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> truly unique individuals do exist - I had the privilege of meeting a few. The law of large numbers suggests this is false. Unless someone has had an experien

• Tade0 4y ago
  > Sorry to be a buzz kill, but my pet peeve is people extrapolating their individual experiences for generalizable things. No worries, because I think you're wrong and can prove it to you: Say we have 50 different traits that people can have - just a binary yes or no. You meet a person who has 10 of them. Such an individual has already a lower than 1/10e10 probability of having this exact set, and anyone with the same traits and one additional on top of it has 27.5% of that probability. But that's a simplification, because surely there are more than 50 features/activities in the world and even if that's the limit, when you sort them by proficiency for a given individual, then suddenly order matters and you need just 6 of them to be "probably unique". Of course there are plenty of people who are interested only in e.g. travelling, food and movies - popular culture calls these people "basic". But on the flipside there exist humans who have a large set of things that can be said about them. My take is that we're not exploring even a noticeable franction of those combinations and each one of them generates unique, emergent properties.
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