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That book came out when I was just starting high school and I randomly saw it in the public library and read it. I didn't have any context, didn't come from an intellectual family etc. It remains among my top most influential books.
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Sometimes it's not a 'bad take,' it's a difference of opinion/disagreement.The only way I'm worried about an "echo chamber" in bsky is how having people roughly on the 'same side' can amplify relatively small differences. I catch it in my own thinking. We need each other even if we annoy each other.
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Some of my kid's early words (pre 2 years old) were just the place names of where I traveled for work (and I only traveled maybe 4 times in the year between when she was one and two and not until she was one). I would go a new place and she would list the names of places I went before.
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I would love to hear the ones talking about artists. Art historians increasingly show how much more European Modernists took from different African art traditions than they acknowledged, but these generally have not been informed by primary accounts of the exploitation from African perspectives.
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"Engagement" environments reward these errors though, so there may be some selection bias at work in what we tend to see. Misinterpretations produce arguments and corrections which means more engagement/visibility. Hence new tendencies to write in a way to provoke them. Ugh.
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It looks like the idea may be to use MDMA to make therapeutic social learning more possible--here they use the phrase "reopen a critical period" : www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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As an aside, many narcissists have strong cognitive empathy (they can understand others' emotions and experiences) but lack affective empathy (they don't care about them). Developing stronger cognitive empathy might make them even better manipulators.
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Instead of "this is a distraction," just say, "I know it's hard when so many important issues are swirling around, but also keep in mind [your important issue] " otherwise you will just descend into a distracting debate on what is really a distraction.
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In addition,every elementary school kid at that graduation is now likely traumatized.Kids eating at the restaurant or with their family at Home Depot where masked armed people storm in are traumatized.Those experiences shape their brains and have lifelong negative impacts.
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I see some of these requests as the rumination/freeze aspect of feeling overwhelmed. That's why I appreciate that you often give simple directions--1)start with one issue, 2) get in community.This pushes people out of rumination. Tedious to repeat of course though.
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Reading history just means you get your theory in the embedded form within the historical account. I half agree with this too because I think seeing 'theory in action' is often more telling than theory explicated.But if you don't know how to recognize theory in the first place, you might not see it.
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I think on V.Twitt they feel like heroes bc when trolls/Nazis yell at them, liberals still there defend/support/give adulation. Here, they encounter fewer Nazis but more diverse critiques on their own side and it's disconcerting and annoying. But it's how you build a coalition of the opposition.
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"I'm not upset, I'm bemused." Ew.
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My now horror loving teen adored these. Her Myon chart of all the things she read on-line had the horror/suspense genre at ceiling too.
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My guess on those who left bsky a) dems who thought they would be given uncritical acclaim by people 'ostensibly on their side' and were taken aback by criticism, b) people who followed like 10 people so had no feed, c) trolls blocked into boredom, d) people who found there's no way to monetize it.
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100% and I think all of us who live in these fabulous "hellholes" need to document and publicize their many wonders in whatever way we can, like we're all working for our city's chamber of commerce. It's not gauche anymore.
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I disagree. In the data, I see steady growth disrupted by a crazy big burst with the election where a huge bunch of people signed up, and some stopped sticking around. Nothing new there. This "other side" stuff is so reductive--social life is only about "sides" in media political horseraces.
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I've changed/refined my opinion more on this site than I ever did on Twitter. Because there are people who know what they are talking about on varied issues that I'm interested in and see angles I haven't.
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Ugh. One possible silver lining is that people see the real limits of the slop when everyone uses it and it's not a competitive edge. But I especially hate the environmental impact and the fact that we're training models that are privately owned not by our public institution.
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Our university just got a Microsoft AI product for every student under the guise of equalizing AI access for all.
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Two things I quickly wonder about this:
a) dynamic interaction and emergence-contained seems way too rigid. e.g., epigenesis and neuroplasticity in human development.
b) No role given to materials--the properties of silicon or rock etc also have "information" in technology.
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One thing I have started adding to your points that has gotten a bit more traction among skeptics is that our brains are still developing until age 25 and so education in diverse disciplines is important to prepare people for long lives with a lot of change--laying groundwork for adaptive expertise.
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the tenure process does a number on you. So many years of work and then it’s out of your hands. I rarely have nightmares but I vividly remember the ones from that time (and it was over a decade ago!)
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people need to repeat this case in point over and over.
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Agree. Show how Biden invested everywhere, gave fed aid to all etc vs trump. Dem states and dem cities in red states need to form coalitions and strategize.
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What does it mean that my first thought was you meant an invented logical language like Esperanto? (Though it seems on the same spectrum of urges, just a bit more esoteric and ambitious).
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Me too. And I read voraciously before I started grad school. But I had colleagues who were very smart, but not that curious and it was more of a slog for them. One even said the PhD made her realize she wasn't very curious at all and it was freeing to realize that and she left academia.
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Lack of perspective-taking, maybe? A habit of treating their education as a means to an end? Anyway, I think it's a fairly good signal that a PhD isn't a good life choice for them.There are far easier ways to get to ends they would likely be happier about.
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It's one way to weed out candidates. I think they don't realize that profs read a lot and actually know the work in our areas of expertise and can recognize telltale qualities of AI slop.