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One of the ironies of the Friday the 13th movies is Jason is supposed to be mentally retarded, and yet he has the most creative kills of any slasher in the genre. Indeed comparing the way Jason kills people to the way any pre-1980s slasher kills people is like comparing humans before and after 50 kya (the date when some scientists think behavioral modernity blossomed).
Before 50 kya, humans generally could only make artifacts out of only stones. After 50 kya they suddenly started making them out of bone, antler, ivory and shell.
Similarly before 1980, U.S. slashers could only kill with knives, saws, and their hands. After 1980, they started killing with axes, pitch forks, machetes, cork-screws. You name it!
Of course the one killing weapon no self-respecting slasher will use is as a gun. Watching Halloween IV with a large group of people, there was one scene where it looked like Michael Myers was about to shoot someone with a rifle. People watching the movie were booing, moaning and hissing. “C’mon man” complained one black guy.
But when the crowd realized Michael had other plans for the gun besides shooting it, the crowd went wild with approval.
The question is why don’t we want our slashers using guns? Here’s my just-so story: Guns have only existed for a short period of time, by contrast primates have been slabbed, slashed and hacked for millions of years, so there’s been far more time to evolve an innate fear towards these methods of violence, and so they better fit the scary atmosphere horror fans seek.
At the 47 minute mark in the below video (hat-tip to commenter Bruno), Richard Dawkins and Stephen Pinker talk about how what we fear has more to do with what was threatening in our prehistoric past than what is threatening to us today, implying these fears are not rational, but hardwired instincts. I think most of us fear even harmless snakes because our ancestors spent millions of years being eaten by snakes in the Africa Savannah:
Pumpkin Person 
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
the italian mi familia crap is just a strategy. they don’t actually care. no one cares.
such disrespect of the high art of sumo.
this july basho all the contenders have withdrawn. hakuho, tochinoshin, kakuryu all quit.
sad!
it’s like a sci-fi movie.
the “resurrected” will be the people who planned ahead to freeze their brains, and…
the people who had fatal brain diseases.
the idea that facebook, youtube, etc. can ban certain content because private company is EXACTLY like the phone company listening to what you say and cutting off your service if they don’t like it.
in a better world firing people, not hiring people, not promoting people, not admitting people, etc. for ANY reason unrelated to the job would be ILLEGAL.
needless to say, i hope, the REALITY today is that there are a few categories of illegal discrimination AND all other categories are cool.
AND THE CAPITALIST CLASS IS PLAYING THE MINORITIES.
PLAYING.
PLAY…
ING.
there’s this magical belief that if only non-whites, non-straights, non-gentiles!
pay attention lesbians of color!
rr and swank say…
1. spaghetti is the cure for AIDS
2. spaghetti is the cure for late onset fatal spinocerebellar ataxia.
3. if you aren’t cured with spaghetti it’s because you didn’t have enough faith in the pope.
swank claims to be among the 15% of italian americans from north of the mezzogiorno…AND that he wishes he were from the south.
italy north is the cradle of western civilization.
italy south is…the best at one thing…no question about it…the best!
what swank is saying is he wishes he was henry hill.
don’t we all.
just admit it.
someone who can play pretend but who can see how it really is, i.e. north v. south. ain’t that the truth in every metaphor for those directions.
ain’t that the way, brothers!
why deny what you FEEL?
what swank has said is consistent with what i’ve read…
in the dc baths scalia was known as “the italian shetland pony”.
of course, the Supremes are going to (at least indirectly) answer this question about social media in the context of registered sex offenders…
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“Rampant empiricism” (the thesis that all knowledge derives from experience) is false. How can we know in the basis of experience that we know everything only on the basis of experience?
The model of the empiricist claims that we learn through experience and human error. We then formulate a knowledge claim and, to know anything, since knowledge is evidence-based, we must know when we’ve arrived at our goal. We can then be deceived and corrected by experience.
