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jdjdirn··on The Economics of Male Birth Control
Good old market forces doing thier job. /s
jdjdirn··on 19th Century Marriage Manuals: Advice for Young Husbands
Oh how things have changed /s
jdjdirn··on Life is a braid in spacetime
All that can be, is. A mathematical proof is a statement about what can be in a particular system. A system can be anything that can be dreamed, by yourself, or indeed by the universe. Therefore mathematics in it's widest definition is the study of what can be in the universe.

Its like this: If something is to exist, would it not be absolutely absurd that only this exists? This universe in this particular configuration, out of all the possible configurations? It cannot be. Either there is nothing or there is everything. If there is everything then all possible configurations of thing are. Some of those things have patterns within them that 'percieve' the world to be time like. When really the whole thing is timeless, it is like all configurations of thing saved onto one giant hardrive, your life in bits on a 2 dimensional substrate. From the outside its timeless. From the context of you at x,y,z it is timefull.

Is this not totally obvious? How can this not be obviously true to everyone?

jdjdirn··on How Much Power Does the Volkswagen TDI Lose in “Cheater” Mode?
Also given that this effects the quality of the product they bought significantly, wouldnt they be entitled to a refund?
jdjdirn··on Epistemic learned helplessness (2013)
He sounds like a guy Id love to have a beer with. We might just be able to understand each other :)
jdjdirn··on Epistemic learned helplessness (2013)
Lol. And what precisely is a fact, but an argument about the state of the world being a specific way?