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Personally? I would shut up and listen to their thesis statement. I would carefully examine the main foundational and historical claims which underlie the thesis, and I would consi…

Your tweet links to an unmasking of a police officer committing false-flag violence in order to justify counter-violence towards protestors and rioters. People are rioting because …

Sure. The oral polio vaccine was given away for free, undercutting and disrupting any attempts to region-limit its availability. To this day, it's hard to charge more than a dollar…

You are over-complicating this. People are not infinitely deep; they have strange loops which make one level of depth look like many levels. Consciousness is a hallucination.

Let's finish the analogy. Rose gardens and other community parks are usually community-funded; my local gardens are funded with taxes. There are not only paid moderators (police), …

Yes. Worse, as I understand it, public figures may have lawful claims for defamation even if all statements are already known true to the court! This is a mind-boggling situation, …

Another "bad actor" here. I think that it's a combination of two phenomena: * I have accounts not just here, but also at places like Lobsters and Something Awful. In those places, …

Beyond the title, there's a whole bunch of folks slapping their cheeks and being amazed that Joe Rogan has a popular podcast. Lots of money-making is discussed. I am criticizing th…

The author talks about three people, two of whom are accomplished mathematicians and one of whom draws pretty pictures. I don't quite understand where they are headed; they're rese…

I don't really understand why "innocence" is used here; I know that it can be used to denote novelty rather than naivete, but I'm not really sure that podcasts were ever so innocen…

I wonder if there is a name for this sort of behavior, which seems common to evangelical Christians, where older folks are coerced to question their earlier works in life in order …

Nobody's mentioned the Conway-Specker-Kocken Free Will Theorem!? It lines up perfectly with the idea of "quantum choice" discussed in the article: Free will is when particles choos…

Yes. We know, more specifically, that genes are to blame for diseases like hemochromatosis [0], sickle cell anemia [1], or Tay-Sachs [2]. We also know, from pedigree collapse [3], …

Honestly, you got three replies, when you deserved zero. I discussed your original questions with real people offline, and everybody else was unable to get through your first three…

Businesses are not inherently desirable; they are a concession that we haven't agreed as a society how to distribute capital. Lowering their ability to dominate laborers is morally…

Okay, I think I see the root of the misunderstanding. UBI can be fully paid for by taxes [0], and the resulting system is administered using existing tax authorities. In the USA, t…

Your questions aren't hard. 1) People will exit the labor market, especially in cheaper jobs, since some folks currently only need to work in order to make up a small income dispar…

The goal of UBI is not to invest in works, but to invest in people. From this altered framing, putting any conditions on payouts will only disenfranchise people.

I think that you are overcomplicating the underlying reasoning. Consider: How many functions are there from the empty set to the empty set? One, right?

What were those points, exactly? Also, which year was that man born, and by what evidence do you know that?

No, as long as one entity can derive exponentially more utility than another, utility monsters are possible; such monsters cannot be satisfied only with polynomially many sacrifice…

It is amusing to me that you think that psychology is such a solid science. After all, the entire field is based on a remarkable and unfalsifiable assumption: We assume that people…

Which languages are you thinking of? I just checked Haskell and Python, and they both give 1 for both integer and floating-point exponentiation.

Interesting; Shopify doesn't use TruffleRuby, but instead prefers MRI?

Maybe this means that software shouldn't be distributed as products, but as code. Maybe people should be free to run code of their choice on their computers.