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Do you have some examples?

Yes, the same type of confusion we are used to hearing from pop physicists like Lawrence Krauss, Neil Tyson, etc.

The author demonstrates a common misunderstanding about medieval philosophy. The medieval Scholastic tradition does not maintain that the body and the soul were "distinct entities", or that matter was "vile". In fact that kind of thinking was the position of gnostic groups that Christian thinkers were resolutely opposed to. Read St Augustine's "Confessions" if you don't believe me.

Scholastic philosophers taught that body and soul were two components of the SAME entity, the human being, and that both were good because they were created by God. One good essence with two components, in other words. And while they claimed that the soul component was immaterial, that absolutely did NOT mean that the soul was not part of the natural world. To claim this is to seriously misunderstand their view of the physical world. To them, matter was only one component of creation.

The strict mind/body dualism was not introduced by medieval Scholastics, but rather by the advent of modernity in Descartes, and developed further by Kant and other enlightenment philosophers. In other words, this is very far from being a medieval problem - on the contrary, it a problem created by modern philosophy.

As for the author's equation between subjective experience and qualities of things, or his equation of processes in the brain with the mind itself, this just ignores the facts. Qualities we observe in nature are obviously distinct from the feelings they produce in us in many cases (beauty, sublimity, injustice, etc. produce distinct feelings like reverence, humility, anger), and if the mind were equivalent to brain processes, then certain powers of the mind that we obviously have would be impossible (such as our ability to reflect on those very same brain processes in ourselves).

If you think of yourself as a "programmer" or "coder" I think it's fair to say you might have incorrectly defined your role already. Your job is to design and implement software solutions that are reliable and compliant, and make business processes more efficient. Writing code should really be a relatively small piece of the puzzle, and arguably if you're spending a lot of time writing code, you're wasting time.

Writing code has always been a means to an end of getting the job done, and I consider being really interested in the practice of coding to be a bit odd. It's as if a carpenter got really into manual saws and got upset about an electric power saw because he "loves manual saws". Whether or not an AI spec is "code" really shouldn't matter if you're a software professional. You are designer/engineer of software systems, not a "coder".

No sympathy from me. Guy was the CTO, probably making millions a year, and now he's whining about how a $1.2B investment failed on his watch and nothing was his fault? Sorry guy but you are the leader, you are responsible.

From what I've seen, most scientists don't even publish their raw data.

Cool, thanks for the info. What do you actually trade? Do you buy ETFs, CFDs, or do you actually buy the futures contracts themselves?

What platform do you use for trading, and which commodities do you trade?

Many cops in the US have a massive superiority complex

One way out is to just admit that "justified true belief" is not a satisfactory definition of knowledge. I know that's not really the point of this article, I'm just saying.

How hard is it to just go to the public university in most states? Where I live, you can get your tuition completely covered if you keep a B average. Young people can get whatever degree they want without having to worry about debt as long as they have decent academic ability.

Yes you've nailed it. The P&V translations respect the way Russians construct thoughts and sentences, even if it differs from the way English speakers typically do so. This is (in my opinion) very important for showing the reader what the writer is really trying to say, and also getting the feeling that you are really immersed in the Russian culture while you're reading the book.