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The _conclusion_ that the Universe is expanding is based on the long accepted premise that the Universe is _flat_. And this premise can not be proven or disproved unless we travel …

I reported an ad that was so obviously a deep fake and Facebook said there's nothing wrong with the ad. I guess AI is already favoring AI generated scams. :)

Seems there's a russian brand of chainsaws called Druzhba, that's where we got it.

“A plain .html file” - This made me chuckle. :)

Making music! :) That's something I love so much, I could be drowning in a see of AI generated music and still love music and do my own.

Just realized something while reading the article, about “spaced repetition”. For a while now I had the impression of not learning anything new and also of loosing the interest of …

I believe the word “ordered” in the question caused the confusion for some of us humans and for the machine. It anticipates some information, that the events are ordered by their t…

I quit my job instead. If the schedule is randomly or unpredictably fragmented by meetings, being expected to also write high quality code is quite simply inhumane. It’s not you th…

Actually, not quite so. There's structure, otherwise it would be incomprehensible and people would not resonate so much with it. William James said that philosophy “sees the famili…

One of most miserable type of mixed discourse. So many people a tricked into believing this because 1) they have empathy for sick people, relatives and friends. 2) it sounds reason…

Life is not 'self replicating proteins', but rather self-replicating processes. And in those processes, hundreds of chemical components are involved in a dynamical manner, which re…

I didn't say anything about proteins being random. But words of hundreds of letters, out of 23 possible letters, come in many, many, many combinations. All governed by laws of phys…

A billion years is a very long time if you wait in a railway station. But in milliseconds, for instance, as powers of 10 is a blink of an eye compared to the magnitude of the searc…

If you assume that a storm put together a Boeing 707 randomly, and there are many storms in the Universe, then yes there will be a good chance for there being Boeings all over. Not…

All I can think about when reading post-modernists, with their critique narrative of western science and rational authority, is that they just want more sex. No surprise, since the…

But there's certainly hope that someday we'll be able to explain through physics how come we hope to explain hope and understanding through physics.

The 'scientific method' is mostly a pop-culture myth. Mostly used to discrediting whatever views one does not like. There is value in predictability, but one must understand its li…

And also "uncontrolled and unsustainable" living standards growth. When you have huge portions of world population wanting to live like in the west, and not only for basic stuff li…

If they discuss ideas, they are intellectuals. A group, if there's a common idea that unites them, at least for now. I think it's telling the fact that atheists and religious intel…

Misrepresentation is another way to silence someone, since you're not making that real person viewes visible, but some fictional, and obviously bad views. Happens a lot with Peters…

It's slightly harder to fill a whole newspaper page with non-nuanced text than it is to fill a tweet.

It's not only these that have learned to keep their mouth shut. I'm even skeptical that they do. Extreme positions are uncontrollable, they demand to be heard. The more moderate, t…

Have you ever considered things that men have to deal with and are not being able to put them in terms of 'being male in the X industry/community/field"? This is not to minimize an…

I don't have the feeling I am a man. I am a man by the definition we all(used to) work with. It's not a word encompassing a set of feelings or doings. If one wishes to use the word…