Unseen

@Robert

Mixed use works for small towns or small areas within towns. Converting an American city—even a small to medium sized city—won’t happen. And that’s for political reasons as well as practical ones.

Who is going to tell Americans to spend most of their time within the distance of a 15-minute walk or even bike ride? Answer: No one who wan…[Read more]

People argue that women sexually abuse other women in prison, which is true. However, if you bring in men who suddenly get trans religion into prison as well, you aren’t exactly making the vulnerable women more secure, are you?

That some men are willing to do that to gain an advantage in prison life means we can’t rule it out in other areas where…[Read more]

Male prisoners changing gender under self-ID to ‘escape men’s jails and get access to women’

Are female prisoners changing their gender in order to get into men’s prisons? Gee, I wonder why not?

A glimpse into the debate in Scotland. (Hope you have a good ear for the Scots accent.)

Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon was shouted down at an event this week called Zero Tolerance. It is an event to stop male violence against women and many people came to tell Sturgeon that her gender bills will fail to create safe spaces for women.

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jakelafort wrote:

Yeah i am not feeling it. Separate but equal? One for normals and the other for coloreds? If ya can’t deal with it cuz of your delicate sensibilities or your twisted prurience then go in the bushes or wear an adult diaper.

Are you so willing to fob off women-only shelters?

Autumn wrote:

People may have all sorts of reasons they don’t want to share space with people of different religions, ethnicities, skin colour, sexual orientation, gender identity or other (typically) protected characteristics. And the root of those fears may be something with which we can sympathize.

Interesting  Almost unconsciously “r…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

Oh, so no data presented on the frequency of these crimes and abuses committed by male to female trans? Shocking. I’d take a guess that it is statistically insignificant, but Phucker (and Putin, LOL) knows his idiotic audience well. Phucker say he has “enough daughters” to be concerned about this as if just one wouldn’t be enough.…

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Davis wrote:

Unseen, you haven’t explained anything. You’ve just stated that we make decisions because we do one thing rather than another (huh?), despite the fact that we could not have done otherwise. Such a decision is empty of responsibility. Sorry you cannot see that. I don’t think we will go any further with that. If you want to eat the w…

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Davis wrote:

I am not forcing you to accept anything. You posted a video saying she speaks for you better than you could, where she defines non-free will as the inability of an agent to do other than they have done. This by the way, does not necessarily infer predeterminism. It does exclude an agents ability to have done anything else.

She…

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@Davis

Can you explain please why you’re so hung up on forcing me to accept predeterminism as a consequence of determinism?

Let’s for a moment assume you are right and determinism actually means predeterminism, does that ipso facto rescue free will somehow? Or are you thinking it’s an idea so reprehensible that people will ignore the facts and…[Read more]

Davis wrote:

She specifically says that you cannot do B, C, D…Z instead of A. If A is the only possible outcome, choice, alternatives, even decisions are illusions. If free will (as she describes it) is an illusion, so are all of the above. You cannot have both. A rock isn’t responsible for falling in a particular direction, nor is a person who…

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jakelafort wrote:

Unseen, if i understand the lady she is arguing long chain or predeterminism. Start at about 1:30 and just listen a wee bit.

She’s just describing plain vanilla determinism there. Yes, from a certain complete description of a circumstance and with enough computing power to follow it, you can predict on to…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

Unseen wrote:

What chaotic or random events do is set up a new deterministic chain.

That can be upset by a new random event? That makes no sense at all.

One random event/change in the deterministic series of events can’t be followed by another one. It seems to me that if such events do happen (and I’m sure they do because, for…[Read more]

@Davis

Some observations about your objections to Dr. Hossenfelder on free will.

One is responsible for what one does intentionally, no matter how those intentions are generated. This isn’t some sort of fantasy. This is how we treat responsibility every day. Unless someone acted at gunpoint or their act was pure accident, they are responsible…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

I have seen this before and what I find interesting is that chaotic and random systems are still deterministic. Initial conditions are unknowable to us, but the universe doesn’t care about our knowledge. Things are never really deterministic for us. But that doesn’t mean they are not deterministic.

It’s not that chaotic and ran…[Read more]

I know I said “Let’s get back to the OP,” but I ran into this vid by Sabine Hossenfelder, respected physicist and science explainer, and discovered that she explains my position better than I can: