Well, that’s not really an argument—it’s more of a conditional statement.
But if you were to take it as an argument, then it’s clearly skipping a step, but not a nonobvious one. It seems like you’d make more headway arguing that the argument (with implicit premise included) is unsound.
Clearly it’s at least logically possible that an INT of 15 is good, while 14 or 16 are bad.
I like the D&D reference, but for all practical purposes therein, 14 and 15 are just alike, except with regards to how far an increase or decrease of a given size will get you. So while 15 could be good while 16 is bad, 14 could not be bad while 15 is good (unless 16 was also good, and 15 was better than 14 by virtue of it being easy to get from 15 to 16).
I was just taking the numbers to be arbitrary, and didn’t notice that I was making a D&D reference. ha.
And as long as we’re talking D&D 3x, there’s some virtue in odd-numbered stats. If someone hits you for 1 point of ability damage, you don’t need to recalculate anything.
Get back? No one has yet demonstrated that you were making any progress towards preventing the end of the world. Or even attempting to make progress on that.
Well I think I have much to learn in terms of ad hominem, pointless but in-my-little-world-funny abuse. I’m never going to catch up with Cannibal’s −30…
Well, that’s not really an argument—it’s more of a conditional statement.
But if you were to take it as an argument, then it’s clearly skipping a step, but not a nonobvious one. It seems like you’d make more headway arguing that the argument (with implicit premise included) is unsound.
Clearly it’s at least logically possible that an INT of 15 is good, while 14 or 16 are bad.
I like the D&D reference, but for all practical purposes therein, 14 and 15 are just alike, except with regards to how far an increase or decrease of a given size will get you. So while 15 could be good while 16 is bad, 14 could not be bad while 15 is good (unless 16 was also good, and 15 was better than 14 by virtue of it being easy to get from 15 to 16).
Regarding D&D, what Annoyance said.
I was just taking the numbers to be arbitrary, and didn’t notice that I was making a D&D reference. ha.
And as long as we’re talking D&D 3x, there’s some virtue in odd-numbered stats. If someone hits you for 1 point of ability damage, you don’t need to recalculate anything.
The pearls of less wrong wisdom astound me! When we’ve finished playing D&D, can we get back to preventing the end of the world, kids?
Get back? No one has yet demonstrated that you were making any progress towards preventing the end of the world. Or even attempting to make progress on that.
I think that this comment is in the running for most downvoted on LW!
No, not even close. To be in the running you’d need to be at <-30 or −40.
who the hell got downvoted to −40?!
Well, this self-sacrifice is currently at −30.
Well I think I have much to learn in terms of ad hominem, pointless but in-my-little-world-funny abuse. I’m never going to catch up with Cannibal’s −30…
Depends on edition.