Saturday, January 11, 2014

interests interest

actualist philanthropist pianist...bicyclist
poverty, piano, picking (locks)
Quora.com/What-are-some-smart-interests-or-topics
Beginning

Hi. Adam, 23. Here for clean chat.

Hello, I'm 23. Do you read nonfiction? What?

Hello, 23. What are your interests, more specifically?

Hello. I'd most like to discuss evidence based altruism (as a member of the Effective Altruism movement)

Hello, 23. I like argumentative discussions.

Hello, 23. Do you know of Effective Altruism?

Hello, 23. Interested in how to do the most good, extreme poverty focus

Hello. 23. Interested in discussing Effective Altruism if you're willing to look it up

Hello, 23. Most interested in Effective Altruism focused on lessening extreme poverty (i.e., using my good circumstances to help people at the other end)

Hi. 23. Effective Altruism is a topic I'd rather discuss, if you're willing to look it up...otherwise something else specific (e.g., veganism, global poverty, morality, etc)

Hello, 23. Interests: Philosophy (ethics/morality), electrical engineering (comms), lock picking, piano

Middle
What are a few discussion topics do you want to talk about?
Peter Singer, what do you think about him?


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reading ~ spammed
writing
books
Wisconsin

platteville
sheboygan
milwaukee
chicago
learning
philosophy
culture
hack
hacking
blogging
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piano
ethics morality locksport lockpicking volunteer vegan vegetarian economics nonfiction poverty charity electrical engineering electronics activism Buddhism meditation memory


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ad hominem, Principled (Puritanical) Perfectionism

language learning
polyglot
esperanto
interlungua

fasting
skill
platonic

economics
macroeconomics
developmental economics

rhetoric
nonfiction
non fiction
speed reading
autodidact
autodidactism
intellectual
intellectuals
intellectualism
creative
creativity
mind map
mind maps
mind mapping
study partner
study buddy
study
studying

change
learn
lifelong learner
coursera
knowledge
info
information
anki
critical thinking
thinking
thought
critical thought
introspect
introspection
fallacy
fallacies
visionary
OCW
polymath
symbolic logic

MIT OCW
MOOC
MOOCs

belief
beliefs
anticapitalism
against capitalism
poverty
causes of poverty
extreme poverty
absolute poverty
empathy
affliction
activism
The Challenge of World Poverty
Challenge of World Poverty
kiva
philanthropy
charity
giving
rights
human rights
make a difference
making a difference
homelessness
hunger
UNICEF

behavior therapy
Behavioural sciences

fear
sisyphus
minimalism
minimalist
consequentialism
peter singer
thomas pogge
utilitarianism
opportunity cost
responsiblity
social responsibility

big question
suicide
telos
purpose


man's search for meaning
meaning
nihilism
absurdism
altruism
Plato
Societies
Aristotle
diogenes
diogenes of sinope

squashed philosophers

Igby Goes Down
Good Will Hunting

SEP
common knowledge
the department store

engineering
electrical engineering
inventing
invent
shweeb
monorail
hyperloop
tesla

burning man
tracking
buddhism
buddhist
Nichiren Buddhist/Buddhism
Mahayana Buddhist/Buddhism
Theravada Buddhist/Buddhism
Zen Buddhist/Buddhism
meditation
zen
chi gung
qigong

misanthropy
misanthropist

magic tricks

self-control:
willpower
dopamine
deep breathing
lucid dreaming
lucid dreams
pharmacology
pharmacodynamics

dialogue
discourse
expert


memory
remembering
atrophy
question
questions

intentional nonlearners
resistant learners
Anti intellectualism
Anti intellectualists
antiphilosophy
consumerism

leisure
apathy
hypocrite
hypocrites
hypocritical

Existentialist
Christians

utopia
utopianism


Poverty is too complex? Too much to ask to make a difference? majority too lazy or selfish for action? (large scale)
Questions you can't ask on question sites
(questions better instantaneous, eg via dialogue or Omegle?)
What if you just typed everything you're thinking, in this moment?
One or both of you: type your thoughts in series. If you type one word, explain it.






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