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Source date (UTC): 2015-11-09 08:28:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2015-11-09 08:25:00 UTC
—“In the current era, innumeracy is a far greater weakness than illiteracy.” — Sean Ring
(genius)
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-09 08:14:00 UTC
—“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.” — Ann Coulter
(great quote really)(Not so interested in the christianity thing, but it seems to work.)
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-09 08:11:00 UTC
–“We not interested in should. We are interested in shall. Not in persuasion but compliance. Not in tolerance but in deportation. Not in compromise but in defeat.”–
(digging this meme)
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-09 08:10:00 UTC
INTERNET MALE-NESS
Most males on the internet are seeking dominance-expression through argument. The internet is a safe place to fail. And they learn through increasing tests of their abilities. Some learn the first year over and over again. Others progress every year. But it is merely combat practice – training, in an effort to both vent the stress if powerlessness and rejection, as well as the stress of being surrounded by ignorance and error, as well as an attempt to transcend the boy and become the man. So while I would prefer that such gladiators prefer to improve, than prefer to justify their failure to improve, or merely seek attention by discounted means, I also see the rattling of cages, positioning and threats, and the trowing of feces as mere, learning by doing. And I would rather see men learn than not. My advice is to help those years behind you. And together as a group we all advance.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-09 06:10:00 UTC
—We can purge all forms of lies from this earth. And in doing so, transform man into gods. For what is a god but a wielder of truth? And what is a devil, but a wielder of error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit?—
(worth repeating)
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-09 06:05:00 UTC
WHY I AM NOT GOOD AT ARITHMETIC, MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION AND CHESS
I have a lot of friends who are good at chess, and I do think chess is a pretty good determinant of intelligence, and perhaps a better determinant of academic and career success.
I was in a chess club through seventh or eighth grade, and really never got that good until the first machines came out because they played perfectly – too perfectly.
But as an illustration, There are three reasons I am not very good at it:
(a) Puzzles vs Problems ethic: I have a problem with puzzles as wasted effort, when I should be working on problems. Just as I have a problem going from books to problems, rather than from problems to books. So in effect I see playing games that require more than casual attention (cards), as an immoral waste of my time. (Which a certain girlfriend in college beat into me through insults as well.) So I cant make myself spend times on such things without feeling like I’m letting the time run out on my lifespan.
(b) Working (short term) memory – one of the reasons I became interested in IQ is the understanding of both the myopia of my autistic thinking and what I began to understand was a problem for me in arithmetic calculation despite my abilities in mathematical reasoning. I work on certain categories of problems partly because I seemed to have a fairly weak working memory compared to other students. I have trouble adding and multiplying, or working with a lot of states: like origami requires. I have no problem reasoning. I can detect truth content pre-cognitively, and I can define spectra – lines of causality. I cannot however juggle many independent and as I see it – unrelated – states of things.
(c) Limited lateral thinking. (which I suppose I could overcome with practice) but not only do I have trouble with humor – which depends upon it, with cunning in a game of chess (i tend to play aggressively with every move and am too concerned with optimum moves and can be baited by them), but I tend not to find ‘shortcuts’ so much as ‘truths’.
Basically ‘if its in motion in time’ I intuit it. If it exists in states I don’t. Everything consists of flights of arrows.
This tells me a lot really, because again, I see the world as a division of cognitive labor, with all these variations in smart people producing different ‘sensors’ that detect different ‘bits’ of reality, and our voluntary cooperation and trade as the information system by which we different sensors share that information.
Man is a gloriously fascinating creature.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-09 06:00:00 UTC
BANKERS RARELY KNOW THEY’RE IMMORAL
(worth repeating)
Well to be honest, they don’t even know that themselves. I think a better test is the evidence of the volume of insider trading in the stock market, and the manipulation of the market by large houses in order to bait and trap retail investors on momentum plays. Other immoralities are anti-consumer nonsense like penalties for cell phone usage, entrapment into contracts one cannot afford, baiting people into mortgages they can’t manage, the multitude of investment and insurance schemes, and the entirety of the democratic political process which is a race-to-corruption.
Most if not all but a few bankers are too ignorant (and from too low in their class rankings) to have any idea what they are really doing.
I don’t think most politicians know that they are corrupt.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-09 05:45:00 UTC
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613000421DELIBERATE PRACTICE IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO EXPLAIN EXPERT PERFORMANCE – IT’S INTELLIGENCE
Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert?
Pages 34-45 David Z. Hambrick, Frederick L. Oswald, Erik M. Altmann, Elizabeth J. Meinz, Fernand Gobet, Guillermo Campitelli
– Ericsson and colleagues argue that deliberate practice explains expert performance.
– We tested this view in the two most studied domains in expertise research.
– Deliberate practice is not sufficient to explain expert performance.
– Other factors must be considered to advance the science of expertise.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-09 05:09:00 UTC