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All the explanations you are talking about are very nice, and give you a lot of warm comfort, but they all are just rationalizations. There's not much you can p
by gaika 18y ago
All the explanations you are talking about are very nice, and give you a lot of warm comfort, but they all are just rationalizations. There's not much you can predict about the rest of the world using them.
The cold rationality lies in the math you have to study for 2-3 years to learn how to add up these little amplitude arrows. Using that you can actually model and make predictions.
Another great example is Maxwell, he got all the rationalizations "wrong" but the math survived and is called after him.
- xlnt 18y agoYou are presenting an explanation of why I should discount explanations in general. Isn't that a contradiction?
- gaika 18y agoExactly, I'm being irrational here too - I'm addressing your irrational self that would listen to the arguments of a stranger for no good reason :) Here's the kind of arguments I would find rational - http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Causality-AI/lm/R2GX832Q1M6CHV/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_full http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Causality-AI/lm/R2GX832Q1M...
- xlnt 18y agoSince you believe you are irrational and make decisions based on bias, and Bayesian anti-science positions forgive you for this, whereas I do not (for example, science says the source of an idea is irrelevant, so you are wrong to be concerned with whether the source is a stranger), might it be that you only believe these anti-science ideas because of bias? They offer you comfort, and you revealed earlier that you do think about ideas in terms of which are more comfortable.