Tag: science
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Putin is neither a psychopath nor has Asperger’s syndrome
As a person suffering from the disease that belongs to the autistic spectrum myself, I recall the old official American report claiming Vladimir Putin has Asperger’s syndrome. Leave the aspect that the report may have had some side intentions (discredit him in his official ranks etc.) and let’s take a look at the notion itself.…
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Supersmart AI in 19th century. Human labor could have been eradicated centuries ago
In my culture, they often say you could achieve more, have a better education. It is a pity for the humanity that you have such a job (an underachiever). This cannot be more laughable. It looks like human society is doing everything to improve its condition and scientific achievements. Buying a new mansion, super-duper cars,…
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How a real democracy and public affairs should look like
Constitution, congress, senate, old and senile Anglo-Saxon-looking politicians calling all day to lobbyists to get money for campaigns, movers-and-shakers, crooks, super-rich families and lodges. Social media, and mass media with their own agenda, would be politically incorrect stand-up shows. Endless feuds with power structures blocking each other to the detriment of citizens. Gerrymandering, voter suppression,…
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Why do famous persons with extremely high IQs never tell the number?
I have a page about IQ estimates of geniuses. But why the estimates? The persons involved must likely have taken an IQ test in their lifetimes (excluding those who didn’t have that opportunity because we had no clue about the “g factor” back then). We may say it is their privacy, but people tend to…
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Wikipedia as a health hazard! Never trust it with your health! I paid the heavy price because of their lousy and ridiculous featured article about schizophrenia
More than ten years ago, I suffered from delusions (I didn’t know these were delusions), cognitive impairment, depression and severe negative symptoms (lack of emotions, not enjoying anything). Since I had a turbulent relationship with my psychiatrist who also didn’t warn me about the possibility of having schizophrenia, I relied mainly on a featured article…
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Our moral system is extremely bad. Here are the facts
My atypical stance on human morality is given by books that are the best and the worst I have ever read. What kind of books? Evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biology. While the first one may be considered as a pseudoscience even though it bears a rational core and has thousands of rational claims that cannot…
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Richard Dawkins doesn’t like the British people. And they are one of the least worst
Imagine a completely different country than the Czech Republic is, better in all of aspects – big salaries, great flawless people that you like all of them, excellent justice system, orderliness, communist-like social net, capitalistic profits, very polite politics. A completely different world. I used to hold British people in high regard unless I realized…
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Scientists should explore how to stop performance IQ decline
The performance part has a steady decline as you age. If you want to learn something and you postpone it, hurry up, it may be late. “It begins in the mid-20s and continues steadily until it reaches more than 30 points in the late 80s (a peak of 101 at 20–24 versus 70 in old…
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Thank God for the right-wing voters in the Czech Republic! We would be the worst developing country ever without them
It is absolutely saddening that you must live in countries in this modern world. No global government, common language spoken, just countries with their own governments, some mutually friendly, some alienated, with their own armies. I utterly despise the two-dimensional spectrum the journalists, politicians, and their puppet masters are feeding us. I clarified what a…
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Was it better in prehistory? Extermination camps, gulags, systematic oppression, global wars
While there is no doubt life is better now than in prehistory (generally), modern-day history offers a lot of cruel modern-day novelties non-existential in prehistory. One journalist has rebutted that the Middle Ages may not have been so bad by saying: “What about Gulags?” Homo sapiens are species enormously prone to wars. And while a…