“Made for playing games like Halo”, interesting description of the deck

Careful research.

You can’t really call it slop just because you disagree with their views and representations of things.

Their stuff is carefully researched and sourced, human crafted and open to critique. Whether they’re correct in their assessments or not is of course up for debate, but it’s good craftsmanship and they show their work.

Isn’t it harder to find direct downloads? Or am I just stuck in the past on the bay?

Also double slit experiment is not so much a thought experiment as it’s an experimental phenomenon that is hard to explain. Also Einsteins thought experiments are actual science, based on reality with actual results…

The double slit experiment was first invented as a thought experiment, and later was built as an actual experiment. It’s the same with relativity, first it was thought up, now it’s experimentally verified. So the examples from relativity you bring up are also more experimental phenomena than a thought experiments at this point.

I have, I studied these ideas at university. I’m just curious what makes these thought experiments harder than e.g. the double slit experiment, Plato’s cave analogy or Rawls’ veil of ignorance?

What makes relativity the hardest thought experiment?

For sure, but it’s yet to be seen if the bad outweighs the good. For the last several centuries it’s been going the right way, so there is good reason to hope that a century from now, things are even better than they are today.

Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight for the good causes, naturally.

Do the technological and social advances not show that we are also at heart a progressive people with a need to care for eachother and create a better future?

By most measures, such as number of humans killed in war or child mortality, human suffering in the modern era is less than it’s ever been. In the grand scheme of things, we have made the world a place with much more room for joy and love over the course of human civilisation.

Cool! What’s your take on the empirical method then, considering the relationship between reality and the subject?

Yes, it’s pretty important to me for mental hygiene and self-control.

But what do you mean it’s “a bigger deal than science”? Do you do science as well?

Thanks again. I’d like to restate my question: which China-critical sources do you consider credible? Any western ones? Is there any way I could present this argument to make you change your mind?

I’m having a hard time accepting that all western sources are propaganda. I’ve never had reason to doubt the sources I cited before, such as Amnesty International, in other cases they’ve been accurate. Are they only misleading on China?

The free media of my country, Denmark, reports the same facts based on their investigations, across the political spectrum and despite angering our government, which has close economic ties to China. How does that fit with these organizations and this media being government mouthpieces?

Thanks for the graph! Happy to see that. I’m very willing to investigate my perception of China. What China-critical sources do you consider credible? What arguments would convince you that China is a bad place?

My personal experiences are from the scientific community, where those who come from China are extremely critical of it, in a great part due to extreme surveillance, low individual freedom and low respect for human rights. But that’s just anecdotal.

My immediate (better sourced) concerns would be the Uyghurs, who don’t seem to enjoy being Chinese , the five million people working under modern slavery, the people of occupied Tibet, and generally anyone who doesn’t speak, dress or behave the way the state thinks they should.

I consider those credible sources, but I’d be happy to reconsider that if you have any good reasons to doubt them.

My argument is that while possibly lots of people in China think it’s a good place and are happy with the overall direction, lots of other people in China are being treated with a terrifying brutality that is impossible to justify if you believe in the values of universal human welfare and dignity.

I mean, China is bad. At least according to the Chinese.

mmmmm, no, very unwise

Ugh.

1. You can be a Swede and have a background or name from a different culture.

2. The gang he was leading was working in Sweden, i.e. a Swedish gang.

I somehow missed one of the middle episodes of the first season of House of Cards, and was very surprised at the boldness of having to piece together what had happened between episodes. Very demanding of the viewer.

I did realise my mistake immediately after though.

Why does AI use this beige background color?

I wonder why they have those rigid “sails”, do they function like regular sails?