User:Pokipsy76

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Hello everybody....

About me

• My interests:
  • Mathematics: mathematical logic, foundations of mathematics, dynamical systems
  • Physics: interpretation of quantum mechanics
  • Philosophy: philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of mind (in particular the hard problem of consciousness)
  • Politics and recent history
• My wikipedian philosophy: Inclusionism
  • Inclusionists association

• My sandbox

• My 'Wikimedia Commons' page

  

Skype me, I'm "pokipsy76".

Interesting links and useful tools

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics
• Wikipedia:Village pump
• Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates
• Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters
• Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia
• The battle for Wikipedia's soul
• Edit counter
• Single articles' traffic
• Flickr images uploader
• Europe statistics

Very bad things about wikipedia

• Admins are actually allowed to block user to win a content dispute although it's (obviously) formally forbidden
• Apparently some users like to delete articles to experience the pleasure of being able to hurt someone
• Completely discretionary decisions of two or three admins can result in severe limitation for your freedom to contribute or to express your opinions:
  • Admins can ban you from a topic if they personally think your opinion on a talk page is "stonewalling"
  • Admins can ban you from a topic (even indefinitely) if they personally think your edit is biased, even if it has a clear consensus
• Milestone principles of liberal thought like presumption of innocence do not hold in this wikipedia:
  • you can be indefinitely blocked because 4 arbitrators on 5 think there is a greater than 50% probability that you are a sockpuppet of someone else
  • you can be banned for 1 year because some arbitrators think that other people which are geographically close to you are "likely sockpuppets" created by you. This is how they try to justify:

    "It is impossible, generally speaking, to prove on a technical level that he's continuing to do [abusive sockpuppetry]—it's not all that difficult to game the system such that there is no technical evidence of guilt, and perhaps even technical evidence of innocence—so we're left with comparing the accounts' behavior" (Translation: "since we are not able to prove that you created a sockpuppet we will ban you just because we personally think that you did it")

  • According to the policy any admin can on its own discretion block you indefinitely if he (for any reason) believe you are a sockpuppet of someone.
• Possibly abusive sanctions cannot be appealed or reviewed by the comunity if at any moment there are no more replies to the appeal discussion for a period of 24 hours [1] [2]

Very interesting articles

Recents events and issues

• 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict
• 50 Cent Party
• Christian the lion
• Class-size reduction
• Earthquake prediction
• Incinerator
• Mani pulite
• NIMBY
• Open government
• Philosophy of copyright
• Student–teacher ratio
• Undercover marketing
• University of Florida Taser incident

Mathematics

• List of unsolved problems in mathematics
• Timeline of mathematics
• Unsolved problems in mathematics
• Zero knowledge proof

Dynamical systems

• Fluctuation theorem
• List of chaotic maps
• Poincaré recurrence theorem

Game theory

• Evolutionarily stable strategy
• Princess and monster game
• Two envelopes problem

Geometry and topology

• Alexander horned sphere
• Geodesics as Hamiltonian flows
• Geometric measure theory
• Hadwiger–Nelson problem
• List of fractals by Hausdorff dimension
• Poincaré–Hopf theorem
• Tarski's circle-squaring problem
• Total curvature

Logic and set theory

• Fast-growing hierarchy
• Heyting arithmetic
• List of statements undecidable in ZFC
• Reverse mathematics

Number theory

• Collatz conjecture
• Pólya conjecture
• Faltings' theorem
• Largest known prime number
• Skewes' number

Miscellanea

• 6174 (number)
• Doomsday argument
• Dual number
• List of small groups
• Look-and-say sequence
• Small world experiment
• Volterra's function

Probability

• Benford's law
• Bertrand's ballot theorem
• Boy or Girl paradox
• Probability interpretations

Physics

• Ball lightning
• Bohm interpretation
• Crookes radiometer
• Free will theorem
• Galileo thermometer
• Interpretation of quantum mechanics
• Ladder paradox
• Loschmidt's paradox
• Unsolved problems in physics

Philosophy

• Balls and vase problem
• Chinese room
• Emergentism
• Epistemology
• Explanatory gap
• Hard problem of consciousness
• Poverty of the stimulus
• Inverted spectrum
• Panpsychism
• Philosophical zombie
• Science wars
• Unsolved problems in philosophy

Psychology and communication

• Astroturfing
• Black propaganda
• List of cognitive biases
• Media influence
• Nonviolent communication
• Persuasion
• Social psychology (psychology)
• Stanford prison experiment
• Uncanny valley

Economics

• The Shock Doctrine
• Chartalism
• Sonnenschein–Mantel–Debreu theorem
• Fundamental theorems of welfare economics
• General equilibrium theory
• Price/wage spiral
• Washington Consensus

Rhetoric

• Fear, uncertainty and doubt
• List of fallacies
• Loaded language

Strange funny things

• Artificial life
• List of paradoxes
• Missing dollar riddle
• Rube Goldberg machine
• Saccadic masking
• Self-replicating machine
• Soda Constructor

Photography

• High dynamic range imaging
• High dynamic range rendering

Music

• Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Computer

• Comparison of raster graphics editors
• Comparison of wiki farms
• Paint chat
• Oekaki

Image editing

• Blend modes

Miscellanea

• 1975 Haicheng earthquake
• Legend of the Ambalappuzha Paal Paayasam
• List of common misconceptions
• Millennium