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by feoren 2y ago
1 + 1 = Two. One plus one equals two. One + 0x01 ≡ 2.0 1+1=10 (in binary) None of these are "vastly different conclusions". None of these are starting from different premises. None of these are using different reasoning. You'
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by feoren 2y ago
It's not a joke, because jokes have underlying meaning. It is somewhere between a "random accident" and the only way it could have possibly been given the constraints of fundamental physics. I suspect that everything that cou
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by feoren 2y ago
In Geostationary orbit? Only for something like 3% of the time. The rest of the time they're off to the side. They'd mostly be catching light that would otherwise never hit Earth.
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by feoren 2y ago
Have you seen an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) for a new mine in pristine wilderness? They take tens of millions of dollars and the better part of a decade. Mining companies would throw money at you if you could turn "ship in
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by feoren 2y ago
Does the information contained in smell and touch contribute to the acquisition of language? Keep in mind you'd be arguing that people born without a sense of smell take longer to develop language, or are otherwise deficient in it in s
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by feoren 2y ago
30,000 hours is about the amount of new video uploaded to YouTube every hour.
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by feoren 2y ago
Then there's even less holding it together and it would just immediately sploosh everywhere, right?
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by feoren 2y ago
A single human is a non-fungible entity, but a corporation is a wibbly-wobbly entity whose boundaries can shift at will. Any progressive tax scheme on a corporation will be immediately met with 100,000 smart accountants figuring out how to
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by feoren 2y ago
The vast majority of philosophical arguments are actually arguments about definitions of words. You can't actually be "wrong" in philosophy -- they never prove ideas wrong and reject them (if they did, we'd just call it
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by feoren 2y ago
How come every time we try to have a conversion, it always ends up all "point counterpoint" and "personal experience with the topic" and "differing personal experience" and "discussion of how those experie
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by feoren 2y ago
All good points, but remember the claim in question was: > But if we pay enough of these people to sit in rooms and work on problems, maybe one of them will figure something out. and the response that you called "very reasonable&quo
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by feoren 2y ago
> That's not considered to be one of the standard logical fallacies as far as I know I don't really care whether it's on The Official List of Logical Fallacies™ or not, and in fact caring too much about this list is itself
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by feoren 2y ago
Humans sure love this story. A dozen Founding Fathers created the United States. A dozen physicists invented quantum mechanics. A dozen innovators caused the Industrial Revolution. It's always wrong. Ask any of those dozen people where
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by feoren 2y ago
If by "theory of knowledge", you mean they need to have read a bunch of philosophical musings on epistemology, then I strongly agree with the downvoters, because that's utter nonsense. If you mean anything else by that, then
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by feoren 2y ago
I think there's a common pattern on Hacker News that goes something like: A: Overly broad generalization of a huge body of work put together over 100 years by tens of thousands of professionals B: Ugh, hate this take from armchair expe
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by feoren 2y ago
I loved Mistborn, and I heard great things about The Stormlight Archives, but to be honest, I found that they have very different pacing. My biggest gripe with most fantasy books is that you can suddenly realize that you've been read
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by feoren 2y ago
Wow, that is an awful article. Straw-manning everyone who wants patent reform as "those who prefer to take technologies they did not innovate rather than pay a reasonable royalty to innovators." Multiple paragraphs devoted to tear
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by feoren 2y ago
I really, really think you are misunderstanding what makes Erdős's proof work in the second example in your Wikipedia link. It really has nothing to do with measure, and relies entirely on showing that there is an infinite set of gra
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by feoren 2y ago
Look, all I can do is respond to the words as actually written. Someone made a claim and I countered it. Now you appear to be simultaneously complaining that I'm responding to exact quoted text (which I "slapped together" by
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by feoren 2y ago
> i.e. the measure of the subset of elements satisfying P is positive Question: do any finite sets ever have positive (nonzero) measure? If not, then your sample space is infinite and you're in #4. Haven't you just restricted o
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by feoren 2y ago
The gambling addicts who get their fix from the stock market are mostly not buying stocks. They're mostly buying puts and calls, which are much closer to bets (you win big or you lose it all), and much closer to zero-sum (either you or
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by feoren 2y ago
We're not talking about different things. We're talking about one very specific claim that you made: > if something exists with non-zero probability in a finite set there has to be at least one example This is a false claim. Se
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by feoren 2y ago
> Yes, I did indeed mean finite. Then you're wrong. I gave you a counterexample to your statement, which you have ignored. If you care about being correct on this, you should ruminate on my comments, because what you are currently s
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by feoren 2y ago
You're simply wrong. What I said was correct. > if there is some finite set and there is a non-zero probability of something existing in it then there must be at least one _possible_ example of how this can occur That is not what G
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by feoren 2y ago
> A classic tragedy of the commons. Except software is infinitely reproducible once written. There's no tragedy of the commons if the commons' resources are infinte. "But code needs to constantly change and update all the
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by feoren 2y ago
> You'd think Belgium would have some impressive world-class artists, since so many can work unbothered by the oppressive forces of market trends. Not surprisingly, mediocrity, irrelevance and low-output are the norm. I don't r
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by feoren 2y ago
> if something exists with non-zero probability in a finite set there has to be at least one example I think you mean an infinite set here. If I have a set containing one single coin, and I flip every coin in my set, both heads and tai
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by feoren 2y ago
There are error bars on absolutely everything that we ever measure.
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by feoren 2y ago
And today it's quantum mechanics and/or dark matter.
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by feoren 2y ago
This is a strange argument to make against "octopuses". Break from our history; use the English standard; we are not speaking Latin ... therefore it should be octopi !? What ? How about this: it's OK to use the traditiona

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