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>Good. We need more of this kind of thing around here, and less negativity and the "luck is everything, effort is irrelevant, sit on your ass and wait for the g
by neotek 7y ago
>Good. We need more of this kind of thing around here, and less negativity and the "luck is everything, effort is irrelevant, sit on your ass and wait for the government to fix all your problems" bullshit that we've been overrun with lately.
What a thoroughly disingenuous strawman.
- mindcrime 7y agoNo it isn't. You see that attitude around here every single day. It's become just short of prevalent from what I can see. Everybody wants to push this agenda that "all of success is luck" and frankly it's absurd.
- mensetmanusman 7y agoI believe it is because more people who are ‘smart’ have stopped believing in free will.
- mindcrime 7y agoCould be. And admittedly, the issue of whether or not free will is a real thing or not would affect a great many things. My position, at the moment, is that we can't be sure, and we seem to have at least the illusion of free will, so I chose to make the simplifying assumption that we do, indeed, have free will. That said, is is hard to explain exactly how "free will" would work in a universe that seems to be mostly - if not wholly - deterministic.