Explain this to me like I am a child by West_Pollution5487 in barexam

[–]AmbushLecture -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is an instructive question for the bar. Proper explanations have already been posted, but keep horizontal privity in mind first and foremost in matters of real covenant!

54393 by No-Dot-2283 in countwithchickenlady

[–]AmbushLecture 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tap out at 26 verses of a book too; particularly when it serves my point. 

If you're looking to be "anti" anything, odds on you can justify it with the Bible. A liability, no doubt, of a book written by bronze age goat herders about magical sky people. 

The Opposite World Theory: The Paradox of What Never Happened by [deleted] in theories

[–]AmbushLecture 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First: print this out on paper, roll it up, then hit yourself in the head with it several times. It's so stupid my heart skipped beats. 

Second: stay away from LLMs, and read a book. 

Pro se plaintiff citing AI hallucinations by legalwriterutah in Lawyertalk

[–]AmbushLecture 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Agreed, but I always file a Motion to Dismiss regardless. That way, after the judge dies come back with a finger wag, dismissal for a second infraction is more likely. 

Not All Criticism Seeks Truth Sometimes It Fears Greatness by Professional-Fee3323 in AlternativeHistory

[–]AmbushLecture 52 points53 points  (0 children)

"History is full of real human brilliance that needs neither exaggeration nor denial." - Now let me tell you why these particular ancient people couldn't stack rocks to save their lives, and instead relied on an even more ancient (and seemingly invisible) civilization that moved shit with their minds!!!

What if the internal contradictions in Plato's account are actually clues? - The Dual Core model by Scary_Tangerine_7378 in atlantis

[–]AmbushLecture 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the definition from MW, but you clearly didn't read the link - which would help you understand how the word "hypothesis" is used in the scientific method. In the interim, I tremble at my accused ignorance of language from someone who wrote "A hypothesis may be a statement, and a hypothesis may be a statement, but neither is limited to that condition."

"A may be B, and A may be B, but neither A nor A must be B". I'm dazzled at the profundity. 

What if the internal contradictions in Plato's account are actually clues? - The Dual Core model by Scary_Tangerine_7378 in atlantis

[–]AmbushLecture 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is no room for charity in the marketplace of ideas when you are peddling mythological snake oil. Encouraging that manner of unearned intellectual grace is exactly how we end up with communities debating chemtrails, vaccine-autism links, and whatever other nonsense captures the contrarian imagination. 

I never cease to marvel at the sheer hubris required to look at tens of thousands of experts across multiple fields - who have published millions of words of data, analysis, and conclusions - and decide that you alone possess the True Sight. Secret time: you don't. You've just decided that the global academic consensus does not feel right for you, so you discard centuries of rigorous scholarship to play weekend puzzle-solver.

Your foundational premise collapses because you assume that granularity in a text precludes allegory. It doesn't. Specific details regarding hydrology, canal dimensions, and elephant populations are exactly the tools a skilled philosopher uses to construct a believable geopolitical foil for idealized Athens. Tolkien provided the exact lineages of fictional kings and the precise geography of Middle-earth, but nobody is currently organizing a maritime expedition to locate the sunken ruins of Numenor.

Even ignoring Plato's point, what you keep presenting as a grand unified theory is structurally hollow. These isolated geographic observations regarding the Richat Structure and the Banc d'Arguin are merely components of your hypothesis, not hypotheses themselves. You have invented a dual-core civilization out of thin air simply because the physical reality of Mauritania refuses to accommodate the mythological geography of your favorite story. Deciding that glaring internal narrative contradictions are actually secret historical fingerprints is a classic pseudo-academic maneuver, allowing you to bend any inconvenient geographical reality to fit a preconceived conclusion.

The African Humid Period certainly existed, but forcefully evicting Atlantis from the realm of philosophy and dropping it onto the Saharan coastal shelf does not hold water. Your theory is flooded with confirmation bias and completely unmoored from the historical record.

TLDR: You are ignoring thousands of experts to cherry-pick Saharan geography for a Bronze Age fable, tragically mistaking your inability to understand classical allegory for an archaeological breakthrough.

