The question has been cooking in me for quite some time to that I don't see an answer yet. It is a frequent pattern in sequences about quantum mechanics and Science that "there is no rational reason to even raise hypothesis X to attention or even assign it an actual probability". This often is supported by mentioning how large the answer space is. While I can kind of guess where all the alternatives at to the "stupid theory" of Eliezer18, I plainly don't see all the other alternative answers to the question of wavefunction collapse. While I agree that coll...
I have suddenly become mildly interested in investigating an edge case of this argument. I am not coming at this from the perspective of defending the statement of infinite certainty, it is only useful in certain nonsense-arguments. I just found it kinda fun, and maybe an answer would improve my understanding of the rhythm behind this post.
So, let's suppose you have a statement so utterly trivial and containing so little practical sense you wouldn't even think of it as a worthwhile statement, for example "A is A". Now, this is a bad example, because you ca...
Wow, this post describes 100% of my life.
I may add, from experience, that this condition is quite complex to cure. I understand that there are tasks that either can't be cheated through or maybe you just need to be very-very lucky to do them without much effort, because all the tasks with that property have been automated and the world is not heaven yet. Therefore all the things that tell me "you shouldn't experience pain to make an effort towards a task" make me not believe in them, because pain IS effort, and such allegations propose to cheat the way thr...
I have noticed this too! But I think if we unwind the "explain how you got the blue tentacle for your hand" in the sense it is used in this post, it would be "give a reason why waking up with a blue tentacle is not unimaginable". In other words, it's used as "human explain" not "formal explain". I would guess that a lot of people when given this question will concoct some explanation on the edge of their understanding where it becomes nontechnical, some may even say "mutation". Ultimately, it would be an answer that feels "fit" a whole lot more than they f... (read more)