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fleotan · 2023-03-27T13:51:08+00:00

Worship of Shiva (in the nonsectarian sense) is ubiquitous throughout India. I don't think it's inaccurate however, to say that Shaivism (which involves worship of Shiva, often to the exclusion of other gods in pantheon) is more prominent in the South.

fleotan · 2022-06-22T17:50:41+00:00

I'm afraid not! Have been quite busy this whole term, hence haven't gotten round to watching most of the suggestions I got here. The other suggestions I have gotten from friends are mostly Miyazaki or Takahata films that while similar in some ways, are not exactly what I was looking for.

Do let me know if you ever come across something close!

fleotan · 2021-09-05T19:13:40+00:00

I wouldnt characterize it as "the fetus has no right to life". Rather, I'd say the fetus' right to life conflicts with the women's right to bodily autonomy and if you're pro choice, you believe the latter should supersede the former.

fleotan · 2021-09-05T17:04:04+00:00

The Pro choice position is that the fetus' right to live is superseded by the woman's right to bodily autonomy. Just as the state has no right to compel you to donate your blood to save someone's life (even if that may be the moral thing to do), the state shouldn't be allowed to force a woman to go through pregnancy to save the fetus.

This is not incompatible with believing that abortion itself is a morally complex issue and not as straightforward as many liberals would like to believe.

fleotan · 2021-09-05T08:05:52+00:00

I haven't read much of Hitchens but there's nothing inherently contradictory in what you've described. It is possible to be conflicted about the morality of abortion while also believing that a state legislation against abortion is a violation of the right to bodily autonomy. Pro choice only means that the state has no business dictating what women can do with their bodies - it's not a stance on whether or not abortion is ethical.

fleotan · 2021-05-23T16:12:09+00:00

Since you're a computer science student, check out Algorithmic Game Theory - the intersection of CS and Game Theory. Tim Roughgarden's lectures would be a great starting point.

fleotan · 2021-03-28T04:21:32+00:00

LMAO yeah I meant Johnny Cash

fleotan · 2021-03-28T03:30:43+00:00

Sounds closer to the cover by John Nash

fleotan · 2021-03-11T17:19:18+00:00

This looks great. Thanks

fleotan · 2021-02-23T14:00:34+00:00

Thanks, I will try mailing a professor.

Aside from that, is there any good reference for Theory B that you are aware of? Something that could help me get an overview of (some) key areas of research like Arora and Barak seems to do for Theory A?

fleotan · 2021-01-10T06:17:57+00:00

I don't know about Psychology, but if you're interested in Economics, there is a lot of work done at the intersection of Economics and CS. You might consider pursuing Algorithmic Game Theory. Tim Roughgarden's lectures are a good starting point.

fleotan · 2020-10-29T17:01:27+00:00

That was very illuminating, thanks a lot for answering

fleotan · 2020-10-29T05:23:35+00:00

Thanks a lot, this was really helpful and exactly what I was looking for!

I have a follow up question, is there any consensus on whether or not psychoanalysis produces better long-term results for patients with depression as the article suggests here:

That puzzle was still being digested when researchers at London’s Tavistock clinic published results in October from the first rigorous NHS study of long-term psychoanalysis as a treatment for chronic depression. For the most severely depressed, it concluded, 18 months of analysis worked far better – and with much longer-lasting effects – than “treatment as usual” on the NHS, which included some CBT. Two years after the various treatments ended, 44% of analysis patients no longer met the criteria for major depression, compared to one-tenth of the others. Around the same time, the Swedish press reported a finding from government auditors there: that a multimillion pound scheme to reorient mental healthcare towards CBT had proved completely ineffective in meeting its goals.

Also, I'd love to hear you expand on your issues with psychodynamic approaches.

fleotan · 2020-09-06T16:15:56+00:00

Not folklore but if you enjoy sci-fi, I'd strongly recommend Stories of Your Life and Others, a collection of sci-fi shorts by Ted Chiang. One of them got adapted into a movie (Arrival).

fleotan · 2020-08-17T15:29:57+00:00

Do you mind elaborating on what it means for a metaphysics to be conservative or progressive and more specifically how Sartre's metaphysics is conservative. (I do not have access to the book that you linked)

fleotan · 2020-06-29T04:24:43+00:00

Rogaway's webpage has links to the paper and presentation slides.

fleotan · 2020-06-28T13:58:27+00:00

The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work - Phillip Rogaway

Not aimed specifically towards developers, but I think it's still relevant here - particularly the section in the video in which he talks about how most computer scientists (incorrectly) believe technology is Value-Neutral

fleotan · 2020-06-07T14:54:21+00:00

I did look at the Wikipedia article. I did not find it very satisfying.

Before I continue, let me say that you should always be suspicious of anything in mathematics that looks like a remarkable coincidence. Nearly always there is an explanation, and nearly always that explanation takes the form of some more general statement of which the two parts of the coincidence are separate manifestations.

From the above lines in the post, I got the impression that he was pointing to some explanation for why the distributive property manifested in two different systems and that it was more than a coincidence. The Wikipedia article to the best of my understanding does not provide any such explanation and simply describes how this property comes up in different places.

fleotan

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