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Extremism In Thought Experiment Is No Vice | Slate Star Codex
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/26/high-energy-ethics
Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. Extremism In Thought Experiment Is No Vice. March 26, 2015. Content warning: description of fictional rape and torture.]. Phil Robertson is being criticized for a thought experiment in which an atheist’s family is raped and murdered. On a talk show, he accused atheists of believing that there was no such thing as objective right or wrong, then continued:. Isn’t it great that there’s nothing wrong with this? Raping atheists, and there are the...
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Our Newfound Fear of Risk - Schneier on Security
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Our Newfound Fear of Risk. We have allowed the police to turn themselves into a paramilitary organization. They deploy SWAT teams multiple times a day, almost always in nondangerous situations. They tase people at minimal provocation, often when it's not warranted. Unprovoked shootings are on the rise. One result of these measures is that honest mistakes - a wrong address on a warrant, a misunderstanding - result in the terrorizing of innocent people, and more death. Our notions of risk are not absolute;...
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OT25: Obon Thread | Slate Star Codex
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/05/ot25-obon-thread
Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. August 5, 2015. This is the semimonthly open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. Also:. 1 Comments of the week are Kavec talking about. What work in military intelligence has taught them about probability and thinking, and John Schilling ( 1. On waterways and “hydrologically-induced smartness”. Anonymous commenter banned indefinitely for this. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. August 5, 2015 at 1:59 am.
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Making Light: Further Thoughts on "I Write Like"
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Language, fraud, folly, truth, knitting, and growing luminous by eating light. Back to previous post: “I write like who. Go to Making Light's front page. Forward to next post: “The defeats which surrendered Algiers to the Frank have been strangely and nobly avenged”. Via RSS) to this post's comment thread. (What does this mean? A quick introduction.). July 16, 2010. Further Thoughts on “I Write Like”. Posted by Jim Macdonald at 09:24 PM *. Asdp0o pvpm eropms spe pebps. Go over to that advertised page, an...
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Welcome to the Future Nauseous
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/09/welcome-to-the-future-nauseous
Experiments in refactored perception. Welcome to the Future Nauseous. May 9, 2012. Both science fiction and futurism seem to miss an important piece of how the future actually turns into the present. They fail to capture the way we don’t seem to notice when the future actually arrives. Sure, we can all see the small clues all around us: cellphones, laptops, Facebook, Prius cars on the street. Yet, somehow, the future always seems like something that is. To happen rather than something that. Our ongoing t...
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One person's lack of compassion does not equal another's comfort.
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One persons lack of compassion does not equal anothers comfort. One persons lack of comprehension does not equal anothers consent. 05:30 pm March 25th, 2015. Ted Cruz makes up his own election law to defeat Birther threat. I refer to THIS STORY. There are really only two things that matter here:. The letter of the law that says you have to have been born on american soil. The vitriol of those who insist the letter of the law must be adhered to, aka, The Birther Movement. Or Leave a Rubber Ducky. Hes a no...
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One person's lack of compassion does not equal another's comfort.
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One persons lack of compassion does not equal anothers comfort. One persons lack of comprehension does not equal anothers consent. 05:21 pm July 1st, 2015. Several people have requested a photo and to know my real identity. This should do it. Or Leave a Rubber Ducky. 11:22 am June 2nd, 2007. I'll bite. What's a "Viedo". Or Leave a Rubber Ducky. 01:33 pm May 24th, 2007. Silly list comment OTD. Sadly that project doesn't seem to get the respect it once did, if you take a look at this article:. Habitrail Fo...
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The Control Group Is Out Of Control | Slate Star Codex
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control
Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. The Control Group Is Out Of Control. April 28, 2014. Allan Crossman calls parapsychology the control group for science. That is, in let’s say a drug testing experiment, you give some people the drug and they recover. That doesn’t tell you much until you give some other people who are taking a placebo drug you know. Doesn’t work – but which they themselves believe in – and see how many of them. Trying to set up placebo science would be a logi...
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Seth's Blog » Blog Archive » Seth
http://blog.sethroberts.net/2014/04/27/seth
Personal Science, Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method. Missing argument 1 for PayPalDonations: paypalShortcode(), called in /home/aleche35/blog.sethroberts.net/wp-content/themes/basic/sidebar-left.php on line 8 and defined in /home/aleche35/blog.sethroberts.net/wp-content/plugins/paypal-donations/paypal-donations.php. Is good for you. The Man Who Would Be Queen. Cities and the Wealth of Nations. Laquo; Journal of Personal Science: Omega-3 and ADHD (Part 2 of 2). 231 Responses to “Seth”. I know this i...
