intro to 77 (yale)
― iatee, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
classes I've already basically taken:
General Chemistry (Berkeley)European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present (Berkeley)Intro to Computer Science (Harvard)
shit I would just, like, read a book about instead of taking a university-level class about it:
Intro to Roman Architecture (Yale)Science and Cooking (Harvard)Moral Foundations of Politics (Yale)Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (Yale)
things I would prefer to study in a collegiate environment:
Intro to Hebrew Bible (Yale)Financial Markets (Yale)
― I AM THE CROOT (crüt), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
Financial Markets sounds awful to me which means it's probably the one that I should do but I don't wanna!
― will eat pudding (ENBB), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
I prefer my university courses to be dry and information-dense rather than open-ended philosophical discussions
― I AM THE CROOT (crüt), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
well none of them are going to be open-ended discussions; they're all lecture classes!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
well the thread will be the open-ended discussion! ideally
― iatee, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:47 (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, 27 September 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
I just watch tons and tons of TED talks.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
most interested in
Moral Foundations of Politics (Yale)
most in need of financial markets but it'd wreck me
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
don't forget advanced bikery
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
in what way do i need to know how to ride a bike
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
i am into all of them except for Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (Yale) b/c i think evolutionary biology is 99% poseur bullshit.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
okay wait i typed the wrong word up there, meaning 'psychology' instead of 'biology' but i was kinda tempted to let it stand and let people think i was a closet creationist
― remy bean, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
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
― 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
n@pster for t3xtb00kz
― iatee, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
absolutely no moral qualms w/ that, college textbook market is pretty indefensible
― iatee, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
My wife has shovelled out something close to $500 in textbooks for the one class she is taking at community college this semester.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
Just bein' maybe paranoid, but we might want to deindex or go more private if we're in the ahem grey areas of textbook acquisition. Prob no thing but academic publishers can be aggressive.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Friday, 30 September 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― iatee, Friday, 30 September 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
That is sound advice, woof.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 30 September 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
i think i might be interested in doing a course when another one picks up but i think i don't want to do any of the ones listed on the first round! does anyone want to take the class called "death" from yale? lol
― kim tim jim investor (harbl), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
I watched about 60% of that like a year ago
some interesting stuff and a cool professor tho unfortunately no answer w/r/t meaning of life
― iatee, Monday, 23 January 2012 01:36 (twelve years ago) link