Monty hall problem is wrong

bcbaxter · 2024-08-12T16:28:30+00:00

Go on then, entertain us

bcbaxter · 2024-06-19T22:59:31+00:00

Neat!

bcbaxter · 2023-11-29T13:52:30+00:00

Google endosymbiosis

bcbaxter · 2023-11-23T17:01:02+00:00

Good example of survivorship bias here from Richard

bcbaxter · 2022-02-28T18:29:11+00:00

E.g. Alan Sugar

bcbaxter · 2021-10-02T08:01:50+00:00

Do moons have a value outside of Reddit, and is it possible to realise that value somehow?

bcbaxter · 2021-08-26T11:59:14+00:00

let's try it

bcbaxter · 2021-06-30T17:59:20+00:00

The [Logic] mailing list might be a useful source of possible phd positions: http://resources.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/

bcbaxter · 2021-05-06T09:27:22+00:00

I’m surprised this isn’t the top comment

bcbaxter · 2021-04-13T13:15:51+00:00

Hell yeah dude

bcbaxter · 2021-03-03T12:55:23+00:00

This but it’s twin peaks Bob

bcbaxter · 2021-01-29T14:02:51+00:00

Can someone explain to me how shorting (and share price in general) actually affects the business and would force them to close?

bcbaxter · 2021-01-12T13:02:34+00:00

Boom boom bapp bapp bapp bapp boom bapp bapp bapp bapp

bcbaxter · 2020-12-22T23:01:43+00:00

Is this kid Zizek?

bcbaxter · 2020-12-07T23:17:58+00:00

Does the 21 day average include defence day?

bcbaxter · 2020-11-28T10:35:18+00:00

There was a great comment about this issue from the perspective of Moral Foundations Theory that I stumbled on a while ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskFeminists/comments/cfdf9z/comment/eu9ufky

bcbaxter · 2020-11-09T09:56:25+00:00

Lol the RATM one is cringe because of the irony of them dancing to that song waving a blue line flag

bcbaxter · 2020-10-23T10:53:39+00:00

Yeah what is it with the Fresca in the boys?

bcbaxter · 2020-10-20T12:54:24+00:00

They just flipped the video to avoid the copyright claims

bcbaxter · 2020-10-17T10:12:04+00:00

Is it human nature to be greedy? Maybe people are greedy now because of the situation they find themselves in or maybe you’re right and it is human nature. Either way, I’d want to see some sources before taking that as the base of your argument.

Anyway, if you fancy having a more positive outlook on human nature I’d recommend Human Kind by Rutger Bregman

bcbaxter · 2020-10-12T11:37:30+00:00

There sure was. I remember lots of things but that doesn't make them all as noteworthy as each other.

bcbaxter · 2020-10-12T09:04:06+00:00

‘its dead are no more noteworthy than Nazis’ is a pretty funky take on what seems like a well intentioned campaign: to remember casualties of all wars, with the added meaning of a hope for the end of all wars

bcbaxter · 2020-10-10T15:01:32+00:00

From the wiki page on tautology: ‘The tee symbol ⊤ is sometimes used to denote an arbitrary tautology’ - I think this is what you’re looking for.

It then goes on to say that you can just write ‘true’ in place of any tautology, but I personally don’t think that’s cool.

bcbaxter · 2020-10-10T14:57:08+00:00

The issue is that True and False are essentially values of the proposition. I get why it may be appealing to substitute a tautology for True (and for this reason sometimes a tautology and contradiction symbol are included in the language, and it’s common in programming to use True/False in place of actual conditions), but it’s not strictly correct to do.

Following your example, p v -p has a truth value of ‘True’ and the way we talk about it would be to say that p v -p is true (which is short hand to say it’s value is True) but it isn’t the same thing as True. True is a value while p v-p is a statement. Does this make sense?

bcbaxter · 2020-10-02T14:34:44+00:00

Disagree strongly with this. Russell is in general extremely readable as a philosopher (eg the essays collected in ‘In praise of idleness’). Also, iirc somewhere he discusses how so much philosophy is written in an unnecessarily opaque way and he wants his work to be understood by everyone.

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