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Comment Re:kindergartners? (Score 1) 74

No, but they said things that were almost as stupid as your post.

Wait...I thought you said the research group you were exposed to positively shaped your thinking. Did you benefit from the research group's didactics or were your professors stupid as well?

I've said the opposite. So much for your reading skills. And yes, unfortunately there are fairly stupid professors in philosophy, but they are nowhere near as stupid as the leading scholars in argumentation theory and critical thinking whom I've met.

Perhaps you should re-take Logic 101 (that is if you took it to begin with).

I am a logician.

Go fuck yourself, little asshole.

For a Philosophy PhD candidate, you sure have some weak logic skills. Care to make an actual argument?

I did my Ph.D. ten years ago and work as a senior researcher at a research facility since then. Sure I can make actual arguments, but as Mark Twain said so eloquently:

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Comment Re:kindergartners? (Score 1) 74

Critical thinking is a pseudo-science and pseudo-didactics invented by anti-scientistic intellectuals and shabby pedagogues who tend to vigorously oppose to any solid training in math and logic.

At least that's my impression after having been exposed to a research group in argumentation, critical thinking and "informal logic" at our university for the past five years or so. (I'm a postdoc in philosophy.) Please don't teach it anywhere. Teach mathematics and classical statistics instead.

Comment Re:Well so much for Democracy (Score 1) 485

Their finance minister got shitcanned because he wasn't an idiot and wouldn't send the Greek people into debt servitude.

Actually, he was the worst international negotiator I have ever seen in my life. He did practically everything wrong that you can do wrong in such a negotiation. He was so bad that many experts outside Greece started to believe that the main goal of the Tsipras government was to ensure a Grexit ...

Comment Re:Very important link left out: the agreement tex (Score 1) 485

Some must be voted into law by 15 July (72 hours after the meeting) and some by 22 July, next week. They are more or less the same measures that triggered the referendum last week but with a notable absence: cuts in the military
 

I still don't understand why a radical left wing government would be so extremely opposed to cuts in the military. Is that part of the agreement with their nazi coalition partners or is there a real danger of a military coup d'etat?

Comment Re:How does it hurt academic research? (Score 1) 101

Most AI research snip blabla

Nonsense, based on the usual "careful selection of evidence". Yes, A.I. has entered business in the past decade, whereas previously A.I. researchers where almost unemployable in their own field. And that's about it.

As in most other fields (except, perhaps, pharmaceutics?), practically all relevant research in the field comes from academia. Go read some actual journals in the field and take note where the authors come form.

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