Sounds like a typical crank.

But if they can't do math, then they can't do the math they need to do in order to not do the math they would be doing if they could do math.

Or when you both get home and you have to duel to decide who's the real you.

But does it help you remember what it is you're supposed to remember?

I agree to all four of those. The question is how do we achieve that.

I asked my calculator to make me a sandwich and it gave me the silent treatment!

It depends on what you mean by saying the same thing. You can express the same meaning in two different ways, but those two utterances will not be the same.

Consider it done.

I think you're right about that.

But what if you're right?

Climate Stability. Without the moon, the earth would experience much greater variations in its obliquity/tilt (the angle between its axis of rotation and a line perpendicular to the plane of its orbit around the sun), leading to much greater and more erratic swings in climate.

Besides I find reading about STEM topics far more interesting and enjoyable than reading about political topics, and since they appeal to only a minority of the population, they rarely if ever receive large numbers of likes/upvotes. [2/2]

Fair enough and I think I understand what you mean. I think it's important to keep up with political developments, but the most popular posts on those topics generally tend not to have anything interesting or original to say and contain little to no nuance. [1/2]

What's your reason for filtering out posts with > 1000 posts?

BTW, there seems to be a strong negative correlation between the amount of effort I put in to an Answer/Post on Quora and the amount of views and the amount of likes it receives.

Have you read the book "Life's Other Secret" by Ian Stewart?

Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World a.co/d/eaPRc8t

I have never received even 100, let alone 1000, likes on either Twitter or Bluesky. The maximum number of upvotes I've received for an Answer or Post on Quora is somewhere around 700 to 800.

As big as the one that determined that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42?

I remember seeing that movie (Flowers for Algernon) decades ago. Iirc it was based on a book by the same name. Thanks for reminding me of it; I loved that movie!!

So is it lying or is it self deluded about what it's doing?

That was my immediate thought when I first heard that quote from Socrates; "I know that I know nothing" involves a logical contradiction. My suggested replacement was "That this statement is true is the only thing I know".

Would that be sufficient to create a copy of your brain with the same thoughts, emotions, memories etc or would that require reconstruction of the brain at the atomic/molecular level?

A synthesis of the continuous and the discrete?

Agree with our hate?

Exactly.

Absolutely. In his book "Freedom and Beyond", John Holt remarked that racism is cruel and reprehensible because it attacks the person "where they have nowhere to defend themselves" - i.e. on the basis of an unchosen and immutable attribute.

I've heard of the ego, the superego and the id, but never of the super id, and have always been curious as to whether or not there is a super id (in Freudian psychology). Not that I place much credence in Freudian psychology anyway but it would be interesting to know.

One needs a sense of right and wrong to have shame.

Maths is cool.

That's what I was thinking too. My understanding is that professional physicists (I'm just an interested amateur) don't know whether or not space is quantised. I wonder whether or not any professional physicists have considered the infinitude of non-events.