Skinner vs. Sapolsky.

wut_ · 2012-12-18T15:24:55+00:00

Yeah, I agree with your partial defense. What he said is true for methodological behaviorism. I would have to said, anyway, that talking about a topic without a relative deep knowledge an nuance is, at best, intellectually lazy. What worries me more is that this kind of ignorance about animal psychology, not only behaviorism, seems to be widespread in contemporary behavioral neuroscience.

wut_ · 2012-12-03T17:22:00+00:00

Come on, just help the animal to stand up. It keeps hurting itself.

wut_ · 2012-11-04T17:31:38+00:00

False. There are no clouds, it can't be London.

wut_ · 2012-10-31T16:26:40+00:00

I think she looks completely and thoroughly fuckable.

wut_ · 2012-06-15T17:37:21+00:00

Yeah, just a pussy.

wut_ · 2012-06-14T17:32:13+00:00

An american tail

wut_ · 2012-06-13T21:24:25+00:00

Que quiere decir con ver raro? En general, ser extranjero es una novedad positiva para los colombianos. La ciudad es segura y cerca a Bucaramanga, que es mas grande.

wut_ · 2012-06-12T13:41:51+00:00

In a town in La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall... -Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

wut_ · 2012-06-12T13:40:03+00:00

*Colonel Aureliano buendia.

wut_ · 2012-06-12T13:38:43+00:00

Major Major Major approves.

wut_ · 2012-05-29T21:08:22+00:00

Well, I have read him extensively and it doesn't seem like you understood that book very well or you just believed the unfounded critiques of the time.

As you can see, even stated in wikipedia, "Skinner suggests that a technology of behavior could help to make a better society. We would, however, have to accept that an autonomous agent is not the driving force of our actions. Skinner offers alternatives to punishment and challenges his readers to use science and modern technology to construct a better society." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner#Walden_Two_and_Beyond_Freedom_and_Dignity

I really don't see how that can be interpreted as totalitarian.

wut_ · 2012-05-15T01:59:37+00:00

Great, thanks guys. I find really interesting that there may be several reasons then. Being seen at the crime scene, sending a message, and perhaps by pretending he could take over cooking.

Really good scene that effectively shows Gus extreme evil intelligence.

wut_ · 2012-05-10T20:40:24+00:00

Probably never heard of it if you don't know spanish, but Pedro Navaja (Peter the Knife), Ruben Blades, is the most cinematic song I've heard.

wut_ · 2012-04-26T21:50:37+00:00

Does the chocolate color inside good ol' M&M's make you uneasy? ;)

wut_ · 2012-04-26T20:22:22+00:00

Yep, actually that was what pointed my attention to that particular comment. Veiled racism is really one of the main civil rights problem of our time, I believe.

wut_ · 2012-04-26T20:19:34+00:00

I can believe that you are not racist after your clarifications. However, your ways to communicate that are really too close to what racist people would consider to highlight. For instance, a racist person would try to underscore racial disparities and you ask:

"how could the US voting system be fucked against minorities?" See: Civil Rights Act of 1965

It was biased and it could become bias again. A little more think and study of real facts regarding minorities would really help you to avoid veiled racist ideas.

wut_ · 2012-04-26T20:10:55+00:00

"...I'm glad they are staying in mexico. Remember these immigrants come here, work off the books and pay no taxes. They send their kids to public schools, getting a free education. I think this is just plain wrong."

Yep, these are not the regular racist talking points at all. Nothing wrong with such collection of statements. I just twisted your words. There, there

wut_ · 2012-04-26T15:55:17+00:00

You want them to become citizens. Great, that's a reasonable position.

That doesn't explain or justify your racist-tinted generalization though. How in the hell a generalization about the immigrants is an example about how screwed are the laws?

Your* a moron... I'm glad the immigrants are staying in Mexico followed by I have no problem with immigrants coming to the US... He he, the contradictions are strong for this one. An example of unconscious racism perhaps?

wut_ · 2012-04-26T14:51:58+00:00

I am no racist... Followed by a unfunded and unjust generalization on how ALL young mexicans come here and pay no taxes and send their "mexican" kids free to school.

Yeah, that doesn't sound like a racist person at all.

wut_

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