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This was linked on LessWrong.com recently & I found it fascinating: Contesting the “Nature” Of Conformity: What Milgram and Zimbardo's Studies Really Show http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001426 [quote]Although it remains highly influential, this thesis [that decent people can be transformed
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[quote user="Lowe D"] You do if you want things mailed to you. [/quote] ... if you're concerned about "potential political persecution from purchasing liberty orientated products and services" you probably should never do this.
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[quote user="ribuck"] [quote user="Marcelo J F"]By accepting bitcoins merchants protect their customers from potential identity theft or political persecution from purchasing liberty orientated products and services. Failure to accept bitcoins casts aspersions on their sincerity towards the fight for liberty because it leaves open
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/health/attention-disorder-or-not-children-prescribed-pills-to-help-in-school.html? [quote]“I don’t have a whole lot of choice,” said Dr. Anderson, a pediatrician for many poor families in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta. “We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify
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A couple of interesting posts so far. So if a highly intelligent organism wasn't able to speak, we could torture it as much as we want without feeling bad because morality doesn't apply to it? If a highly intelligent organism couldn't communicate, how would you determine whether or not it had metacognition?
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[quote user="SimonF"] [quote user="aelephant"] A new epidemiological study showed increased Saturated fat intake from Dairy was associated with DECREASED Cardiovascular disease. [/quote] The study claims that people who substitute dairy SF for meat SF are less likely to get CVD, 25% less for a 2% substiution. They jump of the 10th
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[quote user="TruthAlwaysTold"] Are you suggesting that animals are the same as humans? [/quote] Considering that Humans are Animals, I'd say that's a no-brainer.
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The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness was recently signed: [quote] The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit
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A new epidemiological study showed increased Saturated fat intake from Dairy was associated with DECREASED Cardiovascular disease. http://www.ajcn.org/content/96/2/397.abstract
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[quote user="Krisztian Pinter"] in mechanics, the energy of an object is the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy. [/quote] Energy = Energy + Energy What have we learned from this definition? Energy is Energy doesn't really explain anything to me that is helpful in understanding your theory.