- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).
- Craziness
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.
- Detailed
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020