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Obama to Continue Bush Policy?
Poor Jon Stewart.
How psychics work - Uri Geller is a fraud
james randi
the scientific dandy
caught a psychic liar
But too bad for him
the spirits still grin
in his own bio-logic mire
Light=Matter=Light
Obama Civil Defense Plan - Mandatory Civil Service
$1000 Dollars To Any Atheist Who Can Prove A Negative
$1000 Dollars To Any Atheist Who Can Prove A Negative
"There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago."
Bertrand Russell
The Geek Rapture (Blog Entry by dag)
here:
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/antisingularity.html
I'll try to summarize since it's a bit long.
"Let's call this the "weak Antisingularity hypothesis" - the idea that technical progress and social progress are uncorrelated, and may even run in opposite directions."
"Unfortunately, there's also a "strong Antisingularity hypothesis." The strong Antisingularity hypothesis suggests that the coincidence of technical progress and social decay is not, in fact, a coincidence. It's actually a case of cause and effect."
"If technical progress actually causes social and political decay, Mike Judge is an optimist. What happens when the Singularity really approaches, but it's not quite here yet? When the curve of technology is almost vertical, but not yet infinite? "Damn, yo." "
But basically, singularity or no singularity - the future isn't that bright.
Murakami: Hard Boiled Wonderland & The End of the World
*promote
A President who cares about the little guy
I spit on your humanitarian values.
Everything you people stand for is wrong, degenerate, and sad.
Christopher Hitchens on the Cosmos and the end of the world
Sam Harris makes a joke and a point
Knowledge is just a humanistic term for data... data points organized into patterns at a level of summary that's useful to the conscious mind.
Philosophy and introspection is fine, just so long as it's not claimed to trump science. Legislating its trumping of science is particularly going too far.
No, knowledge is word which we use to denote "state of mind" a psychological and mental faculty, which we do not fully understand.
I know that I exist, bu I don't knoew exactly how it is that this knowledge occurs
Data is something utterly different. YOu can say a magazine article has data but it doesn't have "knowledge"
Only when conscious (or semi-conscious) beings apply their mental faculties to "data" do we have knowledge.
Sam Harris makes a joke and a point
Is the Internet an Effective Forum for Public Debate?
Christopher Hitchens on Religion and Anti-theism
BAN ALL SIFTQUISITIONS!!! (Wtf Talk Post)