Random fashion thoughts - Page 4678

The area of the brain where self preservation is, is first fully developed at 25, so yes.

Yeah, until the frontal lobe has fully developed at whatever age, risk-reward calculations are skewed toward the reward.

The latest data indicate that teenagers are risk-insensitive (rather than skewed toward rewards), rather than risk averse which is common for adults. The prefrontal cortex is fully devloped late teens/early 20s.

Ah, interesting. Forgive my ignorance. Practically speaking, what's the difference?

isn't it 21 years which is why the drinking age is 21 in U.S.A.

The difference between being willing to do dumb things and not being willing to do them?


Here's an example young most young guys are willing to fuck dirty hipster chicks some without a condom, because they will get laid and that's the most important, older guys know that they are dirty, disgusting and fully of STD's so they wont.

No, the difference between being risk-insensitive and biased toward reward over risk.

well, being risk averse means that you would rather have a certain 10 $ than a 50-50 chance of 20 $. Seems obvious, but not accoding to classical expected utility theory (where both offers obviously has equal expected value). You underweigh the value of high risk (high variance) gambles (See Kahneman & Tverskys "prospect theory"). In practice, I guess it would look alot like being biased toward reward compared to sensible people...

Ok. So cognitively, there is a difference between being risk-insensitive and reward-biased, i.e. there are differences in the heuristics used by those who fall into each group, but the way these heuristics manifest in decision making is the same?

Knowing them, it's probably more OC than UPS, not that UPS is much fun to deal with

yeah that's what i figured, but still...

oh well, slow order is better than cancelled order

You will get an e-mail sometime next week about how your item is out of stock (they sold it to someone else).

ah crap, forgot that they did that to someone else here...

gonna call them tomorrow. thanks

This doesn't mean that you still won't end up with a closet (or a house) full of stuff and mountains of debt. It just means you'll be able to justify larger mountains of debt to yourself if you're not fiscally responsible.

I realize that you live in more of a rural environment so I can understand (but not condone) what UPS did, but that said, I am surprised at how much trouble people on SF have with couriers in general. I guess one of the benefits of living in a soulless suburb is that courier service is more stable and secure.

Anyone have any recommendations for point-and-click cameras? Think I might try to pick up something for my folks if there's anything nice on sale—doesn't need to be "baller"-status.