https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=72.70.180.234&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T05:37:18ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1017:_Backward_in_Time&diff=50981Talk:1017: Backward in Time2013-10-21T19:39:42Z<p>72.70.180.234: </p>
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<div>That spreadsheet is going to need updating in the future. [[User:Castriff|Jimmy C]] ([[User talk:Castriff|talk]]) 20:30, 6 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
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If you're running Excel, the formula is =SUM(EXP(20.3444*(B8^3)+3)-EXP(3)) [[User:BlueRoll18|BlueRoll18]] ([[User talk:BlueRoll18|talk]]) 10:43, 14 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I find it more aesthetically pleasing to have the time running forwards; starting with the big bang and ending in the present day. Which reminds me strongly of the introduction to the Big Bang Theory series. [[User:Popup|Popup]] ([[User talk:Popup|talk]]) 09:27, 28 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I am not sure, but it looks like Randall acted up the inverse. It has no reference to the current date, and I am not sure, but I think it should be a cube root. [[Special:Contributions/72.70.180.234|72.70.180.234]] 19:39, 21 October 2013 (UTC)</div>72.70.180.234https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:525:_I_Know_You%27re_Listening&diff=50904Talk:525: I Know You're Listening2013-10-19T18:21:45Z<p>72.70.180.234: </p>
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<div>Whether or not this is what the Citation request needs, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager#Criticism would be helpful. Most people tend to go for the "What if it's the ''wrong'' god that you believe in?" counter to the wager. i.e. the parts of your religious observance that most please Zeus might well anger Odin greatly, or something similar for any two gods (pantheonic ''or'' sole Authority, this factor also being a major issue of choice) that you might care to compare between. This is mostly covered in the "Argument from inconsistent revelations" section of the above, it appears.<br />
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Personally my favoured counter-argument is that any sufficiently omniscient god worth his pillar-of-salt should ''know'' whether you are Wagering, and probably has a special area of Hell (or Tantarus) reserved for those that try to toady up to him by faking a belief (covered by the "Argument from inauthentic belief" section). I choose to believe that an honest non-believer might at least get a look-in at any middle-ground afterlife (regardless of their lack in belief of same), but I also don't have amy great reason to believe that this attitude is going to reward me, either.<br />
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(c.f. also the assumption that 'innocents', and people who have never been exposed to the Word Of God<sup>TM</sup> are entitled to a free pass to some non-Hell level of afterlife, the punishment only applying after having been introduced to the whole Judeo-Christian system of post-death existence. On this basis, missionaries that go out and inform remote tribespeoples and oceanic islanders of the state of affairs are actually potentially making things a lot worse for their target audience than they ''would'' have been... Assuming that they're right in the first place.)<br />
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But note that, for every philosophical argument, there's an equal and opposite philosophical argument. I just plan on being good in the mortal world (where I know I will be rewarded, or at least regarded in a reasonably good light, if perhaps a bit of a doorstep) and if this doesn't help out when I hypothetically find myself at the Pearly Gates then I probably wouldn't have hit on the right form and combination of observances anyway so its not a wager that I could have reasonably 'won'.<br />
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This is, of course, way heavier an edit than I had intended, and I'm not suggesting that this is the best intepretation, just my own, and probably not worth a discussion over. [[Special:Contributions/31.111.87.233|31.111.87.233]] 09:28, 28 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
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(Forgot to say... non-deity eavesdroppers probably wouldn't have the omniscience, so go ahead and randomly profess your belief in them! [[Special:Contributions/31.111.87.233|31.111.87.233]] 09:30, 28 May 2013 (UTC))<br />
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:My best argument against pretending to believe something you doesn't is: do you really want to spend an ethernity with people whose belief you faked? For (extreme) example, if only Jehovah's witnesses go to heaven (and assuming you are not one), do you WANT to go there? Similarly, abstinents probably don't want to end in Valhalla. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 08:41, 5 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::This is a lot of unnecessary talk, even realized to be such by the one who wrote it. The explanation, as written, is fine without this extraneity. [[Special:Contributions/152.119.255.250|152.119.255.250]] 16:24, 30 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::Since you did remove the incomplete tag I did add some more explains for Pascal's Wager. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:23, 30 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
