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That isn't what you were saying before
October 02, 2023 at 18:33
Please read this https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/07/28/what-crimes-was-trump-charged-with-in-federal-documents-case-heres-what-to-know-...
October 02, 2023 at 18:24
you keep saying "that statute". He has multiple charges. Which statute are you referring to as "that statute"?
October 02, 2023 at 18:15
You said he's only being charged with witness tampering. Your only argument to support that is that you're not a lawyer and therefore are unqualified ...
October 02, 2023 at 18:07
please be specific. Right now it seems immensely clear to me that he's being charged with numerous things other than intimidating witnesses, and it's ...
October 02, 2023 at 17:32
Do you have any resources to demonstrate why you think he's being charged with just witness tampering? https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/aug/02/...
October 02, 2023 at 16:56
Michael gave a nice answer. As far as I can tell, witness tampering isn't even one of the charges.
October 02, 2023 at 16:41
No, I think you're misinterpreting a whole lot if you think that's the meat of Trump's alleged crimes. That may be ONE of Trump's crimes, I guess, tho...
October 02, 2023 at 16:36
You think the crime Trump is being charged with is Witness Tampering?
October 02, 2023 at 16:27
That's just a claim that their methods to find "truths" conflict, which needs to be distinguished from the idea that the truths themselves conflict.
October 02, 2023 at 15:26
It's because it's politically motivated, which makes sense - it's conservative Revenge, in Trump's own words. Dems dared to hold Trump responsible for...
October 02, 2023 at 15:15
it means whatever China is actually doing, that isn't communism, is "workable" by some metric. Though almost certainly not optimal
October 02, 2023 at 07:10
not practice really, we both know that. It's not communist in practice.
October 02, 2023 at 07:09
I'm glad you pointed out China is really just a perverse form of capitalism. China doesn't really prove anything in favour of or against communism, im...
October 01, 2023 at 19:28
I think your approach is promising, but I also think it's at least currently incomplete. "Consciousness is just computation", while I agree is actuall...
September 25, 2023 at 17:24
If you assume anything is primitive, you can answer the same "how" question. How does consciousness arise? It's primitive. How does life work? It's pr...
September 25, 2023 at 10:04
I have the opposite intuition - doesn't a physical structure require a framework of sorts? And one would think mathematical (or computational/algorith...
September 24, 2023 at 09:27
The strength of a conspiracy theory decreases the more people you need to be in on the lie. Climate Change as a conspiracy theory needs the vast major...
September 24, 2023 at 09:07
"Follow the money". Fantastic advice. Let's follow the money for your source. https://climateinvestigations.org/heritage-foundation/ https://www.thegu...
September 24, 2023 at 09:03
it's a good question, and even though I feel like I have an intuitive understanding of the idea, I don't think I could express it clearly myself. It's...
September 23, 2023 at 21:06
When I said it's not like we can explain it with something else, that wasn't an ontological statement - that wasn't me saying, ontologically, i KNOW n...
September 23, 2023 at 16:37
That's of course fine for you to think that, but your question was 'why should we suppose?' and the answer is 'because everything we can sense and det...
September 23, 2023 at 16:33
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the question, but my impulse is to answer that we've seen physical brains by opening up skulls. That's why I suppose they...
September 23, 2023 at 14:46
I like this response. I don't really jive with the logic that "science doesn't have a complete account of consciousness, therefore science will never ...
September 23, 2023 at 14:23
I'm just directly responding to the question of evidence. I think the hard problem of consciousness IS a hard problem. I don't disagree with you that ...
September 23, 2023 at 13:09
A pretty simple piece of evidence is how frequently we observe that changes in matter produce changes in consciousness. Drugs are an example. The chan...
September 23, 2023 at 11:57
Sounds remarkably similar to max Tegmarks mathematical universe. It seems to me to also imply a sort of mathematical causality - if these numerical va...
September 23, 2023 at 08:43
Ok so you realise it was your idea to do that, so let me just reiterate how inappropriate is for you to complain to me about how bad your idea was. If...
September 23, 2023 at 05:10
I think you should just let go of the "force" wording. When someone disagrees with you, on a philosophy forum of all places, they are not "forcing" yo...
September 22, 2023 at 20:13
this is very funny If you feel like you're being forced to believe something because someone says something you disagree with, yes I think you need to...
September 22, 2023 at 19:50
I suppose that's an accurate description, but it was focused trolling with a purpose. I'm demonstrating the absurdity of the claim you made that you'r...
September 22, 2023 at 19:31
I just wanted to discuss who is forcing you to think a certain way. You said it was me. If I didn't make you feel threatened, did I physically harm yo...
September 22, 2023 at 18:13
sounds like a fascinating read. Too many articles behind paywalls these days.
September 22, 2023 at 16:30
Fighting bad guys can feel terribly biased when the guy I want to win happens to be the bad guy.
September 22, 2023 at 16:16
I'm sorry for using force on you. Did I harm you or did I just make you feel threatened that harm would happen?
September 22, 2023 at 15:41
If someone forcing you to believe that? By what means are they forcing you to believe that?
September 22, 2023 at 15:16
That podcast I linked before - if you don't want to listen to the whole thing, the most relevant bit is between 20min - 35min. They're talking about t...
September 22, 2023 at 15:01
I interpreted our exchange in exactly the opposite way. I never told you there's all these obvious problems with whatever your world view is. You said...
September 22, 2023 at 14:44
I respect your opinion.
September 22, 2023 at 14:30
If you're interested in hearing a couple scientists talk about it casually, and wildly speculate far beyond that, this is pretty good: https://spotify...
September 22, 2023 at 14:21
I've made as much sense of it as I'm going to. If you don't understand the intuitive notion that the rules by which reality evolves from past states t...
September 22, 2023 at 14:18
There probably isn't a point, I said upfront that I'm not capable of convincing you nor would I even want to. Most people don't see the would this way...
September 22, 2023 at 14:01
no, I don't see a problem. I don't think there is any explicit problem with the idea. I think you may not like the idea for your own philosophical rea...
September 22, 2023 at 13:27
They somehow think that republican leaders harping on ad nauseum about how mail in voting is untrustworthy and every voter should come vote in person ...
September 22, 2023 at 13:00
You must be insensitive to your own rudeness. That's understandable, most people have an easier time perceiving other people's rudeness than their own...
September 22, 2023 at 12:31
Can you speak plainly please? I don't want to guess at what the fuck you're talking about.
September 22, 2023 at 11:40
A good representation of what? You keep saying things like "inadequate" or "not a good representation". Some measurements are adequate for some purpos...
September 22, 2023 at 11:24
not any bells relevant to the conversation, care to fill in the blanks? He voted by mail before he was president.
September 22, 2023 at 10:24
you have two examples to the contrary and that doesn't give you pause. If making it easier to vote were good for conservatives, why in the world did D...
September 22, 2023 at 09:47
Bingo. These guys see that when voting is made easier, a lot of people vote left. They see this as evidence of corruption on the left, they completely...
September 22, 2023 at 08:31