machina_ex_deus

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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Another climate doomer. First of all, statistically speaking you're less likely to die off the grid after global warming because death from cold is just much much more common than all the other effects that global warming will have. Bu
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
There's much more nuance to it. The supreme court in Israel did not intervene in laws at all until 1995 (with a single exception of a law contradicting a requirement of 61 majority). Then in 1995, in Bank hamizrachi verdict [0], the su
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
"polluters". Literally the least harmful to the environment gas is getting the most attention. The only gas which actually increases planet growth and is completely benign to humans. Minewhile, chemical factories, oil refineries,
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
If you think predicting a single number and doing it this badly (temperatures), 33% within the correct value, and calling it science, you're the problem. Oh and nice cherry picking. With the given variable and its pretty small variance
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Your view of the six days of creation is backwards. It is a story that is meant to justify the division into weeks and the concept of Shabbat, a day off once in a week. It is probably the most widespread social policy that had ever been spr
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Another failed prediction for the astrology here. Not the it's going to shake your beliefs in it. That's our difference I guess. When I'm wrong it's something I strive to fix, but when you're wrong, what do you do?
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
My somewhat mathematical point of view is that I can accept adjoining independent but weird axioms into your axiom set, but I can't accept running around with a formal system that has already reached a logical contradiction or that doe
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
The current state with aliens is that we don't know. Some give 100% prior, some give 0% prior, and I can have an intelligent discussion about it. Regardless of our discussion, in the end, we still don't know and can't know (y
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Magicians can do what looks like turning water into wine easily. Is that seriously your biggest issue with religion? If there's anything to be really skeptical about its that a person resurrected from the dead, rest of the miracles are
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
To me there is an a huge difference. I can accept religions, which are adding axioms that aren't falsifiable, and that are usually taught to a person when he is a child. And religions had their roles in shaping society for good. I can
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Speaking of stereotypes, if anyone takes astrology seriously, I automatically assume they are not intelligent, irrational, and I find it impossible to take them seriously. I consider them beyond reason so I don't even try. If a person&
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
And then you remember that there are 10^23 particles in a single gram, which is in orders of magnitude of all CPUs on earth. We're as close in orders of magnitude to the size galaxy 10^20 as we are to the nucleus 10^-18. Or put it anot
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Sadly, the alternative with this regime isn't lack of sanctions, it's (potentially nuclear) war. They have said many times they intend to destroy Israel, and I believe they intend to do as they say. We're on the brink of a re
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Or they can just stop getting nuclear weapons. And spending all their money funding terror against Israel, in Yemen and in Syria. You know, the sane option that they could've done for years. Truth is that Iran is a terrorist organizati
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
I would love to see a search engine which only indexes ad free websites. Would probably beat Google in many things without any algorithm. Even as blockers don't solve the problem of only getting SEO ad pages, but a search engine which
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Placebos are known to work. I neither overestimate nor underestimate them. I understand them for what they are: placebos. And some people actually need them. Moreover, in social contexts, religion also "works" in many senses. A pe
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
I'm tired of science as a religion. People treat it as some gospel, like if you check out some criterions you're suddenly "scientific" and instantly get a sense of validity and authority that you shouldn't logically
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Rust hardly deals with memory race conditions better than C, and managed languages are not fit for kernel. This isn't the fault of C at all. These kinds of issues are unavoidable part of kernel programming in multiprocessor settings an
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
> You can be against this lady, but also be against deepfake porn targeting women only at the same time. To be clear, I am against deepfake porn. But I'm even more against these kinds of people who make a career out of abusing real
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
"Everyone knows" is not an argument that shows someone is wrong. It's an argument that shows you're just judging people because they stray away from the consensus. Ironically, after you were crying about mob mentality. A
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
You don't need set theory to prove that 1+1=2. You don't need mathematical logic. A child which answers that if he puts one thing and then another thing and then counts and gets two things have proved it just fine. Those later com
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
There are no right questions, only right answers. A question, by definition, isn't right or wrong. That's why it's a question, not an answer. The very first step to being an intelligent person is not being afraid to ask quest
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
So now it's the elderly. I've seen them fall for phone scams much more commonly, they usually don't have the technical ability to use the internet. You're deflecting from the disinformation narrative into elderly scam. W
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
And my general experience with anti vaxers is that they generally look into more resources and research and put much more thoughts into their decisions than a regular person. Which I generally view as a positive quality. I put much more val
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
So you assume your fellow humans are stupid and will fall for this crap, and must be protected at all costs including the cost of regulation preventing speech? By the way, how's that scammer SBF doing? I heard he managed to scam even m
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Disinformation is the narrative constructed by crumbling authorities of mainstream media desperately trying to preserve their power. You might think like their narrative is "think critically, and consider everything critically". B
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
The government is the "Eve" of this protocol. What happens in practice is that the government is controlled by political parties, and these have enough leverage to put their confidants into sensitive positions. And the challenge o
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
The structure of the election process itself, is what determines whether it is a plausible conspiracy or probably impossible. In an election where each vote is counted by hand, it's indeed quite hard and implausible for the government
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
The biggest security vulnerability of voting machines are that a single person can count thousands of votes. And that is by design. Election security is a confusing business. It is, by design, the only thing you should not trust your govern
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
It's not about having the artificial notion of self. It's about having a real self. Memories of who you are, what is your history, what is your place in the world, who are your friends and your relationship with them, I can keep g

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