JesseMReeves

I remember picking it up after LotR because I loved Blind Guardians concept album masterpiece “Nightfall in Middle-Earth” about it. I ended up enjoying the Silmarillion quite a bit more than the main trilogy (and am not alone in that). What was crucial for me was printing the family trees and maps and putting them somewhere closeby (e.g. a wall) for quick reference.

This week I’ve made a comment on social media, about exclusive games making the market worse for everyone but console manufacturers. I expected it to become unnoticed, but then an angry rando walks up to me and tells me that ‚If I‘m poor‘ (I’m not, he couldn’t know, and he made it sound as if I am a bad person if I was) I ‚should f*cking work and not play games‘, and that having multiple consoles is no option only for people with ‚low economic standards‘.

Even the burned out former bay area software engineer in that documentary seems to have been living with stereotypes about homeless people. Unfortunately this only changed after becoming homeless himself.

This added an observation to a long-term curiosity why many US people seem to forcefully ignore all the homeless people on their streets while claiming to be Christian. Completely brainwashed by unquestioned and unrestricted capitalism.

There was a similar documentary about poverty and US people having 3 jobs a few weeks ago and that comment section was full of non-US people wondering why everybody is just accepting this situation. Why there aren’t massive protests. Thought about this when seeing how that single mother was forcefully evicted with 1 day notice out of her house of 7 years, and just accepted the situation.

It’s a good read but the negativity makes it appear irrational. It would be better if he left the ranting away and focused on the realistic recap without the PR hype.

Note that AI has a history of being stalled by overly pessimist evaluations (Minsky / Papert on the perceptron, Lighthill report).

You’re likely perceiving female pheromones. There have been studies that men can reliably detect fertile phases from sniffing worn shirts alone. I‘ve tried diving a bit into this topic after noticing something fruity (a good smell) in the middle of my cycle, which somehow intensified when being around my so. Interestingly it disappeared in the years I’ve been on hormonal contraception (stopped now due to a couple of more severe side effects, luckily I haven’t been on them for long).

Asking the women whether your perception is true would likely have led nowhere as most women are not aware of their fertile phases.

Search keyword seems to be ‚copulins‘, but the area appears a bit underexplored. Lots of companies trying to sell snake oil. Lots of urban legends about mind control. Some girls do try using their natural perfume to their advantage though.

The thing about compatibility you mention is more related to the immune system I think, and mutual.

There has been research in using massive amounts of neural recordings to infer the underlying sensory cognitive neural network this year:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/553255v2

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/neco_a_0121...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016502701...

If that neural lace materializes there will be a lot of new material for that particular mental playground.

There have been similar projects in India and Brazil:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_in_Brazil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_in_India

The Namibia project section at WP also contains some good references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee#Namibia