You still didn't give an example. In the example I gave, a desire not to be checkmated, my understanding of the rules, and my ability to model the con...
I'm having problems understanding whichever of these things are true: (a) That "Are you slow? The. Imperatives. Of. Reason. See argument above." is an...
Let's say I'm playing chess. I "ought" to avoid moving my knight, because that can lead to a checkmate. I "ought" to consider other moves that improve...
Nope. I'm denying that someone must be commanding the laws I use to do so. Certainly not instructions someone gave me in English. Except in those case...
That was a prescription given in a language. Reason is surely descriptive. What else? There's quite a bit of sapience required to relate the visual ex...
Sorry, but you didn't answer my question. That's a nice hypothetical example of your issuing a prescriptive imperative using the English language to a...
How does a mind create laws of reason? What does an omniscient mind do? It would be pointless for example for such a thing to think. A mind not bound ...
Of course, but that's hardly a gotcha. I ate an egg sandwich this morning. That egg I ate is one less egg you "could have" eaten. But I somehow doubt ...
Sounds very passive-aggressive. Facts are what they are; whatever points you imagined I was making before the end is just what you projected. The poin...
When you say "falsely", are you comparing against actual numbers that you have, or just making this stuff up? To get a sense of the scale of numbers w...
Okay, maybe it's worse than that. On what do you base this and your equations on? If Joe and John run across the beach, does Joe get half as much sand...
...your theory seems to assume that the vast majority of viruses in an environment find themselves inside human bodies in 7 days. I question that assu...
But Roger, when I call these scenarios 0%, 2%, 50%, 80%, and 95%, what exactly did you think those percentages were a proportion of? Nope. And I've co...
That sounds impressive, but I'm afraid I'm not that gullible. "Virtually all medical experts, scientists, and health agencies" is quite a weasel worde...
Says the guy who can't compute a probability. This is a contradiction. Might I remind you, you are against healthy people social distancing because yo...
Depends on what you mean by necessary. The healthy people are necessary for herd immunity, but that's just a qualification of a term. They are not nec...
I don't know why this is so confusing to you. By not getting sick. They don't get sick. Not really, because the question makes no sense. Equations in ...
Oh, is that where you're getting this from? Yes, I said that. You're confused. Reread that statement. This is a description of what herd immunity is, ...
Funny, I don't recall coding that. What line of code are you looking at? I suspect you haven't a clue what you're talking about. The program's still t...
...irrelevant. My model employs an infection model that infects more people than you're describing, and still demonstrates a protective effect. The ve...
Not in any way that helps your assertion that it's logically impossible. In the model implemented by the program, everyone in an infected environment ...
This is muddled up and inconsistent. You calculated what you called my theory, which is the same principle by your equations as isolation; you compute...
You still get the same absurdities; P0>1 (i.e., >100%) when Nv>Np, and >1 is outside the range of a probability. Look, let me help. Let's go back to t...
I didn't say it did. But you mentioned this effect. Incidentally, E winds up just being Nv/Nh. But P0 is still Nv/Np. So if you have 5000 viruses in a...
This conflicts with putting healthy people in the same room as vulnerable people. There's a room with 5 healthy people and 5 vulnerable people in it. ...
So, P0=Nv/Np, where P0 is initial probability, Nv is number of viruses, Np number of people. So, E=P0*(Nh/Np), where E is the protective effect, and N...
No, Roger, you know what P2 you are referring to, which is why I asked. You have three P2's on this page (one edited in after I replied): I'm not sure...
Are you talking about this P2?: That's your premise, not part of my model. Sick per your definition is irrelevant. ETA: So you can follow: In referenc...
The code isn't coding for a protective effect. It's coding for the premises. Line 10 has the states discussed earlier. Line 17 implements a person wit...
Well, yeah, C2 does not follow. My program in effect proves that. Sickness might I remind you using your definition, which is a distinction I'm not ma...
Underlined is an appeal to motive fallacy. You are making a distinction between "sick" and "infected"; per that distinction, "sick" means symptomatic,...
Not really. Rationality doesn't mean that Roger doesn't understand. You're committing logical fallacies. A logical flaw is something that does not log...
This is an argument from authority fallacy. You don't know what you're talking about; Dr. Fauci looks like a pretty bright fellow to me, so I highly d...
You seem to be presuming that this is a matter of "playing the right side". It's not; it's about reality. This isn't about you versus the media or wha...
Vulnerable people die when infected, by our model. They get infected when exposed to viruses in the environment. Infected people produce viruses. More...
No, this path would result in the maximum number of casualties. I think you've missed something I said, because I certainly don't agree this is a best...
Why? All of the healthy people become immune, per our model. All vulnerable people die, per our model. Dead people can't get infected because they're ...
You didn't address the claim made... you just addressed this fuzzy thing you called strategic herd immunity. But the quoted claim was about exposing h...
1. Minimize the number of sick people. 2. Maximize immunity through vaccination. Then you're being dishonest. Inaction is doing nothing. Social distan...
I did, to emphasize the worst case scenario, and to stress the fact that this would indeed accomplish herd immunity. I believe you're experiencing a c...
Ironically: You don't get it. If we infect everyone on the planet with covid, we would quickly develop herd immunity. The virus may even die out. Prob...
I don't think so. If I were missing the point, that can be fixed by explaining your point. But I think I understand your point, and just think you're ...
It's a false analogy. My white blood cells will fight infections that I have, if they recognize the infection. But my white blood cells are not going ...
Roger, you're literally saying that if we don't increase the virus growth, then the virus growth will increase out of control. That goes against all l...
C1 does not follow from P1, P2, and P3. P1. Vulnerable trees die when they are burned. P2. Hearty trees that are burned lose their flammability. P3. T...
Okay, so let's focus on the air path then. Your theory is that human breathing works as an air filter; but the contact thing is still true. Respirator...
No, it fails. In your car universe, a car would be in state B if and only if the tacks converted the car into a tack factory. But your story claims th...
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