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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The correct sentence is "what does it mean?"

As far as I know, Russian doesn't use the auxillary verb "do/does".

In many languages, the "do" is often a included in the case itself, meaning that it will be part of the word "mean", as also suggested by the usage of "means" instead of "does mean".

I suppose another construction could be "It means what?"

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

Shit dissolves better. Food (generally) has more fats and oils that will stick and clog the pipes..

It's the same pipe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Det kunne være interessant at sende dem til en ekstra uforberedt køreprøve et års tid efter de har fået kørekort, for at se hvordan deres kørestil har udviklet sig efter de har fået mere erfaring på vejene.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The difference is my willingness to buy a new one.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To be fair.. most of those sights are piles of mud with sign posts.

For tourists I'd rather recommend the cold war museum, the original Lego land, the beaches on the west coast, hiking along the east coast fjords, the lakes at Silkeborg, the desert at Skagen, the ruins at Kalø, the various nature reserves.

There's plenty of stuff to see. May, June and August are the best times to visit. The rest of the year has unpredictable weather.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Exactly how big've deal is it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It was also Windows 98.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I don't think free will can be dismissed just because the framework that it runs on is deterministic.

Let's say you program a text editor. A computer runs the program, but the computer has no influence on what text the user is going to write.

I think that consciousness is a user like that. It runs on deterministic hardware but it's not necessarily deterministic due to that. It might be for other reasons, but the laws of physics isn't it, because physics doesn't prohibit free will from existing.

Consciousness is wildly complex. It's a self illusion and we really have no good idea about where decisions even come from.

If it is deterministic, it would have to involve every single atom in the universe that in one way or another have influenced the person. Wings of a butterfly and light from distant stars etc. Attempting to predict it would require a simulation of everything. That leads to other questions. If a simulation is a 1:1 replica of the real thing, which one is then real and what happens if we run it backwards, can we see what caused the big bang, etc.

So, even if this is about free will, the enquiry falls short on trying to figure out what even causes anything to happen at all.

If we are happy with accepting that the universe was caused by something before or outside the universe, then it's really easy to point in that direction and say that free will also comes from there - somewhere outside the deterministic physics.

Of course the actual universe and the laws of physics are really not separate as data and functions. The data itself contains the instructions. Any system that can contain itself that way is incomplete as proved by Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem. Truths do exist that can't be proven so perhaps the concept of free will is an example of such a thing, or maybe it's not. The point is that we can't rule it out, just because it exists in a deterministic system.

Personally I don't think it matters all that much. Similarly to how we can only ever experience things that exists inside of the universe,or see the light that hits our eye, we can also only ever hope to experience free will on the level of our own consciousness, even if we acknowledge that it is influenced by all kinds of other things from all levels from atoms to the big bang.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yes, it won't make much difference to a shirt, but it's necessary for a blazer or outerwear, where the fabric is thicker and the button is getting pulled a lot more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I don't want to.

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