From what I’ve seen over the years here and elsewhere, that’s indeed in their hands and is the bane of their existence. They get pretty good at checking logs and IP addresses and matching up new users to previously banned ones. It’s a thankless task, which is why I take this opportunity to say to our mods, thank you.
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I second this, so thanks to the moderators.
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Indeed. My current wife & I met on a discussion site named tbd.com, meaning, “to be determined”. You had to be 40+ years old to join; the idea was general discussion for supposedly more mature humans absent the angst and hubris of the young. No dating component – it had sections for recently bereaved, for writers, IIRC it even had a section for atheists.
It was a nice concept but I saw the signs of its approaching demise: the site was generating massive content and traffic and near-zero revenue. The owners had a “build it and they will come” mentality that didn’t pan out in this case. I had an excuse to trade phone #s with my future wife just in case and sure enough within 30 days it was unceremoniously shut down. We communicated directly from that point, and the rest is history.
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Looks like everyone else beat me to this while I was in the middle of moving house. Nice to know the veterans are maintaining high standards while I’m temporarily diverted. 
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You can try to polish a turd formulate numerology using the most advanced mathematics possible, but it’s still just a turd numerological 
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Yeah. I’m anticipating the next post like this will try to relate the trinity to the zeros of the Riemann zeta function somehow…
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You can come up with a lot of mathematical equations, but they all amount to the same thing: reading into something that isn’t real. According to Satanism, the pentagram contains the goat head which represents the carnal side of man. The star symbolizes the perfect phi ratio and the Hebrew characters surrounding the pentagram and read counter clockwise spells out the word Leviathan or serpent of the watery abyss. Does this give mighty Baphomet real powers? No. It’s just a graphic image.
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I agree.
What I do find interesting about this process is that there seems to be a comparison between numerology and the gambling systems that–supposedly–will let a gambler beat the house in places like Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
Some gamblers become obsessed with finding a secret way to beat the odds when gambling. Their systems often seem to make sense on the surface, but there is always a mathematical fallacy in there somewhere.
Often, it seems (at least to me) that these fallacies slip by the gambler’s critical thinking software because many fallacious assumptions seem consistant with common sense.
An example is the gambler’s fallacy, where one holds a belief that since the dice have rolled 5 sevens in a row, that some other number must be due on the next roll.
This may seem like common sense, but this is wrong.
And so on.
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AND are consistent with what they very much want or need to be true (motivated reasoning). Thinking that you have got a leg up on all the other gamblers and/or are relatively safe from big losses is a powerful narcotic.
But you raise a great point about so-called “common sense”. That’s a proxy phrase for “intuitively feels right as a rule of thumb to most people (or at least to me!)” and that’s not all bad, but you have to be (switching to my best Elmer Fudd voice) veewwwy caweful with common sense as it’s not invariably right and, as per your point about “makes sense on the surface but there’s a fallacy in there somewhere”, it can certainly be dead wrong. Everything must be subjected to empirical verification.
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When you were posting at Ex-Christian.net you were advised by someone qualified to assess your condition to seek professional help for your mental health problems.
I can only echo that call and add my sincere wish that you do so as quickly as possible.
Thank you,
Walter.
don’t you think this seems to be more like a mathematical analogy than a model?
Yay, the woo woo superstitious mysticism of numerology rears its head, it has been at least a couple of weeks since we rolled our collective eyes at this nonsense.
If science and people who don’t believe in mermaids…since we are amalgamating unrelated groups in an incongruous way.
I don’t get it? Did you tell the joke right?
These are large language models (LLMs), not “AIs”. They are stochastic parrots and do not have intelligence or awareness. They do not even know or “care” if they are right or wrong. They regularly hallucinate – as, apparently, do you.
Because I don’t carry the burden of proof. You do. Good luck with that, scientific_truth.
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I still don’t get it, are you sure you’re telling the joke right?
I must have missed where he claimed to represent science, or atheists, you made that up obviously.
What’s “undiluted QED”? Did you miss an apostrophe?
That’s just a subjective claim.
Notice:
The user known as natural_evidence has been removed for sock puppetry.
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