Faith in Humanity

[Bioture]

You are assume:

1)things you are better at will be valued by the society.

2) Society's valuation system is rational. E.G. Diamond should be more expensive than bread because it is more useful.

3) You enjoy doing what you are good at for your entire life.

There are birds who can raise 20+ offsprings, build 5+ nests (some build one every year) in their life time and still able to find time to play and sing songs every day. How many people can raise 20+ children, build 5 houses (or be able to buy 5 different houses) and still able to find time play and enjoy life?

Raise:

1) We are assuming that things we are better at HAS value IN society.
2) Specific societies has a valuation system (at all). E.G. diamonds have value (difficult to acquire) in the same way that "good" farmville farms have value (difficult to acquire.)
3) We know what we're good at, and we know what we enjoy doing, for our entire lives.



An amoeba propagates by simple division; each split takes three minutes to complete. When such an amoeba is put into a glass container with a nutrient fluid, the container is full of amoebas in one hour. How long would it take for the container to be filled if we start with not one amoeba, but two? You might suspect that starting with twice as many amoebae it would take half as long (1/2 hr), but you'd be wrong. Starting with one amoeba, after the first three minutes, you have two, which is the starting condition for the second experiment, so it will take 1 hr - 3 min = 60 min - 3 min = 57 min. How many couples can raise children in a container with nutrient fluid, filling said container in 57 minutes, AND be able to find play time and enjoy life?!

[DoTheFandango]

don't campare humans to birds. that's just plain crazy talk.

[Rab]

I've just read this thread and don't have a fucking clue what's going on. It's either space travel, internet, intelligence, money, porn, animals, or lottery.

[T3l Ca7]

You are assume:

1)things you are better at will be valued by the society.

2) Society's valuation system is rational. E.G. Diamond should be more expensive than bread because it is more useful.

3) You enjoy doing what you are good at for your entire life.

There are birds who can raise 20+ offsprings, build 5+ nests (some build one every year) in their life time and still able to find time to play and sing songs every day. How many people can raise 20+ children, build 5 houses (or be able to buy 5 different houses) and still able to find time play and enjoy life?

[Board]

am i the only one who took one look at the original post and thougt... fuck that noise, so just kept scrolling to see if the replies were any good... ?

[Supreme]

It's famous quotes day

[Bioture]

Sorry for coming back to this awful thread and potentially adding to it's uselessness.

I'm actually really tired of people treating "smartness" as a one-sided thing. Sure, you can measure things like IQ to get a generalized sense of one's overall (logical) intelligence, but it's much more accurate to look at it as a collection of different skills and abilities. The brilliant writer might be awful at basic algebra. The master coder might be absolute rubbish at basic chemistry. Pick several skills out of a hat and chances are that everyone is above average in at least one or two of those skills, and average and below average in the rest. Just because you're above average in one or two of these skills, maybe one of these skills is presenting information to others via an online forum, it doesn't make you above average in everything or in general.


Now the obvious thing is that you value the skills that you possess which are above average. You'll want to hone them, and likely become better at them over time. It's easy to see how a lot of people convince themselves that they're "above average" after they do this.

[Celestial Jeddak]

Oh look, a powerball simulator. Very cool.. thanks. I'll win the lottery now. I saw a video in the side videos on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqrbOa-GSgs

and another:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wJEzwGaSC8

I'm losing more faith in humanity. My thread that seems perfectly legitimate and appropriate (and I need the answer) keeps getting removed without any explanation as to why!

Why do people try to justify their existence by getting more federal notes? Hungry, much? Who would have faith in a species (and its subspecies and closely related relatives) that lives to hoard certain pieces of papers?!
I say think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmCtWskzmAQ

I have been considering holding some educational courses here on the forums (probably in useless crap). I've noticed many people have never used a dictionary.


Edit:
Let's open up a powerball thread or something!
440 years of playing and I've lost 85 grand.

[Bioture]

Allow me to derail this thread.

http://justwebware.com/powerball/powerball.html

You get a return of 12-16 cents on the dollar, when using random variables.

Have never won anything major yet.

[T3l Ca7]

What's this talk about playing the lottery? My ex-neighbor played and hit the Power Ball 2 years ago and moved away after winning (after taxes) 48 Million. I have won a few times on a pick 6 and daily lottery to the sums of $500 - 1,500. People do win ya know

LOL nobody said anything about not be able to win when playing the lottery. The original thread was about poster’s frustration on American people because he could not understand why people buy lottery when the payoff is less than one.
I was using the topic to show him that people are irrational and that some of the most basic emotions are primitive. I used the example of ant hill to express my opinion that most people like working ants, they work because that was all they were taught to do. They do their every day job without ever think about exactly what they want out of life or if there are better ways to achieve their goals.
That’s is okay for most people because like it is said that is how society operators and so far so good. But if that is all how human society works then we are no different than ants or bees. I would like to think human societies are better because we can use less time and effort to provide essentials and thus free us to undertake more interesting, innovative activities and create better things that never existed before and understand universe better.

[Celestial Jeddak]

I've lost faith in humanity ever since G.R.R.R. scammed me.

[404 Not Found]

What's this talk about playing the lottery? My ex-neighbor played and hit the Power Ball 2 years ago and moved away after winning (after taxes) 48 Million. I have won a few times on a pick 6 and daily lottery to the sums of $500 - 1,500. People do win ya know

[Zeebu]

Original text:
"scruffy looking nerf herder"
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"We have the Holy Spirit"

[Zeebu]

The moment you think you are smarter than the rest of 'em is the moment you are a fucking idiot

Original text:

"The moment you think you are smarter than the rest of 'em is the moment you are a fucking idiot"

...35 translations later, Bing gives us:

"Now, he is a crazy to sit in a quiet one."

[Supreme]

The moment you think you are smarter than the rest of 'em is the moment you are a fucking idiot