I'm happy to let people who want to play games choose who they will or won't play with and against. Personally I think athletes cheat by exercising an...
When someone wants to lay down the law about who can and who cannot excrete here or there, then the hairs have to be picked, or split or something, be...
Yes. Haven't you noticed the ambiguity? Not just the varieties of physical inter-sex ambiguity but also the sex-gender ambiguity, and the physical-men...
The law is an ass. And likewise philosophers who try to disambiguate the actual ambiguous. As if the law or philosophy can make life clear and fair an...
Cheers! I'll start with a word about the cultural context. I imagine Japan of the time of WW2 as culturally medieval in character, the romantic cultur...
LLMs have no contact with reality, but are themselves textual artefacts. They never touch the ground but are free-floating in the sea of language. The...
I am interested - mainly by my antipathy to the man and the culture he was trying to reconcile with the defeat of the war. So I anticipate i will cont...
The good hardworking folks across the way are having their garden modernised. Out go half a dozen mangy conifers and their roots; out goes a load of g...
If you were that person, you would think otherwise, or else you would act otherwise. But how does this help? I can feel righteous and innocent because...
Blaming others is the tactic of the irresponsible. We are responsible, and we are irresponsible. We are greedy and we are lazy. Might as well blame it...
Approximate symmetry certainly affects the world. Consider the uncommon Scottish haggis: it has 2 long legs on one side, and 1 short leg on the other,...
Times change, and perhaps homosexuality is less psychologically charged than when it was illegal. Still, if one substitutes a generalised 'deviant sex...
This is an entirely reasonable belief. Most people are getting older most of the time. There are exceptions; Merlin, Bob Dylan, and myself for example...
Love is taking pains; care is painstaking. If giving cost nothing, generosity would be no virtue. If love had no price, it would be worthless. I do no...
https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2025/2025GlobalTemperature.15April2025.pdf This is rather complex, so I will do my best to give some explanati...
No, not at all. Not even the slightest amount. On the contrary I might even sometimes exaggerate myself, and more rarely indulge in hyperbole. But som...
It is not reasonable to argue thus. You declare your conclusion that there is hype and exaggeration, and then declare that it is reasonable. And back ...
Early days yet, lad. In the sense of being a rejection of war and violence, of materialism and consumerism, and the accompanying environmental degrada...
Many people believe whatever it is convenient to believe to maintain their lifestyle and comfortable identity. This is a moral failure. You ought to b...
I'm living backwards; I become more radical with age. It always seemed obvious to me that the political world is as round as the physical, and whereve...
The source of all can only be nothing. What else is there? Being comes from non-being. The cause of the universe is the non-existence of God. If there...
I am talking about the politics of climate change, where no government is taking serious action to adapt or mitigate because there is no incentive to ...
The unemployed are an important part of the economy. They, you, function to keep wages low, and therefore benefits are structured to be uncomfortable,...
I'm not averse to an agreement; I'm all for an agreement. I don't think it's going to happen; I think it's wishful thinking, for reasons I already wen...
While you're waiting to die, why not look at these pretty interactive graphics and compare the changes thus far where you are with the global average....
Are you volunteering to be the world dictator? What is needed is easy to specify - to stop carbon emissions and work to restore the environment. But w...
Sorry, that was a joke. We don't have many planets, so the Axelrod scenario doesn't apply. Rather we have to rely on our already evolved 'cooperative'...
Indeed indeed. New labour was post union labour. Socialist governments increase income taxes because they are progressive redistributive taxes; Blair'...
Clearly neither of you understand the prisoner's dilemma. You, the prisoner, cannot "create incentives", you have to rely on each other's solidarity -...
One difficulty with the NHS is that either there is spare capacity (aka 'waste'), or there is a lack of spare capacity (aka 'crisis'). Another difficu...
A lot of people are going to die. I can appreciate that that is not what people want to hear; in the seventies it might have been done gently, now it'...
It is discussed, and psychological community help is available too. see here for example: https://www.deepadaptation.info/the-deep-adaptation-forum-da...
It is exactly about morality, because the only escape from the prisoners' dilemma is for the prisoners to be moral; if they are logically expedient, t...
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