aeneasmackenzie

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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
When this actually becomes a real possibility, it doesn't turn out that way. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
This is a feature, not a bug. Casuistry is the science of determining the correct course of action in a complex situation. It’s complicated because the world is complicated. Attempting to create a moral system from first order logic (deonto
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
All modern moral systems have extremely serious defects where they can be gamed. Repugnant conclusion, the entire concept of deontology, etc. Virtue Ethics is ungameable.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
1930s: going fast by leaning backward, banned 1990s: going fast by leaning forward, banned I look forward to 2100 when they will simply ban going faster than a specific speed.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Thats the exact point the comment is making. The moNd theory you’re looking for here is GR. We don’t think of it as a modified theory anymore though.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
I mean relative to their own orthodoxy. Doctrinal laxity is a process that once started has never ended. Very quickly you end up with no doctrine at all and then people start to wonder why they’re getting up early on the weekend. Look at th
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Well, HN is not for flame wars or religious dispute. And I don't think it would be very effective. More seriously, I think there is still hope for a full reunification. The Miaphysite heresy was resolved in 1990 after 1549 years. The G
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Clerical Celibacy is a disciple rather than a dogma. It is especially prominent in the Latin rite. There are other rites in the Roman Catholic Church and some of them have married priests. When priests convert to Catholicism they are usuall
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
> I'm an anglican priest > reinforce what the Eucharist is about in the first place What would that be? I mean to you. I am Catholic and I am entirely aware of what it is about to us. I am not trying to dunk on you or start an ar
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
The idea that object level beliefs are bad is wrong. Meta level arguments are just tricks to try to confuse you into thinking one situation is like another.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Where are you getting this? It’s not an argument, doesn’t have any conclusions and doesn’t require any though experiments. It is not semantics. Most attempts to dodge it are semantics though.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
It is not. That I can think about my thinking doesn’t help at all with the question of why I can think.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
3 is incorrect. Additionally, the idea of disproving the existence of a thing by arguing from inconsistencies between words describing it is not related to reality. Edit: I read it. Anthis readily grants the existence of a mental life but w
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Does he answer the question “why qualia, of any kind, ever?” > Dennett most certainly tackles the "hard problem", by convincingly arguing the problem is ill-defined and not a real problem. No, like everyone else he admits defea
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
This has been done before, 3d printing just makes it easier. See the GB-22[0] aka "Gun Buyback 22" 0: https://serbu.com/gb-22-plans/
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
> We have adjusted our policies to ensure that no one can exploit this program again for personal gain. So any item that the NY AG gun buyback program will not purchase is thus legally not a gun in NY, right? If it's not worth buyin
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Limits are not an inherent part of calculus. You can do all calculus relevant for the physical world just fine with nilpotent infinitesimals if you but give up excluded middle.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Edward 8 had to abdicate to marry outside of the church of England, and Charles is already married outside of the church of England. His abdication wouldn't be weird.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
> I also seem to remember that the story went on to say that Crowley at one point had been praised for his work in the Spanish Inquisition. That was the first he'd actually heard of it--humans had come up with it on their own--so he
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
In your link he identifies the pieces by the artist. No matter how abstract or challenging or whatever, Duchamp and Moholy-Nagy still got to go to cocktail parties and call themselves artists. That's the new thing.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
And almost all the fact checks came back and Jones was right. They kept doing it after an hour of this stuff.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
What 1984 of a country bans umbrellas? /s
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Usually people mention lisp and smalltalk in the same breath. What turned you off of lisp, especially as compared to smalltalk?
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Many people feel that launching the rocket is just the end of the tutorial. I think this is the same crowd that installs power armor/roboport starting mods and sneers at Satisfactory because it doesn't have bots. There is a split
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
We still have the aether, we just call it the "electromagnetic field"
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
The MOND guys are aware: https://tritonstation.com/2022/07/21/jwst-twitter-bender/ Specifically this paper[0] is mentioned as predicting it > Remarkably, the data roughly follow the green line, which
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
>But, "proof" of God's existence in this way would eliminate the need for faith. Conversely, you also cannot prove that God does not exist, making it a faith, of a sort, in both directions. Does anyone actually believe thi
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Tyndale got in trouble for false translation, not for translation.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Maybe it's an exabyte micro micro micro SD card the size of a grain of sand inside a crystal case. Works the same as a floppy disk.
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by aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
"modernize the language"? People still buy Chaucer in old (or middle, whatever) English.

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