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No, one would get bored eventually, unless the games incorporated hard problems.

I taught my two kids long division in about ten 40-minute sessions spread over 5 days. I sat with each child as we learnt the procedure. To begin with I held the pencil and asked q…

I would guess the nausea is a learned response due to people forcing the powder on themselves. Perhaps it needs to be introduced gradually with small amounts?

I conjecture that unhappy people are continually inhibiting certain ideas. This consumes attentional bandwidth which otherwise would go into managing/healing the body.

Indeed, but that doesn't invalidate my argument. (I included automation for context.) Note also that one cannot merely look after children, because they need to see a greater purpo…

One cannot simply "grind away" at a tedious task or a task capable of being automated. Unlike a hard problem, it cannot occupy the mind persistently and meaningfully.

Yes, my idea of a safety net is family plus basic income. However, crucially, there are thousands of important and hard problems out there available to anyone with a roof over his …

>In many ways, the real problem is what not to include Anything that hasn't already stood the test of time to some extent e.g. anything created in the last 20 years.

I don't think 'doing solid research' is what comments are about or should be about: that's what the articles are for. Comments are more like what goes on with coffee after the rese…

>This is what Stack Overflow does. Thanks. Didn't know that. >Sometimes it's just that the question is well written but obscure. Could be that people regard the question as dishono…

Yeah I think it could only be implemented on a new forum, right at the start. No doubt it would bring a different set of problems for moderators. To those people (not you) "who see…

No, I mean downvoting costs both the downvoter and the downvotee one point each. People won't downvote comments they merely disagree with but they will still try to correct injusti…

My assumption is that commenting has the effect of reducing ignorance, even where ignorant comments are plentiful i.e. silent ignorance is more deadly than mostly-ignorant noise. T…

>But most diets contain adequate choline Should be 'inadequate choline', I think. I remember there was a rat study done showing that unborn pups whose mothers received choline supp…

Great comment, though I'm not sure 'naive political opinion' even exists. If a topic is political then it's controversial and sophisticated expert opinions count just as little as …

A way to reduce disruptive comments might be to make one downvote cost one karma point. Down-voting should be for disruption, not ignorance. Ignorant comments are fine. Get them ou…

What's unsettling is more like the airing in public of things that would normally be kept private.

'Helicopter parenting' is misleading: it's not the degree of parental involvement and oversight that's the problem, it's the degree of unwelcome interference. True, if I'm going to…

>do what Socrates did: sitting with his students, asking questions and, through dialogue, teaching them what matters most Nonsensical comparison. Socrates' pupils came to him . The…