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by yters 7y ago
One man's modus ponens is another man's modus tollens.
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by yters 7y ago
So, if there is a difference between invention and discovery, then dualism is true?
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by yters 7y ago
That's great to hear. Unfortunately, such perspectives don't seem to make their way to the news sources I generally consume (i.e. TV ads, news.google.com, etc.). The level of exposure I get tends to come across more as doom and
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by yters 7y ago
It's strange to label anyone who disagrees with a position in this way. Sure, some disagreements are spurious, but is every single disagreement spurious? Is every single person in the group incapable of rationally coming to reasonabl
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by yters 7y ago
It'd be interesting to hear plans for viable ways forward, instead of one side saying there is no problem, and the other side saying there is a problem and the only solution is X (which is a tragedy of the commons type solution). It&#
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by yters 7y ago
Also Quine-McCluskey for an automated reduction of Karnaugh maps.
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by yters 7y ago
The Chinese government seems more than happy to exploit its people for western money, up to strip mining their citizens' organs.
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by yters 7y ago
Where does the website say this? It is quite vague about implementation details, at least from what I can find. Closest I could find was a conspiracy theory linking a separate study into using quantum dots to record vaccination. https:&#x
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by yters 7y ago
Thanks, this is more convincing. So it looks like it is the,combination of great heat and humidity. Would that combination lead to more cloud cover and then back to cooling? And, thank you for answering my questions, vs just dismissing me
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by yters 7y ago
I'll take your word you are an expert, and what you say sounds alarming. I cannot make all the connections, though. For instance, much of the Middle East lives in temperatures that fry eggs during the midday. I was in Afghanistan du
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Is their art good because they are tortured, or despite being tortured? People tend to assume the former, but it's unclear why the latter cannot be true.
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by yters 7y ago
AFAIK, humankind flourished during the medieval ages (minus plagues and modern medicine and war). But, at least nothing obviously climate related. I wonder why we would have more trouble nowadays with even more advantages.
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by yters 7y ago
But if human civilization has flourished in much warmer earth in the past, why are you so convinced that a warming globe is necessarily a bad thing? Humans seem pretty adaptable, especially if the change is slow like climate change seems t
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by yters 7y ago
I don't think the scholastic philosophers were thinking the precise balance would happen in reality, but rather the very concept seemed absurd. That's the nature of intuition pumps. Not exactly a cut and dry deductive argument,
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by yters 7y ago
I thought now it is the warmest it has ever been since human civilization began.
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by yters 7y ago
How many were lifted out of poverty through capitalism, despite massive, bloody revolutions that resulted in genocidal regimes that killed untold millions of their own citizens?
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by yters 7y ago
I am putting my money on timecube for now.
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by yters 7y ago
How does this translate into human deaths? Does that amount outweigh the potential human deaths adverted by causing the economic downfall through worldwide lockdowns in response to covid-19?
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by yters 7y ago
"Buridan's ass" was a philosophical intuition pump to argue for the reality of free will. If we were really ultimately determined by our appetites, as the Neoplatonic determinists would have it, then we can construct a scena
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by yters 7y ago
I feel that our profession, software engineering, might actually cause this sort of problem. Like the movie 'Concussion' the hyper focus on solving logic problems might cause brain damage. I've experienced something like th
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by yters 7y ago
That's why I don't believe in Einstein's theory of relativity. All the experts, at least the English speaking ones (my language), thought he was a quack. Ether all the way, baby!
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by yters 7y ago
Have you considered alternative scenarios?
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by yters 7y ago
I wish the media would focus more on the outliers of the doomsday narrative, as well as the long term consequences of the lockdown solutions being pushed. covid-19 is bad, but seems nowhere near comparable to what much of the developing wor
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by yters 7y ago
I agree civil movements and bloodless revolutions through the political process are good. Violent overthrows are bad, AFAIK almost always resulting in a much worse regime than the one being overthrown. The USA's founding is a fortuna
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Why do you prefer that outcome? Social and economic collapse could cost millions of lives, and mostly among the poorest parts of the world.
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by yters 7y ago
Why do you think rebellion is synonymous with standing up?
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by yters 7y ago
It's a very strange thing. For instance, the Bible is full of horrifying events, and the life of Jesus, a seemingly innocent, well intentioned man who is crucified in an excruciating death for no good reason, also seems to be in line
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by yters 7y ago
So on top of environmental collapse we can have social collapse as well? Sounds like a recipe for success.
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by yters 7y ago
That is a good point. The uptick in downvotes I see could maybe explained by the topic's high profile and divisiveness, instead of astroturf. But, that still leaves the question as to who is in favor of the CCP? Or is it just a react
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by yters 7y ago
Heh, I felt bad after it is clear you are trying very hard to be fair yet firm. Kudos for all you do!

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