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I guess my attraction towards determinism comes from my dismissal of free will's existence. Most of my life I've never really believed it to be true and I've never heard a good argument that proves it, or even suggests that it could be likely.
Seems backwards to me. Basic experience seems to indicate that free will exists. It's only the fact that nonliving objects are so predictable that makes determinism reasonable.
Also, "hidden variables" interpretations of quantum mechanics have generally been discarded by most physicists AFAIK. Not an expert but I think there have been some experiments that cast the idea of "local hidden variables" in doubt: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism#Quantum_realm (see the part about "hidden variables").
So why doesn't it choose between rolling -infinity to +infinity with all numbers other than the natural numbers including and between 2-12 having a probability of 0? I don't think you can say that one exists in the set with a probability of 0, for it to exist it then has a probability. Its defined by the number of occurrences of the element divided by the total number of elements in the set. The probability of a 2 is 1/36 because the outcome of 2 only occurs once out of the 36 possible outcomes while 7 occurs six times out of 36 so its probability is 1/6. 1 however, doesn't exist within the set of outcomes and so its not that it has a probability of 0 its probability is null/undefined. If you asked the set whats the probability of 2 it would say "1/36". If you asked it whats the probability of 1 it wouldn't say "0/36", it would say "what the **** is a 1?"
Dice 1 and Dice 2 know what the hell a 1 is, but 1 is lost in the function of the addition property and so the outcome set never has a 1 and so thinking as the outcome set I ask "What the **** is a 1?"
Now I could be wrong on this because the probability and statistics class I took was 3 years ago, but I remember thinking that nothing can ever be 0. For something to be 0 it must exist but not exist, so its either asymptotically 0 or is null/undefined. To say a probability is 0 then you have either calculated the probability wrong or you are not handling the set you think you are and are not thinking within the scope of the set you believe to be talking about. Its like applying the think therefore I am mentality to the set. If the set can suggest 1 is a probability of 0 then it has created a paradox, because now that the 1 exists within the scope of the set it can no longer be 0. It thought of a 1 so there now is a 1, its probability may be so incredibly low it approaches 0 but it can't be a 0. Unfortunately, given the conditions and using the defined addition operation, it is impossible for 1 to exist in the outcome set so it is impossible to consider its probability when discussing the outcomes from the view of the set itself.
You can't make something out of nothing, 1s will never appear randomly out of nowhere in a set that doesn't have them, therefore the universe is deterministic.
So why doesn't it choose between rolling -infinity to +infinity with all numbers other than the natural numbers including and between 2-12 having a probability of 0? I don't think you can say that one exists in the set with a probability of 0, for it to exist it then has a probability. Its defined by the number of occurrences of the element divided by the total number of elements in the set. The probability of a 2 is 1/36 because the outcome of 2 only occurs once out of the 36 possible outcomes while 7 occurs six times out of 36 so its probability is 1/6. 1 however, doesn't exist within the set of outcomes and so its not that it has a probability of 0 its probability is null/undefined. If you asked the set whats the probability of 2 it would say "1/36". If you asked it whats the probability of 1 it wouldn't say "0/36", it would say "what the **** is a 1?"
It just depends on how you define your range of outcomes. Saying something occurs with probability 0 is perfectly coherent. Probability is defined on a probability space (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_space) which includes a sample space, a set of events (subsets of the sample space), and a probability function on the events. For rolling dice if we define the sample space as 2-12 then that works fine, but yes we can also define it as 1-12, -5 to 48, all integers, etc. with everything outside of 2-12 having probability 0. These are all valid probability spaces for rolling a 12 sided die.
At the end of the day the only point I was making is that if you're trying to pick a number between 1-12, how you do your "random choice" matters - rolling a d12 is going to give different probabilities from rolling two d6s, or rolling a d20 and taking the remainder modulo 12 or rolling a single d6 and doubling the result, etc.
At the end of the day the only point I was making is that if you're trying to pick a number between 1-12, how you do your "random choice" matters - rolling a d12 is going to give different probabilities from rolling two d6s, or rolling a d20 and taking the remainder modulo 12 or rolling a single d6 and doubling the result, etc.
highlights include a vanilla town killing themselves to advance the game to lylo followed by scum killing themselves and using a lynch blocking power to win the game instantly after the first misvote.
like, i don't know how town didn't think "oh well scum would want to put the lynch stopper in power and that person isn't getting night killed so the person must be scum"
highlights include a vanilla town killing themselves to advance the game to lylo followed by scum killing themselves and using a lynch blocking power to win the game instantly after the first misvote.
like, i don't know how town didn't think "oh well scum would want to put the lynch stopper in power and that person isn't getting night killed so the person must be scum"
i sent a letter with fancy ****
included with that thing where you burn the wax to make the seal
it's p cool
if this were the middle ages, I would think the letter would be travelling the sea, escaping lamias and djinns, crossing mountains, carried through the desert by a wagon pulled by a melancholic black man
but no, i can even track the thing while I sit my ass on a looney tunes themed pillow
So... I plan on going to Apex, I'm 16, And I'm gonna bring my little brother, He's 13 (will be 14 by the time the tournament starts) aaand I have my little cousin that loves watching competitive smash come, he's 12 and not at a competitive level at all (coming for the fun and to meet some professional smashers), We're gonna be the freshest youngsters there lol
So... I plan on going to Apex, I'm 16, And I'm gonna bring my little brother, He's 13 (will be 14 by the time the tournament starts) aaand I have my little cousin that loves watching competitive smash come, he's 12 and not at a competitive level at all (coming for the fun and to meet some professional smashers), We're gonna be the freshest youngsters there lol
Sounds fun, me and my bro can do some damage, but my cousin probably can't take off a stock (I lose to him on purpose sometimes so he continues to enjoy the game)
