lvl5hm
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@birchlse If the players goal is to always to get the most money, then the predictor will always make box B empty, and the player will always pick both because they know the contents. If the player wanted to spite the predictor, they would pick one, causing the infinite prediction loop.
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@birchlse This is a case of the halting problem: the predictor predicts your choice, but then you would change your choice because you would see the results of the prediction, so the predictor has to factor that in and change the prediction, but then your choice would change.. ad infinitum
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What I like about the Newcomb Problem is that both sides can make the other look ridiculous.
1-boxers say: Let's play a hundred times and see who is richer. 🤪
2-boxers can say: Suppose your most trusted friend can look in both boxes and advise you. What will they advise? 🤪
DannyCanTalk 🌈@dannycantalk
We're done rehashing the button question. Time to rehash Newcomb's Paradox. Are you a one-boxer or a two-boxer?
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“The simpler solution is to have 100% of people press the same button rather than >50% press the other button. I am very smart”
🌘ʀᴇᴠᴇɴᴀɴᴛ⚡@revenant_MMXX
Best IQ test this site has seen in a while. Most read it as blue being the only way to guarantee everyone's survival, but the simpler solution is for everyone to press red. Although one may press red for selfish reasons, it's also the only true guarantee of survival for anyone.
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@illrisked @morallawwithin Yes, and that’s why I think he would be more likely to reject it as a real feature of the world if he learned modern physics
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@lvl5hm @morallawwithin Aristotle did not talk about act-potency for the purposes of epistemology, no.
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Honestly we could go further. If Aristotle were educated in a modern university, there is *absolutely no way* he would have come up with Aristotelianism. It’s simply not the kind of thing someone as smart as him would say “Yeah this seems like the most natural explanation of things” about after learning modern physics.
John@ErrorTheorist
Here’s a paper arguing that there is no progress in philosophy. The author claims that if Aristotle visited a modern university, he would be amazed by modern physics but feel at home in the philosophy classes, since the debates haven’t fundamentally changed. What do you think?
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@illrisked @morallawwithin Isn’t b-theory adopted by physicists precisely because it’s very convenient to think about time as a dimension? Act-potency is convenient when talking about what we think *might* happen, but it reflects epistemic limitations, not some deep feature of reality
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@lvl5hm @morallawwithin What do you want out of your metaphysics? You don't adopt B-theory for presentism and utility.
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@illrisked @morallawwithin But then I don’t see the point? Might as well say that the merely potential car to my left becomes actual as it crosses to my right.
Idk how the old notion of time deals with being bent by a lead ball and having no universal “now”
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@lvl5hm @morallawwithin You can keep b-theory of time & act/potency. Act simply becomes an arbitrary cutout of one continuous timeline.
I think Aristotle's definition of time on its own is simply better anyway. It's not a force. It's just a measure of changing things with regards to the before & after.
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@illrisked @morallawwithin considering how popular b-theory of time is among physicists, I'd say that understanding relativity makes act-potency seem way more dubious (because time is just a dimension and future is no less actual than past)
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@morallawwithin He absolutely would have kept his act-potency distinction, his definitions of place (not space) and time, and his four causes. He would have had to carefully rethink his four elements & natural vs. violent motion vis-a-vis Newton's Laws, & he would have thrown out his cosmology.
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@Cosmic_Andrew1 Can you please show me the remains of a 3.5 billion year old one sells entity? I'd like to compare them and myself.
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Took 3.5 billion years to go from single cell organisms to us. Your lifespan will see 0.00000002% of the time it took for evolution to get here. In short you asking how a movie goes or ends but can only see a tiny portion of a single frame right in the middle of it.
PortHarcourt Sailor@GodsgreatG
I have a genuine question. Many scientists say humans evolved from apes and other primates. So why don’t we see that kind of evolution happening today? Why does it seem like it stopped?
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@AlbertSecundus @adxtyahq How do I choose which code to execute without function pointers? Hmm I wonder if computer science will ever solve this puzzle
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@adxtyahq I am fine with everything but how am I supposed to program in C without function pointer?
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NASA writes mission-critical flight software in C.
And the rules are absolutely INSANE.
> No recursion. Ever.
> Every loop must have a provable upper bound.
> No dynamic memory allocation after initialization.
> Max ~60 lines per function.
> Minimum 2 assertions per function.
> Every return value must be checked.
> Zero compiler warnings allowed.
> Daily static analysis. Zero warnings there too.
> No function pointers.
> Restricted pointer dereferencing.
This is how they write code at NASA / JPL for mission-critical systems.
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Google's corpo illustrations have been bad for a while, but this is a new low.
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@joelseph @ChadNotChud Does that mean that the eternal life in heaven has no purpose since there's no adversity?
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@ChadNotChud Adversity brings perspective.
A life without it has little purpose.
This is not complicated. You are not owed a life without adversity.
The Bible is very clear about this.
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The Problem of Evil is one of the thorniest problems for the idea of an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent God.
Depicting your enemies as a redditor wojack unfortunately does not help resolve it
Big Boris@BigBoris_2
“If God real, why bad thing happen?”
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@TeddysGrandson @AmoneyResists I'm just saying that Yahweh and David are two peas in a pod, both total pieces of shit, so they have that in common with Donald
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He cheated on his first wife with his second wife, his second wife with his third wife, and his third wife with a porn star.
Leading Report@LeadingReport
BREAKING: President Trump says Christianity is coming back to America.
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I know I've posted about it before, but with the B16 version of #Cogmind adding a bunch of new content, finding my Cogsona is now an achievement.
Obviously I had to beeline for it
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@scramblestax @TheOmniLiberal If you listen carefully, 5 seconds before he says "Iran is all mountains, so it's very easy to shoot down airplanes"
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100% he’s either trolling, or on his way to conservative stardom. Maybe both.
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@DeplorableSEO @UrbanKaoboy @Geiger_Capital yeah, that's only like 2 years of growth wiped for no reason
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@UrbanKaoboy @Geiger_Capital OP might only have a 13" monitor.
Here's what he might have seen if he could afford a larger monitor.
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No, this isn’t a crypto meme coin…
It’s the Japanese stock market.
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@DoodGuyMcPants @PSA_Sitch These are the claimed "tariffs charged to the USA", but in reality this is how that number was calculated. x.com/Geiger_Capital…
There are no tariffs used in the calculation, just imports and exports
Geiger Capital@Geiger_Capital
This guy cracked the tariff formula: @orthonormalist It’s simply the nation’s trade deficit with us divided by the nation’s exports to us. Yes. Really. Vietnam: Exports 136.6, Imports 13.1 Deficit = 123.5 123.5/136.6 = 90%
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@PSA_Sitch If you observe the following chart you will see that it does work out exactly as I'm saying.
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@tshirtlover23 @beatmastermatt @jamesasherlucas wow Zelensky clearly abusing his power by declaring martial law during a war
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@beatmastermatt @jamesasherlucas Who declares martial law in Ukraine?
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@TylerGlaiel My main issue with this plot is that Cecil tries to threaten Mark with the zombies way too quickly, while it didn't seem at all like he was about to be attacked, instead of bringing home the point that everyone would be dead otherwise
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least favorite piece of media criticism is "Why did <teenage character> not act rationally here?"
Greentext Poster@GreenTextRepost
anon submission
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