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The Problem With Conspiracy Theories Reloaded Colon The Next Generation of Electric Boogaloo (Plus How and Why This Applies to Language Acquisition)

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Again, the problem with conspiracy theories isn’t that they’re not true — people do conspire. The problem is that they subvert, invert and erase all basic standards of reasoning and logical consistency. They tend not to be falsifiable, which makes them worse than true/untrue — it makes them unusable for practical purposes, like a dirty…

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The GoldenEye Principle: Flow, Dopamine, Spirituality and How to Make Everything As Fun as Video Games and Multiplayer Bedroom Sports

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This entry is part of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy

This entry is part of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy“The GoldenEye was a fictional electro-magnetic orbital weapon developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.” [GoldenEye (weapon) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom] bit.ly/36rz6sF You don’t like sex or video-games quite as much as you think you do.These activities are not that intrinsically…

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The Problem with Conspiracy Theories…

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…isn’t that they’re not true: it’s that they’re not useful. Not actionable. Not empowering. Not falsifiable. “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” Frank Herbert Do people conspire? Yes. Do governments lie? On the daily. So…

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Language is Messy and So Should You!

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A short time ago, I was on a trip with some friends. We rented a small house together and hung out. And one morning, while all of us were in the kitchen, I re-realized [not a typo] something about myself, namely that: I don’t like things half-done. So when I see someone cooking and trying…

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