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- Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: NAR Lawsuit
- Replies: 17
- Views: 586
Re: NAR Lawsuit
"incentive to arrange a higher price"? Not sure what you mean here. If your wife had somehow negotiated a $40K lower closing price instead of only $20K, that would have been $600 less money in her commission than she ended up getting. If instead she had impressed that lady by wangling blinds and a ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: NAR Lawsuit
- Replies: 17
- Views: 586
Re: NAR Lawsuit
It seems perverse that an agent for the buyer should have an incentive to arrange a higher price. I can't think of an easy way to avoid this, though. Flat fees for buyers' agents don't seem fair because the value to the client of the buying agent's service probably does scale with the purchase price...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Ideology, Religion, and Mormonism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 826
Re: Ideology, Religion, and Mormonism
It might take a very otherworldly religion to remain entirely aloof from state power, but some religions have been more theocratic than others. Brigham Young's Utah regime has got to be have been on one end of the spectrum. Orthodox Christianity has also been toward that end, I think. The Eastern Ch...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:04 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: "Don’t Call Trans People ‘Brave’,” Really?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 607
Re: "Don’t Call Trans People ‘Brave’,” Really?
I’m not sure anyone ever wants to told that they’re brave. Being told that you were brave, in that awful past situation that is now safely over—that might be okay, although heroes probably tire of it. Being told that you currently are being brave is being reminded of how much you have about which to...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:41 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1196
Re: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
What is a "true prophet" or "reasonably clever fraud"? Are they actually mutually exclusive categories such that you can be one or the other but you can't possibly be both? It does seem to me that to being either a "true prophet" or a "reasonably clever fraud" requires a person to be pretty creativ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Gemli explains...
- Replies: 249
- Views: 7936
Re: Gemli explains...
No, see, we're not quoting Peterson. These are just unpublished notes for our upcoming books.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:12 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Gemli explains...
- Replies: 249
- Views: 7936
Re: Gemli explains...
Look at her hands. Look at those window panes. This is a deepfake.
It's the actual face of the real Goldilocks, obviously, but she's been photoshopped into an AI scene.
See how hard it is these days, to demonstrate reliable evidence for anything?
It's the actual face of the real Goldilocks, obviously, but she's been photoshopped into an AI scene.
See how hard it is these days, to demonstrate reliable evidence for anything?
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:56 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1196
Re: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
I'd assume they must have been looking at a different animal and that neither saw a crow. Heh. It kind of wrecks my little logic paradox, but you’re right, the assumption that we know that there was only one animal is another of these artificially constraining setups. As soon as you question it, th...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:40 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1196
Re: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
I can't resist adding a favourite example of how inference gets tricky with multiple options. As far as I know, I thought of it myself, but it may very well be well known, and I might even have read it somewhere and just forgotten the source. There is an animal in a tree, but no-one can see it quite...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:27 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1196
Re: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
Peterson's examples of logic and evidence are all syllogisms. They're great as far as they go, but the whole deal with a syllogism is that it follows one story line. It's about Socrates, and mortality. Is he or not, yes or no? The question is fixed, the possible answers are predefined. There is no m...