Kenosha Kid

That is why there are three parts to the falsifiability criteria: knowability, tractability, unpredictability. Unpredictability alone does not cut it.

This is an example of something being deterministic, knowable, but intractable.

Do you understand what falsifiability is? That nature is deterministic can be falsified by the discovery of a phenomenon which is knowable, tractable,...

This is your problem. You are not precise with language. Quantum indeterminacy relates to knowability: we cannot, for instance, know both the position...

Does it, to any greater extent than the mainstream interpretations of QM did at the time? Popper wrote prior to the widespread acceptance of determini...

I haven't seen the last couple, but I always used to before every election. Always voted Green locally, never at a GE though. I just skimmed their lat...

I am actually Scottish by blood, so...

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Bye, crazy lying Christian dude.

Labour under Corbyn did an okay job against Theresa May. Next to Corbyn, the Green Party are centrists. People aren't avoiding the Green Party because...

Indeed, hence the default scepticism. But ultimately I don't much give a shit whether a politician acts on scientific advice for moral reasons or for ...

That isn't out of context. That's your opening untruth. Random does not mean, nor has ever meant, mindless. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard...

Well, you know I have the truth, sir While all you have is lies Put on the special glasses See the reality behind You know that I'm awake, sir While y...

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Forests and trees maybe.

Astonishing! You can't even cite your own paper honestly. The very first sentence!!!

I read the part of your paper that claimed that philosophical naturalists characterise evolution as a purely random process, which is a lie. And I rea...

Ah. If a politician promised to follow the science, I would remain sceptical until she demonstrated it, but at least relieved they were not promising ...

I hope I'm reading you incorrectly, and you're not saying we should not discuss climate change on grounds that politicians cannot discuss it well.

This was the "nonsense" that earlier you told me to educate myself on evolution with. Now it's evident that Dawkins has repeatedly said the exact oppo...

It is very much characteristic of the side of the argument to conclude that, because the dangers of unconstrained fossil fuel consumption is bad, that...

False equivalence. Environmental concern is overwhelmingly backed by science, that is, the scientific consensus is overwhelmingly in favour of climate...

Yes, the 'cost function' that evolution minimises is time-dependent and a function of the very genetic population it optimised. That is still an optim...

The first thing Trump said in his post-Covid address was to humbly thank the many doctors and nurses who enabled his recovery, the very doctors and nu...

I think that was closer to my case. No one is denying that noise generation is important to solving optimisation problems. The contention isn't even w...

In addition, the nature of the noise generation is far less important than the fact that some means or locally exploring state space exists at all.

It is important, but it is not the only source of characteristics variation. Nor is it especially profound. All it means is that billions of complex c...

Unpredictable and random aren't synonyms. Nor is the generation of genetic noise as important as what is done with it, which is algorithmic, not rando...

It is assuredly not.

Not caring about the truth is insufficient. What was mysterious or conflated with political and economic short-termism in the context of climate chang...

Communism bad, therefore Russia's communist revolution bad, therefore Tsarist Russia less bad? Russia was already shit. That's why they had a revoluti...

I suggest you read them, esp. Dawkins who takes great pains to explain that evolution is not, nor could be, a random process, you charlatan.

I pointed out that the very first sentence of your paper is factually wrong. That I did do is another fact that I suppose your faith obliges you to di...

Not really. I expect it's an approximation, and better approximations will be arrived at. That has tended to be the trajectory of physics.

Ya, bullshit. One sentence in and it was already creationist anti-scientific rubbish. I did read on for a while, hence my follow-up. It did not get be...

My bad, I thought it was a proper journal, but: it's a religious propaganda thing. Obviously you're going to regurgitate creationist misrepresentation...

Yes. Now let us hypothesise a zeroeth order: an underlying object that is as it is whether perceived or not. What would we expect of a word in which h...

Damn! You couldn't make it one sentence in without regurgitating the patented creationist misrepresentation of evolution? Yeah no.

Likewise :up: There has to be some underlying reason why those most keen to discuss human will always seem to be those most averse to describing it as...

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You're not obliged to, but you've spent most of this conversation making out like it was my pet theory, born from my ignorance, absurd and ridiculous....

This fact has been acknowledged by us both, and has been the starting point for a few of our posts in this exchange, so pretending that I'm denying it...

Don't be the sort of person who wishes someone dead. Don't be the sort of person who wishes someone dead. Don't be the sort of person who wishes someo...

The UK is breaking international law, not EU law. The Withdrawal Agreement has the status of a treaty.

I would not wish death by Covid on my worst enemy. Fortunately, Donald and I are not acquainted.

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Haha thanks! Morphisms: Book I And the Lord spake unto Morph and said: And Morph did take the set of natural numbers, and the first thing he did was t...

And on that day, the Lord created a^m a^n. Which fulfills @"Pfhorrest" 's original goal. Thread complete.

The Book of Imaginary Things The Lord looked upon the naturals once more, reminding Himself that: a \cdot 0 = 0 a \cdot S(b) = a + (a \cdot b) and He ...