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Conjoineron Gödel's Ontological Proof

Your first premise is false. Hooking up your sensory system to a device that generates the maximum signal would give a larger signal since it would bypass degradation in your mouth.

Think your argument through first. Are your premises actually true?

Conjoineron Gödel's Ontological Proof

I am not aware of any claim that the devil is the largest evil that could be imagined. Further, such a definition would not make sense in for example traditional Christianity where evil is defined as a privation on good, not something that exists in itself.

Having God and the devil as evenly matched but opposite powers is not something you would find in theology. Learn the basics of it before thinking you have created a proper critique.

Conjoineron Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game

it's not 51% of the nodes, it's 51% of the hashing power together with following the agreed upon rules of the network

Conjoineron When Pepsi Had a Navy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Navy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Navy#Equipment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Spanish_Navy_sh...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Portuguese_Navy...

Conjoineron There is no general AI: Why Turing machines cannot pass the Turing test

we do not have a workable definition of intelligence

Conjoineron Magnesium and major depression (2011)

Surprisingly no, they were not following science.

Conjoineron There are now more people over sixty-four than children younger than five

That's africa, not the west.

Conjoineron Self-distancing can help you make better decisions

Do Buddhists hold this to be true?

Conjoineron Economists Are Obsessed with Job Creation – How About Less Work? (2017)

Growing Bureaucracy

https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-12-08-1449597231-8924...

Conjoineron Self-distancing can help you make better decisions

According to Buddhism, is there truth that a self can hold?

Conjoineron BBC admits iPlayer has lost streaming fight with Netflix

If it is in the publics best interest for the BBC to own the rights then that can be arranged

Conjoineron The Human Brain: Even Basic Facts Are Hotly Contested

so those researchers can skip reading the article, the rest of us may like it

Conjoineron The Human Brain: Even Basic Facts Are Hotly Contested

Rats have brains as well

Conjoineron The Human Brain: Even Basic Facts Are Hotly Contested

you could try property dualism or hylomorphism or eliminative materialism

Conjoineron The Remote Manifesto

Trucking is the single largest job category in the US

Conjoineron The Remote Manifesto

We should invent something like that, 'radio', thing for computers

Conjoineron Is Life Expectancy Finally Topping Out?

There is nothing magical about passing through a vagina to with life should start counting from then.

Conjoineron The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences (1960) [pdf]

"Is there any example of something that isn't considered math but describes nature?"

- "The apple is red"

No math, describes nature.

Conjoineron Will A.I. Ever Be Smarter Than a Four-Year-Old?

how can we know that computers process information?

Conjoineron Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)

that's not technically, that's arbitrarily

Conjoineron Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results

Same with the field of medical/military visualization

Conjoineron Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.

It's not: 'citation needed' it's rather: 'research is unreliable and, one paper shows x, the next paper shows not-x'

Conjoineron Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

offcourse not, retailers are very sensitive to matters of ethics like this.

Conjoineron Massless particle with promise for next-generation electronics discovered

The difference between a bullet made of real particles and one made of math is that the real one can kill you.

Conjoineron When you give a tree an email address

The middle one means "spimes take up space because they exist"

Conjoineron Why did Borland fail?

>"there was nothing they could have done"

How about creating a better product worth paying for? Eclipse was and is not exactly universally well liked.

Conjoineron Journey: A refugee's odyssey from Syria to Sweden

Causing the rape statistics to shoot through the roof is a bit of an impact.

Conjoineron “A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop”

völkisch means folk-like, meaning 'of the people/liked by the people'. The term predates, massively, any idea of race. In fact we have the same word in Swedish (folklig) and it has no politically incorrect air about it.