Is this an "all models are wrong, some are useful" moment?
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Replying to @damonkord
No it's just saying that the fact that quantum physics is really weird obviously means that some people like to go "Well if it's weird then there's NO RULES AT ALL and anything can be true like the fact that if you pay me $500 I can cure your cancer via energy healing over Skype"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @damonkord
But that doesn't make it not weird, it doesn't prove weirdness is false The weirdest shit in quantum physics has been extremely rigorously proven, over and over, the electronics we use every day would not work if the math was just bullshit
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Knowing about quantum physics itself doesn't prove anything about most other topics one way or another It is a useful rhetorical device for pointing out that "common sense" intuition isn't much of an argument about anything though
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Replying to @arthur_affect @damonkord
Because I have Orwell on the brain this week and I actually have read a tremendous amount of his stuff, I'm reminded his article about Boys Weeklies talking about how the whole worldview of those stories for kids was that nothing important had changed since time immemorial
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Replying to @arthur_affect @damonkord
"How can you think there's nothing new to learn about society, or morality, or justice when you look out the window and see that *people can fly now*" Hilariously, he did not expect the actual author of those stories to publicly write back and call out the logical fallacy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @damonkord
Obviously, as any high school debater knows, this is a logical fallacy Obviously, at least from my POV, Orwell was also right
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Replying to @arthur_affect @damonkord
The guy went on to say that while airplanes were a neat trick, Orwell talking about "What if we land on the Moon someday" was nonsense, people had been talking about landing on the Moon since ancient Greece, who cares
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Replying to @arthur_affect @damonkord
But then we DID land on the Moon The ancient Greeks talked about it but we actually DID IT And yes, it's a logical fallacy to say that because he was wrong about that he was wrong about morals and racism and shit
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On the other hand, just because it's a fallacy doesn't mean I'm not right (the fallacy fallacy)
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