hxka

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hxka 5 Jan 2015 21:32 UTC
2 points
on: 2014 Survey Results

It looks to me like everyone was horrendously underconfident on all the easy questions, and horrendously overconfident on all the hard questions.

Have you ranked questions by their easiness before you looked at the results?

hxka 15 Nov 2014 15:27 UTC
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on: Possibility and Could-ness
You could even say that “could” for an action is always defined relative to the agent who takes that action, in which case I can simultaneously make the following two statements:
- NonSuicidalGuy could jump off the cliff.
- It is impossible that NonSuicidalGuy will hit the ground.
Isn’t that a logical mistake, though? Fow that to be correct, it must be that NonSuicidalGuy will hit the ground if and only if he chooses to jump off the cliff.

hxka 23 Jun 2014 21:42 UTC
2 points
in reply to: Nnotm’s comment on: How to Seem (and Be) Deep
Now second one doesn’t work also. What would we do without archive.org?

https://web.archive.org/web/20070704165957/http://www.singinst.org/blog/2007/10/14/the-meaning-that-immortality-gives-to-life/