Not using policy to condemn the many to die for the sake of the few us not emphasising "personal responsibility": quite the opposite! It is the respon...
To be clear, I was responding to the point that overshorting is not a problem since it is equivalent to the same stocks being bought and sold in succe...
A key distinction. But we're not talking about whether it's good for a woman's CV: we're talking about whether it would result in her having acid thro...
Everything is at the origin of its own reference frame. The Sun is at the centre of it's, the Earth of it's, the Moon of it's. And how things are in t...
When those that choose not to are free from coersion and violent consequences, then coersion and violent consequences will cease to be factors in thei...
Do you care to check the proportion of undergraduates, postgraduates and university staff who are male? And the proportion of those males who are able...
Well, it does when they find themselves paying for inflated stock they don't want not just once but 1.4 times, and find they can only sell it again on...
Do you see the muddle? The standard for electrons is inference but your standard for consciousness is observation. A scientific approach to consciousn...
Isaac is probably best placed to answer this. He knows a lot about how the brain processes sensory data, and how awareness of that processed data, suc...
This sort of thinking is precisely how the pandemic has become so protracted. A refusal to do it once and do it right because business comes first has...
Of course they factor in. That doesn't make the decision "emotional". If I wish to put a nail in the wall, it is perfectly logical to use a hammer. En...
Yeah, something like it perhaps. I do lean more towards a general relativistic quantum theory than a quantum theory of gravity. The S-N equation itsel...
:rofl: It will vary depending on the distance from the cathode to the slits, the slits to the screen, the distance between the slits, the widths of th...
There are probabilistic (Copenhagen-like) interpretations of QM and deterministic (MWI-like) interpretations of QM so, no, it's not fundamentally prob...
I did my PhD in quantum transport theory. The Schrödinger equation is a wave equation. Do you mean CERN? In quantum mechanics, predictions concern exp...
No, that's not correct. The wave equations are completely deterministic. Probabilism enters via the Born rule. The collapse mechanism is unknown, pres...
Precisely why we should prosecute on the basis of intent. I personally don't believe Trump incited an insurrection, but that's what he's charged with:...
My opinion is that it's probably not, but I'm open-minded. However my point above was that QM is phenomenological rather than just probabilistic. Ther...
The fault lies solely on the ought side in my view. 'Ought's with 'in order to's are much easier to map to 'is's. If one's aim is to stir tea effectiv...
Relativity, certainly imo. It's up there with natural selection and thermodynamics. Quantum mechanics... It's the best ever at predicting experimental...
The same necessarily follows for every non-urgent thing you do. The logical conclusion is that you're a deeply illogical person living a deeply illogi...
Oh, it's absolutely certain that's a factor, as was the homophobic culture he was raised in. This conversation has featured anal sex much more than an...
That's not what I'm asking. Logically you cannot have reason to do anything that depends on living and have no reason for living. You cannot have reas...
I think I've already told this anecdote, but I'm old now so I take great pleasure in repeating the same stories and nauseum. One of my best friends wa...
But that axiom is not a personal opinion. That's merely a claim that the reasons I give are not my true reasons and what you think my reasons are are ...
I'm not questioning the positive impacts of Christianity on the course of morality; I'm well in agreement. The point was about the origins of those ou...
I mean hypocrisy in its strict sense, e.g. espousing rules but holding themselves or others as exceptions. That's not really a subjective opinion; it ...
No, I don't. These traits are examples of hypocrisy: the people who do them wouldn't have them done back to them also. But how oppressive people feel ...
Then why do it. How can you simultaneously muster a reason for posting and no reason for living? You understand that living is kind of a necessary con...
Bull. I answered your question quickly and unambiguously. The link was not by means of an explanation for that (hence "That said..."), it was just in ...
As I understand it, social constructionism is the study of *which* and *how* social constructs are shared. Social constructivism is the theory *that* ...
Okay I'm sensing you're a bit of a brick wall. You have no ability to lend insight, and no ability to learn. Here's a question, though: why do you kee...
That's epistemology for you: if you lack data, you lack certainty. Causality isn't special in this regard. But if you know the final state of somethin...
Well, they have a vested interest. It appears that, left to their own devices, most people will harm themselves in this way. Health services have two ...
Yeah, that's basically all I mean. It's not that there isn't a prejudiced reaction, but it is a very distinct ballpark to incidental physical characte...
That is incorrect on two fronts. It is perfectly reasonable to enjoy something on an intellectual level: that is called interest. And one certainly ca...
I think you might have taken a different point than I intended. The transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics is what I had in mind, wherein p...
Yes, that's true. At least this is at a somewhat more fuzzy level than, say, the landlords of the 60s refusing to rent to black people who could affor...
That's somewhat different. One cannot help one's gender, one's skin colour, one's sexuality. One can certainly do something about one's weight in almo...
If they believe they won the election despite, you know, the votes, there's no incentive to learn. Plus there's the original reason for the party and ...
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