I guess if the belief is that the orthogonality thesis is totally trivial—anyone with half a brain can recognize that it is true—then it would make sense to downvote. That seems obviously wrong though.
And indeed your point is that it [The Orthogonality Thesis] is not obviously true, not that it is obviously false. So if I were to downvote your post because I thought your argument was silly or obviously wrong, that would be equivalent to stating that it is obviously true. This couldn’t of course be the case, I doubt that anything in the Sequences was written down because the author considered those things to be obviously true.
I guess if the belief is that the orthogonality thesis is totally trivial—anyone with half a brain can recognize that it is true—then it would make sense to downvote. That seems obviously wrong though.
You know you wrote 10+10=21?
Haha, fixed.
And indeed your point is that it [The Orthogonality Thesis] is not obviously true, not that it is obviously false. So if I were to downvote your post because I thought your argument was silly or obviously wrong, that would be equivalent to stating that it is obviously true. This couldn’t of course be the case, I doubt that anything in the Sequences was written down because the author considered those things to be obviously true.
Not all things that are obviously true once stated are immediate to think of.