Hidden Thoughts
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Science, reason, critical thinking, secularism, sarcasm.
For four hundred years, scientific evidence has pointed consistently toy in only one direction: the more fundamental the level of analysis, the more it is dominated by mindless processes and mathematical laws.
December 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
For four hundred years, scientific evidence has pointed consistently toy in only one direction: the more fundamental the level of analysis, the more it is dominated by mindless processes and mathematical laws.
At what point in history do god and heaven transition from being “above us” in outer space to the nonsensical “outside time and space”?
November 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
At what point in history do god and heaven transition from being “above us” in outer space to the nonsensical “outside time and space”?
Both sides of the political spectrum contain upsetting amounts of anti-semitism. Combating antisemitism is important. But it’s not a stereotypical political question. Trying to get one political party more control can’t fix the problem. Because that party has the problem too.
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Both sides of the political spectrum contain upsetting amounts of anti-semitism. Combating antisemitism is important. But it’s not a stereotypical political question. Trying to get one political party more control can’t fix the problem. Because that party has the problem too.
If you want to ask an unbeliever about how their morality works, remember that according to our point of view, there were never any gods, anywhere, ever. So whatever fake supernatural explanations might have been floating over top of our moral reasoning, humans have an undeniable ability to discern…
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you want to ask an unbeliever about how their morality works, remember that according to our point of view, there were never any gods, anywhere, ever. So whatever fake supernatural explanations might have been floating over top of our moral reasoning, humans have an undeniable ability to discern…
Most powerful debate tactic in the world remains: “Sure that might be a very strong objection, but I’ve been able to ignore it in the interest of believing what I want, and if you were a cooler person, you would too.”
October 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Most powerful debate tactic in the world remains: “Sure that might be a very strong objection, but I’ve been able to ignore it in the interest of believing what I want, and if you were a cooler person, you would too.”
How did we get to the point where being in the public eye, constantly being under scrutiny by journalists made it easier to get away with committing crimes?
September 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
How did we get to the point where being in the public eye, constantly being under scrutiny by journalists made it easier to get away with committing crimes?
If you’re comfortable getting groceries on a Sunday, you understand that you can use your own rationality to decide which biblical commandments can be safely ignored. So if you’re still hung up on lgbt people that’s your moral failing, not your religion’s.
September 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you’re comfortable getting groceries on a Sunday, you understand that you can use your own rationality to decide which biblical commandments can be safely ignored. So if you’re still hung up on lgbt people that’s your moral failing, not your religion’s.
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HORRIBLE. SICKENING. UNACCEPTABLE.
In a democracy we settle our differences with words, ideas & actions, not hatred, guns & violence.
#ShameOnUS
In a democracy we settle our differences with words, ideas & actions, not hatred, guns & violence.
#ShameOnUS
September 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
HORRIBLE. SICKENING. UNACCEPTABLE.
In a democracy we settle our differences with words, ideas & actions, not hatred, guns & violence.
#ShameOnUS
In a democracy we settle our differences with words, ideas & actions, not hatred, guns & violence.
#ShameOnUS
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The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
September 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
The real estate business is basically defined by the math of interest rates. If someone whose name is on the letterhead of a real estate company thinks you can lower the price of something six hundred percent and let that thought escape their mouth, that’s catastrophic cognitive decline.
July 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The real estate business is basically defined by the math of interest rates. If someone whose name is on the letterhead of a real estate company thinks you can lower the price of something six hundred percent and let that thought escape their mouth, that’s catastrophic cognitive decline.
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When someone says you’re quoting the Bible “out of context” that means they are getting their morals from secular enlightenment sources that are telling them something is immoral here and needs to be addressed.
July 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
When someone says you’re quoting the Bible “out of context” that means they are getting their morals from secular enlightenment sources that are telling them something is immoral here and needs to be addressed.
Everybody knows what it takes to be a good person. Jesus’s teachings were so unremarkable, they had to add magic tricks, a resurrection and a miraculous birth to make it worth telling you about him.
July 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Everybody knows what it takes to be a good person. Jesus’s teachings were so unremarkable, they had to add magic tricks, a resurrection and a miraculous birth to make it worth telling you about him.
Instead of trying to create fake meme money, it would be nice if the crypto-blockchain people found a way to encode your documents so that when you cite a source, it authenticates whether you’ve actually read the source the quote comes from.
