Thank you for replying! I think I agree. But I feel that the issue is difficult. So many factors enter into the consideration, and it is often hard to discern what is a good approach. I wish more proper (sound and…
While I agree with your overall sentiment, surely you do accept that parenting necessitates a certain degree of privacy intrusion from the parent to the child? (Or a stronger claim, that parenting involves a degree of…
Considering how essential math and science is for the prosperity of mankind (not even speaking about the cultural value) the question of how to reward people working and contributing in these fields effectively and…
Good luck! We are at the point where the way in which humans do math and science changes significantly, and I have no good idea at all in what state is it going to settle down. But you are one of (many, I suppose)…
I did not mean to imply anything about you specifically. I understand that it might have sounded that way, and for that I apologize. As for other points, I think you take that too emotionally for your own good. (It just…
Yes, I think so. I remember Eric Cline mentioning this hypothesis in a lecture or a podcast about a decade ago. Sea people as refugees displaced by drought, famine, war or just a general societal collapse. In any case,…
Yup. That original post had several factual errors. I am not a supporter of alcohol, but I find it kind of funny when some people demonize alcohol (which I agree is bad for one's health and has many negative…
But that is also because it has been used much more often than other drugs. Don't get me wrong, I agree that alcohol has some very bad effects. But if you ban (or decrease consumption of) alcohol, but that gets…
Exactly. And I am appalled by the level of injustice and stupidity (I will explain both) demonstrated by so many comments here. Injustice, because they refuse to see the other side of the coin, or the full picture, and…
You are mistaken on several grounds, but the most glaring issue is that you do not properly understand the concept of property/ownership. For all practical purposes property/ownership is a service provided by society,…
An observation from within the system: A year or so ago I completed a PhD in theoretical high energy physics. I did that after working for about 5 years outside of academia [the reasons for that were financial issues in…
Thank you for your reply! Yes, I fully agree that meaning of "derive" and other related concepts are non-trivial. (And I actually changed my own "working definition" between my two posts; while in the first one I was…
Well, exactly, and I think that that is in line with what I originally wrote, and which is that you need the general relativity principle (by general I don't mean the general relativity but the concept of the…
Nitpicking: It is not possible to derive the theory of relativity from medieval knowledge. At least not in any way resembling how the development actually happened, that is, heavily influenced by observations (or rather…
Thank you for replying! I think I agree. But I feel that the issue is difficult. So many factors enter into the consideration, and it is often hard to discern what is a good approach. I wish more proper (sound and…
While I agree with your overall sentiment, surely you do accept that parenting necessitates a certain degree of privacy intrusion from the parent to the child? (Or a stronger claim, that parenting involves a degree of…
Considering how essential math and science is for the prosperity of mankind (not even speaking about the cultural value) the question of how to reward people working and contributing in these fields effectively and…
Good luck! We are at the point where the way in which humans do math and science changes significantly, and I have no good idea at all in what state is it going to settle down. But you are one of (many, I suppose)…
I did not mean to imply anything about you specifically. I understand that it might have sounded that way, and for that I apologize. As for other points, I think you take that too emotionally for your own good. (It just…
Yes, I think so. I remember Eric Cline mentioning this hypothesis in a lecture or a podcast about a decade ago. Sea people as refugees displaced by drought, famine, war or just a general societal collapse. In any case,…
Yup. That original post had several factual errors. I am not a supporter of alcohol, but I find it kind of funny when some people demonize alcohol (which I agree is bad for one's health and has many negative…
But that is also because it has been used much more often than other drugs. Don't get me wrong, I agree that alcohol has some very bad effects. But if you ban (or decrease consumption of) alcohol, but that gets…
Exactly. And I am appalled by the level of injustice and stupidity (I will explain both) demonstrated by so many comments here. Injustice, because they refuse to see the other side of the coin, or the full picture, and…
You are mistaken on several grounds, but the most glaring issue is that you do not properly understand the concept of property/ownership. For all practical purposes property/ownership is a service provided by society,…
An observation from within the system: A year or so ago I completed a PhD in theoretical high energy physics. I did that after working for about 5 years outside of academia [the reasons for that were financial issues in…
Thank you for your reply! Yes, I fully agree that meaning of "derive" and other related concepts are non-trivial. (And I actually changed my own "working definition" between my two posts; while in the first one I was…
Well, exactly, and I think that that is in line with what I originally wrote, and which is that you need the general relativity principle (by general I don't mean the general relativity but the concept of the…
Nitpicking: It is not possible to derive the theory of relativity from medieval knowledge. At least not in any way resembling how the development actually happened, that is, heavily influenced by observations (or rather…