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> I never changed it, but upgrade to upgrade, it is a completely different machine than it once was (it started off as a 486!) Nit: You can believe that story,
by sureIy 2y ago
> I never changed it, but upgrade to upgrade, it is a completely different machine than it once was (it started off as a 486!)
Nit: You can believe that story, but there's zero chance that at some point you didn't upgrade the case, motherboard, CPU and RAM possibly at the same time. If you replace 90% of what makes a computer, does it make sense to say you "never changed" it? At what point do you consider it "changed"?
This Framework desktop also lets you swap motherboard, CPU and RAM in one go, why does it not fit your definition?
- wolfric 2y agoHence The Ship of Theseus comment
- bheadmaster 2y agoThe difference is that The Ship of Theseus had all its parts replaced one by one, in a long period of time. If you replace 90% of the ship at the same time (RAM, CPU and Motherboard), then the analogy breaks down.
- WXLCKNO 2y agoIt's a perfectly understandable analogy unless you nitpick for no reason.
- sureIy 2y agoIf you kept the sails and rebuilt the boat around them, does it make sense to say it's the same boat? That's why I said "you can believe your story" while I pointed out it's a very unlikely one.
- bheadmaster 2y agoI didn't say it's not understandable, just that it breaks down - i.e. doesn't apply anymore. The point of an analogy is to point out how our intuition tells us it's the same boat, despite having no parts in common with the initial boat. As other comment mentioned, if you keep the sails and rebuild a new boat around it, no person in their right mind would feel that it's the same boat. It's very clearly a new boat, and the analogy breaks down.