Simon Paynton

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Polititains with the power to endanger the health of their citizens should be the ultimate Null Set. Getting them out of office is the first aid and keeping them out of office is the prophylactic.

By the way. I made The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Thread for entertainment and leisure, so replies can be at leisure as…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
And carcinogenity is discovered by tests on rodents that notoriously don’t extrapolate well to humans.

Wouldn’t this be a great period in USA to run tests on the most anti-science politicians?

I asked Perplexity for some modern entries to the Devil’s Dictionary’…

God — n. A hypothesis invented to explain the unknown, then promoted to a tenant who refuses to pay rent or leave.

Faith — n. The art of holding a belief so tightly that facts bruise their knuckles trying to get in.

Prayer — n. A one-way telephone call to an invis…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Perplexity has a misapplied word. Less. Should have been least. Does it simply copy paste?

The only place I see “less”, at least in Reg’s post, is in the word “tenseless”.

jakelafort wrote:
The free will and compatibilism was not very deep or convincing.

I admit to not being able to fathom the whole block universe concept, much…[Read more]

Short:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Highly recommended.w

Fortunately I could skim a LOT of that because I recognized most of it as something from the past. Which is irrelevant now, as is EVERYTHING, like the constructs of “before”, “I”, “past”, UPPERCASE, time, and misspellings are all irrelevent figments. So is this post. Every construct, whether constructed by human or flying squirrel, is an illusion,…[Read more]

I followed your lead PopeBeanie and tried Perplexity for the first. FYI, I signed up to ChatGPT within 3 hours of it initial release!

Here is my question….

Hello, this is my first question here. Can you explain why the human concept of “time flow” is just an evolved survival trait as time is “only” a spacetime coordinate. Everything is…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
It all revolves around Trump in some way or another, since it is his world. /Sarcasm

Maybe that’s what Sleepy Don is dreaming about. /smh

I don’t take the closed eyes as a problem as seriously as many do. The poor guy stays up until the wee hours on social media for us.

I am still trolling for fighter jet video…[Read more]

OK, fine. I can flood the zone with off-topic, distracting shit too. USA F-22 Raptor, the most capable fighter jet (with SEAD) in the world at the moment, up against two different kinds of fighter jets, basically guns-only. These dog fights will be unusual because the F-22 is also the stealthiest fighter in the world, so it would be winning the…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg 🙂

Have a great week! Too sunny to be be indoors today so the post is a bit shorter that normal.

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