tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post5354589480894243017..comments2024-03-25T17:38:55.490-07:00Comments on Dar Kush: "The Stand" and human machine languageSteven Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13630529492355131777noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-75313241629088445252010-05-03T11:01:36.671-07:002010-05-03T11:01:36.671-07:00Well greetings thanks for the opportunity of post ...Well greetings thanks for the opportunity of post a message , also i would like to know more abouthuman machine language" is very interesting , how can i get more information about it , I want to sign up for more details.generic viagra onlinehttp://www.sharpmeds.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-20788336829032427722010-04-19T04:47:07.679-07:002010-04-19T04:47:07.679-07:00I am glad you said this about King...
he suffers ...I am glad you said this about King...<br /><br />he suffers from two maladies: Affluenza and white privilege...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13205384167481897308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-30816918073996556182010-04-15T08:56:06.845-07:002010-04-15T08:56:06.845-07:00"then *you're* the intolerant "
We..."then *you're* the intolerant " <br /><br />Well, this is technically true. I've long been against blanket 'tolerance' and an advocate for rational analysis and moral value judgment instead.Travishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15353783271100674218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-52656287270624027872010-04-15T08:05:47.054-07:002010-04-15T08:05:47.054-07:00"King is one of the few writers who could ign..."King is one of the few writers who could ignore such rewrite instructions and still get his work published, I suspect. This makes the question of why he has not done so even more pointed, in my mind at least."<br />##<br />My answer: because on an unconscious level, this is the way he thinks. And it is the way most people think, or his books wouldn't be so popular.Steven Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13630529492355131777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-54618603112936678742010-04-15T07:50:01.151-07:002010-04-15T07:50:01.151-07:00Meanwhile, I just remembered the blog post and com...Meanwhile, I just remembered the blog post and comments here: <br /><br />http://life-with-aspergers.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-thoughts-on-intolerance.html<br /><br />Some people out there sure seem to think that if someone repeatedly says racist slurs about you and/or shuns you then, and if you don't keep welcoming this person into your social activities, then *you're* the intolerant and mistaken one! WTF?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-1125999589053154852010-04-15T07:07:07.359-07:002010-04-15T07:07:07.359-07:00I find it difficult to believe that any functionin...I find it difficult to believe that any functioning adult would not understand that generalizations performed at the level of actual continents and sub-continents are likely to be very ... general.<br /><br /><i>So it's totally not as if everything else is controlled and the only variable is the race of the people there when comparing African cultures and European cultures!</i><br /><br />Yes, as I said, I read the book. My point about the possibility of hybrid vigor was restricted to the Americas.Daniel Keys Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992599044462413412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-89586682881111991342010-04-15T05:49:48.947-07:002010-04-15T05:49:48.947-07:00"I suppose I could list each person in those ..."I suppose I could list each person in those regions individually and alphabetically, as well."<br /><br />No need, just using the plural is enough to clarify that we're not making the one-big-monolith mistake. :)<br /><br />"...About a year and a half back. It's a great book, to be sure, but I don't really see that it has much to do with the point I was making. Hybrid vigor in the Americas (if it exists) is not a likely explanation for the gap in results between Europe and Africa..."<br /><br />I was thinking more of how <br /><br />(a) microbes in the continent where humans first evolving have had more millions of years of evolving to prey on us than microbes where humans showed up later and got a head start against the native species<br /><br />(b) Africa's longer vertically than horizontally (more of the migration would include readapting to new climates which leaves less time for getting better at farming in a climate) and Eurasia's longer horizonally than vertically<br /><br />(c) Africa had fewer domesticatable animals available than Eurasia did<br /><br />than of any hybrid vigor in the Americas.<br /><br />So it's totally not as if everything else is controlled and the only variable is the race of the people there when comparing African cultures and European cultures!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-49410007841518574922010-04-14T22:19:46.942-07:002010-04-14T22:19:46.942-07:00"I suppose I could list each person in those ..."I suppose I could list each person in those regions individually and alphabetically, as well."<br /><br />After I got done laughing it occurred to me to dare you to try!Travishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15353783271100674218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-63688234818533401012010-04-14T20:46:47.115-07:002010-04-14T20:46:47.115-07:00(a) African cultureS and European cultureS, plural...<i>(a) African cultureS and European cultureS, plurals!</i><br /><br />I suppose I could list each person in those regions individually and alphabetically, as well. <br /><br /><i>(b) Ever read Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond?