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One more try in this #SoCIA18 block! "The Spiritual Quest in the SETI Research, by Jose Funes." Good news (for my attentional skills), there are slides.
Excuse me, José Funes.
A member/leader of Project OTHER: "Ortos Mundos, Tierra, Hunanidad, Espacio Remoto." Dealing with otherness and diversity.
The spiritual quest as part of a multidisciplinary approach to SETI, and supporting thought experiments. Did spiritual genesis happen on Earth (by chance), or is it a necessary part of a species' development?
Teilhard de Chardin: introduced concepts of biosphere and noosphere (a planetary thinking layer) - possibly as something yet to develop?
Slides are going fast, I fall behind. Definition: "Spiritual beings" = those capable not only of processing information, but self-conscious subjects capable of thinking & reflection.
Spiritual characteristics of Extraterrestial Intelligence: self-consciousness, symbolic communication (incl. ability to experience beauty & communicate emotion via arts???), ... jeez, I got through 2/5 on that page.
Charateristics 10-12: Free will, moral sense, empathy; respectful attitude toward biosphere/cosmos; sense of belonging to universal/spiritual community.

Lotsa humans don't meet that.
Search for spiritual ET as search for someone with whom we could communicate symbolically at an inter-subjective level. (Well, okay. Of course.) Might affect 2 terms of Drake Equation: odds of survival & odds of sending messages?
Okay, a thought experiment. (That's all we got until SETI receives an ET signal.)
Types of civiliations: S+ = spiritual-moral sense, S– = aggressive-predator attitude, S-free = independent of spirituality. Imagine if this has any effect on length of time sending or receiving message.
Now (topic jump?): compare to 1492. Culture of encounter with Other requires a change/expansion of our own perception. (Unsaid: and/or/otherwise leads to cataclysmic violence!)
Whew. This moved faster than I could manage, but lots of depth to it. Learn more about their program at blog.ucc.edu/ar/other-en
Neat comment in Q&A that human understanding of teleology (which is one underpinning/requirement for religion) may arise from tool use, which requires an understanding of objects as having purposes.
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#NeuroThursday is crawling back to life this week to discuss this article: just what, if anything, is important about the role of dopamine in beliefs? More importantly: is this (or any) new knowledge meaningless or meaningful? neurosciencenews.com/belief-dopamin…
Thanks to @oldscout for the topic inspiration! #NeuroThursday has been paused lately while I write a novel on the cold war between AIs who emulate humankind and AIs who reject that bullshit. But this week I take a break from my break.
If you don't want to read the article, here's a summary: dopamine (one of the brain's chemical messengers) is long-known to be involved in e.g. reward and addiction. The article demonstrated that dopamine systems are also involved in updating beliefs in the human brain.
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Delightful news! My story "Elegy of Carbon" will appear in the anthology "The Internet Is Where The Robots Live Now" this September from @paperdogbooks! Soon you shall all see the epic journey of the Brave Little Mining AI.
This is delightful unto me not only because I want to share one of my favorite stories, but because I of the 4 short stories I've had accepted this year, this is the first one that's actually turned into a sale.
Also, if you attended my reading with @LabyrinthRat at #readercon last month, this is the story I read an excerpt from!
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Handedness comes in two groups, "right handed" and "not right handed." Most people use their right hands for almost all precision movement, but the other group is a broad spectrum from weakly-right to strongly-left. baen.com/handedness
The way we describe and define handedness creates the effect @CStuartHardwick rightly notices. Culture defines how we talk about it - but the behavior is mostly genetic. The % of righties has remained constant across continents and milennia.
Hand dominance is a more squirrelly thing than most people realize. For example, righties are better at *some* things with their left hand... and *some* of these asymmetries flip in lefties. Take a few minutes on #LeftHandersDay to learn more!
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Let there be no doubt in anyone’s mind that we all want @narendramodi to come back in 2019. Till about early 2017, opposition had given up & even supporters were talking of phase beyond 2024. Everything was going great for us and then first signs of doubt started creeping in....
And first signs started emerging with consolidation of narrative peddlers- be it the start of fake Dalit agitation or the launch of several new platforms by Cong era journos or fueling of discontent amongst middle classes-Cong ecosystem could smell a chance.....
While ecosystem was doing all that; we supporters were busy making plans for post 2024 politics, driving out old time supporters for their critiques-can verify this by mining TLs of twitter of first half of 2016; every supporters criticising govt was called a Gyani-naysayers etc
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Listen kids, dont live and die by the advice on this side of Twitter

