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  666 old papyrus papers show it was 616 (Radiolab)

 (freakonomics: Early training, obsessive parenting has little effect on developing a kid. Kids more likely to learn behavior I.e. smoking, drinking, being rude. Better invest in quitting smoking. Fear of sending kids to a house with a gun? They are 100 times more likely to be injured by a home with a pool. Societies/animals where females have sex wth multiple men, when child born community takes care of it becuase not known who father (sapiens book

  An apology consists of three parts: I'm sorry It was my fault. How do I make it better?

One study said psychopathy was most prevelant in surgeons and buddist monks (both require detachment) (guardian) /////////   First of all, sociopathy is a condition, not a skillset. You don't learn it, you have it. Second of all, it is not a condition anyone in their right mind would choose to have. Yes, sociopathic traits can be helpful in some circumstances, if you're high-functioning. But sociopaths are born of an abusive childhood. Take the most successful, charismatic, ruthless, world bestriding, babe-bedding, devil-may-care sociopath you can name, and look inside. You will find a small child getting raged at by his mother because he behaved like a small child, a boy getting beaten by his father for not walking the dog, a teenager whose home is the least safe place he knows, a young man so full of anger he destroys things because that's the only power he can exercise. All that cool, impulsive, risk-taking DGAF attitude comes from literally not giving a fuck - specifica...

FREAKONOMICS  Punishing supplier (ie hooker; dealer) makes the market more scarce and drives price up and makes maket even more desirable for new suppliers Hooker john violence occurs when men can't get errect Discounts: pay in drugs; condom; outdoor Pimp: 25/ Pimps ensure higher pay (vag) 3 / freebies to cops Demand lower today than past (oral esp); casual sex

  that's his path to reelection He's been given a new enemy to fight - left Imagine domestic terrorism now Young activists eager to play a game of chicken We're witnessing mass hysteria Political pornography (race videos) Expiation of sins for rich The craziest voices on both ends of the spectrum amplify one another Trump can position himself as the "law and order" candidate in this chaos... White's exploited blacks in the past, and are doing it again with BLM - using blacks as icons to prove their innocence (Shelby Steele) Blacks being told that it's a fool's game to engage in society... that it is rigged against you - only uncle toms engage in white society - need to abolish SATs, etc (Shelby Steele) Obama is the dream of white american guilt -- he's benign enough to not do anything for blacks, while crowning white america with innocence (Shelby Steele) Trump offers no white innocence (Sam Harris Addiction to outrage (sam harris Emotionally hij...

  tourism is the biggest voluntary transfer of wealth between the rich and poor

Sam harris) because of the power, we would need to instill moral code in to it. But who's code? We'll need to get straght on moral relativism. We are building a god, let's try to make him good Cult leaders always offer salvation/Doom in their lifetime... Never 300 years away... Likewise with ai doomstay fears (Neil degresse) AI dangers... it's not necessarily evil; not that robots will try to kill us - just that they may not have interests that align with ours. We should be worried about their competence to achieve - ie saving the world - best to destroy all humans -- i.e. our collateral damage to animals and nature because our interests don't allign... not because we hate them People don't worry about AI but for different (and opposing) reasons... i.e. it will never be that smart... and it will be smart enough to do the right thing

(Sam Harris) the idea that the brain acts as a regular... Filter... Stops you from experiencing world to help survive, but drugs open up

  CANCEL CULTURE 1. WEAKENS OPEN DEBATE in favour of vogue IDEOLOGICAL CONFORMITY ...dogma & coercion 2. The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we SPEAK OUT AGAINST the INTOLERANT CLIMATE that has set in ON ALL SIDES. 3. public shaming and OSTRACISM, and the tendency to DISSOLVE complex policy issues in a BLINDING MOREAL CERTAINTY. 4. calls for swift and severe RETRIBUTION in response to perceived TRANSGRESSIONS of speech. 5. institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. 6. the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal. 7. Only left on left cannibalism... Right swells 8. The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, NOT by trying to SILENCE or wish them away. "liberal" word was hijacked... used to be that liberals meant freedom -- freedom to be whoever you are, as long as ...

  God (Sam Harris): God is either impotent, or ignorant to our suffering God demands faith in him based on flimsy outdated evidence God doesn't know where God came from (alex Jones Mythical glue that bonds cultures /religions (Sapiens book Catholics slaughtered protestants 24k in massacre - pope was so thrilled he had it painted, sits in Vatican not open for tour (Sapiens Monolithic religion Christian let's polytheism through the window with patron saints (Sapiens It is easier for a camel to pass through eye of needle, than rich man enter heaven (Mathew : 24) (Sapiens) Deuteronomy - kill heretics, also require to kill those too squimish to kill heretics (Sam Harris end of faith Nazi not fueled by atheism, antisemitism by religion (Sam harris Eternal hell if not follow very specific syntax in your mind (Sam harris