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by burrows 5y ago
> How would one know if arithmetic is consistent or complete within the context of being part of the universe? The same way I know that it’s incomplete when formulated in ZFC (assuming ZFC is consistent), from the first incompleteness th
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by burrows 5y ago
Doesn’t the incompleteness theorem say that any consistent proof system which implements arithmetic must be incomplete? Then the system you are proposing, does it implement arithmetic or not?
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by burrows 5y ago
> How do you know arithmetic is not complete or consistent? In ZFC arithmetic is complete and arithmetic is consistent. This assumes that ZFC is consistent. Aren’t you just begging the question by assuming ZFC is consistent to demonstrat
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by burrows 5y ago
> But what if there is some universe (in the math sense), which is actually complete and decidable, it's just that the moment you take discrete subsets of it, you also remove the connections that make it consistent or complete. Pres
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by burrows 5y ago
> The “inclusiveness checker” highlights phrases or words the firm believes could offend someone based on their gender, age, ethnicity or sexual orientation. I don’t think words can intrinsically have the property of “being offensive”, i
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by burrows 5y ago
If they extort citizens of some other country, then that other country’s officials will make some attempt to prosecute them in their legal system. You’re saying this expectation doesn’t match reality?
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by burrows 5y ago
Is it synthetic a la Kant? Or is “conscious” a part of the conception “I”?
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by burrows 5y ago
What is your argument for the claim, “I am conscious.”?
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by burrows 5y ago
Well, what if I say that humans have certain parts (subsystems in the brain? Neurons? Idk, just guessing) and that these parts are a necessary condition for the “talking thing” to be conscious? Also it might not be that I treat a human “wit
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by burrows 5y ago
Worse for who?
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by burrows 5y ago
> Someone give me a good argument for why Apple deserves a THIRD of revenue generated from apps on their platform? If you say “X doesn’t deserve Y”, then roughly I hear, “I don’t like that X is getting Y”. It’s like you’re asking, “Why
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by burrows 5y ago
> What is your claim, that disorder, randomness and uncertainty DO NOT build up with time? It depends on the system. Claiming that disorder builds up in all systems is false, afaik. From a Google search: Entropy increases in a closed sy
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by burrows 5y ago
My first comment was specifically about the invocation of “entropy”, which I believe is just confusing nonsense. And as I said I don’t have the requisite background to really make the point, was hoping for some goodwill and assistance perh
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by burrows 5y ago
> In more of a real-life scenario, millions of people have spent the last 20 years wasting way more than 15 minutes standing in line to take off their shoes and get x-rayed every time they fly in an airplane to protect against a "po
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by burrows 5y ago
> Its always decreasing because entropy builds up on longer projects. Its simply the fact of life, not particularly specific to coding. I don’t know much physics, but this word-soup about entropy is mistaken, isn’t it? Because something
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by burrows 5y ago
> It's easy to know what's best for yourself. It's not so easy to know what's best for your children. It's much harder to know what's best for another adult in your tribe. It's practically impossible to
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by burrows 5y ago
What does ”I understand you.” mean? That I am able to correctly predict your future behavior?
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by burrows 5y ago
I wanted to be totally clear.
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by burrows 5y ago
If asked to pay for children who I don’t know to get meatspace time with their extended gene clan, who I also don’t know, I will decline and recommend they use Zoom. > Are you this unempathic and selfish in real life? I do as little as p
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by burrows 5y ago
People who are not you should spent money so your kid can see his grandparents?
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by burrows 5y ago
People are people. This tautology doesn’t inform me of anything.
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by burrows 5y ago
People should put more energy/money into getting vaccines to people who want them but don’t have access to them? Why?
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by burrows 5y ago
> I can't quite make peace with just letting the un-vax'd kill one another off. Why?
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by burrows 5y ago
> There’s one major distinction between humans and animals: language. Not like “me want banana” language like in apes but like fully “ideas within ideas within ideas” language, with recursion and case and noun classes and all that. It’s
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by burrows 5y ago
Agreed, most apps are useless to most people, just like most people don’t read most books. And I’m not recommending the comparison to a cup of coffee as marketing. For me there is absolutely no difference in paying $1/month and $10&#x
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by burrows 5y ago
If I still haven’t beaten the game of life or cracked the buried treasure chest or rescued the sultry wicked smaht blonde princess from the tower of doom thirty years from now safe to say it isn’t happening and I’ll just seppuku. But until
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by burrows 5y ago
Just put it to a vote, “Who thinks we should be able to use our phones, eat hamburgers and readjust our balls while driving? Okay, yup. And the nays?” This is a democracy people.
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by burrows 5y ago
Right, which is suggested by “gamification”. If Billy and Bobby and Jimmy want to drive my car around because it’s part of the new Fast & Bicurious then everyone wins!
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by burrows 5y ago
But if the policy fails, then what is the complaint?
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by burrows 5y ago
Were they punitive sterilizations? As given our willingness to incarcerate people, I don’t really see an issue with sterilization.

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