Comprehensive Input: Stephen Krashen, Steve Kaufmann, LingQ
https://www.lingq.com/?referral=Norman_Schultz
(Commission Link) – I actually do not know what I receive, but ‘hey’ you can support me or not
The original Video on how you should learn a language
Best explanation of how to use LingQ
Comprehensible Input
Grammar is interesting but should not be overdone
The universal feature of all learning is a focus on comprehensible input
The Power of Reading
Some Summary
- Interesting Stories about his workouts with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Baudrillard – Simulation and Simulacra
Playlist
The Simulacrum
Simulation: A painter draws a horse that is so real that it cannot be distinguished from a hourse
Arguments:
- During the media “explosion of events”, any event has a “contra-positive”
- Every event is staged (eg. war is reduced to TikTok, Instagram, or news)
- The line between marketing, news and truth is impossible to discern (eg. Sylvester Stallone is in the hall of fame of boxing)
- Reality becomes the hyper-real
- The signs of disaster are pictures to be consumed
- The media create copies: non-events that are easily digested
- We become complicit in disinformation campaigns, we enjoy deception
- We dictate the screen, are the editor, and subscriber
- If we search long enough we will believe in any event as truth
Notes
- Did you lose contact with reality?
- Isn’t writing already a virtual reality?
- Everything conceals nothing
Introduction from “Then and Now“
- What is the Real?
- Abstracts for exchange
- “The Shift”
- The recycling of lost ideas (Jogging instead of walking)
Almost Weekly (05/22) – Update – News on Artificial Intelligence, Star-Trek-Talks, A series on Pike: Strange New Worlds, Badiou
AI – Video (from Digital Engine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgFtjfO_7Q
- Can generate realistic Images of humans
- GoogleAI can understand and explain jokes now (better than GPT-3)
- OpenAI can create images from text descriptions
- Can change images according to your description
- AI is better than human artists creating art in seconds
- AI creating comics
- AI can bring photos to life
- can take photos and create maps from it
Video talks more about: machine advancements, automation, robotaxis, are we approaching “the age of abundance”
“the future is here, it is not equally distributed”
A Comparison between Star Trek Discovery and Star Trek – Next Generation
Pike (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)
Bible-Man (basically Jesus was already a super hero fantasy)
Badiou – Being and Event, Documentary and Reading
My 10 Rules for Life
- Sleep (8 hours)
- Low Fat, Low Sugar
- Sport
- Friendship/Family
- Learning
- Work
- Love
- Meditation
- Art
- Freedom
- Body
- Soul
- Meditation
- Friendship
- God
- Spirit
- Teaching
- Finances
- Society
Christopher Nolan
The Missing Key to Understanding Christopher Nolan (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90m6Hb6_j20)
What is the ideology of Nolan’s movies?
- Non-chronological movies
- Characters are engaged in deception
- Characters cannot obtain knowledge of objective reality
- “Reality is constructed in our mind” It is subjective
- Our memory is a collection of notes and ideas
- Embrace the existential meaning of our subjectivity
- “We have to live as if some things are true” a Kierkegaardian “leap of faith”
- Acknowledgment of beliefs allows to look inwards
How Nolan writes (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZJi_78XUVg)
- A Story that is a labyrinth
- Cross-Cutting: Shepard Effect utilized from music, a corkscrew effect, a continuing rise (Inter-cutting Scenes)
- Scene-Geography
- Doesn’t use zoom-lenses, changes performances
- Real locations (the texture of real life)
Death of a Star
- Celebrities are nowadays more accessible, thus more human
- The status of being a star is levelled?
- Social Media celebrates the normal people
People who have no skills and accidentally became famous
Everyone could do it - See Colin and Samir
“I am a Brain in a Vat”
Why does the sentence have to be false?
Putnam’s Argument
- Can we say: “Brains in a Vat”?
- The idea causes a contradiction: We can only be brains in the vat within in the current simulation
- Thus, the sentence does not represent reality but represents whatever is in the simulation
- It follows that we are not brains in a vat
Note
Does from that follow that we are not exposed to another form of exposure?
Speed Cleaning
General Rule: 10-Minutes-Cleaning every day should be enough to have a clean house
Motivational Cleaning Video
Speed Cleaning Tipps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Qkg7Qm3RY
- “Time is a non-renewable resource”
- Clean in an S-Shape
- Use a flashlight to check for crumbs
- Don’t clean surfaces twice
- Get a clean-up-basket with items
- Spray things, let it soak, do other things, then clean
- First tidy up, then clean
- Clean from top to bottom
- Set a 15 Minute Timer
- Set a timer
- Spray first, wipe from top to buttom
For Professional Amateurs:
Tipps
- Get a cleaning apron
- Get bigger sponges and bigger mops
How to Mop
How to put on Clean Gloves (Looking for a hack)
- I need answers for that one
Imaginary Objects (Meinong)
Meinong:
- Absistence – Anything you can think about (“Meinong’s Jungle”)
- Subsistence – things like numbers – just that in the physical world
- Existence – empirical world things
Universes of Discourse
- “you’re holding your mind an incredible number of propositions that are specific to different universes and figuring out exactly what would be true if those universes were combined”