On Apes and Typewriters
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In my previous post, Possibility Does Not Inform Reality, I claimed that apes would never type the Encyclopedia Britannica, regardless of the time allotted to them. I recently asked an AI to help me sort out the approximate probability of their success, and how long it might take for them to produce the entire tome.
A recent conversation with AI
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Possibility Does Not Inform Reality
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If something is conceivably possible, must it therefore eventually occur?
Many say yes. Even scientists—who should know better—often accede to this fallacy which is inextricably woven into the evolutionists’ worldview. The entire body of thinking surrounding and supporting the theory of evolution relies on the assertion of this fundamentally flawed idea: If something could occur, it must therefore eventually occur. This is a logical error.
Five Times as Cold
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So, today we were talking about how there is no such thing as "twice as slow," or, "twice as cold." This idiom is a favorite pet peeve of mine, because it is so utterly meaningless, yet when someone says it, you somehow know exactly what they mean. They simply mean, "Dang!