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Most people (not all, but most) are reasonably comfortable with infinity as an ultimate (lack of) limit. For example, cosmological theories

By "the industry" in this post, I refer to that part of the entertainment industry which: 1. Produces movies, TV and video games (as oppos

A practical albeit fictional application of the philosophical conclusion that free will is compatible with determinism came up today in a di

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or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Anthropic Trilemma Imagine you live in a future society where the law allows up to a hundr

Consider the following statements: 1. The result of this coin flip is heads. 2. There is life on Mars. 3. The millionth digit of pi is od

So one is asked, "What is your probability estimate that the LHC will destroy the world?" Leaving aside the issue of calling brown numbers

June 14, 3009 Twilight still hung in the sky, yet the Pole Star was visible above the trees, for it was a perfect cloudless evening. "We c

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