#thought-experiment

Imagine you having ultimate power to do what you want, you can make any law in any country. Now you have ultimate power, what will you do. Are you trying to do good? You might be able to do a lot of good,

seeks comments for links delusions of grandeur - striving for interlect (IJ and CS) all the knowledge is it pompous to be a no it all but lack the ability to be heard? that people dont really listen anymore?

There are people who will shout from wherever they can find to shout from that autism isn't a disability. That it should be celebrated. And I have to wonder if those people have ever found themselves so

Another day slogging through corporate ineptitude, another day closer to retirement. Made dinner for my stepkids, fed the four-legged critters, and then went to the indoor track for laps. Weather’s getting

Following up from the article, Debye toroidal moment of surface plasmons as SBIR ESCO model What are Newton's 1st 2nd and 3rd laws of motion? Newton's First Law. Newton's First Law states that an object

There's quite a few people out there telling me I should learn to be a better writer. They are obviously jealous, they don't understand the name of the game and they can't help but to hate on a dude. As

I have big plans, big plans. I tell my girl all the time, but she does not get it. She tells me I'm dreaming and I need to keep my feet a little more grounded. But, just like anything else in the word,

I remember this one time this guy came up to me and said - "Hey, you look like you have a lot of money already.... Why don't you give me some?" - I looked back at the guy and said to him with a straight

This show has recently captured my attention, but not only because its got good action and a great cast of actors, but because it poses some interesting questions about humanity and consciousness. If you

Disclaimer.- Before you read the following post, know that this is meant as a mental experiment, and as an experiment only. If there are any similarities between the fictional character talking on the

I am me and you are you, but what makes me, me and you, you? We all have an awareness of the self and no matter what language we speak, we have different words that help us differentiate ourselves from

The other night I was doing the dishes, which meant I could think about things without being tempted to google them. After a great conversation with my wife about the precession of the Earth's axis, the

What does racism really mean? That's what I'm trying to figure out using a series of thought experiments. This is the second one. The Experiment My father used to run a small burger stand when I was a

I'm trying to tease out the different ways to understand racism through a series of thought experiments. Here's the first one. The Experiment A shopkeeper knows that a certain percentage of all his customers