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by jules 10y ago
That doesn't solve the problem since heat and cold don't choose to be present or absent while God does.
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by jules 10y ago
Not taking medicine like epidural anaesthesia that isn't absolutely necessary would reduce the risk. I find the idea of spinal anaesthesia scary in general. It's poison with such a dose that it shuts essential parts of your nervou
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by jules 11y ago
So? (By the way, they do map to different tests if you view it as a statement in constructive logic, rather than geometry.)
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by jules 11y ago
Isn't the point of the article that it doesn't go to a proper court, but should?
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by jules 11y ago
I agree with this statement (depending on how you interpret "change": if the world was different we may have been lead to prove different theorems), and nothing I've said previously contradicts it.
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by jules 11y ago
I never claimed that, in fact I said precisely the opposite: > Of course this isn't always the most interesting test
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by jules 11y ago
If mathematics doesn't have to do with experience, how do you explain the fact that when we measure pi it's 3.14? Pi is just pi defined in a mathematical way. It's true that there are other numbers or objects which can make
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by jules 11y ago
Pi isn't defined by how we measure it. It's defined mathematically. Predicting how a measurement of the ratio between the perimeter and the diameter of a circle comes out is just one of the predictions we can make having calculate
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by jules 11y ago
All mathematical statements in constructive logic have an experimental test (actually since nonconstructive logic can be embedded in constructive logic via a double negation translation, they do too). Of course this isn't always the mo
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by jules 11y ago
An interesting point but I'm not sure that it does. The ultra-finitist says that numbers above a certain limit don't exist. In my view numbers don't "exist" in the first place. The theory of numbers is a tool for ma
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by jules 11y ago
It fails because you apply the model to a situation where it isn't applicable. This isn't very different than applying Newtonian physics with objects moving near the speed of light. By the way, numbers aren't defined as jar
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by jules 11y ago
(d) You are deeply embedded in an ideology and therefore not able to deal with facts in an unbiased way. Had the results of that study been the reverse, the study would have been fantastic since it is objectively much stronger than any of t
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by jules 11y ago
Does this represent the state of philosophy of mathematics, because I find this view quite naive. Mathematics is in the business of making a model of the real world and then making falsifiable predictions with it, just like science. Take Fe
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by jules 11y ago
Why do you have to eat meat?
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by jules 11y ago
If you object to inflicting more suffering than you have to, how do you justify not being a vegetarian? In the end this is a trade of a bit of pleasure for you and quite a bit of suffering for the animal. Fox hunting, it seems to me, is pre
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by jules 11y ago
I did. How did I misrepresent it, and how am I overstating the results of the study I cited? How am I abusing the scientific method as a whole? When you make these grandiose claims it would have been nice to provide at least some form of ac
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by jules 11y ago
> Seems off-topic, can you explain the relevence of this? You said: > Hiring faculty is a very different thing (and subject to different rules and policies) than getting students succesfully to graduation. That's why I mentioned
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by jules 11y ago
If you compare the worst case scenario for hunting (fox hunting) with the best case scenario for slaughter, but often the slaughter isn't fun either. Many animals are very distressed on their way to the slaughter. Even more importantly
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by jules 11y ago
The drop out rates for males are (much) higher. You can speculate on the reason why the discrimination exists, but calling it "a culture of progressively trying to redress historic gender imbalance" is again a collectivist attitud
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by jules 11y ago
> Iran and India have much higher representation of women in STEM fields, and while they have other issues with misogyny, the inculcation of ambition (across gender lines) is very high (I say that having lived in India). The result seems
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by jules 11y ago
Why would hunting be torture, but slaughtering not?
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by jules 11y ago
You're right that it's biased, but perhaps not in the way you think it is: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360.abstract > The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically att
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by jules 11y ago
Now I'm wondering whether you are a vegetarian, or whether you pay others to kill animals for a few minutes of eating pleasure.
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by jules 11y ago
I think this is the difference between a collectivist and individualist point of view. You can view women as a group or tribe, competing against other groups or tribes, or you can view each person as an individual with one of the characteri
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by jules 11y ago
How can the whole market be overvalued? Prices are relative, no?
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by jules 11y ago
As it is there is a huge financial incentive for the criminals to get people hooked on drugs. Hard drugs should be freely provided by the government to take that incentive away. This also gives it the opportunity to help addicts who want to
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by jules 11y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. The problem with this kind of discrimination, apart from it being discrimination, is that it has all kinds of side consequences and it's often applied unidirectionally. When you have a 2 to 1 hiring
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by jules 11y ago
He made a list of his favourite movies and then people complained that it didn't have enough movies directed by women. I agree that gender bias is a problem, I just disagree that more discrimination is the way to fix it. It's also
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by jules 11y ago
What do you propose we do with those professions where we can't have blind auditions? Pull a number out of a hat and enforce those quota? It doesn't matter whether the number you're enforcing is 50-50 or another number. The w
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by jules 11y ago
I'm all for blind auditions and eliminating discrimination. The problem is that the criterion for success cannot be a 50-50 split between men and women in every profession. That ignores that there are gender differences, and pushing fo

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