BlueBanana

Not my fault you repeat irrelevant points instead of expanding your arguments. Hypocrisy. If you wish to end the discussion, do so. Replying to me to ...

Then it won't die, unless proven false. What's your problem with free will anyway?

Ok, within that context what's the problem with objectively aknowledging the difference between one's beliefs and knowledge? Does not follow. When you...

Then it'd have died already and a lot earlier.

I can't see why not. It seems clear to me I can observe myself and my observations of myself. It doesn't seem to give any answers though. We don't nee...

Not if it doesn't get disproven, in which case it'd be false. That statement could be done about any belief and is thus meaningless.

Atheism =/= scientism. What agnostic atheism basically means is aknowledging their beliefs as beliefs, and as such subjective and not knowledge - if t...

Don't generalize, especially by projecting yourself unto others. As a religious person, that definitely does not apply to me.

Not true; they could also encounter something they mistook for a mailbox, including a picture, a hallucination, an artificial electric signal sent int...

Hol' up.

Why? The discussion has a bearded sky fairy judging your masturbation as a premise (not my phrasing btw). My point is we're talking of evil and/or suf...

The co-existence of multiple unjustifiable moral actions is incoherent in utilitarianism, which is a fairly wide-spread philosophy especially amongst ...

By your own choice. Damnation is a positive thing from the perspective of those that want it.

Oh, right yeah. I don't remember consenting to you answering to my comments

You definitely should, though. Maybe it's just my weird obsession with personal space - for example, I think manspreading is completely acceptable bec...

Your reasoning assumes the existence of time. How about block-time theory? In it time does not exist prior to physical reality, the existence of which...

A falling rock does not understand how to fall or why it is falling, yet it does that. Similarly a cell can replicate itself to form a complex being w...

How surprising @"Agustino" left this thread.

Only when taken to the extreme. That's just completely false. What? The exact opposite.

Throwing a random die can result in 6. Can God create a random die that will result in 6? No, because that'd not be random so although the existence o...

But that's true.

Books aren't art, literature is. The form in which it is delivered doesn't matter. Calling story-based games literature isn't unreasonable to me.

Is it right to be happy? I think a person has a moral responsibility for themselves so selling one's soul is just wrong.

That's an oxymoron. Being the one to quit the debate out of intolerance towards bigotry makes you yourself a bigot.

That's not how it works in the paradox. You need to end up even. Otherwise you're implying the amount of money combined in the envelopes doesn't equal...

Only if you're the person betting £20. And that's fine as a thought experiment of its own but it doesn't relate to the envelope paradox. You don't kno...

You can't balance your books with £20 bets with 50% chance of 2:1 payout and £10 bets with certain wins so clarify the system in your example. And if ...

Can the participant be certain they're the person getting the fair chance? The person betting £10 will always win and the person betting £40 will alwa...

Let's say you put the two envelopes on a table, and randomly choose to put one on the left side and the other on the right side. You can each time ope...

As you've stated it, it's not an advantageous bet if you have to bet twice as much when you lose.

I don't understand how this is supposed to be comparable or relevant to the envelope paradox. Are you the person opening the other envelope or the per...

What if there are two people and each time both are randomly given an envelope. Is it then beneficial for both to switch the envelopes? So each of the...

False, learning the amount changes the odds. There is no way to choose those two amounts of money in such a way that any amount is as likely to be X o...

The intuitive solution is that the bigger the amount in your envelope is, the more likely it is to be the one with 2X.

Because when you are woken up more than twice more awakenings are caused by throwing tails.

The Mondays have to be as likely. Let's say the coin is thrown on Monday evening instead. It's clear now that the coin flip can't affect that since it...

It's not just the wealthy that have power, it's not that simple. The government is also an entity in its own that has power over the rich people, and ...

Because unlike in the Sleeping Beauty problem, in your example if there's x probability of going through any day you can draw the conclusion there's x...

That's too deep underlying imo. It's the actions that matter more, not their reasons, especially if we're looking at the reasons for the fear of citiz...

Sleeping Beauty knows she has 1/2 chance of going through any possibility. You have 1/2 chance of going through Monday+heads on 1/4 chance of going th...

That's not how it works, it needs to be a random person chosen for the situation to be comparable. The Sleeping Beauties at different scenarios are co...

You're not guaranteed to be asked if random people are chosen for the questioning either.

So it's not a false comparison because the answer is still 1/2?

Actually it's almost exactly 50%. But what you're saying is that if we choose random people to the test for each questioning instead of waking up the ...

If I throw heads I choose a random person to question. If I throw tails I choose 7 599 999 999 people to question. You find yourself to be a part of t...

This is not what the question is about. The question is whether there's 1/3 chance of being questioned as a result of getting a red ball. There's stil...

I think that's over-thinking it. The government is dangerous and potentially harmful to the citizens, and while the actions reflecting that are not go...

My reply was to the example with invisible pet dragon. In informal language as it's commonly used the negation of the phrasal verb "to believe someone...

Depends. By "does not believe the person making the claim" do you mean the same as "believing the claim to be false"? If so, there is a burden of proo...

I don't see how so. You can refer to claims of other people or make speculations perfectly well as an atheist. No, just that he thinks so. He only cla...