T_Clark

I’ll bypass most of your OP and just say taking gender into account is not the same thing as “placing gender over sex.” There’s more to say about your...

I think of Saint Francis, who also preached the value and dignity of the poor, although about 1000 years after Saint Patrick. I always got the impress...

You express your opinions as solid facts. Is that true? Do you have extensive knowledge that backs it up or is it just your surmise?

He wrote “the Princess Bride,” both the movie and the book. I like both very much. He also wrote a lot of other famous screenplays. the movie is wonde...

You’re not paying any attention to what I said. We’ve taken this far enough. I am all done.

No, the name I was referring to was kipper.

Guild; gild; gilled

She probably was embarrassed to eat something with such a stupid name.

Not anymore. Now it’s a whole separate subject for discussion. That’s an unintended consequence of your whimsical cat naming.

In a normal distribution, the mode, mean, and the median are all the same. For characteristics with a non-normal distribution, it probably doesn’t mak...

Actually, as I think about it, my definition would work for your situation also. The arithmetic mean of the number of fingers on a human hand would be...

In the post I just submitted, I was talking about human body temperature, not number of fingers. Number of fingers is not normally distributed, althou...

So, what’s the normal human body temperature. 98.6°F. What does that mean? I assume that’s the arithmetic mean of values measured in many humans. If y...

Yes, I knew you would be pleased.

Keeping in mind this is a definition, not the definition.

I am deeply offended.

If you look closely at @"Jamal"’s profile picture, you’ll see he’s really only half a bird.

I never sing, so I must be a fish.

It’s called a normal distribution.

Sure. It’s within one standard deviation of the mean.

That would be helpful so the car wouldn’t turn over when they loaded the rack of mastodon ribs on the window at the drive-in.

There’s an example of the difference between how an AI thinks and how I do. If I were answering this question, I would have included a discussion of t...

I’m shocked to find we disagree on this.

No.

There is no doubt in my mind that it’s not ChatGPT’s fault. I’m sure I set the problem up wrong. That’s why they wouldn’t let me design bridges.

I don’t know what you’re complaining about, I was only off by six orders of magnitude. That being said, if there were 100 million star systems with in...

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It’s just an assumption for the purposes of discussion. Strikes me as wildly optimistic. I doubt we’ll be around that long. Make it 10 million years a...

No.

I had ChatGPT do the calculations for me. If one in 1 billion star systems has life and if one in 1 billion planets with life have intelligent life th...

If you mean it’s possible for me to experience something as true when it isn’t really, of course you’re right. It’s also possible for me to choose whi...

As I noted in my previous post, I think it’s just the other way around. All my concepts, thoughts, feelings, understandings, perceptions, and all thos...

I will grant the existence of an objective reality for the purposes of this discussion. The only way we can know that reality is through our own perce...

I think he’s just telling us he’s looking in on us—I guess like one of Scrooge’s Christmas ghosts.

I appreciate the offer, but I’m already pretty much a skeptic. That’s not exactly right, it’s more like I don’t see the use of modal logic. Which isn’...

Hi ND. I miss you.

Thank you

Thanks

I’ve always had a hard time understanding the value of the possible worlds way of thinking about things. I read the first section of the SEP article a...

I don’t consider expressing my distaste for the OP as trolling and there was no name calling. I didn’t say anything about you, I only commented on the...

It doesn’t surprise me that’s your opinion.

There is a difference between having thoughts and making them public. And babies are very special. The most special things.

This is the saddest, creepiest OP I’ve ever seen on the forum. It’s worse than even Hanover’s true stories.

I have an idea—why don’t we close out this thread for now. It’s getting sort of personal.

Yes. I feel the same way.

Too bad. I kind of liked them, even though we did bark at each other once or twice.

It was explained to me previously here on the forum that bawbag is Irish, not Scottish.

“Testicles” or “bullshit.”

OK, I will take your suggestion and go elsewhere.

What did I say to you that was insulting? I only said I thought what you wrote was wrong and then I explained my reasons. I don’t understand.