26 month ago
erikbenson : Alternate reality games - I'm really interested in these at the moment.
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29 month ago
erikbenson : List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia - It would be fun to think about each of these cognitive biases one by one. Unless we have a cognitive bias to ignore cognitive biases...
Matthew M. Boedicker : list of cognitive biases - (via Hot Links) [via]
joshua : cognitive biases
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29 month ago
erikbenson : Logical fallacies - Wikipedia - Another interesting source of learning about the kinds of mistakes we commonly make.
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32 month ago
erikbenson : Some notes on intuition - Via the wikipedia.
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33 month ago
erikbenson : The Rat Pack, on Wikipedia - Included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford.
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33 month ago
erikbenson : Frank Sinatra, on Wikipedia - Had an interesting life... I especially like how they say he was able to "generate new audiences" as he got older.
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33 month ago
erikbenson : Baron Münchhausen was the first bootstrapper - I love the idea of bootstrapping. It's one of the things that makes this world awesome, that a thing can pull itself along.
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34 month ago
erikbenson : A bunch of different confidence tricks - I never knew that con man was a reference to the confidence trick. Been watching a lot of Paul Newman movies lately with these tricks.
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34 month ago
erikbenson : Learn about whale falls. - They are so awesome!
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35 month ago
erikbenson : Drunkenness, on Wikipedia - This is really funny. Whoever wrote this can barely mask his/her distain for "drunkards" and "lushes".
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erikbenson : Learn about morale - Funny how morale is actually related to the absurd hero... he needs morale in order to remain determined to live.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Learn about Absurdism (or the philosophy of the absurd) - Absurdism is a philosophy stating that the efforts of man to find meaning in the universe will ultimately fail because no such meaning exists.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Pronoia is the suspicion that the universe is a conspiracy on your behalf - This word is suddenly in the zeitgeist.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Serotonin syndrome, what happens when you're too "happy" - I actually feel like I have some of these symptoms, maybe I'm too happy.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Today, learn about evil - Do we even believe in evil anymore? Isn't it sort of irrelevant now in these days of cost, value, loss, and gain?
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Today, learn about now - When comparing time in places separated by great distances, the notion of present becomes unclear. For example, we see stars as and where they were when the light now reaching our eyes was emitted, because even though light travels at 3 x 108 m/s it takes
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Today, I learned that Will Ferrell grew up in my hometown of Irvine - Now this is happening.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Today, consider getting a pet ferret - Paris Hilton has one, why don't I?
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Today, the wallaby - I heard that you can buy them on eBay and keep them as pets, and that they are cuddly.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Scientology is in my zeitgeist - Or, maybe it's Tom Cruise... can't tell the difference.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Today, why not learn about the zeitgeist - I also like the term genius seculi (spirit of a century, in Latin)
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Also, there is the polymath... - See also: genius and polyhistor
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Today, why not think about the emotion called happiness? - Utilitarianism, Epicurianism, Objectivism, Hedonism, and Eudaimonism are all philosophies related to happiness and pleasure. Which do you subscribe to?
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Today, why not learn a little about foxes? - Did you know that a group of foxes is called a skulk?
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Today, why not learn about whales? - I love whales.
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