Recent content by GofG

We would say "expected value", not "expectation value".

Eh. I was just replying to the top threads. Also, 3 months isn't a CRAZY resurrection.

The thing about the nuclear war example is, while I could see the barriers changing, I don't think they're modelable as a downward curve of any slope; I think they'd be easier to model as a flat average. The OP was clear; he was talking about undiminishing probabilities. The example he used was...

Talking about a fraction of infinity is meaningless; there are different sized infinities, yes (like the infinity between the cardinal numbers 1 and 2, versus the infinity which is the sum of all positive integers, versus the infinity which is the sum of all numbers, etc), but saying a "fraction...

Arguing about definitions is stupid. A tree falls in a forest; does it make a sound? "Yes," says Alice, "because it generates sound waves which travel through the air." "No," says Bob, "because there are no conscious minds nearby to perceive an auditory experience." The argument continues...

I disagree with this line of thought, which is akin to believing that if you cannot see a thing, then a thing does not exist. I believe that people greatly overvalue things they can see, and undervalue things they cannot see. Some poor, starving child in Africa is given less attention than a...

Lol. I made that post a couple months after brawl's release. It's been 6 years since then.

i did so well this tournament guys except i lost my mm with sneak also this was the first time i actually overheard people complaining about my playing iceys makes me feel bad :(

Well yes, of course when you look at something, an image of that something exists. First it exists as a real image on the back of your retina, though reversed like a mirror. Then the optic nerve encodes this image into a digital format, which, although unlike any kind of encoding algorithm used...

I don't think Peter made the conscious decision to lie. As I said many times earlier, there have been studies upon studies upon studies that human memory is terrible. When we access a memory in our brain, and remember it, we remove it from long term memory and drop it into our "active" memory...

We have a good deal of evidence that Jesus existed and had a following, but there were several other "messiahs" going around and preaching at the time. The only reason Jesus got elevated to "son of God" above all of the others who claimed to be the fulfillment of various prophecies in the old...

You took me seriously, so I will take you seriously. Bah. There have been many cognitive psychology experiments which have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that a) humans are the least trustworthy witnesses you could possibly draw upon and their testimony is almost worthless[1][2] and that...

Alright... You seemed to have misinterpreted what I said, or misunderstood the meaning of "evidence". My brain can't quite parse the second sentence in the second paragraph, but it seems to me that you are saying the facts are important because they are the only way to come to a consensus...

Eh, the exact details to me are irrelevant. I mostly wanted to present how I think history happened, not as a particular prediction of what I believe, but just to sort of show the range of how much playing telephone with an idea for 2000 years can distort it such that it doesn't mean the same...

You are all insane. Death is not some natural law, built into the universe. Do you seriously think that by the year 3000, we will still have death? I can think of a dozen ways we might end death, from mind uploading (for backup purposes, or to actually run actively) to significant advances in...