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Class 59: The Hardest Hypothesis In The World
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Class 59: The Hardest Hypothesis In The World

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The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution

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You Will No Longer Be Able To Trust Anything You See

Creating doubt was not the goal of the fine people who created the technology highlighted in the following video, which is required viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk From their abstract: We present a…
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Why Is Rape Wrong? Science Has No Answer

Rape, right or wrong? Depends on how you define rape, you might say, Very well, define it how you like. Now answer the question: right or wrong? Here is what…
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Why I’m Unconvinced By Penrose’s Entropy/Anthropic Argument

There are a number of "constants" used in physics, such as the speed of light, the Planck constant, elementary charge and so forth. Some of these constants are bare, meaning…
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Trend Models & The Inability To Discover Cause

The plot atop this post is one of an observable, the cause of which is known to be related to a variety of physical, chemical, biological, geographical, and even sociological…
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Every Result Of Unsupervised Learning Is Correct; Or, All Learning Is Supervised

The real point I wish to make is that there is no such thing as unsupervised learning; or, stated another way, Truth exists; or, stated another way, every solution to…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Animal Souls Are Mortal

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Do not…
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Resolved: Women’s Suffrage Caused More Harm Than Good

If your first reaction upon reading the title was "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!" or "Frrrpppkwiliq boahh boahh boahh!" or some variant of "%&*&^%$##!", then you have discovered the meaning of sacrilegious. Congratulations! You…
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Gallup: More Adults Identifying As LGBT(…), Which Implies Even More Will

For the purposes of full disclosure (as they say), I self-identify as a yak. Thus far I am the only known Yak-American. But once the advantages of yakitude become better…
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    Dear Briggs iBefore proceeding with your book, i recommend that you read the book entitled 'Foundations of Inductive Reading' the…

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    DEAR BRIGGS; YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT tHE PRINCIPLES OF REASONING ARE 'ENTROPY MINIMAX,' AS DESCRIBED BY…

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    But... all human expressions about God are generally made under the premise of "if I were God." lol

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    Presumably if the tea and milk are mixed up sufficiently she couldn't tell from the taste or texture. So I'm…

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    Perhaps one can do no better than to say, "Miss Grundworthy was presented with n cups of tea with the…

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