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Perfect use of this format. “I don’t know” is the foundation of wisdom. See: reddit where too many think they know.

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“dae I work for a tech startup and I state with absolute certainty that everything in the universe is a computer program”

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Working in neuroscience of consciousness field I feel him deeply. Although 57k sounds amazing to a Europoor

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You can basically half American salary numbers because we have to pay for a lot of stuff that Europeans usually don’t need to pay for. $57k in America is struggling if you live in a city. Anything below $40k is one car repair away from being financially ruined.

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Anything below $40k is one car repair away from being financially ruined.

You guys have cars while being poor? Sorry but seems stupid to me

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Welcome to our country that has utterly failed to invest in public transit outside of a few major cities, such that we must be dependent on cars. Love it here.

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We don’t have public transit, so we need cars… It’s part of what makes us poor…

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You are correct. We are forced to have them though. There’s no mass transit and everything is two hours away on foot. Most new cars now are $40k unless you get like a base Sentra but the median income is only $60k.

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What are we considering in vs out of city? Does in city mean just downtown, within city limits, within metro area? And what are we considering a city - 300k population?

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Less than 30 minute commute, if it’s less than that the price of housing goes up ~20% for each 5 minutes you would save.

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The biggest lesson from neuroscience: Most psychology is BS and the entire field is little better than pseudoscience.

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I think this is a very incorrect take. I don’t think neuroscience has been able to make a single claim against psychology yet, nor any real and predictable claims at all which place it above psychology in application or correctness. Psychology of course has problems, and I’m very open to discussions of issues with methods and shit. But don’t act like neuroscience has much of anything to say about it. They’re entirely tangential fields with one at the experiential level and the other at the technical/non-experience level. Common mistake of thinking you know too much from the meme

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If we weren’t talking about a brain, but instead a piece of computer software, neuroscience would be digging into the source code to figure out how it works. Meanwhile psychology is like watching a bunch of YouTube videos of people demonstrating the software.

One provides answers. The other provides guesses.

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Really? What psychology has been disproven by neuroscience? Are psyc people resisting it or are they working together? Considering how much psyc has changed the world and helped people I think the idea that it’s BS is a little strange.

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we don’t understand the brain very well, psych is somewhere between leeches and luminiferous aether.

if it was more well understood then people won’t need to go to 15 fucking different therapists before finding one that helps (if you’re lucky), antidepressants would do better than batters do at baseball, you wouldn’t need to try dozens of different medications to find one that works (if you’re lucky), and they’d take effect more quickly.

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Damn I should have been a psychologist. I’m great at BS.

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Yeah I think I’ll be subscribing to this community. Thank you for the meme.

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lemme give you a quick demonstration

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There’s a reason they call a hypothetical model that unites the standard model (quantum mechanics) and gravity (relativity) the Theory of Everything.

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