Single-concern bullshit is not the same as critical thinking. Demanding evidence within a system for system-wide axioms is not the same as critical th...
In that case, the OP will have to scrap science, because it uses an entire bureaucracy of correspondence-checking formalisms that keeps scientific pat...
That question translates into: How much of a fragment of the system is sufficient to still achieve the goal of adjudicating the question of halal (per...
I never said that I endorse "a justice system which serves only the wealthy". I endorse serious religious law. Furthermore, I do not endorse needless ...
So, in your opinion, Asians would be sociopaths? Is that "philosophy" in your opinion? It sound much more like racist bullshit. I like Asians. I like ...
In the end, everything favours the rich. Well, it rather favours the ones with brains; but the (really) rich can always go on a hiring spree with thei...
I have only discussed a few cases with people who were involved in them. The people in this country tend to be Buddhist, but they also think of justic...
No, but at first glance, it looks like a possibly interesting thought exercise. I have just read the summary here: https://www.kategriffin.net/books-b...
Gödel's theory T is an unholy concoction of pure logic + number theory. Take for example the sentence S1="Socrates is human". The truth status of this...
Agreed. Abstract, Platonic worlds are different from the real, physical world. Still, the real, physical world is to be considered more complex and mo...
Even logical problems cannot be solved logically. They are pretty much always solved using other, unknown mental faculties. It is not because you know...
That would not be possible anyway. Knowledge cannot be discovered by machines. It can be verified by machines, however. Furthermore, only empirical kn...
Science is merely a Platonic-cave shadow of the real explanation for the universe, i.e. the theory of everything (ToE). It is not even sure that "more...
The first concern should be victim compensation. That is certainly the case where I live. If you pay off the victims, and you pay off the facilitating...
In its modern understanding, epistemology amounts to computability: Computability is the ability to solve a problem in an effective manner. It is a ke...
Let me check if I can agree with the wikipedia page on the matter: Epistemology (/??p?st??m?l?d?i/ (About this soundlisten); from Greek ????????, epis...
These numbers do not take into account that most personnel are contractors, and that it is these contractors who get to do the really dangerous work: ...
I do not have any opinion about them -- seriously who cares? -- but I would not agree that they lectured anything to my children. But then again, it i...
I believe that you either use the machine, or else you build or program the machine, because in all other cases, you are simply trying to be the machi...
Probably. There are different communities with different views on different subjects, of which I do not seek to figure out the nitty-gritty details be...
Education hasn't changed for 150 years. It is still the same schools and largely the same curriculum. Every other industry has changed drastically. Ho...
With how much student debt have they saddled you in exchange for their worthless paperwork? Expensive paperwork from the academia, which translates in...
Since the emotion exists, it undoubtedly has a role somewhere, but like all emotions, it needs to be strictly controlled. Religion warns against (unco...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NNT)? His wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb You can also try to check out his subreddit; http...
Religion is a set of beliefs that consists of two parts. The transcendental part are rituals, prayers, festivities, and similar behaviours. The religo...
We have known for a long time now that capitalism is not the same as free enterprise. That confusion was deliberately introduced. Capitalism is about ...
I have found Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Incerto series of books a really good read: "Black swan", "Antifragile", "Fooled by randomness", "Skin in the gam...
Seneca was talking about the Roman imperial cult, which was an umbrella of numerous pagan theories, including the Greek pantheon, but of which the tru...
The power of the ruling elite ultimately rests on the fact that you trust them, even though you have no reason to do so. Their power is generally exer...
Well, knee-jerk distrust of the ruling elite -- an otherwise standard libertarian view -- has worked out really nicely for me. It has allowed me to do...
Humans exhibit characteristics that are animal-like but also quite a few that are very unlike animals. Evolution theory has some merit in pointing out...
I had some philosophy classes at university but back then they rather struck me as "unimportant". The issue got propelled to the forefront because of ...
If we assume that free will exists, then it is a rather unpredictable ingredient in the universe. The Theory of Everything equates to the Preserved Ta...
I recently saw a pack of hyenas on NatGeo Wild which were busy surrounding a lion. One hyena would distract the lion's attention, while the other ones...
I think that the idea of "bends" is certainly useful in helping to understand the proof. However, I think that a video with animation would be very us...
For a starters, I live in SE Asia. Secondly, I don't "get laid". I do this things according to centuries-old traditions. You are referring to the habi...
Not sure, really. I rarely dream up my own theories. I usually just read other people's theories and verify them for issues. So, the idea is that some...
It is very related to the concept of utility in economics: Within economics, the concept of utility is used to model worth or value. Its usage has evo...
if truth is about correspondence with the real, physical world, and if epistemology seeks to detect patterns of justification in the abstract, Platoni...
If you have ever lived in the 80% of the world which is not a welfare state -- get out of your bubble and look at the real world for a change -- you w...
Anybody who believes in what these politicians say, is a follower of their false religion. For a starters, they can collect money under whatever guise...
That is actually a reasonable interpretation. I can live with that. It is just that the people involved in working on that theory have developed their...
Imagine that a thing can improve its own stability by forming an equilibrium with other things, who also improve their own stability by doing that. In...
I think that you purposely misunderstand what I have said. I may have been manipulated too, but I unlearned all of that, or at least most of that, by ...
It is also the other way around. I don't think that anybody is denying the irreversible trend to entropy. However, there are also other principles at ...
Well, in that case, these governments will have to improve their game, because they has never managed to make me pay one dollar. You see, taxes are pa...
If you have never lived outside a western country, you do not understand 80% of the world. You will also fail to unlearn the deceptive and manipulativ...
That may have been an interesting observation possibly a century ago. With most people living in an urban setting nowadays, the poor also do. The reas...
That really depends on how you define "order" versus "chaos" or "disorder". The following definition for self-organization does not seem to use your d...
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