A baby is born at 10pm in New York. Someone looks at their watch. Since the measurement process took a second, we can't justifiably say the baby's bee...
There's also the question of (eco)system boundaries. Hereditary mechanisms are embodied at the organismal level but operate above and below it; prosai...
It isn't what philosophy has always sought to do, though. The empirical character of phenomenology let it internalise that kind of dialogue between li...
To make it easier, if you give me a sequence of 10 moves, I'll tell you whether it's losing or not. EG: denote by W a day that you work and N a day th...
I don't think it's feasible to keep believing in the universality of economic rationality when there are plenty of scenarios which don't contain it. W...
Acting in someone's self interest isn't actually a clear thing game theoretically unless strategies can be discussed. To 'act in your self interest' i...
The reproductive behaviour of organisms can also be considered as part of an ecosystem though. This is why colony collapse disorder for bees is terrif...
When you say 'is there a theorem for that' it has to be specific to a game or class of games. There's not 'theorem for that' for games which display m...
I first started reading phenomenological literature when I was 18. I was impressed with the apparent ability to vary something, say a lightbulb, in te...
This and this are almost entirely maths free descriptions of special relativity's use of the speed of light as 'cosmic speed limit' and how it has a c...
One thing that game theory does in an analysis is ascribe an abstract opponent. This can be 'nature' or another player. This can be generalised to coo...
(1) The error analysis is correct. (2) The derived error rate is approximately 3*10^-16 seconds per second. Do these require metaphysical necessity an...
It's known that the error rate for that clock is about 3*10^-16 seconds per second. This implies the error rate is 3*k * 10^-16 seconds per k*second. ...
Noo.... An extrapolation is an extension of an analysis outside the data range for which it was estimated. Say the error rate is K seconds per second,...
It isn't an extrapolation, it's a rounding of the error rate translated to a timescale that denotes the sheer precision of the measurement to a lay au...
Would you be happy with 6*10^-16 seconds per 2 seconds? How about 9*10^-16 per 3? You can scale the error like that all you like, it still represents ...
Ok. If the measurement error analysis in the paper isn't wrong, that means the 1 second in 100 million years isn't wrong. Since that corresponds to an...
Help me out a bit. (1) Beliefs about nature and methods for deriving them are fallible. (2) The laws of nature are non-necessary. (3) The laws of natu...
Basically correct. If you want to talk about dark energy, you have to be able to accept solutions to Einstein's field equations as correct and the web...
Before Newton thought of ma=mg implies a=g, objects with little difference in air resistance fell in the same way. Before Schrodinger's equation, atom...
I understood you were making the claim that since the laws of the universe can possibly change. I'm not making the claim that it's impossible to chang...
What scientists believe about dark energy has absolutely no bearing on whether the laws of the universe will change in a given time period. Coming to ...
I did a bit of background reading on Smolin. From what I understand he advocates the view that the laws of physics change over time. I'm sympathetic w...
The laws of physics have been shown to operate over all observed parts of the universe - and thus back in time more than that. It isn't a stretch to a...
Yes, one is an expression utilising a shared background of institutionalised prejudiced to furnish its acceptance and is acceptable, and one is an exp...
Don't you see the distinction between: The clock only ran for a month, so the error is at least a month. The clock ran for a month and had an error of...
You're always going to have measurement error in experiments. 5.4*10^-17 error in a second is ridiculously precise. As the optical lattice clock paper...
Any argument that purports to prove the existence of God could be called a demonstration of God's existence. That doesn't mean the person detailing th...
It doesn't pretend to prove God. The point of the thread is to examine the argument. If the OP was filled with ridicule of atheists and had 'checkmate...
I'd rather see what conception of God is engendered by the assumptions than attempt to shoehorn in a totally irrelevant conception for the sole purpos...
There's a blogger that links abstract properties of societies to real life impediments in the UK. How he writes is exemplary and worthy of study and m...
They ran for a period of a month, and they got out of phase by 2.8 x 10^-17 seconds. That doesn't mean it's only proven to be stable for a month. Quit...
Honestly I don't understand literally everything in the paper. I trust their error analysis. If you really want me to translate the error analysis in ...
Well yeah, the ratio of crime rates of those subject to the intervention and the per capita rate in the general community excluding the people subject...
Now we probably agree in practice if not in principle. However you're still going to be hostile to the ideas that inequality and poverty contribute to...
@"Agustino" Do you see a role for statistics in finding problem areas in the organisation of a society that contribute to people making immoral decisi...
One of the reasons statistical approaches to gas behaviour works was because it took something incredibly complicated with loads of variables - the in...
Individuals are far more complicated than gas molecules therefore we can't treat them as random and use their aggregate properties to study their prop...
Ok. What's wrong with doing this Aug: Also: You literally just skim read the wikipedia article to find the first thing you could say to me that looked...
You're saying that statistics only works when the thing it's applied to is random. I gave you a counter-example. Parameter estimation is used to asses...
No. Physical models are fit to data which are generated deterministically. The parameter fitting process still assumes the data is indistinguishable f...
@"Agustino" "I believe all these facts limit my agency therefore they are false" - exactly why I stepped away in the first place. You don't actually c...
Supplementary post: declaring that some statistics don't apply to individuals is essentially flipping the table we're sitting around to discuss this. ...
You're completely forgetting the application of base rates. Also your claim that a phenomenon has to be 'truly random' to have statistics applied to i...
I understand it quite well, statistics apply to individuals insofar as they support your arguments, and they do not apply to individuals to the extent...
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