In Y Tu Mamá También, as part of their manifesto, the Charolastras believe that ‘The Truth is cool, but unattainable’. But that doesn’t mean you can’t try to attain it. And it may not be about learning what’s truth and then confirming it over and over, it might be more important to …
Take a leaf out of Peter Pan’s manual… – From Example – 10 Million People Professional sportspeople have it nice. They get to live the life of a kid into their 20s, 30s and even 40s (Tom Brady, Jaromir Jagr etc.). Playing games well into their adulthood. Then they coach …
All the (created) anxieties around life, like ‘You have to find your passion’, you have to be successful, you have to own a house as young as possible, you need to look cool, or hot, or young… it’s all bullshit… and as Lucy says, it’s all obstacles. All of that stands …
As humans we’ve pretty much run our course. We’ve been going thousands of years to make advances in weapons, agriculture, engineering, all to build up to getting amazing as shit at making technology that is faster, better, can do more calculations quicker and ultimately smarter than us. All this is …
This is something my girlfriend suggested to me after yesterday’s post on the better way to approach knowledge and whether Socrates was taking the piss. If Socrates said ‘There’s only one thing I know – that I know nothing.’, doesn’t that mean that he’s saying he actually knows TWO things? …
While someone’s telling you something.. do you ever already start putting together your response, or thinking about what you’re going to say back, while they’re saying it? As they’re making a point or telling you something about their life, are you ever already formulating a cleverly-crafted or funny remark in response? …
When you’re passionate about something, you become blind to any evidence or opinions against it. It’s easy to start thinking yours is the only way. There’s a difference between giving heaps of fucks about something and being passionate about something. ISIS are passionate, the KKK too. You think they see …
I’ve talked before about a past teacher of mine who gave heaps of fucks about learning. This is another one: Dr. Howard Good. Professor Good’s another one of my top 5 favourite teachers of all time. I took his ‘Press in America’ class at SUNY New Paltz in New York State, …
Take #3. Yesterday, homeboy Esteban from Colombia ripped apart and patched back up my first-ever attempt at writing Spanish. And I did pay attention, but I still went ahead and just made the same mistakes or even dumber ones (‘Esta es mi primer tiempo bez…’? The fuck is that?) Anyway, …
Today, one of my Spanish-speaking students tore apart my first ever attempt at writing in Spanish yesterday. Thanks to homeboy Esteban from Colombia, this is the much-improved and non-demented version of it: Esta es mi primer tiempo bez escribendo en español, después de e 9 diás aprendiendo de el idioma (más …
![A Deep Dive into: AI [pt.4] – The formula: Humans making huge inroads in AI + AI can learn at a much faster rate than we can + We understand barely anything about the brain + AI doesn’t give a fuck about emotion or sympathy = Get ready for the most ironic and awkward thing in the history of the universe ever (& the Philosophy of: Funnybot)](http://whyyoudo.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IMG_8600-copy-1-1440x1440.jpg)
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