Oh, yeah, I’m just pointing out that mathematicians are not well known for their people skills. They are not very accustomed to experimental subjects that behave messily and unpredictably, because numbers act the same every time. Biologists and psychologists and historians, on the other hand, are used to having messy unpredictable subjects.

I think “Faith based technology” is a fine working definition of magic for most practical uses. Many people say if something requires faith to work, it’s magic and not science. But I believe we can use science on faith the same as we can use science on anything else.

Capitalist economics only work if society has faith in the money issuing authority (e.g. the US federal reserve). Money is a faith based technology and therefore magic. So I think economics should be a field of magical theory. Magicians seem more qualified to answer economic questions than mathematicians. When we let mathematicians do economics, they start making up nonsense like perfectly free markets, because they’re not used to human fallibility. Magicians are perfectly aware of human fallibility, and that’s why we should be in charge of the science of economics. We know capitalism is a scam, just like horoscopes or three card monte.

Well, the whole point of magic and what makes it different from regular technology is that it straddles the border between consensus reality and the socially unreal. Otherwise, why wouldn’t it just be called technology?

And while I did not do so under laboratory conditions, I do have a case study of using magic to cure sleep apnea.

I would love to perform a replication study of this treatment, but I believe we first need to develop a stronger field of faith exercise science. I believe the patient’s strength of faith is a significant variable in these kinds of treatments, and thus we need a reliable faith measurement system so that we can control for faith. Otherwise our results will appear random and unreliable.

So here is My plan to verify the reproducibility of magical disease treatments:

1. Use an experimental design to find whether intentional training of faith can strengthen the placebo effect.
2. Develop a reliable measurement scale of faith, perhaps using the placebo effect as a measure.
3. Reproduce My treatment with a sample of central sleep apnea patients, with the patients’ faith strength as a quasi-experimental independent variable, kept double-blind from patients and clinicians until after treatment. Hypothesis: the treatment will work better for patients with stronger faith.
4. Develop reliable exercises for strengthening faith, so that everyone can benefit from magic.

No, magic is observable phenomena caused by things that aren’t real, where "real"ness is a social construct. Thus, magical studies is a field exploring the engineering of social constructs.

I believe economics should be a field of magical studies, which should be a field of psychology. Magical studies should also study the placebo effect, memetics, religious studies, somatopsychic and psychosomatic phenomena, faith exercise science, servitorology, parogenetics, and spellcrafting.

Professor, we’re not sending information back in time, we’re just rearranging the structure of the multiverse!

Feathered dinos are cooler

Thanks, friend!

It was immediately obvious to Me

I know the youngster in one of these kinds of situations, and she is ashamed. She’s also intimidated into compliance and desperate to leave so she can have her own life.

I hate the way the upper crust of society abuse these animals

But you gotta watch out for oxidised aluminium, that stuff will kill a kernel dead

Rust in the kernel is fine actually

I use arch btw