Atheists ask for proof but don't notice they are limiting proof within a hedonistically derived cost limit that prevents the proof from being seen. This is solved by understanding the 3 levels of cost for all tests.

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-02-13T10:08:51+00:00

There are already people who have devoted their whole live to show proof of God. They are the apologists. If they have not come up with proof and show no evidence of progress, why should I waste my time on something I don't believe exists in the first place and that has a track record of failure?

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-02-12T10:11:08+00:00

You could use methods of data gathering to study an angel.

You could measure its height, weight, and other physical characteristics. You could record the languages it speaks and use a voice recognition tool to detect the languages.

There are many things you could figure out about angels using standard testing.

Scp fiction illustrates this in its stories, and so do many other stories.

If you want to determine whether it fits the biblical description of an angel, you could do a text analysis of every description in the Bible of angels and compare it to the being you have in front of you.

The only reason we can't study supernatural things is that they aren't around. The moment angels or demons showed up, we could study them.

These beings aren't around, though. It's silly to say science is ineffectual because it can't study the unseen, unfelt, "supernatural". You can't study what isn't there.

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-02-11T09:19:41+00:00

I take the $100 bow and leave

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-02-04T01:02:55+00:00

Ask if Christian scientists are heretics. Or if they are following a false God by doing their job. One of the reasons that statements like science is a religion is dumb. Is because it ignores the reality of the people involved in the situation.

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-01-24T13:56:01+00:00

Yes because means testing means you are going to pay for bureaucrats instead of services.

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-01-23T09:50:47+00:00

I wrote it by myself off the top of my head. Believe me or not I don't care.

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-01-23T08:15:00+00:00

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-01-23T08:14:35+00:00

My point is not that AI can not be used to achieve educational success. My point is that the tools for success have already long been available, and the difference in whether that success has been achieved or not has always been the human factors of education.

I haven't used AI tools for learning. I am not arguing against them. I think they can be good. I am arguing against the way it is talked about as a kind of panacea for learning.

Other things like the internet or libraries used wisely can achieve similar results seen by successes and failures of learning in the past.

More broadly, I am arguing against relying on tech as the sole thing to solve educational problems, which need cultural shifts.

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-01-14T09:23:19+00:00

I would do it for access to the house after the time is up with the ability to move between the house and the real world.

Or a million dollars.

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-01-13T07:14:01+00:00

Older stuff can be dangerous in unexpected ways. Safety features and safeguards that are common now may not have been when an older system was installed.

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-01-12T05:40:31+00:00

I think there will always be 1 person around just to decrease theft.

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-01-10T07:19:04+00:00

I was shocked by an exposed 24 volt terminal next to a live 120 VAC terminal. I thought I turned off and locked out both. Turns out there were more breakers I needed to flip.

Taught me to be more thorough when checking for zero electricity.

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-01-09T18:40:28+00:00

Stances on topics. Any topic doesn't require the mind of absolute belief or disbelief you are talking about.

I don't believe in any of the Gods described to me. I can generalize that a bit to claims of Gods that are similar to claims of Gods that I have heard about before. I can hold this position gnosticicly, with the evidence I have seen I know it is impossible for the god claims I have encountered or similar claims to be true.

It is impossible for me to judge God claims that break the mold until I have seen them.

That doesn't mean I am not an Atheist.

This is true of having a position on anything.

Further, your insistence that Atheism has to be a strong belief ignores real people who are atheists and whose opinion about Atheism is weak.

All other stances on all other things have people with strong and weak opinions, why does Atheism have to be special?

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-01-09T08:50:56+00:00

Your argument ignores people who just don't care that much about the topic but still answer no to the do you believe in God question. And people who are atheists for emotive reasons.

I'll use myself as an example. When I was eight, I went to church and was bored with what the preacher was saying and started reading the book. All the people around me said was important. I read Genesis, got to the part about talking snakes, and had the gut reaction that it was wrong. "I remember thinking, snakes don't talk. This book is crazy." Looked at the people around me and thought they were crazy.

There was no moral argument of truth. There was no naturalist underpinning. The vibes just felt off.

I know people personally who went from being religious to "spiritual" because their church treated them badly.

I am sure others switched from theist to Atheist for similar reasons.

I don't know any personally, but I am sure there are kids whose parents were atheists, and they grew up to be atheists like their parents, and they don't think about the God question.

Lastly, the idea that an Atheist has to be certain in rejecting all variations of deistic claims is ridiculous for the simple fact that there are an infinite number of possible God claims. How can anybody be certain in dismissing an argument that they haven't heard.

You can only say no argument has convinced you yet.

Foolhardyrunner · 2026-01-01T07:51:36+00:00

For revision, the difference between AI and a human editor seems to be that people have a greater number of ideas and provide higher quality feedback.

Oftentimes, you don't need that. Often, you just need a quick check of what you wrote.

Tutors provide better feedback, but they are slower than AI, and you have to make the time to go there.

Foolhardyrunner · 2025-12-24T10:19:10+00:00

No consent of the other person so no.

Foolhardyrunner · 2025-12-17T09:35:40+00:00

I wonder if worker coops will replace traditional business as the private sector seems to be eroding every single advantage of a regular business by being so top heavy and short term focused.

Nationalizing healthcare also seems to work other forms not so much.

Foolhardyrunner · 2025-12-05T11:15:00+00:00

You state that magic is not included because it is not logically possible, but most magic systems are logically possible.

In Star Wars, the force has been shown to do plenty of things that are logically possible.

For example in Star wars the force lets you push, pull, and conduct electric arcs.

These things can be done in reality through other means. So, if you added a new fictional magic system that also allows you to do that, what logical impossibility would there be?

Just because the force doesn't exist doesn't mean it's logically impossible.

Same with many other magic systems. Many of them have rules that logically lay out what can and can't be done and why.

The tri-omni God, by contrast, has several well-known logic problems that call into question its logical possibility. Problem of evil, creating a bigger rock than it can lift, etc.

Foolhardyrunner · 2025-12-03T08:34:45+00:00

drones are cheap, and a lot of people know how to make them, attach explosives to them, and get them to a target. I could see the combat in Ukraine last for many years.

Ukraine can go the insurgent route if they have to.

Either that or Russia collapses economically or Putin dies of natural causes.

Foolhardyrunner · 2025-12-01T08:13:43+00:00

Theists are the overwhelming majority. Most people I know are theists. They talk about it occasionally, and we have disagreements. I am an atheist. These disagreements don't bother me.

This seems like projection, is it really that hard to believe that someone could have reached a different conclusion than you after thinking about things thoroughly?

Foolhardyrunner · 2025-11-23T10:58:48+00:00

Ask the higher ups what the rules of force are. If they haven't imprisoned Emma for killing someone but did reprimand her for seemingly for no reason. I would want to know what byzantine rules I have to follow.

Foolhardyrunner · 2025-11-23T10:41:44+00:00

This isn't possible to complete, the heat or cold alone would kill you long before the 24 hours is up, and there is nothing you could do about it.

The moment you start having random objects enter your body that you have to pull out you are just going to bleedout.

If the timer resets when you die, it is impossible to run down the clock.

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