If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Regarding race - the contention shared between most EPers is that there are no differences. Races can be clustered very accurately from genetic material once you start looking at multiple loci: http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2013/05/learning-can-hurt.html What I find irritating about evolutionary psy...

Exactly, if you "believe" in evolution, and you if "believe" that homo sapiens was throughout it's various previous stages and even presently subjected to the same evoltuonary pressures as any other living organism, then you should "believe" in evo psych. Accepting human evolution doesn't compel co...

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic ... 9&start=50

^ LOL at the moderator involvement

This is Atheism+ in a nutshell:

[youtube]LJIr_EL_4m8[/youtube]

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4389 No offense, but that's not necessarily something I believe you can back up. The US currently creates enough food to feed the planet, on it's own. It's not that we've outgrown the resources of the planet, but that the resources are distributed u...

Jen Peeples of GB & TAE on her facebook says that A+ has never been about the forums That's amusing. Aren't the A+ forums where we were being directed by people last fall as the general organizational hub of the concept? Have the forums become such an embarassment now that they've spawned this desp...

Neural development in humans is very coarse That goes for the neocortex in particular. Anatomically, it is almost shockingly uniform, even in the full-fledged adult, leading some to use that plan as a template for efforts towards artificial general intelligence, e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

I agree that evolution didn't plan for 21st century and holding together a planetary civilization; that the ape has lost the extra hair and not much elseâ€”that's damn clearâ€”and on a few other overall points but most particular claims made by EP are probably crap. Jury is still out about EP my ma...

I do not currently see the extreme MGTOW catching on in a big way myself, as far as I can know it takes a lot of misandry to break the basic biological programming that males have towards sex and reproduction. The potential for the current trends to have ugly repercussions is there. Well if you wan...

People point out that Japan's population is shrinking for demographic reasons as if this were bad in the scheme of things.

But in fact it's fewer first worlders using up finite resources.

Plus, it's Japan.

I do not currently see the extreme MGTOW catching on in a big way myself, as far as I can know it takes a lot of misandry to break the basic biological programming that males have towards sex and reproduction. The potential for the current trends to have ugly repercussions is there. Well if you wan...

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:PS: my tits = cool. n=2, p<0.05

It may be statistically significant but did you get a decent effect size? That's the question. (Ex: Cohen's d-cup.)

So, would you say you're "polyamorous" then, Rystefn? I would, but only because that Latugreek monstrosity is the word people understand. It makes me want to bash my head against a wall every time I hear it. Latin and Greek are two completely different, barely related languages. Why the fuck do peo...

Detailed discussion of the trade-off re: ACO here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=xMTS5dyDhwMC&pg=PA247

*approaches to crossover

This would explain how highly creative people manage to see unusual connections in problem-solving situations that other people miss. It would, wouldn't it. It would explain it quite well. Of course, so would a million and one other hand-waving theories we could come up with. If you want to believe...

Well if you want a 30% figure, my data say that the figure has shrunken. I just changed a parameter in my script and it's down to eleven : ('Flewellyn', 1459) ('maiforpeace', 1367) ('ceepolk', 1052) ('Cipher', 1005) ('SubMor', 879) ('Grimalkin', 878) ('simpleflower', 848) ('hyperdeath', 791) ('pieg...

My suspicion is that moderator posting rates are that much higher than those of other users, and that the forum will accumulate more and more (near-)inactive users, resulting in a greater and greater proportion of posts that are just the moderators talking among themselves . Usually when I type "lol...

Well if you want a 30% figure, my data say that the figure has shrunken. I just changed a parameter in my script and it's down to eleven : ('Flewellyn', 1459) ('maiforpeace', 1367) ('ceepolk', 1052) ('Cipher', 1005) ('SubMor', 879) ('Grimalkin', 878) ('simpleflower', 848) ('hyperdeath', 791) ('piega...

http://pastebin.com/Zy8G9x9J Post counts of all A+theism forum users as of a few hours ago. The distribution of posts observes an "80/7" rule (i.e. 7% of the posters make 80% of the posts) rather than the 80/20 rule that is often expected of social distributions (see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

You go ahead and imagine all you want, gooby. After all, your overactive imagination beats real evidence any day of the week, as you have already adeptly shown. Yes, the direct citations from the news and from scholarly works that I produced came right out of my "overactive imagination". And FYI: I...

