Here's the full video, it's over an hour.

http://fora.tv/2010/08/05/overturning_Prop_8_David_Boies

@chilaxe @NetRunner

I've been stupid busy all week, but would've loved to talk about this stuff with you two.

About importing poverty...have either of you heard of this thesis? I gather that it has been tested, but I haven't seen that evidence myself.

Dopamine, a pleasure-inducing brain chemical, is linked with curiosity, adventure, entrepreneurship, and helps drive results in uncertain environments. Populations generally have about 2% of their members with high enough dopamine levels with the curiosity to emigrate. Ergo, immigrant nations like the U.S. and Canada, and increasingly the UK, have high dopamine-intensity populations.


It's been cited numerous times in things I've read, including in the infamous citigroup plutonomy memos:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6674234/Citigroup-Oct-16-2005-Plutonomy-Report-Part-1

High dopamine is also associated with risk-taking. The citigroup guys were obviously citing it as though being an immigrant nation was going to save us in uncertain times. However, regardless of which theories or hypotheses you subscribe to or hear about, there's something quite different about people who emigrate. Taking that idea further, you have to separate people who emigrated en masse because of rather forced conditions (tons of Irish people during the potato famine, Polish/Lithuanian people in the early 1900s, etc) and individuals who emigrate simply because they're after more money/opportunity.

I've also read some stuff that indicates dopamine levels affect your perception of time. Schizophrenics have really high dopamine levels, which causes their internal clock to speed up, and it alters their perception of time. This is interesting in relation to the dopamine/emigration theory because of Philip Zimbardo's work on perception of time and how it relates to personality.

Plus, Zimbardo's work is just interesting, period:
http://videosift.com/video/The-Secret-Powers-of-Time
http://fora.tv/2008/11/12/Philip_Zimbardo_The_Time_Paradox

Another article about time perception with a few mentions of dopamine, drugs, etc.
http://delontin1.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/stretch-time/

Anyway, not to derail things, but it's mostly on topic with all the earlier discussion of brain stuff. I really think perception of time affects our personality in profound ways, and it's clear that brain chemistry affects our perception of time. I also think there's evidence that there can be overall brain chemistry trends in populations which have interesting implications.

Trying to get this fixed...as it is now the embed only shows the first 10 minutes and you have to click on "Watch Full Program" in the lower right corner of the video. Anyone experience this issue with fora.tv?

>> ^ant:

>> ^cybrbeast:
The full talk is also worth a watch
http://fora.tv/2010/05/22/Adam_Savage_Presents_Problem_S
olving_How_I_Do_It#fullprogram

Yeah, submit that one instead!


You can't, I have tried. They seem to only let you post the clips. If you try to do the whole episode you just get a random clip, usually the intro.

for those that needs context for this video:

On 11 December 2008, Matt Harding sarcastically revealed at the Entertainment Gathering that the videos were a hoax and that he is an actor, not a game designer, and the videos were made using animatronic puppets and extensive video editing. A month later, during the MacWorld convention, Matt revealed the "hoax about the hoax" and joked about the fact many people took it seriously and the outrage it caused. He also made it very clear that the videos he made were indeed 100% real.

>> ^cybrbeast:

The full talk is also worth a watch
http://fora.tv/2010/05/22/Adam_Savage_Presents_Problem_S
olving_How_I_Do_It#fullprogram


Yeah, submit that one instead!

The full talk is also worth a watch
http://fora.tv/2010/05/22/Adam_Savage_Presents_Problem_Solving_How_I_Do_It#fullprogram

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Full 55 minute video is on fora.tv ... or here.

>> ^Shepppard:

great, but I'd love to see this entire thing


http://fora.tv/2010/03/13/Hosts_Jamie_Hyneman_and_Adam_Savage_Talk_MythBusters#fullprogram

nevermind, seemed to start working mysteriously after visiting fora's pages

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Cool. I'm almost certain I've seen it sifted.. the cereal description rings a bell to me.

In reply to this comment by GeeSussFreeK:
Brain stuff!

http://fora.tv/2010/01/05/Jonah_Lehrer_How_We_Decide