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by eynsham 3y ago
1. What’s wrong with them? 2. Why would unfairness on one specific political topic impugn the judgement of Wikipedia editors generally? 3. Who are these ‘moderators’? Do you mean editors or admins? If you mean the former, any general judgem
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by eynsham 3y ago
Belief is something nearly everybody does, religious or not: when I go downstairs to make some tea, I act thus believing that there is tea downstairs; when I reason by modus ponens, I do so believing therein; and when a scientist uses a the
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When everything is empire: Pratinav Anil reviews Sathnam Sangera's /Empireland/(engelsbergideas.com)
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by eynsham 3y ago
Penrose’s excursion into logic and philosophy by way of Gödel is nearly universally rejected in my experience and according to the standard reference work: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/#
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by eynsham 3y ago
Philosophers take plenty of non-consensus positions seriously.
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There is no substantial botanical literature on whether P=NP, and the early literature on it is hardly botanical in nature. There is a very substantial literature in philosophy of mind on consciousness, and many within the field are up to d
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by eynsham 3y ago
There is no consensus amongst philosophers on consciousness, and if there is, it isn’t IIT. I don’t know about cogsci people though.
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> 5-page overview… The IEP’s entry on metaphilosophy does not explicitly compare or contrast analytic and continental philosophy, but is a start: https://iep.utm.edu/con-meta/ . > where exactly logical positivism
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by eynsham 3y ago
It’s hard to take the dismissal of nuclear at the article seriously when it doesn’t lay out any numbers.
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Tim Williamson reviews Philip Kitcher’s /What’s the Use of Philosophy?/ [pdf](philosophy.ox.ac.uk)
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> sometimes…in other languages
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by eynsham 3y ago
Well, Lee Kuan Yew’s surname is indeed Lee, but Chinese names are sometimes written with the surname at the end in other languages: thus C.K. Tang, Wen Ho Lee, and so on. And, indeed, if one were also discussing the times of Lee Hsien Loong
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by eynsham 3y ago
What’s wrong with interleaving?
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> There aren’t many European states that recognise the state of Palestine. Malta, Serbia, Albania, Cyprus, Czechia, Slovakia, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, and Sweden do.
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by eynsham 3y ago
In LaTeX it’s quite easy to change the kerning so that one needn’t leave a space in the plaintext. It’s akin to e.g. east Asian full-width Unicode punctuation marks, or even slightly dated English typography (when there was a little more sp
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by eynsham 3y ago
DB in its present state isn’t a very good advertisement for the virtues of passenger rail to be honest.
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This article isn’t about India.
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If you put the links in plaintext they're not clickable.
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Faiss is a library that supports indexing, not a fully-fledged vector database on its own. Milvus uses Faiss with a few other libraries to build a full vector database ( https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus#acknowledgment
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by eynsham 3y ago
Even if religious fascism doesn't lead to disintegration (and it might not—the inherited steel frame is quite strong), it is still a tremendous distraction from economic development, for voters, baboos, and politicians alike.
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by eynsham 3y ago
Short abstracts such as ‘yes’, ‘no’, &c of papers whose titles are questions are amusing but not as helpful as those whose titles straightforwardly state the answer (e.g., ‘X is Y’ is preferable to ‘Is X Y?’ with abstract ‘yes’).
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by eynsham 3y ago
If a claim is written in the present-tense indicative, I expect to be able to download and use something that actually does what is claimed. Unless I am being very dim, I can’t see how to download anything that would e.g. make > NeoHaske
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by eynsham 3y ago
I think you’re confusing epistemic problems for metaphysical problems. It’s quite plausible that any axioms we come up with are merely ‘based on feel', but there can be a truth ‘based on feel’ ultimately inaccessible to us except ‘[by]
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by eynsham 3y ago
Even worse! ‘Optimum’ in English is a noun, not an adjective.
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‘More optimal' is oxymoronic; ‘better’ is just that.
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Indeed; Anglo-Norman French principally diverged after 1066.
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The Anglo-Norman state and the Kingdom of France frequently warred, but the period in which the Anglo-Norman state held substantial parts of France was one in which its élites would not have felt the need to impose English instead of French
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by eynsham 3y ago
This is a pretty rubbish post. For a start, it doesn’t cite any primary sources or legislation. 1066 was obviously the year of the invasion, but 1362 is principally notable in English linguistic history for the Statute of Pleading. The Stat
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This just seems to be a misreading of varying implicit epistemic standards. When I'm in a logic seminar I'm obviously going to mean something different in using unqualified indicatives from when I'm in the pub. I don't t
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> in the same way Again, whatever their many faults, Canadians are capable of opposing extrajudicial assassinations and voting Poilievre (or Singh). Meanwhile, the Indian press lap up 56 inches' supposedly patriotic nonsense whilst

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