Comment author: TheStevenator 23 March 2012 10:30:20PM 0 points [-]

I went to the one on Saturday but no one came and no one mentioned it being cancelled. Is this one really going on?

Comment author: epistememe 25 March 2012 01:01:12AM 1 point [-]

Steve, I have been thinking about going down but I posted a question a couple of months back on this board and received no answer so I never went.
It would be nice to know who got this started and whether this is an ongoing thing or not. I would enjoy the conversation.

Hello anyone home??

Comment author: epistememe 07 January 2012 09:36:55PM 0 points [-]

I have never been to a local meeting and would like to attend this one. Are there any further details?

thanks, rick

Comment author: lukeprog 05 November 2011 06:34:35PM 0 points [-]

For the record, this post is not an instance of my attempts to improve my writing style. I wrote this post months ago.

Comment author: epistememe 06 November 2011 03:28:45AM 7 points [-]

Luke, I think you'e being pursued by a Sheila.

Comment author: epistememe 30 November 2009 05:58:22AM 8 points [-]

There are two different types of people in the world,those who want to know,and those who want to believe.--Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche

Comment author: epistememe 30 November 2009 05:53:32AM 7 points [-]

"You can tell the truth but you better have a fast horse." - Rita Mae Brown

Comment author: epistememe 23 October 2009 06:14:48AM 6 points [-]

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -Oscar Wilde

Comment author: epistememe 23 October 2009 06:03:28AM 6 points [-]

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 October 2009 03:17:55AM 11 points [-]

Of course it can be considered a bug, if I do the considering and I don't give two cupcakes for reproductive fitness.

Comment author: epistememe 12 October 2009 03:58:11AM -2 points [-]

If anything, your lack of concern for your prime directive, i.e. reproduction, is a sure sign of defective programming.

Now adjust your thinking and attitude (bug fix) and get out there and score some babes.

Comment author: Yasser_Elassal 09 October 2009 10:24:37PM 4 points [-]

An emotion that doesn't correlate with reality is itself a bug. Sure, it may not be easy to fix (or even possible without brain-hacking), but it's a bug in the human source code nonetheless.

To extend the analogy, it's like a bug in the operating system. If that low-level bug causes a higher-level program to malfunction, you can still blame "buggy code" even if the higher-level program itself is bug-free.

Comment author: epistememe 10 October 2009 03:13:51AM 1 point [-]

A male having a higher opinion of himself (pride) than he realistically deserves may prove evolutionarily advantageous. If this disconnect from reality improves reproductive fitness then it can't be considered a bug.