Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky
by allemagne on Friday January 20, 2017 @10:16AM
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I definitely agree. The universe being almost certainly deterministic, there is also a 100% chance of everything that has ever happened happening.
It's still useful to think as if different people could have been born in different circumstances. You could think of it as a mental shorthand for the idea that differences between human beings are arbitrary, and it makes no sense to argue that a human inherently deserves an impoverished life over another human.
Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky
by akvadrako on Friday January 20, 2017 @11:45AM
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I still think you're making a categorical error. "being human" isn't a privileged class that inherently deserves something. That way of thinking becomes really messy fast in terms of drawing concrete rules.
It also seems a bit homo-centric coming from a human.
BTW, I think we do have genuine subjective probability, even though the universe is deterministic.
It's basically the _definition_ of luck: "the events or circumstances that operate for or against an individual"
Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky
by akvadrako on Sunday January 22, 2017 @11:23AM
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And what event or circumstance are you talking about? Nothing happened to you when you were born - because you are an emergent entity that is defined by your life.
This isn't like flipping a coin: it could come up heads or tails.
You must be thinking of some kind of immortal soul.
In other words, "you" had 100% chance of being you. No luck involved.