Why should we be governed? A good criminal would surrender his weapon, would thrust both his wrists forward to be handcuffed, and walk quietly with th...
Obviously, despite how bad it looks, to be g***erned is better than not to be or, more accurately, it's the lesser evil. @"schopenhauer1", this should...
The Youtube AI knows ... you inside out! Run (for your life)! :scream: and also very :cool: As for Sam Harris, I'd say his rhetorical skills are over ...
You have good taste in music mon ami! I wish I'd made time for all these other aspects of life - music, literature, etc. - that make bios worth living...
The pessimism-optimism life span paradox 1. Pessimists live longer (they don't walk into traps as easily as optimists) procreate more @"schopenhauer1"...
What is luck anyway? Is it the name we give to the set of variables tha we have no control over or is it just a synonym for our blind spot? Sometimes ...
I have a family member who's a fruitarian (subsists, at least tries to, only on fruits) and no she didn't know that's the most ethical diet ever. Why?...
@OP First off, it's rather intriguing that your response to the end times is precisely what a person diagnosed with cancer would (decide to) do. Secon...
You speak the truth! For instance a computer engineer must know machine language (1s and 0s), but here I am, typing on a virtual keyboard on my phone,...
If everything happens for a reason then, everything is meaningful, oui mon ami? I get where you're coming from, but in my humble opinion the reason wh...
Excellent post! Math has a greater range than any natural language, penetrating much, much further through the veil of Isis. It's like as if languages...
What's your take on how gravity work? Newton famously confessed his ignorance (hypothesis non fingo) in re how mass attracted mass. Albert Einstein ca...
Superb post! Here's what I know about causation: A causes B IFF 1. A and B are correlated (binary/scalar correlation, positive/negative) 2. There is n...
So it's just what some posters have been saying - at quantum scales, the notion of position/location (of particles) breaks down i.e. mapping macroscop...
The math adds up is what I'm saying and that's an awesome achievement - civilization was built on energy so understood! As for entropy, measurable as ...
The beauty, if I could call it that, is this: if the potential energy of a rock is 6 Joules, what it does/can do is fully accounted for by these 6 Jou...
Philosophers are in the demolition business. They love to tear down what others (attempt to) build because they, being perfectionists, believe there r...
Evolution is too slow and is luck-driven. We know that now. Machines have gone where no man has gone before (rovers on Mars). We seem to, for some unf...
Two extremely simple ideas - sufficiency & necessity - and look how powerful they are. They, if wIElded well can make the difference between dukkha (a...
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