No way I think they're just huge Chris Nolan fans tbh. I actually love that they call it a totem bc it makes it seem like when u put on the headset ur going into a dream. It's a sick reference imo
I love how they try to shift blame onto an algorithm as if they didn't write that algorithm themselves and don't have 100% control over the algorithm.
"Guys we're not bigoted, it's just the algorithm that we created and currently control that's bigoted! Blame the algorithm not us! It's not like we created it and can change it any time to be less racist or anything!"
Incorrect, we have a huge surplus of resources by any measure. We're simply not very good at distributing and allocating those resources, which gives people the illusion of overpopulation.
The world is not overpopulated — resources are just under-distributed.
As for your environmentalist remarks, you're just being pessimistic. Al Gore in "inconvenient truth" predicted the ice caps would be melted by 2017. Didn't happen. Tech will save us from whatever Doomsday scenarios you're imagining, bro: it's already saved us a million times before— and history rhymes and repeats.
The "Modern Religion of Environmentalism" (as Peter Theil refers to it in Zero to One) is really just pessimism in disguise.
I'm an optimist so I'm more of a member of the Technology Religion. ️
Extremely tricky phrasing in the title. Anyone with an iota of knowledge about nutrition knows that plant based diets are not optimal for health.
The article is arguing that plant based diets are best FOR THE ENVIRONMENT which is an extremely tricky argument as well. Easily disproven -- insect based diets would surely b better for the environment but they're not being discussed here
You've severely mischaracterized Jason Fung's work.
>but that doesn't fully explain how there are people who do lots of heavy physical activity yet remain obese and insulin resistant.
The only reason "that doesn't fully explain [x]" is because you've mischaracterized Fung's work in the first place. He discusses a great deal more than what you deem "the overflow hypothesis." And his model does fully explain why there are people who do a ton of physical excercise and are still obese — it's because they eat in such a way that it raises their insulin. I seriously don't even think you've read Fungs work and you're just seizing the opportunity to present your little pet theory, because in reality Fung has a far more developed and rational model of human biology than you've just articulated.
People abuse adderal and Ritalin to study for tests on which they don't "cheat" -- but how is this form of chemical cheating morally superior to simply writing the answers on your thigh?
The story begins with a young Sylvester Stallone, who has just obtained funding for his seminal feature film: Rocky.
now Stallone needs a director for his movie. So he meets a man whose seed is destined to bring forth hell, fury, and YKK upon this earth: Jonathan Avildsen Sr.
Throughout the filming of Rocky, Stallone was ingesting an experimental form of a horse tranquilizer called Ketamine (generic name "Ketalar.") Since Avildsen's wife was pregnant with their second child at the time, Stallone would give her doses of Ketalar to help her sleep.
little did she know of Ketalar's effects on the developing baby brain.
years later, the scourge of the NYC graffiti scene rose to notoriety. He was a man seemingly without a conscience or a fear of punishment. His tag name? JA... A name that stands for "Jonathan Avildsen Jr."
JA lives his life by a deck of cards. On the King of hearts, for example, the words "Rack 100 Rusto" are crudely sharpied on. The three of spades might have the words "twenty fill-ins".
When JA is bored, he just shuffles his cards and picks one. If he gets the King of hearts, he goes to Home Depot and shoplifts 100 cans of rust oleum spray paint. If he gets the three of spades, JA finds a spot and executes twenty filled-in graffiti pieces.
JA is part of two graffiti crews: XTC and YKK.
XTC stands for something rather obvious. But few people know the true meaning behind the name of JA's second crew, YKK.
The truth is that YKK stands for nothing. As a graffiti crew, YKK runs the streets of New York. But as a zipper company, YKK is an extremely profitable operation.
So there you have it: A single "crew" of New York graffiti writers has manufactured nearly 90% of the worlds zippers.
And JA is still addicted to Ketamine, the drug he was first exposed to as an infant...
eh. I'd say the Lonsdale/Clougherty fiasco fits in that category (esp since it was thrown out), but the $40m settlement makes me think this wasnt just a "divorce." You know why? Because people, ESPECIALLY rich dudes, reaaaaaally hate giving away any money in divorce.
Read the PDF. This was no marriage. If these allegations are true, Goguen is a pretty fucked up dude.
Also, the terms "psychopath" and "sociopath" are deprecated. They are no longer in clinical use and I don't believe you can find them in the DSM (though you can find "Anti-Social Personality Disorder.")
The terms "psychopath" and "sociopath" are fundamentally meaningless. They have no more meaning than typical insults and profanities like "dickhead" or "douchebag."
I'm glad that these terms are deprecated for several reasons:
1. The term "psychopath" is a bigoted term. If you look up the Greek roots of this word (psyche + pathos) you find that it literally means a "suffering of the soul." To call a person with ASPD a "psychopath" is the equivalent of calling a mentally disabled person a "mongoloid." Its just needless name-calling and bigotry.
2. The popular conception of the "psychopath" presupposes that "psychopathy" is some kind of immutable condition, one that is inherent in the person to whom the term is being applied. Yet all studies point to the importance of both genetic and environmental factors in the development of what we call "psychopathy." Just as people can be victims of cancer, people can be victims of "psychopathy." Therefore it makes little sense to point the finger at the victim.
TL;DR "Psychopathy" is a bigoted and outdated term