This sounds good on its face.
But how can can the claim that all knowledge derives from experience be corrected by our sense experience?
It can’t.
P1) All knowledge is evidence-based (we can term this “rampant empiricism”).
P2) If “All knowledge were evidence-based”, then we would be able to correct the claim that “All knowledge is evidence-based” by sense experience.
P3) We can’t correct our claim that “All knowledge is evidence-based” by sense experience.
P4) This is because no matter how well a scientific hypothesis or theory is established, it must remain feasible that evidence would appear that the scientific hypothesis or theory in question is false.
C) Therefore “All knowledge is not evidence-based” and the claim that “All knowledge is evidence-based” cannot be corrected by sense experience; rampant empiricism is false and is not a scientific hypothesis.
Post this one not the other one PP. I replied to the comment I told you not to post. Post this. Sorry.
This argument establishes that all knowledge does not derive from experience, provided by Markus Gabriel in his book I Am not a Brain: Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century (put in premise and conclusion form by me).
Why do you ignore the function of the brain? Rationality comes from the executive function.
The people opposed to the empiricists were called the Rationalists.
If rationalization is a mental state then it’s irreducible. All knowledge is not derived from experience.
Rationality happens in the frontal lobes so is separate from perceptional experience but connected to it. Executive functioning is how the brain mediates mental states. Rationality is cognitively a frontal lobe process. Executive functioning is where most knowledge derives i.e. rational mental states of knowledge is executive functioning.
The mental is irreducible to the physical. Thoughts are irreducible to physical states. The argument from Ross establishes that all formal thinking is incompossibly determinate and that no process or physical processes are incompossibly determinate.
1) All formal thinking is incompossibly determinate
2) No physical process or functions of physical processes are incompossibly determinate
∴Thoughts aren’t a physical or functional process; no physical process is formal thinking; functionalism and physicalism are false
The argument provided in this thread is sound. What you’re saying doesn’t address any premise. “rational mental states” so they’re irreducible. Thanks for establishing that.
This is the dumbest shit I’ve read in my life. You’d have be seriously ignroant of the scientiifc method to assume it is purely emprical.
Any argument whether it is posteriori or priori relies on rationalism. Neither is sufficent alone as an epistemic method. Rationalism can only give semantic insight and is ultimately subjective according the rule following paradox. Observations of experience are equally useless without a rationalistic paradigm to quantify them.
P3 is a completely false premise. The rule following argument confirms that rationalism is normative and therefore cultural subjective. Since it is cultural and linguistic it is ultimately a product of our own experience so yes the term can only be corrected by experience because experience is where we derive our language to begin with.
Can the claim “All knowledge is evidence-based” be corrected by sense-experience? (The answer is no; since no matter how well established a hypothesis is in the scientific lexicon it must remain feasible that evidence would come out showing that it is false.)
And it is feasible, because if this was not the case it would be reflective in our language. All of perception and culture is experience based. Innate and experiential knowledge are not mutually exclusive. Experiencing innate knowledge and gaining knowledge through experience are totally different things. So yes the statement is in fact falsifiable. Your argument is not sound.
Is rampant empiricism a scientific hypothesis?
We can come to knowledge through reasoning; sense experience is not the only way to gain knowledge. That’s what the argument establishes.
“Is rampant empiricism a scientific hypothesis?”
I’m not sure if Id call it a scientific one. Either way, my point is that you can experience innate knowledge even if the innate knowledge is not formed from experience. You’re always experiencing knowledge. Therefore you can effectively correct the claim using experiential knowledge, but since we have never come across a situation where we did not use experiential knowledge, it is therefore a true statement.
All knowledge is evidence based, whether it’s priori or posteriori.
Pumpkin what was it like being a north korean refugee. Is this why you sympathise with refugees so much?
This trump stuff in the media is an abomination. It makes the media look so deranged.
Who dresses like this on national tv?
So bad.
