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We can’t infer much about how fast others run. Only that it’s possible to run 100m in 9.81s. We don’t know if everyone else can do that, or no one.
by Grustaf 5y ago
We can’t infer much about how fast others run. Only that it’s possible to run 100m in 9.81s. We don’t know if everyone else can do that, or no one.
- simonh 5y agoYes we do, we know it's the world record. That's the data point.
- Grustaf 5y agoI would not call it "powerful" that you can infer from "X is the world record" that "nobody is faster than X". It's not even inference, it's simply saying the same thing in different ways. And in any case, it's of course not very relevant for his main argument anyway, since don't don't have any such data-points about aliens. If we knew that "humans are the smallest intelligent beings in the universe" well then yes could "infer" that all aliens are larger. But that is trivial and pointless.
- simiones 5y agoThe world record is not 1 data point, it is a property of all human running in history.