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by burrows 5y ago
For every dollar you put in this box, I’ll put ten cents into a scholarship fund for poor children in your country then burn the dollar. How many dollars do you put into the box? What if it were 300 cents instead?
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by burrows 5y ago
> Maybe unwarranted, but that also makes me less willing to accept his ideas. Who knows what evidence, lead, etc. was met with the same laziness? I think you can only say that you’ve chosen not to engage with this these arguments, not th
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by burrows 5y ago
I think if there seems to be a contradiction between the tweet and the essay it’s only a sort of psuedo-contradiction. The point of the essay (as I understand it) is that writing about something (as for example in a business plan) helps the
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by burrows 5y ago
> Perhaps it was just easier to ignore when we weren't sitting directly next to our children. I like this take a lot. Similar to the difference between hearing about homelessness second hand and walking through an encampment in Se
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by burrows 5y ago
I’m furiously speculating that in person pre-college public American education was mostly bad and this badness just carried over to remote education, but for whatever reason the badness is more apparent when conducted remotely.
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by burrows 5y ago
Is “the security of the Internet” just a proxy for, “the number of vulns in the wild”?
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by burrows 5y ago
> [P0] has greatly improve the overall security of the industry. What is the argument for this?
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by burrows 5y ago
Your inability to imagine convincing motives for the US government to lie about this is evidence that they are not lying about it?
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by burrows 5y ago
What definitions of evidence and information are you using?
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by burrows 5y ago
I liked this as well. > MR PRICE: Matt, there’s a second point. This is derived from intelligence, intelligence in which we have confidence — > QUESTION: Well — > MR PRICE: — in which we have confidence, otherwise — > QUESTION:
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by burrows 5y ago
> Yes. A computer can be in an infinite loop, lose power, and then stop functioning. Ok. Are these claims accurate? 1. All physical systems must eventually halt. 2. In many cases physical systems correspond to formal computational system
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by burrows 5y ago
Does the program halt when the power cuts out? I think our disagreement is specious because it’s trying to import terms like “infinite loop”, “halt”, “program” from a formal theory into the material world. I think I can only ask, how do you
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by burrows 5y ago
No it can’t because there isn’t infinite energy.
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by burrows 5y ago
X failed as a project if and only if X failed as a product or X consumed (hugely) more resources than initially planned? But what other reasons that people might care about X failing as a project when it succeeds as a product?
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by burrows 5y ago
> That textbook definition of “valid” only applies to purely deductive arguments. Outside of mathematics, most arguments humans make have a significant non-deductive component (inductive and/or abductive). So, unless we assume that
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by burrows 5y ago
> But you haven't explained how this (obviously true) statement is relevant to the original discussion, about the morality of providing life-saving medical treatment to perpetrators of serious crimes. My original point was in respon
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by burrows 5y ago
Thank you for prompting me to reevaluate my position. Initially I claimed, “There are no valid arguments for normative claims.”, I would like to amend my claim. Def: An inferential system is a tuple of axioms and inferential rules. Def: An
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by burrows 5y ago
> I already said: First time surgery that might not work is an experiment as much as a treatment. I don’t think changing the name of what happened from “treatment” to “experiment” tells me anything new. If another person with a roughly
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by burrows 5y ago
> The majority of ethicists agree that normative statements can express true statements. What do you think is a good candidate for such a statement? My impression is that arguments must proceed from axioms, positive axioms aren’t helpfu
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by burrows 5y ago
I’m not familiar with the details of this case, but I can imagine that the time and expertise of physicians capable of doing the surgery is scarce. What do you say to the claim that, “The time and resources including the surgeons and the p
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by burrows 5y ago
> The key principle in medicine is to treat anyone who is sick, regardless of who they are. The victims family is saying “Our principle is that people who stab Ed should not get a heart, therefore David should not get a heart.” The docto
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by burrows 5y ago
I think it’s all missing forums, places (both public and private) where people from different “home servers” can communicate.
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by burrows 5y ago
Does “sad” refer to an emotion? If so, don’t all emotions require a human? Then who feels sad because of or about this purported fact? Or are you saying, “I don’t like it when people care about how they’ll be seen so much that they can’t
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by burrows 5y ago
What about someone saying, “I like red pants better than green pants.”?
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by burrows 5y ago
> You get these weird interactions all the time on the Internet: If I ask someone a question about their reasoning, someone else may very well respond with what they think. Is the question about the other party’s reasoning as in thought
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by burrows 5y ago
> Whether you are agreeing or disagreeing, but there's not a lot of actual conversation, just... reactions. Could you elaborate on the distinction you’re making between genuine conversations and records of reaction? Specifically, di
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by burrows 5y ago
> Maybe all new features in new Major version? I don’t think I understand the (many) purpose(s) of OS versioning. Vendors use them to make specific maintenance commitments? “We will continue to make bug fixes for version XYZ until 2025
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by burrows 5y ago
> I could get behind “converge to a fixed scope, and polish relentlessly” as the primary ethos. > Wouldn’t it be great for FreeBSD to be the first OS to have a release that was actually, truly finished? By OS do you mean just the kern
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by burrows 5y ago
> I had two points in these posts. One is that none of this pertains to whether or not space is continuous. To me, “space is continuous” seems like a proposition that must be demonstrated a posteriori and I wouldn’t expect properties of
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by burrows 5y ago
Okay, yeah I was confused. If ZFC (or some other theory) implements arithmetic, then the first incompleteness theorem says that if ZFC is consistent then there must be true sentences in ZFC (not necessarily sentences of arithmetic) that can

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