Where do you go to increase your knowledge?

Quote from: burt on March 15, 2014, 05:50:45 PM

I am interested in simulated reality. I think it is very unlikely. I do not think even given the presuppositions you hold that it makes it more likely I think it is more likely that simulated reality has been discovered only once rather than twice.

I don't even know what you're saying in half your posts, tbh.

Quote from: burt on March 15, 2014, 05:52:18 PM

You still refuse to say it explicitly, and allow Vauxhall to trawl his misconceived notion that I am misrepresenting you.

You misrepresent everyone you talk to.

You know what I am going to ask for don't you?

Quote from: burt on March 15, 2014, 05:54:44 PM

You know what I am going to ask for don't you?

A reverse lobotomy?

Look at it like a lottery.

Lets say you have a hypothetical jar with an infinite amount of numbers in it. You have a better chance of picking out a whole number from the jar than you do an odd number.

We don't need to dig to deep into this whole numbers vs. odd numbers thing.

Quote from: rottingroom on March 15, 2014, 03:03:42 PM

Look at it like a lottery.

Lets say you have a hypothetical jar with an infinite amount of numbers in it. You have a better chance of picking out a whole number from the jar than you do an odd number.

That's not true. If the jar had a finite number of numbers you would have a point. If the jar has an infinite number of numbers then the chance of any particular number or set of numbers being drawn is zero. (Remember what chance is: the number of events satisfying an outcome divided by the total number of events.)

Quote from: rottingroom on March 15, 2014, 03:03:42 PM

We don't need to dig to deep into this whole numbers vs. odd numbers thing.

We do need to dig deep when we mention infinities. Strange things happen.

This site used to have good debates.

I think all of the good debaters went to that other Flat Earth Society.

Quote from: fappenhosen on March 16, 2014, 05:57:35 AM

This site used to have good debates.

This wasn't ever meant to be a debate at all. People are nitpicking a non-argument.

Also, shut your mouth.

This site used to have good debates.

I think all of the good debaters went to that other Flat Earth Society.

This wasn't ever meant to be a debate at all. People are nitpicking a non-argument.

Also, shut your mouth.

Quote from: mathsman on March 16, 2014, 02:39:06 AM

Quote from: rottingroom on March 15, 2014, 03:03:42 PM

Look at it like a lottery.

Lets say you have a hypothetical jar with an infinite amount of numbers in it. You have a better chance of picking out a whole number from the jar than you do an odd number.

That's not true. If the jar had a finite number of numbers you would have a point. If the jar has an infinite number of numbers then the chance of any particular number or set of numbers being drawn is zero. (Remember what chance is: the number of events satisfying an outcome divided by the total number of events.)

Quote from: rottingroom on March 15, 2014, 03:03:42 PM

We don't need to dig to deep into this whole numbers vs. odd numbers thing.

We do need to dig deep when we mention infinities. Strange things happen.

Except that we are not discussing an infinite amount of possibilities. This is being compared with events on a timeline with the potential for infinity with the current time being the present. Meaning that thus far, a finite number of events have happened. It seems you are having difficulty with this. Next time, I'll remember not to talk about difficult things on TFES.