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I'm not sure what "logic" has to do with this, but I am confused why one would presume others share this mindset.

Oh absolutely, I'm just shocked at the idea the author would presume others feel this way too.

> There comes a moment in life, often in the quietest of hours, when one realizes that the world will continue on its wayward course, indifferent to our desires or frustrations. Is…

Can you quote the evidence here? The link is paywalled.

Is there any materially demonstrable evidence that tiktok is worse than other social media networks?

> SpaceX control system also has to compensate for the fuel moving inside their rockets so the control algorithms probably involve some kind of fast numerical fluid simulation. Sur…

> Your 1st sentence is just classic whataboutism It would be if I were arguing against sovereignty for tibetans; I am not. I merely ask that people don't treat the movement as any …

> (Bell Labs researchers -> C -> Oak -> Java -> JavaScript.) It seems like Javascript inherits more directly from lisp than any of the other languages mentioned, except for the syn…

> but this was changed to a more Algol-like syntax due to the prevailing opinion among many that an Algol-like syntax would be easier for C/Pascal/C++ programmers to adopt Did this…

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> How does zen buddhism rank on the ‘major world religion’ scale? Or (by followers) Taoist/Daoists? Well if you're just going off "popularity" then yea, you're going to end up with…

I quoted the James bible for a reason—not because it's a good translation (it's obviously not) but it formed the English preconceptions that people structure their understanding of…

> what's more effective than having a pre-defined term be what it means, rather than what the speaker intends internally? Trying to understand the speaker, presumably, and not wiel…

How is that a problem? Even within christianity the bible is not considered "true" or "absolute" or "the word of god" or "sacred" outside of niche literalist communities. If you're…

> No major world religion I’m aware of is all that friendly to anyone who disagrees with the answer once ‘given’ Eastern worldviews (tao, buddhism—particularly zen buddhism) are in…

The costs of propagating such a text are significant enough this act implies serious buy-in from the community (if only its ruling class).

I don't think that's a serious barrier in this case. The above poster just would rather dismiss a statement rather than give it serious thought. It's easier to simply claim to know…

> Referring back to your example of Abrahamic religions, their most famous work opens with an explanation of how the world was created. Was that not the work of somebody interested…

> In other words, average Americans exhibit similar limitations on their reasoning as good LLMs. It's not even clear this is a good example of "reasoning". You can progress all the…

> using language wrong There is no wrong use of language; there's just people who don't bother to communicate well in the most effective language available. In this case you could …

> the original small talk-y beauty of The Good Parts Javascript seems much, much, much closer to Lisp than to Smalltalk. Granted, all three are very dynamic, but message passing ne…

> I feel like a large slice of JS’s complexity comes from footguns you aren’t really supposed to use anymore I'm not inclined to use a language that can't be fixed.

Any distinction is likely only about 500 years old at most. Though I do very much dislike the term "religion" for interpreting history as it connotes so much that's specific to abr…