</i><br /><br />About a year and a half back. It's a great book, to be sure, but I don't really see that it has much to do with the point I was making. Hybrid vigor in the Americas (if it exists) is not a likely explanation for the gap in results between Europe and Africa.Daniel Keys Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992599044462413412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-25697916743811738672010-04-14T19:52:59.782-07:002010-04-14T19:52:59.782-07:00I've always had a slightly different view than...I've always had a slightly different view than you indicate Mr. Diamond has of why Europe developed to a greater extent than Africa. While, I agree it was geologically, climatologically, etc. I saw these things as less favorable to survival in Europe and hence on the "necessity is the mother of invention" theory I believe the Europeans had to develop technology that the Africans did not need to survive.Marty Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06465745755940914756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-8886729832112166782010-04-14T17:59:27.168-07:002010-04-14T17:59:27.168-07:00"...Maybe not. I'm skeptical Africans are..."...Maybe not. I'm skeptical Africans are superior to Europeans -- just on results, I'd have to go with, at a bare minimum, the idea that European culture is superior to African culture. (There's a lot buried in that word "superior," but I'll stand by it in broad. In all the metrics you like -- infant mortality, etc. -- Africa's in terrible shape and Europe does better.)..."<br /><br />(a) African cultureS and European cultureS, plurals!<br /><br />(b) Ever read Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond? He kicks all sorts of ass explaining how Africa and Europe got dealt different cards geologically (available ports), botanically (available crops), zoologically (available beasts of burden), etc. in the first place and how *that* is a big part of why people in Africa on average are less well off than people in Europe on average are. He doesn't forget Asia, Australia, and the Americas neither.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-16271305036717812162010-04-14T14:38:01.677-07:002010-04-14T14:38:01.677-07:00I have to struggle not to suspect that we actually...<i>I have to struggle not to suspect that we actually ARE a bit superior. But that's just my monkey-mind hard-wiring, I suspect.</i><br /><br />Maybe not. I'm skeptical Africans are superior to Europeans -- just on results, I'd have to go with, at a bare minimum, the idea that European culture is superior to African culture. (There's a lot buried in that word "superior," but I'll stand by it in broad. In all the metrics you like -- infant mortality, etc. -- Africa's in terrible shape and Europe does better.)<br /><br />But it wouldn't shock me to find that the average <i>American</i> black would be capable of outperforming the average American white. Hybrid vigor is a real phenomenon, and most American blacks -- certainly you -- would have to be considered pretty thoroughly interbred.Daniel Keys Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992599044462413412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-78293072324755775432010-04-14T14:06:08.106-07:002010-04-14T14:06:08.106-07:00I have never read any Stephen King, except, I thin...I have never read any Stephen King, except, I think, for Firestarter. There are so many good books I want to read that the kind of thing you have written about here, as well as Nnedi Okorafor's essay in Strange Horizons a few years ago, make me inclined not to do so. This is good; there are more good books than any of us has time to read, so excuses for excluding some make the choices easier. I do recall someone on the Carl Brandon Society discussion group saying that an editor had asked that a character be changed from black to white in a story, saying "Don't make a character black unless there is a specific reason to do so." King is one of the few writers who could ignore such rewrite instructions and still get his work published, I suspect. This makes the question of why he has not done so even more pointed, in my mind at least.Pagan Topologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01611788563582362688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-59167500104788370262010-04-14T11:54:45.146-07:002010-04-14T11:54:45.146-07:00Steve, is the third book in the Lion's Blood s...Steve, is the third book in the Lion's Blood series coming out this year? If so can you share anything (title, timing) about it yet?Shady_Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00996625985002373392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-32510468836794544572010-04-14T10:58:49.351-07:002010-04-14T10:58:49.351-07:00Steve: Its a given that everybody sees the world t...Steve: Its a given that everybody sees the world through their own set of glasses. Its not just politics or race, its everything. My best friend and I play tournament bridge together. We do less well as a partnership than our individual talents would suggest. Why is this? Its because we view the game through a different set of glasses. I approach the game from a statistician's point of view and he approaches it from an engineer's point of view. Unless we fill the world with identical clones I fear there will always be differences between people and groups and therefore some sort of conflict.Marty Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06465745755940914756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-67794490393331978632010-04-14T10:17:33.434-07:002010-04-14T10:17:33.434-07:00I'm curious if you ever watch Private Practice...I'm curious if you ever watch <i>Private Practice</i>? Something that has struck me is that they actually seem to put a lot of work into crossing demographic lines in the character relationships. Inter-racial and inter-abled are the two most conspicuous examples. I'm curious if you have any thoughts on how they handle this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com