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Michael Dayah via Knoxville, Tennessee
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September 3, 2005
Memetics of the superiority bias
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Rite of Regression
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Just Play Along
Milgram’s obedience experiment explains why Congress is corrupt
Overjustification Effect Explains Away Religious Morality
Memetics of the superiority bias
Space- and time-fractured identity disorders
Forcing access-based security with virtualization
Our movie tickets buy more than 2 hours in front of a screen
Development of an individual’s identity parallels recorded history
The Only Purpose of Culture
Nice shirt, I have one just like it
Why does a messy room so quickly become a disaster?
By passing judgment on new items, news concedes to previous items’ righteousness
Perception of free will is a result of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem
“Lost” is two concepts with one definition
A combination of desire to be effective and perception of optimal predisposes us to good
Stereotyping has gradually and will continue to become socially unacceptable
It Was Just a Coincidence
The Problem with Pixels
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Why sarging works when it really shouldn’t
Evolutionary advantage of depression
Strict Islamic law is an equal amount but different balance of freedom
Personalities positive and negative are actually creative and perfectionist
Why music comes and goes in distinctive decades/genres
Additional factors that contribute to rape going unreported
Origin and function of classiness
Why every generation isn’t better at parenting than the previous
Species improvement using makeshift solutions: sex and death
Fear of death is only possible with a 3rd person omniscient view
Factors that contribute to or discourage device convergence
Why so many technologically intelligent young men are becoming libertarian
Why racial profiling is wrong and demographic car insurance rates aren’t
New statistical field to determine existence/non-existence of time, motion, and physics
Non-existence of identity invalidates self-sampling assumption
We can judge others’ personality by their appearance because we give them that personality
Interest in SETI is only interest in the convergence/divergence of progression
Compulsive lying should be classified as a form of Tourette’s
It isn’t “information overload” any more than fat is “food overload”
Women are the original property