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Because I enjoy watching you squirm722:29, 13 May 2013
Brain man417:44, 3 May 2013
Shermer and Pigliucci debate morality.303:05, 28 April 2013
Re: Marxism406:35, 14 April 2013
Thanks for the fix405:06, 23 March 2013
Facebook - the new horoscope622:34, 12 March 2013
From your autodidact website200:24, 27 January 2013
AA117:28, 16 December 2012
Nomination attempt #4999393016:53, 14 December 2012
neuroscientist proves heaven221:36, 12 November 2012
Please come back121:45, 7 November 2012
deaf brains.015:21, 18 September 2012
bilingualism and the brain100:19, 18 September 2012
Why did you revert my edits of the Bitcoin article?523:08, 17 September 2012
Absurdism1711:25, 11 September 2012
Nevermind123:10, 10 September 2012
Gold Standard page work.420:26, 27 August 2012
Help (i.e. expertise) needed419:19, 26 August 2012
Borlaug's ghost is pleased118:16, 26 August 2012
menapause106:11, 26 August 2012
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Because I enjoy watching you squirm

"Testosterone enhances the growth of the right hemisphere, and may facilitate musical ability. If it does so, musical ability then is a signal for male fertilizing ability."

Scarlet A.pngd hominem11:50, 11 May 2013

Speculation built on speculation built on speculation. I wonder what results they would get if they changed the instrument to something less "cool," like a tuba or accordion. It would probably be less amenable to Kanazawa-esque pronouncements.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)17:32, 11 May 2013

So, people old enough to do shit, but not old enough to realise shit is a bad idea, do more shit? Shocker.

Scarlet A.pngbomination12:46, 12 May 2013

Huh?

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)15:53, 12 May 2013

That just seems to be what the article is saying. That the young, but not too young, do things. I just don't quite see how that comes back to sexual selection....

Scarlet A.pnggnostic12:23, 13 May 2013

Oh, I was referring to the title -- the idea that (art/science/civilization/whatever) is the product of dudes trying to get laid. It's sexual selection taken to ridiculous extremes. (You have to read further into the series to get to that part, I guess.)

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)15:48, 13 May 2013
 
 
 
 
 

What's the best way to forget a spoiler for a TV show?

"Shut up, Brx."21:56, 2 May 2013

Don't watch it or discuss it with anyone for between 10 and 15 years.

Scarlet A.pngpathetic22:41, 2 May 2013

What if I wait for twenty years?

"Shut up, Brx."22:54, 2 May 2013

You'll remember it again.

Scarlet A.pngsshole23:08, 2 May 2013
 
 

Don't post in this thread.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)17:44, 3 May 2013
 

Shermer and Pigliucci debate morality.

I think you'd enjoy this debate between Shermer and Pigliucci. I give it to Pigliucci 10 to 0.

Having read the blog debate, I wouldn't be too surprised. Shermer's entire argument seems to rely on shifting between trivially true and non-trivially false versions of his claim and then shouting "Because science!"

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)04:52, 24 April 2013

Having listened to the debate twice and read the comments I must agree.

"It seems you want science to validate your libertarian principles." Pwned, as the kids these days say.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)03:05, 28 April 2013
 
 
 

That would be the ideal (i.e. a utopic society whereupon the lucky spread the wealth voluntarily). The fact that they don't is the basis for class conflict and the need for a revolution. :P

Captain Swing (bringer of nachos)06:06, 14 April 2013

But wouldn't there be no money in a true utopia?

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)06:19, 14 April 2013

If we had a form of life wherein we solved major social problems like hunger, poverty, access to healthcare, education, and other ills, I wouldn't give two shits if we used a currency. As I mentioned earlier, I'm a pragmatist first and foremost.

Captain Swing (bringer of nachos)06:22, 14 April 2013

What if the way of solving those problems is by eliminating money?

