What country?
What country?
FWIW I do not believe determinism can be real in any practical sense. Even if it is provably true, it’s not actually practically applicable in anyway because it is describing an inaccessible layer of physics, to us anyway. The “layer” above our determined one would necessarily have to be non-determined to have ignited the determined “sub-reality” of ours.
I would contend that what you’re describing cannot be knowledge. Knowledge is a certainty by definition. It is “known.” Probability trees are a web of the unknown. “Knowing” the tree =/= knowing reality. Probability is not real, just as numbers are not real. They are concepts. They do not fall into the realm of known reality/experience/matter. You describing knowing that 2 + 2 = 4 conceptually. You are not describing the knowledge of the four trees in your lawn, of which there is only one instance.
I’ve not heard this way with “goodness” — I think the scientific way is that he can be omnipotent or omniscient, but not both. Their coexistence is a logical contradiction. Since omnipotence suggests a free will whereas omniscience is determinism.
Moore’s law and exponential technological progress viewed from the wider frame of biological evolution, and “the singularity,” are pretty compelling and likely upon first hearing them. They’re many nutters around it but Kurzweil earlier books on it are quite sound.
That was incredible.
I’m sure I will try SNW again in the future. I watched the first five episodes and couldn’t get into it. Seemed like, Marvel-fied dialogue on old Trek. Not bad, just that I’m pretty over that style of aside-heavy quip dialogue that never relents.
It feels like all my Trek is paying off. I have no desire to even do Voyager or modern series. It feels like it can’t do better.
Halfway through season six of Deep Space Nine for the first time!
Is the show worth it? I heard quite negative things initially and didn’t want to bother.
We need an encyclopedia of posts/content like this that is the masterbook of Fediverse ops and scaling “how-to.”
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Oracle combined is my favorite Zelda hands down. You have to try it.
Pump this right into my mutant veins.
The intro song for Succession obviously. Or the 1990s Bulls player intro.
Because you wouldn’t pirate a car—right?!
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Looook at this graaaaaaasph