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Entropee
7y ago
While you are tripping over semantics ponder on this: Is it 'getting faster' if 'much much faster' is faster than 'much faster'? I don't have much patience for linguistic prescriptivists. If you are '
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Entropee
7y ago
What do you expect to gain from somebody who already agrees with you, Mr Obvious? Having the last word was a really poor effort at conserving energy.
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Entropee
7y ago
Seeming as you clicked the down-vote button and not the 'reply' button, I am going to just assume you don't know... Congratulations. You win the argument, and the internet. Pointing out the problems without offering solutions
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Entropee
7y ago
You come across as somebody who doesn't have an answer to the actual hard question. Yes - it's faster now than 150 years ago. What should the rate of change be at? What should we be aiming for? Give me a bounded interval.
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Entropee
7y ago
So you are talking about Calculus. 'Much faster' implies 2nd derivative. What rate of change is your baseline for ‘objective normality’?
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Entropee
7y ago
Which time-interval is your baseline for ‘objective normality’?