What can I say. Perfection is absurd to me. I’d even argue over whether a triangle is a triangle haha. I mean, to a human it is. Can’t speak to it’s h...
it’s not that simple. Perfect knowledge; meaning something we can know to be true without any doubt, includes a definition of perfect knowledge. If we...
- yup! Agree with this. Why do you believe existence is an eternal loop? :) genuinely curious. Always like to hear why people reached similar conclusi...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-lie-detectors/ May have butchered it a bit and couldn’t find the article I read, think it was a sci...
Well they think they may be able to detect lying using heat sensing technology to read blood flow to certain facial muscles that are allegedly associa...
yeah, in red dwarf it was called the justice zone but I added Karma there because it’s justice theory through karma as the method of justice. The ques...
“without imagining that the electrons are slipping into other dimensions.” Sorry, correcting myself; unless they can be interpreted as a wavelength/fi...
Yes, however this is due to the difficulty in determining and interpreting test outcomes due to the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. Unfortu...
Except pop culture got it from plausible interpretations of the multiverse theory backed up by evidence from experiments in physics and quantum mechan...
Pointless to you is not pointless to me, it being pointless to you doesn’t stop it from being intriguing, as I am intrigued. Knowledge of something li...
I think you are correct to observe that if we base our simulations on our natural world, it stands to reason that if our world is also a simulation th...
If only it were that Binary and dualistic things would maybe be simpler haha. To describe what goes on within, look outward. A political landscape adr...
If you take away the earth centrism and anthropocentrism then you’re on the right track. The god is just awareness of the universe though shared by al...
certainly, sorry it can be said much clearer. Do video games have the potential to becoming an acceptable enough outlet for maladaptive behaviours? So...
“The primary premiss is false. All perfect answers are true. Some true answers are assailed. Thus, it cannot be the case that if one is assailed, then...
If you’re not able to understand the argument you don’t have to respond to it. My argument is and has always been against the existence of a perfect b...
Agree with your assessment of the first premise. Assumes the answer, it also assumes we are at an end point in our understanding of our universe or ev...
Denial really can be scary. I wonder if there is any reading out here in the area of phenomenology of emotions. I remember looking for one for logic a...
Yeah unfortunately our feelings tend to have a habit of defying rationality. Fortunately though, rationality can be used to study the logical human ro...
I didn’t get into everything that was in the video. The overall theme of the video was that Adam was admitting to some of the mistakes his show has ma...
also that’s not what I claimed either if you’re taking it out of the context of the paragraph. “Honesty first modesty second is always the best policy...
Honesty first modesty second is always the best policy in my eyes. If you don’t believe someone has countered your claims effectively enough for you t...
I do too, but I don’t send a flying strawman kick to the balls either. The way I describe my style, is to throw stones at stones thrown to stop them h...
Bit of an unfair comparison. If they were rabid beasts we’d be able to argue for shooting them before they bite us. I understand the point though. Ign...
I didn’t take the bait for the same reason I got frustrated with the other venomous comments. They all made the assumption that I put the intellectual...
Broad Pessimism in my eyes would probably be best applied by soldiers on the battlefield. “I might die, so I should act” which is much better than “I ...
I completely get where you’re coming from here. While I do have a store of quotes I remember like everyone I try and keep my arguments independent of ...
Yes, exactly so. Have you seen @"Pfhorrest" comment on here about the terms Narrow and Broad being applied to Optimism and Pessimism? What did you thi...
Uhm, okay? Thou shalt not kill obviously doesn’t mean what it says then. Literally the complete opposite of what I’m doing. Nihilism is for people in ...
Apologies, I should have grabbed the conversation but the claim I made was something like this; Nobody can be perfect, to be perfect is to be unassail...
Have to agree with you. While a tool may be perfect for a job, such as using perfection itself as a tool for self improvement this implies that the pe...
“To be perfect is to be unassailable, so it stands to reason that if you are being assailed then you are not perfect.” did I say that if one is being ...
While I’d say this is true of precision based sciences, in our line of work we have to craft and form long and nuanced arguments, descriptions, analys...
Oh you mean Matthew 23. He didn’t accuse them of making a show of morality. - Matthew 23 v1-7 Simply put, Jesus is saying the Pharisees are hypocrites...
Yeah sorry that was poorly written. My point is, saying we should be optimistic/pessimistic about things is quite non specific. Context and nuance is ...
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