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Re: On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

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Post by galfarragem »

blowski wrote: post #170
LudwigNagasena wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s also easy to be tolerant towards someone you don’t have to interact with. Once you get exposed to other cultures you realize that they are different.

I guess the realisation we're talking about is going from thinking "they eat human babies" to "they drink different types of tea".

I would say that is more like different cultures have different values:

Different ways of treating women, different ways of treating animals, different ways of treating the ambient, different ways of looking at work, different ways of looking at state, different ways of looking at religion, different ways of looking at morals, different ways of looking at neighbors, different ways of looking at property, different ways of looking at mating (...) While elites from any culture may be open minded and flexible, the average individual is not.

Elites may thrive in a multicultural society but the other incumbents don't. It's not surprising when they idolize any politician that respect them.

Re: On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

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Post by T-A »

tekkk wrote: post #180

When I'm excited about an idea I have a compulsion to walk around in basically circles. I don't know exactly why but i assume when body enters such elavated alertness you have to let out steam somehow. Otherwise, i prefer running as it to me gives more bang for the buck. It's crucial if you have a sedentary job to elevate your blood-circulation to be able work productively through the day. Regular anaerobic exercise…

> When I'm excited about an idea I have a compulsion to walk around in basically circles

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Worry_Room?file=Worry_Room_Th...

Re: On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

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Post by quadrifoliate »

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #176
quadrifoliate wrote: post #133

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I thought I was hurt a lot by casually racist comments passed by coworkers in a small, relatively liberal town in the US Midwest. Then I read about your experiences and count myself lucky. I can say nothing other than, I hope things get better over time.

That is not a good comparison. It's not ok to pass casual racist comments. Casual racists comments and jokes fall into the micro-aggression category. Next time, I hope you build up the courage to tell your aggressors that you are not ok with racist comments.

> That is not a good comparison. It's not ok to pass casual racist comments.

You are right. It's not, and I didn't mean to diminish my experience, only amplify how the OP's seemed much worse.

> Next time, I hope you build up the courage to tell your aggressors that you are not ok with racist comments.

I did, a few years ago! I also left that job and warn other minority groups vocally about the hostile environment there.

Re: On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

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Post by quadrifoliate »

Uberphallus wrote: post #164
C19is20 wrote: post #146

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Oh, the irony....

Where's the irony? The bias is there whether you like it or not. Never have I ever been harassed while wearing sports or hiking clothing, including accidental trespassing in countries where I barely spoke the language. Can't say the same about the outfit I mentioned, while doing nothing wrong. The fact that the Adidas tracksuit and the tiny bag are the closest thing to the official uniform of a drug dealer in much of…

> Where's the irony?...Never have I ever been harassed while wearing sports or hiking clothing, including accidental trespassing in countries where I barely spoke the language. Can't say the same about the outfit I mentioned, while doing nothing wrong.

I think the OP is likely referring to the recent incident [1] in Georgia in the US where a black man was chased down and killed while he was jogging on the street in, guess what, T-shirt and shorts.

I am aware that your recommendation is possibly about Germany. It's still ironic, and in my opinion your recommendation is ineffective.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ahmaud_Arbery

Re: On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

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Post by Uberphallus »

quadrifoliate wrote: post #184
Uberphallus wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where's the irony? The bias is there whether you like it or not. Never have I ever been harassed while wearing sports or hiking clothing, including accidental trespassing in countries where I barely spoke the language. Can't say the same about the outfit I mentioned, while doing nothing wrong. The fact that the Adidas tracksuit and the tiny bag are the closest thing to the official uniform of a drug dealer in much of…

> Where's the irony?...Never have I ever been harassed while wearing sports or hiking clothing, including accidental trespassing in countries where I barely spoke the language. Can't say the same about the outfit I mentioned, while doing nothing wrong. I think the OP is likely referring to the recent incident [1] in Georgia in the US where a black man was chased down and killed while he was jogging on the street in,…

Yeah, we're talking Europe in this thread though. Nobody ever gets shot while jogging, even less so by another civilian. Gun homicide and killed by cop deaths are orders of magnitude lower.

But yeah I should have gauged my comment towards a mostly US-centric readership.

Re: On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

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Post by goodpoint »

rpmisms wrote: post #100
betwixthewires wrote: post #91

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So the men left the women behind? Or the women weren't allowed to walk as much? We need to close that mile gap!

Hunting vs. Gathering is what springs to mind. Also a theory as to why women have better color perception than men.

This is wild speculation based to the myths around "hunter/gatherer" society.

Re: On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

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Post by fsiefken »

lordnacho wrote: post #35

This is why I am looking for a simple AR headset: so I can look at code while walking through the woods in my area. Just a simple translucent IDE is all I need. I definitely feel that I am better at thinking when walking, but I also need to be looking at source code to get the details, otherwise I can only think about larger architecture. When is this coming?

A monocular works perfectly already. Decades ago I was walking around with a 640x480 monocular attached to a CF card in my Toshiba e755 WinCE PDA. Here's just one: https://www.amazon.com/Vufine-006011-Wearable-Display/dp/B01...

Here's me with a monocular. https://olin.monster/about.html The cable broke and the CF interface is outdated so I don't use it anymore. For me it might be best to get into an audio desktop or record my thoughts when walking as the background distracts as it moves like a sinus wave when walking. http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/

Re: On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

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Post by revolvingocelot »

pr_nik2 wrote: post #136

For a long time, the scholarly consensus was that you are born with a fixed number of neurons and then start losing them over your lifetime. Now there is good evidence of adult neurogenesis and it seems to be linked to endurance exercise, such as walking. These links can be a starting point for reading up on it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4425252/ https://www.npr.org/2011/02/04/133498136/growing-a-b…

>For a long time, the scholarly consensus was that you are born with a fixed number of neurons and then start losing them over your lifetime

It's worth pointing out that this is one of those old-school ridiculousnesses that many scientists believed in for much longer than the available evidence ought to have afforded. Much in the same way that North American hospitals used to refrain from analgesics when performing minor surgeries on very young babies, as they were assumed to not experience pain (?!), up until the late 80s, so too was the mounting evidence (Merzenich in the 80s, etc) of adult neurogenesis generally dismissed because reasons.

Re: On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

One phenomenon I noticed is that I spatially associate thoughts/ideas with where I was walking when those occurred. I read somewhere about the link between human brain structure and spatial recall or perception. I know this is vague but maybe someone knows a specific reference.

Re: On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

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Post by fsiefken »

nanomonkey wrote: post #48
dTal wrote: post #28

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I've recently had some success with a GPD Micro PC, which fits in a back or jacket pocket and has a very thumb-typeable keyboard. It does require you to look at the screen, of course.

I've been using emacs through termux on my phone for this. It's surprisingly usable, but I'd rather have something that works seamlessly with walking. I'm thinking something like a Zoom H1N field recorder might work for just recording all of my thoughts, but I'd really like it to be automatically transcribed, if not an interactive REPL environment.

yes, but you could always let it automatically be transcribed later by some speech to text engine or write a blog post or digital garden plant later.
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