abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And the organizations from the post must have their evidence for making their claims. Otherwise they wouldn't be considered reputable.

But that doesn't matter, because you still misused the fallacy.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

But you did.

This isn’t an argumentum ad populum fallacy because the argument isn’t based solely on the number of people or organizations making the claim; it's based on the authority and credibility of these entities.

Whether you agree or disagree with those entities and question their credibility is a separate matter, but it's not argumentum ad populum. For the same reason the following isn't:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, and the National Institutes of Health all claim that smoking causes lung cancer and heart disease, so it must be true.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Long-ball Larry, is that you?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right next to a huge pole*.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm just wondering how a car crashed into a pole sideways.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ars~~t~~e~~ch~~nica.

Edit: for those not understanding the joke, arsenic (As) is another toxic metal.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's sort of how if you hold a slinky on one end hanging down, then drop the slinky, bottom will not start falling until the top reaches it. In a sense, bottom will be hanging onto nothing. But of course that nothing is tension from the top of the slinky.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's weird to say that light travels faster than information, because light is information. In other words, top speed for information IS speed of light.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

That's cool. It also uses LLMs, I presume?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

May I remind you, that Prometheus always gave up on Robert, in every episode...

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 22 points 1 year ago

The dev was like:

I've spent months learning to write physics for a gamedev project and they assign me to Solitaire?! I learned physics and they are gonna get physics.

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