Take that (not) Einstein!

    • stephen01king@piefed.zip
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      4 months ago

      If you were looking for consistency, that is by definition you looking for the same result, which is not covered in the definition of insanity.

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        4 months ago

        Not necessarily. If you are learning a skill that requires accuracy (e.g. darts), you will sdo the same thing ovre and over. In the beginning the result will be that you will hardly be able to hit the board at all, and after a ton of practice the result will be that you will hit where you want to hit.

        So by doing the same thing over and over again you will get a different result.

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            4 months ago

            Ok, let’s try this a different way:

            “I’m gonna get a drink.” - “I’m gonna do the same.”

            Is the second person going to immitate every single motion of the first person?

            Or will the second person just also get a drink, maybe not even the same drink?

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              4 months ago

              Every time I go to the park, I’m able to knock balls right out the park with my favorite bat. Am I more likely to get a career in major league baseball or arrested for animal cruelty?
              Your argument is on par with arguing that because you saw an article about people playing base that you think we should arrest everyone in the stadium for animal cruelty.

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                4 months ago

                There’s a saying in German: “Nicht alles was hinkt ist ein Vergleich”.

                Roughly translated: “Not everything which is flawed is an analogy.”

                People do say “I’m going to do the same” when doing something that has the same kind of outcome without being an identical copy of an action.

                People do not use a bat (animal) as a replacement for a bat (sports equipment) because usually people understand the concept of homonyms.

                That’s really not the comeback that you think it is.

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                  4 months ago

                  People also understand degrees of meaning and hyperbole. The fact that you seem to think that my response was a comeback shows exactly why you are struggling with this entire argument.

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                    4 months ago

                    So your point was that your argument was just hyperbole and thus doesn’t make sense?

                    Ok, we can go with that.

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      4 months ago

      Finding? How are you going to find it? Since you’re arguing to never change what you’re doing in practice the very first attempt at practice must be the thing you always repeat right?