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['Member']Joined: September 18, 2020 at 16:48Last active: August 03, 2025 at 06:541 discussions39 comments

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Probably, but there are other scenarios too. Previously I tried to show the set of scenarios without death.
October 28, 2020 at 15:16
I'm talking about a bit different thing. Crafting a new species isn't a big deal, but even in such case you will still have the same issue. Personal e...
October 28, 2020 at 15:02
wisdom is based on experience, not only on genetics. It means that in any given time in human society will be a significant number of people without w...
October 28, 2020 at 14:44
I tried to say that there are more possible scenarios and actually it isn't a big deal to cover all of them. More importantly, some of them contains q...
October 28, 2020 at 11:24
These assumptions are wrong actually. First of all, the endless exponential grows doesn't exist in nature, but it's quite widespread delusion. People ...
October 28, 2020 at 08:29
It depends on your definitions and expectations. Randomness is slippery concept, that's why we have a concept of pseudo randomness and bunch of distri...
October 27, 2020 at 17:22
Thanks, interesting approach, but I would argue a bit In my world a necessity is equal to an interest. You can try to avoid some responsibilities but ...
October 25, 2020 at 13:43
At that point we can try to talk about models. Models is a quite difficult topic, most of all because of "duality principle". Every model has two laye...
October 25, 2020 at 09:59
This part, actually, isn't related to Chernobyl case. Security requirements were neglected several times and everyone was aware of possible consequenc...
October 18, 2020 at 10:06
Reasonable, but it looks like we have some misunderstanding here. I just started and mentioned most fundamental things. The "data" here is the knowled...
October 18, 2020 at 08:46
Let's talk about practice now. If we want to make something work better and without too much efforts we need to find the main source of troubles first...
October 17, 2020 at 10:48
Quite strange comparison I wold say. Can you estimate probability of your own death by watching the Lion King? You are falling into a single person vi...
October 12, 2020 at 08:21
interesting article, thanks. I’m aware of Ohlsson and GPS but history overview was very informative. Sometimes I really want to ask some researchers “...
October 11, 2020 at 21:37
There are still some benefits for society but they are mostly psychological. There is always a tradeoff between aggression and compassion. In a long r...
October 11, 2020 at 20:46
I just tried to show that there are many different cases and not all of them have the potential to resolve themselves into something better. And it lo...
October 11, 2020 at 18:09
I have only one question after reading your arguments, why does euthanasia exist in this world? Maybe your missed something?
October 11, 2020 at 17:18
With you OP in mind it's difficult to say what is worse, complete extinction or agony of endless surviving In a bit more real world scenario I would r...
October 11, 2020 at 10:29
There is no way to support such approach logically. Death is the termination state so you can't have something with more weight. The only logical way ...
October 11, 2020 at 09:42
By succeeded I meant that they were finally become able to significantly change humans psychology and attitude to the fact of murdering. Religions tri...
October 11, 2020 at 09:24
And again, from point of view of society and religion it should be clearer why nonlethal harm is preferable even if it has devastating consequences fo...
October 11, 2020 at 08:18
You may notice that all arguments that you mentioned are single person centered. I don't think that it's a good way to find the objective answer. I th...
October 11, 2020 at 07:59
Ok, it looks like attention limit exhausted. The last point that worth mention anyway is practical usage. All these words may sound useless but it isn...
October 10, 2020 at 18:29
Maybe it worth to clarify a bit. In short no, there is a clear separation but it may be not too obvious at the beginning. I used a term "exhaustive se...
October 05, 2020 at 17:22
TIme consumption is quite controversial metric. For example an exhaustive search may look like a waste of time but in many cases it could be much fast...
October 04, 2020 at 16:03
You may be interested in Leo Tolstoy's work then. He was able to find quite solid philosophical foundation behind the Christianity. He even wrote his ...
October 02, 2020 at 15:39
Do you consider other alternatives? It's still possible that religion was based on a philosophy for example. Secular Buddhism is a good argument in fa...
October 01, 2020 at 17:03
I would say it's too strong assumption for people in general. Equally likely (or even more likely) it can be result of an evolutionary like process. W...
September 27, 2020 at 15:22
I tried actually and found that such a job was done several times during the previous century. The problem is that in almost every case it ended up mo...
September 26, 2020 at 09:53
Depend on your education and interests you may find here many familiar details about search algorithms and its modifications for different purpose. In...
September 25, 2020 at 17:59
We have four principles so far, lets move to examples 2 + 2 = ? Easy enough, but how exactly you have got a solution? Someone may say "it's obvious".....
September 25, 2020 at 17:23
what is the best one word alternative from your point of view then?
September 24, 2020 at 21:35
Not sure how far I will be able to go through before everyone will lose any interests but I will try to cover at least the fourth principle: duality. ...
September 24, 2020 at 17:32
It depend on your point of view. Foundation is a tool anyway. You can say that toolmaker had a goal to help me with my goal but I would rather say tha...
September 24, 2020 at 16:29
I think it's time to clarify several points. First of all, english isn't my native language, so don't try dig too deep into a single term meaning. I r...
September 23, 2020 at 20:39
Amazing intro. Thank you for such a detailed highlighting. After such a great reading I really hope that everyone will stop and reread my first post a...
September 23, 2020 at 17:06
Good point but quite risky. It requires careful definition and there is quite a big chance to start measuring and categorize people. It's too close to...
September 23, 2020 at 16:53
Very good point, but I had some troubles here. First of all it's relation between critical thinking and problem solving skills. I was able to meet per...
September 22, 2020 at 17:46
Totally agree with your points. My personal biggest roadblock was that no one even tried to explain how to approach a problem in a completely unknown ...
September 21, 2020 at 17:27
One of the downsides of IQ test is that it's extremely easy to train for. There is one ancient approach to train cognitive skills: use them on daly ba...
September 21, 2020 at 17:10
totally agree, but it looks like you are talking about a bit higher level definitely, but we are still making the same issues regardless of the hemisp...
September 21, 2020 at 17:03
Greetings Ignoro Not sure that I understand you correctly, but it looks like you are searching for the wrong word. Logic in general works with strict ...
September 19, 2020 at 09:23