It’s about how if you slide the probability of, say, bond yeilds going up, to be more likely, that makes the probablity of bonds yeilds going down or staying the same less likely. We can’t say, “I think that there is a 40% chance of bond yeilds going up, and a 70% chance of bond yeilds going down or staying the same.”
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The what good is love thing wasn’t meant to be philosophical, it was just an example.
That’s not the right question. In order for facts to be useful, they must connect to something. Music is not a fact, except in the sense that “Music exists, therefore I expect to hear it under this circumstance.”
Math is an expression of what is constantly happening around us. Music is a thing, not a belief. “What good is Music?” Well, what good are trees? What good is love?
You put music into the wrong catagory. Music is a thing, not a belief.
Hi! I was wondering where to start on this website. I started reading the sequence “How to actually change your mind”, but there’s a lot of lingo and stuff I still don’t understand. Is there a sequence here that’s like, Rationality for Beginners, or something? Thanks.
I love this. I just . . . this is awesome. You rock. Thank you.
Hi everyone!
Well, I’m new-ish here, and this site is really big, so I was wondering where I should start, like, which articles or sequences I should read first?
Thanks!
I thought it would be more like hpmor.com, but for the authour.
Little did I know . . .
I don’t think that what I’m about to say actually applies, but you know what I find most annoying in the world?
Well, I’ll give an example: We were in gym class and the teacher was explaining discus and he told us that the boys’ discuses weighed 1 kilogram and the girls’ discuses weighed 750 grams. And then this one girl in my class goes, “Why is the girls’ discus lighter?” And she knows what the teacher is going to say so she goes, “Don’t say it, it’s sexist.”
IT’S NOT SEXIST!!!
In reality, boys ARE stronger than girls! And admitting to that is not being sexist, it’s being truthful! Being sexist would be saying that ALL girls are NOT ALLOWED to throw 1 kilogram discuses because they’ll damage they’re delicate bodies.
NEVER be afraid to say that something’s true JUST because it’s SOMETHING-IST! It’s NOT unless it’s DISCRIMINITORY!!!
Sorry for all the yelling, I’m very passionate about this, and thanks for listening to my rant . . .
MBlume knows this, he’s just telling us what he was thinking.
And, question: What does 0 children mean? It’s on the comments which were down-voted a lot and not shown.
Hi, I’m Rixie, and I read this fan fic called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by lesswrong, so I decided to check out Lesswrong.com. It is totally different from what I thought it would be, but it’s interesting and I like it. And right now I’m reading the post below mine, and wow, my comment sounds all shallow now . . .
But if God made people and our entire existence is up to his design, then a) He know’s something we don’t or b) The world is a cruel, cruel place.
And anyway, if he created humans, he planted our sense of morality too. I think the lesson here is: Don’t go chasing after other gods or you will get killed.
If stochastic means what I think it means (random) then yup! Water + divine intervention = wine. But it had to be weird to attract people’s attention. Or there’s something about the universe that would make sense of all this that we don’t know yet. O_o
This website kinda beats up on Christianity a lot . . . I’m sure that there are plenty of other influental religions to bang on . . .
Christians believe that God doesn’t change reality just by willing it. No one really knows how he supposedly created the universe. The theory is that Jesus doesn’t perform miracles by bending the laws of nature. I’ll explain: Potassium + water = big explosion. But if you added something to the water or to the potassium, you could keep it from exploding. So, on earth, nothing ever happens to water that will turn it into wine. But if God exerted a supernatual force on it, it would, without bending the laws of nature. The idea is that the laws of nature incorporate supernatual meddling, but these are laws that we may never discover because we can’t meddle with things supernatualy. God doesn’t change reality. And anyways, the Guardians thought that God was all-powerful, and that humans weren’t, so I’m not even sure they’re thoughts went down that road.
Why would he say that pork was unclean, and not other meats too? Why not say that if you eat old food, you’ll get sick? These people aren’t stupid. In fact, all of these people lived in the desert. There would not be any of them left if they ate old meat on a regular bases. And why would you assume that they were ignorant and illiterate? Your idea doesn’t make sense. And making sense is the whole point of this website.
Are you saying that people defend the truth not because they think it’s true but because they’re mean, desperate people who want people to believe in them? So, if you defend the truth you’re an enemy, don’t listen to him, he’s mean?
And my eyes water when they’re too close to perfumes. You just dissed everyone in the world who’s sensitive to strong smells. Not nice, buddy.
If God is real, and he actually said the thing about killing people who want to divert you from your faith, then he has every right because he is the one true god etc., and if God doesn’t exist and he didn’t say that, then Christianity IS a bad thing.
Hah, funny.
Sorry, just had to add that.
The whole point of it being Yeishu dying was because he was a perfectly not sinful God’s son, and since he had superpowers people would actually take notice.
The question is, what definition of music could change the meaning of my explanation?
(Not implying that there isn’t one, just wondering, and making you wonder too.)