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That’s true! Without a language we cannot communicate with others. Imagine finding yourself in a country where everyone speaks a different language. Y...
January 08, 2022 at 22:58
It’s not only the case for technology, but for organizations as well. If you have a company with more that 100 people, no single one of them will have...
January 08, 2022 at 12:49
You got it slightly wrong. If we want to use reductio ad absurdum to prove that "Time is unreal", then we need to show that the opposite scenario "Tim...
January 08, 2022 at 05:21
Does the definition of contradiction involve time? I looked in a few online dictionaries, but didn’t find any mentions of time there.
January 07, 2022 at 21:26
It's a fun paradox! Although the staircase becomes very close to a straight line, we should remember that none of its outward corners ever fall on the...
January 06, 2022 at 10:05
A lot of information security is based on cryptographically-secure randomness. Such random number generators allow you to produce sequences that other...
January 06, 2022 at 09:36
One could argue that technology is the vehicle for creating order from chaos. Think how much order is requires for the Internet to exist, and for us t...
January 01, 2022 at 21:09
That sounds very similar to our existing criminal justice system. Its goal is not to punish people, but to prevent future offences in the society. Wha...
December 31, 2021 at 20:47
If solipsism is true, you cannot obtain 100% evidence to confirm that I’m not a bot. This seems accurate to me. But I’m a man (or bot) of faith. I don...
December 31, 2021 at 14:00
That’s not 100% fair to solipsism. Would you keep posting in this thread if you learned that all participants were just AI driven bots? Some AI bots c...
December 31, 2021 at 12:52
Update: this seems to be a newbie restriction, which goes away after posting 5 times. Now I can edit my comments, yay!
December 31, 2021 at 11:57
You don't need to engage in an argument about this. What Bert is saying is that he can only experience his own consciousness and his own feelings, but...
December 31, 2021 at 10:45
Makes sense. Like axioms. We would treat them differently if we could observe different patterns of behaviour from them, or if we could reasonably exp...
December 31, 2021 at 02:40
Does it make sense to hold a virus accountable for infecting our bodies? Perhaps not, but it still makes sense to take action against it. What if the ...
December 30, 2021 at 02:45
Hi there! I won't focus too much on accountability, because I think the answer is obvious: yes, we should keep holding each other accountable. Practic...
December 29, 2021 at 23:08
I wrote a comment about what makes the question of free will matter and how we should be looking at it to avoid going in circles. I also agreed that w...
December 29, 2021 at 23:08