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by tpeo 9y ago
Naming is the hardest problem of all possible universes, in all possible universes.
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by tpeo 9y ago
This reminded of a nice little book by Pierre Bayard called "How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read" , which actually dedicates part of itself not to books which the reader hasn't actually read, but to those which he
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by tpeo 9y ago
Hey, don't tell me about my own priors!
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by tpeo 9y ago
Why is it strange that "cost" and "trade offs" aren't mentioned? Personally, I never even expect to find these words in any text unless the author is either an economist or writing about something ostensibly associa
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by tpeo 9y ago
So? His issue was with technologically induced behavioral change, not evolutionarily or environmentally induced behavioral change.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I think that Kaczynski's concerns over technology are different from those raised by your teacher. The issue isn't so much that technology can be put to bad uses, but that it changes how people engage with the world. Analogical ex
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by tpeo 9y ago
Isn't this just representationalism? I mean, I get that this presentation is based on more empirical grounds and on material which is more fleshed out than the speculations of long dead philosophers. But unless a person is unfamiliar w
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by tpeo 9y ago
"Expunging" criminal records might be a bit too much, since this information might be still be useful for public statistics bureaus and for policy makers. Making criminal records past a certain period unavailable to the public wou
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by tpeo 9y ago
I find it odd that it's Levitt and Dubner saying that, because their most famous papers are the ones that use instrumental variable regressions to squeeze causal relationships out of the data. Now they're saying that a correlation
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by tpeo 9y ago
I disagree that a comment has to be sourced to be a contribution to the discussion. Whether or not something can be a contribution depends entirely on what people expect from comments. If all I expect is to have a little bit of thought, it
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by tpeo 9y ago
I didn't say he was kind. I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness. People should be thought as being free to speak their mind in whatever way it suits them. Not because
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by tpeo 9y ago
Honestly, I don't think it's such of an issue. If there's a real difference between the kind of information processing that occurs within a cell from that which occurs within the brain, it doesn't really matter what it i
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by tpeo 9y ago
Why should they object to it, though? If an unsubstantiated claim can't be said to be anything other than an opinion, then it's just his opinion. Plus, it doesn't really matter whether he was being "doctrinaire" or
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by tpeo 9y ago
I find it funny that you're being downvoted to shit for holding an opinion which actually was quite common in the philosophy of mind, and which hasn't been quite yet superseded. Or at least I guess so, because nothing in philosoph
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by tpeo 9y ago
Hey, I didn't say anything about eating the baby! You're the one thinking about it. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. What do you find unfair about the example?
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by tpeo 9y ago
The valley spirit never dies; It is the woman, primal mother. Her gateway is the root of heaven and earth. It is like a veil barely seen. Use it; it will never fail. ~Lao Tzu
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by tpeo 9y ago
I don't see how it would be "convenient", since it doesn't seem necessary that an animal be conscious for us to require ourselves to not harm it out of a moral concern. Babies are either unconscious or have a very low de
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by tpeo 9y ago
It is named after the sky. Or rather, it's named after a deity which was named after the sky: οὐρανός is/was the common term for sky in Greek.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Why is it that it bothers you that it's a Greek name and not that there's a planet named after the sky?
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by tpeo 9y ago
Is it just me, or do cranks in mathematics seem more coherent than those of other fields?
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by tpeo 9y ago
Please do not focus on partitions the message, specially if there are readings which also address your concern: the real GDP figures were there from the beginning. Now, do you mean that there are fewer researchers or that there are fewer re
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by tpeo 9y ago
Why are you using RD-to-GDP ratios? In 1980, US nominal GDP was USD 2.863 trillion. Today it is USD 18.625, which gives out an average growth rate of 5.34% and thus an 650% increase over 36 years. Real growth over the same period is around
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by tpeo 9y ago
Actually, a disc sander isn't the most enticing thing to compare something that goes on your teeth. Which ... sort of leads into the question of whether tooth brushing can damage tooth enamel. Can it?
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by tpeo 9y ago
> running chat bots in the MSN gaming zone lobby for AoEII But why?
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by tpeo 9y ago
I believe you can blame Samuel Huntington and his 'Clash of Civilizations' for that.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Aluminography. It can't be lithography sensu strictu if you're not using stone.
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by tpeo 9y ago
> by exploiting our tendency to believe that others we disagree with are merely misguided and can be educated There's such a tendency? From my experience, it's much more likely that people believe that the other side is full o
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by tpeo 9y ago
In my opinion, an omission would only constitute a lie if, and only if, the information omitted cannot be safely ignored as irrelevant. Because otherwise the answerer would be omitting information which he personally considers important. Wh
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by tpeo 9y ago
>I'm not sure if (or why) this leads to the requirement to have a rational discussion with proponents of abhorrent ideas Besides the difficulty of working alone, how can anyone challenge something they aren't willing to talk ab
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by tpeo 9y ago
This is an equivocation. There's such a thing as an is/ought distinction. The fact that there might be some rational description of morally abhorrent behavior doesn't lead to the conclusion that that behavior is acceptable .

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