@"Marchesk" I literally can't imagine what that would be like in any coherent way. I suppose these arguments aren't very good at convincing the unimag...
@"Michael" The computer could produce an arbitrarily accurate approximation of Pi, given sufficient computing time. The computer would not have infini...
The speed we think and act probably puts some bounds on their informational content. But the speed alone tells us nothing about how hard it would be t...
It isn't a matter of producing the correct digits. Pi is a computable number. It's this property, it is a real consequence of the fact that Pi is tran...
So the idea is replace all experiences with exactly equivalent substitutes which come solely from stimulating the brain? Presumably this is automated ...
I heard a nice argument about the impossibility of BIVs, daemons, Matrix style arguments etc etc. It points out that the mathematics we've managed to ...
Apologies for combativeness. Usually when people want a little help on some logic problem on here, especially from a new account, they just want a sol...
Here's one I made earlier. I think there’s a disagreement I have with Jordan Peterson that is foundational for my other disagreements with him. He has...
Following up to @"VagabondSpectre"'s study post. Imo the best part of the analysis is on P1109, where it actually looks at a log(hours):occupation int...
There are a lot of ways to interpret the modelling results on page 1098, and is actually evidence for the claim that men and women in the same occupat...
Stuff on Norway, general pay gap is less than 27% - that was for a specific type of employment and I misquoted. P29 of this thing is the income compar...
The demographic data it's based on will still be the same in 20 years. IE, it will still be true of 2017. Studies have been done either looking back i...
It apparently takes a tremendous amount of genius to read an accessibly written government report which addresses your concerns quantitatively and the...
No, I'm saying that when looked at from a societal level with the most comprehensive data available the wage gap is robust to controlling for occupati...
Completely inconsistent standards of evidence. If you get to speculate like this without the data, so do those feminazi libtards. Edit: also, I alread...
There are two methods in analysis discussed in it. Both include other factors, both still conclude a pay gap. I'm not sure how you obtained this inter...
My working hypothesis is that you've come to this from Jordan Peterson or a related video making an argument that the gender pay gap doesn't exist whe...
I don't think it's particularly ridiculous. People feel they have different amounts of control over the intrusive thoughts or delusional fantasies. Th...
By the sounds of it it wasn't like an intellectualised belief like the kind you find on this forum, it was an intrusion that overwhelmed him sometimes...
I brought it up because I spoke to a schizophrenic recently who had that delusion and it troubled him greatly. More generally, I brought that up to sa...
I'm not interested in debating whether we're all robots in some unspecified sense which will inevitably retreat to a broader and more abstract sense u...
That also depends on the person's legal status. Someone can be put into psychiatric treatment involuntarily, at least in the countries I'm familiar wi...
Insight has a legal/technical definition, it means the subject recognises their pathologies. Someone who believes they're Jesus sincerely does not hav...
That really depends on whether the subject has insight or not. If they have insight - they'll already know that their beliefs about crowds being threa...
CBT isn't just a set of thought exercises. It's literally cognitive-behavioural therapy. You are given mental exercises as well as actual activities t...
No disorders are treated with pure intellection, you have to do stuff that makes the disease bugger off as well as think stuff that makes the disease ...
Ascertaining 'the causes' is a bit misleading, as what started the anxiety and what keeps it going ontically aren't necessarily what structures anxiet...
And that rumination, preocupation and obsession are treated as part of psychotherapy for anxious disorders doesn't dissuade you that they often have p...
Nonsense MU. See here for less technical bollocks and a much briefer overview. Rumination, preoccupation, obsession, frequent disturbing and uncontrol...
There's a lot of crapping on clinical psychology in this thread. At the very least it should be given respect as a catalogue of symptoms, even if you ...
I wanted to add the clinical dimension of anxiety to the discussion, please read my posts in that light. Someone who is mentally healthy deals with an...
The analogy with the moth describes the predisposition of a highly anxious subject to fret, and the fretting diminishes their agency in a cyclical and...
A phenomenological account of anxiety with no mention of personality, specific moods, a person's social history, their environment, their identity, th...
Anxiety has a transgressive character in Heidegger - transporting a person into a state in which normal categories of thought and the normative struct...
Four arguments on the topic or undermining the topic: On the topic: Mapping true and false onto the two horns of the principle of excluded middle is a...
By saying that the magnitude of i is 1, what I meant wasn't that there was a single i, an answer to how many 'i's are there - but that a vector that s...
Perhaps this is pedantic, but even in terms of rotations in the complex plane i does have a couple of associated quantities with its notion of multipl...
Been busy, there will be a reply. I've been working a little bit on mathematical details for this 'native generation of parameters' using entropy. I'm...
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