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Are we taking an over/under on how many people will be murdered this June for Pride in Texas? Last I knew, gay, and especially trans people, are pretty heavily armed. Maybe we should set up a betting pool to see what day is the day someone first shoots someone at a gay event in Texas, and...

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Wait are we seriously asking about homeless folks in California being violent when we have folks in Texas casually shooting people from their car windows and being given a pass for it? I mean shit, at least the guy in Cali got arrested and will go to jail in the first place...

...a neural channel causes disruption ubiquitously along its length to force disequilibrium constantly and smooth reactions rather than having to wait*, and so on. The result is that the indeterminatstic stuff is no longer a deal breaker, no longer a gridlock on the probability the system...

Last I knew, morals, ethics, and desires for transparency will often translate into governmental change, especially depending on political activities that express such. You have discussed "is" and I have discussed "ought" and the bridge from an "ought" to an "is" is decisive action. This...

That's why I don't claim this. Rather, belief is deluded, superstitious, and irrational, and ought be replaced as soon as is feasible by something less junky. Believers are believers for a myriad of reasons, many amounting to "we don't have the available time or ability to convert from belief...

In some respects this indeterminism helps add a "fog of war" that itself produces certain freedoms, by eliminating the ability to be certain about what preconditions are present or absent: it gives us a clear need for having multiple contingencies, and an exercise wherein we have to test out...

I'm more concerned with the need to present some legally necessary ratio of charity to administrative costs, a measure of the objective quality of the charity itself. I think that this needs to be well documented in terms of administrative costs, and this needs to be well communicated up front...

Largescale visualization and virtualized constructive spaces are pretty invaluable.

A switch sends out a signal. The signal goes into a delay line. The delay line emits the signal back at the switch: the switch's past state determined it's future state. The switch chose its own condition on the basis of its state. A brain sends a signal. The signal has a phase delay. The...

Take such dualism and pound sand. I said what I meant and if you cannot understand that that's your own issue, not mine. The "conscious entity that the brain shapes" is "the chunk of brain that is me". There is no difference there: "the chunk of brain that is me" shapes "the chunk of brain that...

So, I would like to examine this proposition of yours... I, personally, behave for largely pragmatic reasons. You have known me long enough to know I have a history as a troll, and sometimes I slip up and even start trolling people here. I hope you have also known me long enough to know that I...

Personally, I think that if people want to have tax breaks for charity, they should have to actually open their books and hire a competent accountant and be subject to audit. If they can't demonstrate that the contributions are going to meet their charitable goals as an organization, which they...

My point is that both forms of violence have different, but often equally severe consequences. I've known some men who have been the victim of some pretty severe social violence in addition to physical violence that is as excessive and serious as what is often directed at women. The friend I...

Well, I take it a bit further in that I know I exist more or less at different times and places already, according to my own view of self. It's not really a belief, even if it is created by the existence of a belief; this is perhaps a good example of a "Tinkerbell effect" wherein a belief...

Eh, I have no problem with being two humans instead of a single human. One of the greater magic tricks that I hope to be able to pull off at some point is "multi-me", where I'm the same person existing at different places and times through a complex interplay of delayed self-reference. I am...

100% on all of this. When I joined the forums, I'm pretty sure for the first time (not sure if I spent any time here prior to 2007 but I don't think so), I pointed this out, and have on several occasions since, that the stock design, pistol grip, and a number of other features of the M16 and...

This part right here always struck me as the most interesting thing to consider in discussing the subject with hard determinists because I expect that among the whole population of humans in the world, and because of how neurons work to overcome thresholds, it's entirely possible that the hard...

To my mind the best application of VR is in teaching math, because much of math is about visualizing motion. To my mind it would allow introduction of trig concepts much earlier.

Elixir is not a MAGA troll, last I knew. The forum has some, but Elixir is not it AFAIK. Last I knew Elixir was on team "build up the world for the sake of ourselves and our fellows, making it compatible to as many lives and ways of living as we may."