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Thank you for showcasing the capability of big-block Bitcoin with a slick interface.

After @2956 hassling me, I'm now on powping.

https://www.powping.com/@stevepatterson

Intelligence is essentially thought process x time.

A necessary component of the intelligent thought process is the desire to improve your own thought process.

If that idea is firmly in place, just give it time, and the mind will slowly sort itself out.

Another autistic fallacy:

"Mathematical modeling accurately predicts the motion of inanimate objects; therefore, mathematical modeling accurately predicts the motion of humans."

Trigonometry without transcendental functions.

It's already been done:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_trigonometry

Unlike every other test that's ever been created, IQ test scores cannot be improved with practice.

Which is a happy coincidence, since no other test has its own validity undermined if people improve their scores with practice.

The persuasive power of Euclidean geometry comes from its empirical demonstrations, not from the axiomatic-deductive method.

The Fed buying corporate bonds from:

Apple, Walmart, ExxonMobil, AT&T, Walgreen’s, Microsoft, Pfizer, Nike, Fox Corp., Paypal, Target, Campbell Soup, Broadcom...

https://apnews.com/5dcd1072c8722c342d9075b1f2e07ec0

The one that recognizes over-the-top sarcasm.

For the past few thousand years, democracy has failed.

But in the last 50 years, something miraculous happened. The masses finally gained enlightenment. We've created a society of wise sages through mass education, and now, we get to reap the rewards.

@931 is the man. Just helped me up my game, again.

Intelligence relative to other humans is the wrong metric.

I checked my Streamanity account for the first time in a few weeks.

That $1 made it after all. We good, @255

Even then, their spatial locations are unequal, since they are different.

You'd have to have something like, the world being perfectly symmetrical, and the humans living perfectly mirrored images of each other. One right handed, the other left...

Even then, if they are standing on a rotating sphere, their proximity to the sun would be unequal, so one's Vitamin D levels will be better slightly faster than the other, which is an advantage.

Yes, that's a good way of putting it. Though I wouldn't say "logically impossible," since that's an extremely high bar I'm not willing to cross.

But for all practical purposes, it's not possible to envision human freedom and economic equality together.

That's why it's a "prerequisite" - it's packaged into the vision of a free society.

It's also an outcome, since real-world freedom actually results in inequalities.

Thank goodness, because I want more bath time over a larger paycheck.

I just mean that you can't realistically envision a free society that is an economically equal society

"Human freedom" yields "different choices", and "difference choices" yield economic inequality.

Real-world humans can't be free and economically equal.

In other words, stories would disappear without human minds. But the spring's atoms' relations would not.

Well, the spring's atoms' relative relations are both abstract and objective.

Some abstract things are objective; others are merely conceptual.

I wish that weren't the case, but it seems to be.

Economic inequality is a prerequisite for and an outcome of human freedom.

There is no "Christianity." There is a massive spectrum of beliefs that people label as "Christian" that are mutually exclusive with each other, sometimes causing one "Christian" to kill another because of radical philosophical disagreement.

I used to think that too, but unfortunately, abstract relations seem to be the glue keeping things together.

Wrote a bit about my change of mind here:

http://steve-patterson.com/coming-around-to-platonism/

To understand anything, it requires seeing beyond the objects to grasp their abstract relations.

Arrogance is confusion. It's a lack of self-understanding.