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SnazzyJeff
·há 2 anos·discuss
Well, the part that was claimed. "The brain has a narrow window for learning to speak beginning around ages 2 to 3, he explained. After age 5, the window for learning spoken language is permanently shut." The person seems to mistake the term "speech" for the phrase "language comprehension"—the field moved past that decades ago.
SnazzyJeff
·há 2 anos·discuss
if only this site could manage something more complicated than the dialectic of "not retarded enough for y-combinator" and "too retarded for y-ycombinator"

one day, y-combinator will give a shit about disability. There is not enough money in the game for the powers to be to care yet.
SnazzyJeff
·há 2 anos·discuss
> Power drives consensus.

Power is able to manipulate consensus, but ultimately it exists despite consensus. Its existence is relative by definition.

> Capitalism has uses other than consensus as well.

False

> Ah. I think I was talking past you by hyper focusing on just the "capitalist" and "consensus" parts of what you wrote. I was taking it to mean that there was a special connection between capitalism and consensus, and not just that capitalism is one means by which consensus is created

There are of course other means of consensus. For whatever reason these means are not available to us now, allegedly.
SnazzyJeff
·há 2 anos·discuss
> But no matter how well the gene therapy works, the researchers recognize that Aissam may never be able to understand or speak a language, Dr. Germiller said. The brain has a narrow window for learning to speak beginning around ages 2 to 3, he explained. After age 5, the window for learning spoken language is permanently shut.

This is trivially false. How are you acting like this person can be taken seriously? At best, they're wildly hyperbolic in their statements. At worst, they're funded to push a polemic.
SnazzyJeff
·há 2 anos·discuss
> It's fascinating how our brains are wired in such a way to enable read-only mode at an certain age in development.

You're responding to a quote that is trivially false with a quick google. Ok.
SnazzyJeff
·há 2 anos·discuss
> Worth keeping in mind that Helen Keller didn't loose her hearing (and sight) until an illness at 19 months old.

While this is in fact an important sample, this doesn't imply much about how humans develop after 19 months, much less how they develop before 19 months.

> At this age, a child's brain has already locked in the sounds for their native language and lost the ability to learn non-native sounds (hell, research suggests that unborn infants can recognise the difference between their mothers native language and foreign languages before they even leave the womb).

We have nearly zero clue how the child's brain recognizes their "native language". We know they react differently at different stages of their development to the same stimulus, which is occasionally linguistic. We have nearly zero clue what the mechanism is that corresponds input to measurable output. This is a very disingenuous characterization of the data.

It's also worth mentioning that the root of this question is trivially false—people obviously learn language after the age of five. Such haphazard presentation (at best) should not be taken seriously.
SnazzyJeff
·há 2 anos·discuss
Hellen Keller never developed the skill to listen to spoken language.

I agree with you fwiw, but your argument needs to acknowledge the above statement.
SnazzyJeff
·há 2 anos·discuss
> Gives me hope that one day my tinnitus may have a cure.

We are all chained to reality. We must all accept reality or kill ourselves trying to.
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> Consensus would exist due to the power of the state regardless of the economic system.

What does this mean? Genuinely confused what you think a state is in the modern age if not the infrastructure necessary to support a market.
SnazzyJeff
·há 2 anos·discuss
I mean, I'd also like to find elves. I don't see any reason to suspect either exists. There's an assumption that intelligence is a natural progression for evolution of life, which seems irrational. Why is intelligence so special compared to other mechanisms of self-organization?
SnazzyJeff
·há 2 anos·discuss
Do you have a point? Humans are self-evidently self-interested. You don't need to justify it.
SnazzyJeff
·há 2 anos·discuss
> Prisoner's dilemma

This falls apart pretty rapidly when you move beyond one person—groups of people don't tend to act collectively rationally. Hell, the entire reason "capitalism" is a thing at all is it provides some consensus in the face of byzantine faults even if it fails to represent our collective needs with any accuracy.
SnazzyJeff
·há 2 anos·discuss
I can't be the only person who absolutely doesn't care about intelligent life. Either it makes its relevance clear or it doesn't. I see no particular reason why "intelligence" is noteworthy enough to look for in the first place.... maybe that's just a quirk of self-organization rather than a common route to it.
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