(3) How disappointed I was! Nostradamus' prophecy didn't come true, either. While the world is around, we -- at least I -- have to live on. While I live, I have to keep on doing something to bring food on the table and to minimize the misery of my own and of others around me.
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This is MIT. This ain't no superstitious religious bullshit. So far, their computer is right on target.
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I sincerely hope so.
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(1) To me, science and religion boils down to the same thing in that people want to believe what they want to believe. They used to believe what religion told them because it was the highest authority they knew back then. Today, science seems to have superseded it.
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(2) But science, together with computers and artificial intelligence that it brings, will turn out to be no better because it's based on what scientists want to believe. They claim to base themselves on facts and evidence, but precisely those "facts and evidence" are based (...)
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(3) (...) on assumptions that they want to believe. If we lay people want to be sure that the scientists and their computers are telling the truth and nothing but the truth without a shred of doubt, then we ourselves have to follow the whole series of their assumptions, (...)
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(4) (...) intricate streams of logic, and all other complex mathematical and scientific systems. But to successfully do all that is not possible, not even for a full-fledged scientist. Why? Because even a respected scientist is versed only in a single, very narrow (...)
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(5) (...) field of science. Not in the whole of science. And to acquire even such a single field of knowledge takes a genius a whole lifetime. Thus, we are all compelled to choose either of the following: (...)
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(6) (...) (1) to choose one of your favorite authorities, like the MIT, and have faith in what it says; or (2) to disbelieve in anyone's claims.
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(7) Maybe I shouldn't have said anything to you this time. I thought you were the kind of guy that didn't hesitate to say things frankly, at least not to your fellow antinatalists. But maybe I've spoiled your joy over this MIT news. If I offended you, I'm terribly sorry.
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No offense taken, my friend. You say there is no difference between religion & science. I don't feel up to the task of trying to teach you what science is opposed to religion. Science is based on evidence. Religion is not. What else can I say? Google it?
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Are you trying to be deliberately condescending by stating the obvious? Of course I know everybody BELIEVES that science is based on facts. But they just BELIEVE so. You of all people should know that people just BELIEVE so. But that doesn't mean that it is necessarily true.
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Have you taken decades of years to PROVE that all of science is based on facts and evidence? All scientists, being human, are biased and unconsciously opt for the kinds of evidence that suit their preconceived ideas. That's precisely what I wanted to say.
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