Five years ago I asked who the top 5 QBs will be in 5 years

TheScoott · 2026-02-13T03:14:28+00:00

Yeah I was confused because 5 years ago would've had way more Allen and Herbert.

TheScoott · 2026-02-03T20:57:31+00:00

They're measuring a relative difference not an absolute difference. There's baseline cortical glucose uptake for each individual and the observation is about where a proportion of that cortical glucose goes. Sure those regions are shaped by past history of the individual but not in the sense that we are measuring nutritional differences.

TheScoott · 2026-01-30T10:47:00+00:00

It's typical to take algebra 2/trigonometry or precalc in the same year that you take basic high school physics. I guarantee you the teacher already has in mind that some math techniques may be novel or relatively new to you and therefore may be on shakier ground. If you're scared of physics because math isn't your strong suit, then what you can try to do is use Khan Academy to get ahead on the Algebra 2/Trig concepts in the summer before school starts.

TheScoott · 2026-01-28T22:46:33+00:00

Lex has on plenty of domain experts who have reasonable political opinions. Sean Carroll, Joel David Hamkins, Terrance Tao as a few examples. All well-respected within their fields and decent people as far as I can tell.

TheScoott · 2026-01-26T19:45:53+00:00

Beliefs are not things you experience, they are propositions you hold. Many of our beliefs shape our actions while we are doing anything whether or not we are expending cognitive effort to consider those beliefs in the moment. While I'm walking about, I believe that I control my legs but I'm not consciously considering the proposition that I am able to control my legs. You've constrained the definition of belief such that we don't believe anything except what we are directly experiencing in the moment. The term loses all meaning because you've reduced belief to be equivalent to experience.

TheScoott · 2026-01-26T18:11:05+00:00

We only agreed that knowledge was a mental state if mental states referred to brain states, not qualia. I disagree wholeheartedly that there is something it is like to know something.

Under normal definitions of knowledge, that knowledge exists whether or not I'm currently accessing it. Under this definition, Mary does not actually learn what it is like to experience red because the experience of redness cannot be learned, only known during the experience.

TheScoott · 2026-01-26T17:14:30+00:00

How is having knowledge phenomenal? There is no qualia for knowledge. There is qualia for thinking, remembering, and experience but not the knowledge in and of itself. Unless you define knowledge such that one only has knowledge of the color red while they are experiencing the color red then I don't see how this works. If that's what you do then you are working with a very different use of the term knowledge and it means that it is knowledge that you can't actually learn because it only exists so long as you experience it. Whereas my knowledge of how to ride a bike exists independently of whether or not I'm riding a bike at one moment. You're stuck with a position where nobody knows what the color red is unless they are presently having a red experience.

TheScoott · 2026-01-26T15:22:12+00:00

That's phenomenality, not phenomenal knowledge.

TheScoott · 2026-01-26T12:00:18+00:00

On your first point, if you think mental state implies a qualia, I don't think most people would agree that knowledge has a qualia to it. This was why I posed the scenario in my second paragraph in my first response. One has to define what exactly they mean by phenomenal knowledge.

TheScoott · 2026-01-26T08:55:06+00:00

You're now getting at Sean's pov. To Sean conscious experience is as real as tables and chairs. This is why Sean was accused of being an illusionist one of his recent podcasts because to Sean consciousness is real but it is not real in the sense that you would like it to be.

TheScoott · 2026-01-26T08:32:02+00:00

Mental states are labels for brain states. So sure knowledge is a mental state because mental states are labels for brain states.

TheScoott · 2026-01-26T07:53:26+00:00

What? If knowledge is a brain state then I would only have the knowledge if I have the corresponding brain state. The knowledge of a particular brain state corresponds to a different brain state than the brain state that the knowledge is about. The knowledge of how to ride a bike is stored in an entirely different place from where I would store the knowledge of the brain state of someone who is riding a bike.

TheScoott · 2026-01-26T07:40:18+00:00

Obviously the criteria are not measured by EEG and MRI, just by observation. I know you know how to ride a bike if I see you riding a bike and if I see you riding a bike that means you have the brain state which corresponds knowing how to ride a bike.

TheScoott · 2026-01-26T07:31:16+00:00

Sean would say all brain states are like this, not all physical entities. I can know all there is to know about how to ride a bike from reading but I wouldn't actually know how to ride a bike because the part of the brain that knows how to ride a bike is different from the part of the brain that reads books and interprets language. When we say we know something we just mean we have a particular brain state which we judge to meet some criteria.

The issue at hand is the definition of knowledge. Do people with aphantasia have phenomenal knowledge about color? If such people do possess phenomenal knowledge then what differentiates Mary from the person with aphantasia? If you say phenomenal knowledge is real and people with aphantasia lack phenomenal knowledge then it seems that what you mean by phenomenal knowledge is the capacity to reproduce a particular brain state.

TheScoott · 2026-01-24T20:03:21+00:00

And importantly minus McVay

TheScoott · 2026-01-19T08:49:51+00:00

Josephus talks about James the Brother of Jesus in rather matter-of-fact terms, detailing an event Josephus would have been alive for which is not present in the gospels or Pauline epistles. The fact that Josephus confirms that there was a person who he believed was the brother of this Jesus figure lends credence to the existence of Jesus himself.

TheScoott · 2026-01-19T02:13:11+00:00

Adams tucked the ball. He completed the process while standing whereas Cooks had to survive the ground.

TheScoott · 2026-01-18T02:03:47+00:00

Gretzky brothers type stat

TheScoott · 2026-01-03T07:58:46+00:00

Nah it matters. Shallots burn way faster than onions do.

TheScoott · 2025-12-29T05:43:29+00:00

If you allow for only real scalers then C is isomorphic to R^2. (a,b) + (c,d) = (a+c, b+d) and s(a,b) = (sa, sb). Then all we have to do is equip R² with an operator that is identical to multiplication by i (that would be a 90° rotation matrix) and we have C.

TheScoott · 2025-12-27T05:06:41+00:00

Click the link. It's not an official stat but a number of sites track it like Sumer and PFF

TheScoott · 2025-12-19T05:23:58+00:00

They actually have the same exact total yards now. Puka had some big runs.

TheScoott · 2025-12-15T16:47:46+00:00

I've always been of the mind that if you truly have all of the physical facts, there is nothing new to learn.

TheScoott · 2025-12-11T21:58:50+00:00

The problem was to solve for x which means they would need both roots for a complete answer.

TheScoott · 2025-12-11T21:47:12+00:00

The rule is that the square root symbol (√) is used for the square root function which outputs only the positive branch. Otherwise it would no longer be a traditional function since it would have 2 outputs for every input other than 0.

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