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Re:The effects of a warmer world are visible in animals’ bodies by grapist420 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @10:32PM (#28498120)
even if one accepts this, which I don’t (what is the probability of mathematics being a quantum ultrafinitist glandular endomorphism of classical electromagnetism? What is the probability that the sun rises tomorrow? What’s the probability the standard model is true? It’s nonsense.) you could totally interpret what he said as “original paper claimed 20-80% confidence, economist article assumed 95%” and that would be a reasonable probabilistic reading
Re:The effects of a warmer world are visible in animals’ bodies by mrow84 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:04PM (#28498282)
One way of considering the things you describe in terms of probability is to frame them as bets, and then set the probabilities based on what bets you might make (e.g. what odds would you want in a bet on whether the sun would rise tomorrow). Personally I find that makes some of the more difficult statements a little more palatable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_epistemology

Re:The effects of a warmer world are visible in animals’ bodies by tomjakubowski on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:09AM (#28498970)
> what odds would you want in a bet on whether the sun would rise tomorrow

How would you denominate such a bet? I don't think money would have much value in a world where the sun failed to come up one day.

Re:The effects of a warmer world are visible in animals’ bodies by grapist420 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:19PM (#28498349)
the point being that IMO the way you understand and come up with and reason about something like “classical mechanics” or “timeless decision theory” or “quantum enlightenment time cube satanic world order simulation” or “risc v architecture” is not about probability, and saying science is about probability totally elides the actual complex information and reasons that go into creating and using those in favor of just saying “they have a probability and we can change them”.