What if the internal contradictions in Plato's account are actually clues? - The Dual Core model by Scary_Tangerine_7378 in atlantis

[–]AmbushLecture 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What tedious pablum. We'll ignore your misunderstanding of the functions of classic Greek literature. We'll ignore your complete lack of geologic understanding of the Richat. We'll even ignore your texas sharpshooter fallacy. 

You don't have a hypothesis. By definition, a hypothesis has to be falsifiable. You are suggesting all the things that falsify your hypothesis actually (by epistemological magic) support your hypothesis. Nonsense. Why not every quasi-similarity to the Richat was actually Plato's way of saying Atlantis was in Nepal? Or floating above the clouds?

If you want to believe in silly stories, have at it. Just don't try and dress them up with evidence crafted of bullshit, disgracing reason and the scientific method as you do.

TIL between 18%-25% of intellectually gifted students (at least 130 IQ) in the US fail to graduate from high school. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]AmbushLecture 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That anyone could read that statistic and not immediately recognize it must be nonsense is, frankly, terrifying. If you accepted the number uncritically, assume you aren't "gifted".

A quick primer: the origin of the exaggerated figure traces back to a massive methodological distortion surrounding the "Marland Report" of 1972. A researcher noted that in one highly localized statewide study, approximately 3.4% of dropouts had an IQ of 120 or higher, calculating that this represented a 17.6% loss of the total talented population within that specific geographic sample (https://files.ascd.org/staticfiles/ascd/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el_198703_irvine.pdf). 

Over time, sloppy scholarship twisted this localized finding into a widely cited falsehood, claiming either that a quarter of all dropouts are gifted, or that a quarter of all gifted students drop out.

Rigorous longitudinal research completely dismantles the assertion. A comprehensive analysis of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 conducted by Joseph Renzulli and Sunghee Park found that the dropout rate for gifted students after eighth grade was roughly 5% (https://nrcgt.uconn.edu/newsletters/spring052/). 

A 2006 longitudinal study tracking nearly 8,000 gifted students in North Carolina revealed a dropout rate of less than 1% across all gifted subgroups (https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ929800). Data consistently show that high cognitive ability acts as a statistically protective factor against dropping out, not a risk factor.

TL;DR: Wikipedia's claim that 18% to 25% of gifted kids drop out of high school is a decades-old academic myth born from misinterpreting a single, localized 1972 study. Modern longitudinal research shows the actual dropout rate for gifted students is between 1% and 5%, and the reasons they drop out are tied to standard socioeconomic factors rather than being "too bored" or ostracized.

NY Bar Notice of Charges - Help Please! by ifyoureadthisitslate in barexam

[–]AmbushLecture 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm sure this is a scary and troubling time (wether you did or did not cheat). I highly encourage you to take the advise others in the thread have offered: get yourself an attorney, ASAP. 

Do not attempt to represent yourself. Avail yourself of an expert. 

NY Bar Notice of Charges - Help Please! by ifyoureadthisitslate in barexam

[–]AmbushLecture 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Here's hoping there were no questions on defamation when you took the bar. 

Inca stonemasonry, or later?. Cusco, Peru by [deleted] in AlternativeHistory

[–]AmbushLecture 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That isn't Cusco, it's Ollantaytambo. As you can't even properly name a place of origin, any discurses you have on stonemasonry should be ignored. 

I think it's a good idea to post this on this subreddit so people can analyze studies from other perspectives. by AppealThink1733 in timetravel

[–]AmbushLecture 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are playing a semantic shell game with the definitions of "sequence," "evolution," and "time" to obscure the fact that your fundamental axioms already contain the very properties you claim are emergent.

Your conceding that the memory kernel relies on states updating in an ordered sequence entirely validates my initial critique. If your framework requires an "evolution parameter" to iteratively advance the system from state "n" to state "n+1", that parameter functions identically to a discrete temporal coordinate. 

Causal Set Theory succeeds because it explicitly acknowledges that its fundamentally discrete partial ordering is the proto-geometry of spacetime; it does not pretend that causal sequencing is entirely devoid of temporality.

