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You think probability isn’t rational but you just don’t understand that binary l… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
The only reason why the scenario you outlined is silly is because the security … ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
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That has nothing to do with the fact that you confuse semantic vagueness for pr… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Imagine someone is caught stealing, and in their defense they explain that the … ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Things with a zero probability can happen by the way. If you have the set of all… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Is it what I would do? What if it’s what I would do sometimes and not other tim… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
You are stating that as if it were true, so why not reword it to make it clear … ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Yet the author of that tried to explain their reasoning anyway. You could sto… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
There are things we don’t know that we don’t know, so we can’t say for sure tha… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
If you are talking about limited information, like not knowing what camera was … ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
There’s a quote I think is relevant to this: Reason is itself a matter of faith… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Taiwan doesn’t change depending on what definition of a country you use. Changi… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
That's still just a matter of semantics. You keep confusing semantics with pro… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Right but there are different types of cameras with different sensors and the s… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
You can settle this by defining terms as well. Do you mean "is a member … ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
The question of the dress was about how the brain perceives shadows and color. … ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Like Taiwan for example. Everybody has strong opinions about that, but if you pu… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
But this is actually a real problem: if you ask different sources how many count… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
We don’t exactly agree, we just agree most of the time. ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
For the example we are using, whether France is in Europe, it is very clear. E… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
What’s the difference between a door and a slab of wood? It depends if the slab … ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Wrong about what? We both agree on whether France is in Europe. Whether we ag… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
And in the real world, objects aren’t neatly divided into distinct categories. ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
It's not a circular problem because people do not learn language by starting wi… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
If I was wrong, would we even be having this debate in the first place? ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
What the definition means depends on what the words in the definition mean, whi… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
No, it's simple enough to clarify terms beforehand. Discussions where people a… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Which definition someone used is probabilistic. Which answer is correct, base… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
All questions are different amounts of vague. ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
It is a binary question. You've confused vague questions with degrees of truth… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Which is what I’m saying, you can’t actually do that, you always have to guess … ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
France isn’t in Europe or not in Europe based on how the terms are defined, bec… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
If you want to have a clear and productive conversation you need to make sure … ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
My point is that binary questions often aren’t really binary. Is France in Euro… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
You said there are degrees of truth on the matter, and there are not. Truth is… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
We don’t all come up with a rigid definition for where France is, we just have a… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
The question we were discussing was whether it was binary. Defining all binar… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
I’m not confusing them. I never said France has a probability of being in North… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
You are confusing probability with semantics, and you clearly still don't under… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Binary logic is just probabilistic logic whether the only probabilities are 100… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
The reason why I’m switching between degrees of truth and probability is because… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
We've all taken both kids of math. 5x5=25 and that's simply true 100%. If th… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Say in one case a is 60% true and b is 50% true. Say in another case a is 60% l… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Yes, and no one denied the distinction. What actually happened is that I said … ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
Functionally, what would be the mathematical difference between a degree of tru… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
In mathematics usually there’s a discrete way of looking at things and a continu… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
No, I'm not resistant to probabilistic thinking and there are many questions th… ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
You’re only resistant to this because it’s not the way you think about things. … ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month
And I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, I’m just saying, you gotta kinda go with … ELI5: The Right and its victories (1 month old) 1 month