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by GPerson 4y ago
I don’t view this as us having an argument. “ The first is related to the third is related to the second is related to the first isn't an argument.” Do you think this is a generous interpretation of the ideas I put forward? “ Why not j
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by GPerson 4y ago
Perhaps you could explain why animals being sentient creatures only counts as emotional justification? It’s a profound fact that human beings evolved from non-human animals. It would be very strange to me if none of them are sentient. I bel
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by GPerson 4y ago
I think there’s a few problems with this point. It seems to imply that unless animal rights = human rights, then they don’t exist. The second is related to the first, but it commits the perfectionist fallacy. A third point, perhaps related
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by GPerson 5y ago
“ A downward-growing stack is more intuitive. To access items on a downward-growing stack, you use positive offsets; for instance, sp+0x10 could be the second stack-passed argument to a function. For an upward-growing stack, you have to use
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by GPerson 5y ago
I didn’t know sed could do that. It seems that vim’s s(ubstitute) utility also has the same features with a near-identical syntax. https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Search_and_replace Thanks for sharing!
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by GPerson 5y ago
Did you acquire any useful new tricks from this experience?
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by GPerson 5y ago
How do the atrocities in this war pale in comparison to those of the war in Georgia or Crimea? A Reuters article from two days ago says there have already been 2,000 deaths of Ukrainian civilians from the invasion alone.
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by GPerson 5y ago
Your argument is, “This thing may be bad, but what about this other thing that I think is even worse?” It doesn’t address why you don’t find the arguments compelling. Do you think energy impact is completely trivial?
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by GPerson 5y ago
I’m just curious, but what do you think is the difference between “critical thinking” and “common sense”? Ostensibly, they both seem to mean something like effective thinking done outside the boundaries of predefined dogmas. On the other ha
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by GPerson 5y ago
For me it’s just not very interesting. The people I meet who seem to be interested in it seem to be primarily motivated by getting rich. This is an understandable interest, but just not something which sparks my personal curiosity. And sinc
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by GPerson 5y ago
I find that the “fuzzy” visualizations I get just in the course of ordinary thinking become more vivid the closer I am to falling asleep. If I focus on them it becomes like a mixture of being asleep and awake.
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by GPerson 5y ago
I used to have sleep paralysis a lot and during at least one episode I could hear, clear as day, a full orchestra playing in my head as if it was coming from somewhere in the house. And when I broke out of the sleep paralysis there was no s
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by GPerson 5y ago
I am interested in that. Thanks for sharing!
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by GPerson 5y ago
Naive question here, but how much more resolution can we ever expect to get out of pictures like these? If it gets 100 times better will we be able see what the planets look like?
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by GPerson 5y ago
I didn’t see this one listed, and thought it was pretty cool when I studied it in a course a few years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolem's_paradox “ Skolem's paradox is that every countable axiomati
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by GPerson 5y ago
In my math PhD program I have not heard of anybody finishing in the 5 years allotted.
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by GPerson 5y ago
I’ve not shared my opinion on the existence of free will by the way. I tend to think it does not but I also believe that it is an unknowable question. I also don’t think brain activity studies like those prove that no kind of free will is p
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by GPerson 5y ago
“ Don't confuse complexity and practical inability to predict with fundamental lack of predictability.” Nothing is being confused. The list of contradictions to the statement is not limited in only this way, and I haven’t suggested it
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by GPerson 5y ago
I don’t agree with this person’s comments but I don’t think they should be told to shut up either. They have an interesting viewpoint.
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by GPerson 5y ago
“Mathematical construct” is synonymous with “appropriately accurate language”. “I'm just saying that if the actions our brain and body (and the rest of nature) are 100% predictable per the laws of physics, chemistry, etc, then there&#x
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by GPerson 5y ago
What happens when the group with opposing views to you defines racism and sexism in their favorite way?
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by GPerson 5y ago
You are saying, “no, the laws of physics are not mathematical constructs”..? If you’re interpreting “laws of physics” in your original post to mean “what’s really happening”, then your original post is effectively “Free will isn’t really ha
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by GPerson 5y ago
Who gets to define what racism and sexism are?
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by GPerson 5y ago
I generally agree with this, and I also think it implicitly serves a few other purposes in addition to being daycare. High school gets people used to the idea that they will spend their lives following a schedule and producing things. It a
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by GPerson 5y ago
Laws of physics are mathematical constructs. You can’t prove or disprove the existence of free will with a mathematical formalization.
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by GPerson 5y ago
Haha you got me there.
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by GPerson 5y ago
I hate automatic software updates. Is there a large contingent out there who loves them?
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by GPerson 5y ago
You just bounced me back from a momentary bit of depression.
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by GPerson 5y ago
While the mainstream narrative on MLK is grossly distorted, I think the narrative you’re boosting is a trope, and also has distortions. In the mainstream MLK is the most revered American hero, and in truth there were years in which he may h
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by GPerson 5y ago
I clearly state this is not what I’m arguing.

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