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by tines 2y ago
> a claim about what statements about God are possible must ultimately be grounded in God's nature itself Ah, so you're saying that the original statement "Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense"
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by tines 2y ago
Thinking about your argument a little more, it seems like our disagreement comes from your belief that "about X" is 'infectious' to all higher order statements, whereas I don't believe this is the case. The best way
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by tines 2y ago
Please include a little animated GIF or something that gives us a taste of what it looks like!
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by tines 2y ago
In addition to my sibling comment (which I can't edit any more), I noticed earlier that you said > A universal claim about truth can't exempt itself without contradiction. But the claim in question is not a universal claim abou
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by tines 2y ago
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/insight-therapy/20...
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by tines 2y ago
> But this assertion itself constitutes a defensive truth claim about God You seem to be asserting this without any proof, or at least none that I can follow. The assertion itself is a "defensive truth" about "truths about
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by tines 2y ago
> most of whom care little about minutiae in protestant christian canon Muslim and Christian scripture overlap by a large amount, it's not that they care about Christian canon, it's that they study the same books. Muslims have
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by tines 2y ago
I don’t think it was a jab, the implication is that Muslims know the scripture very well, and won’t be fooled by erroneous quotations.
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by tines 2y ago
A statement about statements about X is not a statement about X and therefore doesn’t apply to itself.
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by tines 2y ago
No, it's a second-order statement, a statement about first-order statements. It's not subject to itself.
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by tines 2y ago
X-Files was another amazing show. A must-watch for my kids, when they come of age for it.
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by tines 2y ago
Not sure what the "official government figures" are but the OECD says otherwise: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/suicide-rates.html
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by tines 2y ago
Isn't this a bit like arguing that you can make infinite money by borrowing infinite money and going long? You have to maintain margin requirements which limits how many shares you can borrow so again, you can really only double your m
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by tines 2y ago
I think you misunderstood what I meant by "your money" in "double your money" (and I was unclear). You can only earn the value of the stocks you borrow. When trading long, the gain is unlimited. According to Investopedia
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by tines 2y ago
> Shorting tends to be intrinsically harder because the market goes up over time and Americans are generally optimists Also, with shorting the best you can do is double your money (if the stock goes to 0), while you can lose an unlimited
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by tines 2y ago
I'm not so sure the ACLU is staffed with competent First Amendment attorneys any more. I've read a few articles citing Ira Glasser as being disappointed in the direction the modern ACLU is moving.
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by tines 2y ago
> In other words, it's common usage has devolved to mean "you're an idiot." So liberals call conservative idiots "woke"? I think people have lost the plot here in trying to define this word.
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by tines 2y ago
> If you are giving scholarships or subsidies to black teenagers so they can eventually get into a university, that’s also DEI, so better subsidise their families so they can get a better primary education and upbringing… but that’s also
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by tines 2y ago
> The number of votes it took for Republicans to select a Speaker of the House and the effort that Speaker has had to subsequently undertake to keep that position says otherwise. It's natural that the politicians selected by this gr
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by tines 2y ago
I think the conditio sine qua non of whatever social movement PG is trying to describe here is that we have become, and will become more, a low-trust culture. Social circles are wider and shallower now than ever. If I can't take the
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by tines 2y ago
> The easy (and right) way out was to hire the most competent doctors What I mean by "easy" is "quick and superficial." Hiring the most competent doctors delays achieving the statistic of "more black doctors,&quo
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by tines 2y ago
> Any non white male person in charge of an organization that makes a mistake will be labeled a “DEI Hire” accurately or not. That sentiment ("any mistake is because they're a DEI hire") is obviously wrong. But didn't
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by tines 2y ago
This is an amazing idea. I’ve been thinking a lot about how smart devices have changed the way we think and interact, reading books like Alone Together and other things from Sherry Turkle’s oeuvre, and remembering how I used to use my compu
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by tines 2y ago
Not really an "also", "implements" is just syntax sugar for what the GP is saying.
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by tines 2y ago
In isolation, isn't the quote prima facie so bad and so wrong though? We think of collections of things as single things constantly . A human is a collection of body parts, body parts are collections of chemicals, chemicals are colle
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by tines 2y ago
Very sad, well done.
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by tines 2y ago
I don’t think things would be different if the LLM gave answers that were 100% reliable and correct, it would still be sad that the kid is having someone else do their homework for them with no effort on their part. What you say is true but
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by tines 2y ago
He’s either Adrian Dittman, a liar, or a clown, take your pick. I think he’s all three. In any case he’s a child.
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by tines 2y ago
Then you underestimated what a child this guy is: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1875758660154163254
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by tines 2y ago
Yep: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1875758660154163254 So much for the billionaire fanboy copium.

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