Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky

Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by allemagne on Friday January 20, 2017 @10:16AM (#13444351)

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.

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Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by akvadrako on Friday January 20, 2017 @11:45AM (#13445015)

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.

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