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)06:28, 14 April 2013

...Again, I would think my whole "pragmatism trumping ideology" would answer that question. Again, my idea of basically more extreme noblesse oblige has to do with the idea that, in a utopia, we would redistribute wealth in a manner that is both egalitarian and voluntary. Because this does not happen, we have a class conflict. It might transpire that abolishing capital is the best way to solve social problems, though this would obviously lead to friction amongst those who drew power from capital. But that's neither here nor there.

Captain Swing (bringer of nachos)06:34, 14 April 2013
 
 
 
 

Thanks for the fix

I feel that's twice now you've had to correct my edits, thanks for the catch!

Captain Swing (bringer of nachos)04:41, 23 March 2013

I did? You're welcome, I guess.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)04:43, 23 March 2013

While Adam Smith may be questionable, the influence of Benthem's Utilitarianism on the Poor Laws and the subsequent institution of Work Houses definitely has Malthusian overtones to it. I disagree with the removal.

Captain Swing (bringer of nachos)04:56, 23 March 2013

If you rewrite that with Bentham in place of utilitarianism, it's fine. Edit: That rewrite is much better. The way it was worded before made it sound like utilitarianism was merely a justification for social Darwinism.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)05:00, 23 March 2013

Yeah, I realized that after re-reading it. I also should have dropped Adam Smith altogether, as his theories are a whole 'nother kettle of fish.

Captain Swing (bringer of nachos)05:04, 23 March 2013
 
 
 
 

Facebook - the new horoscope

Setting aside the fact that COMMENTS people make are actually revealing, I gotta love this: here. You too can tell by the mix of my loving of hedgehogs, along with my liking of stories about michelle Obama, and my liking of my friend's comment about getting her new puppy potty trained, that I am a liberal commie activist who isn't at all likely to vote for anyone, but will buy Christian Dating Now magiznes!

Green mowse.pngGodot The ablity to breath is such an overrated ability00:01, 12 March 2013

Next up, how setting your Facebook status to "I really don't know what else I could have done to make people like me" indicates that you may be slightly upset.

Scarlet A.pngsshole08:14, 12 March 2013

Solution. Don't click the Like button for anything. Anything commercial, Facebook'll turn into an ad involving your face, advocating a product on your behalf to your friends.

Ochotonaprincepsnot a pokémon08:21, 12 March 2013

the ad stuff amuses me. it must generate lists based on what words you say, cause i'm always getting ads for christian stuff.

Green mowse.pngGodot The ablity to breath is such an overrated ability20:02, 12 March 2013
 

This website should have some amusing ads soon.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:34, 12 March 2013

Okay, if this were Facebook, I'd click the Like button for that one, Nebu.

Ochotonaprincepsnot a pokémon20:52, 12 March 2013
 

I get adverts for a ton of New Age woo and self-help crap that I just click on to read and laugh. It's remarkably useful.

Scarlet A.pnggnostic22:34, 12 March 2013
 
 
 

From your autodidact website

THIS.

Theory of Practice "...and we do love you madly."22:48, 26 January 2013

Anywhere in particular I should start after the intro?

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:05, 27 January 2013

That's a Sophie's Choice question for me, and James wrote about so many different things over the course of his career. Poke around the first section of this and see if any of the titles grab you. *Notes on Dialectics* for an analysis of Hegel/Marx/Lenin; *Beyond a Boundary* for colonial culture and identity (and cricket); *The Black Jacobins* to understand how to do good Afrocentric history; his book on the Comintern for international Marxism....

Theory of Practice "...and we do love you madly."00:24, 27 January 2013
 
 

It's for cats too apparently

Humorless fascistsociopath15:50, 15 December 2012

The scary thing is, I wouldn't be surprised if that actually existed.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)17:28, 16 December 2012
 

Nomination attempt #4999393

[1]

Osaka Sun (talk)16:53, 14 December 2012

neuroscientist proves heaven

any "there", there? Why would a coma keep a person from dreaming? just curious.

