Joseph Matheson

@basilYam Are you only attracted to 1 in 1000 of all men in the world? Or 1 in 1000 of the single men who are attracted to you and emotionally capable? The calculation only works if it's the latter!

Mb I need to do the math on this. I estimate that I’m attracted to about 1 in every 1k men. And by “attracted to” I mean I like the whole thing, personality, looks etc. So theoretically in a city of 6 million I would have 6k options. How many of those men are available tho, considering my preferences aren’t atypical? Maybe half of these men are married, another 1/3 in some kind of relationship. So 1k options. And then somewhat further narrowed, how many are attracted to me? I’m gonna guess 20-30%. We’re at ~600ish being generous. How many want what I want, are emotionally capable of the kind of relationship I want, other practical considerations? I think those are all the filters. So I’m at mb 40-75 ppl in a city of 6 million

Yamato v. Iowa clash ends with a total victory for this fine fellow:

@brrryani @nikicaga @pe_tsar Wait until you hear the name of that little blue dot the left arrow is pointing at

@JosephMatheson2 @nikicaga @pe_tsar

Can anyone from Michigan tell me why there are so many Hitler particles in this area to the south west of Grand Rapids

@pe_tsar Juggalo country.

@nikicaga @pe_tsar Common political commentator mistake: the Dutch are all in Ada and Forest Hills, on the east side of GR. You can't blame the Dutch for Byron Center, Hudsonville, and Zeeland.

@pe_tsar Dutch people

@pe_tsar Comments are WRONG, the Dutch Calvinists are not to blame for Byron Center, Hudsonville, and Zeeland. Those arrows are where all the people who thought Dutch Calvinists were too tolerant and kind-hearted went.

@captgouda24 Some philosophers are net positives to society

Every person who engages in philosophy is a tragedy. They have wasted their life, as surely as someone who is strung out on heroin, plays video games, or commits the supreme self-negation. We can only hope that they, in spite of their life choices, do something of use to society.

“You can’t call your body a prison, you *are* your body!” These two things are not incompatible

@tszzl First two, if used correctly, mean: "you have stated this as a premise, but it requires demonstration you have not provided." That's not wishy-washy!

“it’s not clear to me that” “it’s not obvious that” “non trivial” all wishy washy epistemic phrases ive come to hate in san francisco

@freganmitts I feel the same about Plantinga as I do about Descartes: a brilliant, innovative guy who produced a body of work that changed the field by forcing a response to his arguments, even though the modern consensus is that he was wrong about everything.

Back when I was 18 and reading some of my first contemporary academic philosophy, I read a bunch of Plantinga. Really disliked it. Haven’t changed my mind since then!

@PAHoyeck I feel like "overstating the degree of skepticism implied by evolution of cognitive faculties" is not the worst sin committed by a philosopher. Especially since most of Plantinga's work predates the consensus that evolved faculties imply -some- skepticism!

POV: You're about to read the absolute worst piece of philosophy ever written by a human being.

@morallawwithin I don't think there's a paradox. First case gives info about the 100th flip, second doesn't. The extra info changes the expected probability, even though the underlying sequence is the same.

Bad news. Link below.

@Staroxvia Anselm did do some slightly more difficult stuff. He was very politically active, besides writing on issues which continue to be relevant, like free will. Besides, other "theologians" immediately criticized his argument even in the 11th century!

hey have you guys heard that argument for the existence of god that's like "let's call the most powerful being you can think of god, a being you can think of that exists is more powerful than something that doesn't exist, so therefore god is real" being a theologian seems easy

rather than ruin Thanksgiving dinner by bringing up the election or flouride, why not ruin it by bringing up Neutral Theory?

@eigenrobot I think all sides overestimate the capacity of people they trust to identify garbage. Predicting the consequences of specific research projects or total amounts of research funding is an unsolved problem.

@eigenrobot Lots of politically liberal scientists agree with 4-7! They just don't agree about which specific experts/fields/studies are in fact garbage being propped up by bad actors.

all of the following things are true or close enough to true so as to make no difference in calling them so

@eigenrobot This thread is ~correct that most discussion of science funding focuses either on 1&3 above (libs) or 8-10 below (cons). But I think 4-7 contain the most crucial points of disagreement, and don't necessarily break on political lines.

Our latest preprint finds that a shortage of beneficial mutations does more to drive small populations extinct than mutational meltdown does. Explainers elsewhere @MawassWalid @JosephMatheson2 @Uliseshmc @JeremyJBerg doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

@analog_ashley The new timesheet requirement is only for reporting time off, not hours worked.

UCSD now requires postdocs to complete timesheets. This is insane, right? Do other universities have postdocs log their time?