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do you mean, to make a profit for their shareholders?

arrogance isn't the first thing that comes to mind when I think of 'do-gooders' I think there are different types of people who might be seen as do-go...

God only has to know all the digits of pi, for his knowledge to be infinite....there are many other things to know as well.

I partly think science has been infested with financial considerations. It is perhaps easier to apply for research funding, if you have a mainstream r...

some guy keeps writing to my local paper blaming MPs in the UK parliament; they didn't turn up to a climate change debate....well why would they,?,,,a...

I quite like the idea of doing it properly, ie with no drugs, and reading up of body building nutritional needs....I think some people buy those huge ...

I have often seen sceptics put a lot of things down to confirmation bias...or which ever term it is, where a person remembers co-incidences, and forge...

how has Hawking radiation been observed? I know there was some experiment using something where the speed of light was reduced , to generate a pseudo ...

well is the mainstream idea of black-holes differentiable to incipient(ie not quite forms) collapsing stars, by tests and evidence? Is it falsifiable?...

I believe the universe started as a corruption of a previous state...whatever that corruption was it seems to have made two but interacting forces and...

I suspect there are some aspects of culture which are actually in decay; decaying in a grand structure that is being built by science and applied tech...

obviously I didn't mean out time dimension, but another sort of time-like sequence or order of thoughts... Like I said, we can;t know what the answer ...

I don't like to ask this question, but suppose that God has thoughts, and exists in a kind of time sequence dimension.....does he know what he will th...

God's knowledge could be infinite, but that wouldn't necessarily mean he knows everything..he could just know all the digits of the number pi.

oh yea you can have some understanding of a feeling pertaining to an experience, but that doesn't really give you any certainty that you are right. I ...

I think to have an objective view of reality one would also need a subjective view, of anyone who had one...these two are contradictory positions. God...

Yea but a starving person isn't God, so how could God understand that perspective?

I think in society there maybe the approach that what is useful, is therefore the truth....as sort of utilitarian approach to truth. But what is usefu...

Is the concept of truth linked to the concept of objective reality? If so Idon't think objective reality is possible even if you include the concept o...

one problem with time travel could be called 'the carbon problem'...which is that a guy goes back in time 50 years, and while there breaths out many m...

well even if one could time travel, I guess you wouldn't be able to impart your knowledge to an inventor. You might, however, be able to go back in ti...

I think a term can have a scientific context as well as a cultural one, like the word 'theory'; science doesn't own that word, or related use. I asked...

why would they be interested in where you are from..?

so you think if a 'white' person from the west stood in a crowded market in DRC, or any such country in Africa and stated that there is no such thing ...

maybe the two never really separated that much...I posted a video of monkeys using boars as a kind of taxi service, so maybe the hybridizing goes back...

I think it is suggesting that boars and monkeys met like ships in the night, ..a long time ago, and the offspring were hybrids, that later became huma...

well taking your lottery example. if person 1 is lying and person 2 is lying, then they seem equal, if you don't know whether they are lying or not.

yes, I find it best to be vague when I am not sure. 'maybe' just means I suggest it for debate. Too often people are too sure of themselves..

I'm always open to criticism, and often change my mind on things. I don't mind if you poke a hole or two in any of my posts, and I will see if I can c...

I dunno; what will happen if they start mating with pigs? there'll be ponkeys and migs everywhere.

I have no idea what the reaction there would be(assuming you are 'white') if you made this statement in an African country, say the DRC, in a crowded ...

yes maybe it boils down to 'pictures or it didn't happen' ! :D

I'm a big fan of Coke, I drink quite a lot of it(the diet kind)..........they have really hit on a winner in terms of dollar of profit per dollar used...

so they kind of optimise their behaviour to make as much profit they can that isn't based upon a more nuanced philosophy? Surely it would be in a busi...

so are you saying what happens to the environment and the society around them has no bearing on the long-term interests of a business?

I didn't say the had no idea what they were doing, but take the options you mentioned; they seem a bit like they might be limited, and I don't really ...

yes, I remember on another forum a thread had a questionnaire that put one on that compass. There was one person who seemed very proud as to how far l...

yea, the thing I like about the aspect of the 'first law of robotics' isn't how useful or not it would actually be, in a robotic run world, it is just...

yes, they usually will have a lot of people who are highly trained in things like statistics, and probabilities etc, but what is the overarching philo...

If a group partially defines itself by race, then maybe they feel that there are issues to do with race that aren't being addressed. Maybe they feel f...

depends what is meant by 'determinism'..... Ok, if you made the statement 'if it were true that a system/model is basically mechanical, like a clockwo...

in terms of living the life I would have wanted, and in that context being the person I had wanted to be, then that ship sailed over a quarter of a ce...

one of the real problems in the art world is that art is often used simply as a way to invest money; it is also sometimes used for money laundering. T...

one could argue that your reasons for not spending any research money on this thing because it isn't mainstream enough means that if say a billionaire...

'stupidity' is a relative term, I would say....it must be a term that compares one person or set of people to some kind of 'non-stupid' level of intel...

but in the balance for these geneticists and their future career, they might not considerer it worthwhile even lending a bit of credulity to the idea....

well for one thing, whatever system one adopts, I think it is a good idea to recognise that it is the individual who has chosen to adopt that system, ...

what may be more problematic for some people than the idea of pig/boar influence on human development, is the idea of the development and subsequent e...

yes, that makes sense. But as well as that I think people see society as a kind of simplistic grid, with themselves existing at simple co-ordinates on...

I thought it was 'people are strange'...specifically when 'you're a stranger'...