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...Complaining about tonight’s Brain Break. “Like, why can’t I just get a plain bagel? What’s this rock-hard thing covered in seeds...
Bossert says he felt the divide between students and resident children more keenly, recalling “a frustrating sense of superiority [coming] from the masses—more felt during my less-secure high school days—or just plain disregard of us non-students as some sort of incidental infrastructure.” But he soon grew confident in his role as a permanent member of the House community, adopting “an attitude of ‘yeah, but you are in my House’—which is very much...
...rational individual with preset preferences who constantly seeks to maximize his own utility—happiness—through consumption of resources. Is this conception of human nature and human happiness accurate? Does it accurately describe you or the people you know? Most empirical evidence and just plain common sense suggests that humans are not rational in this way, that many factors motivate us to do things aside from self-interest, and that there are other things to life besides satisfaction of our desires. Ultimately, belief in the individualism and materialism of Economic Man is a value orientation, a leap...
...managed to pay for their airline tickets with credit cards in their own names, even though the CIA had placed them on the terrorist watch list weeks before. Exploiting such "open sources" by combining them with newly discovered secrets is critical to fighting terrorists and others who hide in plain sight. And yet for years the agency discounted the value of open sources and let slip the quality of the intelligence analysts charged with studying them...
...early, abstract and arguably divine input is what you're after, plain old Darwinism leaves room for that. No one knows how DNA began to replicate or how the universe got built in such a way that replication was possible. It's not crazy to think that such initial conditions were set by some intelligence for an overarching purpose that is still unfolding. After all, look at the spiritually rich products of evolution so far: consciousness, love, the human conscience, morally consequential choice...