This was all pretty unrelatable. Makes me wonder if the author has ever studied how these methods are supposed to work.

But… you don’t need a clone to do that. Just find anyone who wants to live with you and work 50%.

Isn’t it weird how I can fap without a second thought, but the idea of having my clone give me a hand job disgusts me

Lojban. IIRC it’s inspired by the Saphir-Worf hypothesis that states that the capacity for human thought is shaped by the language you speak (side note: this is also explored in my favorite movie Arrival).

As someone who is probably on the spectrum I am incredibly frustrated by imprecise language and misunderstanding between people, and how people always seem to be reading between the lines instead of paying attention to what you are literally saying.

Lojban is designed almost like set-theoretic mathematical expressions, leaving minimal room for ambiguity and misunderstanding. It trains your brain to think about exactly what you are saying. It’s like a utopian language for me.

Ironically after it gained only a couple of hundred speakers it started to develop slang expressions and ambiguity. People even wrote poetry and jokes that proliferate and exploit ambiguity or subtext. I guess it’s human nature to shun precision in communication.

Those are self-help books from the year 100 AD. Are you asking how to write a text like that?

It sounds like you may be misunderstanding what meditation is. Meditation is to observe what is happening in your body and mind. There isn’t really a “topic” other than what comes up in your mind. But you aren’t supposed to linger on your thoughts, only notice their arrival and passing.

You can choose to focus your attention on specific things such as your breathing, sounds, the feeling of a location of your self, etc. Is that what you mean by topic?

The ST had the Spectre GCR so it could clearly do everything a Mac could and more, plus it was cheaper.

I think the point of these hopeless internet arguments mainly becomes to convince the third parties who read them.

I don’t think I’m in the right climate for it. I need heavy boots to counter the cold and snow, and I can’t be bothered to change shoes every time I get in and out of the car.

TIL that there are people who have special shoes when they drive a car

I don’t see this mentioned in any of the other comments: the repulsion between atoms that causes the movement to propagate through the stick is actually communicated via photons. So your push really generates the same kind of particles that your light torch is generating, and they travel at the same speed. Except in the stick it is slowed down by repeated absorption and excitation by the electrons of the atoms.

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All of these are measurable. I’m not sure what’s the source of your confusion. Yes the terminology becomes a bit ambiguous unless we make up a new word/term for the tuple, but gender identity is just one dimension of it. It can be measured with a standardized questionnaire.

I like how you think but I’m not sure if that alone will hold water. A variable can vary wildly even though it’s not very relevant to the property you’re interested in, and PCA would consider such a variable to be very significant. Perhaps a neural network could find a latent space. But ideally we want the components to have some intuitive meaning for humans.

I’ve been thinking about this now and again. IMO gender, if one insists on tracking it at all (which I mostly find counterproductive), would need to be a vector / tuple of floating-point values. The components would be something like:

1. Sexual Development Index: Encodes chromosomal sex, genitalia, and other primary sexual characteristics (X/Y chromosome ratio).
2. Hormonal Balance & Secondary Sexual Characteristics: Combines hormonal levels and the resulting secondary traits (body hair, muscle mass, etc.).
3. Brain Structure: A dimension indicating how a person’s brain structure aligns with typical male or female patterns.
4. Gender Identity: A measure of self-identified gender, representing the psychological and social dimension.
5. Fertility/Intersex Traits: A combined measure of fertility potential and the presence of intersex traits (e.g., ambiguous genitalia, mixed gonadal structures, etc.).

Ideally it would track the specific genes that code for all of the above factors, but unfortunately science hasn’t got those down yet.

Rugs can really tie the room together. Why would you want to get rid of them?