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But if they can't do math, then they can't do the math they need to do in order to not do the math they would be doing if they could do math.
September 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
But if they can't do math, then they can't do the math they need to do in order to not do the math they would be doing if they could do math.
Or when you both get home and you have to duel to decide who's the real you.
June 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Or when you both get home and you have to duel to decide who's the real you.
But does it help you remember what it is you're supposed to remember?
June 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
But does it help you remember what it is you're supposed to remember?
I agree to all four of those. The question is how do we achieve that.
June 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I agree to all four of those. The question is how do we achieve that.
I asked my calculator to make me a sandwich and it gave me the silent treatment!
June 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I asked my calculator to make me a sandwich and it gave me the silent treatment!
It depends on what you mean by saying the same thing. You can express the same meaning in two different ways, but those two utterances will not be the same.
June 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
It depends on what you mean by saying the same thing. You can express the same meaning in two different ways, but those two utterances will not be the same.
Consider it done.
May 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Consider it done.
I think you're right about that.
May 3, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I think you're right about that.
But what if you're right?
May 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
But what if you're right?
Climate Stability. Without the moon, the earth would experience much greater variations in its obliquity/tilt (the angle between its axis of rotation and a line perpendicular to the plane of its orbit around the sun), leading to much greater and more erratic swings in climate.
May 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Climate Stability. Without the moon, the earth would experience much greater variations in its obliquity/tilt (the angle between its axis of rotation and a line perpendicular to the plane of its orbit around the sun), leading to much greater and more erratic swings in climate.
Besides I find reading about STEM topics far more interesting and enjoyable than reading about political topics, and since they appeal to only a minority of the population, they rarely if ever receive large numbers of likes/upvotes. [2/2]
May 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Besides I find reading about STEM topics far more interesting and enjoyable than reading about political topics, and since they appeal to only a minority of the population, they rarely if ever receive large numbers of likes/upvotes. [2/2]
Fair enough and I think I understand what you mean. I think it's important to keep up with political developments, but the most popular posts on those topics generally tend not to have anything interesting or original to say and contain little to no nuance. [1/2]
May 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Fair enough and I think I understand what you mean. I think it's important to keep up with political developments, but the most popular posts on those topics generally tend not to have anything interesting or original to say and contain little to no nuance. [1/2]
What's your reason for filtering out posts with > 1000 posts?
May 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What's your reason for filtering out posts with > 1000 posts?
BTW, there seems to be a strong negative correlation between the amount of effort I put in to an Answer/Post on Quora and the amount of views and the amount of likes it receives.
May 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
BTW, there seems to be a strong negative correlation between the amount of effort I put in to an Answer/Post on Quora and the amount of views and the amount of likes it receives.
Have you read the book "Life's Other Secret" by Ian Stewart?
Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World a.co/d/eaPRc8t
Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World a.co/d/eaPRc8t
April 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Have you read the book "Life's Other Secret" by Ian Stewart?
Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World a.co/d/eaPRc8t
Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World a.co/d/eaPRc8t
I have never received even 100, let alone 1000, likes on either Twitter or Bluesky. The maximum number of upvotes I've received for an Answer or Post on Quora is somewhere around 700 to 800.
April 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I have never received even 100, let alone 1000, likes on either Twitter or Bluesky. The maximum number of upvotes I've received for an Answer or Post on Quora is somewhere around 700 to 800.
As big as the one that determined that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42?
April 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
As big as the one that determined that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42?
I remember seeing that movie (Flowers for Algernon) decades ago. Iirc it was based on a book by the same name. Thanks for reminding me of it; I loved that movie!!
April 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I remember seeing that movie (Flowers for Algernon) decades ago. Iirc it was based on a book by the same name. Thanks for reminding me of it; I loved that movie!!
So is it lying or is it self deluded about what it's doing?
April 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
So is it lying or is it self deluded about what it's doing?
That was my immediate thought when I first heard that quote from Socrates; "I know that I know nothing" involves a logical contradiction. My suggested replacement was "That this statement is true is the only thing I know".
March 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
That was my immediate thought when I first heard that quote from Socrates; "I know that I know nothing" involves a logical contradiction. My suggested replacement was "That this statement is true is the only thing I know".
Would that be sufficient to create a copy of your brain with the same thoughts, emotions, memories etc or would that require reconstruction of the brain at the atomic/molecular level?
March 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Would that be sufficient to create a copy of your brain with the same thoughts, emotions, memories etc or would that require reconstruction of the brain at the atomic/molecular level?
A synthesis of the continuous and the discrete?
February 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A synthesis of the continuous and the discrete?
Agree with our hate?
February 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Agree with our hate?
Exactly.
February 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Exactly.
Absolutely. In his book "Freedom and Beyond", John Holt remarked that racism is cruel and reprehensible because it attacks the person "where they have nowhere to defend themselves" - i.e. on the basis of an unchosen and immutable attribute.
January 31, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Absolutely. In his book "Freedom and Beyond", John Holt remarked that racism is cruel and reprehensible because it attacks the person "where they have nowhere to defend themselves" - i.e. on the basis of an unchosen and immutable attribute.