Posts with Comments by Joseph Hertzlinger

Justified true belief

  • One example of a justified true belief that is not knowledge is someone who is dreaming of an event that is actually occurring. Edward Lear gave a specific illustration: 
     
    There was an old man from Peru 
    Who dreamt he was eating his shoe 
    He awoke in the night 
    In a terrible fright 
    And found it was perfectly true
  • Brains are calorically expensive?

  • On the other hand there?s the Shakespeare quote ?Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look, he thinks too much, such men are dangerous.?
  • Diversity & trust

  • Putnam's research clearly means that ethnic diversity makes people less gullible.
  • Death to heretics….

  • "We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't believe in tolerance and free speech." --- David Brin 
     
    That seems appropriate here.
  • A new ethnic classification

  • Do Jews count as Porkies?

  • Foreign customer support SUCKS!

  • Does premature outsourcing explain why rtf codes are sometimes found in what should be html?

  • Juden lebensraum!

  • If anti-Muslim immigration can be used as a counterweight to Muslims, then Israel should invite in a million Hindus or Indonesian Chinese.

  • India on fire

  • Ethic strife is very dangerous in biethnic states. Is it that dangerous in a multiethnic state? In multiethnic states, coalitions are unlikely to last long enough to do much damage and middle-income groups will be reluctant to support income redistribution.

  • Lowered IQs

  • Has anyone tried finding out if lead levels are correlated with voting for Democrats?

  • war soundtrack

  • The best choice for explaining the purpose of the war is "Who's Next" by Tom Lehrer.

  • If the Arabs are so tough... why can't they overthrow their own governments? They're oppressed by some of the worst governments on Earth and they're limited to an occasional military coup? The Iranians had a revolution, why can't the Arabs manage one?

  • A people that shall invite controversy….

  • Have there been any studies of Scottish evolutionary psychology? What was the genetic effect of the Massacre of Glencoe?

  • White America-reprised

  • If immigration must be limited to the "best and brightest," the obvious way to do it is to charge admission.

    To M: I have another question, how long as anything lasted as a liberal democracy? Liberal democracy
    was apparently on the way out prior to the change in immigration laws in the 1960s and it has, if
    anything, revived since.

  • Divine Predictions

  • The southeast US has been the Bible belt for only a century. In the 19th century, New England and the
    "burned-over" district of New York were the Bible belts. It looks like religion tends to cause moral
    improvements a century later.

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