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psysharp

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    Comment #32943386

    Since we are explaining ourselves, the best confabulation is all we can strive to achieve.

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    Comment #32789315

    Exactly, memories aren't immutable, and every visit are bound to have a side effect.

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    Comment #30576854

    When a problem is new and fresh for each participant, pairing can be a great tool to connect with both the problem and each other's innate skillset, IMO.

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    Comment #28950364

    Absolutely. Then the question becomes: when is something fully processed - and to which degree is a person inclined to explore the depths of a concept? What is the limit that decid…

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    Comment #28949867

    Good question, maybe because time is tangible and measurable? I don't know

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    Comment #28949829

    If you had the choice understand the concept 10 times slower but in the end would come up with twice the amount of connections, would you consider it as something valuable? Yes I s…

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    Comment #28949398

    Why do you think thinking fast is more important than thinking slowly?

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    Comment #28783530

    No, it's abstractions of animal instincts, and that difference is huge.

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    Comment #27810668

    "How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain" by Lisa Feldman Barrett should be considered for this list.

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    Comment #27457744

    Holy shit the bias just reeks out of this paper.

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    Comment #27323752

    Dude you have no information, I can't sincerely understand how you think you can have such detailed understanding of the situation.

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    Comment #27231349

    It is not incorrect. In fact, your arguments aren't even mutually exclusive, depending on the context. One is not an individual or a group inherently, it is solely based on the con…

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    Comment #27059987

    There was a cultural agreement to not use those weapons. Back then the community had to create rules for the game.

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    Comment #26804259

    The problem in the middle can also be explained by him treating your question as rhetorical instead of as an actual question

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    Comment #25322882

    You are right, species are discovered when in reference to our defined concept of what it means to be a spiece, that is a structure with all other spiecies. However it's name is an…

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    Comment #25322701

    > and made me actually me. I've been an addict and dude you sound like an addict

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    Comment #25322674

    That ritalin and other stimulant medicines is available for kids will go down in the history books as an episode of insanity. There is absolutely no good that comes out of it and f…

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    Comment #25229360

    If you reference it to the world and its inherent chaos it is an invention. If you reference it to a structure with labels and a finite number of alterations it is a discovery of a…

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    Comment #25229263

    Well be can begin with defining leader. Can't you say that a leader is one element of the group who is more intuned to regulate the stress levels of the group, and by having one th…

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    Comment #25229063

    > More generally your goal should be not to let anything into your head unexamined. I can accept this way of reasoning if 'unexamined' is not directly linked to attention. The brai…

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    Comment #24907942

    I don’t know what speech tech will be good for, probably a lot of things, but typing I think will remain as the preferred mode of communication indefinitely. It is already the more…

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    Comment #24872591

    I see an issue in the web industry that there is sometimes an economical incentive to maintain a solution with technical debt. Just ponder the idea that you hire a bunch of contrac…