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Who are "the poor," and why can they not be brought into the technology and service fields? Thanks for explaining. :) While you're right that unchecked population growth could be disastrous, consider that birth rates are low in developed nations, checking overpopulation there; we may...

Your complaint contains several presuppositions that are likely causing you pain: 1.) First, not everyone suffers as much (or as little) you do, or even in the same way. Even dirt-poor, starving Africans can--despite the material difficulties of their lives--feel happy when someone tells a...

A more general case idea would be: For a population whose size equals the carrying capacity of its habitat to be stable, its birth rate must equal its death rate. Also, jobs and money are not scarce resources. To the contrary, an increase in population causes a proportional increase in the...

Yes, but then I considered the alternative and realized that existence, no matter how painful, is still existence and that suicide could not relieve my pain because dead people cannot tell that their pain has ended. With my philosophy squared away, I then found some fun and interesting things...

Am I cleared hot to tear into the OP? -Duxwing

A healthy attitude. :) And if your engineer is very smart, then he will look at your budget and ask for a raise proportional to the savings that he generated. :D Reading about this subject has been quite cool! They're dedicated to the law and its enforcement: a pain in the neck right now...

Hahahaha! :D -Duxwing

Proving any statement objectively true-- in this case, "I need a purpose"--is impossible because of various philosophical hurdles (e.g., The Is-Ought Problem and the Munchausen Trilemma); therefore, philosophy could not have driven you to wanting a purpose. The next most likely cause for your...

If the philosophical underpinnings of science hold, then the laws of physics are the fundamental nature of ultimate reality. -Duxwing

Maybe you really do have it. Aspergers is on the Autism spectrum in the DSM-V. He seemed to be laughing for some other reason, but I can't say what. I'm glad that you've found some good friends. Perhaps you all could set up an IRC for yourselves. -Duxwing

Like him how? I certainly liked to think and speak when I was his age. However, I did not possess such energy or that disturbing laugh. -Duxwing

Why does life--or your life--need a purpose in the first place? I, for example, get out of bed for various reasons, usually to do something interesting or important. -Duxwing

I empathize with the characters too much to enjoy it, but ironically, I like to write fiction, painting pictures of people and places with words, honing my expressive skill. Unfortunately, my writing is still rather crude and 'jumpy': I don't show a movie, I put on a slideshow. -Duxwing

I'm glad to see that you've largely overcome your problems, and your story taught me that one should not overlook budding problems (e.g., self esteem, acceptance) lest they snowball into something awful. Now stay on your meds! :) -Duxwing

Hehehehe! Ah, adolescence, loveable and loathable. Too cool! :) -Duxwing

You know what's ironic? It did. Instead of taking the lessons and potentially becoming a professional musician, you turned to physics, and later CS, creating a programming language that might soon revolutionize the field. Take heart! :) But I digress. I can't think of any serious arrogant...

Let me guess. You ran into some haters? -Duxwing

So you're saying that Sensors are unfit to hear the truth of certain matters? O_O I wonder what they say about iNtuitives. Awww. :) -Duxwing

I say, my good chap, what a smashing introduction! Welcome! -Duxwing

If I found pain interesting, then I would hurl myself down the stairs. Reading a sad story about losing a dog and feeling sad is interesting because you are aesthetically distanced from the pain of the characters; losing one's dog, conversely, provides no such distance and is therefore very...

I feel anything but zesty when the spindle looks comfy. -Duxwing

I don't know. :( -Duxwing

The angst makes me want to slam my forehead onto a spindle sometimes. -Duxwing

Is lying really the best option? Oh man... :( -Duxwing

Wait, the hormones never stop raging? The angst just sticks around like a hungry 800lb. gorilla cemented onto your heart? I'm more screwed than a nickel-hooker in Sin City. -Duxwing

Luckily, I am not such an INTP! :) -Duxwing

"Like" is a vague term. I am like Lady Gaga in that she and I both speak English, but I am unlike Lady Gaga in that I am not a professional singer. Since finding a perfect copy of oneself is extremely difficult and leads to all sorts of philosophical problems, finding someone "like" oneself is...

Perhaps a change of majors is in order, then? -Duxwing

Peregrine Falcon. I love going fast! -Duxwing

I'm certainly not going to charcoal grill anymore, then. O.O -Duxwing

I was well aware that my model isn't nearly good enough to handle Chaos Theory. -Duxwing

Your complaints: 1.) The airport guards X-Ray your luggage, not you. 2.) Pat-downs are over. 3.) Snowden is on the loose, along with hundreds of others. 4.) "liking the Constitution," is vague and almost sets up a bogeyman-child dynamic when the government is hardly so cohesive. 5.) "steal"...

So we sort the nigh-universal ones from the more subject-peculiar ones and declare the former to comprise the Natural Law of Man. Good, so now that we acknowledge that certain very commonly felt feelings--and not inherent rights--belie society's law, we can recognize that the government exists...

*draws a pistol from his belt and cocks back the hammer* Now what do you feel? *aims it between your eyes* Roleplay, now; get into character. You feel fear, don't you? Fear of death and of pain. But by your logic, these are invalid reasons to tell that other person to put the gun down...

Then come to the US. I think that you'd like it here. -Duxwing

Hot dog! We could actually make this work! :) -Duxwing

Awww, thanks. :) -Duxwing

You're close. Think of it this way: I have a coin. If I get heads, then I get a dollar, and if I get tails, then I lose a dollar. The value of flipping the coin is therefore .5(1) - .5(1) or zero. Now imagine a six sided dice: if I roll a one, then I lose three dollars; if I roll a two...

Tall glasses of motor oil and sparkplug hors d'ouvres. -Duxwing

If I only had INTPs, I would reverse engineer Architect's software--or buy it off him or his company, since I have so much venture capital--and then write an AI that would use it to solve problems on request, much like Siri provides roadmaps and restaurant listings. CSS would be revolutionized...

So how are we going to tap that? Cool! But at what scale factor? -Duxwing

Unfortunately, sufficiently small semiconductors experience quantum 'interference,' with electrons leaping between the atoms-thick plates of copper and silicon, so, in time, computing power will eventually be directly proportional to volume. -Duxwing

Perhaps you've misread: my model goes to n terms, not four terms. -Duxwing

Minute points can mean the difference between validity and fallacity. But I don't think--or at least, no longer think--that "anything can be art" was meant to empty the set of art criteria. If it has, then I agree with you. I don't understand what you're saying. OK, but do you then agree...

My strategy has been to take opportunities for experience when single and pay attention to pay attention the emotions of my partner and me while together. It's worked well. -Duxwing

To choose whether to act or not to act from a list of given actions and outcomes. Yep. An example of my system in action would be a bet: should you bet $1 for a one in one-million chance of winning one million dollars? Most people would say yes, a few would say no, but the real answer is...

My inputs are bounded random variables with known probabilities (think of many sided dice) and my values are either subjectively determined or already numerable (think of money). For example, you might say that one ice cream cone is worth ten grapes. Or, in other words, to develop an...

I never thought of the Feeler--especially Fe-dom--forums as being ripe for the trolling, but now that you mention it, I agree. A sadist could get quite a thrill from the banshee screech of a religious ESFJ confronted with a journal-grade proof of ontological nihilism. -Duxwing

:eek: Mommy! Scawee! ... :D Her countenance really is creepy, though. -Duxwing

Expected value feeds into the logic, and qn is subjectively determined. And Chad, my formula boils that entire graph down into a single number, which you can use either by yourself or with a computer. -Duxwing