Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 06:45:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Message-ID: <199711110645.XAA02334@usr03.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199711110620.XAA15169@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Nov 10, 97 11:20:10 pm
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> [ moved to -chat, for 'religious' reasons ] > > > BTW: it's not the people who talk to God you have to worry about, it's > > the people who claim God talks to them, and that somehow ennobles their > > position in any discussion. > > And what would you say if I said God talked to me, Terry? Would you > blow me off and claim I was stupid or silly? I claim that people who > area always right no matter what are much more obnoxious to talk to than > people who 'hear from God'. :) I would be skeptical unless you could repeat your performance in a laboratory. The people who say "...and then I'd still be skeptical" are athiests, and have just as closed a mind as those who claim existance based on faith. Noth that I have anything against circular reasonong, I just like to know who I'm talking to. On the other hand, if God only told you soccer scores in Brazil one week after the event, I'd remain skeptical, since your model is not predictive. 8-). If you weren't predictive, I might claim you were schitzophernic until you became predictive... any factually based model is predictive. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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