Zompist Bboard Again

the claim is not about medieval christians specifically though. i'm saying that "the ancients were not innocent to the idea that faith and reason might conflict". Not every religious conflict is "faith vs. reason". Socrates was accused of impiety; that's an excellent reason not t...

I really do not see any slowdown occurring. (Quite the reverse, in fact — the capability growth seems to be exponential.) at first it was, yes. i don't have any concrete metrics, but at least some AI researchers are saying this (though there is discussion about whether this is down to trainers runn...

with abrahamic religions in particular, the religious person tells us that they believe what they believe not on the basis of evidence or reasoning. they tell us that their beliefs neither stem from or could be disproven by reasoning, argument, evidence or logic: they admit, freely, implicitly, tha...

not to mention that, given the rate of infrastructure growth and the fact that the industry is still in the capture-and-hype phase of doctorow's cycle, it's remarkable that we're seeing any slowdown at all. A lot of people here in the US don't want new data centers, and various locales have introdu...

not to mention that, given the rate of infrastructure growth and the fact that the industry is still in the capture-and-hype phase of doctorow's cycle, it's remarkable that we're seeing any slowdown at all.

lmao seconded on the "you, yes you!" the older i get, the less sense the whole apologetics / counterapologetics thing makes for me. not the contents, necessarily; indeed the various specific arguments of the apologists make more sense the more one gets to know them and the more one reads p...

noooo, any statement to the effect that orange might do something is actually the delusion that he is the all powerful god emperor of reality entire. he'll be stopped by the power of Justice Democracy and Institutions, don't you worry. any minute now.

sure, i'm not claiming special resistence in south america... hell, it's possible that south america will prove the easiest region for the us to fascistify, considering it is abjectly poor, extremely dominated by us media, economically totally dependent, full of evangelicals (fastest growing religi...

sure, i'm not claiming special resistence in south america... hell, it's possible that south america will prove the easiest region for the us to fascistify, considering it is abjectly poor, extremely dominated by us media, economically totally dependent, full of evangelicals (fastest growing religio...

for reference, in mine, basically no one has a lot of position about muslims. santiago has all of two mosques. i live near one and it's pretty cool, and they have the courtesy of not blasting their speakers four times a day. it does not look full anytime i drive or walk past. https://ispu.org/repor...

vivaldi user here, not happening to me

true, which is why i go 'some sort of centric'... ¿countries-with-muslims-centric maybe? edit: on the topic of anti-muslim sentiment in india, i once worked alongside an indian guy who came to chile to do some classes and whatnot. i was in charge of taking him out to dinner, since he didn't speak an...

You can choose to follow my advice or not. Either way, whatever you have been doing for the last few decades doesn't work. In all countries everywhere, 21st century masses now believes that the best path forwards is oppressing minorities, mainly Muslims. Even the Muslims are killing Muslims. This r...

My experience as the child of a former US soldier is that most US servicemembers tend to lean right (Republicans were at least traditionally seen as being pro-military and pro-funding the military), but, at least in my father's day, the training they receive is quite extensive in emphasizing that t...

well not really. as with many ways in which religion is made to look more plausible than it is, here the question is indictive vs. deductive reasoning. like, if what one wants is apodictic, deductive, totally ironclad reasoning then yes, there's nothing in science that directly states that it is imp...

Yes, but the difference in this scenario is that the military would have to decide to not intervene while the constitution is blatantly broken. (Although, some people might say that has already happened after the shenanigans of "Bush v. Gore" in 2000.) sure, but deciding not to do a coup ...

For what it's worth, on the day that Trump won the 2024 election, I thought that it's going to come down to whether the military will support him when he inevitably tries to stay in power past his term (as he did the first time), and I still believe so. i think you're right on the second account. t...

Everyone here seems to agree that Trump and his followers are not nearly as clever or competent as I often fear. If so, then what would a truly competent and intelligent fascist movement look like? What would they be doing differently from Trump and company? incompetence often shows more as "s...

no one's defaulting to 2. i'm just saying there's no metaphysical guarantee of x >>> 2, and that it's not delusional to be worried, as raph was, about the current unprecedented democratic backsliding in the most powerful country in the history of ever

well, not quite... there are things stopping trump from going supervillan, and there are things moving him towards going supervillan. what i'm saying is that democracy, like many other features of countries, isn't like guaranteed by anything on paper, or by a country's wealth. it's not that there's ...