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Well at least you tried to watch it. I read "his ideas seem to make sense in a very theoretical way" and didn't even waste my bandwidth on the link.

This looks like an extremely useful tool, and when I have a day of heavy concentration ahead of me I will be wishing it was available to me. I think the argument against it in this story is very poor; that we shouldn't use it because there hasn't been any evidence of side effects is never...

Direct observation of the distant past is possible right now. A galaxy we see 3 billion light-years away, is a galaxy which existed in that state 3 billion years ago. An observation of the Big Bang could be (has been) made by looking at the Cosmic Microwave Background. A radio telescope...

This is very accurate, and I would like to mention (to others, not necessarily to you) that these unprovable axioms are not the base of our knowledge, they are the limits of our knowledge.

This is one specific scientific theory, not scientific philosophy. Scientific philosophy is, essentially, that claims must be supported by evidence, and requires no sort of belief at all. It does indeed take an ignorant man to deny that. As far as the aforementioned theory, yes that is what...

Then how is it we're able to create things, such as the computer you're posting from, based on human numerical constraints? I know, I know, responding to obvious trollbait, blahblah

It's a bit of a stretch to say this would make Einstein "wrong". These mathematicians are working with different data than was available to Einstein, data that is only available today because of Einstein's theories. It's not about absolute truths of right and wrong, it's about a progression of...

He's saying that people have difficulty interpreting hi... oh. OHHH

Where is the need for an alternate explanation for Gods? In nearly every philosophy until 500 years ago when we started using the scientific method, Gods were the default explanation for every natural phenomenon. They filled the gap of the unknown. We do not need to create a new unknown (aliens)...

These theories don't just need evidence to support them, they need a reason to exist in the first place. Every single thing in those images could have existed exactly as described, and yet saying aliens had anything to do with it is still a leap in logic made for no reason. People draw stuff...

I don't think pedophilia is very widespread, more that hebephilia and ephebophilia are commonly mislabeled as pedophilia. Those are easily explained by evolutionary drives, it's natural to be attracted to potential mates. The only explanation I know of for pedophilia is that we naturally...

You're thinking of "I'm so going there" as a literal expression, and it's not really used that way (at least here, but I'm in California and we're speaking of Hollywood). Another is "I'm totally going there"; the whole point is that you aren't using a literal adverb, because you aren't speaking...

I think a good way to look at it is that communication is "hard wired", but language grows over time. As for a time scale of language developing- what you might call a "language" is subjective, communication has likely existed for millions of years as we can observe it in highly diverged...

"I'm so going there" usually means that you just want to go there, "I'm going there" means you are literally going to be in that location. If you asked the former when they were going to be there, they would have no idea, if you asked the latter they would have a specific time period in mind...

It's not that our problems will be solved in a few decades, it's that we're a few decades away from even having the hardware to exercise our ingenuity [at that level]. I could make the (subjective) argument that AI achievements like Watson, self-learning programs, Wolfram, put software...

It's not taking us any longer than expected, and as far as technology goes we're not even close to the processing power required. The feats we have accomplished with our tiny fraction of a brain's power are pretty impressive. When people say we are "close" they are speaking in terms of time-...

Cool, thanks for convincing me that I'm not real. I don't actually have any experience with this but maybe talk to yourself in the mirror? That always clears my head

Unfortunately, all money must ultimately obey economic conditions before human conditions. Where I mainly take issue with this perspective is that you are considering space science and theoretical physics as a remotely significant part of our spending, when it is in fact well under 1%. If...

The ideas that it is a choice between feeding people and making scientific progress, and that scientific progress is at a limit, show complete ignorance of what technology actually is. Progress creates the tools for prosperity, those tools create additional progress, and so on and on and on...

What's so bad about people thinking you are arrogant? Arrogant is just a hater's word for confident. As long as you aren't being outright rude (and you being silent towards people who want to talk is no more rude than them trying to talk to you when you want to be silent) then you have nothing...

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Making internet friends can be a good middle ground to help you get through periods of loneliness. Visit any kind of chatroom or forum frequently, or play any team video game, and you will end up with people who will remember you, and will talk to you at virtually any time. It's a more...

I don't think personality type really has any effect on athletic ability, outside of some of the more introverted of us avoiding opportunities for practice because of the required socializing and networking. I'm always great at any games I play, including sports, but I've only become truly top...

I have never felt the need to consider the actions or ideals of random people. When I see a news story about some fucked up shit, I don't think "humanity sucks", I think "the news sucks for showing me this garbage as entertainment". When someone tells me "it'll be fine" I laugh at their...