Does “your country” refer to the country you were born in, are a citizen of, or are currently residing in?
Also: Took it. Karma me gentlemen :D
Does “your country” refer to the country you were born in, are a citizen of, or are currently residing in?
Also: Took it. Karma me gentlemen :D
If it is just the caffeine you want, why not get some caffeine pills? Virtually no calories & lightyears better for your teeth.
Someone introducing themselves to you produces “seething, ulcerating rage”? Have you ever considered counseling or therapy?
How about “workshop”?
I agree about the kiddish vibe of “camp” and I also agree that “retreat” has a sort of religious hue to it as well. Some guy died on a “mysterious Buddhist retreat” recently.
I can confirm this. I set alarms for the most ridiculous things—eg, “Umbrella” 5 minutes before I leave the office so I don’t forget it.
As someone living in China, I feel pretty confident saying that most Chinese are not skeptical or interested in rationality. Even “Science” in China is deficient. We think we have a problem with publication bias in the West; I heard a terrifying statistic that there are ZERO negative studies published in the field of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine). And while the country is atheist, huge numbers of people still go the Buddhist temples, bang their heads on the ground and worship statues with blue skin.
To me, what society considers “normal” is terribly unethical, so “spiraling away from normalcy” isn’t a cause for concern, but perks my curiosity.
“Maybe he’s on to something...”
This is assuming that his goal is just to kill as many people as possible. He could much more easily have set up some kind of bomb in the movie theater and killed as many, if not more, people. My impression is that he wanted the visceral rush of murdering all of those people first-person.
Don’t forget you are not just a brain (or two brains), but also a body. A lot of intellectuals neglect the physical side of things. They might be brilliant, but how much more brilliant would they be if they ate right, exercised, dealt with stress effectively, etc.? There is also the influence on your emotional state. Maybe you feel anxious or unhappy simply because your body isn’t expending energy the way it is supposed to. Sometimes you need to put the pen & paper down (or shut off the computer) and go lift something heavy or go for a run.
It could be people are voting you down because you didn’t include what they might consider to be a “mandatory disclaimer” about psychedelics, set & setting, underlying mental illness, etc. While psychedelics have shown positive effects like you mentioned, you have to take into consideration the environment and context in which they were used.
Paul Krugman’s hilarious predictions about the Internet / technology ca. 1998:
The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in “Metcalfe’s law”—which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants—becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.
How to learn. Using an SRS program has radically changed and accelerated the way that I learn. The SuperMemo website has great instructions on how to formulate knowledge in ways that will best facilitate learning. Using an SRS daily is also a good example of developing a good habit and the influence of this small change can spread into almost every facet of your life.
Potentially dangerous advice. See a medical professional that is willing to discuss the potential risks & benefits of treatment with you before you go in asking your PCP for some Prozac. Some studies show SSRIs are only slightly more effective than placebo & they have a whole slew of side effects. They might be appropriate for some people. For other people, safer approaches like getting some counseling, fixing your diet, exercising, & socializing might be better.
Damn, I hope I’m not the only Hungarian housewife reading LessWrong...
Here’s an interesting test of various antibiotics: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3132871/
It looks like different agents are more or less effective for different forms of the disease. This study didn’t look at Ceftriaxone as far as I can tell, which is what is usually used for later stage Lyme disease. Doxycycline is typically used for prevention, which makes sense because you’re probably less likely to have cysts forming immediately after infection. It doesn’t look like Metronidazole is as effective against non-cyst form Lyme disease.
Doxycycline treatment reduced spirochetes by ∼94%
Metronidazole treatment reduced spirochetes by ∼54%
and
Tinidazole treatment reduced round bodies by ∼94%
Metronidazole treatment reduced round bodies by ∼68%
Looks like Tinidazole might be even better than Metronidazole vs. cyst-form Lyme disease.
If you’re interested in travel & speak fluent English, I have heard that is it possible to make excellent money teaching English, even without any kind of credentials. I personally only tutor 1 child because it is all I have time for, but I make about 125 RMB per hour, which translates to about $20 US. While my pay is not great (for the US), I have heard that if you get a group of 8 or so kids together & teach them in bulk, you can make upwards of 800 RMB per hour (~$127 US). This would also be tax free. Not quite on par with the high-end college-educated call girl, but I’m guessing most of us aren’t suited to be one of those.
I found that most of my classes went through the material way too fast for me to really internalize it. One thing I would recommend is accumulating massive amounts of information (professor’s PowerPoints, electronic copies of books, PDFs of important reviews) for later digesting. While you are a student it will be easier & cheaper (or perhaps, included in your inflated tuition) to gain access to these kinds of materials. You can cram what you need for the tests, but to really master a subject will take longer than the schedule of most courses allows, at least in my experience. Get an SRS program like Anki or SuperMemo & start plugging the material in there piece by piece, so long as it is material you want to internalize & master, not just junk you need to know for the quiz.
I imagine the kids who didn’t wait for the 2nd marshmellow in the original experiment had already been tricked numerous times by authority figures (parents, preachers, teachers, etc) & so had been pre-conditioned to expect deception. It doesn’t surprise me at all that children with unreliable authority figures end up performing worse as adults. The ACE (Adverse childhood experiences) study shows that mistreatment as a kid correlates with social, emotional, & cognitive impairment, increases risk for adoption of health-risk behaviors, and increases risk for disease, disability, & social problems.
For the salmon among us...
Encourage curiosity
In the book Brain Rules John Medina writes: