I don't think they're sound. In my own field, philosophy, we constantly talk about whether physical objects are real, whether time is an illusion, whether a down-to-the-atom replica of a person can lack consciousness. Before you can do science, you have to throw ideas around.
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You seem to be implying that tossing around hypotheses and exploring their contours before leaping right into an empirical test is an illegitimate enterprise for serious scholars. I vehemently disagree.
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No, I don't. You cannot possibly gather this from anything I have said about the project. Please just leave me alone now.
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Helen... Mindreaders. Never forget.
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Maybe what academia really needs is a Telepathic Studies department.
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Yes indeed. The philosophistry program is apparently fully staffed.
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I love how earlier in this thread Will talks about these being "some of the hardest questions in the history of thought". It's hardly string theory is it? Unless those strings happen to have beads attached and are currently in your anus.
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Did you set that up just to make that joke or was it just a happy coincidence
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I've been finding a lot of comedy from this hoax, it's an absolute goldmine.
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The fundamental difference is that you (and I) believe that, as Caplan noted, if you can spoof a paper easily it probably wasn’t rigorous. If you can do it 7 times... .
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So... he proved your point.
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Imagine if an unintended consequence of your hoax turns out to be loads of homophobic straight men discover the joys of prostate orgasms and become more tolerant, two birds with one stone
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Wow. It seems that there's truly no penetrating this muscular body of thought.
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This is just an incredible amount of rationalisation. How can anyone hold an unfalsifiable belief to be more substantive than faith. Ludicrous.
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