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Do you happen to believe that gay people exist? Do you believe that it is possible to change sexual preference from the opposite gender to the same ge...

Apparently you've came to a conclusion that affirms your biases

Tom Storm expressed support towards transgender people, and got criticized with a dumb argument that being transgender equals to a specific set of ext...

This thread is an utter nonsense. People freely express their transphobic views, using extreme examples to make gross generalisations. Moderators enga...

“ufourf”, perhaps?

Does “different” mean “unique” here? Would aaa count as 1 or 3 characters?

Ah, it says "different". Good catch. Back to the drawing board.

This is the only “logical” answer. First, we type 3 to answer the second question, then we type 3 to answer the first question, and then we type 3 to ...

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True. That must be love. Intuitively, there is a big difference between friendship and love. Are you suggesting that there is no such difference?

How is it so? Is it a kind of intimacy that doesn't imply sexual arousal?

In practical calculations, Pi is never exact. It's is just computed to a given precision. In C++, the value of Pi is 3.14159265358979323846, which is ...

You’re making a fool of yourself, and you should be ashamed. This argument has been used a million times and it remains incredibly ignorant. Seriously...

Isn’t it true that the same can be said about auto-pilots in self driving cars? If one day Uber replaced all drivers with auto-pilots, you might be up...

Isn't it possible for an android to appease their human counterpart’s desire for romance/companionship without being conscious? A Korean man married a...

There are plenty resources on the Internet. Feel free to educate yourself.

I was trying to see if I could challenge the following logic: Is it reasonable to measure the harm of death by the amount of suffering before it becom...

:lol: I did have a point, but I found it offensive that instead of addressing it you said: "Your point is irrelevant because it goes against my point,...

Good luck with those horses!

Now you're repeating yourself without addressing my argument. Relevance? Every time someone visits a restaurant for the first time they don't know whe...

Since it's possible to come into a restaurant, enjoy a meal and leave without facing anything disgusting, it should also be possible to come into life...

Let’s say you go to a restaurant and order a course of five dishes. You’re planning to eat all of them, one after another. You can tolerate one or two...

That's a great post. You re-articulated your position well, and I feel that I understand it much better after reading it. Well done.

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? Ether one of them always existed, or it spontaneously came into existence. There are no other options. What ...

That's one standpoint. It's not so hard to challenge. We're all going to heaven. We're all going to the place of peace and calm. We reunite with the n...

What a gender-discriminatory thing to say!

Sorry, I'm not really following your argument. It seems to me that you have a small confusion about how things work, which leads you to arrive at grea...

So the anger is about the people who put up with suffering and lower states of being, isn't it? What about them makes you angry? Is it that they don't...

This is true. Our reasons tell us to do virtually anything to avoid death. You're suggesting that we should listen to our reasons. That's what we do. ...

Maybe that's why we aren't seeing other living creatures around us

Yeah, nah. They're living many light years away from you. You'll be dead by the time you can see them and the divergence.

Yeah, if you're living near the edge, you will see different things outside. But if you're living in the middle, you will see the same thing.

One at position (x0, y0), and the second at a different position (x1, y1). Everything in the observable radius R around these points is identical. Thi...

I'm assuming that both the volumes and their observable surroundings are identical. That seems far-fetched, but not impossible in an infinite universe...

Yeah, I'm talking about the single infinite 3D universe introduced in the OP: "In an infinite universe <...>". I think you contributed with the idea o...

Alright, my post about the library was "lazy", because I didn't give much thought to the OP. I referenced a similar problem without further explanatio...

In the Library of Babel, there is a book that contains a precise description of your, your past and your future. It provides details of what will happ...

It is an exercise for you to answer. I'll leave my thoughts below. The proposition is not true in the sense that you cannot prove it to be absolutely ...

Finally, a solution to the Great Filter. The humanity is saved for today.

I don't see why this should be the case. Every truth is both subjective and objective. There is objectivity in each truth, and there is an element of ...

That's a very high standard. What reasons/believes are behind this assertion? In my view, you become a musician as soon as you hit that first note on ...

How do these studies define and measure intelligence?

This reminds me of court hearings, where both prosecution and defense try to paint the most exaggerated versions events, which has little to do with t...

The pragmatical approach to knowledge doesn't see things as true or false. In order to provide an example of a falsehood, it is necessary to make a ju...

Some people argue that we shouldn't be accepting our mortality at all. They say that we already have the technology advanced enough to defeat ageing. ...

The encyclopedia says that the field of ethics involves systematizing. It doesn't say that ethics is nothing more than systematizing. It's an interest...

Unfortunately, distance between two points p1 and p2 cannot be measured at a given time t0. To measure distance, we need to move between point p1 and ...

I can play by these rules, thank you. That would make sense, but it also wouldn't tell us much :wink:

All of you must be talking nonsense. It's easy to demonstrate that nothing can change in space. How can the same thing exist in two different position...

If a human became god, they would only strive to become mortal again