Lsuoma wrote:
gooby wrote: Forum, what do you think of this disgraceful exchange?
I think you need to grow a thicker skin if you plan to hang out here...

Expecting integrity from people who think they're better skeptics than A+theists isn't the same thing as being "thin-skinned".

Gotta say, on this one, MKG is pretty much spot on as usual. When someone starts waving around psychometric tests as "evidence", my bullshit meter asplodes in an array of beautiful colours. Then there was also direct neurophysiological evidence. Anyway, describe in as much detail as possible what y...

Well, framed in those terms, it could be said on the other hand that he was acting like Twatson.

lol naive use of Google Translate as well

what a fucking wanker

*with no real reason

If you're gonna portray yourself as a "true skeptic"... But: you see, I do not forward myself as a "true skeptic". And I shall leave to other readers to determine as to our respective bona fides. I hereby terminate our intercourse. Not on the basis of your chronic faux juvenile, nay: puerileÂ¹ prot...

"I have the divergent thinking that attends schizotypy in mind, whose potential is borne about"

Should be "borne out".

My jimbobs get really flustered when I'm dealing with stupidity of this magnitude and it is easy to make clerical errors like this.

And re: your claim that abduction is a degenerate form of induction, from Abductive Inference - Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation : [W]e shall understand abduction as reasoning from a single observation to its abductive explanations, and induction as enumerative induction from sa...

You made the very, very clear claim, in clear and unambiguous terms, that scientist are pathological nutjobs. Some are; I gave examples which I will repeat below; I don't think anyone would really contest them. Most aren't, at least not the extent that you think people are trying to assassinate you...

You referred to science as a "psychopathological trait", (vis: clearly meaning, not implying, irrespective of your very and obviously passive "would appear to undergird", that scientists are mentally ill) Perhaps not full-blown mentally ill, but having traits along a continuum that starts in boring...

In any case, active or passive voice, I stand by what I said. But, are you a scientist? In a manner of speaking, yes, I use statistical methods to find patterns in raw data i.e. data mining, which you could consider a very computational, stylized approach to the scientific method. I'm confused thou...

And since you had an outburst over nothing, I'd just like to be a pedantic asshole and add that I did not use the passive voice in that sentence. If I had, it would, it would have been "All these disciplines would appear to be undergirded by the same psychopathological traits." In any case, active o...

The same psychopathological traits would appear to undergird all these disciplines WTF? No "WTF" necessary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_and_mental_illness A longer discussion of this topic can be found in volumes like the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity . Here's a short news article on...

Oops. Smaller version for convenience:

http://i.imgur.com/VFQuq.png

In other news, PeeZus keeps losing fans:

http://i.imgur.com/CovHa.png

Pretty soon he might even be grateful for all the peanuts we throw him.

As the residential art student, I feel obligated to chime in with my thorough and educated analysis: Sulky Amy said: ...but when you really break down the creative process, it's very similar to the scientific method... No. Just....fucking NO . Well, science, as well as mathematics, and art are both...

Although that is not to say that the principle cannot be inappropriately or erroneously applied. In the Titanic case, one might reasonably argue that a categorical statement to the effect of â€œwomen and children firstâ€ ignores the reason for the statement in the first place â€“ that the future o...

gooby wrote:And if that doesn't work, your Tor node is in the UK.

You can then request a new one until the video loads.

In fact, wait a sec ... I'll download the video and put it on mediafire for you.

Here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?k3f65cba21741ao

And if that doesn't work, your Tor node is in the UK.

You can then request a new one until the video loads.

In fact, wait a sec ... I'll download the video and put it on mediafire for you.

The Pelagic Argosy wrote:
StueNever wrote: Haha, don't you get Channel 4 for free in the UK?

