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Is this another free logic example? We don't minimise surprise as I understand. The brain rewards surprises in learning. Young children in particular ...
November 27, 2021 at 23:48
:100: That I think your friends and neighbours being murdered in the streets might give you something more to aim for than But it's disappointing to h...
November 27, 2021 at 18:45
Yeah, screaming "Stop murdering us in the streets" like the bunch of fascists they are :vomit:
November 27, 2021 at 17:11
np. Although "bullshit" is a recognised technical term here. I think Banno knows the origin.
November 27, 2021 at 17:08
And, worse, mental health problems. Most serial killers were abused as children. Most homeless people have mental health problems. This is what's sick...
November 27, 2021 at 16:50
The analogy is with continuing to engage with someone long after you've realised they're not bound by normal debate conventions, like knowing or carin...
November 27, 2021 at 16:48
Not upset, just not averse to calling a spade a spade, and I've learned the hard way when to draw a line. There's an element of newbie poker involved ...
November 27, 2021 at 16:37
Bohmian mechanics is not a collapse interpretation. I think the only thing to be learned here is that you parrot stuff you've heard of without any com...
November 27, 2021 at 16:22
In collapse interpretations only. No, it shouldn't cause EM radiation. Collapse simply changes the state amplitudes. You're back to thinking that phys...
November 27, 2021 at 15:54
There's systems more fundamental than conscious systems. Consciousness only occurs in biological systems. One would expect therefore that a complete t...
November 27, 2021 at 15:14
:up: Exploring this point a bit more, one of the capacities of human intelligence is an ability to model larger social networks. So yeah I think highe...
November 27, 2021 at 13:56
Obviously there is, since consensus in science is built around evidence. Where there is no evidence, there is no orthodoxy. The correct interpretation...
November 27, 2021 at 13:25
That's untrue even in Bohmian mechanics. The electron is still moving, the relevant point is there should be a time-dependent electric dipole from the...
November 27, 2021 at 12:14
:up:
November 26, 2021 at 15:45
? Reminder: :up: :up: Fine, I'm pleased to report I don't know jack shit about guns.
November 26, 2021 at 15:42
He was trying to get R's gun off him after R had just threatened a crowd and shot a man, yes. R's defense was that he felt, if his gun was seized, he'...
November 26, 2021 at 15:22
That he took a machine gun to a protest against police murdering black people? That the group he approached with said gun was largely black? That said...
November 26, 2021 at 15:13
Where in my text you've quoted did I say R fired into a peaceful civil rights crowd? I was talking about his second victim.
November 26, 2021 at 13:55
No, you're not scientifically unorthodox, you're ascientific: your beliefs concerning nature are not impinged by scientific facts. I've already given ...
November 26, 2021 at 13:51
But you did say that. And, no, the paramedic did not say he was shot in self-defence. He said he had a gun pointed at Rittenhouse and thought Rittenho...
November 26, 2021 at 13:04
You just asked about evidence. Try and at least follow your _own_ end of the discussion.
November 26, 2021 at 12:07
Check the title of this thread ;)
November 26, 2021 at 11:56
You don't see where God and evolution enter into the realm of fundamental beliefs that conflict with scientific evidence? Curious...
November 26, 2021 at 11:51
You claim the witness said he was not guilty. That is untrue.
November 26, 2021 at 11:34
I did, because it is. You're not making an argument here, you're just reasserting outdated beliefs. There's nothing more here than someone insisting t...
November 26, 2021 at 11:33
The fundamental belief here being that a particle cannot be in more than one place. Remove the belief and the question vanishes. All that remains is t...
November 26, 2021 at 11:14
No, the guy he shot who survived admitted he'd pulled a gun on him. This alone can't acquit him. For instance, of the murder of the two unarmed men.
November 26, 2021 at 11:11
That's just a fundamental belief. For all we know it's spot on. (I don't believe so either, but I don't claim to know things that haven't yet been det...
November 26, 2021 at 10:56
That's not right. The wavefunction is a mathematical entity. MWI came from taking that entity as a literal description of the universe. It would look ...
November 26, 2021 at 10:31
A socialist, an individualist and a fanatic walked into a thread...
November 26, 2021 at 09:57
Are you talking about Covid, or generally? In terms of Covid, it's all about probabilities. By vaccinating myself at the earliest opportunity, I've re...
November 26, 2021 at 00:38
Better than letting Fox News dictate how to solve it. Unless you're an employee of Fox News. I'd say the weakness is in not doing the right thing to p...
November 26, 2021 at 00:06
That doesn't even match Rittenhouse's testimony.
November 25, 2021 at 21:17
Yes, that's the weird thing. If police encountered an armed man who wouldn't disarm, they'd shoot him, and that would be fine. And R didn't want to be...
November 25, 2021 at 21:16
Ah! No, I've always been pro-vaccine and against acting to spread disease. I was a huge proponent of condom fascism during the 80s.
November 25, 2021 at 20:22
Here's another: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/quantum-double-slit-experiment-done-with-molecules-for-the-first-time/4014819.article
November 25, 2021 at 18:31
What does that even mean?
November 25, 2021 at 18:27
Iirc the self-defence argument was that R's first victim tried to get his gun off him, and R 'felt' that he'd be shot with it. Which is interesting. I...
November 25, 2021 at 18:17
So something like G = g + g S G is recursive, because you can take the whole RHS and substitute into the G on right: G = g + g S G = g + g S ( g + g S...
November 25, 2021 at 17:52
All recursive ones processes are, and calculation of the Greens function is recursive. But no, not all iterative ones.
November 25, 2021 at 17:41
Back in those times, you were obsessing over Hunter Biden without any evidence of any conflict of interest in a Biden administration. Nowadays you're ...
November 25, 2021 at 17:03
By universal I was meaning ranges of values, not types of system. Your examples all suffer the same problem: for a given system, Hooke's law applies o...
November 25, 2021 at 15:14
Indeed, hence my analogy with the self-imposed ignorance of the UK Conservative government. It's too difficult to handle the fallout of acknowledging ...
November 25, 2021 at 13:28
BTW perturbative quantum field theory was recently put on pretty firm mathematical footing (see Perturbative Algebraic Quantum Field Theory by Kasia R...
November 25, 2021 at 08:37
No, but a) it was about immigration in general, despite the specific example of Russia having nothing to do with any other immigration case, and b) yo...
November 25, 2021 at 08:17
Sure, it's much more useful for more ideal mechanical oscillators like atoms. Not very universal for springs and stuff like Hooke had in mind.
November 24, 2021 at 23:39
Let's check first how wide of the mark I am. Correct me where I deviate from what you say you meant. 1. Russia engaged in a bizarre demonstration of p...
November 24, 2021 at 23:38
I don't see how. The field equations are general (hence "general relativity") which seems a good condition for a 'law'. Hooke's works as long as you d...
November 24, 2021 at 13:52
Ego seems to be root of the problem. You want a legacy but are guaranteed none. The best I can think of is: you're more likely to be remembered if you...
November 24, 2021 at 09:30
As far as I can tell, this is the explicit part one of your thesis: that you're being constrained against discussing a particular and interesting even...
November 24, 2021 at 09:06