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How can we know if something has yet to be explained, or is in fact inexplicable? Obviously, we can't. To declare that something is inexplicable is equivalent to saying it's supern…

Quoting Wikipedia: >In Buddhism, the term anattā (Pali) or anātman (Sanskrit) refers to the doctrine of "non-self", that there is no unchanging, permanent self, soul or essence in …

I don't see the distinction. The context is >computers are not people or jews Jews are a subset of people.

My understanding is that young people are at lower risk of severe symptoms, but they can still get infected and transmit the virus to others.

I read the privacy policy before using it. I guess it doesn't upload anything. Is it naive to trust the privacy policy stated here? https://github.com/noahlevenson/stealing-ur-feel…

The phrase "Multiverse" has become overloaded. Max Tegmark thinks that there are at least four different kinds of "Multiverse", which he organizes into levels. This article corresp…

An obvious use case for this API is to allow native games that use Vulkan to be ported to the Web without a proprietary abstraction layer. (The abstraction layer would be in the em…

> To the best of my knowledge, mainstream quantum mechanics assumes continuous spacetime, so the argument that the primary reason it can't be reconciled with general relativity is …

There was a post here two weeks ago discussing this exact problem. [1] It starts by explaining Democritus' reasoning that matter must be made of discrete atoms. The main point of t…

The phrase "both in-person and around the globe" is ambiguous. It could mean either that there were more witnesses in person, and more witnesses around the globe, or it could mean …

How would one convey the scientific method in a single sentence? What about the motto of the Royal Society: Nullius in verba; Take nobody's word for it.

The Golden Rule is flawed, as the Wikipedia article explains in the criticism section. Your comment bought to mind this quote from Deutsch: "The Golden Rule (treat others as you wo…

Of course you would be touching a real thing. What else could you touch? However, on closer inspection (such as taking a bite) you would be able to tell that it wasn't a banana: th…

What would it be like to touch "something", rather than mere electro-magnetic forces? Isn't this just a game of words? When we touch electro-magnetic forces, we are in fact touchin…

> that there is no point of view, just local chemical storage of information. You have just restated the problem of consciousness, except as an assertion that it doesn't exist. The…

The problem with this language is that the very word "illusion" implies an observer. To whom is it an illusion? And, what are the properties of this illusion? Can we make artificia…

This seems suspicious to me, like you're playing a game with words that I'm not able to precisely identify. Isn't this conflating objective reality (which we can only theorize abou…

What other personality traits are correlated with political ideology? Are these studies worth taking seriously? For example, according to the (corrected) study [1] conservatives ar…

If the amount of computation that can be done is finite, then subjective time is also finite. (And vice-versa if the amount of computation is infinite.) What does infinite time mea…

There is "Quirk" by Craig Gidney, a Quantum Circuit Simulator. http://algorithmicassertions.com/quirk

I think this is a great question. I was vague on this as well but I found this site after a quick search [1] A gene is a code for making a specific protein. Each gene is a sequence…

Assange isn't a UK citizen: he is Australian.