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"Like so many other 'earthshaking' new ideas in science it has sadly been largely ignored to date." This statement, along with the article's alleged explanation of Dark Matter, suggests pseudoscience. -Duxwing

It's personal when your ethical responsibility extends to it; e.g., were the baby alight and, to your knowledge, no-one extinguishing it. -Duxwing

Hahaha! That's hilarious: "Oh, Grammar Oberseer, forgive me! I was driven sane by my repressed orthographic opinions!" Only on INTPf. And you're welcome. :) -Duxwing

"Do you generally handle people with self esteem issues with mockery." I think you meant a question mark. :) -Duxwing

Having bloomed early and brightly, I retain my petals. I have had and lost seven loves. No. Because I had an almost-perfect upbringing. The word you seek is not "nihilism" but 'devaluation'. Devaluing your the object of your suffering ceases the suffering and commits a post-hoc fallacy...

"That's hideously expensive (almost half an average person's monthly salary here)" Dude! Yikes! Why do you still live in the Philippines?

I would choose happiness because, by definition, I would value no other outcome. Were happiness given, I would choose genius to cause the Singularity, thereby obsoleting wealth and longevity; I want only a small family. -Duxwing

Oooh! A positive, generalizable definition of the solution: "People should be considered for employment based on their competence". -Duxwing

I've missed such discussions as this one and apologize for neglecting your post. To boil down the point: the problem is solved when sexism directly or indirectly discourages too many women from STEM. Our justification seems partly utilitarian and partly deontological: sexism creates...

Please clarify. -Duxwing

I think we should also consider the long term: how will we objectively know when this problem is solved? -Duxwing

Ah, right! I forgot I was on that, too. :) -Duxwing

I once had ADD. I took Concerta for a few months, got somewhat angry and hungry, grew a pair of man-boobs, and stopped. My ADD was cured! -Duxwing

Oh. :) If we want data, then sociological ethics dictate we should experiment on samples, not society. Gender may not always be the fundamental cause; e.g., average men have 6.5x more grey matter than average women, who have 9.5x more white matter than average men. If having more grey...

It is the necessary generalization of what you proposed: put women into STEM because the current gender ratio seems socially unjust. -Duxwing

Look away when you feel infatuation, and the feeling will naturally fade: your unconscious should soon raise whatever issues it may have. -Duxwing

If we reacted to whatever phenomenon we intuited might be due to social injustice, we would exhaust our resources: demanding immediate action is hasty. -Duxwing

Having done all of STEM and experienced all the recent STEM-push, I can say that all my science classes were gender-equal except AP Chemistry, which had a few more guys than girls. My Engineering classes and FIRST program were almost all-male, with about four girls in the latter; three of those...

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic: he's joking about the idea that motherhood is the hardest job in the world. -Duxwing

Oh gosh... yes. I would lose my mind and push the tempting button. -Duxwing

I don't understand what you're saying. Science has a fundamental assumption: All rational observers share a reality whereof they can induct fundamental laws. I was complaining that my teacher inconsistently applies this assumption. -Duxwing

I don't see a problem. Each thing exists in a confined system, however large. With "calculus" we draw conclusions the set of things--the "confined system"--we consider. Therefore, every conclusion is "valid in a vacuum," and accusing one of thus being equates to "this conclusion would not be...

Explain. -Duxwing

Why do you think a relationship with him would "not be... super fulfilling"? Such questions as this one should be carefully worded: negation by denial of opposite position can create false dichotomies between the position and everything else, eliminating the possibility of a gradient or...

I disagree, Scorpio. Recruitment videos need not lie; e.g., physics has, exactly Internet music videos and a CERN recruitment poster thereabout promised, daily astounded me and led to epistemological and metaphysical questions. -Duxwing

Awww! Young love. :) I suggest 'taking a step back' from the situation and first considering your wants, goals, and limits; e.g.,, how much intimacy do you require, how much intimacy do you want, and how much intimacy can you tolerate? Next figure out how to get what you want and avoid what...

The opposite of one is opposite 1: -1. -Duxwing

Argh! I completely agree. My ESFP College Writing teacher has inconsistent epistemological skepticism, simultaneously believing in 'auras' and immeasurable qualia and considering science "one perspective" because it contains assumptions. -Duxwing

I would choose the ethereal world because all other options would lead to my death: the sun would destroy me, and the other planets would annihilate my consciousness. You would not suffer an eternal dilemma on the machine planet: you would either survive or not, and, if you survived, then you...

Stored intelligence because I thus could "have it both ways" with sufficient technology. -Duxwing

Love is a tender, passionate affection; e.g., from mother unto son. -Duxwing

It's not happening because we need to better understand the body and brain before we can replace the former to support the latter; e.g., micronutrient management, not-yet-understood hormones or proteins. A Way to Do It After learning enough and experimenting on animals, we could visit the...

Please be careful with those beliefs lest they should become uncontrollable: you sound like a new cult member. :) Our computers already are atomically-precise--so precise that we've learned that electrons will unintentionally 'jump' across any transistor smaller than about twelve atoms...

Welcome aboard! Beware that, however strong our logic, some proselytize. -Duxwing

The base of the American economy is not military spending: it is services. -Duxwing

Trying to feel someone out deceives them about your feelings and intentions, and deception generally is immoral. Just share and care. :) -Duxwing

@rushgirl You seemingly describe a complex (Ti) intellectually-stimulating (Ne) end-around direct emotional expression (Fe). I wonder whether you when deciding how to express yourself experience a conflict-of-interest between caring for your partner and avoiding Fe, which INTPs and therefore...

@Kenny Tell her what you told us. Direct communication generally decides matters, and I see four principal outcomes: 1 She feels likewise, and your relationship greatly improves (+10) 2 She feels otherwise, and your relationship stagnates until she does (-1) 3 She feels likewise, and your...

I'm a happy, introverted puff-ball wanting to love, hug, amuse all the things! :) Hurt me, and I will cope until I lose my head and devour yours. -Duxwing

Growing old? I'm still growing up! :) -Duxwing

*huggles some more* -Duxwing

Yes, my statement is generalizable: why is its generality problematic? Induction is unnecessary because my argument is deductively sound: if all AIs are flawed, then copying an AI and removing one of its flaws creates a greater AI. -Duxwing

*hugs* I am lonely. -Duxwing

No. My statement is necessarily true because whatever AIs do to themselves and hardware availability notwithstanding, AIs with fewer initial bugs will better function than AIs with more initial bugs. The oppressed humans therefore could improve their initial AI and specialize it into a...

Erroneously believing that death's pain is entirely controllable will worsen your suffering. Instead assume that you cannot control some of your pain is beyond your control and use to enjoy your last days what energy you would have futilely expended fighting this pain. -Duxwing

Well argued, noj! :) Welcome to the forum! -Duxwing

The greater intelligence might be 'lazy,' pursuing only its programmed goals. Also consider mind-uploading and careful reprogramming, which could give humans AI-level intelligence. I agree. Turning against one's inventors seems suicidal because however great one is, one's inventors can...

I almost never dream anymore. :) My psyche is a well-oiled machine.

We would do them an educational disservice because much less can be learned "the hard way" than the easy way. If to be someone who bears children is to be "cattle," then mandatory vasectomies would not harm women because by the above definition they already are "cattle"; the vasectomies would...

I have only felt disappointed after an accomplishment if I doubted my ethics, whether pursuing the accomplishment was worthwhile, or whether I deserved it. You may, like you said, feel uncomfortable in your role; asking yourself why you feel uncomfortable with 'settling into' it might reveal...