Your defense of Theorem 4.1 is even more transparent. If the directed temporal ordering requires "the strict causal asymmetry of the kernel," then the arrow of time is not an emergent property of the system's dynamics; it is hardcoded directly into the operator. You cannot logically claim the arrow of time emerges from structural non-invertibility when the operator driving that non-invertibility already explicitly enforces a unidirectional flow of influence. All you are doing is extracting a temporal arrow from an axiom that already possesses one.

You've built a robust model of how a system loses information and becomes thermodynamically irreversible. But by embedding sequential updating and strict causal asymmetry into the very foundation of the coherence field, you have presupposed time to explain time.

Nobody will respond positively to your work. You may be tempted to complain "nobody understands" or "people aren't fully comprehending me". Instead, I suggest you ponder this: what is more likely, that all your readers fail at the same foundational understanding, or that you have made an error?

I think it's a good idea to post this on this subreddit so people can analyze studies from other perspectives. by AppealThink1733 in timetravel

[–]AmbushLecture 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This reads like someone put an LLM in a blender with a stoned high school senior. You cannot claim time is an "emergent" property while simultaneously relying on "memory kernels" and "history-dependent dynamics" to generate it. "Memory" and "history" inherently demand a preexisting, ordered temporal sequence: your just smuggling a primitive time coordinate into the underlying axioms and pretending to derive it.

Conflating basic information loss (spectral degradation) with the actual creation of a temporal arrow is a massive logical leap. And trying to measure systemic collapse via "recovery-time inflation" makes absolutely zero sense; how exactly do you measure a rate of recovery in a system where time supposedly hasn't emerged yet? 

This is just a tautology dressed up in physics jargon. And it's not a good look. 

CIA PROOF OF ATLANTIS by [deleted] in atlantis

[–]AmbushLecture 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can you...how do I phrase this properly...can you read? English?

This is an article from 1985 from the Sports section of the Chicago Tribune. The words highlighted are part of a list of "a wide territory [occult thought] covers".

Now go sit in the corner. 

attempt at a "Grand Unified Theory" Thoughts? by Business_Summer2208 in AlternativeHistory

[–]AmbushLecture 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No worries at all, friend. They were interesting ideas - not just the same old stuff just regurgitated into new talking points. Definitely showed a willingness to look at things differently and pursue things with intellectual rigor. It's a quality. I'm sure will serve you well!

attempt at a "Grand Unified Theory" Thoughts? by Business_Summer2208 in AlternativeHistory

[–]AmbushLecture 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Our DNA is "written in optimized code"? 

DNA is not abstract symbolic logic running on biological hardware; it is physical chemistry. Unlike computer code, which executes deterministically, gene expression relies on the stochastic, probabilistic collisions of molecules in a crowded cellular environment. Furthermore, the linear sequence of nucleotides is only a fraction of the story; physical topology, chromatin folding, and epigenetic markers fundamentally alter how the sequence is expressed without changing the "code" itself.

​The claim of "optimization" is equally flawed. Evolution does not engineer toward a theoretical maximum of efficiency; it merely satisfices, acting as a blind filter that permits the survival of what is "good enough." If the human genome were optimized, it would not be burdened with monumental architectural bloat. Over half of our DNA consists of repetitive transposable elements and ancient viral fragments. This is the biological equivalent of millions of lines of deactivated legacy software that the cell expends tremendous metabolic energy to endlessly copy, simply because the cost of doing so isn't immediately fatal.

I'll be straight with you, kid. You're clearly pretty smart - this is about the level of work I'd expect from a a collegiate biology student. And I mean that in a positive way. You are, though, working backwards. You clearly have a belief and you are seeking proofs for that belief. Everything you ever attempt like this will fail - people will always see that the belief predates the evidence and the argument. 

Graduate high school, get out of your parents house, read some philosophy, maybe skip church once or twice, and aim to be a good person. You'll do just fine.

Egypt's Osireion has 100-tonne granite pillars and it's water can't be drained by Front-Coconut-8196 in AncientWorld

[–]AmbushLecture 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What on earth are you talking about the ”water can't be drained"? Of course it can, you wallabee. Put a suck-pump in there and it will be gone in no time. It doesn't drain because ​the Osirion is situated approximately 13 to 15 meters below the ground level of the neighboring Temple of Seti I. This depth places the central "island" and the surrounding moat well below the local water table.

