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Oh right, and vampires are even more closely related to bats than we are. Makes perfect sense.

I thought he was a vampire. Can vampires even get COVID?

If I may... I think Oliver’s point is that we can never be sure whether any observed failure of predictability is due to nature being non-deterministi...

Information is the right track to be on. Remember also that all programs are just data being executed, and all data is executable in principle, most o...

French is the most poorly pronounced Latin in the world.

Maybe I missed part of the earlier conversation, because I thought you were on the “we can falsify determinism” (as in “it is actually false”) side of...

That just means we are unable to be sure whether determinism is true or not.

I can explain for him. Determinism is true if and only if: - given a particular state of affairs, - and the laws of nature, - a particular future stat...

I think you’re misreading Kenosha. He isn’t proposing alternative criteria for falsification generally. He’s saying what criteria would need to be met...

Okay, so your wife has an insanely high-paying job. That's your secret. She is rich, and you live off of her. I calculate that if your rent is about $...

If you don’t own property then you must rent. That is the biggest cost sink for most people, just having a roof over their head. How much is your rent...

Link?

Your life story just raises the question of where the money to live that life comes from if not work. If you just lived in some kind of very cheap are...

Also those are dolphins not porpoises.

There are two important sub-questions: what use is philosophy to any given individual, and what use is philosophy to society as a whole. To the first ...

In our capitalist society money will be demanded from you even to allow you to live the simplest life, and a good job is the only way to get that mone...

Observing my religious family members, it’s pretty clear to me that that is the reason they are religious: because it would be just awful if God didn’...

I am talking. I am made of neurons, molecules, atoms, and particles. They, and so I who am made of them, are shaped in part by society and culture, in...

What I am saying is what I am saying. But why am I saying it? If there is some answer to that question, then that's a cause of me saying it. If there ...

It is of value both to yourself and to society for you to be familiar with the ways of thinking, the questions thought about, and answers people have ...

This kind of agent causation is nonsense. Everything that doesn’t happen for a definite cause happens randomly — that’s what randomness is. So the age...

I am curious what other options you're thinking of specifically.

Hey look, it’s the founding principle of my entire philosophical system.

I for one can separate my feelings from my rational decision-making. I enjoy hearing about Trump getting sick the way I enjoy a villain in fiction bei...

http://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/StoicApathy.png

Wavefunctions evolve deterministically, but which classical state of that superposition we become entangled with is random from our perspectives. You ...

I wasn’t thinking specifically of that, but yeah, that would do.

I don't want anyone to suffer or die. Minimizing that is why I want Trump and those like him out of office. If Trump getting sick gets him out of offi...

It's the incompatibilist notion of "free will" that makes no sense as far as moral responsibility goes. If free will is just not being determined, the...

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Not necessarily. Say things were objectively fine -- you had all your basic needs met as satisfactorily as any human being could want them -- but for ...

I think it's sort of a chicken and egg effect. Suffering causes a desire for things to be different than they are, and a desire for things to be diffe...

Would it not be easier to find fellow philosophy students among your classmates than hoping some are on here? As I recall from a poll I posted a while...

If it’s a tiny handful, no, but if enough people do it, of course. The alternative for someone in a safe station is to have zero impact at all. I’ll t...

Voting third party is entirely about sending a message to the main two parties. Until we abolish FPTP third parties mathematically cannot be significa...

(quotes butcher mathjax but you know what I mean) :rofl: :clap: :up: :fire:

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So (the FBI says that) Russia says that the allegations of Russian meddling in the election were all a ploy by Hillary? I guess that settles it then!

Kanye/Kim Kardashian 2020?

I didn’t mean to say that they were, but that “feeling sad” and “feeling mad” are sub-types of “feeling bad”: they are both unpleasant emotions.

Part of me wants to attribute that comment as Trump flubbing his lines again and not knowing the difference between “stand back” and “stand by” (he fr...

I created a predecessor of it for the purpose of explaining my own psychology as I perceive it to a therapist years ago, then realized the parallels t...

Sad and mad are both kinds of bad (negative affect), and people always forget the second kind of good (positive affect): http://geekofalltrades.org/co...

FWIW I just updated the image to hopefully make things a little more obvious for the likes of schop.

That's unfortunate. I liked his defense of socialism early on but could see the potential for things to get too heated. I'm sorry to see the latter en...

I thought he was defining the integers x and y as (equivalence classes of) ordered pairs of naturals (with the equivalence class part implied by sayin...

The chart is of suffering and enjoyment. You seem to be ignoring those axes entirely and focusing entirely on the labels inside the chart. The horizon...

Indexicals are words like “now” and “here”. There isn’t anything ontologically special about “here” compared to other places, it’s just the place wher...

Nonexistence is a case of zero suffering and zero enjoyment. "Rollercoaster" is a life of severe ups and downs: lots of enjoyment but also lots of suf...

The axis from lower left to upper right is enjoyment. The axis from upper left to lower right is suffering. On the far left is none of either, like fr...