The five stages of expertise
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The “Intelligence Trap”
The “Intelligence Trap” is a concept in psychology that suggests that highly intelligent people are more susceptible to cognitive biases and flawed thinking than less intelligent people. For example, it can be argued that Stephen Hawking’s Warning on Contacting Aliens may be an example of the so-called intelligence trap, as some evidence from the field of physics suggests.
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The silence surrounding the recent breakthroughs on cryptoendolithic microorganisms thriving in extreme subglacial Antarctic lakes could fill entire libraries.
Image Source: Pre-Cambrian roots of novel Antarctic cryptoendolithic bacterial lineages
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Magnetotactic bacteria are a polyphyletic group of bacteria that orient themselves along the magnetic field lines of Earth's magnetic field
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Deterministic system: current state depends on a previous state: x(t) = f(x(t − 1))
Anticipatory system (as defined by Robert Rosen etc): current state depends upon a previous state, the current state itself, and possible future states: (x(t) = f(x(t − 1), x(t), x(t + 1))
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The problem with Mikkyo (Esoteric Buddhism) is that it is extremely effective even years after an operation was completed and one has long forgotten about it.
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Ipsissimus is hard to translate directly from Latin to English, but it is essentially the superlative of "self,” translating rather approximately to "His most Selfness," or "self-est." The Ipsissimus Knows Nothing.
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" - Hunter S. Thompson
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Kids born into the Illuminati mind-control systema can’t seem to help but frequently act in ways that are completely unacceptable. While games can be fun, integrity is non-negotiable. Spooky people tend to forget that omnipotence is the shortest path to impotence & insanity.
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- The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
- The more one produces, the less one gets.
- Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
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Perspective: Despite all our accomplishments we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.
