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All I've done in this thread is: (1) Say that the question was leading and uninformative. (2) Try to explain why any interpretation of it suggested so...

It creates value in forms invisible to balance sheets. It's worse for it than not selling. "What actionable insights does philosophy give you?" uhhh.....

That's an awful lot of opinion to form from that statistic, eh? You even brought hats. What you've done is fit that statistic in with your previous co...

So what conclusions do you draw from that bit of data?

How something is vague matters a lot regarding its usefulness. I would like to live in a world where people seem as unaware as you are that questions ...

You go on interpreting the poorly designed survey question in accordance with whatever political worldview you think it confirms then...

Either to inform them that some idiot doesn't think Naziism is a viewpoint or has Nazi sympathies and sometimes approves of violent direct action.

Yes. And it's entirely up to the survey interpreter to decide what is meant by progressive blah. Is hatespeech mitigating law progressive blah? Headli...

Fill out this survey please: Do you believe consensus building is always of vital importance in political dispute resolution? (Yes/No) Has there ever ...

I think I break the terms up differently from you. To my understanding, you treat all that a mathematical model of something says as epistemic. Becaus...

Not a problem :up:

It isn't a surprise that over 80% of a group dislike a nebulously defined pejorative. Does disliking political correctness entail anything about your ...

I've changed your name. Has the password reset email turned up yet?

The fog makes it impossible for anyone inclined to believe Trump to hold him accountable for a mistake. If you give a true believer for his real polit...

Do you have a source for this? I'd love to see the connection.

I had this in a signals processing/wavelets class a while back. There's a standard proof here. The Fourier transform of the momentum operator applied ...

Yes. The guy keeps using sockpuppets to copy paste verbatim from his blog. The blog content is far right (we're talking creative euphemisms for a Jewi...

Banned @"Bruno Campello". @"BrunoCampello", for sockpuppeting and advertising.

If we got into it we'd be discussing your philosophical system rather than the thread topic.

I dunno. I'd hesitate to say prediction = causation in any way. You have to do a lot of work to interpret the estimated parameters of a statistical mo...

Wrote a post trying to explain some chaos concepts a while ago. Since you're a meteorologist I'd guess you probably already know it and are making a p...

I don't see good reasons against "self harm" in this sense, if it strikes an accord with you and does no harm to others. The only avenue of attack I s...

Worth reading for context. A deterministic model of the Galton box; no randomness involved. Against Galton's idea that the collisions of balls with pi...

Think you're mostly right. "Open" and "closed" don't mean quite that though. A closed system is one that isn't subject to any external net force or ma...

I think it's true that the hypothetical "if initial state is completely specified, then trajectory is completely specified" is true of the systems lik...

Indexicals, man, sometimes folly is funny, sometimes folly is sad. Also, something can be funny and sad at the same time.

That role seems to be played by the initial conditions. For a given initial condition, there's a guaranteed outcome. For a range of initial conditions...

That's a possible feature of how the balls are input, no? If you have a robotic arm capable of placing balls to arbitrary precision; like we can on pa...

Damn good. :up:

So regarding the measurement error thing. Wanted to make my argument more precise. Two main points: (1) Laplace's demon does not take error terms' int...

Some ideas that stick with me from various places, all of them have changed how I've thought about stuff. Statistics: data generating process, model u...

Exactly! The majority of the time something else is in play too. When we imagine a system, it's usually determinate - it has a system of equations tha...

Wrote a comment about randomness as internal to systems a long time ago here. Knowledge is everything to Laplace's demon. If such a state of knowledge...

It's also true that a fair dice has probability 1/6 of landing on each side. Randomness as a physical property of systems rather than an epistemic lim...

One way of phrasing Laplace's demon is "If the initial state within an arbitrary system was completely specified, it would evolve into a unique state ...

Think so! I was writing in the context of the claim: "If there were no Laplace's demon, then our deterministic models wouldn't work", the point being ...

I agree that that conclusion fits with Anscombe's paper. If you write down a bunch of equations involving a time variable, take an initial state at t=...

Err... Probably metaphysics and epistemology.

The mod @"Baden" wrote a detailed guide for writing a thread's original post here. It may help. Note that most OPs (original post) are much worse than...

I deleted it. Your original post was full of mistakes and made little argument. If you work on it a bit, repost it. Some pointers: (1) You made a few ...

Patterns are why we can ask why, not the other way around.

"It's okay to discriminate using eugenics so long as you justify it with market logic"

It depends how it's managed. 2008 was a record profit year for many. As is this one.

:up: Just so stories are signposts.

I've heard that. It's been a long time since I've read anything about it; perhaps you can critique what I remembered and sythesised. (1) The communist...

I think there's a very valuable skill to learn from reading people who focus on the analysis of discourse and how it intersects with politics. Especia...

Yes! A synthetic perspective is a very courageous thing to generate if done with sufficient care; ultimately the only thing that distinguishes a maste...

That's really interesting! Do you view it as: (1) The block has slices. (2) The slices have temporal (1d) and spatial (3d) parts. (3) The slices are a...

What @"Pfhorrest" said. I don't think any of us really know what we're doing. Any confidence displayed on here is just courage (or arrogance/recklessn...

Fair. Depends on the intended audience.