Joseph Matheson

Evolutionary biology at UCSD. I-10 fanboy. Easily invested in games of any kind, sci-fi/fantasy, and mashed potatoes.

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@basilYam Are you only attracted to 1 in 1000 of all men in the world? Or 1 in 1000 of the single men who are attracted to you and emotionally capable? The calculation only works if it's the latter!

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Yamato v. Iowa clash ends with a total victory for this fine fellow:

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USS Iowa (BB-61)

The USS Iowa was the only battleship truly capable of going toe-to-toe with the formidable Yamato.

The clash that never took place would have been a contest of agility versus raw power:

The Iowa's superior fire control and faster turret traverse against the Yamato's unmatched 18.1-inch guns, the largest ever mounted on a warship.

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@brrryani @nikicaga @pe_tsar Wait until you hear the name of that little blue dot the left arrow is pointing at

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@pe_tsar Juggalo country.

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@nikicaga @pe_tsar Common political commentator mistake: the Dutch are all in Ada and Forest Hills, on the east side of GR. You can't blame the Dutch for Byron Center, Hudsonville, and Zeeland.

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@pe_tsar Comments are WRONG, the Dutch Calvinists are not to blame for Byron Center, Hudsonville, and Zeeland. Those arrows are where all the people who thought Dutch Calvinists were too tolerant and kind-hearted went.

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@captgouda24 Some philosophers are net positives to society

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@morallawwithin

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@tszzl First two, if used correctly, mean: "you have stated this as a premise, but it requires demonstration you have not provided." That's not wishy-washy!

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@freganmitts I feel the same about Plantinga as I do about Descartes: a brilliant, innovative guy who produced a body of work that changed the field by forcing a response to his arguments, even though the modern consensus is that he was wrong about everything.

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@PAHoyeck I feel like "overstating the degree of skepticism implied by evolution of cognitive faculties" is not the worst sin committed by a philosopher. Especially since most of Plantinga's work predates the consensus that evolved faculties imply -some- skepticism!

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@morallawwithin I don't think there's a paradox. First case gives info about the 100th flip, second doesn't. The extra info changes the expected probability, even though the underlying sequence is the same.

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@Staroxvia Anselm did do some slightly more difficult stuff. He was very politically active, besides writing on issues which continue to be relevant, like free will. Besides, other "theologians" immediately criticized his argument even in the 11th century!

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rather than ruin Thanksgiving dinner by bringing up the election or flouride, why not ruin it by bringing up Neutral Theory?

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@eigenrobot I think all sides overestimate the capacity of people they trust to identify garbage. Predicting the consequences of specific research projects or total amounts of research funding is an unsolved problem.

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@eigenrobot Lots of politically liberal scientists agree with 4-7! They just don't agree about which specific experts/fields/studies are in fact garbage being propped up by bad actors.

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@eigenrobot This thread is ~correct that most discussion of science funding focuses either on 1&3 above (libs) or 8-10 below (cons). But I think 4-7 contain the most crucial points of disagreement, and don't necessarily break on political lines.

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Our latest preprint finds that a shortage of beneficial mutations does more to drive small populations extinct than mutational meltdown does. Explainers elsewhere @MawassWalid @JosephMatheson2 @Uliseshmc @JeremyJBerg https://t.co/iTaneJEeRI

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@analog_ashley The new timesheet requirement is only for reporting time off, not hours worked.