So bad.
The other thing about Terrys clothes if you notice, is that they don’t fit him. So either he doesn’t know how to pick the right clothes sizes for his body, or someone is dressing him.
As a homosexual male, you’re more attentive to fashion than most men & thus have trouble understanding why Terry wouldn’t care about such frivolities.
at least it’s all pastels. pill’s point stands. when appearing before an audience of millions one should consider dressing differently than he does every other day. but it’s better to be thin and ill-clad than fat to the nines.
Colbert is actually a smart guy. I don’t think you can deny that. A lot of comedians are smart. But only the ones that took their liberal arts college ed too seriously are allowed on tv.
Colbert started crying on TV when Obama got elected in 2008. He was just so emotionally moved that America had elected a black man, but because this was not something his conservative TV character would do, John Stewart had to cover for him.
Puppy wont let me talk about chris. its very sad. I like Chris. When i found out his opinions. I liked him more.
Chris is a great example of the brain size – IQ correlation
I wonder if it is Chris’s position that the brain is used for thinking?
Autist savants
Some common features
1. Very pronounced brow.
2. Speech difficulties, to the point of muteness in many cases.
3. From what I can make out, middle class backgrounds
4. Many of the black examples are brain injuries rather than genetic.
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Of the seven who did not suffer injuries, one was black and at least one was Jewish.
They should ask these real life Rain Men: What is good? What is evil?
That would be interesting.
It’s psychopaths like you who can’t tell right from wrong, not autistics per se.
it takes one to NOT know one. split infinitive notwithstanding, [redacted by pp, July 20, 2018]
pill is right that technical people are more often autistic, but engineers are still the most likely to be rich in the US. if you’re a technical savant and a good comedian and not shy then the money will follow like AIDS follows a haitian.
Pumpkin calls anyone a psychopath who doesn’t agree with the jews made up lies about who we should like and not like.
No, I think the Jews who have no compassion for Palestinians are psychopath too. If you were Jewish you’d be building settlements. Since you’re gentile you bash blacks and Hispanics. Either way, the psychopathic mind has no compassion for underdogs.
indeed! it’s funny that peepee worships the jew tool oprah. peepee is one level lower than the average american. rather than worship jews she worships a jew tool.
truly sad!
1) The average American doesn’t worship Jews
2) Oprah is not a tool for the Jews except in the meaningless sense that Jews root for all minority success since they’re minorities.
foreigner != underdog
reread The White Man’s Burden.
the brahmins have never gotten over their inferiority to the british.
african americans are underdogs but not foreigners. they’re more american than you are. hispanics are arguably both.
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1. african americans are more american than most americans but NOT more american than me. my white trash ancestors go back long time. most recent from liverpool in late 19th c, but the rest were here before most slaves. i’m apple pie.
2. basketball americans are and were foreigners. america is rich because it is white.
because it is white.
because it is white.
because it is white.
because it is white.
because it is white.
because it is white.
because it is white.
because it is white.
[redacted by pp, july 20, 2018]
i’m apple pie.
Sasquatch Americans beg to differ
i agree with them!
how many times have i said it?
1. there should be affirmative action.
2. it should benefit people according to the depth of their ancestry in the states.
a. this means the descendants of slaves and injuns should rank first among groups…
b. except some ancient whites might rank in between.
Puppy if blacks are vastly overrepresented in jail in most western countries despite jews telling them they’re magical and don’t know how to do wrong, then would it be fair to say blacks do a lot of very bad things to people?
Ergo, would it be fair to say, what Bill Gates is doing is mentally retarded and something only jews endorse for very selfish reasons? I just don’t get why you don’t get that I think saving black babies is a sign you are about 10 minutes away from making your family join a cult with you.
Because
1) black babies are not responsible for the behavior of black criminals
2) Eradicating diseases in Africa is a very good thing for all people, not Africans only
Puppy what are your thoughts on Chris langans comments? This time you can’t say hes psychopathic, or dumb, or not educated, or not raised in a middle class household or suffering from the legacy of colonialism.