While in the US you have to pay for it, but I can still watch it on the Internet for free. Strange.
Yes, C4 is one of our national broadcast networks. But I guess it's blocked so that we have to go out and buy the DVDs. Bastards.

Use Tor.

Correction to last post: mesdames.

Same sentiment!

Although, it's more taboo for men to abandon women to their fate And I'm all about violating taboos. Some of them are certainly highly questionable. I am firmly committed to this equality notion I'm often accused of having abandoned. Note however that this means nothing is particularly scandalous a...

StueNever wrote:Although, it's more taboo for men to abandon women to their fate

And I'm all about violating taboos.

By the way the greylining send a beer donation button isn't werking. And why doesn't ERV have one yet? Why don't you all have one? We can all send each other beer money. Sabotaged by baboons. Paypal thinks I'm a terrorist and a money launderer. Been arguing with them since February. I have managed ...

err ... disabled

Haha, check it out:

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheismplus/

They've disable downvoting.

Seems to me that for all of the equally credible stories of people like WoolyBumblebee and GirlWritesWhat which indicate very low levels of such harassment, one can also say that a not insignificant number of women are subjected to rather egregious levels of it â€“ even if some of them tend to â€œe...

Excellent video by Justicar: [youtube]8XBIxwwtCAc[/youtube] Looked back a bit and found this, not sure if it's been posted here yet, but I'll share it just to be sure because I've come across this 'Tis Himself skidmark before: [youtube]b09v5ae8tLA[/youtube] He pissed off one of his erstwhile allies...

It's worth noting that membership seems to have plateaued around 1,000.

Probably won't get too much bigger.

As of now http://atheismplus.com is down. Meanwhile I see rabid upvoting of everything on the r/atheismplus and a huge surge in membership.

It seems as though they want to put all their eggs in one basket...

One of the regulars on PeeZus' blog is apparently some kind of casino executive.

I wonder how much of the income he derives from bilking people who don't understand the expected value principle goes to "social justice" causes.

I for one think PZ's important environmental message justifies him travelling all over the world, otherwise countless people would've never learned that environmentalism is good and not -environmentalism is bad from PZ. Don't shoot the messenger. I'm assuming that you're being sarcastic but on the ...

You only needed the Ll-lia-FEIY from that link. What's worse is that it wasn't even the right link! :doh: Second try: ( TRIGGER WARNING forrealz ) I am going to be giving a 'guest lecture' for an East Coast Uni next month. I will be doing it via Skype. Even for a genuine educational reason, I am no...

A+ is generating some publicity!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... spit-venom

Too bad it's mostly all negative. They might just start to get a sense of what everyone else thinks of them...

Bloody reactionary self-proclaimed puffed-up philosophers with only arts degrees. (Yes Kazez: whoever you are in your small pond.) It is a syndrome, I tell you. I almost had a BA until I had to go to the hospital mid-semester. Meanwhile, as I'm learning chemistry, I'm deriving reaction rate laws fr...

Again, I don't really think it matters that much. I don't think there's ever been a situation where someone has to push a fat guy off a trolley to save five others, but we can still talk about the ethics of the situation. The trolley problem is often invoked by utilitarians as an instance of omissi...

Again, I don't really think it matters that much. I don't think there's ever been a situation where someone has to push a fat guy off a trolley to save five others, but we can still talk about the ethics of the situation. The trolley problem is often invoked by utilitarians as an instance of omissi...

oolon wrote:Where I am different to you maybe is that I will walk away if warned

Yes, warned not to disagree. See what happens when you press your luck.

Sceptics have the tools it takes to scrutinise their own thought process, and make the corrections before acting upon it, or if the first reaction managed to slip past their critical thinking, they will recognise it soon after, or at least listen to another sceptic who points out the faulty reasoni...

oolon wrote:
TFJ wrote: Oolon. Been banned here yet? No? There's the difference.
Not been banned there either so not much difference... Just a bit more wanking in the open here.

OK. Did you express deeply contrary opinions "there"? Something tells me your comparison isn't ceteris paribus...

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