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Alright, thanks for taking me seriously. I'm feeling a bit touchy today. I think the problem is that I'm using the words artist, job, rules, authority, and creativity in a very lib…

The problem is that you're talking down to me. If you can't or won't see this, I don't want to engage in a debate.

Okay, but that's not actually how cysts work if you look it up. They are sacs that can have cancerous tissue inside them, but they can also have fluid or air. The operational defin…

Incivility is against the guidelines, I don't want to argue with it.

That was unnecessarily condescending. Incivility is against the guidelines. What I have to say doesn't lose its validity simply because you shame me for my point of view. If you we…

I see what you're saying, but we probably don't have the same interpretation of the words 'job' and 'artist'. More broadly, the nature of creativity is to challenge authority. Look…

Okay, fair point. I'll revise: the job of an artist is to break the rules intelligently. Also, I think you're conflating legality and morality. I can think of situations for all 8 …

The job of an artist is to break the rules.

So I think the general claim is that focusing on cancer is a middle ground between seeking treatments for obscure well-defined illnesses and searching for a panacea for illness or …

Sorry, I don't understand. If you meant PaulHoule's comment I'm not sure how that answers my question, and I didn't find any other comments by you. Do you mean because cancer isn't…

Why is it a waste of research effort? We've made dramatic non-palliative strides in the area of cancer treatment, and most importantly have been able to induce complete remission i…

Social pressures both to differentiate and conform to a particular sub-group during adolescence, and the kinds of groups that girls and boys tend to form. At least in part.

On reflection, maybe I got confused with the number of days you can go without water (also 7, at least according to my memory). I stayed awake for 5 days once and there was only a …

The thing about personal experience is that you can't really quantify it. His 3 anecdotes (3 SSDs over 3 years) are just as valid as your 13 anecdotes.

Oh shit, I totally misread your sentence! I think the problem is most people just aren't in touch with their bodies and the effect that having a body has on the mind.

Well, it's a testable hypothesis. We will probably never test it in humans or higher mammals due to ethical concerns.

If you don't sleep for long enough (about 7 days), you'll start to have visual and auditory hallucinations and also delusional thinking. You'll also experience severely reduced eff…

Women are defined relative to men, just as men are defined relative to women. If there were no men, women would just be "people". In discussing one, you implicitly discuss the othe…

> I always wince whenever I see a person espousing any inherent gender differences or preferences, because they are consistently ripped to pieces. Well, there are studies demonstra…

You're not wrong about the percentages. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175603 There was a similar poll this year with similar results but I can't find it.