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I list about 80% of the openstax books

that were of the most interest to me

and organized some in the order that

I read them during college,

or will read them in the future.

robot-human interactions

12.28: summary:
. ideas about robot-human interactions
inspired by the movie Her,
about falling in love with AI .

real sensitivity training

11.10: psy/real sensitivity training:

. I've often been perplexed at attempts by policy

to replace terms like "(the retarded)

with "(the learning challenged);

that change might have less sour memories

than anything like "(retard)

but, it is still pointing at the same class

using a different name;

ie, after a while, they will just have to

change that name too

as soon as "(the learning challenged) learn to

associate that name

with the way staff treats them or points at them .

. one real difference that policy could make

is to refer to people by their effect on others:

eg, the real issue with referring to "(the retarded)

is that the enclosing situation is sensitive to

those who are irrational, violent, protection-needy,

unsociable, or uncooperative;

and, accident-prone, or future-blind, etc .

. these are the important differences

that characterize class we are pointing at,

yet they all traits that

the clients could equally say of staff;

and, these terms of affect

place a healthy emphasis on

where you are

rather than how you got there .

11.15: pol/mongoloids, and nobody even cared:

. recalled being informed that the term "(hispanic)

is like "(mongoloid):

you don't refer to people by where they're from

because that's a baseless discriminant

since you can't draw any relevant conclusions

from just knowing where someone's ancestors were from .

. yes, and now it seems funny using mongoloid as a

euphamism for downs syndrome

since the notable feature of that disorder

is not appearing to be from mongolia

but being prone to irrational or even violent acts .

. actually the ancestors of mongolia were indeed known for

unparalleled ferocious acts of violence .

. now I see the satire of that 1980's song

with the urgent rock beat, and these lyrics:

"(

. mongoloid, he was mongoloid, and nobody even cared!

)

. the whole world is based on so much irrationality

but is backing it up with ferocious acts of violence,

and nobody gives it a second thought !

[ . to give myself as example,

I'm a livid advocate of pro-choice and death-with-dignity

but my real problem is not having more control over

reproductive machinery,

assignment of careprovider responsibilities,

and drugs that make pain worth living .

] .

center for economic literacy

11.24: web.adds/center for economic literacy:

. Powell Center for Economic Literacy is a resource for teachers and students

with lesson plans, and curricula for economics,

and information on learning opportunities in the field of economics.

see alsowww.infusionomics.com/

for aspect-inversion: integrating economics lessons into other fields .

psychology 101 for robots

8.2: psy/psychology 101 for robots:

. synchronicity can exist;

because, the supernatural is controling the emotions of everyone,

and can therefore orchestrate a plot,

by creating emotions to conform individuals to certain roles .

[12.21:

. since this supernatural orchestration is the foundation for

what people assume is "(telepathy),

I'm calling that control system the tele.net (telepathy net). ]

. the theory of tele.net makes a difference in the predictability of humans;

because, without tele.net, any synchronicity is a mere coincidence,

having an infinitesimal probability;

implying that you can depend on the occurrence happening at a random place;

whereas, with a belief in tele.net,

syncronicities can be designed to follow a plan .

. this is similar to the random mutation theory for evolution:

if the random genetic changes can be chosen by an intelligence

(presumably using the same interface

that the tele.net uses to control emotions),

then creationism can occur through evolution .

. without tele.net`control of "(random) mutations

then evolution is highly unlikely .

esp (entire software process)

6.18:

. the software process was thought to be primarily dependent on

mgt`practices;

later it was determined that personal and team processes

were also vital to software quality .

. entire process = { mgt, team, personal } .

. "(esp) is an interesting initialism

because esp (extra sensory perception) touches on a dimension of psychology

that is deliberately overlooked

due to it's being outside the bounds of experimental validation .

speed reading

psy/speed-reading:

6.7:

. the 2 issues with speed reading are:

motivation -- how to stay interested in communicating;

and, familiarity -- before one can read idioms as such

rather than subvocalized words,

one has to be familiar with the sublanguage, the jargon, or author ecentricities;

so then, one path to speed reading

is simply brute-force being well-read .

. another key task is filtering:

given my primary goals,

how much of this page is worth stopping to vocalize;

sometimes it can help just scanning pages to give your subcon'mind a taste,

hoping for inspiration upon a 2nd pass .