Agent Smith

All that I can say is that a logician's moves are those that make victory necessary while a non-logician's moves are those that make victory possible.

Would I be correct if I were to say that your metaphysics (ontology, etc.) is grounded in epistemology (information/knowledge)? Lest I forget, :up: fo...

Those whose answer to the OP's query is no! are under the (false?) impression that abstaining (from voting) implies/is tantamount to undermining/rejec...

Maledictionem bonitatis: Having to be immoral to survive (re ought implies can) and never being able to forgive yourself for that (re conscience).

One of the many puzzles I haven't been able to solve. Do we (really) need to know sorrow in order to understand joy and vice versa? In a sense knowing...

Danke! What do you have to say about the following? If life is hell, even hardcore natalists will support antinatalism. If life is heaven, even dyed-i...

:up: Yep, and math has proven itself as the master key of sorts, unlocking doors to rooms in the house of wisdom that were previously out of bounds.

And the conscription officer goes "just the kinda person we wuz lookin'for! Welcome to the army." Wanting to be a soldier is exactly the kinda mindset...

Any studies to back up the claim that being good at Connect 4 implies proficiency in logic? Speaking for myself, there's more to logic/rationality tha...

Google definitions Mathematize /?ma?(?)m?t??z/ verb regard or treat (a subject or problem) in mathematical terms. "Keynes resisted attempts to be over...

So, being a grunt (expendable) is the price some young men & women are willing to pay in order to see their dreams, some of which you listed in your p...

It completely slipped my mind that Buddhism has an interesting story to tell about the probability of sentient life (being born aa a human). The Turtl...

Yeah, on target! One has to care for conscience to do its damage to the psyche, but it's precisely because one doesn't care that one is unethical/immo...

I sympathize with your views if only for the reason that coders have been creating virtual worlds (e.g. video games) since the 1990s and, in line with...

Well, I suggest that we google for articles that contain study results on motivations for joining the armed forces. That's what a nerd would do, oui m...

Indeed the (mathematical) method I propose is far from perfect, but it's much better than what we have at present - wild shots in the dark!

We don't need to be certain, a high likelihood of a happy/sad life (9 to 1 odds for example) should be good enough to make a decision as to whether to...

Existence over Nonexistence Asymmetry 1. All suffering. Would prefer nonexistence. 2. Suffering > Happiness. Ditto. --- 3. Suffering = Happiness. Woul...

An attempt at explainin' how math can help make the case for antinatalism. On average, poor people have larger families than rich folks. Suppose the r...

Well, uncertainty can be quantified and that's mathematical probability. So we begin with doubt/uncertainty; e.g. it's possible that the world is a si...

The tragedy of infantrymen (grunts) is that everybody, including they themselves, knows they're basically expendable cannon fodder and yet people by t...

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That's incorrect. I thought I'd never say that in my entire life! Danke for the opportunity, danke Herr Tate.

You have no choice in the matter, you havta a choose! :snicker: A contradictio in terminis.

Breaking down (simplification) seems simpler than building up (complexification). It's easier if we look at it as losing qualities rather than gaining...

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Voter turnouts, even in the most democratic of countries, is never 100%. I don't see an issue here. In the UN general assembly and security council, a...

I'm sorry, I don't quite follow. If I can show that the probability of a child's life being miserable is 90%, does this info not help the would-be par...

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Pardon? Continuing with the example of antinatalism, why would you not mathematize the problem? The issue is by and large about uncertainty, just what...

EnFormAction is an attempt to scientize the almost universal intuition, as evidenced by creation stories in all cultures, of a primum movens (first ca...

I see. :up:

If happiness & sorrow are wholly subjective then true, we can't/shouldn't decide for/think for others. Howevr, if there's some objectively measurable ...

Many games we play at casinos and gambling dens have odds of a win less than 90%. The stakes may not be as high as one's very life though. The mathema...

I'm sure Google can help you out in searching for instances of life's self-correcting feature. Nevertheless, you're right on the money that this abili...

In my humble opinion, the biosphere is able to self-correct any perturbations from the equilibrium point. There's this concept in physiology termed ho...

Have you seen climate records, as read from Antarctic ice cores? They tell a story of not one but many CO2 crises that resolved themselves without any...

I beg to differ.

As long as there's an epistemic gap between a description of eating ice cream and actually chowing down on one, I believe gnosis won't go away. Reader...

Has anybody looked at the climate change issue from a taijitu (yin-yang) perspective? As per Laozi, the founder of Taoism, the solution to a problem i...

The horror! Sounds like a blockbuster movie plot themed on/around cybercrime.

The antinatalism-natalism problem will be settled for good once we can calculate the probability of a future child ending up down in the dumps or on c...

:rofl: That matches a description of me!

Well, it's just a feeling, an intuition you could call it. Can't name any particular idea that looks promising except for these two: 1. BothAnd (Yin-Y...

Yeah, these are some of the other possibilities which Lewis (conveniently) fails to take measures against. It's just how the game is played I suppose.

I still say Gnomon is onto something. I hope he takes your criticisms positively and responds appropriately.

A quick question: Did we evolve from bacteria/viruses (complexification/bottom-up) or did bacteria/viruses evolve from us (simplification/top-down)?

Political fatalism: Even if Russian hackers hadn't leaked sensitive Hillary Clinton emails, Trump would've won the elections.

Well, if you're lookin' to boost yer ego, you came to the wrong place! It even feels like we were sent here, to this universe, to be put in our place:...