beoShaffer comments on Open Thread, October 1-15, 2012

beoShaffer 4 Oct 2012 5:39 UTC
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May I ask why you’re asking. Also, I own a two bows and a large number of arrows.
- Rain 4 Oct 2012 12:06 UTC
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  Because everyone’s equipping themselves to win in the intellectual realm, and I was wondering how many were equipping themselves to win in the physical realm.
  - NancyLebovitz 6 Oct 2012 17:54 UTC
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    I was wondering how many were equipping themselves to win in the physical realm.
    
    The sort of victory LWers are looking for, I hope, is winning as a result of a cooperative effort to gain more knowledge. In a sense, it’s us (“us” includes all relatively honest seekers of knowledge, not just LWers) vs. the universe.
    
    Winning in the physical realm should include some estimate of the odds of needing weapons.
    - Rain 6 Oct 2012 19:02 UTC
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      Eliezer:
      
      Long, long ago, I think at around age nine or something, I was taking a Tae Kwon Do class.
      
      At one point the master said to me, “Attack me.”
      
      I gave him a skeptical look.
      
      He said, “Attack me the way you would attack me in real life.”
      
      I raised my finger and thumb, pointed it at him, and said “Bang.”
      
      He laughed and called up the next student.
      
      However, I bet he’s unarmed. It’s my estimate that this community is pacifistic and avoids the calculation you mention.
    - DanArmak 8 Oct 2012 22:36 UTC
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      Winning in the physical realm should include some estimate of the odds of needing weapons.
      
      That would be far too intellectual.