In the Edit window there's a row of icons with B for bold, slanted I for italic, etc. The eighth icon from the left lets you insert a graphic from the...
That's a good point. The first-mover argument is essentially a Christian idea. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." That's @"Deva...
Ellipses simply means the pattern continues. How would you write the set of integers? Just like that. You are confusing your evidence-free intuitions ...
You just make this shit up. How do you measure how much we need to know about something before we can name it? On the contrary, the day they discovere...
I'd have gladly stuck around for intelligent dialog; but once I was told to "step off" it was either tell that individual to FUCK off, or depart the c...
They're exactly the same. So there aren't two types, only one type. Because there's only one zero. I have an answer to your latest post about the infi...
This is the graph of f(x) = \frac{1}{x}. If you write y = f(x) then it comes out to your notation using y. Another way it's often written is xy = 1. T...
You can certainly define a measure on the unit interval of reals and assign probabilities to sets of bitstrings. I didn't follow this post. You said y...
Ok. So whether we use constructive or classical real numbers, we get the same physics. We get the same theorems and we can't measure any difference. H...
Not at all. What law of nature says the collection of causes must be well-ordered? I agree it's intuitively appealing that there must be a first cause...
Labeling my remark sexist is not an argument against my point. I do apologize if you feel that I hijacked your thread. This isn't the time for me to e...
I did not knowingly hijack. A lot of people are saying two things right now: 1) That Meghan was treated badly by the Royals due to her race. On the co...
I don't watch videos. Text is faster. Can you summarize it please? It says it's about racism. I don't think there's a racial angle to this. The Royal ...
Bullpucky. Nobody (not me anyway) gives a shit about Meg's heritage. She's a toxic female running and ruining the life of a weak male. That cuts acros...
I think what I was getting at is that you made the claim that constructive and classical physics were equivalent categories; and I asked you to clarif...
As it happens, here is how I learned about what you're describing. I never had much physics background. A few years ago I had the opportunity to serio...
Wrong theory. If something is computable or not, that's computability theory. If something is computable efficiently or inefficiently, that's complexi...
Here's a nice contemporary example of exactly that. Do you happen to know what dark matter is? Don't worry if you don't, because nobody knows what dar...
Nonsense. I can prove it easily. The measure of the unit interval is 1; the measure of the computable reals in the unit interval is zero. Therefore th...
For two people trying to end a conversation we're not doing a very good job. I want to make a semantic point, which is that intuitionism is too vague....
I just showed you a model of infinite causal regress. It's the plain old integers. What law of nature says it can't exist? On the contrary, it probabl...
These notations designate the same ordered set. The point is that there's no reason that there must be a first element in an ordered set of causes. Th...
Why not? To me it seems like this is the solution to the first mover problem. Everyone's moved yet there is no first mover. What law of nature says th...
You reject science. In science we DON'T know what something is. So we give it a symbolic name, write down the symbol's properties, and reason about it...
I think there's a bit of a logic flaw in Pascal's wager. You have to not only believe in God, you have to believe in a God that condemns you to eterna...
Why not? What if each fine tuner (fine tuna?) is indexed by an integer, like so: \dots, -4, \ -3, \ -2, \ -1, \ 0, \ 1, \ 2, \ 3, \ 4, \ 5, \dots Each...
The federal government requires television networks to beam free NFL football games into my living room in HD. That's the kind of authoritarianism I c...
Alright man. It's not set theory you object to, it's 10th grade algebra. It's not abstraction you object to, it's the very concept of using the symbol...
This is a common claim of people trying to debunk conspiracy theories. I have four points of refutation that have been on my mind. I'm so glad we're t...
@"Metaphysician Undercover", Let me just put this remark here because it's the core of the problem. In order to figure out things that we don't unders...
This is surely no criticism of me since; for one thing, I have already admitted my ignorance of much of classical philosophy. And you are abysmally ig...
Ok. It was only recently that I learned that protons have quarks inside them. Another thing I've learned is that gravitational mass is caused by the b...
I had a long convo about all this with @"alcontali" I believe, a while back. At that time I felt that I'd satisfied my curiosity about the subject of ...
This paragraph seems to bear on my conversation with @"Metaphysician Undercover". I can indeed specify \sqrt 2; but when I do so I am merely "expressi...
Ok this is the post I wanted to get to. Ok that's beyond my pay grade, but maybe I can tell you what I know about it. Say you have a hydrogen atom, on...
I do not see how this can be. The constructive real line is not Cauchy-complete. It's only countably infinite. It does not contain any of the noncompu...
That's interesting. I never looked at universal algebra but what you describe is a lot like category theory. There's a construction called a "product"...
The context here is the fact that the statement "Every vector space has a basis," is fully equivalent to the axiom of choice. Each implies the other. ...
That's what abstraction is! It's giving a name to something immaterial in order to manipulate it. We see 2 cows and 2 pigs and 2 chickens and 2 barnya...
I've never looked at the book and have no interest in constructive physics. You'll have to forgive me. Personally I think it's a fool's errand. I have...
What a great topic. If you Google "constructive physics," you find a small but nonzero number of paywalled articles on the subject . I believe there's...
Yes, great insight. The mathematical real numbers are very strange. I always noticed that the more I learned about the real numbers, the more unreal t...
You know, that is a very interesting point of view. As I said I find it nihilistic because you must then reject all of the modern world that sprung fr...
Yes indeed. I think of them as the "dark matter" of the real number line. We can't name them, we can't compute them, we can't use them for anything. B...
True, but she received a lot of criticism at the time, including from Obama. Her warmongering is what cost her the Dem nomination. So yes, she was mak...
In practical terms I agree. If we left there would be a bloodbath. This is how we stayed so long in Vietnam. We didn't want to "waste" all the lives a...
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