with the internet one has access to the world's knowled…

Yes and the mere fact of reading doesn't imply an engagement with the content, which can't be forced. One can imagine hearing the words of one hundred audiobooks playing at 1.5x sp…

>Explaining all the rules is what school is for, basically. Heh. My school published a list of rules which included: 'Any breach of common sense is also a breach of school rules.'

>Debate and negotiation are not games that I anticipate enjoying Yes and I think that's because they entail criticism, which is used to attack ideas and people we don't like. Where…

Problem acknowledged, though revealed preferences show that humans do value phenotypic traits, and those preferences may be controlled by objective ideas. Actually my main reservat…

The 'moral fad' I was referring to was what took place in protestant Slovakia beginning in the 1800s, not about human fertility/fecundity today. From the article: >In XIX. century …

Wow that's well below replacement fertility. Also dysgenic since intelligent and responsible people are more likely to follow the moral fad. For me it demonstrates the importance o…

>there's a huge psychological burden that comes with living for a long time What is the burden? A burden I foresee is that people are going to have to choose between life extension…

I skimmed the article again and didn't find any obvious equivocations regarding IQ and intelligence. But, regardless of this, I think solving problems requires creativity , not int…

Why can't they be the same thing? All my experience is processed information (see my other comment in this thread about qualia [1]); information processing requires hardware; the h…

I'm worried there's a taboo developing where only professionals or mentally ill people themselves are allowed to express any kind of opinion about mental illness or the mentally il…

>It starts by claiming that there is no such thing as general intelligence. What specialized intelligence, then, is human intelligence? I think there are two usages of the term 'ge…

I like his argument in the middle section of howcome IQ predicts income or social status despite the fact that general intelligence doesn't exist. It seems to me that the categorie…

Your first experience illustrates neatly my thoughts about the article. The 'cacophony of noises, specific images' (which you refer to) were generated by the 'fast, efficient, non-…

IMO the scandal here with these triangular containers is the 'three slice' sandwich, for example: https://img.tesco.com/Groceries/pi/441/5051140265441/IDShot_... The naive customer…

Check out Paul Robinson's comment for a general refutation. Given the popularity of 'artisanal'-type portable food preparations in both the UK and the US I think it unlikely the ma…