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  • bucho@lemmy.onetoFunny@sh.itjust.worksgender spectrum explained
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    10 months ago

    You have a very limited set of data available to you to come to that conclusion. It is possible that I believe that everybody who doesn’t share my beliefs is a terrible person. But it is also possible that you are a special case. You have one data point to go on. It’s telling that you choose to believe the former rather than do the tiniest bit of introspection. Probably why you’re a TERF piece of shit, and everybody in your life should be disappointed in you.


  • Well, if they aren’t disappointed in you, I’m sorry to say that everybody you’ve ever met in your life including your parents, teachers, religious authorities (if you swing that way), etc, are all awful people. It’s pretty sad, really. You never had a chance to be a good person, given the terrible role models around you.







  • I think that, in the moment, online arguments can feel extremely real and heated. But, then you go out and do other things, and it becomes less and less important over time.

    Of course, then you come back and find a notification from one of those morons you’ve been arguing with, and then you’re right back in it. So I guess just practice? Like, just keep reminding yourself that it doesn’t actually matter, even if it feels like it does.

    Also, shrooms help. I remember I got into a heated snit with some idiot online an hour or so before eating a bunch of caps. Then, when I was trying to explain what the argument was about to one of my friends, I couldn’t finish because hearing myself explain it became apparent just how ridiculous the entire thing was. I think psychedelics just give you perspective that you’re lacking in your normal day-to-day life.






  • bucho@lemmy.oneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMonty rule problem
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    11 months ago

    It might be helpful to extrapolate this out into a higher number of doors. Say there are 10 doors instead of 3, with still just the one prize. So instead of a 33% chance of getting the right answer off the bat, you have a 10% chance.

    Now, after making your choice, Monty, being the good guy that he is, opens 8 of the doors that contain no prize, leaving only the door you picked, and one other closed door. Originally, your chance of getting the right door was 10%. However, that’s just because you didn’t know what was behind the other doors. Now, you know what was behind the other doors. Now, the number of doors that could contain the prize has shrunk from 10 to 2.

    The prize is definitely behind one of the 10 doors. It could be behind the one you picked at random at the start. But that only occurs 10% of the time. 90% of the time, it’s behind one of the other doors, and Monty has just shown you which of those doors it is by eliminating the other 8 possibilities. So 10% of the time, if you stick with your original choice, you’re going to get a prize. But 90% of the time, you won’t. So it’s way better to switch when given the opportunity.

    Does that make it any clearer?