Green mowse.pngGodotCalibrated! let the voting begin!20:46, 10 October 2012

It wouldn't, AFAIK. Looks like the media looking for a soundbite and a neuroscientist willing to supply it. They love that --especially when the topic is free will.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)19:47, 12 November 2012

So, they let you back out the cage for the weekend to answer a couple of questions?

Scarlet A.pngbominationModerator21:36, 12 November 2012
 
 

Please come back

^the title.

Evil fascistoh noez22:31, 1 November 2012

Youre sorta back! wheeeeeee! missed you!

Green mowse.pngGodotI hate waiting!21:45, 7 November 2012
 

Finished those articles last night, thanks! i had no idea that fluency in ASL would activate an area of the brain related to spacial distances. I googled, and it's an area of teh brain used (or thought to be used, really) in things like judging distances, jumping from one place to another, as well as putting together shapes to form new shapes. not sure what's all going on there, but it's so cool to think about. so again, thanks.

Green mowse.pngGodotBe informed. Vote.15:21, 18 September 2012

bilingualism and the brain

Oh - "several studies provide a preliminary theory that bilingualism happens in a separate part of the brain from monlingualism". I think that part's broked on me!

Green mowse.pngGodotBe informed. Vote.00:02, 18 September 2012

Nah, just atrophied. Quick, to the Brain Gym!

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:19, 18 September 2012
 

Why did you revert my edits of the Bitcoin article?

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/User_talk:David_Gerard#So.2C_facts_have_no_place_in_RationalWiki_now.3F All I'm trying to do is make it more factual. Isn't the name of this site RationalWiki, after all?

Kinghajj (talk)09:11, 17 September 2012

Bring it up on the relevant talk page where people with interest in the article will see it, rather than smearing it all over everyone's userpages.

(also, it's too early in the morning to drink, I'll just do double next time)

Scarlet A.pngbominationModerator09:40, 17 September 2012

That's no excuse: make it double plus interest.

Peter Subsisting on honey10:44, 17 September 2012

There's a bottle of Bells in my office for reasons that are completely alien to me. Don't tempt me.

Scarlet A.pngbominationModerator18:03, 17 September 2012

All right, it's late enough now: "But I thought this was supposed to be RATIONALWiki!" Drink!

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)21:45, 17 September 2012

*hic*

ТyBother me23:08, 17 September 2012
 
 
 
 
 

Recommended reading?

ТyILAB18:39, 10 September 2012

I would start with The Myth of Sisyphus for Absurdism in its raw form, then move onto Camus' fiction like The Stranger (novel). Actually, if you have nothing to do one day, you can get through a good bit of Camus' body of work in that time -- his stuff is pretty short. Absurdism is an offshoot of existentialism, so you can move into stuff like Sartre if you want to go even deeper down the rabbit-hole. And then the "proto-existentialists" like Nietzsche and Kierkegaard (Warning: The latter may contain theistic ingredients).

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)23:16, 10 September 2012

I suppose the uni library has those somewhere.

ТyILAB23:33, 10 September 2012

Then when you're done with that, he'll hit you over the head with Wittgenstein.

Scarlet A.pngbominationModerator23:54, 10 September 2012

True. And then after that I might recommend some of the more recent philosophers of mind (Hofstadter, Dennett, etc.) if only because some of the existentialists' take on consciousness was a bit loopy in places. Check out Sartre's late-career attempt at psychotherapy -- actually, no, just don't bother with that quackery.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:15, 11 September 2012

Today was philosophy day in Education class. Sartre got a brief mention, but the meat of the class we Thomas Aquinas and Neothomatism (sp?)

ТyILAB00:17, 11 September 2012
 

"Hit on the head with Wittgenstien then rogered up the anus by Hofstadter" has such a good ring to it.

Scarlet A.pngmoralModerator01:26, 11 September 2012
 

Gives me something to do other than watch some low budget Canadian horror movie about something that steals vacationing professor's shoes.

