<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">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". adrian</div><div><br></div><div>I take this to mean that people working well and hard are on the way to making something possible. If that is it, then does 'it's nearly possible 'make sense to you? (impossible does not have to mean never possible - it can mean not possible now) bill w</div></div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div id="gmail-:1oa" class="gmail-ajR" role="button" tabindex="0" aria-label="Hide expanded content" aria-expanded="true" style="background-color:rgb(232,234,237);border:none;clear:both;line-height:6px;outline:none;width:24px;border-radius:5.5px"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" style="background: url("https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/1x/more_horiz_black_20dp.png") 50% 50% / 20px no-repeat; height: 11px; opacity: 0.7; width: 24px;"></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 2:54 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 11:21 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">If I may stop and pick a nit: <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">such a feat is more possible for most people adrian</span></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's not the sense in which I meant. Viewing it as just statistical odds ignores the effort people put in.</div><div><br></div><div>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".</div></div></div>
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