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by lngnmn 10y ago
Like Symbolics, it was way ahead of its time.
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I do not have anything to add. As a student of philosophy I have seen way to many socially constructed chimeras and memes to not notice modern ones. The only criteria for establishing a scientific truth is still a replicable experiment whic
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We know what it is. It is a socially constructed abstract concept, like "god" or "afterlife" or "pure substances" of Spinoza. BTW, the "substance propositions" Spinoza has been developed are perfectly
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Practicality beats purity. Without setcar! setcdr! and friends R4RS Scheme is functional, and with these it is mostly-functional, which is good-enough. Racket, BTW, evolved mcons to make this distinction explicit. Common Lisp, obviously,
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I have not said anything about people living in poverty. I only said that there exist an ancient tradition and related social norms, which are very real and very strong factors. Perhaps, I failed to emphasize, that in India the "socia
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Skipping the "people types" nonsense, the "yes if" disconnected from reality assumption is the mark of an utopia, be it Platonic society or communism or extreme liberalism, which is always based on some unrealistic &quot
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India is very special, traditionalist society. As person who have spent a considerable time living in North India, I would say that people will turn this free money into gold and garments and other status symbols, like mobiles, which in tur
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Is there anything about the Influence of Carbonic Acid and Temperature Upon Vegetation?
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Python? If noyt it should, because there is no better prototyping/bootstrapping language and definitely there is no better culture than that which emerged around this language. Only Scheme of old days could be compared to have simila
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I think this is a wrong question, or at least oversimplified view. The real recipe is to be highly qualified on whatever you do and ready to catch an opportunity and ride on an emerging trend. Today the buzzwords are about security, a few y
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Modeling is a new form of pseudo-scientific speculation. ML is closer to reality as long as the training sets are not a dogmatically interpreted noise, like it usually is in finance and other pseudo-sciences. You could read about a fundamen
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Why, evolutionary psychology and the philosophy of mind, comparative history and some sociology offers a comprehensive explanation of the mental and social forces, so to speak, which makes religions possible. It is social phenomena of langu
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That in the past people used to deceive (delude) themselves and other fools around them with theology, speculations and metaphysics, today they do the same with statistics, probability and abstract models.
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> moderate drinking is wealthy person thing Cross-culturally? Would the similar results be obtained in Ireland, Poland, Russia? Perhaps my generalizations are somehow better match to reality? You're probably unaware, but some region
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"Moderate drinking" is working class phenomena in the first place, especially in cold climates - cheap, easily available almost instant gratification (of being happy with oneself) and better than church socialization with fellow m
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How could it show anything meaningful for places where no weather data is collected, like Tibet or Nepal?
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> The key assumption is that if X causes Y, the noise in X can have an effect on Y but not vice versa. Fine. What if you missed a hidden variable Z which also causes Y? What if there is also X1 which causes Y when no X is present. For ex
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An experiment must be carefully designed according to the working hypothesis and control. Natural phenomena is not a formal experiment.
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Assuming unproven causality is exactly how uneducated primitive people used to form their religious beliefs. Churches are related to people. People are related to the Sun. The Sun is caused by the prayers of the people in churches. Sun is i
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That would still be a strong correlation, but not causation. One could add a weight to each observable state and select for the biggest weight so far, but it would have nothing to do with the actual causes. Would a dead dog bark when kicked
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> If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does? Experiment. Prove of implementation , the way molecular biologists do it.
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Causality must be defined as a fully-observable model and then proved by a replicable experiment, it cannot be established by any number of mere observations. Statistics or probability are unrelated to causality in principle .
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God is a word, a label. That label could be meaningfully attached to one of the two concepts - the process, of which we are by-products, which is running by the machine we call Universe, or, to the language-possessing, self-conscious mind,
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> non-philosophical argument that takes for granted what it should investigate. It has been investigated. The experimental findings of genetics could prune out lots and lots of prior nonsense, the way a backtracking tree-pruning search a
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Come on, rationality as a concept of the mind is unapplicable to reality. Reality just is. Genetic patterns, for example, are not rational or irrational. Some of them encode genes for proteins, so they are preserved by the evolution process
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It is contradiction with the original meaning and purpose of the whole endeavor - the search for ultimate reality, of what is. As soon as you ceased to follow the method and start to pile up nonsense it could not be called an inquiry anymor
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> philosophy became irrational This is contradiction. > Eastern philosophy isn't abstract speculation, similar to theology? Why? Due to its goal and its method. The goal was to find the ultimate reality, as they call it. The meth
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No one writes in formal way on a discussion board. Which statement in particular you personally do not like?
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Show me a flaw in my logic before judging my style. Speculations is not a substitute for philosophy. Philosophy, originally, was the quest for "reality as it is", which eventually destroyed religious dogmas and was a precursor f
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That does not mean that unproved (non-existent) factors should be added to a model or that any inferences could be made from a simulated model. Experiment, not a simulation is the criterion of validity in the scientific method. Simulation i

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