I agree with everything you said and I really appreciate your post. Yes you are right, there's a hard core of GOPs that simply will not allow any immi...
Wow you wrote a lot and I'm a little overwhelmed. I'll try to respond where I have some value to add. FWIW I have heard about HOTT. I do in fact know ...
That is a Platonic claim. It can be strongly argued against. I"m not taking a position one way or another but only pointing out that your claim is arg...
I disagree that this is mere whataboutism. When Trump haters tweet out a photo of "Trump's child cages" that actually turn out to have been Obama's, I...
I'm not defending Trump's immigration policies, since in fact I oppose them. I'm simply calling attention to, and expressing my deep frustration with,...
I only read your post and commented on your remarks regarding CH. I didn't take a position on logic. Sorry for any confusion. The point about syntax a...
Good God. Cohen did nothing of the sort. He showed (in conjunction with ?Gödel) that CH was formally independent of ZFC. ?Both ?Gödel and Cohen believ...
No I find some of the things Trump does appalling. As I've mentioned I'm what you might call a Mexicophile. I moved to California as a young adult and...
I'm not sure what that means. You can't iterate through a set unless it's well-ordered. And there are sets that are not well-ordered, unless you accep...
That's an interesting point. Here's why IVT is false in constructive math. IVT, you will recall, says that if a function from the reals to the reals i...
Thanks for this interesting post. If I am reading you correctly you are espousing a computational or constructivist point of view. Perfectly valid, an...
Right. A countable model. Not a finite one. I don't believe this is true. ZF is a first-order theory with a countably infinite language that easily pr...
Confusing rhetoric with policy. I get that you don't like Trump's style. Obama deported record numbers of undocumented immigrants. You could look it u...
Oh yes ok, thanks for clarifying. Oh HOTT. Very interesting. I don't know much about it beyond the basics. I only watched the vid starting a little be...
In terms of the crisis on the border? The main difference is the way the MSM ignored Obama's 2014 humanitarian disaster on the border and politicized ...
What do you think about the even numbers within the set of positive integers? Isn't that just what they call emergence? Hydrogen and oxygen aren't wet...
Of course. Perfectly correct. Perhaps you're thinking of the kind of set theory used by Frege, not by Russell. But that's a historical point and I'm n...
No not at all. For example let us consider the set of all real numbers that are not members of themselves. That's a legal set formation according to t...
Because the person I'm challenging explicitly said that Trump had done "unspeakable" things to his own family. I'm challenging that assertion. As far ...
There's little point in talking about one's personal life on an anonymous forum. I've done a lot more than vote. Out there in the world, in real life....
Sex offender like Bubba, Teddy (who actually killed a girl) and JFK? Methinks your outrage is selective. Trump did nothing to your family. Your kids a...
I am an American and I do need to ask. You said Trump did unspeakable things to your family. I would like to hear what he did to your family. You made...
You have a detailed argument for that false claim? I'd like to understand your thinking here. The set of all subsets of a given set is in no way refut...
I'll take the contrary view. It's my nature. There was a great experiment performed in the 1960's and early 70's. It was called the Vietnam war. We to...
I get it. Orange Man Bad. Not everyone feels that way, even those of us who clearly see Trump's many flaws. I wish the Dems had run a better candidate...
I can't begin to imagine what that remark means. I don't see anyone else here being asked for their personal life history. I'd say I've been more poli...
It could be. I"m taking the opposite side of that debate. In my opinion, AI as currently conceptualized -- as (admittedly cleverly designed) software ...
I wouldn't deny the analogies of memory, complex decision making, etc. Computers do seem to do things we think of as intelligent. AI's play chess and ...
Well sure, by that definition my chair is intelligent, being a highly organized configuration of atoms. I don't regard that as helpful in the debate a...
I am troubled by the phrase "quasi-intelligent." What does it mean? When an elevator "remembers" to stop at the floor you selected via pushbutton, do ...
I'm right here making my points about the deep state. And being called a loose cannon because of it. Not much of a constituency for peace in the US an...
What? X "works for Y means X has a bias? Come on, that's not even sensible. Works for means works for. You can't change the terms just because you hav...
One could argue (I have seen it so argued) that Mueller erred in making this statement. The judge in the OJ case didn't say, "Well we still think the ...
Yes but the people saying that are the same people who have been saying that since before the 2016 election. The fact that Mueller found no collusion ...
I have stated that I hear arguments on both sides; don't actually know; and don't care to find out. I agree that's not an appropriate stance for someo...
May I quit now while I'm behind? Nothing I could say could change your mind; but more to the point, I really have nothing else to say. It's all a poli...
He didn't charge collusion and he didn't charge obstruction. Just like the jury did not exonerate OJ, it merely failed to find him guilty. We all unde...
No, it's just pointless. Some people are really dug in on this point and it's not productive to argue with them. Impeachment and collusion and obstruc...
Neither are factors in who is a journalist. As I mentioned, numerous court decisions have upheld the journalistic rights of average everyday citizens ...
I haven't seen Russia hysteria like this since the cold war. But Russia has journalists too. What difference does that make? He could be working for S...
Assange most certainly is a journalist. It is not required of a journalist to be accredited by the State. Numerous US court cases have upheld the righ...
Sorry, I lost track of the referent. He Assange? Or he Manning? Was the New York Times looking for "personal glory" when they published the Pentagon p...
I used to share your optimism and faith. I no longer do. My loss of faith happened when Bush turned the US into a torture regime ... and then Obama in...
I've decided to stop arguing with this point. I think you should keep it up all the way to November 2020. Reporters on the ground in Iowa and other ea...
Assange is the publisher of WikiLeaks. Manning is the soldier whoturned over to Assange evidence of horrific US war crimes. Assange unsuccessfully att...
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