RustyEarthfire @ RustyEarthfire @lemmy.world

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"Journal", "it's", and "because" are all mispelled in the original.

Nah, that's another cut up with very little of the interview

Here is the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DaR2CVNNk

If there was a government-mandated monopoly on coffee and it was sold in L/s, we probably would.

Surprised not to see any posts referencing the Arbitrary List of Popular Lights or !flashlight@lemmy.world.

One of the requirements to make it on the list is:

A user interface where a single click turns the light on in a reasonable mode, and another single click turns it off.

Yes, that is precisely what I was attempting to say. Thanks

The problem is there isn't anything "useful" for understanding humans [in evolutionary psychology]. Yes we can come up with plausible evolutionary justifications for behavior like cooperation, but they are basically untestable and useless for predictions.

Edited to clarify I mean specifically evolutionary psychology.

https://getindie.wiki/ does

Perhaps not every disability benefit is, but Social Security Disability Insurance and State Disability Insurance certainly are.

I think the "correct" usage of acronym is only when it is spoken as a word. But language evolves and all that.

You can see the tension in the way MW defines it (including the extended description). Like: here's the definition of the word, but some people use it when they actually mean initialism. This is in contrast to your more concise and cohesive definition of "[abbreviations] that take the first letter from each word". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym

Ha, I love the backsplanation that they are small and yellow like corn.

That assumes "you" are just the conscious part. If you accept the rest of your brain (and body) as part of "you", then it's a less dramatic divide.

Based on what I know of Imposter Syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect, it seems you’re at your most competent when you feel like you’re at your least.

I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion, even with the internet meme version of the Dunning-Kruger effect. In the meme version, the incompetent think they are most competent, but I don't think it follows that the most competent would think they are least competent.

I would summarize the actual Dunning-Kruger effect as: people tend to think they are a bit above average, and actual skill factors in only slightly. Worth emphasizing that these results are over groups of people, and individuals have extreme variation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

That's like 30 people in line. It takes half a block and a lane of the stroad to fit 30 people.

Lemmy without politics is kinda a ghost board. There is maybe 3 or 4 new posts a day.

I think your approach of blocking any user who posts about politics is eliminating the most prolific posters when 95% of their stuff is non-political. This is not to say your approach is bad, just that it doesn't actually represent "Lemmy without politics".

Humans have honored the dead since before homo sapiens. Laws can be complicated, contradictory, and confusing; respecting the dead is clear and primal.

Yeah, this probably won't change a lot of minds, but some folks will see there is something wrong about a man who would dishonor the dead to celebrate himself.

For anyone wondering, this doesn't actually work, because the bananas will realize they are upside-down.

I think transforming "it's possible to think without language" into "language is not a tool for thought" is an overreach. Definitely a lot of our internal voice is post-thought, but crystalizing those thoughts into words can provide footholds for further thought. Some would argue it's not possible to think through a complex issue without writing:

• https://paulgraham.com/words.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM&t=312s

It's a general rule of wine pairing that the wine should be sweeter than the food

That's tough buddy