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Yes and no. You can have plenty of commitment for 5 years, and then you feel like doing something else and your commitment decreases. Infidelity doesn't mean the whole relationship has been bad.

My point is, there is an expectation that a happy marriage lasts your whole life, and while there is nothing wrong with a marriage like that, it is not the only happy solution. You can have a relationship end without regretting ever going into it.

Divorce doesn't mean regret though. You can have a wonderful time with a partner and then decide the you want something else later, at a different point in life.

But even if you deep dive enough, there are discrete values, like in Quantum Mechanics. And as long as you have discrete values, you have integers, no? So integers do not seem only like human models, they seem to me as something innate in the universe.

I view this the same way. Determinism vs randomness says nothing about free will.

I think the problem with arguments regarding free will is that it's very hard to define (like consciousness for that matter). I am my brain. My brain controls what I do. Therefore, I control what I do. Only if we lift up our consciousness or free will as something higher than our brain does this become a problem.

The fact that my free will is deterministic, that is, a consequence of how the brain is structured and how the environment looks, does not change the fact that I, that is, my brain, controls what my body does. If anything, randomness makes this worse - then it is not my brain controlling my body, but some random result of a wave function collapse.

I find it difficult to wrap my head around as well. One way you might think of it is not space expanding, but all objects shrinking. If everything shrank to half size, including wave-lengths and velocities, the size of the universe would double in size, and objects would appear to move apart from each other above the speed of light at large enough distances. However, you could never use this fact to travel above the speed of light.

Not sure if this comparison is valid though.

Historically, I believe this is true for all Norse cultures. The most common surnames in Sweden (like Andersson) are afaik based on the most common given names when surnames were changed to be static in families, which was a gradual process a few hundred years ago.

I'd like to think I am good at it as well, but I doubt it. The number of times I've felt I've understood something, but then realized I could not answer follow-up questions or explain it properly to a third party, is uncountable.

What would you say is its baggage?

Yeah, but if humans keep existing for millions of years, then the probability for a turtle on the Galápagos Islands to live in the time between when humans started seafaring and when humans visited the islands would be extremely small compared to any other time period.

Seems like no article links to Boundary Vector Field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Boundary...

Here is the article I believe the parent is referring to

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black...

I think it was rather nuanced. Several reasons given:

1) The capitalization of Black has already been accepted by the mainstream - NYT is catching up with the times

2) Other names on American minorities with a shared heritage is already capitalized, like Latino and Asian.

3) African-American is capitalized, but not as inclusive as Black.

At no point, except when referring to some early 20th century worldview, are they talking about all black people worldwide. I read the article as a purely American POV.

I'm on them now, though I used snus before, not cigarettes.

There is a difference, but there are countries where it is illegal despite it being true. Sweden is an example of this.

Defamation is illegal in plenty of non-dystopian countries.

I find the public opinion has change drastically - nowadays pretty much everyone I socialize with agree the current and growing wealth inequality is absurd and unsustainable.

Large numbers are very difficult to understand, which is why I think things like this website works.

"Almost every" is an exaggeration. While most do, there are quite a few with unicameral legislature, and they do not work worse than bicameral ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicameralism#/media/File:Unib...

What problem did it solve before?

I also had complex partial seizures - borderline, I think, because I retained consciousness, but lost the ability to speak and understand language. I remember going skydiving many years ago, and filling out a form where they asked whether I had disabilities, including epilepsy. I marked that I had epilepsy, and then but the paper at the bottom of the pile. Not sure what they made of it when reading the papers after the fact.

I also did a shift in whether I considered it a disability or not. In the beginning, it felt like just a tiny part of who I was. But as time went on, the seizures increasing in frequency, and the anxiety related to the seizures going up as well, it started to make a larger and larger impact on my life and, maybe more importantly, my self-image.

I think it is interesting how the same thing can seem so different at different points in time.

Tom Lehrer did a funny song about New Math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA

All their games have been reactionary, though? It's not like Diablo was the first hack and slash, nor Warcraft the original RTS. Blizzard's strength have always been refinement - take an existing genre and make the very best version of it. I think they succeeded with that in both Hearthstone and Overwatch.

It's hard to imagine an emulated version of a human having a consciousness, however. What is it that separates transistors firing randomy from a CPU executing specific consciousness-generating instructions? I find these things thought-provoking.

Also, don't be disappointed if boys just want to be fathers. It's one of the most important and noble jobs there is. Don't discourage it because you don't think it's as important as what you do.

So it turns into more of a management role, and less like hard labor. Still not really retirement.

It is also one of those cases where one word in English becomes two words in a different language. Play as in playing a video game, or chess, or something similar, is called "spela", while play as children do is called "leka".

You say it's not rare, but I can't remember ever seeing it before reading this article.

Eukaryote life did not appear until after the Oxygen Catastrophe though.

I had a similar experience. For the month or so I was hooked, I felt attached in a way I haven't felt to a video game since I was a teenager. It almost felt sad when my interest dropped, like I lost something valuable.

What are you referring to? I live in Sweden, and have not seen news regarding police brutality during the BLM protests.

For any feature this bird and other birds have in common to have come later, they would have to have evolved twice. This could be the case for some features, but is highly unlikely to be responsible for large part of the similarities.

Human experiments often have a net positive, but that doesn't mean they're not highly unethical.