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   by 3m4r 6d ago

   Not necessarily applied to OpenAI's solution to Navier-Stokes, but what happens if and when an AI genuinely appears to solve an extremely difficult problem but humans cannot independently verify the solution because understanding the p
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   by 3m4r 6d ago

   I read this book around fifteen years ago and I've thought about this excerpt frequently: >“You have repeatedly confessed to-night, by direct avowal or ignorant statement, that you do not know the working class. But you are not to b
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   by 3m4r 6d ago

   Thanks for letting me know that there was at least one other reader. It means a lot. If you're at all interested in looking into the topic more deeply, I'd highly recommend this paper, showing just how deeply transmission west int
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   by 3m4r 7d ago

   I think I've used enough of my time and more than illustrated my original points. I wish you well, and hope your faith grows to be as secure as St. Thomas Aquinas's before his death and not as Bellarmine's during his life.
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   by 3m4r 7d ago

   >Christianity is not 'a syncretic import from the east'. One way we know this is by looking at its differences with eastern ideas. What would first-century Christianity make of the denial of diachronic identity (the self is an
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   by 3m4r 8d ago

   Thanks for illustrating my point. You didn't actually point to anything substantial; you kind of hand-waved at what you presumed "eastern religions" posit, but there are literally hundreds of eastern religions and philosophie
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   by 3m4r 8d ago

   This is a great day to re-read Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust": >To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrot
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   by 3m4r 8d ago

   The problem isn't really the wildness of the idea (or its direct implications). The problem is that there is almost 2,000 years of culture and the metaphysical beliefs of well-more than half of the human population predicated upon thei
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   by 3m4r 8d ago

   The Therapeutae sect is another good example of this phenomenon, although because it touches the root of several Abrahamic traditions so thoroughly, scholars and others are much less likely to declare an authoritative relation between betwe
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    by 3m4r 3y ago

    What's astounding to me is how well the Diablo and Diablo II team took the design decisions that Angband made (and Brevik based Diablo on Angband, not Moria) and were able to fix almost all of them. It's actually kind of sad, that