Comments on: Prediction is very difficult, especially of the past http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/24/prediction-is-very-difficult-especially-of-the-past/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:30:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: AnonymousBot http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/24/prediction-is-very-difficult-especially-of-the-past/#comment-136839 Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:32:07 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1004#comment-136839 @Multiheaded

You Mad?

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]]> By: James A. Donald http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/24/prediction-is-very-difficult-especially-of-the-past/#comment-24358 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:50:37 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1004#comment-24358
What does “the shores of Tripoli” in the Marines’ Hymn refer to: Answer without looking it up in a reactionary or politically incorrect source. If you don’t know the answer, then reactionaries are right, and you are wrong, because if you don’t know […]

(a) it refers to the US war against the Barbary Pirates.

(b) I’m not an American

(c) I have no idea how this is relevant to anything,

If you don’t now how it is relevant, then you do not, in fact, know what “the shores of tripoli” refers to.

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]]> By: Richard Gadsden http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/24/prediction-is-very-difficult-especially-of-the-past/#comment-24305 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:19:51 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1004#comment-24305 (a) it refers to the US war against the Barbary Pirates.

(b) I’m not an American

(c) I have no idea how this is relevant to anything, beyond being the first declared war of the United States of America.

(d) I’m a history buff. I know a heck of a lot of obscure facts about history. I don’t think that knowledge of obscure facts about history proves any moral position.

Do you know who was ultimately responsible for the final destruction of the Barbary Pirates?

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]]> By: Links for October | More Right http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/24/prediction-is-very-difficult-especially-of-the-past/#comment-18425 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:03:29 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1004#comment-18425 […] Alexander tried his hand at amateur social science, comparing predictions given by neoreactionaries to the rest. The predictions where about shifts in the kind of answers the […]

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]]> By: James A. Donald http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/24/prediction-is-very-difficult-especially-of-the-past/#comment-17381 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:35:29 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1004#comment-17381 Anecdotal evidence: I’ve seen an initial or sustained inability to parse from 6 out of the 8 people who I happened to reach this subject with

When these guys call themselves “the reality based community” they mean the official reality based community.

Evidence from mere Mark 1 eyeballs does not count.

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]]> By: Konkvistador http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/24/prediction-is-very-difficult-especially-of-the-past/#comment-17361 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:14:40 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1004#comment-17361 ” If there were the slightest bit of Progressive bias in history classes, Debs would be the sort of person everyone in the country would know about. ”

This is a ridiculous claim, I flat out refuse to believe you believe.

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]]> By: Konkvistador http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/24/prediction-is-very-difficult-especially-of-the-past/#comment-17360 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:12:27 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1004#comment-17360 Anecdotal evidence: I’ve seen an initial or sustained inability to parse from 6 out of the 8 people who I happened to reach this subject with during conversation. 2 actually “corrected” me and proceeded to speak of Christians enslaving Muslims for centuries.

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]]> By: Alexander Stanislaw http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/24/prediction-is-very-difficult-especially-of-the-past/#comment-17243 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:54:24 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1004#comment-17243 You are correct, I apologize for not realizing sooner that I was wasting my time and clogging the comment space.

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]]> By: Multiheaded http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/24/prediction-is-very-difficult-especially-of-the-past/#comment-17238 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:17:08 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1004#comment-17238 P.S.: I’m queer, you shit. Protecting myself from homophobic shits like you is a much lesser priority to me than generally opposing brutal classism, the vile sickening oh-so-“reactionary” misogyny and other things that are more central to your corrupt ideology. Nonetheless, your comments about queer people already suck enough on their own to disqualify you from a debate with any standards. Luckily, I don’t have much in the way of standards.

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]]> By: Multiheaded http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/24/prediction-is-very-difficult-especially-of-the-past/#comment-17237 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:12:25 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1004#comment-17237

I argue, I provide evidence and arguments. You guys provide insults intermixed with reiterations of the holy faith.

Irony concentration has reached critical levels, evacuate immediately!

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