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Comment Re:This is ADHD in a nutshell (Score 2, Insightful) 49

ADHD? Mate, that's just normal high sensitivity.
I know in the USA, everybody who doesn't run for the hills before they count to three in diagnosed with ADHD because it allows legally selling hard drugs to children who are "conspicuous", for a nice big fat amount of profit, but no, that alone does not mean you've go ADHD.

Comment Re:"you have probably enjoyed a 'flow' state..." (Score 1) 49

I can confirm that the state described in TFS has nothing to do with teams whatsoever. I don't know where they got that.

The same thing is normal if you're in the flow by yourself.
Highly sensitive people experience it all the time.

This "discovery" is already so questionable in other ways, that I'm not surprised they thought is was a "team" thing.

Comment Re:"you have probably enjoyed a 'flow' state..." (Score 0) 49

You come off as extremely insecure for claiming others are "pretentious" because you are such an exception.
Especially when your case is actually really weird for a human being. I know because that flow state it is kinda my thing and I talked to pretty much everyone about it. Never met a person who didn't know or experience it.

Did you really never ever in your life feel that feeling of " being in the flow"?

Frankly, if that is true, it just sounds like something in your life went extremely wrong. Like your parent just put you in front of the media consumption device and you never got to have an actual hobby or passion in your life. Something where you both *made* something, and *liked it so much, that you experienced the "good" kind of stress*. Where you forget to eat or sleep and just want to keep doing it.
And instead at best may have had something you felt you had to do, and you just came to be so used to it that you thought it was normal and what other people called a "hobby" too.

Comment I'm gonna bet a $1000... (Score 1) 49

... that it's different in everyone, and their "pinpoint" only matches the median of all people they've tested. In terms of physical coordinates as well an neuro-structural location.

Also, their definition of "team flow" in sufficiently vague, to justify their "discovery" as "correct" in almost any case.

  You know... When the purpose of your paper is to generate papers and citations instead of useful insights...

Comment Re:Harmful content? There is no such thing. (Score 1) 46

Action and its representation in some medium are two distinct things and no law should be implicitly or explicitly based on mixing the two.

Oh you mean laws like "intellectual property" and "copyright". :)
In that case I agree.

In the case you seem to actually mean: Neural input causes neurons to fire, that cause memories to be remembered, including painful things. If I know your backstory, I can give you sensory input that causes neural input that triggers all your most painful things and then literally measure that pain in an MRT and show your pain center light up on the screen.

Who the hell came up with acting like the brain and neurons and mental pain are "not real"?? Like producing sound waves that vibrate your ear drums that fire electricity that cause other neurons to fire electricity in your pain center that will cause you to be unable to move or work for quite some time, is "not physical" and "not an action". --.--
Was it born from that pre-scientific religious-philosophic nonsense of a "soul"/"mind" floating somewhere separate from the body and universe?

Comment Re:Harmful content? There is no such thing. (Score 1) 46

It is BOTH:

1. Yes, there is harmful content. I can easily create neural input that will trigger painful memories that cause you physical pain that can be measured in an MRT. So words *can* hurt you. Such measurements have been done. Paracetamol literally does numb them! (In high dosages, suggesting that the pain is very much higher than that of a wound to the body.)

2. But, no, it is not the speaker's job, to pussyfoot around everyone's triggers. It's the job of those with triggers, to fix them, or not leave the house / go online, if they can't handle it.

(And 3. If you know something causes somebody pain, and then deliberately go out of your way to do it, then even if it's their stupid triggers, you are being a harmful sadist. Just like if somebody had a painful blister on somebody's arm that you knew of, and you go tapping it in a way that would not hurt somebody without a blister, but will hurt that person.)

So please don't let them turn this into a false dichotomy.

Comment Military Übersoldat fantasies always were hom (Score 1) 4

I mean those barracks are basically gay S/M clubs with stern "daddys" and a lot of masochistic slaves.
And Superman is just the US version of Nazi Übersoldat propaganda. "Superman" is the literal translation of the Nazi term "Übermensch". Because America was, and to quite some extend still is, a just as national-fascist country as Germany was back then.
(Something like German-themed "superhero comics" would be completely unacceptable over here. Like spraying swastikas onto Jewish tombstones.)

So in short: Nobody cares. It's Nazi propaganda. You should not be watching it do talking about it in the first plac.

Comment Is everything a "Battle" with Americans? (Score 1) 176

It's like Americans have only 3 topics around which all their public discourse and sayings and morals revolve:

1. War
2. Money
3. Cars

So I guess "losing" the "AI" "battle" (yes, they all need quotes), is what you get, when you put all your resources in the military industry and none in education.

Comment Right to be forgiven? (Score 1) 72

Hello? Are we forgetting that the entire point of a prison sentence is that after that, it is FORGIVEN?

Because ANYONE should have the ability to leave his past behind, and become an upstanding citizen again. Even serial killers. (Example: Somebody with a neuro-chemical imbalance that self-corrected when he got older. Like, e.g. every schizophrenic person with the right kind of delusions.)

That is the entire problem with recording people: Somebody can still hate and terrorize you, *decades* after you've already been forgiven.
That is why there's a right to privacy, even in public, in the GDPR. That's its whole point.

So no, Wikimedia, you can not go around, dragging people back down to their bad past. Because then YOU will be responsible for further harm to everyone.

Handle it like criminal records: Secret, unless specifically demanded.
That way, you can have it both ways. Not be censored, but also not cause harm yourselves.

(Of course Americans might not get any of this. I always see them casually running around Germany, "vlogging" random people on the street. Until they get the cops called on them. lol)

Comment Re:Umm (Score 1) 60

Seconded. I think some cities had them in the 1800s.

Because it's really not rocket science.
There are sensors and triggers between the tracks and on the train. If it's underground, there's no people, so it's trivial.
The only thing one might add for aboveground tracks, is the ability to stop if something is on the tracks.
Which is basically one retroreflective sensor and a switch. Maybe with a slight rotation to follow curved tracks.
But given a train's mass, it's not like humans could do that either. Unless they fit emergency magnetic brakes onto every railcar.

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