Recent content by Agent Intellect

I indulge in hedonism all too much. I am now, in fact.

I lived in an apartment with my brother and sister for a while, but when I went back to school I had to move back home. Not particularly. Being an adult living with my parents obviously gives me the social stigma of being a loser, even if I can give the reasonable explanation that I'm going to...

I remember already being sick of hearing about them the day after they happened. It was tragic, but there are far worst tragedies happening everyday not only in America, but all around the world. The government loved it because it allowed them to justify further civil rights infringements. It...

"The Sunset Limited" based on a play by Cormac McCarthy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a98W-vW0sh4

https://www.facebook.com/TheCynicalPhilosopher Something I post on from time to time - usually politics, science, philosophy, current events. I guess it's blog adjacent.

This is an interesting and amusing analysis of superpowers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbeyRwT8Uo

In my lab, we create primers* and use overlap extension PCR** to insert new/changed bases into DNA in order to create mutants. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28molecular_biology%29 ** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlap_extension_polymerase_chain_reaction Get the short (and more...

It's like having thoughts you know are completely irrational and unfounded, but they are so nagging you can't help but satisfy them. For example, you park your car, get out, go into the store, pick up your first few items and suddenly it hits you "did I remember to turn off the lights in my...

I'm cynical and pessimistic, but I'm also incredibly boring. If I were interesting, I might finish this...

People are robots. We're all boring. I'm making this message short, or you would skip over most of it in boredom. You are boring, too. We're all boring. Get used to it. Everyone you talk to thinks they are just as interesting as you or I think ourselves to be.

As someone with OCD/Tourettes, I can say from your description that you don't have OCD. It sounds to me like you have asshole teenager syndrome. I had that when I was an asshole teenager, too. You think right now that it won't go away, but it will. Then you'll be confused about different things.

"Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. Awesome book.

I wouldn't say that this is a valid isomorphism so much as a metaphor. I wonder if it would be more interesting if the mental states represented logic commands (admittedly, I'm not intimately familiar with Turing machines, so perhaps this is how it works anyway). For instance, q3 might have the...

Is this philosophy based on a judgment call, or is there a line of reasoning? I'd say more strength, intelligence, money etc provides a person with more privileges, not rights. I don't understand how it follows that if we are unequal, then power is wasted on the strong. I'm interested in...

There is an objective measure of "gender" from a biological sense. A case study shows that there are deep-seated ways that people feel about their own gender: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer There is also evidence abound that there is a biological aspect involved in gender identity...