Or anywhere for that matter

Take the lesson, understand the context and use what works for you

No one here has 50 years of life experience, we all still have a lot to learn

A thread for you...
- Conflicting advice = stagnation

Following 20 people? Be ready for 20 different pieces of advice per subject

Life lessons have some universality, but they remain relative

This can lead to conflicting advice

Some is good, some isn't
Some will leave you confused
This week a drop shipper said its on the rise
Another said its becoming difficult
Third said advertising isn't what it used to be

Truth? Doesn't matter. If you're gonna work, you'll still do the work.

If you listen to all 3, you'll be sitting there thinking "wtf do I do now?"
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1/ Hi. Your Friendly Neighborhood Trade Nerd here,

Many on both sides of the trade debate invoke the specter of WTO breaches, but few go on to explain the practicalities and consequences.

Hopefully this threat helps you put threats of the WTO's wrath in some real-world context.
*** Warning: This thread is super long. I try to make it interesting by telling it like a story, but we're discussing WTO Procedures and not the Battle of Stalingrad so you know, feel free to take a snack break. ***
2/ For this walk-through, I'm going to be using two hypotheticals:

One - As part of Brexit, the UK decides not to collect customs on the NI border;
Two - This decision is a breach of the WTO's Most Favoured Nation Principle (my definition here: explaintrade.com/glossary/#Most…)
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1) Mankind has commenced #TheGreatAwakening. Dark forces are losing their power over human thinking.

Consider that we are subjects of an elaborate MIND CONTROL PROGRAM which controls human thinking, blinding us to the truth about us.

Would you like to learn how to disconnect?
2) Narratives of truth are fed to us constantly, mainly via the mainstream media (MSM). These story-lines are so subtle that we no longer see them as sinister. We enjoy information and becoming knowledgeable and so we agree to play their game.

MIND CONTROL feels good and safe.
3) Our consciousness has been placed inside a collective hive mind, or an egregore, which informs us and manipulates our behaviour.

Step 1 is to realise this entrapment.
Step 2 is to disconnect from it.
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0/ #RESEARCH PAPER Review

Digital Tulips?
Returns to Investors in Initial Coin Offerings

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Draft Date: May 20th, 2018

#ICOs #cryptocurrency #BTC #LTC #ETH #EOS

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1/ From a dataset of 4,003 executed and planned ICOs,
which raised a total of $12 billion in capital, nearly all since January 2017.
Average returns were 179% from the ICO price to the first day’s opening market price, over a holding period that averages just 16 days.
2/ Even after imputing returns of -100% to ICOs that don’t list their tokens within 60 days and adjusting for the returns of the asset class, the representative ICO investor earns 82%.

HODLING generated average buy-and hold additional returns of 48% in the first 30 trading days
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#KarlMarx200 thread:

1. In my own #research, I have found Marx's notion of #contradiction particularly useful.

In his analysis, Marx noted how the contradiction between #labor and #capital accounted for many of the social dynamics of #capitalism.
2. The contradiction does not necessarily mean #conflict, but tendencies that "pull" in different directions and are in a dialectical relation to each other.

The contradiction of labor/capital can be accommodated in different ways and with very different consequences.
3. I like how this notions focuses on changing social dynamics. In my own work on #land use of #Mengen speakers in #PapuaNewGuinea, I've used the notion of #contradiction, to think about social forces underpinning Mengen land ownership and use.
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