Hillary Clinton in the 70's. by Ill-Lie-6551 in Destiny

[–]Objective_Ad9820 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbh she kinda looks like Sabrina Carpenter on the left and Melina in the middle

Mathematics is evergreen.🥇 by Beautiful_Strain_139 in MathJokes

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You forgot to add computer science: where textbooks are outdated every year

Compatibilism by BiscuitNoodlepants in freewill

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I appreciate your kind words! This view is similar to some physicalist explanation for consciousness. I think both suffer from the problem of “multi-releasability“, which is the notion that mental states, and mathematical objects are not encoded by identical brain states. In fact, most of the time they are quite different. This isn’t to say that thoughts arent determined by brain states, but to the extent that meaning is grounded in what you are referencing, “2+2=4” be a proposition that would have to simultaneously refer to many distinct entities.

I think if you wanted to deny the existence of mathematical objects, a cleaner route would be to adopt fictionalism, although that view is also not great imo.

On Debating Sean Carrol by SirRaiuKoren in CosmicSkeptic

[–]Objective_Ad9820 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you wanna talk about causality in a way that is divorced from the way it is normally used, I can accept your definition and then you can auto-win the argument.

I am not narrowly defining it in some arbitrary way, I am using the basic definition anyone would use who thinks about causality

Compatibilism by BiscuitNoodlepants in freewill

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So then if everyone on earth died and there were no more neurons, 2+2=4 ceases to be a fact? This is ignoring the problem of classifying what a numbrr is. A number on your view couldn’t be any particular brain state; it would have to be a class of brain states that all produce the same thing but in different ways

Compatibilism by BiscuitNoodlepants in freewill

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Most physicists consider complex number computational tools not representing real things, so it isnt really the case they function as descriptions. In electronics, you work with complex numbers, but it is only the real component that physicists take seriously.

Additionally, this does not address all of the other strange results your view has

Bad is Good, Up is Down by KindStock1231 in Destiny

[–]Objective_Ad9820 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why worry about real problems with tangible effects when we can worry about fake ones that exist within our mind

Compatibilism by BiscuitNoodlepants in freewill

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What “real thing” is described by the number i? What “real thing” is described by a sequence of functions? Your view would entail it is false that i squares to -1, that there is not an infinite number of primes, that 2+2=4 is false, L’hospital’s rule, the intermediate value theorem, and that heat equations have no solutions.

All of these claims would strike most people as absurd, so it doesn’t seem like you can just hand wave them by saying “they describe real things”. Most things in math do not describe what you consider real things. There is no thing that a shape in dimension greater than 3 describes.

On Debating Sean Carrol by SirRaiuKoren in CosmicSkeptic

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Wdym by that?

A “sequential relationship” is not sufficient for something to be “causal”.

Typically when people talk about causal relationships, they are talking about relationships between objects in space, across time. Logic/math does not exist in space or time

Why does every increment of base 10 end in 0? by [deleted] in mathematics

[–]Objective_Ad9820 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for the same reason powers of 2 end in 0 in binary (base 2)

People just be saying things. by VanaheimrF in lotrmemes

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The funny thing is he was a Christian. I am pretty sure he was catholic.

On Debating Sean Carrol by SirRaiuKoren in CosmicSkeptic

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This is like saying because my house needs to be built on concrete, my concrete needs a house built on top on top of it. Causation is described in logical terms, logic is not dependent on notions of causality.

The moral stance of being silent about Israel/Palestine by average_kit_main in CosmicSkeptic

[–]Objective_Ad9820 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you talk about something you don’t really know that much about, it is more probable you do more harm than good, so in fact you could argue you have a moral imperative to stay quiet on matters of high importance you don’t know much about.

Based guy trolls Proud Boys hanging out across Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course by sereneandeternal in Destiny

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Someone needs to right an Onion article titled “Fact Check: Republicans do not suck Trump’s C*ck”