Hi! I’m a lurker, even though I apparently already had an account here. Can’t even remember when I made that...
Sabiola
I don’t really know the SIAI people, but I have the impression that they’re not against AI at all. Sure, an unfriendly AI would be awful—but a friendly one would be awesome. And they probably think AI is inevitable, anyway.
Voted up, because I don’t understand that sentence either. Could someone explain it, with an example if possible?
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Thanks! I get it now.
In my experience it does seem to be true. In Aikido class, some people did seem to pick up things easier from seeing, others from hearing, etc. One thing I noticed was that my brain doesn’t really get ‘left’ and ‘right’ - ‘same side’ and ‘other side’ make much more sense. Don’t people who learn things in ‘left and right’ have to learn every technique twice, once for each side? (Strangely enough, it appears they don’t!)
But learning things better one way doesn’t mean other ways are useless. All ways reinforce each other, and now that I’m learning Alexander technique I notice that sometimes I get a ‘click’ from spoken directions, other times from touch, etc. If you’re a teacher, you should probably use as many modes as possible.
(I’m working on a post or two on the subject area of dangerous memes and what to do about them.)
I’m very interested in that, I think I need it. I just read this article about Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis, and I was like “what the hell is wrong with me, that I didn’t see at least some of those points myself?” It really scared me, and made me wonder what other nonsense I believe in, that I ought to have seen through right away...
Hm, I’m a fan of Heinlein too, I guess I’d better not start reading those others. ;p Any idea where I can look for clues about the ‘authoritative voice’?
“Fear is is a wall 1000 miles wide and a mile high, but only tissue paper thin.”
Goes into my quotes file!
You just convinced me to take up meditation again. :-)
Lather is what you get when you mix soap/shampoo etc. with water, and it starts foaming.
Als het regent in mei, is april al voorbij. (If it rains in May, April is already past)
Sorry for the late reply, but I only just noticed the little red envelope. :( I’m coming up on my last Alexander lesson in a few days, and I really like it. It’s not (yet) been as life-changing as I’d hoped (I still have bad knees (sigh), and people don’t suddenly react very differently to me), but it has improved my posture a lot, and I’m very happy with that. At the very least, it’ll help me not get RSI or back problems.
I would be very interested!
I’m very interested too!
I imagine you wouldn’t have lasted long in tech support if you hadn’t learned that skill. :-)
One of my husband’s friends is a transsexual. I haven’t actually talked a lot with her about it (because she didn’t want to, being fed up with everyone wanting to talk about it all the time), but I gather that (with her at least, and with many if not most others) it’s really just a question of body image. That is, it isn’t a question of ‘identity’, it’s just that they feel like their body is wrong, that they have parts that shouldn’t be there and are missing parts that should. The right analogy isn’t with ‘otherkin’ (I didn’t even know those existed!), but with those people that feel like their arm or leg doesn’t belong to them, and go to great lengths to have the ‘extra’ body part amputated.
It would be interesting to repeat the survey with people from other languages/cultures. For example, many people seem to associate ‘sadness’ with blue, and English has an expression ‘feeling blue’, or ‘having the blues’, that means feeling sad. If they’d run the survey in the Netherlands, say, where we don’t have such an expression, would sadness also be blue? (It feels more like gray, to me.)
I thought that was XTLA.
Thanks for that warning! I might have followed that link and gotten yet another horror thought/image stuck in my mind. I really, really don’t want to know any details.
Of course that’s it. $500 is a lot to pay for a lottery ticket, even one with as high a chance of winning as this. Change it to a certain $20 and a 15% chance of $40,000, and I bet (heh) that many more people will take the chance then.