[1300 words] Sometimes, we feel like we don't have enough time, or that time is running out, or something like that. That's the problem of time. Now, to the solutions. Primarily changing the way we think, and secondarily, actually doing something about it. The most basic option is to figure out what you want to …
or: The Nature of the Placebo Effect [400 words] Let's think of the body and the mind as one thing. This thing has energy. Depending on how you look at it, the energy looks different. For example: you can look at its energy in the form of glucose. You can look at its energy in …
[300 words] The Anthropocene is one great mass extinction event. So, why is it alright to continue to exist as part of it? Firstly, we, as individuals, did not choose this or even really cause it. It cannot be anything but madness to try and hold ourselves accountable for it...... so help me God. Secondly …
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[200 words] People apparently struggle to understand this question. It might be instructive to make a parallel to cosmology. At first, we thought the Earth was the center of the universe. Then we thought the Sun was the center of the universe. Now we think that every single point in space is the center of …
[300 words] It's silly because it shows a very great ignorance of the history of thought. The basic question of "is the world real?" stretches back a long time. Its first form was probably: "is the world real or is it a dream?" Then we started talking, and we asked: "is the world real or …
[2300 words] Autobiographical Sequence [1 - Earliest Memories][2 - The Birth of Venus - A Eulogy to Youth][3 - Playground Dynamics][4 - The long walk back home] Let's put it this way. Life is a sequence of answers to the question "What's going on?" We look around through our senses until we do something -- …
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他闭着眼睛 静静地思考 然后渐渐忘记思考 I'll break it down for you. (With the help of yellowbridge.) 他 tā he or him; (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant) 闭着 bìzhe closed 眼睛 yǎnjing eye 静静地 jìng jìng de quietly 思考 sīkǎo to reflect on; to ponder over 然后 ránhòu after; then …
I thought I'd answer this one real quick, before anyone asks. Point 1: Wrong question. Try this instead: how do you teach ethics to AI? Well, how do you teach ethics to anything? What do we know that we teach ethics to? Children. We teach ethics to children. How do we teach ethics to children? …
When people talk about the problem of suffering, they usually mean this: -) God is good.-) God created the world.-) There is suffering in the world.-) Suffering is bad.--) Problem! How can a good God create bad things? Or something like that. To be frank, I find this question so misguided I find it difficult …
[3000 words] I propose we think of our relationships in the following way. Every interaction can be boiled down to two elements: radiating softly outward like a blossom, or retracting back while leaving behind one's sharpest points, like a clam or a thorn. I would say that this is the easiest way to see beyond …
David Leon 