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And it turned out to be that for this group of 34 people, 结果显示，刚刚的34位年轻人， the algorithm based on semantic coherence could predict, 透过这个语义连贯性算法， with 100 percent accuracy, who developed psychosis and who will not. 预测谁会精神错乱的正确率达到百分之百。 And this was something that could not be achieved not even close 目前临床上所有测量方式都无法达到、 ...
No, we need to be polite about differences. 不一定，我们只是需要礼貌地对待另一方 Politeness is a much-overlooked virtue. It's seen as hypocrisy. 有时候礼貌都被我们忽视了。有时候我们觉得那是虚伪 But we need to get to a stage when you're an atheist 如果你是个无神论者，而有个人对你说 and someone says, "Well you know, I did pray the other day," you politely ign...
According to the BBC and the Chinese government's press release, 根据BBC和中国政府的官方消息 January 2015 saw a peak of Cesarean sections. Why? 2015年1月迎来了剖腹产的高潮。为什么？ That was the last month for the Year of the Horse. 因为这是马年的最后一个月。 It's not because they like horses so much, 并不是大家喜欢生肖马 it's because they try to avoid having unl...
Forced labor does occur in many industries, 强制劳动在很多国家都屡见不鲜， especially those where the workers are migrants or otherwise vulnerable, and this needs to be addressed. 尤其发生在移民劳工和其他弱势群体中，这是一个需要解决的问题。 But it's best addressed with legislation targeting those specific abuses, not an entire industry. 但是最好立法，直接针对特殊的受虐待...
Now, that's the way a lot of people feel about consciousness. 好了，那就是很多人对意识的感觉。 Real consciousness is not a bag of tricks. 真正的意识不是魔术师的口袋 If you're going to explain this as a bag of tricks, 如果你把它解释为魔术师的口袋， then it's not real consciousness, whatever it is. 那它就不是真正的意识，不管它是什么。 And, as Marvin said, and as ot...
The two really bad ideas that are hovering in the modern world 在当代世界有两个特别糟糕的想法 that inhibit our capacity to draw strength from art: 他们抑制了我们在艺术里获得力量的本领 The first idea is that art should be for art's sake — a ridiculous idea — 第一，艺术就为了艺术而存在 –说起来很荒谬 — an idea that art should live in a hermetic bubbl...
Now as engineers, we think of this as straight-up miniaturization. 作为工程师，我们认为这个就是直接微型化。 You took a big thing and you made it little. 你带来一个大东西并且把它变小。 But what I told you before about computers was that they transformed our lives 但是我之前提到了电脑改变了我们的生活， when they became small enough for us to take them everywhere. 它们小到我们...
I've got a confession. I love looking through people's garbage. 坦白地说，我喜欢翻看别人丢弃的垃圾。 Now, it's not some creepy thing. 这可不是什么怪癖。 I'm usually just looking for old electronics, stuff I can take to my workshop and hack. 我通常只是寻找旧的电子器件，那些我可以带回工作室进行改装的东西。 I do have a fetish for CD-ROM drives. 我尤其痴迷于光盘...
I'd like you to come back with me for a moment to the 19th century, specifically to June 24, 1833. 我希望先带你们回到19世纪，确切地说回到1833年6月24日。 The British Association for the Advancement of Science 英国科学促进协会正在剑桥大学， is holding its third meeting at the University of Cambridge. 召开第三届大会。 It's the first night of the meeting, 会议举办的第一...
This is actually a courageous talk, 这真是一个无畏的演讲 because you're kind of setting up yourself in some ways to be ridiculed in some quarters. 在某些地方你似乎把自己当成了一个笑柄让大家嘲弄啊 You can get shot by both sides. 不管怎么说我都有可能被批评 You can get shot by the hard-headed atheists, and you can get shot by those who fully believe. 我可以被固执的无神论者...
I'm going to speak today about the relationship between science and human values. 今日我要讨论科学和人类价值观之间的关系 Now, it's generally understood that questions of morality — questions of good and evil and right and wrong — 我们一般认为有关道德问题，善恶对错的概念 are questions about which science officially has no opinion. 是科学所不能解决和参与讨...
Sometimes we may find that we don't take care of ourselves. 有时候我们对自己太狠。 I find, for example, after a period of pseudo-extroverted behavior, 我发现自己在假装外向性格一段时间之后， I need to repair somewhere on my own. 我需要自己躲起来疗伤。 As Susan Cain said in her "Quiet" book, 就像苏珊·凯恩在《安静》这本书中所写， in a chapter that featured the str...
We have historical records that allow us to know how the ancient Greeks dressed, 我们有历史纪录可循，可以让我们知道古希腊人如何穿着、 how they lived, how they fought, but how did they think? 如何生活、如何打仗，但他们如何思考呢？ One natural idea is that the deepest aspects of human thought 有一个很自然的方法就是，去探索人类最深层的想法 our ability to imagine, to be consciou...
Fear of law enforcement makes them work alone in isolated locations, 对制定法律的恐惧，让她们在僻静的角落孤独的工作 and allows clients and even cops to get abusive in the knowledge they'll get away with it. 遭受客人们甚至警察的虐待，因为他们可以逍遥法外。 Fines and criminal records force people to keep selling sex, rather than enabling them to stop. 罚款和犯罪记录逼迫她...
Indeed, Rensink's subjects took only a little bit more than a second to press the button. 是的，Rensink的实验对象仅仅花了一秒多一点点的时间来按下按钮。 Can you see that one? 2.9 seconds. 这个能看到吗？2.9秒。 How many don't see it still? 多少人仍然没有看到？ What's on the roof of that barn? It's easy. 那个谷仓的屋顶上有什么？简单吧。 Is it a bridge or a dock?...
Now, when we think about changing human nature, 那么，当我们考虑改变人类本质时， the first thing that comes to mind are these human modification technologies 首先想到的便是那些人类改造技术 growth hormone therapy, cosmetic surgery, 荷尔蒙生长疗法，整容手术， stimulants like Ritalin, Adderall, anti-depressants, anabolic steroids, artificial hearts. 如利他林，安非他命缓释剂之类...
New Zealand hasn't actually seen an increase in the amount of people doing sex work, 尽管无罪化让她们在新西兰从事更加安全。 but decriminalizing it has made it a lot safer. 性工作的人数并没有上升。 But the lesson from New Zealand isn't just that its particular legislation is good, 但是新西兰的故事并不能说明其特殊的立法是好的， but that crucially, it was written in col...
At worst, possession — that he'd been seized by an evil jinn, 往坏处想，他被邪恶的神怪附身了 a spirit out to deceive him, even to crush the life out of him. 要来欺骗他，甚至来取他的性命 In fact, he was so sure that he could only be majnun, possessed by a jinn, 事实上，他非常肯定他只是恶魔附身，被神怪占有 that when he found himself still alive, his first impulse was...
Still, some boundaries are larger than others. 然而，有些领域的边界更为宽广 So a human encountering the divine, as Muslims believe Muhammad did, 所以当人类遇到了神性时，正如伊斯兰教徒相信穆罕默德一样 to the rationalist, this is a matter not of fact but of wishful fiction, 对于理性主义者来说，这并不是事实，而是一厢情愿的想像 and like all of us, I like to think of myself as ra...
And if we're more concerned about our fellow primates than we are about insects, as indeed we are, 如果和昆虫做比较，我们比较关心我们自己的物种 it's because we think they're exposed to a greater range of potential happiness and suffering. 那是因为我们认为我们比昆虫能感受到更大程度的快乐或痛苦 Now, the crucial thing to notice here is that this is a factual claim: ...