xenophanes

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by xenophanes 13y ago
consider fair coin flip sequences. stopping at arbitrary points of your choice can never really affect anything serious. but you need to make sure you're doing math right, meaning if you stop when something gets a lead you don't u
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by xenophanes 13y ago
I do not want an algorithm. My point was closer to: there is no algorithm, and so this approach doesn't work. What I actually want is a different approach that rejects authority.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
How is "the consensus opinion of scientific experts" determined? Does that mean majority view, unanimous, or what? Is group voting really a good way to decide such things? But if you aren't talking about a type of vote, what
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by xenophanes 13y ago
So you agree that Objectivism and libertarianism are split/separate/etc? You agree with me and disagree with the OP?
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by xenophanes 13y ago
And is there such thing as "Stalinist Trotskyists"? Also that some similar groups dislike each other does not imply that all groups which dislike each other are similar.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
> He was the first guy to ever use the term libertarian The word has multiple meanings. He used a different one. How is that relevant? It's like you cited the first use of the word "mouse" (animal) when we were talking abo
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Can you explain more? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Belsham > [Belshan] used the term libertarian in a discussion of free will and in opposition to "necessitarian" (or determinist) views The use of
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by xenophanes 13y ago
What is "classical libertarianism"? Google doesn't seem to know either.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Not sure if you're joking. It's easy to google, e.g. http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ar_libertari... > What was Ayn Rand’s view of the libertarian movement? > Ayn Rand was opposed to the
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by xenophanes 13y ago
> objectivist libertarians There is no such thing as an objectivist libertarian. Maybe you should learn what you're talking about before hating. Objectivism and libertarianism are separate opposing things. The Objectivist position
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by xenophanes 13y ago
i was blocked from posting for around 3 hours, which is why i didn't answer most of my critics. email me curi@curi.us if you want to discuss it further.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
> 1. Mental illness, to the extent it exists, is objective and quantifiable. > 2. Social context is irrelevant to mental health. > 3. Therefore mental health is an individual issue. None of those are positions Szasz holds. The firs
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Justin and Alan are not me.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
People are spreading very bad, destructive ideas that will result in more dead brothers. I think that's more important than being "nice". Also, Szasz and Laing are closer to opposites than counterparts. See for example: http
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Illogical behavior is stigmatized (a lot of it, not all ). > how about you go fuck yourself? Who is the one ranting?
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by xenophanes 13y ago
So there's other bad things in the world, too. What's your point? Sometimes people who escape criminal justice via psychiatry get similar levels of freedom. Sometimes significantly less freedom! It can be a way to imprison people
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Do you want to discuss this seriously? If so, cite an actual study and say specifically what conclusion it reaches and specifically how that contradicts Szasz. You seem to be implying that Szasz and I hold our positions due to scientific ig
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by xenophanes 13y ago
What's your point?
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by xenophanes 13y ago
You're informing me of a "fact" without a citation. You have not succeeded at persuading me. If you wish to change my mind, tell me where Szasz was mistaken. If you are not familiar with Szasz, perhaps you should try reading
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by xenophanes 13y ago
So your credentials consist of personal anecdotes? Maybe it's time to start taking the issue more seriously. I think it's a serious issue deserving a more serious approach. For example, you might try reading literature with multi
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Have you read Szasz? Have you refuted his arguments? If you have not considered arguments which say what you're doing is actively bad, but you're going ahead anyway, isn't that irresponsible? If you have considered them, coul
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by xenophanes 13y ago
How could he possibly have been, "in a highly-respected treatment program", or labelled mentally ill, if he acted completely normal and suffered in silence?
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by xenophanes 13y ago
How does it affect basic human rights, exactly? Some examples: People labelled mentally ill can be imprisoned without a trial. People labelled mentally ill can avoid prison when another person who did the same actions would go to jail. Peop
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by xenophanes 13y ago
> We must break the stigma against mental illness How? People are labelled mentally ill IFF they do things that have a stigma attached.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
> he did all the things he was supposed to do to get help in a moment of crisis - made multiple calls to his care providers, to 911 and even went to the hospital. He had been experiencing symptoms for several years but was in a highly-r
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by xenophanes 13y ago
You didn't let it pass, though... You were mean to someone who 1) did something good 2) seems to care what you think and is defensive Shame on you.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
you seem to understand the scenario fine, there's just a solution you missed. it's not obvious.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
the problem is with no clocks, and is possible. you also can't count the soldiers because you don't have unlimited memory (states), so you might run out of memory (states) to count in.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Feynman gave the firing squad problem in his lectures on computation, so it can't be a modern shoehorn.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Looked at the video some, it doesn't tell me anything about what i'm trying to do or how to play, i just see stuff moving around. hard to sell it like that. other than that, looks cool, as far as i can tell.

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