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#3411​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 3 months ago​·​Criticism

Valid

#3410​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 3 months ago

This might be a difference in dialect. In New Zealand (and I assume other places, like maybe Australia, UK and Ireland) it is common to use ‘must not’ to mean:

a) ‘ Is forbidden to’ (the meaning you are familiar with),

or

b) ‘necessarily cannot’, usually in a deductive way.

Example: “His shoes aren’t here. I guess he must not be home then.”

This is much more natural to me than “His shoes aren’t here. I guess he cannot be home then.”

#3367​·​Benjamin Davies revised 3 months ago​·​Original #3348​·​Criticism

This might be a difference in dialect. In New Zealand (and I assume other places, like maybe Australia, UK and Ireland) it is common to use ‘must not’ to mean:

a) ‘ Is forbidden to’ (the meaning you are familiar with),

or

b) ‘necessarily cannot’, usually in a deductive way.

Example sentence: “His shoes aren’t here. I guess he must not be home then.”

This sentence is much more natural to me than “His shoes aren’t here. I guess he cannot be home then.”

#3365​·​Benjamin Davies revised 3 months ago​·​Original #3348​·​CriticismCriticized1

This might be a difference in dialect. In New Zealand (and I assume other places, like maybe Australia, UK and Ireland) it is common to use ‘must not’ to mean:

a) ‘ Is forbidden to’ (the meaning you are familiar with),

and

b) ‘necessarily cannot’, often in a deductive way.

Example sentence: “His shoes aren’t here. I guess he must not be home then.”

This sentence is much more natural to me than “His shoes aren’t here. I guess he cannot be home then.”

#3363​·​Benjamin Davies revised 3 months ago​·​Original #3348​·​CriticismCriticized1

In terms of climate, California might be the best place on the planet to live in. But the downside is that you live in California 😂

#3354​·​Benjamin DaviesOP revised 3 months ago​·​Original #3352​·​Criticism

No. If living in the best place on Earth requires me to learn a new language I will happily do so. Thankfully I have an interest in languages so it wouldn’t be a problem for long.

#3353​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 3 months ago

California might be the best place on the planet to live in, in terms of climate, but the downside is that you live in California 😂

#3352​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 3 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1

The current industrialisation of food is problematic, but these are parochial problems. There is nothing about industrialised food production that is fundamentally and irredeemably flawed. Problems are soluble!

#3351​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 3 months ago​·​Criticism

I’ve found that if I stick to Whole Foods type places the quality of food is quite good, including some options that aren’t available in NZ.

But yes, the mainstream food options are crap, including the majority of restaurants.

#3350​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 3 months ago​·​Criticism

Thankfully the US has reverse-osmosis water filtration options pretty much everywhere.

#3349​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 3 months ago

This might be a difference in dialect. I mean ‘mustn’t’ as in ‘must not’.

Example sentence: “His shoes aren’t here. I guess he must not be home then.” —> “I guess he mustn’t be home then.”

This sentence is much more natural than “His shoes aren’t here. I guess he cannot be home then.”

#3348​·​Benjamin Davies, 3 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized2

Maybe juries can be done away with. Not all levels of courts have juries, so they mustn’t be fundamental.

#3339​·​Benjamin Davies revised 3 months ago​·​Original #3338​·​Criticized1

Maybe juries can be done away with. Not all levels of courts have them, so they mustn’t be fundamental.

#3338​·​Benjamin Davies, 3 months ago​·​Criticized1

My charitable interpretation:

“Less and less possible” is a loose way of saying something like “more and more difficult to achieve”, or “occurs less and less often in the multiverse”.

#3289​·​Benjamin Davies revised 3 months ago​·​Original #3286​·​CriticismCriticized1

My charitable interpretation:

“Less and less possible” means something like “more and more difficult to achieve”, or “occurs less and less often in the multiverse”.

#3287​·​Benjamin Davies revised 3 months ago​·​Original #3286​·​CriticismCriticized1

My charitable interpretation:

“Less and less possible” means something like “more and more difficult to achieve”, or “a smaller and smaller occurrence in the multiverse”.

#3286​·​Benjamin Davies, 3 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1

“([T]hey say)” presumably means he is paraphrasing people who get it wrong.

#3285​·​Benjamin Davies, 3 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1

Why does neo-Darwinism qualify as a strand, if it can be understood as a component of Popperian epistemology?

#3284​·​Benjamin Davies, 3 months ago​·​Criticism

Economics is simply at the intersection of evolution and epistemology.

#3283​·​Benjamin Davies, 3 months ago​·​Criticism

While a lot of what’s involved in understanding a language is inexplicit, it is not possible to come to understand a language without ever dealing with it explicitly.

This is part of what separates explanatory knowledge from other types of knowledge.

#3281​·​Benjamin Davies revised 3 months ago​·​Original #3280​·​Criticism

While a lot of what’s involved in understanding a language is inexplicit, it is not possible to come to understand a language without ever dealing with it explicitly.

This is what separates explanatory knowledge from other types of knowledge.

#3280​·​Benjamin Davies, 3 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1

… any replicator’s primary ‘concern’ is how to spread through the population at the expense of its rivals.

Why “at the expense of its rivals”? Isn’t the concern to spread at all, regardless of the outcome of rivals?

#3279​·​Benjamin Davies, 3 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized2

… any replicator’s primary ‘concern’ is how to spread through the population at the expense of its rivals.

Why “through the population”? Doesn’t this presuppose a replicator needs to exist within a population to do what it does? The first replicator spread with no population to spread into.

#3278​·​Benjamin Davies, 3 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized3

I am a life-long nail-biter. I am thinking a habit like nail-biting can be thought of as an addiction in this way.

I have a preference for letting my nails grow normally, and a preference for removing rough/uneven parts of my nails as soon as possible (which I often enact by biting my nails automatically/uncritically/mindlessly).

#3274​·​Benjamin Davies revised 3 months ago​·​Original #3183