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Am I smarter for believing in god, or for not believing in him?
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>>14384241 >I'm talking about personal belief systems. So am I.
>Or more scientifically, from a Bayesian perspective, where the proposition for theism is a belief Not really, no. A Bayesian model would include some prior probability that God exists, any value between 0 and 1. So is any value "belief in God?" Is there a cutoff? Where is it?
>In Bayesian statistics, propositions that we hold before seeing any data are called prior beliefs. No, you're thinking of prior probabilities. They are not propositions like "God exists."
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>>14384246 >OK, so you know nothing about science. I worked in a lab for many years and have published research.
>This is just proof you don't treat science like a method but a church-like institution. How so?
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>>14384253 The problem is that talking about "creation of the universe" is meaningless unless you already assume quite a lot (of religious lore, since you believe this creation is by a god) about what "creation" and "universe" mean. In the absence of this lore, this phrase has no meaning
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>>14384256 Probabilities are just a way to express probabilistic statements. One can't know for sure whether God exists or not, but each individual has its own biases (prior beliefs). So, for some, they may assign a higher probability that it exists (prior probability).
My point from the start is that it is unscientific to assign 100% to one of these statements without solid evidence that proves the other statement is impossible (0%).
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>>14384286 >Probabilities are just a way to express probabilistic statements Yes, and "I believe in God" is not a probabilistic statement. So what does probability have to do with theism/atheism?
>My point from the start is that it is unscientific to assign 100% to one of these statements 100% certainty of God would be a gnostic theist. There are plenty. I don't know of any gnostic atheists. Also, if evidence of God has a nonzero probability of being found, then its absence is evidence that God doesn't exist.
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Redpill me on RO w/ remineralization systems. I currently get my water from a local artesian well. My friend is a water snob based off taste and it's literally the only water he will drink so I think it's good. But I am sick of hauling water and I am concerned about my plastic containers.
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>>14383508 Drink tap water you fucking psycho.
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>>14383508 For most people a mutli filter system is cheaper and easier to maintain. There isn't enough minerals in water to matter. You will get enough from food. No fluoride is a worry, but I would suggest a fluoride mouthwash.
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He Jiankui did nothing wrong
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about five or so years ago, maybe longer, there was a strong trend of news articles about people dying accidentally in the act of taking selfies and then the trend died off.
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>>14383145 It's literally just content algorithm.
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>>14383145 that reminded me
i saw a grown woman yesterday with her husband or something, when i was on a line to buy food
at some time she did that selfie motion thing but i dont know if she took a picture (i was too busy lurking sci to notice)
why do people take pictures of themselves like this? in public?
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>>14383770 people take selfies for inevitably nefarious reasons and you cannot fathom those reasons because you are not a devious person.
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>>14383145 it's rather obvious isn't it? all the people stupid enough to get themselves killed taking selfies got themselves killed off
darwinism in action
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Is there a way to do the AC method without guessing? There can only be one possible solution. X + Y must equal B, and XY must equal AC.
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that said if you really insist on solving it with something directly related to X+Y=B, XY=AC you can do this
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>>14384091 Wow. Where did you get the idea from?
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>>14384102 There's a math professor who was shilling that as a better way to explain how to solve quadratics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBalWWHYFQc That said, there are a ton of different ways to think about how to solve quadratics, and they're generally all different ways of looking at the same idea.
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>>14384099 His life is just a bunch of academic fluff. I don't hate him per say, it's just that he's nothing, nothing he's talked about which can't be said by someone more qualified or interesting. This is the man who takes the time to talk about the physics of rick and morty, if that appeals to you, go ahead, but I don't like to promote trash culture.
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>>14384099 /sci/ hates him because he's popular despite being as dumb as /sci/
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I swear whenever a european scientist is famous it's always the anglos or the germans
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>>14383572 >>14383703 Never heard of them. I said REAL scientists, like the anglo or german ones
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>>14383566 so Italians are better looking bongs?
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Every scientist prior to the enlightenment
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>>14383703 italy wasn't a unified nation back then, he was a florentine, he was never italian, wouldn't even know what one is.
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>>14383566 Is it me or does Italy still punch well above it's weight in physics research? It seems for the areas im interested, there's always a load of Italian postdocs involved.
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>What is the meaning of life? >Is love the answer to our problems? >Asks a stupid question followed by "I am totally not retarded I just had to ask this because my listeners are retarded :/ "
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>>14379132 >>14379155 not entirely sure about this case but he definitely asks questions that he knows the answer to without indicating so just to make the podcast better, he does this with ai and programming stuff too
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>>14379132 I don't trust people who willingly wear suits. faux intellectual crap.
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>>14380408 True, but also if you don't ask you can't get a yes. I think @'ing Putin to say love is the answer if the funniest thing this man has ever done or will ever do in his entire life.
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>>14381555 You take that back
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>>14379156 This, Lex is a retard, but not that much. The thing is he's more like king of the retards. Just read the comments and you'll realize that you're probably smarter than 90% of the population.
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I propose that the internet is not actually a dead but a pajeetified internet.
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>>14383157 I fucking despite pajeets. They look like poop. They smell like poop. They talk like poop (their weird pinging accent reminds me of the sound of poop hitting the water). Their whole race has no reason to exist. When I open an article or a video and it's by a pajeet I instantly know it's gonna be poorly constructed copy&paste garbage thrown together by someone who doesn't even understand the topic and simply follows some tutorial blindly himself.
Fuck pajeets. Rangeban India from the internet. Rangeban any country with pajeets from the internet.
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>>14383171 Is this your ask, sir?
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it's part pajeetified, part dead. dead internet theory just means that social media (in particular) is utterly infested with bots, which is obviously true.
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>>14383157 they're not even real pajeets. they're bots trained on pajeets
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is it true that you shit yourself when you die?
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>>14383833 Just use a buttplug.
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>>14383833 Yes. wife's mother was found dead in her bed by one of her other daughters, and she took a small shart.
she kind of made my life hell and left my wife a shitty inheritance and had no life insurance policy. so i guess it worked out.
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>>14383839 you can't put it in after you die cause ur dead already. can't put it in before because that would make you a faggot
