The set would have to countable, wouldn't it? You could count the worlds. There's a one-to-one correspondence with each parallel world and the natural...
What did Trump do that was authoritarian? Seriously? He tried to pressure the Republican Georgia secretary of state to "find" exactly the number of vo...
You could argue that the elites foisted Biden on Democrats, but Republicans had no shortage of options when it came time to pick Trump, both in 2015 a...
But isn't it theoretically possible for Bob to guess right? ETA: Bob makes a guess as far as the machine is concerned, but in the second scenario, Bob...
People told pollsters that, yeah, but did anyone put pressure on elected dems or the DNC? Did the liberal talking heads demand a primary? Did the NYTi...
I don't agree with this. There was no appetite for replacing Biden. He sailed through the primaries and his one credible challenger got almost no vote...
But if there's the assertion that physical matter exists, and minds and consciousness emerge from it, there has to be an explanation for how that happ...
There were three pivotal one-on-one debates Biden was in and he won all three. One against Bernie and two against Trump. https://projects.fivethirtyei...
That's a good question. Perhaps a dream like this allows to experience a whole lot of things we normally wouldn't be able to in our "natural state" of...
538 still has the race a toss-up. Betting odds on Trump are about 55%. They could probably run Biden Weekend-at-Bernies style and still have a 1-in-3 ...
Biden's rolling the dice. If he wins, even by a narrow margin, the GOP will suffer the worst trouncing a political party has ever had in American poli...
Some of the founders wanted the presidency to be a committee job. I figure when I vote for president, I'm voting for a team, not just one person. So I...
Yes, I figure I'm losing a couple years off my life expectancy. I'm not terribly worried about it. Ironically, it was a gaming addiction that nearly c...
Mind coming from matter is indeed miraculous, and also embarrassing to scientists recently. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-25-year-old-b...
What is this??? You're going to roll in with all this Chad swagger about nobility and sex and marriage and then fold when someone asks you about what ...
Well, that's why I changed it to "priorities", but I think we have vastly different worldviews too. I'm an idealist. I think this is all a dream. I'm ...
Most people date for awhile. My wife and I lived together for about six months before we got married. I actually met my wife trolling on AOL 25 years ...
This is overly cynical. If you're not in love with the person, why bother marrying them? What's the point? I would never have married my wife if I had...
Thailand sounds all right, but the Khmer Rouge wasn't all that long ago. Aren't you worried something like that might happen again and you might get c...
This country is not going to elect a black woman, much less a politically incompetent black woman like Harris. Michelle Obama is the exception to that...
This was particularly amusing considering two years ago I was nominated for teacher of the year at my site for the first time. Didn't win, but I'm at ...
I keep it at four drinks a day. My body seems to have handled that pretty well over the decades. Vital signs were good at last checkup. If I was reall...
I agree we're in an oligarchy in practice, but that's what the voters want. Every two years, we have the option of throwing all the bums out in the Ho...
That's not really my point. My point is that, on balance, there isn't some past society or time period that is morally superior/less decayed than the ...
It seems you are saying that things have gotten worse/decayed since Nietzsche with the rise of moral anti-realism. But in the 120 years since Nietzsch...
Civil rights have to rank high on the "moral decay" calculus. I'm definitely not going to agree that any society or time period where gay marriage is ...
That would probably end up being most of the stuff we buy. https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/nov/24/child-labour-what-can-we-do-af...
What about child laborers in the supply chain of our favorite products (and other workers who work in awful and dangerous conditions)? We are obviousl...
Yes. Why assert there is any mind independent physical stuff? You can't prove it, it's unnecessary to explain reality, and you run into the mind-body ...
Any moral theory is ultimately going to have to pass some realworld tests, and since there's never a universal consensus on morality, like there is in...
Consequentalism gives the proper result in the scenario I was talking about: You bomb Hitler and end the war, even if it means the death of one innoce...
Yeah, they can definitely be deceived. It's possible the dealer could innocently deal himself 20 royal flushes in a row, but everyone would have left ...
This sounds like epistemic probability (or maybe subjective probability?). For example, suppose I'm in a poker game with people I don't know. The deal...
If you are competing for a job with another person, and the other person isn't an HS graduate and you are, isn't that going to be a significant advant...
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