You give people respect by making a well thought, informative response to their questions. I think your first answer is the way one should answer any ...
Really? You think Ron Paul is a fascist? How bizarre. First ever??? What happened to Clement Attlee? https://c8.alamy.com/comp/F22H7G/1945-evening-sta...
She was neither. I would say she was a writer that more of right-wing libertarian conservative who invented her own philosophy of objectivism, which t...
That is an interesting topic, the idea of "bunker buster" nuclear weapons. Well, you had the tactical nuclear recoilless rifle Davy Crockett in servic...
Teaching and education isn't actually the same thing as science. Those that want to make their own beliefs and ideologies more credible by resorting t...
No. Nuclear weapons are for last resort. Hence every nuclear armed country also has a conventional army. The UK actually didn't even need to spend on ...
But it is a physical machine that does run a program if it works. It doesn't abruptly change it's software and decide to do something other that the p...
No. In fact those wars show quite the opposite what you say. Nuclear weapons indeed are weapons of last resort. What these moments shows is that decis...
Yes, it's widely known that 6 or 7 year old children sexually harass adults of the other gender in restrooms, so I guess StreetlightX has the only via...
You see, there is the issue of HOW you use a weapon and from what is the weapons platform. These are extremely important issues here. It's not compari...
I remember one person that actually started this thread saying in the opening paragraph: Nope, you couldn't resist being yourself! :grin: Oh that evil...
I think the Israelis favour more their own Iron Dome system than a missile that actually was developed in the 1950s. But then again, the to be interce...
A telecom satellite is a bit different than a satellite that has to somehow destroy a man size object flying something like 20 000 km/h. As I said, th...
Sure, just to bring up few issues: 1) In order to stay in orbit at LEO, a satellite has to go something like over 27 000 km/h. Hence it's not in one s...
Really? Just observe what the discussion of decolonizing the education system has been in let's say in South Africa. It really has been a discussion o...
This is the, should I say "politically incorrect" and taboo-like, argument that when publicly said will get more flak than the US bombers over Germany...
Actually it's extremely difficult if not practically impossible even now. What exists are only the clumsy video graphics of laser interceptors in spac...
Helpful advice: don't get angered about the most heated debate or the most ignorant or ludicrous comments (especially from students that don't know mu...
Because we live in our currently "most advanced state" of human knowledge. And the algorithm churning Turing Machines are at the present the thing we ...
Because we simply know how in the end a very mechanical device called a computer works. That's the answer. We surely can make that leap. What does tha...
Traditions like belief in there existing witches and black magic. How noble traditions have been destroyed by science. The ugly (ghasp!) Eurocentric /...
It's sad, but this can be a likely outcome. Hyper-polarization, apt word to describe the situation. It's only the historians later that will rip to Tr...
Nice. So what's your problem with that? So why then the ferocious attempt to link terrorism and political correctness? What's the link? Let's rewind I...
What they see is that when you "Science is not western, it is a method used to collect data." is that you don't even see the dominance of Western scie...
Harry, how does your mind work? How do you prove rigorously that you are conscious? What is consciousness? It's evident from philosophical debate that...
The problem with those crying about "Western" science being colonial, oppressive, against minorities and other cultures and obviously dominated by the...
That really isn't how any academic field works, sorry. Schools of thought have their natural lives and if they fall out of favour, typically with the ...
Your views about him were obvious even from the OP. Look who's talking about sensationalism. No. Actually there is a lot of doubt. Just as he is unlik...
No. Of course not. Not only is the Laplacian determinism false, but also then you would have the Entscheidungsproblem answered differently, which was ...
Nope, Terrapin Stations view is totally sound, understandable and I agree with it. And you were saying that there is a push to stop these fields. Well...
Never underestimate the tribalism, the vitriol and utter hatred of the other side in American politics. The GOP won't go along. Above all, those peopl...
Ah, your favorite JP. Let's look into this with a simple Google search: (See Professor Abandons Plan for List of ‘Neo-Marxist Course Content’ So as I ...
And that is quite different from a Turing Machine which basically uses simple math to follow an algorithm. What we do extremely well and are masters i...
Desalination of seawater to provide freshwater has actually already turned the tables in Israel. They were at first having problems with fresh water u...
Well, we can argue if humans are conscious or not! Or think about it in this way: what does it mean to be creative, to have a new idea? Did someone te...
We agree on something. Perhaps it should be good to ask here what you see as a problem with PC extremism? Can you give an example? Besides, I don't th...
Please read carefully what I said. Turing Machine simply cannot perform the task "do something else than what is given in your program in a way not de...
Make this thought experiment: 1) Some professional team of psychologists etc. observe your doings for a while and they are able to make a quite clear ...
A discussion of terrorism and trends in terrorism would surely be interesting. And your comment above just adds to my point that here you do have to p...
Again these odd deductions: that if people think PC culture has gone too far / might go too far, they obviously (your words), obviously are feeling th...
So you start a thread on Political correctness... Again, notice the chart here. What it tells that acts of terrorism were more frequent also in the US...
As so little is understood about consciousness and yet we know how computers work, it's no wonder that we have the Turing Test as a test of intelligen...
Let's look at terrorism at a glance. Here's how our times compare for example to the 1970's: https://www.datagraver.com/thumbs/1300x1300r/2016-07/we-t...
And this opinion you have stated quite clearly: that basically those who criticize PC are basically enablers of the alt-right either purposefully or u...
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