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Wouldn't philosophy just try to analyze the core concepts of causality and address any special problems about feedback? I would think they just try to see that the definitions of fb are a good fit with the particular discipline. An organism interacting with its environment, or a cell interacting with a bodily system, or whatever functional level, would use both positive and negative fb -- often it's about slowing down or accelerating a process, as needed. Fb is when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a causal chain that loops. An example would be insulin oscillations. I think the challenges are there for biologists but I don't see much call for a philosopher. Causal chains can loop and it doesn't seem to cause any philosophical crisis AFAICT. Not in biology, anyway, or other fields where the thermodynamic (entropic) arrow is fairly clearly defined. Fundamental physics... maybe a little trickier.

My TIL is, boringly, the same. Due to your posting this. The novel 11/22/63 is, as one might guess, stuffed with Jonbar hinges. Thank Ray Bradbury for the term. In "A Sound of Thunder" the time travel tourist in the Mesozoic disobeys instructions, steps off the levitating path and crushes a butterfly. Huge changes, on their return.

You know Mamdani is from a liberal family of Indian descent, his mother Hindu and an award-winning filmmaker, and his upbringing mostly in the Bronx, right? So help me understand what this meme is about?

Well finally I understand the phrase "all hands on deck." Apparently we exist in our hands and this is some kind of [insert gibberish here] which shows that I can't also exist in my left buttock. This resulted in the creepy feeling a stranger was scratching my butt this morning, back when I only existed there and hadn't transferred my existence to my hands yet.

Or it means you have a nervous system.

I was a little late for an appointment this morning, so I took Main Street at around 50 mph, swigging from my whiskey jug, and shooting pigeons and squirrels with my AR-15 as I drove. Given the lack of time, I took the bags of recycling I was going to drop off and pitched them out the window, and the fifteen cans of old paint for the hazardous waste facility along with them. I hope they didn't burst open when they hit the street... but they probably did. Oh well, that keeps the street cleaners employed, right? So I'm practically a philanthropist. Got home later, realized I'd forgotten the 55 gallon drum of a waste oil, but I didn't want to go back and then have to endure eating reheated food, so I just poured it all down the storm drain. I mean, who can keep up with every little nitpicky thing the nanny state forces on us, 'miright? Rules are for suckers and wimps! FREEDOM! Aw crap, I forgot to pick up cat food. OK, they can get along on Gatorade and corn flakes for one damn day. What am I, a f--ing cat butler?

"During the 6 days of creation God placed the Earth inside a black hole to slow down time so the light from distant stars had time to reach us." Given the site's satirical jabs at fundamentalism, anti-science, pseudoscience, authoritarianism, and so on, and it being AFAIK on a US platform, do you think the current regime could have gone after it? I know they had to settle on some defamation suit earlier this year, which coukd have impacted them budgetarily. Also, given the site's role in a global conspiracy to kidnap children and brainwash them with pizza into Progressivism...just sayin'. ETA: the lawsuits might fall into the category of SLAPP suits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation

Just remember, whatever you do, don't cross the proton streams! I tried to float "death penalty for littering" with my city council, but got nowhere. Nobody there values pragnatism. Or, IMHO, proportionality.

I've used acetone, no problems. Scrape first, then let acetone soak in for a few minutes.

Drooling already! I'll be interested to see their take on downward causation and the various challenge to reductionism. I'm also a fan of Sean Carroll's approach and style. Hope to get this read and back to this tomorrow. Wonder what Rovelli would make of this, with his relational interpretation of QM. His ontology, iirc, rejects any single level reductive reality. It's all "perspectival."

The bot was definitely gherkin us around.

MMT, eh? (I looked at the transcript synopsis, not in a place to watch a video atm ) Will try to absorb this, but in a context where it can make sense with respect to the enormous debt of the US and the perils of default (or US spending most of its tax revenues on debt maintenance). Might be separate thread worthy, later. @Ken Fabian might well be having a similar experience.

May I suggest Hail to the Chief playing over and over as the soundtrack? You know, to keep the tone respectful.

Thanks, yes 4-cutter and 4 flutes seems to be best. I have another project upcoming which will likely need a power chisel for demolition so maybe will just get a rotary hammer - will be overkill for drilling (10 joules per impact), but that's what's recommended for demolition with a chisel bit. None of it has rebar, but there are some granitic aggregates which seem to call for the 4-cutter.

I was (I borrow one). It works fine on most modern concrete. But this stuff I mentioned dates to around 1905-1920. I've actually thought of consulting a geologist who lives a few blocks up the street, near a tech school campus. Stuff is like granite. Admittedly the SDS drill I borrow is kind of cheap, so an upgrade might also help. (the neighbor who loans it out is kind of amusing - he bought the drill, used it once, and now is saying, "please borrow this! It will never get used unless people borrow it." )

TBH I thought the first premise such a nonstarter I quit reading the OP. Excuse me while I go climb my Escher staircase and feed the dragon.

What? How come we can't do that over here? We have to issue bonds and run up the national debt. Or raise taxes.

Yes. Look like for drill press chucks. What I've always wondered is if there is actually a masonry bit that will handle repeated use on early 20th century concrete. They clearly used a different formula, that stuff is like neutronium trying to get a hole in it (say, anchoring a new wall to an old foundation). I've thrown away several ruined bits, dealing with that stuff. And I'm talking carbide. I think some of that old concrete requires diamond bits. So, serious $$$.

I did and it was pretty funny. I nearly split my pantaloons. ;) Nice, and now I know Prokofiev wrote klezmer - wouldn't have suspected. Now I'm wondering what American bluegrass and traditional music would have sounded like if all those fiddles had been violas...hmm, maybe such questions shouldn't be asked.

That is brilliant. Content downsizing is also horrific. You think the brand has kept their price steady, while they sneakily keep reducing the net weight an ounce at a time. Chip (crisp) mfrs are the worst. (a possible joke in this post is someone trying to decide what mfrs stands for...)

From what I understand, it is wombats who are more Platonic in their outputs. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-wombats-make-cube-shaped-poos-180970847/ The Australian marsupial pushes out little piles of cube-shaped poos, and naturalists and biologists have wondered for years how the round sinuous plumbing found in most animals could produce an end product that looks like it came from a brick factory.

Me too. I think the self-loathing relates more to the feeling that it got less repertoire from composers and less glamorous parts. I'm told it was sometimes also seen as a consolation prize for musicians who couldn't gain mastery of the violin. It is a lovely sound, and I imagine a lot of the oniony jokes are mostly in jest, and maybe self-deprecation. The writer is advancing the opinion that overuse of a slang or diminutive form of a word can debase proper usage. We all pushed back and pointed out how the word cello had long ago become accepted, and the usage should be seen as a normal part of the evolution of language. The same with pianoforte becoming piano a couple centuries ago.

I don't know what Canada would do, and I'm starting to wonder about their umpires. Really weird definition of a ground rule double, last night. It did favor the visiting American team, which was certainly polite.

Yup. Akin to the use of pf for piano, even though it hasn't been called a pianoforte for centuries. The innovation was that, unlike the predecessor keyboard instruments, it had dynamic range, hence pf meaning "softloud." So, yes, we're now calling it a "soft" even when someone's banging away in a honkytonk. I have a full-sized Ivers and Pond upright which weighs over 500 pounds and can make the house shake when a heavy bassline is played. When just goofing off on the keys, it becomes a pianofarte. Old viola joke (usually told by violists themselves): What's the difference between a viola and an onion? No one cries when they chop up a viola.

In the words of Mance Rayder, I do not bend the knee. The elbow, now that a different matter...;)