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The fact/opinion distinction
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What is truth?
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Rebecca Black - Friday (lost NES game version, 2011)
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MDN Plus announcement
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At least forty-four Fort Bragg soldiers died stateside in 2020 — several of them were homicides. Families want answers. But the Army isn’t giving any
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Sonic Central - Upcoming projects, partnerships, and events to celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog's 30th anniversary
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Inside the battle for Jerusalem
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What are your cognitive biases, and how do they affect you?
From Wikipedia: A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An...
From Wikipedia:
A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality.
For obvious reasons, it is much easier to identify biases in others than ourselves. Nevertheless, some of us went through practices (such as psychotherapy), experiences, and introspection that allowed us to put our biases in check. So, instead of scrutinizing the behavior of others (something that comes naturally to us, especially on the internet), here I ask you to exercise some self-criticism. What intellectual tendencies you have that obsessively repeat themselves in different contexts?
I should note that cognitive biases do not always lead to bad outcomes or falsehoods, as stated in Wikipedia:
Although it may seem like such misperceptions would be aberrations, biases can help humans find commonalities and shortcuts to assist in the navigation of common situations in life.[5]
On this thread, I am deliberately not asking about political bias or anything of the sort, including all the juicy controversial subjects surrounding it. Anything that often leads to uncivil discussion should be considered out of bounds.
For inspiration, look at this list (you don't need to identify a named bias, though... a subjective description of something you believe to be a form of bias is enough).
Dear Mods, due to the contentious nature of the subject, please feel free to act more aggressively on this topic than you currently do.
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
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'Find this fuck:' Inside Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism
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California mass shooting: Rail employee ‘shoots dead eight and himself’ as suspect’s house found on fire
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Windows Package Manager 1.0 Released
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Pwned Passwords is now open-sourced via the .NET Foundation, and will be provided compromised passwords by the FBI
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Royal Navy appoints Jersey woman as first female admiral
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Florida has passed an unconstitutional law to allow suing and fining social media companies (except ones that also own theme parks) for censoring users or de-platforming politicians
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EEAS special report update: Short assessment of narratives and disinformation around the COVID-19 pandemic
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The fight to whitewash US history: At least fifteen states are trying to ban schools from teaching critical race theory and the 1619 Project. The reactionary movement stretches back to the 1920s.
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Cancel culture and critical race theory
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Belarus scrambled fighter and flagged false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land then detained an opposition-minded journalist who was on board, drawing criticism from across Europe
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Exorcising Aunt Jemima - Among calls for racial justice, several brands finally dropped racist imagery from their logos and designs. But is a real paradigm shift underway?
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Dragon Quest III | HD-2D remake teaser trailer
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Android 12 will finally let alternative app stores update apps without bothering the user
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Semantics and understanding
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The reasons behind Zidane's departure from Real Madrid
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Far from gone: The evolution of extremism in the first 100 days of the Biden Administration
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Mouse plague deals fresh blow to Australian farmers
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What is a minimum viable product?
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Life at disaster's edge: What it means to start over - again and again
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The secret to Resident Evil's success
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Medication for depression
Hello my lovelies, I struggle with a moderate amount of anxiety and obsession with self-image, which tend to amalgamate as some kind of depression or other over time. At least I think they do....
Hello my lovelies,
I struggle with a moderate amount of anxiety and obsession with self-image, which tend to amalgamate as some kind of depression or other over time. At least I think they do. I've never really been sure if what I experience is actually depression, or if I'm just a Mopey Idiot, or if I have a more acute cognitive issue that I'm not aware of.
