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papapra··on Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?
How much money did you need to start your business ?
papapra··on How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer
From that reading do you have any advice, what can we do to improve our gut and health ?
papapra··on The meaning of life in a world without work
I agree, not everybody will or can do it. I actually enjoy science, but I found out that I'm not enough good to do something meaningfull.
papapra··on The meaning of life in a world without work
He means not important for the political and economical system, not literary useless.
papapra··on The meaning of life in a world without work
One line that stuck out for me: "To the best of our scientific knowledge, human life has no meaning."

Maybe the meaning of life should be to improve our scientific knowledge. By understanding more deeply the nature, the universe that we live in and how the brain works, we could answer better this question.

papapra··on A neural link between affective understanding and interpersonal attraction [pdf]
Maybe just for the woman
papapra··on A neural link between affective understanding and interpersonal attraction [pdf]
It explains why being anxious or having low self-esteem is unattractive.
papapra··on Overselling A.D.H.D.
Is not the problem misdiagnoses? There are a lot of conditions that mimic ADHD, I think the problem is that a lot of diagnosis are not thorough enough.
papapra··on How to be mediocre and be happy with yourself
In the ted talk, he doesn't explain why this is not just a correlation. Maybe there is something else that makes you happy and makes one better at having relationships. For exemple, someone who has anxiety disorder will not be good with relationships and most probably will be unhappy. But the root cause of unhappines is anxiety.
papapra··on American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots
I think what you are missing is the fact that this time the changes will take place much faster. With farming, the changes were slower and generational.(The children of farmers didn't do farming). And still these changes had colossal impact on societies(and a lot of blood was spilled).
papapra··on Great Mathematicians on Math Competitions and "Genius" (2010)
And Terrence Tao who is quated was also extremely good at olympiads. As I see it, the olympiads are a good cost-effective way of identifying talented kids, they are in a way just IQ tests.
papapra··on An empirical study of working speed differences between software engineers [pdf]
I think what you call it is more complex. As I can see there are three important capacitities: attention to details, working memory and iq (capacity to see patterns, what is tested in iq tests). In my experience they are all important, I'm pretty bad at the first two, and this makes me miserable in my job.
papapra··on An empirical study of working speed differences between software engineers [pdf]
What if one's slow is someone else's fast ?
papapra··on Up to 70% of people in developed countries 'have seen incomes stagnate'
Maybe another important aspect is how the growth is shared ?
papapra··on Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein
One more thing is emotional health, it's already pretty known that exercise helps with anxiety and depression. But I disagree about your assertion about intelligence, I think it plays a huge role in academic success.
papapra··on A Guaranteed Income for Every American
Take care with your ideology(for you it's seems it's a religion), that's all I can say to you.
papapra··on A Guaranteed Income for Every American
Why it is necessary evil ? You don't live alone in this world and I bet you profited enormously from the country, community that you live in.
papapra··on A Guaranteed Income for Every American
Did you at least read the article ? He writes about replacing the current welfare system with UBI.

About the taxes, I think you are wrong because you think in black and white. It's not binary, it's a spectrum and you want to have a balance, in USA the current system is very favorable to the rich.

papapra··on Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases
At the same time some people are just more neurotic(and genetics has a big role), it's not so simple
papapra··on AlphaGo shows its true strength in 3rd victory against Lee Sedol
Apparently it is still strong on a single machine https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/708489093676568576
papapra··on The Life Project: British cohort study turns 70
Well... they don't say what makes some people happy...
papapra··on How sleep and mental health are linked in the brain
Maybe the mental health conditions are the cause of bad sleep?
papapra··on Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain?
Thank you, english is not my native language.
papapra··on Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain?
May be I needed to be more clear. Of course there can be variations, but the maximal potential iq is static throughout life and we can't change it. Good nutrition, good environement will help someone achieve it, I don't know about exercise.
papapra··on Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

I don't think you know a lot about iq.

papapra··on Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain?
Today there is no way to increase your iq. Exercise may improve your attention, emotion regulation, reduce stress.
papapra··on Why are Americans so angry?
For exemple, the family and the envirennement, the support of the family is very important...

And I would say that raw talent means a lot, the majority of atheles work hard, but the deciding factor is talent.

papapra··on Why are Americans so angry?
"Sports are 100% meritocracies" - that's just very false, genetics and where you come from play a huge role.
papapra··on How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off
May I ask what european country and why ?
papapra··on ADHD Is Fuel for Adventure
In the book "ADHD Does not Exist" Richard Saul describes Neurochemical Diststractibility/Impulsivity(what we call adhd) of two types : low serotoning group and high level epinephrine/norepinephrine group. "The two types described show subtly different symptom patterns.The low-serotonin group tends to look like what people think of when they think of the disorder called ADHD. The high epinephrine/norepinephrine group is "consistent in its inconsistency". Sometimes these patiens can concentrate well, and sometimes they can't." Maybe this is related to what you say, I see it myself, somedays my brain just works better, I never understood why.
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