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Gaming and Religion

This thread (link in the title) was bound to happen. In threads that talk about Inquisition, Religous Intolerance, Fanaticism as GOOD things is quite offensive to atheists. Still the atheists roll with teh punches. There are many gaming concepts that are insulting to atheists. Particularly Theocracies and how some Gamers Love the Warhammer 40k theocracy in their games. My brother loves that stuff. I can play the Poe, but knowing threads that Glorify the Crusade tends to piss me off. Especially since the people who go crazy about crusades never really studied the First Really Big one and learned what went on with it. My brother hates it when I "preach" or basically bring up the real world history about things. So I don't... and thats where much of the game style changed. The closest I will come to Combat is in the simulation games I've played in airsoft. Imagination , discussion and studiousness has done a lot to give me a better sense of scale about the matter. I be

Pissing off Objectivists with Math

I didn't know Math Majors were the natural enemies of Objectivists. Particularly when you ask an objectivist to support their economic point of view with the math in Economics or Game Theory. Its just such a comfort to think that math has immunized me from all that BS. There is this readly disturbed guy I don't want to say anything about because he actually cyber stalked me and my friend. He has a whole Blog post about N1k07A5 8A7t#azar if you google that. Its an objectivist blog. He attacked us with a whole lot of sock puppets and asking us to prove stuff when we didn't make any claims without supporting statical and verifiable science. he had a blog which he kept pushing to everyone to read. He has an entire post all about me. It was surprising that I was able to incite someone to take that drastic action. Then I did realize discrediting him quite effectively was killing his credibility so surely that he had to act. You only know the damage you deal by the amount of resou

Roots of Dependency

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Roots of Dependency Political and Economic Revolution in the 19th Century Philippines by Jonathan Fast and Jim Richardson. I've learned a lot and all of them relevant and useful. In the arguments that followed I realized that as much I want to try to pretend the other side is human, comments like these . "The RH bill is devil-inspired pure and simple. It's made in hell." (reproductive health bill) What is the point of bringing overwhelming force to the Anti-RHB people? The sooner the polarization begins the sooner the fanatics can be out of their shells and be identified for what they are. There are a large amount of normal people in any given group. Normal people who would rather keep their opinions quiet, agonstic, are just there to maintain appearances. I also know there are people their who are all about appearances. When fanaticism erupts from the mouths of these people we need someone there to point out the emperor doesn't have any clothes. I posted the lin

Critical Thinking

found it from friendly atheist

Figting the Monsters

Many of my former teachers and classmates from my Opus Dei background can be found here. In Fact they are one of the most vocal proponents of Ant-Reproductive Health (yes, we are WAY behind compared to the entire south east asia, we're 1960s compared to developed nations). It was scary and thrilling. You can say it was a "religious" experience, playing up to my Arbiter Phenotype. Its just an amazing rush and totally overwhelming I was shaking so much I lost my temper when my wife interrupted me and I had to break something (a CD). Now I've gotten it pretty much under control... and will learn to do so in the activities to follow. I've decided to attack all fronts. I decided not to be timid and go for the Older people who get a see themselves as Authority Figures and who are "Beyond" criticism. In game Theory and as in Tsun Zu: large army vs Small army. They have the massive size not to deal with me, and I will just play the small army: a threat but to sm

Gap Minder!

We learn a little more everyday. Better if we learn facts and useful things. Accounting has given a appreciation of looking at these no. Sad what it has to say about the Philippines. Hopefully more information can be added.

Game Theory may not be Perfect...

...but It works with Facts, Logic and Reason not Ideologies . The reason why Objectivists is outdated and obsolete is because and Ideology has to be able to accommodate things that will screw up its fundamental principle. Mathematics and Logic has found a way to look at the world without the intangibility of Philosophical Ideals and working with really hard facts and truths. Game Theory is for what works, not about a claim that X philosophy will work. Ideologies are ideas conceived in a time and place. They cannot hold true in the test of time and the dynamics of a future no-one can predict. The solution is not a SINGLE ideology but in a "mixed strategy". A of a bit of capitalism, socialism, communism, libertarianism, and a bit of objectivism etc..will be what the a working future will be made off, and not any single DOGMA. Reality is outside the control of "mere-mortals" and the Audacity to think ONE idea can shape the future of how we achieve the greatest amount

Objectivists and Game Theory

I'm fighting the GIANT: Delusion + Misplaced Altruism + Dogmatism Modernized in the Guise of Objectivism. Game Theory and Objectivism The recent release of the movie "A Beautiful Mind" raises some questions regarding the efficacy of the work done by Nobel laureates John F. Nash, John C. Harsanyi, and Reinhard Selten. Their work involved the analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games. Do you know of any written analysis of this work from an objectivist perspective? Answered by William Thomas As such, Nash's contributions to non-cooperative game theory were a major breakthrough in the formal analysis of strategic interaction. Any interaction among individuals is fundamentally "non-cooperative," because each person's interests are distinct and each person decides as an individual. Even cooperation is "non-cooperative" in this sense. Nash's equilibrium concept, which is essentially that if one seeks to maximize one's bene

Misty Morning

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Distractions and Reflections

I finished TTC's Game Theory Lectures by Scott P. Stevens. It was a balanced lecture, although I had to listen to it because I only had time in the 2 hours drive back and forth work and school. I've finished Phili-gaging (Philosophy and Gags; Plato and a Platypus walk into a Bar). I am moving to "On Bull-Shit", a Comedy Philosophy Audio book (I really need something to keep me awake on the drive home). Letting my mind wander, tends to lead it into internal circles, which leads to depression. There is a lot of recomended reading in the Game Theory lectures I will get my hands on. I will start with the most relevant: Coopetition, then Game Theory and Economic Behavior and move on to what ever is more relevant to what I'm doing. This is competing with my other Interests, which I will try to find time to for like: History/Gaming, Poverty, and Overpopulation. I noticed I've chosen many of the things I'm doing because: no one else will take it on and I believe t

Steak Experiment

Angus Serloin costs around Php3000 $60 a Kilo here. I got some Local TBones (Del Monte) for Php500 or $10 a Kilo. 1 inch cuts, 2mins per side per cut. 5 mins rest We bought Angus Serloin at Php1600 at 500gm. We cooked it at 2mins per side and it ended up rare. We had to try again and added more salt. this time about a less than minute each side for medium well and a bit more salt. Gravy was just its fat :P. Tbone was 2.5mins per side. It was medium well to well done. It was noticeably tougher and not as much flavor. Next time 3mins per side (after thawing) for the Angus. For the T-bone 2mins would be enough.

Substance Dualism

You know what this is? This is a STFU to Pilosopos.

Having Some fun with Physics

Posted it here instead of my GMing blog because I just wanted to fool around with the math even if I may be wrong. My original Post Using human proportions to get Arm length (based on 175cm or 5'9"). X2 length to get the diameter of the arc the arm moves to raise 20lbs overhead = 6ft arc (assuming a closed fist). 6ft x 20lbs x 1 sec. So does ST10 = a work of 120 ft*lb per second? is my math right in calculating 162 joules/sec? How does one measure the work of Movement? How does one solving for FP using work using Running or Paced Running formula? Can Work be used as a more definitive measure of FP and actions that consume FP? The Reply It's a game, an abstraction. You're overthinking it. Forget about system, keep working on your interesting setting, where attention to detail makes things more fun ;) Thanks for the compliment :) I've been bothered about a more tangible way to measure FP. Given all the data available you can get online about soldiers and athletic p