Because while you busy yourself with procedural details of how to reduce morality to a utilitarian optimization, you don't ask what any of that has to...
Thanks, I got it when I thought about it again. I got into a habit of thinking of numbers as abstract objects that just satisfy certain requirements, ...
Being correct and being clear is not the same thing. I took ten or so different courses of mathematics in college. It's been a long time and I have fo...
"Methodically" is the key word here. Yes, you have a method, but that's not enough to qualify as "science." If you don't understand why you do what yo...
This wasn't very helpful. It's still not clear to me how the use of this set theoretic representation explains "the number of functions from 2 into 2 ...
I don't understand. \biggl(2\biggr) \rightarrow \biggl(2\biggr) How is this four functions? (FWIW in calculus texts the exponential function is usuall...
That's an odd wish, from my point of view, to have a camp of people that agree with you on everything. But you strike me as an opinionated fellow, wit...
You are conflating actual practice with its philosophical interpretations. Science is done the way it is done not because scientists have come to an a...
That's what I said. Death rate is estimated on the basis of confirmed infections. Adding a hypothetical number of untested and asymptomatic cases does...
There are reasonable points here, but the article is too focused on massaging the fatality rate. Yes, if you include asymptomatic cases, the fatality ...
Science didn't wait around for its foundational questions to be solved before it could get off the ground - if it did, it would have been waiting to t...
No, you don't second-guess God, that's not how divine command works. All you need to know is that you must accept God's authority. This is where your ...
The relationship of science and philosophy is a complex one. Philosophy can and does take science as an object of study, just like anything else, but ...
You are right about science, of course, but wrong about ethics. Whether ethical principles are right or wrong is an ethical question - a redundant one...
Which is why you should welcome the culling that I propose. I promise, it will be quick - not like dying from pneumonia. Or just kill yourself already...
I say we should start the virus containment program by culling antinatalists. OK, it's not the most effective means to combat the epidemic, but it's s...
Well, O'Reilly is a professional bullshitter, so what he says is on him (and why are you watching this garbage anyway?) But if you really think that "...
Yes, I understand that you have some pet utilitarian system, but this doesn't really answer the question. If my system of morality prescribes maximizi...
Time is an integral part of relativistic spacetime. If you need a specific measurement of time, you can use proper time in conjunction with a specific...
The flexibility and openness to change of secular moral systems can vary as much as the flexibility of and openness of religious systems (which vary a...
Well, morality is what people think in the same way in which electric charge, say, is what particles have. Morality (and language) is no more and no l...
Nah, there's no lack of moral certainty among secularists; you need to look a bit more into history and generally get out and meet more people. Being ...
Sure. But as you note later, proper time can be well-defined even in the absence of anything to mark its passage, and that is where I see a problem. Y...
As is the alternative. It is widely understood that the universe (or at least the inflationary "pocket" that we occupy, if we go with the still somewh...
If you mean this article, then it doesn't say that, and it would be pretty incredible if it did, because the best established cosmological model to da...
I was talking about spatial extension. Simply put, if space is infinite, which seems plausible from what we know, and if the rest of it looks much lik...
The second law of thermodynamics gives a preferred overall direction for time, but the rate of time is established by any number of regular physical p...
Two percent is about the same mortality rate as the Spanish flu (I don't know where the 20% figure came from), which killed about 30 million people by...
The article says quite clearly, and more than once, that we don't know whether the universe is spatially finite or infinite. We can estimate a lower b...
@"Luke" didn't you go over this with noAxioms and others for ages and ages on the old forum? That did you no good: you are still stuck on this idea th...
You remember right, but that wasn't at issue - we've both acknowledged that this is the case. My point is that relativistic time is not identical to p...
How about instead of petulantly demanding answers to stupid questions you use your own head? You demand to know why a device like a monitor, camera or...
The problem that I see here is that there is no inherent connection between the direction of time given by the time coordinate of the relativistic spa...
If your monitor - or, say, any device or method for identifying distinct objects - can only register a limited number of objects, due to the way in wh...
Well, no, the number of distinct digital photos of a given resolution is finite. But so what? He might as well have said: I am going to count the numb...
Well, first it is unclear what it is that you claim to have proven. The question you claim to answer is "How many distinct things can there be in the ...
Doesn't it bother you that the number of distinct things in the universe is limited by an arbitrarily chosen resolution of your camera? With an 800x60...
GR doesn't know anything about entropy - it's not part of the theory. For those who base their theory of time exclusively on GR - call them "relativit...
I don't understand what your hangup is. "Static" is an unfortunate choice of a word in Miller's article, because it normally means that either there i...
But that would not be sufficient for a block universe either. Unless observers are spread throughout the entire spacetime, their past light cones swee...
Yeah, that was the point of the reductio. One black/white pixel can encode one bit. 800x600 24-bit pixels can encode 11.5 million bits. But that's jus...
Not sure what distinction you are drawing here. Are you suggesting that, unlike the presentist, for the eternalist the nature of space and time contai...
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