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by ethn 6y ago
> We can only examine what knowledge is after we've come to know something This is an unhelpful nebulous statement, at its worst a circular definition and victim to the Münchhausen trilemma. > untenable because to know what can b
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by ethn 6y ago
It's best to start with epistemology, epistemology is the foundation for all works in philosophy, which an understanding of is necessary for not only a good rigor but to know what is possible to know, so you don't your waste time.
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by ethn 6y ago
If this was a correlation study I could agree with you but more accurately I would instead posit that no hypothesis is confirmed. But this is a study about a deterministic mechanistic action. We know that DMT binds with sigma-1 receptors (S
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by ethn 6y ago
Secondly, in the PM-Lisp it doesn't necessarily prove that theorem a proves b, it just shows that b can be a successor of the formulas in a
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by ethn 6y ago
The article tackles and refutes this pure field view, but continuous manifolds are no issue, and is required for anything to be extended in space--the transcendental aesthetic refutes the type of discursive space you're presuming, such
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by ethn 6y ago
To avoid philosophical contradictions, at least in respect to phenomenology in the transcendental aesthetic, particles in this sense must be an association of measurable properties (mass, magnetism, charge, etc.) extended in space (and ther
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by ethn 6y ago
Definitely not true by the empirical voting preferences, however, that's not a good argument to move away from it. If we're to believe Arrow, these other systems guarantee that fate we all don't want. At least the FPTP system
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by ethn 6y ago
I think there's a sort of Toqueville effect[0] in regards to the popular treatment of FPTP. According to Arrow's theorem more than two outcome voting systems, in terms of voting preference profiles (e.g. score or ranked choice), o
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by ethn 6y ago
Not at all, the American consumer's/company's demand for U.S. dollars is because taxes must be paid in dollars to the US Government
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by ethn 6y ago
Not sure why you think this. The only difference is the protocol of which our already digital currency is facilitated through. The dollar remains the global reserve currency because it has the most demand due to the purchasing power of US c
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by ethn 6y ago
Usenet solved this with a Bitcoin precursor, Adam Back's hashcash. In effect you can do the same thing better by using a cryptocurrency with cheap transactions, e.g. Bitcoin Cash's Memo.cash. This way git hosts are compensated whi
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by ethn 6y ago
This might be able to be a bit faster if you use a virtual QWERTY keyboard displayed with eye tracking acting as a cursor, with select being a consonant, preferably /d/. You can map certain phonemes for other shortcuts, including
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by ethn 6y ago
Thanks for your reply. The first part, although mostly true (axiomatization isn't new and Kant was well aware of Euclid), is wholly irrelevant so I'll comment on the second part. None of this contradicts the synthetic apriori of m
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by ethn 6y ago
Note this is Whitehead's and Russell's Principia. Although provably a failed project, I've found tremendous value in the texts.
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by ethn 6y ago
Indeed this is precisely the unwarranted nihilism I'm criticizing, where if we were to believe that consensus in philosophy is impossible, so would philosophical progress--and therefore knowledge. This is a libelous claim that all phil
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by ethn 6y ago
It's a straw man to argue that math has brought new philosophical challenges, no one has posited against that. I've only stated that math is readily understood by transcendental idealism, disproving the false dilemma presented by
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by ethn 6y ago
It pains me to repeatedly see debates which were decidedly answered in the 1700s by Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason--with such persuasion to even turn Hume. Transcendental idealism is more or less non-controversial in mainstream philoso
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by ethn 6y ago
They’ll still have to sift through tons of no longer context-relevant content. You’re also expecting the user to rationally know his context in terms of your chosen categories, and worse, to put in the work to formalize them for your engin
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by ethn 6y ago
I’ve given up on content-based recommendation. The issue is that people’s interests in their topics and subtopics is primarily dictated by their individual circumstance and environmental real-world context. That is, if you are able to perf
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by ethn 6y ago
Ranked-choice voting (and its Arrow equivalents) necessarily gives the worst outcome of any voting scheme, specifically it matches the least voting preferences[0][1]. Two-outcome FPTP on the other hand does not fall to Arrow’s impossibility
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by ethn 6y ago
Ah, I wasn’t aware of that distinction.
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by ethn 6y ago
In Cybernetics, he does credit Maxwell, Pitts, etc. He goes through the entire history of science relevant to Cybernetics for the first and second chapters. He did invent plenty of feedback analysis techniques and modern control systems bef
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by ethn 6y ago
I think this is incorrect, this isn't the first trained multi-layer neural network. Minsky & Rosenblatt's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptrons_(book) covers multi-layer neural nets. Rosenblatt's
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by ethn 6y ago
Indeed. It is a necessarily true model of causality. Highly recommend Minsky's application of the theory on computation: Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines Interestingly, Minsky went out of his way to hide the production of that
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by ethn 6y ago
There’s nothing less scientific than defining some phenomenon as some authority’s whimsical arbitration. It’s a deeply mistaken view that all economic analysis is incontrovertibly decided by some coterie, and that somehow that is the unspok
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by ethn 6y ago
Even if we’re to take this arbitrary definition from this small private organization, the article of this thread states that GDI is the highest and debt is the lowest since 2014. While GDP is 1% from the highest. Record job numbers were pos
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by ethn 6y ago
We're simply not in a recession. Recessions are systemic collapses related to bad monetary policy causing a misallocation of resources.
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by ethn 6y ago
The map is actually about necessarily true properties that the territory is built on. That in any experience the features of the map exists in the territory. The author argues instead not to be confused with the map because of potential dev
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by ethn 6y ago
This type of epistemology is that of a naive realist and is much more wrong than the Platonist the author tries to ostensibly criticize. Naive realism is outdated by almost 240 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naïve
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by ethn 6y ago
A constitutionally limited government can explicitly hurt minority rights, for instance the Confederate States Constitution, or betray intentions of principles through direct democratic procedures by interpretation and enforcement. With dir

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