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Some more data - the math geniuses I knew were actually happier, more well-rounded, and fitter than the average person at my former school.

Hm, interesting! I see advertisements for meat too, but I generally don't get the impression of them trying to say meat isn't unhealthy. I mean, by and large, it does seem true tha…

I don't know the data on this, but I'm surprised you're doubtful. Don't you think the media and doctors alike have been pushing the idea that plant-based diets are healthier? My do…

I'll have to dive into those references to see what "prudent diet with lean meat" means exactly.

But I wonder if the high saturated fat content in fattier meats and meat's higher caloric content are still confounders here. I would be shocked if controlling for calories, satura…

People pushing these views (views I am highly sympathetic to, to be sure) often don't understand how to communicate them properly to people who don't already agree with them. Peopl…

This reminds me of how, if I recall correctly, in the original paper on adversarial attacks, the authors found that adversarial attacks on one neural network would generally have s…

Definitely, Neoplatonism was a big influence on Abrahamic philosophical thought. Though the real locus classicus for God is Aristotle's Metaphysics , specifically his description o…

So, I think if saying "the earth is round" is true and saying the earth is round mean different things, then we haven't construed the former properly, the former should be construe…

>So this is false In the second argument, could you tell me which of (1) and (2) are incorrect, and why? If it's the quotes that are problematic, I'm fine to drop those. The earth …

>Sure. I'm just skeptical that the people reading philosophy for fun are reading Wittgenstein. I'm sure a lot of them are. >I'm just saying that the historical trend has been for s…

right, there is something modal going on here, but in terms of the formal mathematical tool of modal logic, Spinoza isn't using them, though I think you understood that from the st…

>Right, and I thought Aquinas' take was that he must be capable of doing otherwise, but doesn't. Yep, that's right. >are they countable? Spinoza doesn't specify. But yep, in princi…

>Did you read it? Do you accept it? Accept what specifically? Here's what I understand you to be saying, and you're free to reframe this. 1. Propositions are ideas. 2. Ideas can on…

>music yoga I would wager that most people who enjoy listening to music at some point have hummed some tune, sung in the shower, or something like this. If your point is that merel…

>It's "X is a faithful reflection of the actual state of affairs in objective reality." That's what the word "true" means. As you've said earlier. This sounds like a reasonable con…

>No, we were talking about (or at least I was talking about) how many people get value out of philosophy who don't practice it, at least as amateurs. Is philosophy like music or is…

>Well, sort of All that's fine---but I think you would agree that Fermat's last theorem isn't true by virtue of its utility for counting sheep or anything like that. Similarly, I d…

I'm not sure how that contradicts what I've said or why this means we should abolish philosophy departments. And for what it's worth, philosophy today tends to be clearer (to us at…

>philosophy makes people confused for no good reason, is boring and even when "understood" doesn't provide any tangible benefit to people's lives. I mean, maybe this is true for so…

Maybe so, but I don't see why every discipline needs to be evaluated purely on "benefit for humanity" in the sense of scientific or technological progress, if that's what you're im…

>There are no Platonic truths, only preferred models. Yeah, I disagree, I think there's something mathematical truths reflect that are independent of the physical world. When we de…

>Also, 2 is not a logical implication of 1. One can never rule out the possibility that, say, all human behavior is controlled by evil demons. What I would say is that my version o…

We were originally talking about how many people who weren't philosophers enjoyed philosophy---what happened to that? But whatever, we can set that aside if you'd like, I'm kind of…

I don't think you'll change your mind on that regardless of what I say, so I'll refrain from engaging that particular point. What do you think is the relevant difference between ph…