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Life is a game, this is your strategy guide

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Re: Life is a game, this is your strategy guide

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Post by run4_too »

jmaschad wrote: post #127
cLeEOGPw wrote: post #105

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> I am a strong believer in free will and it's what makes us so different than animals. Animals have instincts and very little free will. Let me give you a friendly advice. Belief in free will has a purpose on it's own, just like belief in God. But if you choose to believe, stay away from attempts to explain it scientifically. You will only waste everyone's time and energy. Just assume free will as a fact and move on…

As if science wasn't a belief system as well. As long as the source of your ideas is observation (as in all sciences) you have nothing but belief. The advantage of science isn't that it can proof stuff (which it can't) but that it is open for change instead of being dogmatic.

Actually, the advantage of science is that it can predict the future in an accurate fashion.

Ergo: I know x will happen because when all the variables are the same in the past, x has always happened.

The accuracy of the prediction is what changes in science, which is why it is a better system to use for predicting future events than other dogma based systems.

Ergo: Recently discovered factor y can be changed as a variable, and this accounts for x sometimes not happening the same way. We must account for this as a variable too.

Re: Life is a game, this is your strategy guide

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Post by lilsunnybee »

On the way to the gym you got into a car crash. After a difficult recovery you now have chronic pain and memory loss problems. Max Happiness is reduced from 10 to 5. All relationship counters reduced by half due to mood changes and inability to relate. These effects are permanent. Continue with life? -Sure- -Quit-

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

siddboots wrote: post #121
evacuationdrill wrote: post #102

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That may be true. We'd need to find out how many teeth each gender has on average.

Here's a guess: Women, on the average, are older than men. So women, on the average, have fewer teeth.

Fewer teeth in their mouths .. don't go there if you're squeamish.

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Post by sorvalk »

hugogee wrote: post #153
benihana wrote: post #125

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Sigh. Hacker News top comment. It's not "wow this is great!" or "nice work, great illustrations, I'll show this to my students!" It's "I'm so irritated that I already knew what you just told me and I learned it from a better source that I want to assault you!! Why don't you read the same things I read!!?"

Dont know bout you but im lapping up all the wonderful references to books & authors. -cheers There is biking aphorism that comes to mind, if you stare at that stump you WILL hit it.

It's true and not just in biking:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation

Re: Life is a game, this is your strategy guide

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Post by f_salmon »

jl6 wrote: post #154
f_salmon wrote: post #59

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And there's a major logical error in it: > At the start of the game, you had no control over who you were or your environment. By the end of the game that becomes true again. This implies that you have some sort of control between the start and the end - which is completely untrue, because: What genes you get from your parents and in what environment you are put will determine everything that will happen in your head…

If we can never be judged then you cannot judge those who support our current system of inequality of rights and wealth - they are just acting according to their two variables.

Wrong. When I say "you cannot judge", I mean "moral" judgment. Which is not to be confused with "sanctions" (like a criminal must sometimes be separated from society to protect the latter, via a prison sentence).
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