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dirty sexy physics: October 2010
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For the amusement of the creators). Saturday, October 9, 2010. If dirt is the absence of a hole, then is a placebo the absence of medical treatment? The point is not that it does nothing, because nothing does nothing. The point is that is doesn’t do what the patient thinks it does. It looks like super rational people are at a significant disadvantage because we cannot profit from the very real placebo effect, which by its nature requires ignorance in order to work. Scott Aaronson has a beautiful essa...
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dirty sexy physics: September 2010
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For the amusement of the creators). Monday, September 27, 2010. The koan about the wheel spokes in the last entry is probably connected to the following excerpt from Lao-tzu in the Tao Te Ching:. 8216;Thirty spokes share the wheel’s hub;. It is the centre hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel;. It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room;. It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore profit comes from what is there;. 8220;What do you hear? It gets a bit ...
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dirty sexy physics: January 2011
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For the amusement of the creators). Thursday, January 6, 2011. This is a response to the article written by J on nothing, and nothingness. I find much in Js article to be inaccurate, particularly with regard to the attempts at set theoretic analogs of the universe. I think the problems may stem from failing to adequately address the issue of existence before attempting to define or talk of nothing. While the concept of nothingness does not make the assumption of any frame of reference or species of exist...
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dirty sexy physics: The Placebo Paradox
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For the amusement of the creators). Saturday, October 9, 2010. If dirt is the absence of a hole, then is a placebo the absence of medical treatment? The point is not that it does nothing, because nothing does nothing. The point is that is doesn’t do what the patient thinks it does. It looks like super rational people are at a significant disadvantage because we cannot profit from the very real placebo effect, which by its nature requires ignorance in order to work. Scott Aaronson has a beautiful essa...
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dirty sexy physics: Removing the absence of a response.
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For the amusement of the creators). Friday, February 4, 2011. Removing the absence of a response. Dear B, If I'd had any inkling that my jovial intellectual spouting would inspire such an impassioned response, I'd have put a little more thought into it! If one cannot - even in principle - conceptually remove the quality of existence from the medium, then by what measure can 'nothing' (as J seems to portray it) be said to be a concept? What can we then say about the properties of such things?
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dirty sexy physics: February 2011
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For the amusement of the creators). Friday, February 4, 2011. Removing the absence of a response. Dear B, If I'd had any inkling that my jovial intellectual spouting would inspire such an impassioned response, I'd have put a little more thought into it! If one cannot - even in principle - conceptually remove the quality of existence from the medium, then by what measure can 'nothing' (as J seems to portray it) be said to be a concept? What can we then say about the properties of such things?
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dirty sexy physics: Letters
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For the amusement of the creators). Tuesday, July 5, 2011. A letter by G about B. You have a way of making me feel beautiful. There's of course the countless times you outright tell me 'you're so beautiful' listing everything about me you admire. You've sure got this flattery thing worked out! A letter by B to H. I think you seek a certainty that never can be met. "…are you okay? I give the only answer that can - the only answer I believe - "No. You’re not shit.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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dirty sexy physics: The first rule of Zen club is, there is no Zen club.
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For the amusement of the creators). Tuesday, September 14, 2010. The first rule of Zen club is, there is no Zen club. My old art teacher used to say: "The first rule of art is that there are no rules". There is an art to making the absurd sound profound. A koan (pronounced ko-ahn with two syllables) is an anecdote or a question that is designed to shake you out of your routine flow of thinking and make you contemplate things in a new way. What is the sound of one hand clapping? Maybe something was lost i...
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dirty sexy physics: November 2010
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For the amusement of the creators). Tuesday, November 9, 2010. I define the sequence of `Name Numbers' (NNs)as those numbers which would make suitable names for people. The definition is subjective, so to every individual we can ascribe an independent set of Name Numbers. Therefore the set of NNs generated by John, for example, is denoted by NN(John). The first several numbers in the sequence of NN(J) is:. Here are some general guidelines for what not to call your kids. You child's name should not be:.
