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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-22-2007, 09:28 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 372
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Re: L/C Help me. Lack of an afterlife leads me do depression.

It used to bother me, but I came up with a quite simple logics, and I am ok with all this death issue now.

I'll try to explain my position, may be it could help.

First, it's not clear if it...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-19-2007, 06:23 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 154
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Re: the self-referential universe

These ideas are explored to great lengths by Douglas Hofstadter,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter

in "Gödel, Escher, Bach", and more recently
"I am a strange loop"....
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-11-2007, 06:58 AM
Replies: 86
Views: 372
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Re: Why I Am A Semi-Sociopath

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Your proof that Americans are the good guys is...Vietnam. Good show.

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You too are an illinformed know it all. The American soldiers that went to Vietnam...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-09-2007, 12:32 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 49
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Re: Math: Need help regarding the Kelly criterion

When you take money out of your bankroll you 'effectively' decrease your winrate. This would be the right approach.

Effectively increasing your buy-in doesn't work the same way.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-08-2007, 09:21 AM
Replies: 109
Views: 622
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Re: Atheism Intelligence Correlations - The Strongest Argument for Ath

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The difference is, if Im wrong I dont lose anything.

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I'd like to adress just this part of your post.

If you wrong you lose a lot, as you could have lived this life...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-07-2007, 11:21 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 80
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Re: Biological evolution is irrelevant to humans.

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natural selection leaves only the most fit.


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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-07-2007, 10:43 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 80
Posted By Drag
Re: Biological evolution is irrelevant to humans.

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natural selection leaves only the most fit.


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That phrase is quite wrong, and it's a fundamental mistake I would not expect from anyone who has studied evolution...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-07-2007, 08:56 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 80
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Re: Biological evolution is irrelevant to humans.

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selection operates not by the survival of the most fit

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I agree in general (though I'm not a transhumanist), but I'm going to pick this nit. Selection always...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-07-2007, 05:15 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 80
Posted By Drag
Biological evolution is irrelevant to humans.

Lebowski's post about de-evolution reminded about one idea.

Some definitions:

'Biological evolution' is the normal Darwinian process that we see in nature. Mutations create variety, natural...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-06-2007, 12:31 PM
Replies: 109
Views: 561
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Re: Does the thought of Hell ever scare an atheist?

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Not in the slightest bit. Even if God existed, he should be more clever than intellegent humans. For intellegent humans bible and christanity is such a non-sense, so it should...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-06-2007, 11:47 AM
Replies: 109
Views: 622
Posted By Drag
Re: Atheism Intelligence Correlations - The Strongest Argument for Ath

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The article is written by a journalist I bet. I would be very surprised to find it was written by a scientist.

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In the posted link it is witten:

NATURE...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-06-2007, 10:29 AM
Replies: 109
Views: 622
Posted By Drag
Re: Atheism Intelligence Correlations - The Strongest Argument for Ath

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No offense, but:

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He found that 58% of 1,000 randomly selected US scientists expressed disbelief or doubt in the existence of God, and that this figure rose to near 70%...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-06-2007, 08:53 AM
Replies: 109
Views: 622
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Re: Atheism Intelligence Correlations - The Strongest Argument for Ath

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Most of the top scientists in natural sciences are atheists. If we compile the list of Nobel Prize winners in Physics from 1907 to 2007, I'd be very...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-06-2007, 06:40 AM
Replies: 109
Views: 622
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Re: Atheism Intelligence Correlations - The Strongest Argument for Ath

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I did some research at the time and there has never been any good survey that shows definitively the correlation to what he suggested.

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Most of the top scientists in...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-06-2007, 06:29 AM
Replies: 109
Views: 561
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Re: Does the thought of Hell ever scare an atheist?

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Not in the slightest bit. Even if God existed, he should be more clever than intellegent humans. For intellegent humans bible and christanity is such a non-sense, so it should...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-06-2007, 05:30 AM
Replies: 109
Views: 561
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Re: Does the thought of Hell ever scare an atheist?

Not in the slightest bit. Even if God existed, he should be more clever than intellegent humans. For intellegent humans bible and christanity is such a non-sense, so it should be the same for him/her.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-29-2007, 07:06 AM
Replies: 107
Views: 841
Posted By Drag
Re: Pro-choicers must be anti-tax, no?

I don't agree with this analogy.

The government provides services to the society, and to finance them it needs money/taxes.

The baby doesn't provide any service to its mother.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-29-2007, 06:25 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 65
Posted By Drag
Re: help with some calc 2

I'll explain how to do the following problem:
Find the volume of the solid generated by rotating the region bounded by y=f(x), for x belonging to [a, b], around the x axis.
(Your problems are the...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-26-2007, 05:09 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 82
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Re: Transcending Categories of Thought

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So half of the people in the world are religious people who think that their metaphors are facts; those are what we call theists. The other half are people who know that the metaphors are...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-25-2007, 01:55 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 100
Posted By Drag
Re: Statistics Question (about invading Iraq)

IMO your logics is very flawed here.

By your logics: Russia has an arcenal to kill all the people in USA, if USA strike first and destroy all the nuclear bombs in Russia only about 1 millon...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-25-2007, 11:29 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 100
Posted By Drag
Re: Statistics Question (about invading Iraq)

You forget about the probability that they would actually use them, even if they had them. You also forget about economical loses. I'd make a rough estimation that every $200.000 lost due to the war...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-23-2007, 05:10 AM
Replies: 110
Views: 955
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Re: Greatest People of All Time

That's a shame to not mention Darwin!

Aristotel
Newton
Darwin
Einstein
Max Plank

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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-22-2007, 11:47 AM
Replies: 230
Views: 908
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Re: What Would David Say About This Remark?

I liked "im a model"'s post.

IMO it's very hard to distinguish cultural vs genetic origin in the data. And it seems to be the main issue for discussion.
Even for a black child raised in a white...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-22-2007, 05:48 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 64
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Re: I need a good algorithm! (Regression related)

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If n>= (number of rows) then it's quite trivial linear algebra problem.

If n< (number of rows) it is much less trivial and requires formulating a hypothesis about your data....
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-21-2007, 10:03 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 171
Posted By Drag
Re: reliable online iq test?

Ok.

If someone takes an IQ test in a foreign language, how reliable would be the results? Do they design tests for all languages to deal with this problem?
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