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Yes, I agree. But even in an infinite universe we will never reach the end of an infinite sequence of numbers.

Yes, I do understand that each sequence of some particular number of flips has the same probability. Why would that change anything. Instead of all he...

The part that got me about the experiment wasn't that people would do bad things when directed by authority, it was how trivial the level of authority...

In my version, I required that the total number of flips and the required sequence of tails and heads had to be specified in advance. If I set the num...

Let's simplify the universe the way Alec has in his post. The whole universe is just the flipping of coins. It doesn't even matter if they are fair, a...

You didn't read my post carefully. I said your limerick stinks, not that it broke the rules.

Joke of the Day - October 13, 2017 Definitions: A priori truth – An assertion I want to be true but that can’t be proven, that I can’t prove, or that ...

Your limericks stink, but I can appreciate a good smarty pants. You, Sapientia, and Nils Loc are to be congratulated.

I think what I wrote, which you called "placing in a box," would not be considered that by most people. Certainly not by me. I can see you're angry. L...

Of course I'm pretty skeptical, but you've given us nothing to work with here, just that you heard of something that might do something. How about som...

Joke of the Day - October 12, 2017. Yo mama jokes: Yo mama is so old, she sat behind Pythagoras in second grade. Yo Buddha is so fat, his reflection w...

When I first read your response, I didn't understand where it came from, so I went back and read through our posts. I still don't get it. I don't thin...

NL, you are a humerous person.

Sorry, wrong joke, it was this one: Lesser Known Philosophical Sayings • Gunga Galunga • The D’oh that can be spoken is not the eternal D’oh • Hemlock...

So was my response. I don't know if you read it, but I identified that phrase earlier in this thread as a lesser known logical fallacy.

I've been thinking about your comment. I think my comment was appropriate and responsive. I was specifically talking about how differences in feelings...

I know you are, but what am I?

I'm not sure, is that intended is a reference to those of us who use, including PmcP and me, prescription drugs to treat psychological issues? I can t...

Don't be sorry, your joke is exactly what I was hoping for, it was a joke and it was on the border between amusing and funny. I appreciated it.

One or two would be fine, but I really don't intend that this be a limericks thread. Also, the ones that have been posted so far aren't funny or even ...

Hey, everyone. If you want to just insult each other, there's the Shoutbox. If you want to write limericks, as Sir2u said, you can start a separate th...

I think that's a good idea, given that this is a jokes thread.

Smug, creepy, laughable, ironic.

Thanks. None of the jokes are as good as mine (although most are better than yours), but what they lack in quality, they make up in quantity.

They don't have to tell jokes that are funny, I'm only asking that they try.

This is only a suggestion - but you guys could try telling actual jokes. That's kind of the idea behind this discussion.

I accused Nils Loc of being a computer. I think I'll accuse you of being monkey's with typewriters.

"Buddy," very amusing, but there's no need to explain classical reality any more than there is quantum reality. It's just the way things are. We can d...

I'm going back and forth on this, but I'm pretty sure I disagree. I'm skeptical, but it may say something about the nature of reality, but no more tha...

I agree. Quantum mechanics is physics and idealism is metaphysics. A statement in physics can be proven wrong. In most cases, a statement in metaphysi...

My God! That's moose turd pie. It's good though.

Joke of the Day - October 11, 2017 A mathematician and a priest are having lunch. The mathematician asks “Can God count to infinity?” The priest says ...

From your description of the article and quotes from it you provide, Chu's article sure seems to be more about men's invalid hurt vs. women's valid hu...

Not sure I buy that, but my familiarity with statistics is not enough to make a case. Maybe fdrake will poke his nose in and provoke a better conversa...

Are all branches of math sciences, or only statistics? Although it certainly seems different in detail than other branches, it seems pretty much the s...

I don't think of any branch of mathematics as a science. Do you think I should?

Ah, smug snootyism, one of the most satisfying and least valuable philosophies.

That's not how I see it. To me, the Tao Te Ching is a joke. "The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao." Then 80 verses of speaking about the ...

Gilligan, the Skipper too, the millionaire and his wife, the movie star, and the rest, here on Gilligan's Isle.

I haven't read much philosophy. I must admit I've always looked down on Western philosophy in particular. So much emphasis on tedious distinctions. So...

Story telling is also very Taoist. It's how we bring the world, the 10,000 things, into existence. I love the phrase "the 10,000 things." I remember r...

When I'm talking about materialism and determinism, I'm talking about the philosophical meaning of those words, not the meaning in physics. Materialis...

I've been making the point about observational science. The study I was describing is more like natural history - Jane Goodall with the chimps, Sigour...

Yes, you're right. I was overlooking know-how. I'm talking about words, concepts, ideas. Know-how under normal circumstances is not a story, but if I ...

I'm not sure how that relates to the particular example I was giving? Are you expressing skepticism? I haven't read the related articles, so I can't c...

This discussion has a lot of potensho. That's the end of this particular cycle for me.

There are those of us who disagree.

That ensho a stupid joke.

I'm starting to think that Nils Loc is just a computer that generates its responses by randomly rejiggering the posts of others. Nils - that doesn't m...

I would say that telling stories is a lifetime endeavor as much as developing the skills of observation. Expressing the results of those observations ...