Friday Night Open Thread: What If a Great Deal of What People Believe Is an Error? Posted by Oppo on 12 September 2025, 6:00 pm
Certainly most people strongly believe that what they believe is quite believable, otherwise they would not believe it. 1 Reply to this comment
I remember when we were beta testing an early Frank J programming project and then we learned that we were just a program on a floppy disc left behind in a Texas Waffle House. Darn AI ruins everything. 1 Reply to this comment
Certainly most people strongly believe that what they believe is quite believable, otherwise they would not believe it.
You don’t really believe that.
Fish don’t live in trees and eat pencils.
Change my mind.
No one can change your mind. It has to want to change itself.
Exactly! They only do one or the other, never both at the same time.
Well, ignorance is bliss, so… you know…
I’m happy to say I don’t know.
Then we screw and tattoo —
Confucious – 478 b.c.
@Oppo
Including that belief?
So maybe it really is Basil
It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.
I’ve heard that there is some kind of pill for that…
Then much is unearned.
So that’s who’s on first!
I remember when we were beta testing an early Frank J programming project and then we learned that we were just a program on a floppy disc left behind in a Texas Waffle House. Darn AI ruins everything.