lol yeah you scared me for a second
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
it was a proud decision on the side of maturity, but damn what a great opportunity it would have been to troll
― remy bean, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
"open-ended philosophical discussion" was mostly aimed at "Moral Foundations of Politics" since it has to do with morality
― I AM THE CROOT (crüt), Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:49 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
y u hate fun
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
i am into all of them except for Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (Yale) b/c i think evolutionary psychology is 99% poseur bullshit.
I know the term "evolutionary psychology" is associated with tons of unscientific sexist/racist/etc bullshit but I'm inclined to think that human psychology is almost entirely based on how/under what conditions we evolved!
― I AM THE CROOT (crüt), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I mean, considering the alternative explanations...
― iatee, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
Intro to Roman Architecture....except I actually had it already!.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
just a lazy vote here for not doing financial markets ones. like maybe it would be so great to do that at some point but i think the initial run should be something where getting used to the learning & lectures is offset by regaining a childlike sense of wonder at the world & its eternal questions.
― mr. vertical (schlump), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, dudes, but I'm leaning heavily toward Moral Foundations.
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
I mean would take all this classes, but for poll purposes....
i think the most interesting ppl in academia are evolutionary psychologists of some sort (tho mostly they call themselves behavioral whatever or social psychologist whatever)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://press.princeton.edu/images/k7040.gif
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
I gotta say all of these choices interest me on some level.
― I AM THE CROOT (crüt), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
Financial markets sounds good too. I can't take any more philosophy, the internet has forever tainted my interest in it.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
do financial markets imo, shiller is cool
― u0sd0ןɟ (flopson), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
voted for comp sci cause it was my nom but fully support financial markets or moral philosophy
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
we should just spin off the top two or top three
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I think we can make a decision based on the results.
― iatee, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
I'd take any of these tbh, this is a great idea. Can't wait!
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know which to vote for! tempted to do CS just because i actually did start that one but never finished it but economics and architecture are two gigantic blind spots for me....hmmm.
― sons of menarche (donna rouge), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
Hebrew bible!
― quincie, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
i frankly disbelieve a lot of the core(ish) evo-psych claims. they strike me as are specious and ultimately unsubstantiated, i.e. i don't countenance the assertion that in 2011 "gentleman prefer blondes" happens because younger healthier cavewomen with high chances of reproductive success tended to be more fair, and cavemen evolved a response to fair, slender, less-bearded ladies with a higher waist-to-hip ratio. i mistrust because, let's be honest, this is a highly culturally-based aesthetic, and innate psychological behaviors would tend to be applied with greater distribution and not just to substantiate current behaviors and preferences. a lot of of evo psych tends toward the teleological, and it's mostly non-falsifiable and non-testable. i don't doubt that in the whole field there are interesting and amazing things, but i also don't belief a lot of the chaff that's currently being bandied about. (i agree w/ crüt, for the most part).
― remy bean, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
let's play 'spot the typo' above.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
surely there is, on some level, something that men find attractive about women that is related to evolution?
― iatee, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's the vaginas.
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
don't forget the boobies!
obviously most (heterosexual-defined) men of reproductive age tend to be drawn toward women who indicate some potential for reproduction, even if there's no intention of reproducing. we're not attracted, by and large, to children and the elderly; to the sickly-skinny or morbidly obese. but the signifiers are many and varied, and individual, it benefits the continued success of the species to cultivate diversity in taste (and breeding partner) rather than depend on a few explicit indicators of beauty and reproductive readiness.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
obv i am no expert in this stuff at all, i just took a course on it
― remy bean, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
I think this kind of caveman sociology gets a lot of attention but doesn't represent a lot of the field (at least in my experience). I also truck w/ the assertion that that kind of thing can sound a lot like, "1950s stereotypes of domesticity are actually authentic original human behavior!" But there's so much in behavioral psychology that doesn't make those claims and stuff like rationality/signaling/group dynamics are really interesting. Just stay away from the justifications for why women should stay in the kitchen.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
Has anybody read 'Sex at Dawn'?
― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Tried to get it out of the lib the other day and they didn't have it, the bastards.
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
voted for financial markets
― markers, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
women should stay in the kitchen b/c their subcutaneous fat layer makes them better equipped to handle hot pans, clearly.
and men should spend as much time fishing as possible, because their beards are the perfect place to store a whole caboodle of lures and hooks.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
<3
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
Voted excitedly for the chemistry - I think a science course would be best for the whole 'learning a thing that is true' aspect, plus it's harder to get that experience from a book?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 09:06 (twelve years ago) link
remy otm about evo psych
― dayo, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
I am kind of assuming that the "what kind of women do men prefer" branch of "evolutionary psychology" is not what's being taught in that course.
― ethanol crops (not to mention arugula) for the green aristocracy (crüt), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
guys evolutionary bio is all about fruit flies iirc
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
fruit flies having s.e.x. though
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
will the chemistry class teach us how to make meth & bombs?
― HOOTERS FOOD AND BEVERAGE (Pillbox), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
The class that practically pays for itself!
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
general chemistry b/c I did so awful in it in college
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
would actually be interested in taking any of these tbh
Science and Cooking (Harvard)Intro to Hebrew Bible (Yale)Financial Markets (Yale)Moral Foundations of Politics (Yale)Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (Yale)
― HOOTERS FOOD AND BEVERAGE (Pillbox), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
so basically you're alright w/ anything as long as it's harvard or yale
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
oops, didn't mean to have a Harvard one on the list. Yale full-stop accept no substitutes!
― HOOTERS FOOD AND BEVERAGE (Pillbox), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
General chemistry because I failed it twice in college.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
i can see how all of these could possibly be interesting (or make me want to fall asleep and/or barf), but what resonates right now are Financial Markets and Moral Foundations of Politics
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
so this can also be used to suggests ways this can be run...I can 'run' the first class which means we pick a day and I'll post a link to the lecture on that day.
w/ some of these subjects there are people who know enough to answer questions. if you do, it'd be cool if you'd lurk the thread?
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
These are like podcasts, right? I can put it on my ipod and listen to it/watch it away from a computer?
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
If it ends up being comp sci I will be happy to TA.
― ilx user 'silby' (silby), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah at least for the yale ones I know there are audio-only files
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
(there are video files too)
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link