I keep very precise semi-quantitative logs of my mood and behavior every day, and they suggest to me that some of my stress is related to being a little overloaded. I'm working on cutting back on some of that responsibility. But it's also extremely obvious to me that, for quite some time—I think since about early October 2019—I've lacked the physical energy that typically allows me to be consistently happy. There was no one, singular "proximate cause" two years ago, certainly it was none of my actual obligations (at that time I had very little work to speak of). However, I nevertheless very distinctly remember that my energy was suddenly just sapped, and has not come back to the level it was at before. The best theory I have is that it might've been a mini-existential crisis triggered immediately by some books I'd been reading, with a background of relatively more social isolation than usual. There have been specific circumstances since then in which I can be high-energy (and I mean be, not just act like I am), but they are fleeting and rare. The overall background energy of my life has been different.
In short, I do not really have a solid anchor per se, even as I have many little mini-anchors. I have been floating around for a while as a result.
At least that has been my working theory for a little while. The persistence of my condition has led me to question whether that theory is useful, or whether there is something fundamentally wrong with my brain. I am Young and Naive so I simply do not know how to tell. The pandemic has made it much more challenging to figure out the root cause of my problems, because I cannot tell if they are just because I can't do the fun activities I like doing in the social environments I like doing them in, or something presumably biochemical.
Things that each help a little:
- Getting more sleep
- Getting more exercise
- Being good about meditating, or when my therapist is useful (rarely)
- Being successful (I have a job for the summer and a likely career after I graduate. Knock on wood)
- Being hot as fuck (I'm not that attractive, but I feel pretty after I exercise, or when I dress nice, or when people compliment my body)
Things that each help a lot:
- Having extremely attentive and caring friends
- Not being around people who constantly drain me
- Consuming certain substances
Specifically, the most non-low-energy I've felt in a long time was when I ate some funky little mushrooms with my friend this year. Specifically, after I snapped back to reality (mom's spaghetti). I was just more alert and more able to function properly. My brain operated at its normal capacity; words flowed freely from my mouth in a gorgeous array of sentences; positive banter was at an all-time high; I was positive and optimistic; and so on. You know how you can sort of visualize the ideas popping around and the gears turning when you're sober but just really on top of your social life? Well that's what it was. Unfortunately my ability to be a normal person only lasted like 1 or 2 days from there, and then it was back to the same old.
This has made me ask the question: might it be prudent to look into some sort of legal medical prescription that would have a similar effect? That is, anti-depressants or like whatever. I'm also open to alternative treatments but I am mainly asking about prescription meds. I just don't know anything about the whole world of medication. I almost never take meds for anything ever, even physical injuries, and I'm afraid that if I start doing medication I'll never be able to stop. The concept of always being medicated is a little scary to me. Like even if it helps, I'm still worried. But I kind of feel like nothing I've done so far has been able to permanently work, so I kind of need to do something.
I appreciate any thoughts that you can give!!!
xoxoxo
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The end of analytic philosophy
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Itch.io indie bundle for Palestinian Aid - May 29th through June 11th
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GameStop, AMC extend rallies, gouging short sellers
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Tasmanian devils born on Australian mainland for first time in 3,000 years
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The Argument Clinic and introduction to philosophy
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Galápagos tortoise found alive is from species thought extinct
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Court orders Royal Dutch Shell to cut net emissions by 45% by 2030
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Why Black cops quit - “The ‘Blue Wall of Silence’ is so real and so pervasive that people outside of it don’t have a clue of what it’s like,” one former officer told VICE News
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What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Valve has been secretly building a Switch-like portable PC designed to run a large number of games on the Steam PC platform via Linux
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
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A death in cryptoland - The investigation into the collapse of Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX after the sudden death of its CEO Gerald Cotten
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Bad Gear - Roland TR-505 - Worst digital drum machine of all time???
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The doomed mouse utopia that inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’. Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
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$45 billion in US rent relief was seen as the solution to a possible wave of evictions. It ran headfirst into reality.
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An update on Flow's direction
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Did Jordan’s closest allies plot to unseat its king? Alleged sedition and a royal family feud may have been driven by a broader plan to reshape the Middle East.
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Samuel E. Wright, the voice of Sebastian the crab in 'The Little Mermaid,' dies aged 74
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