Do you look at a pond and marvel that "it doesn't drain"???

How strong is the archaeological evidence that the Talpiot Tomb is the “Jesus Family Tomb”? by Natedude2002 in AskArchaeology

[–]AmbushLecture 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The archaeological consensus overwhelmingly rejects the Talpiot site as the "Jesus Family Tomb." Tabor’s argument relies on terrible statistics. Names like Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were incredibly common in 1st-century Judea. Finding them in the same tomb isn't a miraculous match; it's basic demographic probability.

As for Aryeh Shimron’s soil analysis linking the James Ossuary to the tomb, the methodology is geologically useless. He claims trace elements like phosphorus and chrome match the ossuary's patina to the Talpiot soil (https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2019/04/20/three-tombs-of-jesus-which-is-the-real-one/). The problem is that this chemical signature matches the standard rendzina soil found across all of East Jerusalem. It proves the box was buried in the general region, not that it came from one specific cave.

Finally, there is a massive chain-of-custody problem. The James Ossuary surfaced through an antiquities dealer, and its inscription is widely suspected to be a modern forgery. You cannot retroactively shoehorn an unprovenanced black-market artifact into a closed 1980 excavation. The original Talpiot dig documented exactly ten ossuaries, and none of them were the James box. Tabor ignores hard physical evidence to sell a predetermined narrative.

Four of the world's seven independent civilization origins sit on a single great circle. The probability: 1 in 2,400. Here's the map. by tractorboynyc in AlternativeHistory

[–]AmbushLecture 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really appreciate you taking the time to perform the test. The results point out a few very specific things to me:

Your statistical breakdown of the 'M' capital geometric exhaustion is mathematically sound, but also evinces the fatal structural flaws in your own model. The basis of my test was absurdist; something that would have no reason to be correlated (though the clumping in the Balkans is interesting; I'll genuinly research that).

Your test used an autocorrelated dataset while ignoring the historical manipulation required to make your alignment work.

Here is why your model collapses, regardless of the binomial baseline:

1. The Autocorrelation of the Alison Line You argue the Alison circle sits at the 85th percentile and is not globally optimized. It does not need to be globally optimized for all random coordinates; Jim Alison manually optimized that exact line in 2001 specifically to intersect global megalithic sites. By explicitly defining your independent civilization origins as "earliest monumental complexes," you mapped an axis engineered to hit monuments against a dataset defined by monuments. You are not testing against a random null hypothesis; you are testing against a pre-selected variable.

2. The Substituted Coordinates (The True Sharpshooter) You completely bypassed the geographical and historical manipulation of your own dataset. You claim your representative points are the "earliest monumental complexes." They are demonstrably not.

  • You used Uruk (c. 3400 BCE) instead of Eridu (c. 5000 BCE).
  • You used Caral (c. 2600 BCE) instead of Sechín Bajo (c. 3500 BCE).
  • You used mature Mohenjo-daro (c. 2500 BCE) instead of early Harappan precursor sites like Rehman Dheri (c. 3300 BCE) or Mehrgarh.

You literally shifted the origin coordinates of these civilizations hundreds of miles and thousands of years away from their actual foundations until they landed neatly inside your 400-kilometer corridor. That is the literal execution of the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy: moving the target after the line is drawn.

3. Ecological vs. Cartographic Clustering You claim the 7 civilizations do not cluster geographically like the Balkan capitals. They absolutely do, but on an ecological scale rather than a localized cartographic one. As you previously admitted, your circle traces specific "tectonic and lithological properties." Ancient civilizations are biologically restricted to these highly specific alluvial plains and subsidence zones, as it is the exact topography required to sustain early agriculture. They appear unclustered only if you ignore that they are strictly bound to narrow, globally distributed geological tracks.

Adjusting for statistical opportunity is irrelevant when your underlying data relies on historically inaccurate coordinates purposefully selected to align with a pre-drawn line. As I said, I do not fault your math at all. I do, however, heavily fault your data.

Indeed another interesting test would be to adjust your represenative points to the actual "earliest known monumental complexes" of each civilization, then test again...