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by isolate 11y ago
I agree with your point of view on just about everything. I was just objecting to the use of the word fact. I make a point of doing this. The AGW believers hate me for calling it a belief, and the AGW deniers hate me for believing in AGW
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by isolate 11y ago
It's not a movie, it's a marketing event.
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by isolate 11y ago
Some kinds of success are achieved through not doing things. And then we get into the question of "to do" vs. "not to do".
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by isolate 11y ago
Sounds reasonable, how much tax do I have to pay?
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by isolate 11y ago
What, are you some kind of socialist that doesn't believe in the free market?
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by isolate 11y ago
You don't know that we won't escape the solar system and go on to colonize other planets outside of it. We've been nuclear for less than 100 years.
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by isolate 11y ago
Do you believe God communicates with you?
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by isolate 11y ago
Presumably you can imagine a somewhat stupid robot that does random scientific experiments, generating good beliefs and bad ones. Why would that invalidate the good beliefs? Belief A has no rational basis. Belief B has a rational basis.
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by isolate 11y ago
Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Either of you.
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by isolate 11y ago
I think you can dismiss them as less sane, however. You don't have to treat wacky beliefs as equally valid alternative viewpoints. There's a lot of totally supernatural stuff religious people believe that didn't / does
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by isolate 11y ago
> Science doesn't fit in a test tube. Karl Popper begs to disagree. (By the way, I also believe we evolved from apes. I am not so sure about the Big Bang just because it's so strange and hard to comprehend, but okay, I'm
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by isolate 11y ago
> point blank denial of facts such as that of human-caused climate change Science can't prove/disprove AGW because there's no control, which means that it isn't and can't be a fact. (I believe we should assume AG
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by isolate 11y ago
Well I say forced in the sense of threatened with physical or emotional violence. To a child, even emotional abandonment by one's parents can be perceived as "psychological death" (this is a term I did not invent) because th
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by isolate 11y ago
Yeah, sorry, I graduated junior high a while ago. The guy probably assumed I was disagreeing with him, which is fair, I suppose. (But anyway thanks for educating me.)
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by isolate 11y ago
Social ladder climbing is mostly just morally difficult.
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by isolate 11y ago
What's interesting is that this is actually how the human brain works. It was in the news and stuff a while ago.
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by isolate 11y ago
I guess English is not your first language? I can't understand anything past "been", which is surprising given how easily I understood your last question.
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by isolate 11y ago
Yeah, I agree basically, I was just disputing your claim that (all) sentient being choose their ethical codes. I mean, maybe, but sometimes it's a bit of a forced choice.
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by isolate 11y ago
Based on my personal experience with being so, delusional people like to have as many conversations as possible about their delusion, because that's how they sustain it.
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by isolate 11y ago
If everyone in government is a Democrat, why do you need elections?
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by isolate 11y ago
Humans generally establish their initial ethical codes based on the rules set by their creators. Usually reward and punishment are involved. There are some people that never really sit down, think about their values, and choose new ones t
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by isolate 11y ago
tl;dr Step 1: Get a piece of paper. Step 2: Work your ass off. Step 3: Never retire. Pretty sure society has been drilling this into us since preschool, but thanks for the reminder.
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by isolate 11y ago
Abstracting further, explicit and unprompted denials are usually protecting something.
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by isolate 11y ago
> You can't use tones to communicate things like irony, anger or doubt. You have to play on volume. You can't use Chinese tones, but you can still modulate your speech tonally to convey emotion while respecting them.
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by isolate 11y ago
People write with pens often. Although characters per second is much faster on a computer, there's less total overhead to writing with pen and paper in many situations.
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by isolate 11y ago
It's a snarky observation that hides an important insight: email is the most important thing that the internet does.
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by isolate 11y ago
I think the emphasis is on the word "extreme", kind of like critically endangered vs. just endangered for wildlife.
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by isolate 11y ago
You did call him a "cheapskate" though. Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.
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by isolate 11y ago
Also Muchnick's book is good for the middle end.
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by isolate 11y ago
Van Gogh shot himself because he was mentally ill, probably from bipolar disorder. The same thing that killed him (in a depressive phase) was likely responsible for his creativity (in a hypomanic phase).

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