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The usefulness of moral intuitions
This is probably another entry for "obvious to lots of other people but I just reinvented it for myself". Also, pretty speculative, disagreement/comments highly welcome ( Read more... ) -
I am dissatisfied with the state of online social networks
Here's my conundrum ( Read more... ) -
I'm gonna just leave this here
www.patheos.com/blogs/unequallyyoked/2014/07/sondheim-symposium-on-friendship-sequence-index.html
Leah (who is an excellent blogger who came up with the Ideological Turing Test), has a whole mini-sequence of posts about the nature and importance of friendships. As someone whose fantasy future involves living in the same house or just next door to my ( Read more... ) -
Another tier for the asexual-aromantic terminology: asocial
After talking to a few people, it seems like there's a missing layer to the terms offered by sites like AVEN. So here are the three layers and their (paraphrased) definitions:
Asexual - someone who does not feel sexual attraction
Aromantic - someone who does not feel romantic attraction
Asocial - someone who doesn't feel platonic attraction
So, an ( Read more... ) -
The difference between fault and responsibility
aka, a distinction that people don't make nearly often enough or in the right ways
siderea.livejournal.com/1147219.html
A couple of relevant excerpts:
"an awful lot of people get themselves hung up on the idea that the party who is at fault Should be the party to be responsible. "I'm not the one who broke it, I shouldn't have to clean it up!"
It's ( Read more... ) -
So, what's your ultimate fantasy?
So I've recently fallen into the timesink that is Effulgence. The premise more-or-less being: take ultra-rational Bella from Alicorn's Luminosity/Radiance universe, and put versions of her in various fanfiction universes. Oh and it's a co-writing thing between two authors. It's well-written (otherwise I wouldn't be reading it, obviously), but after ( Read more... ) -
When do people look for emotional congruence?
(emotional congruency being the thing I talked about in my last substantive post, for anyone reading this in the future who didn't also see the previous one)
In one of those strange 'the universe is paying attention to me' moments, two of the people I read recently posted on topics that touch on the need for emotional congruency. One about how when ( Read more... ) -
The evolution of menstruation
http://www.quora.com/Menstruation/What-is-the-evolutionary-or-biological-purpose-of-having-periods
Kind of terrifying
Choice excerpts:
"Inside the uterus we have a thick layer of endometrial tissue, which contains only tiny blood vessels. The endometrium seals off our main blood supply from the newly implanted embryo. The growing placenta literally ( Read more... ) -
Belief congruency vs emotional congruency
A while back I read this post. Short version: When people get into verbal fights, their styles can be roughly split into truth-shouters, who say the truths that they would normally hold back or find themselves unable to express, versus cutlery-loaders, who say all kinds of things that may or may not be true in order to blow off steam and get a ( Read more... ) -
Signed languages and bilingualism
So on Tuesday we had a guest talk by one Karen Emmory, described by one of our faculty as "the foremost researcher on Sign neurolinguistics". And it was a great talk. I will now do her talk approximately zero justice by attempting to summarise the coolest parts several days after the fact.- If you're bilingual (or n-lingual for any n>1) both ( Read more... )