ТyILAB00:16, 11 September 2012

I dunno, sounds like some good MST3k material.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:24, 11 September 2012
 
 
 
 
 

Thank you for the block sir may I haz another? Must be nice to fuck with people who cannot defend themselves! Your compatriot done the deed, it's like old times when I get a boot up my arse! Good times....good times.

Matzosphere (talk)22:22, 9 September 2012

3 seconds is an eternity, I know.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)23:10, 10 September 2012
 

Gold Standard page work.

I don't want to step on your toes while your working on that page, but it might be worth something to put in the fact that European currency was inflated to hell and back in the 1600s when Spanish ships filled with New World Gold and Silver flooded the European market?

Revolverman (talk)00:39, 27 August 2012

Good idea.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)03:26, 27 August 2012

What's wrong with this Intro? it says more precisely to the point in layman's language than much of your pre-packaged partisan rumblings which can be easily picked apart.

nobsCorporations are people, too17:08, 27 August 2012
 

What's wrong with this Intro? it says more precisely to the point in layman's language than much of your pre-packaged partisan rumblings which can be easily picked apart.

nobsCorporations are people, too17:08, 27 August 2012

It must have gotten erased when I switched around the segments. The part about the elasticity of fiat currency says basically the same thing, though the erased bit is a more concise way of putting it.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:26, 27 August 2012
 
 
 

Help (i.e. expertise) needed

Heads up if you haven't noticed: our friendly libertarian ex-con has managed to provoke a... discussion around the Child sexual abuse‎‎ article. At the moment, several people have tried to do something, but I'm afraid that it is a demonstration of the "prepared crank vs laymen" effect. I have some ideas, but I'm not that well-read and it's bedtime in my time zone. :(

ZooGuard (talk)20:01, 10 August 2012

Sorry, I'm afraid I can't help all that much. I don't have any expertise in that, er, "area."

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:03, 10 August 2012
 

To me, it reads as standard "WHY DO YOU CALL IT RATIONAL WIKI" stuff, alongside the sort of shit you'd expect from NAMbLA. Basically the argument seems to run along the lines of "it's consensual so it's fine", neglecting the major aspect of informed consent. Basically, if you're taking advantage of someone under a level of maturity we deem incapable of making such an informed decision, it's abusive. It's not loaded terminology in that respect. No more so than saying "creationism is wrong" is loaded.

Scarlet A.pngtheist20:17, 10 August 2012

Interesting point you raise with reference to informed consent; I address it here. Please note that I will not be able to respond to any arguments you make on this wiki concerning this subject, other than to link off-wiki.

Tisane (talk)06:03, 26 August 2012

I have little interest in reading your pro-paedophile crap. Go remove yourself from the gene pool

Scarlet A.pngd hominem19:19, 26 August 2012
 
 
 

Borlaug's ghost is pleased

Nice edits you made to the Norman Borlaug article. Cheers - looks purdy.

Concernedresident omg!!! ponies!!!14:26, 26 August 2012

'Tweren't nothin', I guess? All I did was clean up one footnote a little bit.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)18:16, 26 August 2012
 

here. I didn't read the actual study, but i'm bothered by one primary aspect of this article. It says women who start menopause around 51, do so "just at the time their children start families". Ok, there is something higly problematic about this. 1) the average life span at the time of the evolution of menopause is shorter than most women will ever hit menopause. (40 years, generally). 2) most people started sexual lives at or near the time they started being a woman, so 15ish as a late date. that makes a woman likely to be a grand parent at 30, and a great grand parent at 45. What the fuck am i missing? it seems to me highly problamatic to use modern norms for your study... just saying.

Green mowse.pngGodotRIP original "muahahahah". 1...2....3...4...muahahahahah05:38, 26 August 2012

"it seems to me highly problamatic to use modern norms for your study... just saying." Welcome to evo-speculation. Here's a bunch of WAGs if you want to read it.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)06:11, 26 August 2012
 
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