[sudo-discuss] Hackers unite

[Sonja Trauss]

Hi all:

I really appreciate this thread.

Living in the Bay Area is a trip. When I first got here I thought, "wow, a
safe space for nerds!" I thought everyone knew about Noisebridge. It seemed
to be very simpatico with the history of SF as I knew it which was, safe
space for hippies, safe space for gays safe space for gender non-
conformists.  Then I lived here longer and I saw how many people say "if
you work in tech, SF hates you."   This seems very unfair to me.

Best
Sonja

On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Adam Munich <adam at aperture.systems> wrote:

> >>Research shows that limitat...
>
> I don't believe this. As a diagnosed aspie who had 1 friend in high
> school, I've been able to overcome almost all such "ingrained disability"
> and have left stellar impressions on hundreds of people. It's very, very
> possible not only to moderately change your personality, but to become an
> entirely different person altogether over the course of a year.
>
>
> >> As a small child I received a severe concussion and was unconscious
> for some time after the accident... facial expressions...
>
> As a small child who recovered from getting tossed 6 feet in the air by a
> car, completely KO'd, and had to relearn similar things, I can say, the
> brain is *really, really freakin' adaptable*. But not if you don't put in
> the hard effort to rewire those neurons.
>
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> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Autonomous <autonomous666 at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','autonomous666 at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Consider the case where cognitive problems arise from traumatic brain
>> injury. There's plenty of scientific evidence proving that due to a brain
>> injury, individuals may lack self-control and awareness, and as a result
>> may behave inappropriately or impulsively (without thinking it through) in
>> social situations.
>>
>>
>> http://www.brainline.org/content/2010/03/cognitive-problems-after-traumatic-brain-injury_pageall.html
>>
>> As a small child I received a severe concussion and was unconscious for
>> some time after the accident. When I look at photos of myself before and
>> after this accident I can clearly see something had changed with my facial
>> expressions. So be skeptical if you want but it does not diminish the fact
>> that many people suffer from "hardware problems."
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Cere Misc <cere.misc at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cere.misc at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Word Edward.  I don't know what's "true" about why we are the way we are
>>> but there is a lot science cannot reducibly test and conclude.
>>>
>>>
>>>> -- I have very little confidence in this kind of research.  Modern
>>>> science denies the existence of spirit, or @ least considers it not a
>>>> subject for science, & so ignores it, which usually amounts to denying it.
>>>> OTOH, emotional/spiritual experiences do have physical effects, so science,
>>>> in its prejudice, concludes that these physical signs are "the cause."
>>>> Rupert Sheldrake is the only guy I know of who has figgered this out, w/
>>>> the possible exception of Deepak Chopra. The result is a dead end that does
>>>> a *lot* of damage. One recent example of progress: British researchers (I
>>>> think) found that rat pups inherited conditioned fear: specifically: they
>>>> did a "Pavlov's dog" number w/ rose water & electric shocks so that rats
>>>> got scared of the smell of rose water. Then they bred then, and found that
>>>> the children were scared of it before they had any training. This torpedoes
>>>> a sacred tenet of centuries' standing: acquired characteristics cannot be
>>>> inherited. But recent advances in instrumentation have shown that
>>>> experiences can generate molecules in the cell that turn off genes, & @
>>>> least some of these molecules can stay attached when the sperm or egg cells
>>>> split their DNA (instrument technology is just beginning to reveal this).
>>>> It's called "epigenetic inheritance."
>>>>
>>>>    The article came out in "Lancet" a few months ago, as I recall.
>>>>
>>>> Nil Carborundum Illegitemi,
>>>> Ed Rippy
>>>>
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