@waldenpod If it was always 7+7 of anything =18 and never anything else, we’d form the mathematical belief. If it only sometimes holds - e.g just for sheep, we would believe 7+7=14, and also note there is something special about putting 7 sheep with 7 other sheep that generates +4 sheep
@LakotaMan1 Sweden. Always had a great fondness and fascination for Native American culture, lifestyle and spirituality - and the Lakota in particular.
@thekitze Agree, with the addenda that for me, it took accepting it as something I was just going to have to live with. Like a (hopefully temporary) disability. Only after that was I able to adapt to go about my daily routines without wallowing in it all, and it eventually faded out.
@bebraw I think the main strength of ESI is for things like regionalized content. Things that would benefit from a geographically indexed cache. For universal content I don’t see much benefit over build-time generated html.
@Philip_Goff Personally I don’t think that moral proposition is correct. I’m not sure what makes you think we have good reason to believe it, and I’m not sure I’m intellectually capable of refuting it. But I’d still be curious what those “good reasons” are
@Philip_Goff "Each, if successful, bottoms out at a single primitive...and hence they are equally parsimonious." Thanks for this wording. It's precisely what I've been trying to explain to my materialist friends - but ironically failing at due to lack of parsimony.
@iamstephenwest Any book recommendations for a total layperson, on philosophy of randomness? Or maybe you'd consider a philosophize this episode on it? Been thinking about it lately and feel there ought to be a lot of clues to other metaphysics hiding there.
@Philip_Goff So this mean you are absolutely sure panpsychism is 51% likely to be true, right? (I mean, I think you’re just having a bit of fun now, but whatever - I can get in on that :) )
@PeterDiamandis@EMostaque Even if this is accurate (it is not) he means *paid* programmers. Programmers will still be around 50 years from now, programming for the joy of it.
@Philip_Goff@AStrasser116 Am I correct in interpreting "cosmic teleology" as "a purpose/intent behind existence"? And if so, how do you differentiate between that and a philosophical concept of God? Not saying they're the same - just curious how you see the difference.
@amolrai_dev Always prefer built in standards when possible. It means reading fewer docs. Both for me, and whoever else wants to understand my code. So: fetch