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    Why do people believe in Ayn Rand?

    Nature of reality, since it is perceived through our senses, is subjective not objective.
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    a economic solution

    You're drastically understating the calculation problem. The amount of information necessary is gigantic, and understanding how to process and encode that information is unfathomable. Furthermore, solving these problems would be extremely slow even given current algorithms. By the time we solve...
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    Losing my religion

    That would be fine, but for human curiosity and exploration, religion does not have many benefits. Religion tends to have the effect of closing the mind off to new possibilities as opposed to exploring possibilities in an unbiased way. In fact this is not just with religion, but any type of...
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    The End of Men

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    Losing my religion

    In my mind, I was thinking intelligent extraterrestrial life. which people do argue to be rare enough. But yes, probabilistically, there is most definitely extraterrestrial life. In general, my example was bad haha, but I hope the point came across that there do exist questions that don't have...
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    Losing my religion

    I agree that humans need explanations, but that doesn't mean human's always need to settle on an explanation. I can wonder whether extraterrestrial life exists, but I won't stick to one answer or another... I'll just wait. God, as you mentioned, is an explanation for those deep philosophical...
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    Losing my religion

    I'll agree with that point as long as you do not define god with too many specifics. What becomes troublesome is when people start deriving erroneous implications from this one belief. People begin to frame the observable world around this belief, and what it leads to is contradiction.
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    Losing my religion

    The type of doubt you are talking about is doubt in beliefs that are still derived from that basic belief in God and Jesus or Mohammed or whoever. But that basic belief is still held (or is at least supposed to be held without doubt). Are you telling me that you actually have doubt that Jesus...
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    Losing my religion

    But humans also desire to test those explanations and dig deeper. Holding a belief in god as unquestionable goes against this trait.. If one is sincerely searching for answers, then some doubt is always necessary. In fact, for big philosophical questions like what is the meaning of life, there...
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    Are textbooks really necessary?

    The quality of AP/IB really depends on the high-school as well. For example, in my school district, there wasn't much of a difference between the AP and IB programs... both were excellent. But returning to textbooks, I think AP classes were the first classes where we were given very dense...
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    Are textbooks really necessary?

    While a lot can be done without textbooks (atleast in gradeschool, I would strongly argue otherwise for college education), I think textbooks can provide the critical reading skills that kids need to develop at an early age... if used correctly.
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    Is Capitalism Making Life Better?

    I agree, the boundary between state and market is blurred. My statement was just to point out that even in ideal conditions, capitalism needs a government type entity to function. More importantly, if you look at the government as just another institution (A massive one at that), that formed to...
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    Is Capitalism Making Life Better?

    Sure, if you want to call the enforcement of property rights "massive state interference." But then you cannot say that massive state interference hurts capitalism..... That quote doesn't explain anything. It doesn't give data showing that market share was in fact eroding. Even the source is...
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    Is Capitalism Making Life Better?

    Of course, capitalism cannot exist without a state (or some governing body of rules). Property rights need to be enforced some how right? I always thought the anarcho-capitalist idea of no government was kinda naiive, it neglects the fact that all institutions are built on contracts where...
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    perceptive uncertainty

    Right. But who or what is doing the qualitative look, and how is that taken into account. For example, I can be the observer. So I observe a single particle through a microscope. The microscope of course is an interacting system that interacts with my eye, that interacts with my brain, which...
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