Which comments?
^^^DISHONEST^^^
as usual.
where is my oprah IQ test?
what do you think of oprah?
A. i love oprah so much i can’t stand it. (IQ = 40)
B.
C.
D.
E. [very indecent opinion of Oprah redacted by pp, July 20, 2018]. (IQ = 160)
About ‘social justice’
Simpsons have a funny take on Deals activities.
peepee hates shakespeare.
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the long term nonprogressor (LTNP) phenomenon is more subtle than i realized.
1. with the exception of a tiny minority it has no explanation even today.
2. if it is genetic it appears to by polygenic.
3. for a long time the “model is reality” people thought these people uninteresting as with any disease there will be variation in rate of progress. what they didn’t grok was this variation though well modeled by a random variable must still have causes. and as with better studies it has been shown these LTNPs are not just the right tail. they’re qualitativley different.
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…to be polygenic…
that is…there is ONE genetic variant which is known to protect from HIV 100%, but this is a “small percentage” of the LTNPs.
A low percentage of long-term nonprogressors have been shown to have inherited mutations of the CCR5 receptor of T cell lymphocytes. HIV uses CCR5 to enter these cells. It is believed that the Δ32 (delta 32) variant of CCR5 impairs HIV ability to infect cells and cause disease….The presence of this mutation, however, is not a unifying theme among LTNPs and is observed in an exceedingly small number of these patients.
a guy with this variant was a subject of Secrets of the Dead. he killed himself out of “survivor’s guilt” supposedly. iirc so did one of the founders of GMHCNY.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/mystery-black-death-episode/1481/
ne asians are NOT too smart, but southern italians might be too smart socially.
it might be that a society of people of high social IQ is impossible.
this is what huxley said through mond sort of…
“Why don’t you make everybody an Alpha Double Plus while you’re about it?”
Mustapha Mond laughed. “Because we have no wish to have our throats cut,” he answered. “We believe in happiness and stability. A society of Alphas couldn’t fail to be unstable and miserable…”
but if g is a thing then high IQ folks should also have above average social intelligence most of the time.
that is, “social IQ” is part of IQ.
so it might be that there’s just a not very strong correlation.
but i thin it’s more than that.
there is real phenomenon of technical savants who have a below average social IQ…or whatever you want to call it. it’s NOT that they’re smart. and other people are dumb. it’s MORE than that.
of course “social IQ” is an extremely vague term. it’s just the best term i could think of.
so it’s just that interacting with them they’re different? no!
they’re different in some ways which appear pathological. like…
1. voice immodulation disorder. (when i was like 7 i had the same issue. when i was in alabama some native complained i was too loud. some of these things are just maturational. you outgrow them. or don’t.)
ok ads.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-segment—jacob-silj/n11463
2. repeating phrases like “long story short”…and having WAY to long stories.
…
pill has hit the nail on the head. they are people who appear via conversation to have much lower IQs than they do in fact.
…WAY too long…
On average high tech people have above average social IQ, just not as high as you’d expect for their level of g. It’s the gap between their systems IQ and social IQ that makes them seem autistic, not the social IQ per se. In the same way, many social scientists and media types seem mathematically retarded, even though objectively they have higher math IQ than the man on the street.
two interesting documentaries you wouldn’t expect to be interesting but are…
Homme Less and Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals.
gender is very NOT susceptible to differential selection as the difference is XX vs XY. 22 identical. BUT the difference is PROFOUND, because it’s XX vs XY. a whole chromosome!
the same and not the same.
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and that’s just mammals.
in birds it’s the ladies that are XY the dudes who are XX.
and in reptiles iirc sex is a congenital trait NOT a genetic trait.
that is, males and females differ only in some chance event in their early development.
that’s what brett weinstein told me anyway.