Re: Future of online fora

On 4/3/2025 9:14 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/3/2025 7:02 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 4/3/2025 1:09 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/3/2025 10:58 AM, cyclintom wrote:

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Frank, you have spent a great deal of your life being subjective. Or should I say, strongly opinionated?

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WTF??
I consider 'strongly opinionated' to be a compliment.

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As opposed to "All truth is subjective. All opinions are valid. Nothing can be known. Ommmmmm....."   ;-)
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 You continually consistently and annoyingly misstate that.

Sorry you're annoyed, but in interactions between two strongly opinionated people, I suppose it's common that one becomes annoyed. And it's more likely to be the one whose strongly held opinion is wrong.

To observe that personal opinions are, in fact, personal is not to say that nothing is true.
 But policy preferences from agreed undisputed facts are areas for discussion and persuasion (or, in extremis, coercion by those who could not prevail in argument).

As I see it, "policy preferences" are generally opinions on the outcomes of proposed policies. And those certainly can be correct or wrong.
There was once a policy preference for invading Iraq. As I recall, the prediction was that the Iraqis would welcome us with flowers. That turned out to be very wrong.
There was and still is some policy preference for lowering taxes (the Laffer Curve) as a way to increase government income and lower deficits. That was very wrong - although many are carefully ignoring proven history and still pushing it. (I suspect they don't really believe it, but want personal benefits for themselves and their wealthy allies.)
And back to opinions as opposed to policies: For a long time there were opinions strongly expressed in this group that bike frames that restricted tire sizes to 23mm were significantly faster. I think few now believe that opinion was true.

To agree that the speed of light is constant or that E=R/I or whatever has no bearing on policy preferences, which are not truths, have no single answer and are inherently personal.

Some things are correct, some things are wrong. E is not equal to R/I.
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- Frank Krygowski