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{{li|I=M3/MX|data-tradition=MX onto ES, MX onto IV, MX onto ML|Q=29,25|Q2=2925| h4 = What is one eighth times one eighth? }} / What is one-eighth times one-eighth? -> one sixty-fourth. now, say that when told an issue is important, people hypothetically have a one in eight chance to be convinced. if that person goes over to another random person and tries to convince them, the one in eight probability rolls again, and there's now a one in sixty-four probability that at the moment you convince one person yourself you are going to successfully convince two people.<br/> | {{li|I=M3/MX|data-tradition=MX onto ES, MX onto IV, MX onto ML|Q=29,25|Q2=2925| h4 = What is one eighth times one eighth? }} / What is one-eighth times one-eighth? -> one sixty-fourth. now, say that when told an issue is important, people hypothetically have a one in eight chance to be convinced. if that person goes over to another random person and tries to convince them, the one in eight probability rolls again, and there's now a one in sixty-four probability that at the moment you convince one person yourself you are going to successfully convince two people.<br/> | ||
Existentialists get this terribly wrong, and Trotskyists get this terribly wrong, by expecting that ten countries which are totally unaffiliated with each other in daily life have dependent probabilities to all go off at once rather than independent probabilities that get lower and lower as each country is added. really, mainstream Marxist-Leninists get dangerously close to the same fallacy when they assume that the terribly divided and pluralized United States population is actually undivided rather than being physically separated. | Existentialists get this terribly wrong, and Trotskyists get this terribly wrong, by expecting that ten countries which are totally unaffiliated with each other in daily life have dependent probabilities to all go off at once rather than independent probabilities that get lower and lower as each country is added. really, mainstream Marxist-Leninists get dangerously close to the same fallacy when they assume that the terribly divided and pluralized United States population is actually undivided rather than being physically separated. | ||
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{{li|I=S2/ES|dimension=F2|Q=54,29|Q2=5429}}Inequalities in the number of people each person knows do not exist -> this seems to be an important ingredient in the "Bob/Bobbie Stills" fallacy. | |||
{{li|I=S2/ES|dimension=F2|Q=54,30|Q2=5430}}You only need to affect 150 people to change a whole country {{YouTube|66wen6C4UNw}} -> this is some prime [[:Category:Existentialist-Structuralist tradition ontology|Existentialist]] {{censor|bullshit|tts=[BS]}}. this is not just wrong, this is actually dangerous. like, if 150 people join together and tell each other about forming East Germany why don't they get the whole Germany? you need to think this through.<br/> | |||
it's.... not even sound under graph theory. average people probably know about 5 people, while the kinds of people who come to be in control of corporations and certain skilled trades might know thousands and thousands of those 5-people people depending and will have disproportionate influence. this is before we even get to the idea of the people with a lot of connections having more money and more ability to take action. | |||
{{li|I=S2/ES|dimension=F2|Q=54,27|Q2=5427}}Inequalities in the amount each individual can donate do not exist | |||
{{li|I=S2/ES|dimension=F2|Q=54,28|Q2=5428}}Inequalities in the amount each individual can pay in taxes do not exist | |||
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Revision as of 02:37, 2 March 2026
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What is 8 billion times 8 billion?
/ What is eight billion times eight billion? / What is eight billion factorial? (question used to imply order of magnitude of possible ways to arrange world population) -> is a really, really big number. this is the number of, or at least the proper order of magnitude of, ways to arrange eight billion people into social graphs and historical periods. if you can look at the number and think there are no more possible historical periods or major changes to the rest of world history after the ones that exist right now — including new "colors" of countries not commonly seen before, changes in the "colors" of specific countries, or nationalities splitting apart or joining — then you simply don't have any imagination.What is one eighth times one eighth?
/ What is one-eighth times one-eighth? -> one sixty-fourth. now, say that when told an issue is important, people hypothetically have a one in eight chance to be convinced. if that person goes over to another random person and tries to convince them, the one in eight probability rolls again, and there's now a one in sixty-four probability that at the moment you convince one person yourself you are going to successfully convince two people.
Existentialists get this terribly wrong, and Trotskyists get this terribly wrong, by expecting that ten countries which are totally unaffiliated with each other in daily life have dependent probabilities to all go off at once rather than independent probabilities that get lower and lower as each country is added. really, mainstream Marxist-Leninists get dangerously close to the same fallacy when they assume that the terribly divided and pluralized United States population is actually undivided rather than being physically separated.
Errors
- Inequalities in the number of people each person knows do not exist -> this seems to be an important ingredient in the "Bob/Bobbie Stills" fallacy.
- You only need to affect 150 people to change a whole country [1] -> this is some prime Existentialist
. this is not just wrong, this is actually dangerous. like, if 150 people join together and tell each other about forming East Germany why don't they get the whole Germany? you need to think this through.
it's.... not even sound under graph theory. average people probably know about 5 people, while the kinds of people who come to be in control of corporations and certain skilled trades might know thousands and thousands of those 5-people people depending and will have disproportionate influence. this is before we even get to the idea of the people with a lot of connections having more money and more ability to take action. - Inequalities in the amount each individual can donate do not exist
- Inequalities in the amount each individual can pay in taxes do not exist
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