Random Thoughts XV: Temere Cogito, Ergo . . .

[Kyriakos]

In other words, your problem is slow metabolism.

 

[Gori the Grey]

One year, I picked up every coin I saw (and kind of looked more for them, or at least found myself looking more for them) (though I never actively went out of my way to look for coins).

If you set out of the equation a $10 bill I found that year, at the end of it I had almost exactly $3.65. One walks by a penny per day, on average. (If that year was typical; I've never tested it.)

 

[Takhisis]

Say it three times fast.

Soldiers' shoulders, soldiers' shoulders, soldiers' shoulders.

Doesn't seem to work either, my mom says that the Polish equivalent of this word is very context dependent, and in no context she can think of would it apply specifically to the 13-19 range.

The thing is that the ‘teen’ age happens to more or less coincide with the begininning of secondary education:

Does that even really apply to a specific range? To me that means something like "has started puberty and maybe finished it but isn't like, a fully adulty adult yet" and I don't know if I could fully describe the difference between an older adolescent and a fully adulty adult and different people would probably come up with different definitions.

Well, neurologists are refining their definitions of maturity and adulthood even as we speak, so we might have to wait a bit on that.

That should include French then ? They have special names up to 17. How they do it - I'm not sure ?

Sometimes they just use the loanword ‘teenager’. Since ‘age’ is a borrowing from French into English to begin with, that's not so surprising.

btw do you say ‘huitante’ or ‘quatre-vingt’?

 

[Gori the Grey]

Soldiers' shoulders, soldiers' shoulders, soldiers' shoulders.

Audio clip or it didn't happen.

Incidentally, I'm not sure we can post audio clips. I once wanted to post a clip of myself rapping and found myself stymied.

 

[Takhisis]

Audio clip or it didn't happen.

Audio clip uploaded to iswearitsnotavirus.ru

 

[Snowygerry]

btw do you say ‘huitante’ or ‘quatre-vingt’?

Eh, depends who I’m talking to, here in the south of Belgium they even use “nonante”,

I also heard it used to refer to the 1990s, I probably would not do that in France..

 

[Valka D'Ur]

btw do you say ‘huitante’ or ‘quatre-vingt’?

I've never heard of "huitante." In Canada it's "quatre-vingt".

 

[Tee Kay]

Thread on forbidding construction in disaster-prone areas had me thinking about how risk-averse our (Western) society is, except when not at all.

Leaving 10 year olds unsupervised: no too risky

Getting married and having children at all: super risky, best avoided

Inflating housing prices to 15x median income, increasing household debt to historic highs: yeah nah she'll be right

Unregulated AI development with potential to create superintelligence ∞x smarter than humans: great idea, full steam ahead, here's all the moneys to make it happen


Speculating on common threads

- Things being more perceived as risky: anything to do with interpersonal relationships, interactions with other human beings, issues of culture and identity, or the natural world

- Things being more perceived as not risky: tech, finance, big institutional stuff (eg doing away with democratic checks and balances, if it is seen to address what are more perceived as risky)

Explanations for this? Uhhhh "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" iunno

 

[Farm Boy]

Liability. It's at least partially about who we punish with liability*. Being too powerful to punish and doing nothing(so as to have nothing to take) are both workarounds.

*and owned problems, but that opens a wider can of worms.

 

[Gori the Grey]

TBS is broadcasting Star Wars (known to some as A New Hope), and it reminded me that when I originally saw it (age 12), saving the galaxy was great and all, but what I really wanted was a landspeeder.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Bah... There are 2 S-Level modes of Cross-desert transportation... 1)Sandpeople's Bantha; and 2)Jawa's Sandcrawler

It is known.

 

[Kyriakos]

Bah... There are 2 S-Level modes of Cross-desert transportation... 1)Sandpeople's Bantha; and 2)Jawa's Sandcrawler

It is known.

 

[Narz]

Thread on forbidding construction in disaster-prone areas had me thinking about how risk-averse our (Western) society is, except when not at all.

Leaving 10 year olds unsupervised: no too risky

Getting married and having children at all: super risky, best avoided

Inflating housing prices to 15x median income, increasing household debt to historic highs: yeah nah she'll be right

Unregulated AI development with potential to create superintelligence ∞x smarter than humans: great idea, full steam ahead, here's all the moneys to make it happen


Speculating on common threads

- Things being more perceived as risky: anything to do with interpersonal relationships, interactions with other human beings, issues of culture and identity, or the natural world

- Things being more perceived as not risky: tech, finance, big institutional stuff (eg doing away with democratic checks and balances, if it is seen to address what are more perceived as risky)

Explanations for this? Uhhhh "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" iunno

Reminds me of this song

Specifically this line

I got news for those who belive the police doing their work right
My man from back home, killed this kid in a fight
Had to do social-work, he got arrested a few times
But never had to do time, never paid no fines
This other cat, he goes trace, with official failance
Which equals, he lost some money for the government
They couldn't prove his guilt, as he stood in silence
But since that crime was economical
They bet every law and paragraph, they could find to lock him up
Now what does that teach us - They don't give a fudge
If you hurt flesh and blood that don't cross nothing
But you'll get like twelve months for material destruction
Yo, that's disgusting
So when the long arm of the law try to get it's grip
Grip your middle finger and split

Not sure the transcript is correct (it's an obscure Swedish song in English) but same point you're making

 

[Birdjaguar]

Moderator Action: Reminder: we do have threads for music videos.

 

[Takhisis]

Bah... There are 2 S-Level modes of Cross-desert transportation... 1)Sandpeople's Bantha; and 2)Jawa's Sandcrawler

It is known.

And dewbacks too, going by Star Wars¹ alone.

¹: I'm the kind of person who still thinks Azeroth is a kingdom

 

[Gori the Grey]

Thread on forbidding construction in disaster-prone areas had me thinking about how risk-averse our (Western) society is, except when not at all.

Leaving 10 year olds unsupervised: no too risky

Getting married and having children at all: super risky, best avoided

Inflating housing prices to 15x median income, increasing household debt to historic highs: yeah nah she'll be right

Unregulated AI development with potential to create superintelligence ∞x smarter than humans: great idea, full steam ahead, here's all the moneys to make it happen

This interested me at first (and still does), but it has popped into my mind that there are different agents making these risk assessments. The "we" is different in the two cases.

The first two are individual people and the second two are society at large.

If you ask me individually if I want to leave my 10 year old unsupervised and if I want to shovel money toward AI, I might say no to both. But I only get to actually make the decision regarding the 10 year old.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

What do you do if you can't sleep at night

 

[Kyriakos]

What do you do if you can't sleep at night

Take muscle relaxant/sleeping pills?

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Hate pills. Never taken them

 

[Arakhor]

You could try sitting in your darkened living room and see if you drift off then. Definitely don't immediately pick up your phone and start browsing.