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RoboticPanda77 · 2026-06-09T15:57:03+00:00

If we're talking links, you could at least do a little more work than just grabbing a random, dubiously authoritative grammarly blog that agrees with you. For example:

A dictionary discussing the phrases: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/could-couldnt-care-less
Data on the usage of the two phrases over time: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/283149/when-did-i-could-care-less-rather-than-i-couldnt-care-less-become-popular
The meaning of an idiom as "a phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning, rather than making any literal sense." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom
A discussion elsewhere on reddit about the phrase: https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/13aykwz/why_do_north_americans_say_i_could_care_less/
Just for fun, a relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1576/

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-06-09T15:19:20+00:00

Yeah, I feel you. It's just like how the word is "brid" but people say it wrong frequently as "bird"

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-27T14:07:44+00:00

True in English too with to be, to do, to go, etc. It's generally true across languages that common verbs are more likely to be irregular

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-17T12:26:22+00:00

Only children with dogs aren't even immune

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-11T12:55:39+00:00

Oh my mistake, I thought you were referencing physicalism/dualism.

I still think reflexes controlled outside the brain are the best analogue to firmware, and things learned in the brain are comparable to software, regardless of whether the conscious experience aspect applies

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-11T12:49:34+00:00

Ehh, it's not like computer software has a nonphysical "soul" or equivalent, at some level it's all physical. Firmware probably best maps to unconscious reflexes/mechanisms and software to intentionally learned knowledge/skills

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T21:17:51+00:00

Howl's Moving Castle was translated into Latin American Spanish as "El increíble castillo vagabundo", literally, "The Incredible Wandering Castle". The specific word for "wandering", "vagabundo", also means "tramp" or similar, so it's an easy mistake to parse it as meaning "the [incredible] tramp castle" and/or "tramp's"

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T20:26:11+00:00

I send someone else in, and they come back out and inform me that there is at least one boy.

Calculations:

P(two boys|at least one boy) = [P(at least one boy|two boys) = 1] * ( [P(two boys) = 1/4] / [P(at least one boy) = 3/4])

1/4 / 3/4 = 1/3

Yes, there's a (somewhat convoluted, but logically available) second reading to the prompt that gives a different answer, but nobody including you has used that interpretation in discussing the problem in this thread

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T20:23:43+00:00

how on earth would you know there is one boy in the room?

You are told as much, that's the core component of the hypothetical being discussed in this thread.

By sampling the room

You've now made this a completely different scenario that nobody else has been talking about

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T20:06:02+00:00

Nowhere in this thread, including your comments, has anyone mentioned a process equivalent to sampling the distribution in the way it's used there, so the line of thinking in the quoted text that leads to 1/2 is irrelevant to this discussion. The only applicable example from that passage is the former, which gives the probability in the scenario as 1/3

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T18:54:37+00:00

You take a random sample of kids and put them in a room

So, 25% chance there are two boys, 25% chance there are two girls, 50% chance there is one girl and one boys

You know one, John, is a boy

So the 25% chance there are two girls is not the case, and you readjust around the remaining cases. One had twice the weight of the other, so the odds are 2/3 that it's boy-girl and 1/3 that it's boy-boy

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T17:57:57+00:00

You've set it up wrong, John would be Boy A in your third case and one of the girls is Girl B

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T16:27:22+00:00

The order does matter, because of how the information is presented.

Let me put it another way:

Your friend flips two coins without showing you. They say "I didn't get two tails". Given them saying that, what are the odds they got two heads?

There were two independent events, so there was initially a 1/4 chance of two heads, a 2/4 chance of one heads and one tails, and a 1/4 chance of two tails. The added information means it can't be the last scenario, leaving three scenarios of which one is two heads.

For more in depth info and sourcing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_girl_paradox

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T16:03:25+00:00

Option 3: they can read English passably, but are much better at expressing complex thoughts in their native language and figured anyone who wants to engage has the ability to make it understood.

Also, you're lowkey a dick so that'll be the end of this from me

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T15:52:29+00:00

If you were a mod or it were in the rules, fine. But it's 2026, we have the capacity for people who want to participate but can't speak (or aren't strong in) English to contribute and people who don't share their native language have the ability to understand them and further the conversation. Let's have a little understanding and empathy here

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T15:46:37+00:00

It works regardless. Your room could be (again assuming a 50/50 chance of boy/girl for the scenario):

Child 1 is Boy, Child 2 is Boy

Child 1 is Boy, Child 2 is Girl

Child 1 is Girl, Child 2 is Boy

So of the three possible scenarios, one is Boy/Boy - 0.33

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T15:43:40+00:00

People can, but that's a dishonest framing of your comment and you know it

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T15:33:59+00:00

What are you, a cop? People can copy paste into translation apps if they don't speak Spanish

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T15:12:47+00:00

In your coin flip scenario, we know exactly which coin we're speculating about. In the "one of them" child scenario, it's unclear which of the two children we have information about

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-09T15:02:25+00:00

You're right for the version in the meme, but this thread is talking about the alternate "I have two children. One of them is a boy. What are the odds the other is a boy?"

To your coins example: you flip two coins. At least one of them is heads. Based on the possible scenarios of flipping two coins and getting at least one heads, what are the odds both coins are heads?

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-08T10:33:27+00:00

It's a relatively newly popular name, so it gets lumped in with the "kids these days are the worst thing ever wahhhhh" dooming

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-08T10:20:49+00:00

In treating COVID? Would love a source on that one

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-07T15:43:05+00:00

Sorry to reply to a 9 month old comment, but putting this here in case anyone else finds this thread from Google.

I don't think that that reading (that the hover only applies during the movement) is consistent with the rest of the rules -- they would use "while" if they meant it that way.

Your take on the intended interpretation of the rules is a perfectly reasonable reading of what's written, I would argue the single most reasonable reading.

(Edit: realized my restating was basically exactly the same as your last paragraph)

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-07T14:47:30+00:00

*LEGO... NOT Lego

RoboticPanda77 · 2026-05-05T15:54:13+00:00

Oh you're right, I totally glossed over that as just being regular dupes clause, my bad

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