[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

One thing I've been missing is takedowns of Rationalist ideology about theoretical computer science. The physics, I can do, along with assorted other topics.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

All Person Of Interest fanfiction must by Internet law be extremely gay to spite Caviezel.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

"And a waifu is only a waifu, but a good cigar is a smoke."

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It had already reached the university where I work by February 1!

And QAnon loons were already telling people to drink bleach in January.

(I remember a "welp, we're in for it now" moment when Trevor Bedford tweeted on the first of March that a genome analysis "strongly suggests that there has been cryptic transmission in Washington State for the past 6 weeks". The e-mail from the university chancellor saying that classes were canceled went out during the middle of a statistical-physics class I was teaching, the evening of March 11.)

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

"Knight to e12."

"Queen takes Vampire Bishop."

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

I do actually have a favorite flannel, but it's more of a light jacket than a shirt — very useful for dressing in layers.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.)

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

such tears, very rain

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

I looked in the telescope and just saw a cow.

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