@"Hanover" There were a couple of days when you were being reasonable on this whole thing and now it's a big attack on everything scientific and almos...
It depends what we do. If we open up in an unphased and unplanned way, e.g. Georgia (which even Trump is complaining about because they're not adherin...
You're not thinking straight. Ventilators are necessary to keep people who can't breathe for themselves alive (regardless of what illness they suffer ...
@"Hanover" Would we stop using defibrillators if we found out they only worked 20% of the time? If your heart's not beating, without intervention, you...
It's not a brainstorm, which implies there's thought involved. Try this: Speculate on injecting disinfectant into someone's lungs as a treatment for C...
Sadly, many of Trump's supporters will view the increasingly obvious truth that you can never be too stupid to be President of the United States as a ...
That's the impression I got. In any case, I reckon Biden should go with Warren. I have my issues with her, but she's very sharp and might help balance...
@"ZzzoneiroCosm" Denying that humans are apes is just as wrong as denying dolphins and whales are mammals and calling them fish instead. The problem i...
To throw in another tangent: The emotions I'd initially be most interested in in the context of this model would be pride and shame, which are the mos...
Biden currently leads Trump by 6 points on RCP. If the election were held today and that's accurate then Trump would be crushed. Biden's mental declin...
Only as an exposition of how to conflate responsible behavior with timidness and stupidity with heroism. I think you know that though because, unlike ...
In order to maintain the trend they'd have to continue doing what they're doing though. Otherwise the cycle will just restart. "Key model assumptions:...
The point here (I presume) is that numbers and other mathematical entities are placeholders in systems that were originally set up because they were o...
Funny you brought up Hilbert, who was a proponent of mathematical structuralism. 'Hilbert said that in a proper axiomatization of geometry, “one must ...
Yeah, my life has been turned upside down, I used to spend all day inside working on my computer and only going out to exercise, and now I spend all d...
Incidentally, the US just recorded its highest number of daily deaths from COVID. Over 2,700 so far today. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#...
Trump: "China has been working very hard to contain the coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all...
To a large extent, Swedes are voluntarily social distancing. They are doing what other nations needed to be forced to do. When our government (in Irel...
What science do you mean? Opening up everything on May 1st would be a self-destructive move in terms of the virus unless you have a proper system of t...
I didn't dodge it. It's a false claim considering the definition of atheism is (for the very last time since I've said the same thing in different way...
Following that logic, agnosticism is the belief that there's not enough evidence to justify a belief in gods or a disbelief in them. Agnostics are at ...
In practice, for obvious reasons, people who call themselves atheists are generally aware of at least some gods and other religious concepts And there...
I'll write it for you again: "Atheism is the lack of belief in gods; the absence of belief in gods; disbelief in gods; or not believing in gods." Are ...
Summarizing my understanding of this view: there's an interpretive conceptual layer not just through which emotions pass, but which in itself is a str...
Trump took credit in his news conference the other day for the streets of New York being completely clear due to the lockdown, said it was a great thi...
Don't know how anyone could object to the freedom to kill the old and vulnerable with a deadly disease. That would kind of be like objecting to allowi...
Yes. The following is fairly salient. "No matter what their reasons or how they approach the question, agnostics and atheists are fundamentally differ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oqQgQYBWvI "As usual the major corporations are putting aside their copies of Ayn Rand and rushing to the nanny state...
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