July 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Instead of trying to create fake meme money, it would be nice if the crypto-blockchain people found a way to encode your documents so that when you cite a source, it authenticates whether you’ve actually read the source the quote comes from.
There should be a coloured checkmark to say an account is actually run by the owner and not an intern or a consulting company so they might actually see the feedback they are receiving.
July 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
There should be a coloured checkmark to say an account is actually run by the owner and not an intern or a consulting company so they might actually see the feedback they are receiving.
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Reality, not opinion
July 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reality, not opinion
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New rule: no criticizing the way others choose to resist unless you have a better, actionable idea and kind, constructive feedback. New ideas are good! Performative contrarianism is useless.
July 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
New rule: no criticizing the way others choose to resist unless you have a better, actionable idea and kind, constructive feedback. New ideas are good! Performative contrarianism is useless.
LLMs are like people. If they don’t know the answer, their first instinct is never to tell you they don’t know, but to bullshit the answer you are most likely to accept, and to only revise it if you explicitly pipe up with objections.
Computer scientists have explained where religions come from.
Computer scientists have explained where religions come from.
July 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
LLMs are like people. If they don’t know the answer, their first instinct is never to tell you they don’t know, but to bullshit the answer you are most likely to accept, and to only revise it if you explicitly pipe up with objections.
Computer scientists have explained where religions come from.
Computer scientists have explained where religions come from.
Faith is not knowledge. It’s an expression of aesthetic preferences; pleasing ideas you want to be true. At some point, overly optimistic thinkers jumped the gun and started mistakenly thinking of it as a kind of knowledge. And those ideas cluster together mainly and things we call religions.
June 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Faith is not knowledge. It’s an expression of aesthetic preferences; pleasing ideas you want to be true. At some point, overly optimistic thinkers jumped the gun and started mistakenly thinking of it as a kind of knowledge. And those ideas cluster together mainly and things we call religions.
You can tell when someone is trying to be rationally get to the truth and when someone is trying to win a debate. If you raise an objection, someone looking for the truth will say “that’s a good point, let’s dig down there.”
June 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
You can tell when someone is trying to be rationally get to the truth and when someone is trying to win a debate. If you raise an objection, someone looking for the truth will say “that’s a good point, let’s dig down there.”
Something being scientifically impossible (like building a perpetual motion machine or sending a signal faster than light) is strong evidence that whoever claims to be now to do that — or in the case of religion, allege an invisible entity that can — is making it up and we shouldn’t believe them.
June 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Something being scientifically impossible (like building a perpetual motion machine or sending a signal faster than light) is strong evidence that whoever claims to be now to do that — or in the case of religion, allege an invisible entity that can — is making it up and we shouldn’t believe them.
Can an organization that spawns a never ending stream of dissenting squabbling sub sects that seem to attract a disproportionate number of sexists, racists, conmen and child molesters to leadership roles really god’s preferred way of getting his message out to help get people into heaven?
June 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Can an organization that spawns a never ending stream of dissenting squabbling sub sects that seem to attract a disproportionate number of sexists, racists, conmen and child molesters to leadership roles really god’s preferred way of getting his message out to help get people into heaven?
By the way… the all loving god, after he realized he had screwed things up, could have folded that universe up and started again. Two humans would have died. Instead he kept going, damning billions eternally to hell as he waited for humans to find effective ways to spread his message.
June 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
By the way… the all loving god, after he realized he had screwed things up, could have folded that universe up and started again. Two humans would have died. Instead he kept going, damning billions eternally to hell as he waited for humans to find effective ways to spread his message.
The stage in your intellectual development where you’ve learned to appreciate the value of logic, but haven’t figured out logical fallacies (or ordinary political spin) is when you are at your most vulnerable and gullible.
June 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The stage in your intellectual development where you’ve learned to appreciate the value of logic, but haven’t figured out logical fallacies (or ordinary political spin) is when you are at your most vulnerable and gullible.
We know the books of the “new” atheists successfully deconverted a lot of people. Do we have any evidence of it going the other way? Does any non religious person who’s not dealing with severe emotional distress ever get curious, pick up one of these things like “The Case for Christ” and go…
June 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We know the books of the “new” atheists successfully deconverted a lot of people. Do we have any evidence of it going the other way? Does any non religious person who’s not dealing with severe emotional distress ever get curious, pick up one of these things like “The Case for Christ” and go…