Spookykou
16hr ago
Your description of the Monty Hall problem is new to me,
(is it guaranteed that he would pick and open a door regardless of what you do? If yes: switch;
I've never heard of a version of the problem where it is not guaranteed that the host picks a door and opens after you have selected your door.
People were still confused by it.
From the wiki
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
After the problem appeared in Parade, approximately 10,000 readers, including nearly 1,000 with PhDs, wrote to the magazine, most of them calling Savant wrong.[4] Even when given explanations, simulations, and formal mathematical proofs, many people still did not accept that switching is the best strategy.[5] Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific mathematicians in history, remained unconvinced until he was shown a computer simulation demonstrating Savant's predicted result.
Spookykou
23d ago
Spookykou
26d ago
Don't ask women for sexual favors at work, avoid touching your colleagues without their consent, don't send unsolicited dick pics.
A guy got fired after being overheard joking about his big dongle at a conference.
Spookykou
26d ago
FWIW in Japanese there is a suffix, -ne which basically means, 'isn't it so?', 'right?', this agreement seeking suffix is associated with feminine speech.
Spookykou
30d ago
Interesting link. Does anyone else feel the author writes jokes exactly like ChatGPT?
Spookykou
30d ago
Ever is a long time. Probably the single largest cohort of people here are disaffected liberals who would have been pretty seriously offended by those group chats 15-20 years ago, I certainly would have been.
Spookykou
1mo ago
I have never heard of Bessie Coleman before today educated in the public school system of Texas, and learning who she is, I think she is not worth celebrating or learning about.
Spookykou
1mo ago
I went to a Catholic church weekly for about 15 years and Jehovah's witnesses were never mentioned.
Spookykou
1mo ago
I could be wrong, like I said it was an impression I got over the first 3.5 books. I can't remember specific details but I felt like every Kholin that we spent any time with could read, and maybe it was just vibes but I thought Sadeas probably could as well. All of the ones we know for sure can read, hide it and pretend to be illiterate publicly, so it seemed plausible to me that other characters that we don't know as well could be doing the same. Taravangian can read and write. I am not really sure of any important noble men who are ostensibly Vorin where we get any sort of firm confirmation that they can't read, like an internal monologue moment lamenting their illiteracy or something.
Spookykou
1mo ago
The reading thing bothered me because the society did not adapt around it much. Men are still constantly sending critically important letters to each other all the time, they just also keep a woman with them at all time to draft and read letters. To be fair the time in the book could be seen as a transitional period, it is revealed that several important men can read, and the impression I got was that basically all important men can read, and just engage in performative illiteracy.
Mostly I don't like it because I think it speaks to a 'culture is arbitrary' progressive/feminist mindset that is born out of the insight that, actually pink could have just as easily been a boys color, and extrapolating that out to literally every gendered aspect of society and declaring that nothing is grounded in reality.
Spookykou
1mo ago
I've long thought that all the bad things in Sandersons writing are not simply being overlooked by his fans, but are actually the secrets to his success. He is writing mid-wit slop for funko pop collectors who need their hands held in order to follow the story.
Spookykou
1mo ago
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I didn't think the motte hide comments with lots of downvotes the way reddit does. Does this mean something else?
Spookykou
1mo ago
Turnabout is fair play, the TV channels have been bullying Trump enthusiast for years.
Spookykou
1mo ago
There are two sort of related conversations going on at the same time.
One is that leftist violence is out of control because a leftists killed Charlie Kirk.
The other is that in general the left is blood thirsty, as evidenced by the way leftists responded to the killing of Charlie Kirk.
These two points can stand independent of each other, and several people explicitly said as much when the political motivations of Charlie Kirk's killer were more nebulous. That, even if it was a random crazy or a groyper, the real problem was how so many leftists responded to it.
It is this second conversation, the group response thing, that was the focus here, as such, what matters is how the right as a group responded to Carson's death, not the motivations or political associations of his killer.
Spookykou
2mo ago
Are you honestly not familiar with how clipping is used to take what people say out of context to villainize them?
Spookykou
2mo ago
This really reads as a tongue in cheek gotcha, he can't stop smirking as he makes the argument. I don't think he takes the scripture literally, he immediately explains his personal interpretation of the 'love your neighbor' bit, and I think he is also explaining his interpretation of the myriad 'stone the gays' bits in the bible in the same moment.
I would imagine that his position, which he half states in the clip, is that homosexuality is a sin and as a good and loving Christian he has an obligation to help gay people understand that truth rather then just affirming their identity.
This is just based on the clip. I have seen very little Charlie Kirk content so he might in other places make claims that undermine this reading.
Spookykou
2mo ago
Porn is far and away the best source for figure drawing references of hot women that exists in the world! I swear!!
Spookykou
2mo ago
I lived in Beijing for a year. It could just be that my Chinese friends loved Sichuan, but outside of the foreign quarter I would constantly get taken to different Sichuan restaurants that all had basically the exact same menu. And for Breakfast I must have gone to twenty different places that all served zhou, Baozi and Youtiao.
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Although I have no idea what they are doing at night that would so disrupt their sleep, light is expensive.
Edit - I guess threshing, shouldn't skim so much.
Spookykou
2mo ago
It doesn't need any difference between the labor pools. America has 1000 great workers (toy example), India has 3 times the population, same quality labor pool, so they have 3000 great workers (TOY EXAMPLE), then, assuming America can actually find a need for, say, 2000 great workers, then the only way we could fill those jobs is by importing great workers.
I don't agree with this and think the high-skill immigration argument is 99% fake, but the argument works even if the labor pools are exactly the same.
They even work if the labor pools are very different and the foreign country is way worse. Say the top 10% of American workers is the same as the top 1% of Indian workers, the US is still operating with a fundamentally limited pool of around 20 million top 10% workers, if we need/want more than that, we can import them from the 9 million top 1% of Indian workers.
I should have remembered where I was and refrained from commenting on anything approaching a 'logic puzzle' here. I am the stupid sort who just assumes things when interacting with this kind of puzzle, like that the rules are 'fair' or at least that the trick would not be, this. So I would never even consider the possibility of the puzzle formatted in such a way that the host only opens the second door conditionally on you having selected the correct door, as I would not even see the point in asking such a question.
In my defense, I have never once heard someone raise this objection(before now) when trying to solve the problem or discussing the answer, so it seemed totally out of left field for me. I take it your contention is that this is the primary area of confusion though, based on your comment. I guess it goes to filter bubbles, I associate with people who are stupid enough to be confused by the basic problem where as your circle could only ever be confused by the under-specificity in the description of the scenario.
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