All of epistememe's Comments + Replies

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??

1citronade
I am interested in meeting up at well. But want a little more of an idea of if it actually goes on and what it is like before heading up to Ft. Collins. Anyone interested in meetups in Boulder/Denver?

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

thanks, rick

0taryneast
LOL - no pursuit involved, just honest admiration. Still - can't deny being a sheila. :)
1lukeprog
The Aussie accent is the sexiest.

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

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

1Larks
"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup" Turkish Proverb

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

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

Buddha

5wedrifid
Well, at least Buddha started. If he'd gone a bit further along that particular road he may have added: * Going the wrong way. * Making sacrifices to further a journey along the road to truth that do not give commensurate reward. * Trying to go further or faster than you are able and damaging your existing progress in the process. * Building (and continuing to build) your model of truth on inefficient foundations. * Spending resources (time, money, attention) on truth seeking now when such resources could have been used to generate far more resources for truth production later on. * Learning low value truth before higher relevance truth. * Assuming that it is possible to go all the way on the road to truth. Apart from the potential for ever more precision, every moment that passes allows matter to slip out of the reach of your future light cone. So if you manage to grab all the truth in one direction you're probably never going to get the chance to build an accurate model of the other extreme.

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.

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