I do actually have a favorite flannel, but it's more of a light jacket than a shirt — very useful for dressing in layers.
Quoth Yud:
Algae are tiny microns-wide solar-powered fully self-replicating factories that run on general assemblers, "ribosomes", that can replicate most other products of biology given digital instructions.
Ribosomes ... make proteins.
Personally, I've always found Cromwell's rule a deeply boring proposal for screwing with the axioms. Try doing the Dutch-book argument with surreal numbers, then I'll pay attention. :-P
(I would expect that many subjectivist Bayesians would take Cromwell's rule as an addition to the basic rules that are themselves justified by Dutch book or some such means. Not assigning sharp-edged probabilities out of general prudence is a thing an individual gambler can choose to do, if that's the way their tendencies lie, while not being part of the mathematical definition of the subject itself. But, well, 46,656 varieties and all that. Moreover, it is hard to do physics having chopped off the endpoints of the interval without chopping other structures as well. For example, if you don't even allow 0 and 1 to be available as idealizations, you might end up peeling the skin off quantum state space. Some could cope with this, but not Yud, since he demands that all of reality be a single pure quantum state. Insofar as any sense can be made out of Yud's rambles, he is wanting something stronger than Cromwell's rule, anyway, since he wants to forbid probability 1 even for logical implications, which Lindley allowed.)
It is always somehow worse than one remembers.
It just reminds me of the "diamondilium" in the Futurama movie that proved the Futurama writers didn't know how to sustain a whole movie.
Qu'est-ce que fuck did I just read?
Having met Gene "the Time Cube guy" Ray and found him to be a simmering cauldron of rage just waiting to boil over, that's oddly fitting.
such tears, very rain
I was a teenager in the '90s; I don't need to watch a movie for that. :-P
"Epistemic status:" is such a pompous thing to say that it is automatically a head start on a joke setup. Possible completions include but are not limited to the following:
- I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue
- Jackin' at the speed of light (sung to the tune of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now")
- Yippie ki yay, Mister Falcon
I am having an iced coffee with oat milk — a café oat lait, if you will.