It's exceedingly difficult to get someone to change a deeply rooted belief in real time, but sometimes it does occur. More realistically, persuasive a...
Are Americans really this stupid? Something tells me that moneyed interests being afraid of Bernie had their hands in this... P.S. Elizabeth Warren sh...
Bernie bowed out of the race today... Congratulations everyone! Four more years of Trump! We may not be getting the candidate we wanted, but we are ge...
What's with the logarithmic scale? (technically that scale would flatten any curve i think). I've been wondering about when infections will peak in Ca...
I don't have much to disagree with other than to say it's all a matter of opinion, but I thought I would point out that it is these kinds of crises th...
I wonder if COVID-19 will result in a baby boom... People are trapped inside, some of them are in that particular the future is uncertain state. Thoug...
QM effects are already non-reversible... I suspect that this is a precision related problem that manifests between quantum granularity and the continu...
Granted the high level stuff is still up for interpretation as to how it works, but what I have laid out is the fundamental ground work upon which bas...
Wouldn't it be nice if we were vastly over-estimating the occurrence? If the tests give a false positive 3% of the time, and we rapidly increase the n...
My province is declaring a pre-emptive state of emergency tomorrow. We have about 21 cases in the province, and the local government wants some legal ...
HUZZAH! My kindred!!! Everything you said is bang on the nose! The dimensionality reduction and integration of our sensory observations is definitely ...
It means that it has no prior experience of the thing it is doing, and also that the proximal cause of the thing is not its high level thoughts. After...
For anyone else who missed it, here's the short version: The 'pecking' motion that some birds (but especially baby chickens) do is actually an automat...
Oh... I thought you asked if a decerebrated infant can walk before learning to walk. The answer is no, unless little or no learning is required for wa...
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Thanks! Boston Dynamics has some quadruped robots that aren't too bad, but it's a much more stable and simplified body, and they're still quite fail-p...
What necessities should I sacrifice in order to roll dice on wall-street? What are the least essential vitamins I wonder... If there wasn't gain to be...
Does it manifest as symptom or as a cure? And what happens when the depression ends? I'm willing to be educated here, but it's not easy to draw analog...
I'm working on a fairly advanced AI project. It has quite a lot to say about the notions in this thread... @"StreetlightX" You're right to say that th...
Nope. Let dead dogs rest in peace... Aristotle's primitive "teleology" approach to ontology is also inherently bound up in his approach to ethics. It ...
Never before have such large proportions and swaths of the honeycombs been owned or controlled by so few (this is a problem that inadvertently stems f...
I'm speaking in the broad and general sense. Stock purchasing is for day traders and portfolio managers, and yes some of their clients may win or lose...
Just want to make a quick assertion regarding wealth distribution (please challenge it if possible): Coronavirus is costing the global economy trillio...
Pandemics like our present misfortune make it pretty obvious that we ought to accept obvious and mutually shared sacrifices in freedom (like the freed...
The thought of a career corporate sycophant getting elected over the only candidate with wide spread grass-root support is repulsive, and the notion o...
Imagine calling someone a communist for supporting universal healthcare during a pandemic event that does nothing but boost the stocks of privately ow...
Prediction: If Sanders doesn't get the nomination (if Biden is shoe-horned in), then Trump will win a second term. This is arguably what happened in 2...
So when physicists create and explore hypotheses - guesses - they accept and believe them? I thought they proceeded to try and falsify them... Luckily...
Why should 'a belief in gods' be considered the only necessary and sufficient quality to be considered a theist? I'm not asking to imply an argument f...
Why not? If lacking belief in gods is the only necessary and sufficient quality to be considered an atheist, how can someone lack belief in god(s) and...
Right. This was the example of when it doesn't work as a defense. What do you mean "unnecessary"? As long as "nobody's perfect" adds something to the ...
Context. Scenario A: "I realize that this is my 19th offense your honor, but what can I say? Nobody's perfect..." Scenario B: "It's true Obama failed ...
The new Sekulow argument: "It's not fair that we never got to cross examine house witnesses, so we would spend months doing that if witnesses are call...
Trump defense lawyers arguing that a senate trial is no place for witnesses and documents is a perspicuous admission that they believe Trump is guilty...
For all the repetition that Dems are forced into, the defense team does absolutely nothing but repeat, repeat, repeat. It's like an avalanche of re-as...
Assuming that being a massive chip leader within a modern market can be used as an asset to capture a greater share of the business and profits that a...
If the elite are indeed vacuuming up most of the wealth that is created in America, then their departure would have the long term benefit of creating ...
Ultimately, the compensation and working conditions of associates are closely related to how much money Besos and the Waltons were able to extract in ...
Ultimately my point is about how it is distributed. One libertarian argument is that societal pressure will force Besos to give most of his money to c...
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