Open source and theology

[Znurre]

Just found this gem while on my lunch break:

http://www.bitburners.com/articles/t.../#comment-9980

[Syd_Vicious]

Good thing it's only that person's opinion.

Look at Occam's Razor, Hoyle's Fallacy, and Russell's Teapot if you want to guess where I stand on that person's statement

[theotherhiveking]

Originally Posted by Syd_Vicious

Russell's Teapot

Ha! Best analogy ever!

[ArcticWolf]

His arguments sound extremely logical, to the point of divine insight.

Thanks for sharing this wonderful piece of evidence. It's a pity this didn't make it to the Bible (you know, Marty crashed the Delorean, so we're pretty much stuck here, unable to spread the good news).

[Arafails]

The Delorean may have been obliterated by a freight train, but Doc Brown did put together another time machine.

[SolomonDean]

Oh dear....I think it best for all I wont add to this thread. Other then this. XD

[w_larsen]

i allways found occams razor to be sligtly funny, because of empirical unverifiability of most things that's assumed to be true.

following isnt to be taken too seriously:

according to occams razor, wich of these are true?
a)light years away, there are huge balls of burning gass as result of universes singularity, wich at some point lost its stability for reasons not yet fully explained, and exploded making some regions more uneven than others. in result we see light traveling from things we call stars.

b) every night fairies light up little latterns. we call them stars.

now while we have fancy data, pictures and whatnot, empirically i cannnot see stars other than dots of light. (apart of sun, but we could as well assume for sake of argument, that we are in some point between stars, where there isnt any stars close). and all the books, explanations and data could be as true as bible, because there is basically no way single person can verify it all.

[Arafails]

Originally Posted by SolomonDean

Oh dear....I think it best for all I wont add to this thread. Other then this. XD

than*

[ArcticWolf]

Originally Posted by Arafails

The Delorean may have been obliterated by a freight train, but Doc Brown did put together another time machine.

Which we don't know where it is. And it's not as cool as the Delorean.

[SolomonDean]

ah well...

Originally Posted by w_larsen

i allways found occams razor to be sligtly funny, because of empirical unverifiability of most things that's assumed to be true.

This so called theory has nothing to do with real science and everything to do with Philosophy. Scientists that use this as an argument should be shot. Experience-based techniques for problem solving. omg that last sentence makes me laugh. Anyway its all Heuristics. Methods are used to speed up the process of finding a good enough solution. This is not science. Its called guessing.


the simplest explanation is more likely(Maybe) the correct one. Its a sudo science legal loop hole to try and explain away things we cant observe in the conventional sense. Pure Bull shit if you ask me.This is like a blanket for a baby for scientists that cant find anwsers. What you should all be really looking into is Schrödinger's cat.

Schrödinger's Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison and a radioactive source, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum de-coherence. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead.

Open source....is a great idea like democracy was lol.