The "Maximum Degree" has two interpretations, and they are being abused in the example. There is a sorted maximum of a sample set, the top dog There i...
I'm not so sure the notion 'unfalsifiable' represents a true or false state, but rather some in-between condition that hasn't resolved to a boolean ye...
Hello Alen, my name is Jonathan Wooldridge, a retired cook and hobbyist game designer. A snowflake is a marvel of organization out of chaos. I suggest...
I know that choice of a particular computer language makes some problem solving tasks easier to comprehend and implement, while making other tasks mor...
No, infinity is not a quantity it is a direction on any scale in which it is listed as a measurement. East is not a location, destination, or even an ...
I find the definitions for good/bad as equality to be too narrow for a robust treatment. So I'll offer another definition of good/bad: Good that which...
Imagine for a moment how a blood cell has no conception of a human body, just the veins it travels in and it's own job within that stream. The same ca...
Since you were bold enough to post a budget pie, I feel obliged to do the same. I'm on a program called ABD which is the step before SSI, granting $19...
The question appears to be asking how to spend other people's money. Food stamps already have a long litany of opinions on what should not be allowed,...
The use of pain response as a behavioral modification program in systems of law fails to grasp frequency of individual experience as a factor in learn...
All I see is the use of the boolean operator AND, which implies there are four possible states. G_1: sentence is true but not provable <-- this was of...
Missing from the picture is contributing factors. If laws are meant to contribute deterrance, then surely we can assume that provocation toward an ill...
Rolling 2d6, there are 11 possibilities, , and 36 probabilities (chances). Only 1 chance to get the possible 12 outcome, but six chances to get the ou...
Probabilities and what follows from an act are the same thing, just with a different count of repetitions. A 1% chance of something happening is ident...
Planck time is a unit of measure, and a theoretical one at that. I have yet to see anything measured in units of planck time, which sort of makes it u...
The smallest unit of measure for time is Plank time, the 'distance' between two states of the universe wherein something changed. And that of course d...
That which cannot (yet) be measured is difficult to even think about. A good example is rolling a pair of dice. The assertion that the outcome set is ...
I'm of the opinion that if there is a conflict between an assertion and rational thought, then rational thought wins, and I believe that theism is poo...
Some tips: "Evil" is a word that used to mean being of two minds on a subject, a synonym for ambivalent. "Good" can be thought of as the summary asses...
"the golden rule" should probably be stated explicitly in the first post rather than assumed to be known. The same way acronyms should be spelled out ...
What if we asked the question "was this attempted murder unethical?" Re-framing the question in terms of a past incident seems to cause more considera...
At the atomic level, I'm defining good as that which contributes to survival and therefore continues to exist, while bad is that which does the revers...
I don't know where "false pretense" came from, but I do claim my decision contained the purest and most essential form of good/bad that there is: Surv...
If I kill you and take your money then that's good for me. Unless I get caught, then that's bad for me. Chances of being caught are pretty high in mod...
Design, as you've deftly pointed out is not used in the traditional sense, but as a somewhat more poetic passive culling-the-herd design rather than a...
Since the topic of emergent behavior seems to have closed, maybe we can move on. If I go to the trouble of putting down in print any specific thing th...
I believe that we can model the process of arriving at a confidence threshold with a very simple formula: https://s6.postimg.org/n89fqf1rl/prediction....
That is not a test of the researcher's present knowledge, it is a test of a system wherein there is unknown state that we happen to know beforehand so...
If you wish to resort to religion and belief then you're welcome to do so. I do think they have a valid place in both society and our individual lives...
Test any of the following scenarios: If the mass of an entire planet were to suddenly wink out of existence, then ... gravity waves If we had some exo...
Yes, that captures the basics of the question. As another example, roll two dice and look for a sum of thirteen. We know beforehand that result isn't ...
Challenge accepted :P Let's develop a sample set of instances of mermaid sightings and/or findings. As the collection of samples grows we begin to not...
That sounds good; have you noticed a proliferation of women dreaming of being overpowered and dominated? Are there too many nice guys around? Will fea...
On the topic of skepticism, I think we should get the people who say "If we squeezed the entire mass of the earth down to the size of a marble then bl...
Did intelligence happen in one evolutionary pass, or has it been an ongoing series of improvements over the course of history? I suggest it's the latt...
I notice "the singularity" was restated as applying to technology, and the question of when mankind reached that point was avoided. If the singularity...
Entropy Entropy is the complementary antithesis of order, a synonym to disorder and disarray. A snowflake melting, exothermic release of energy, a bat...
And the result of an intelligent system is feedback; her memory is updated to include that outcome. So her confidence in that outcome has gone down a ...
I'm not seeing a need for a meta-language; but the repetition of an identical perspective is somewhat less than revealing. "That is a tree" is a true ...
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