I find sometimes that the only way to have a sensible conversation is by talking to myself. Random elements are always a good way to start a conversat...
It's a community. It doesn't matter too much if I am wasting my time; it is multiply more serious If I am wasting everyone's time. The community knows...
Well to get the op's 'name the fallacy' bit out of the way, it's a very old and all too common fallacy of "refusing to agree". My suggestion is that m...
What sort of world would it be, if mathematical descriptions did not apply? Mathematics can cope with analogue or digital, perfect order or total chao...
Saw this and decided to torment you with it, in memory of streetlightX. Happy Christmas. Chat GTP on US imperialism [email protected]: Write a speech ...
Yes, once you have removed all the differences, it is impossible to make a judgement. And yet you do make a judgement, as do I. but my judgement is th...
By the way, WW2 was not about saving the Jews, because the final solution was not implemented until later, nor to stop fascism, which was already in p...
Then they are no different from bad people. If there is no difference in behaviour, what is the difference? Is it a matter of belief? Innate superiori...
When the ship was discovered, it was at first thought to be the ship of Theseus, but tree-ring analysis and carbon dating unequivocally showed that it...
That is odd. It seems quite undeniable that the power of the good is reduced by moral scruples and the nefarious have more options available; if it we...
They've been around since the invasion of 1066, so I'm not holding my breath. We could do all that, but it doesn't seem to involve anything good comin...
Happens all the time, but the conversation is usually rather dull : "Hey look what a big claw I've got!" "Pah! Mine's bigger!" "What the fuck is that?...
Sure it can. Rather too often though, it doesn't; hence the maladaptive policies being followed in the age of the triumph of science and the decline o...
It shows us how to think about science, maybe. So what? Have you looked at the op's project? I would have thought we'd be about on the same side of re...
You claim! But have heard the Grateful Dead. Having an effect is one thing, but that dot cannot tell me whether to build more rockets or grow more bea...
Science wins because the magic works. Making wine from grape juice works; making wine from water does not. But notoriously, science cannot tell us how...
Brain expands the repertoire of an organism's responses to the environment, particularly in cooperation with specialised organs of sense. One way a co...
Yes, Frank. Repetitive, rude, and yet in the end, meaningless. People cannot work together without a boss wielding power is your position, and it is i...
To Europe's great credit, there has not; neither Hitler not Jesus managed it. It has always found other ways to reach an approximate consensus - war, ...
On the practical side, there are obvious reasons why one might want to become fluent in French, or a qualified electrician, or a hit with the ladies. ...
I prefer "stuff" to "matter", and I prefer "arrangement" to "pattern" because a pile of sand is matter arranged in no particular pattern, and light an...
What else do you have planned before myopia extinguishes our species? It is rather sad, certainly that even amongst these intelligent friends, it is a...
When did neural network become the foundation of reality, I think it must have been last night while I was asleep? I have less experience of neural ne...
One can make a decision only on the supposition that one can make a decision. If it's not up to me, or down to me, then there is no decision to be mad...
Psyche is disrupted by psychoactive substances, but never quite transcended. It seems to me that even a materialist or rationalist understanding can s...
I think I should really read Anti-Oedipus first, and I may start doing that, but I'll risk a brief description of my fantasies about the issues. Large...
You are of course entitled to your views about what is the case, and in particular about what ought to be the case and how you feel about these things...
Some stuff about population movements and demographics, death rates and concentration camps. Don't expect much pro Putin stuff, or even much lets nego...
This is problematic. The argument declares for determinism in the first premise, and then discovers it at the end as if it has proved it. But of cours...
Tape worms are a condition of life; one to be avoided. Lies are likewise parasitic on truthful communication and likewise weaken it, by destroying tru...
I think it indicates that the American population is traumatised and self-medicating with anything it can get to reduce the pain and get through the d...
We personify the sun as Sol, and the dog as Rover, the sea as Neptune, wisdom as Sophia ... It would be better to turn the question around and ask why...
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