[ExI] today's news
Adrian Tymes
atymes at gmail.com
Mon Nov 1 19:52:51 UTC 2021
On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 11:21 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> If I may stop and pick a nit: such a feat is more possible for most
> people adrian
> Now is 'possible' the same as 'probable'? I think of possible as being of
> two sorts: possible and impossible and nothing in between, so you can't
> get more or less possible the way you can get probable and improbable - a
> dichotomy versus a continuous variable, that is. bill w
>
That's not the sense in which I meant. Viewing it as just statistical odds
ignores the effort people put in.
I meant, "within the level of effort (and quality of effort) that more
people can provide, and thus possible - in a practical sense - for more
people".
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