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by dmfdmf 10y ago
If the hallmark of an intellectual is respect for reason, honesty, integrity and the facts then clearly BOTH sides of the political aisle are lacking in these character traits. The "Right" and Reps make no pretense to be advocates
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I think you are over-generalizing the Dunning-Kruger effect in your strawman argument. Moreover, you might want to consider that its not intellectualism -v- anti-intellectualism but psuedo-intellectualism -v- anti-psuedo-intellectualism beh
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by dmfdmf 10y ago
You beat me to it. Indeed, it was a Dunning-Kruger election but not in the way that the OP meant it. Also, following on your second point, if the Dems are so smart how could they not see that Clinton was a fatally flawed candidate. We'
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When people see that being rational is selfish they will do it of their own accord.
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If he's around 8-9-10 years old don't lie to him or make up phony reasons. He'll see right through it and lose all respect for you. Like the generations raised in the era of "everyone gets a sports trophy" BS. Now w
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Up next; FCC Censorship rules.
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Still trying to mimic Apple.
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But what's the net? Macs are also more expensive so is it a wash? Also, Macs (to me) appear to be on a much shorter support/life cycle so you'd have to factor that into the equation for a fair comparison.
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He's talking about real censorship, i.e. government control of information.
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It is an invalid question, like what is North of the North pole? Values are always relative; to whom and for what purpose. The proper question is; can values be objective, rational, scientific, i.e. proved to be true for ALL humans.
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Here is a pic of the environment from the Mars rover; http://i.imgur.com/V6eqcNL.jpg And what are these million people going to do other than struggle for survival? It reminds me of the EOL of the Space Shuttle where its
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I'd like to see this applied to Windows 7 and find out why it has become mysteriously slow, even on fast computers, after Windows 10 came out.
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Okay, so where is the beef? u/krastanov blasted me too but the question remains, what are they doing? How can they sell single computer if your point #3 is true? I would think that researchers must be smart enough to sniff out a scam
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Fine. I concede your points (except the part about being "dense" with errors). The essence of my argument still stands and you can easily recast my argument, if you cared to think about it, in a form that is consistent with your
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I get the feeling (and its more likely) that D-Wave has solved the P=NP question in the affirmative and have polynomial equations to solve NP problems. As far as I know, getting qubits to stay coherent is a difficult, unsolved problem as t
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One of the best articles on Economics is Ayn Rand's "Egalitarianism and Inflation" in her anthology "Philosophy: Who Needs it".
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What are you a communist? Talk about old. BTW, you should also read Hazlitt's "The Failure of the 'New Economics' ". Hazlitt shredded Keynes and doesn't pull any punches. Too bad nobody listened to him.
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Thank you for your reply. > I agree that those are useful words to distinguish. Not "words" but "concepts". Words are just the form of our identifications. You could be writing the same concepts (or more generally; id
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Its Bayesian but the rhetorical trick is that I didn't tell you how much it increased my confidence. ;-)
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by dmfdmf 10y ago
Good. That makes me even more confident that I am right. I disagree with some of his math so its a draw anyway.
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I'm not suggesting it, I outright stated it in my comment. My point is that potentially logical connections can (or must) be made subconsciously and that that is an aspect of how the faculty of reason works. Here is an example you e
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> people tend to make decisions based on intuition rather than reason. I think these types of article have a too-narrow definition of rationality. I think that emotions, feelings and intuition are subconscious processes but still part o
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Unless this leak revealed that the NSA forced Intel and AMD to include ME in their chips to advance their mass spying efforts such a leak would be a crime. Snowden's case is different since he was revealing info that Americans (or the
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Unless the current supplier is the NSA.
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As the article mentioned, these field contact cards have been around for a long time. A few were even filed on me in my youth ;-). The problem is when it was a simple card system there was an inherent time limit on the usefulness of the inf
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Clay Shirky "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable" William Deresiewicz "Solitude and Leadership" The Last Psychiatrist: "How to Create: Motivation for 2010" http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2014&#x2F
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This theory is reversing the cause and effect. Self-awareness is not the primary because it is a consequence of free will, i.e. the capacity to direct the focus or object of your consciousness. Initially the focus of attention is external t
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I am aware of such distinctions but these legal classifications are defined to determine the appropriate punishment not to let someone off the hook. If you killed someone because you lost control of your car in the rain on bald tires you do
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I'm doing everything in my power to save Capitalism.
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What "law" are you talking about? Because I was referring to the general, long established rule that ignorance of the law is not an excuse for breaking the law. Try your "knowingly and willfully" argument with a cop or w

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