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You get the record for longest expoundition of a title text.[[Special:Contributions/72.70.180.234|72.70.180.234]] 18:21, 19 October 2013 (UTC)</div>72.70.180.234https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:263:_Certainty&diff=39022Talk:263: Certainty2013-05-31T10:44:03Z<p>72.70.180.234: </p>
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<div>This was done 6 years later by [http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/the-five/transcript/outrage-over-distribute-wealth-worksheet Fox News]. [[Special:Contributions/72.70.180.234|72.70.180.234]] 10:44, 31 May 2013 (UTC)</div>72.70.180.234https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:263:_Certainty&diff=39021Talk:263: Certainty2013-05-31T10:43:18Z<p>72.70.180.234: Denied from explanation, hopefully excepted as comment. (Please explain if you remove.)</p>
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<div>This was done 6 years later by [http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/the-five/transcript/outrage-over-distribute-wealth-worksheet Fox News].</div>72.70.180.234https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=263:_Certainty&diff=38952263: Certainty2013-05-30T20:12:36Z<p>72.70.180.234: change 6 to six</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 263<br />
| date = May 18, 2007<br />
| title = Certainty<br />
| image = certainty.png<br />
| titletext = a(b+c)=(ab)+(ac). Politicize that, bitches.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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Two teachers are talking about their students and the political discussions with them. They outline that it is not possible to find the real truth. But then Cueball states that Mathematics is an exception. [[Randall]] likes mathematics because there discussions as in politics are not possible.<br />
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The title text is showing a simple valid mathematical equation and Randall is asking to politicize this one. <del>But it is just impossible to discuss about equations like this, it is just a clear statement.</del> This was done six years later by [http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/the-five/transcript/outrage-over-distribute-wealth-worksheet Fox News].<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[A door seen from a hallway, with "Teachers' Lounge" on the glass. Inside, two teachers are talking.]<br />
:Megan: My students drew me into another political argument.<br />
:Cueball: Eh; it happens.<br />
:Megan: Lately, political debates bother me. They just show how good smart people are at rationalizing.<br />
:[The two teachers continue talking. A third one is seen reading a book on a sofa.]<br />
:Megan: The world is so complicated - the more I learn, the less clear anything gets. There are too many ideas and arguments to pick and choose from. How can I trust myself to know the truth about anything? And if everything I know is so shaky, what on Earth am I doing teaching?<br />
:Cueball: I guess you just do your best. No one can impart perfect universal truths to their students.<br />
:Mrs. Lenhart: ''ahem''<br />
:Cueball: ...Except math teachers.<br />
:Mrs. Lenhart: Thank you.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Miss Lenhart]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Math]]</div>72.70.180.234https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=263:_Certainty&diff=38951263: Certainty2013-05-30T20:11:49Z<p>72.70.180.234: Correct information that has recently changed.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 263<br />
| date = May 18, 2007<br />
| title = Certainty<br />
| image = certainty.png<br />
| titletext = a(b+c)=(ab)+(ac). Politicize that, bitches.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete}}<br />
Two teachers are talking about their students and the political discussions with them. They outline that it is not possible to find the real truth. But then Cueball states that Mathematics is an exception. [[Randall]] likes mathematics because there discussions as in politics are not possible.<br />
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The title text is showing a simple valid mathematical equation and Randall is asking to politicize this one. <del>But it is just impossible to discuss about equations like this, it is just a clear statement.</del> This was done 6 years later by [http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/the-five/transcript/outrage-over-distribute-wealth-worksheet Fox News].<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[A door seen from a hallway, with "Teachers' Lounge" on the glass. Inside, two teachers are talking.]<br />
:Megan: My students drew me into another political argument.<br />
:Cueball: Eh; it happens.<br />
:Megan: Lately, political debates bother me. They just show how good smart people are at rationalizing.<br />
:[The two teachers continue talking. A third one is seen reading a book on a sofa.]<br />
:Megan: The world is so complicated - the more I learn, the less clear anything gets. There are too many ideas and arguments to pick and choose from. How can I trust myself to know the truth about anything? And if everything I know is so shaky, what on Earth am I doing teaching?<br />
:Cueball: I guess you just do your best. No one can impart perfect universal truths to their students.<br />
:Mrs. Lenhart: ''ahem''<br />
:Cueball: ...Except math teachers.<br />
:Mrs. Lenhart: Thank you.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Miss Lenhart]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Math]]</div>72.70.180.234