I don't really disagree with anything you're saying, and I certainly don't have any great desire to defend Truss. It's just that I don't see this part...
Don't undersell their commitment to historical restorations, they're now using T-62s and T-64s, they're using 60-70 year old tank designs. Although to...
Making mountains from soundbites is a cancer in modern politics. There is a sea of solid, legitimate reasons to dislike Liz Trusts without resorting t...
Depends on what you consider "a lot." It's about 30,000 of 1.3 million. It was a relevant source of recruitment when the all volunteer force was under...
Yeah, 99.2% approval in some areas. Truly an unbelievable victory... In general, the most dangerous part of a radiological attack is the actual explos...
Lol, yes. It seems that mobilization has succeeded in making people fear the Russian military again, it's just that those people are Russians themselv...
Putin seems intent on doing a speed run of Tsar Nicholas II's career: Foreign war declared for nebulous reasons that is popular with a small, influent...
Yeah, I was just referring to the fact that the major breakthrough started hours ago. It appears they are no longer trying for a break through, but ha...
Unfortunately for Russia, the front has not remained still. There was a large break through across the Oskil, and the flow of liberation announcements...
What a different 12 hours makes. 12 hours ago we had video made for TV of reinforcements airlifting into the pocket. We had video of reinforcements st...
Maybe they wanted to push the "Ukrainians are Nazis" line by exactly re-creating the time they got another huge chunk of their combat forces encircled...
People like to share good news, but I can see how the geolocated photos and videos compromise opsec. However, I think they are also adding to the full...
Not quite. The monkeys can type strings of infinite length. The idea here is that the number of distinguishable universes is finite. So it's more like...
It's tricky. At the level of atoms and molecules, the components of the clay are quite indiscernible. In theory then, two identical statues made from ...
It's a platitude sometimes, because it is missing that the thing in question is definetly observed, often by many things. It's not a platitude always....
You have observers in this scenerio and they can each realize the other is not themselves, since they experience their own body and the other's body. ...
My question to. Do you mean propositions? You might be interested in Quine's critique of the analytical/synthetic distinction. It's unclear if there a...
Sure. :rofl: But a lot of the hate is just that I don't like haggling and I don't like having to run dozens of different models for various proposed p...
Is it a good empirical standard? 1/5th of Americans have major errors on their credit reports, and this normally stems from Social Security numbers be...
I love unions in theory and wish my country (the US) had a significantly stronger labor movement. Particularly, I'd like to see labor represented on b...
BTW, Tegmark also has a redefinition of entropy in his book that encircles subject and object, that is sort of related to the issues with the 'view fr...
Yes, my apologies for the length. Thanks for the response. I didn't even mean to post the topic; I was copying it into a note pad app and ended up sub...
I'm assuming a binary because the way the US runs most state elections and all federal ones produces a binary. Different systems have different contex...
It is a strategy that is highly unlikely to work. Yes, if you hate all possible candidates equally, perhaps it makes sense not to vote (or really if y...
Space isn't empty, it's filled with fields associated with the fundemental forces. When you look closely at seemingly empty space you see all sorts of...
Solidity is a phase of matter. It's observably distinct from the other phases. Think of an ice cube melting and then boiling off into vapor. So yes, i...
BTW, there is already a lot of work on relative identity, but this version gets around one: The basic idea here is that if true indiscerniblity doesn'...
It's a strawman. There are other possibilities like: 1. The Gospels are not fully factual narratives. Jesus could be fully fictional or his actions an...
I would imagine it is a tremendous challenge to keep your morale up. It takes a long time and the pay is not much above the poverty level. In high cos...
Sure, but generally if you're the founder, the chair, and the president, you're not going to say "the founder told me I have to go, but don't worry, h...
That is the beauty though for some thinkers. The seeming contradiction is the great mystery. It's the conscious overcoming of contradiction through me...
The argument for natural selection as driving the creation of complex organisms isn't based on empirical findings in biology. He is using natural sele...
I see now. My reference to information was simply that we assume that organisms are not infinite. It's not that objects in the enviornment contain inf...
You might like "Information and the Nature of Reality," which Davies edited with Niels Henrik Gregson. Good combo of articles on information theoretic...
I'm not sure what this is in reference to. I was talking about Donald Hoffman's book The Case Against Reality. Are we talking about the same thing? Hi...
My take is that he is fairly close to Kastrup in the final chapter of the book. I think. Part of the problem is that you spend 90% of the book with th...
This sounds like a misunderstanding of the theory, which might be my fault because I was trying to explain it. The theory is not that the world is a s...
This a really neat (and free) book I came across just looking at the free books on Amazon for my Kindle. It's also free from Springer: https://link.sp...
There is no distinct passage in the Bible that spells out the Trinity, although the idea of Christ, the Father, and the Spirit as three distinct entit...
Ha, so you were more correct about Hoffman than I. I had read about 90% of The Case Against Reality by this point, before getting distracted by Wilcze...
For sure, I didn't mean to imply it was one thing. I just wanted to point out the relationship between mortgage rates and home prices. Lower rates pus...
Interpretations vary widely, so rather than try to offer a summary of a very diverse field, I'll just try to put forth my own understanding. The Trini...
Research on the effects of long term low interest rates appears to show that they are a major driver of inequality. This is something that was only in...
Good quibble. Yes, I was thinking more of the Fed than the ECB. In terms of inflation, I agree in part. High inflation isn't as apocalyptic as it is m...
Unfortunately, I can't offer a ton of clarification as I just discovered this myself looking for something totally different on nLab. Some clarifying ...
Very interesting post. Given your thoughts here , you might be interested in Lawvere's work on Hegel's dialectical using adjoint modalities if you hav...
This is a good point. Most science is iterative. When there is a major paradigm shift (ala Kuhn) though, it tends to be that philosophy or mathematics...
I have not only read Berkeley, but sat through lectures on him and read secondary sources on the Principles. My reading of paragraph 45 is fairly comm...
Exactly, and that contradicts naive realism, i.e., the belief that the word does exist unperceived. That's my entire point. Take Berkley, he is advanc...
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