Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

I have to thank every one, Truth is that we all will die. Social Justice is about allowing people to delay knowledge of the inevitable. Reality is hard, Delusion intoxicating. Sobriety is a grim life style. I started listening to Nigel Kennedy again …

Re: [FRIAM] Rationality

Swt! On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/ > afternoon-wednesday-november-30th-rationality > > Frank Wimberly > Phone (505) 670-9918 > > >

Re: [FRIAM] Truth vs. Social Justice on college campuses

Glen writes: <> Many hands make light work. Due to coordination overheads, however, if there are too many hands then more work is needed. (Or rather, it doesn't matter of individuals are excluded from a group if the group's work is easy.) If there aren't immediate resource

[FRIAM] Rationality

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Re: [FRIAM] power posers in the university of truth

“believed in imaginings” Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of

Re: [FRIAM] power posers in the university of truth

That was a subtlety I left out. Gelman (statistician at Columbia) says that Power Pose probably isn't even wrong, that striking a confident pose probably does help, but does it make up for a lousy breakfast, or insomnia, or sick relatives, or abusive partners, or ...? There are so many factors

Re: [FRIAM] Truth vs. Social Justice on college campuses

Thanks for the response. Below, I'll propose _alternatives_, the plausibility of which I believe to greater or lesser extents. What I believe to be the case is irrelevant, though. The point is to provide alternatives (what "Millian" might actually mean, in contrast to what Haidt seems to

Re: [FRIAM] power posers in the university of truth

Are Falsehoods the new Truthy? On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Joe Spinden wrote: > Love it. > > On 12/6/16 9:41 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Enter the power pose, the proposition that standing up straight will give > you the super powers to overcome adversity, except that no

Re: [FRIAM] Truth vs. Social Justice on college campuses

Or that universities pursue social justice because they feel the truth that is not shared will always be the more partial truth? Or that conservatives are happier pursuing money and pandering to sympathetic audiences? (Just kidding, some of my best friends ...) -- rec -- On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at

[FRIAM] power posers in the university of truth

Enter the power pose, the proposition that standing up straight will give you the super powers to overcome adversity, except that no one can replicate the original experiment, the primary author has disavowed the publication, yet the primary advocate is making millions off the idea.