The cowardly debate

I listen to a lot of podcasts. I am finding sometimes the podcaster will debate someone who is not present by imagining what the person would say or playing short clips of what the person did say. Then the podcaster responds. This is a very cowardly way to debate someone. Risk is removed by not having the other person be present. That is bad pod.

Corridor bug

A bug in a workflow that requires multiple fixes which must be done in sequence when you don't know how many fixes are needed so the whole workflow completes. I imagine it as a corridor of doors. Opening a door is fixing a bug. After opening one door you seen the next door so know the problem is not fixed but you do not know how many doors you need to open to get through problem. This can also be used to describe computer games.

How does religion work on other planets?

There are billions of galaxies out there. If there is intelligent life on other planets did God reveal himself to them? If so did he do it the same way. If there is a planet of intelligent spider like beings was one of them the 'Moses' and God gave him tablets with commandments. Then the spider Moses shared that with the other spider beings on the planet of intelligent spiders. Then they know to go to spider church and pray to God.

Was there a spider Jesus? Maybe it was the same Jesus that was here but he was in a spider body on the spider planet. Maybe that's why Jesus has not come back to earth; he is traveling to the planets with intelligent life bringing the word of God to all the intelligent life in the universe.

Science + Rationality

What I understand rationality to be. Rationality is that you reason in a manner that can be expressed using proof's in first order logic assuming certain facts. A fact is a statement whose truth value you assume to be true. Axiom is another name for statement that are assumed to be true. Generating proofs is not necessarily done but could be if desired.

Science combines rational reasoning with observations that occur in reality. Basically you make observations in reality that you assume as facts. Then rational reasoning is used to derive theorems from the facts. The hypothesis is a statement whose truth value is to be calculated. Science it a method to get starting facts for rational reasoning that prove or disprove the hypothesis.

Non-stick pans

Non stick pans exists because of low fat cooking. Cooking in fat means a frying pan can be used because there are no issues with sticking.

Gamers and Nerds and Stoners

People who play games all the time are not nerds they are much closer to stoners.

Global warming proponents

One thing I find funny about people who talk about global warming is that usually they clearly have no interest in science except for global warming. So I like to ask them what are the five steps of the scientific method. They never know. I always find it hilarious.