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Entanglement takes care of everything…
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1·26 days agoif Musk’s got a high intellect-quotient, that’s fine…
What does it measure?
A very-specific subset of intelligences, crafted to leave-out female relational-intelligences, musical-intelligence, health-intelligence, among other ones…
https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Kinds-Smart-Identifying-Intelligences/dp/0452281377/
identifies 9 intelligences, & I defy most Mensa-types to consistently score high on those other ones…
It is the IQ lobby which won’t tolerate the other-intelligences to be counted equally-valid, right?
With reason: they aren’t good at those intelligences.
( hint: musical-intelligence includes multiple sub-intelligences, including, but not limited-to…
- rhythm
- harmony
- melody
- improv/jazz
- composition
- polyrhythm
- etc…
A person can have a “musical intelligence” of whatever, & be brilliant in rhythm, but lousy in harmony, xor vice versa.
Too-coarse-granularity’s consistently a problem with these damn measures : )
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1·2 months agohttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=alzheimer's+virus
I’m not the poster you’re contempting, I’m just some asshole Empiricist who works to consistently check before contempting.
Scientific-integrity is not in the culture I grew-up in ( dad’s medical-culture Scientism has no tolerance for it, neither did mom’s Catholicism ),
but it is required for outright intellectual-integrity.
For those who won’t check the link to see the results, here is the abstract from 1 paper:
Infectious agents and Alzheimer’s disease
Abstract
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia worldwide. Individuals affected by the disease gradually lose their capacity for abstract thinking, understanding, communication and memory. As populations age, declining cognitive abilities will represent an increasing global health concern. While AD was first described over a century ago, its pathogenesis remains to be fully elucidated. It is believed that cognitive decline in AD is caused by a progressive loss of neurons and synapses that lead to reduced neural plasticity. AD is a multifactorial disease affected by genetic and environmental factors. The molecular hallmarks of AD include formation of extracellular β amyloid (Aβ) aggregates, neurofibrillary tangles of hyperphosphorylated tau protein, excessive oxidative damage, an imbalance of biothiols, dysregulated methylation, and a disproportionate inflammatory response. Recent reports have shown that viruses (e.g., Herpes simplex type 1, 2, 6A/B; human cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, hepatitis C virus, influenza virus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2), bacteria (e.g., Treponema pallidum, Borrelia burgdorferi, Chlamydia pneumoniae, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia, Tannerella forsythia, Fusobacterium nucleatum, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcmitans, Eikenella corrodens, Treponema denticola, and Helicobacter pylori), as well as eukaryotic unicellular parasites (e.g., Toxoplasma gondii) may factor into cognitive decline within the context of AD. Microorganisms may trigger pathological changes in the brain that resemble and/or induce accumulation of Aβ peptides and promote tau hyperphosphorylation. Further, the mere presence of infectious agents is suspected to induce both local and systemic inflammatory responses promoting cellular damage and neuronal loss. Here we review the influence of infectious agents on the development of AD to inspire new research in dementia based on these pathogens.
bold-highlighting is by me.
Astounding:
All the geek-managers who’ve claimed, through the years, to be “cat herders”, or to be “herding cats”, have ZERO validity compared with this woman…
She is THE Catherd™
& we’ve been accepting the bullshit-claim of guys for years…
Shame on us… doesn’t empiricism require that we accept the data’s facts?
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I upvoted it because of the 1st half: there isn’t any way I would have guessed that service-dogs go get help, & that is important to know.
Thank you for telling us.
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I have read that Canadian Geographic magazine ( like National Geographic magazine, but colder ) decided to fire their photo-editor.
It’s a photo-centric magazine.
So, their quality dropped.
& that had consequences…
Since I only read 1 source for the story, I’ve no idea if it tests-out, but that is exactly the problem with hard-to-grow expertise: you don’t know how much worth it is, until you lose it, & then you can’t quickly/easily get it back.
( this story is actually a good example of why people should be tested for roles the’re not even close to working-in:
it’d help one calibrate the difficulty-in-replacing particular people, AND it’d identify if you even can replace them, & if not, get training backups or get bringing-in people, until you’ve got a backup, eh? )
Anyways, until a person has worked-through Betty Edwards’ “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive edition”, & experienced the hemisphere-dominance-shift, themselves, it simply isn’t understandable how meaningful that shift is.
( also, it validates exactly what Hofstadter wrote “Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” about: that each kind-of-knowing is incapable of knowing ANY meaning which isn’t within-its-kind-of-knowing. )
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Years ago, Cracked.com had a page on how the “good” witch was actually the bad-guy…
https://www.cracked.com/article_18417_9-famous-movie-villains-who-were-right-all-along.html
includes some understanding of how the “Wicked Witch of the West” only wanted her now-smashed-by-Dorothy’s-house sister’s shoes back, & did NOTHING harmful to anybody, otherwise, in the movie…
https://www.cracked.com/article_18417_9-famous-movie-villains-who-were-right-all-along.html
( scroll waaay down, to get to that stuff )
Can’t remember what they identified that the “Good” Witch did, but in the article that I no-longer can find, they did detail some stuff…
( Cracked.com has a number of pages on how we just naturally slurped-up the totally-wrong/bogus view, from many movies, through the years, it seems…
& that sane considering of what’s in those movies produces a completely different view of the things…
https://www.cracked.com/article_29861_55-villains-we-should-root-for.html
actually, that one should probably be a link to Nitpickers, or whatever that site was called, shouldn’t it? )
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SPOT on, Hoomin, GOOD stuff!!
lmao
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There’s now yt videos on Facebooks’ locking people’s accounts ( in early 2025 ) because they … post on Linux … which Facebook has ( perhaps because it benefits their … ahem … for-profit-partners ) deemed to be malware…
Linux Mint / Cinnamon I can recommend, & for all the old machines running corrupt MS-Windows, please get Puppy Linux on 'em, & MAKE them trustworthy!
Yes, the “controlling the populace” time has just-now begun!
( unfortunately, it is going to get much MUCH more oppressive, as this shit progresses in totalitarianism… )
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Ohh, how I wish I coulda been the 1 to make your meem’s score 1000, Hoomin…
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I bet the Muppets coulda done an awesome Sax Pistols…
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