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It's not that bad is it? You abstract away the specifics of the mechanism and give it a label. Capitalism is a name for any socio-economic system in w...

Which is nice, because I'm absolutely not making that case, and neither are the doctors asking the questions!

Why often: there's a trend that trans people's wellbeing improves when they adopt the roles and bodies of the desired gender. Why not always: individu...

Do you really need to ask those questions when trans people often report that their suffering alleviates somewhat when they perform the role of the ap...

Guess the application of puberty blockers comes down to the question; does the benefit of suspending puberty for this patient outweigh the possible ri...

I don't think behaving like a lesbian is that easy? I mean, it seems more feasible to replace men with good sex toys than for women to suddenly become...

Bloody PC police, you can't even say that Islam is a paedophile human trafficking conspiracy being backed by the Clintons!

Depends on the type IIRC. I don't think young kids are given the sterilising hormone therapy often, for obvious reasons. Edit: So yeah, the gender tra...

Hormone therapy's reversible anyway. Easily so. This is the most common treatment, and is given long before the surgical procedure.

Are people actually worried about this chain of association: (1) Acceptance of gender non-conformity. => (2) Parents accept gender non-conformity =>(3...

True things in a deductive system being unprovable. True things without justification. Kinda the same thing.

The sun will rise tomorrow.

... Newton's laws being theorems from other assumptions doesn't mean they describe reality.

Can you prove they describe the world somehow without checking? No. Can you prove they are consequences of other math? Yes. I think you can get all th...

What do you think the usual meaning is?

There are identities that are differentially effected by political circumstances in any society there's... society... in; which is all of them. Whethe...

Anyway, the motivating picture in my responses to @"Snakes Alive" in the thread and its relation to the OP is as follows. If you wanna talk about the ...

So you don't choose the projects. They're tailored to current research interests of the institution and society at large, and ultimately what you can ...

What choices do you make when you're at work?

Do people actually experience the choices they make like this? Honestly most of the time whenever I choose something my hand is tipped or forced by ci...

This (and the whole channel) is excellent for visualisations and doesn't skimp on the math.

I think you're right, there are systemic reasons why chaotic systems are chaotic, even though (AFAIK) there isn't just 'one thing' which is chaos. Eve...

So, for @"frank" and to contextualise the connections between what I've posted and the rest of the discussion. The thread's determinism and predictabi...

That's one flavour of randomness, though a biased coin flip is still random. I agree that something has to be 'fixed' in the background for 'randomnes...

Eh. Structure's a placeholder there. Generally they'll be algebraic flavour, a collection of objects and operations or relators between them. I mean s...

Thank you for your patience. These are still things I'm wrestling with, and it is very good to have someone who is actually interested in my wrestling...

Going out on a limb here. I guess what I'm gesturing towards is why should we care about the perspective of God on a system when God's external to it?...

How do you both deal with that people wrestle with axioms as much as theorems? The Hilbert program's legacy (and logicism) is on the one hand to find ...

You actually know quite a lot about the outcome. It's described as 50% heads 50% tails. We don't know what the outcome is but we have a complete speci...

And yet the real instances of flipping fair coins produce this kind of distribution. Very similar to sex proportions in birth. The claim that 'if we k...

It can be either or both. I'll focus on it as a latent structure, seeing as the epistemic angle is well known. The distribution of outcomes H-T-H-... ...

Just want to throw this into the hat. You flip a fair coin, the probability of heads is 0.5, the probability of tails is 0.5. The outcome is not predi...

I quite like it. It's much easier to have a pre-filter to inform mod action than to have us scanning the boards for the worst drivel all the time. It ...

I think the best 'defense' against mysticism is twofold. The first is an understanding of the patterns of reason and emotion that lead to it, the seco...

So a cool trick with thinking is the interplay between procedural descriptions and diagrammatic representations of them. Condensing a decision process...

This discussion was merged into On Buddhism

Environmental constraints/carrying capacity are much more about the population growth of consumers and our industrial support than the raw population ...

You can at least be an ally.

If you don't care about etiquette in general this is a deeper problem than just apparently bollocks pronouns, sis.

I just don't understand the need to care so much about this. Why are so many people pedants when it comes to inventing pronouns when: "humba wumba shl...

General AIs have to deal with the framing problem Machine learning algorithms, despite all being able to be applied to a wide class of problems, still...

That wiki page is about workflow design and programming language styles in programming. Not anything about philosophy; it's philosophy in the sense of...

Sad to hear this. The show he did with Ayer on Russel and Frege was one of the things that made me want to start studying philosophy.

Unfasifiable => narratively driven. Test that.

Sometimes.

Having been unable to quantify the urgency of concepts or the feasibility of their implementation in the general case, I have no idea. | . |___ There.

Where did I mention logical positivism?

If all you're discussing turns on the use of clear terms, you're discussing crap that doesn't mean anything. Alice: Do I have a broken leg? Bob: Well ...