swansont

One thing my friend noted was that one shoulder tended to droop when he walked, which he emulated when blocking out a scene with Riker in it.. He also impersonated the voices when doing dialog. His way of getting “into character” as a writer

Why not just have multiple stairwells? Ropes could be deployed in elevator shafts. No need to go outside.

Only redshirts can get killed off indiscriminately

I think that most singles “suffering” in this way blame everyone but themselves for their situation, but that’s just another symptom of the brand of narcissism involved. Legislation isn’t going to fix this, it’s a self-improvement issue.

And yet you’ve not shown that the inclusion of any form of supernaturalism is appropriate or pertinent.

You say “I may be naive, but why bring philosophy into science experimentation” but you’ve been complaining about that very thing. You weren’t previously advocating for no philosophy, you were advocating for a different philosophy. Science was branched off from philosophy (it was natural philosophy) so you can’t separate science from its philosophical basis. What you can do is resist further overlap/intrusion where it’s not appropriate or pertinent.

I think it would be helpful if you presented a consistent position.

! Moderator Note Yeah, I can’t parse this. Nothing worth salvaging.

Sure you can. We do it all the time. There are insurance settlements and civil judgements for wrongful death which do precisely that. We make compromises on safety because of cost in a lot of products, such as automobiles — they could be a lot safer, but then the cheapest car wouldn’t be affordable to the masses. Same thing with roadways and pedestrian safety. “Estimates for the value of a life are used to compare the life-saving and risk-reduction benefits of new policies, regulations, and projects against a variety of other factors,[2] often using a cost-benefit analysis.[3]” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life

And one would then be incorrect to claim that the persecution did not happen. Even if it were intermittent, the claim referred to the start date.

The term was coined then, but the concept has existed for far longer. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/antisemitism

As I said, it’s a movie plot situation. People tend to overestimate the risk of exceedingly rare events. In the US, around 40,000 people die from unintentional falls every year. Worldwide it was around 684,000. You're worried about a tiny fraction of that.

And nobody has disagreed worldview bias is a bias of philosophy, and seems to affect only one area of science. You have not established anything to the contrary. I think this would be an example of sampling bias, and extrapolating from such a sample is an error.

If Trump is punished for this, the left will be quick to point out the Hunter Biden conviction. So yeah, that's too bad. The US constitution is minimalist in many ways, and perhaps the writers recognized that such a restriction could be weaponized by some bad actors, since a felony conviction can happen at the state or local level.

"It’s crucial for you to be aware of the potential types of bias, so you can minimize them." And you were asked to name these specific biases. You can't minimize them of you can't identify them. All you're doing is repeating "bias exists" and nobody is disagreeing with that. But it's not illuminating. I'm sure what you posted answers some question, such as ""name some people who have written that bias exists in physics"(though naming the same author multiple times doesn't really add to this) But it's not what I have asked for. I want to know some experiments that were compromised by bias, and if/how this was fixed. If we're blind to our own biases, just repeating that bias exists doesn't help at all. Please establish that this is true. I rather doubt that 19th century ghosts had electrical towers close by, and a stream running under a house seems like a poor construction decision. Can you systematically investigate NDEs? I don't think an ethics panel will let you potentially kill people to do such research. You've been asked this before, and have not answered: how does this affect physics, chemistry, geology and most of biology? "my" definition is that of philosophy (the nature of reality), which is clearly identified in the passage. Not science. It's not clear that this is the ultimate goal, but other philosophical approaches are mentioned. IOW, it's an issue for philosophy, not science. Science wants objective empirical data, and that won't be forthcoming from subjective views.

In philosophy, physicalism is the view that "everything is physical", that there is "nothing over and above" the physical,[1] or that everything supervenes on the physical.[2] It is opposed to idealism, according to which the world arises from mind. Physicalism is a form of ontological monism—a "one substance" view of the nature of reality, unlike "two-substance" (mind–body dualism) or "many-substance" (pluralism) views. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism There’s “mind” again Note that science doesn’t study the nature of reality, it studies behavior You can’t study something objectively if it’s not physical, so yes, science limits itself to physicalism.

I think it’s more. “space, time, energy and matter” isn’t an “-ism”

I used your definition. What’s your definition of physicalism? Yup. Until a good reason surfaces to think otherwise.

So basically a one-off. Low-risk. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping

Isn’t this a function of the reach of social media? Facebook had ~1 million users in 2004. Twitter didn’t exist in 2005. If you can’t advertise your opinion and make your employer look bad, what’s to cancel? Citation needed

Once again, this is an issue of the mind, and you’re extrapolating to all of science. (Physics rejects the first part of this, BTW. Fundamental bosons are not considered matter. Pretty sure photons are part of reality)

Please define materialism

The wind tunnels work because the air can’t escape sideways. You’d need to construct similar barriers around buildings, and you’d have to get air in via fans and conduits at and below ground level. There’s also the issue of air escaping into the buildings when people open the window to jump. Possible? Perhaps. Practical? No. How often do you need to escape a building by jumping? This sounds like a movie plot situation. Why not just issue base-jumping chutes that wouldn’t get used?

Yeah. The sci-fi equivalent of degaussing a sub. My friend didn’t want to add yet another made-up particle to the lexicon It was originally “exotic antibaryon sweep” (some un-named metastable particle) but it was edited, which caused some controversy but would be what the tech folks would probably call it http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/1043

I consulted with a friend who worked on the show. Helped on a couple of scripts. I don’t think the Kolvoord Starburst or baryon sweep are the issue here, but if they are, then yes. Those are my fault.