I thought to myself: Why not write C for a change?
Now you have two problems.
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Anonymous2015-08-09 13:25
I like your videos since they help me crunch some programming concepts easier because you hit the nail explaining every detail. You seem very intelligent.. i always wonder how intelligent people like you still believe in the Bible (i have seen your website).. Usually high intellect is linked to atheism because intelligent people eventually find out on their own that all religions are a fraud. So yeah, i was sure you are an atheist.
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+Ljosi In my experience, high intelligence is also often linked to pride and inflated sense of infallibility. In particular, I find it dubious that most of science of today starts from the axiom that God does not exist. Any explanations that rely on God existing must therefore be false. Everything must have a natural explanation.
I have cringed when listening to some supposedly scientific experts explaining things about biology. Absolutely anything and everything is attributed to evolution without questioning. These animals have unique defense mechanism? Must have evolved that way. Another animal does not have that unique defense mechanism? Must be because of evolution. These birds have a fascinating coat? Evolution made that. Evolution did this, evolution did that, praised be the evolution.
I have planned on making a video about this topic: Every man is always right. Nobody is ever wrong about anything, except in retrospect. Even the craziest bloke you can find has justification for every action they do. And stupid people never know they're stupid. They can abstain from an action saying they don't know what to do, but whenever they do something, they think it's the right thing to do under the circumstances. It is the Dunning-Kruger effect. When people believe something, anything, they always find ways to justify it, no matter what it is, and ways to discredit opposing theories. I'm not immune to that, either. It's a natural law after all. A person can not fathom intelligence greater than their own. They can understand the concept of someone being smarter than they are, but not what that greater intelligence entails. This is easily tested experimentally by intoxicating oneself. The drunk person can know that the sober themselves would not approve of something they decide to do, and they do it anyway because it feels the right thing to do under the circumstances. The Bible also alludes to this phenomenon by saying that [God's] ways and thoughts are so much higher than those of man, that absolutely anything a man does is foolishness in comparison, and a man simply cannot fathom God's thoughts. Much like a dog cannot fathom the reasons to their master's decisions, it can only trust them. A cat might have the most inane theories on where the food comes to their bowl and how exactly the presence of their owner is related to that. (Yes, cats can have theories and they can plan complex things.) For example, a cat might think that when they act in a certain way, it causes a hand to manifest near the bowl, followed by a sudden appearance of food in the bowl. Fully consistent with their experiences, but far from the true nature of the event. If the appendage appears, but food does not, the cat is thoroughly perplexed. Perhaps she didn't meow loudly enough? Maybe the tail did not twitch right? Was it the wrong hand? Maybe the wrong bowl? Maybe she didn't look carefully enough and there was food after all? The cat can never grasp the concept of the owner being broke and unable to purchase cat food, and trying to console the cat looking at the empty bowl. Because of this natural law, I also firmly believe that the [technological] singularity will never happen and can never happen. More intelligence can not emerge from less intelligence, in a similar manner as entropy in a closed system cannot reverse according to the 2nd law of thermodynamics. This is also why genetic algorithms can never produce behaviors whose seeds are not already programmed in, and why evolution can only strip or emphasize existing information, not produce new information (such as wings or eyes).
Possessing a viewpoint that I do that goes against most of the scientific circles really is an eye-opener to how much implicit bias there is in science todays.
Yes, I realize that you didn't say anything about science. However, science and religion are often seen as antithesis to each others. Now, I could argue about the semantics of religion-- it's an abstract word that has different meanings to different people -- but I think I've addressed the point already.
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Anonymous2015-08-09 15:30
I have programmed in superior common lisp in bus while that guy drove it. Speaks pretty good English for Fin.
>>7 The variable GOD is unbound. [Condition of type UNBOUND-VARIABLE]
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Anonymous2015-08-09 21:29
(defun JEWS () (print "JEWS"))
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Anonymous2015-08-09 22:33
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