Re: OT: n guilty men: what is n? [Was: Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe...]
What about Schrödinger's cat ?. Both guilty and not guilty at the same time ?
Padr
On 20 May 2014 19:41, Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/20/2014 12:05 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
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>> On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:03:21 Alois Mahdal wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 20 May 2014 09:45:00 -0400
>>>
>>> Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 5/20/14, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But this is precisely the problem with some of the
>>>>>>>> dogmatic idealists here - by this logic, we should
>>>>>>>> abolish criminal justice entirely, as it's virtually
>>>>>>>> impossible to guarantee that "no one blameless" will
>>>>>>>> ever be "persecuted":
>>>>>>>> http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm
>>>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> If you take the trouble to follow the link I posted above,
>>>> you'll see an entire paper - one of the most brilliantly
>>>> erudite and funniest things I have ever read - devoted to
>>>> that question.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am confused about the meaning of n. He first states that
>>>
>>> n = (P - 10) / 10; # P being population of Sodom,
>>>
>>> so n has no particular known weight or meaning: Is it n = 1 if
>>> we save 1 innocent for 1 guilty? Is it n = 10 if we save 1
>>> innocent for 10 guilty? That would almost make sense except
>>> that it would silently imply P = 110.
>>>
>>> Then, in the rest of the article, he refers to n but, failing
>>> to explain the meaning of it, I don't see any point of reading
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Did I miss something?
>>
>>
>> Yes - that it is OT and doesn't matter.
>>
>> Lisi
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> + 1 !! Some one call in a moderator, PLEASE!!! We've gone from unmarked
> helicopters to weather balloons and "The Lord is coming soon!" Someone just
> say no! :/ Ric
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