@GabrielDuquette going to spit out a bunch of objections to try to at least pin them down 0. this is what @meaningness wrote abt on LW
@GabrielDuquette i.e. I can give you a high confidence answer that int x = x^2 + C without assuming a social status.
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@GabrielDuquette English conflates authority-as-expertise with authority-as-rulership. This is a big source of mistakes. -
@GabrielDuquette 4. Confidence in a hypothesis *cannot be modeled as a probability* except in very special situations. -
@GabrielDuquette cf @themattsimpson's post http://carcinisation.com/2014/09/26/the-old-evidence-problem/ … and my comments there
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@St_Rev this is a basic equation of calculus - think of a line graph, this is how you calculate the area under the curve@GabrielDuquette -
@St_Rev@GabrielDuquette I believe it's used here as an example of a "universal truth" that doesn't depend on outside factors -
@sarahdoingthing@GabrielDuquette also an example of something I personally have authority-as-expertise in, contra constantin's status model -
@sarahdoingthing@GabrielDuquette inasmuch as I vigorously reject 'status' it's a sore spot
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