h a l f b a k e r yWhy not imagine it in a way that works?
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is the vial inside the box? he's so slippery... |
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<Points silently at gross misspelling of Erwin's surname in idea title/> |
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<Gestures meaningfully with unbestowed croissant/> |
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It’s philosophically interesting to experience the
thought experiment from the point-if-view of the
cat. Who is the necessary observer? |
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[8th] are you insisting on the difficult ö, or will you
accept the oe? |
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Normally we insist on the "ö", but since [Ray] (being from the U.S.A.) is not even a native English speaker we are inclined on this occasion to be satisfied with the elided "oe". |
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It's the only thing standing between the idea and its much-deserved additional bun; "shut politicians in sealed boxes and poison them" ? What's not to like ? |
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The fact that by the nature of the experiment only 'some' of
them are actually poisoned? |
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// only 'some' of them are actually poisoned? // |
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Yes, that would be a problem - except the boxes are completely sealed, so the default option of asphyxia then takes effect. |
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Either way, they're dead. You find out how they died at the post-mortem. But the "death" bit is the important aspect. |
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[Frankx] An Expert-agnostic Gove, but then select the opposite of whatever he says/doesn't say? |
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I believe he expressed a preference for a ditch. |
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One on the Cayman Islands, I'd imagine |
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He could just be hedgeing, then ... |
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The last I checked, English doesn't have any silly
dots over an o. That's something that Germans and
Latin-speaking types and other weirdos do to sound
like another vowel altogether. And we've been trying
to keep those Latinos and other hire edjookated
types at bay. |
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But here, I'll check all the bases... |
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Well, that project's certainly successful in congress ... |
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Prof. Schrödinger was, by birth, Austrian - a country where they speak a version of German. |
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// The last I checked, English doesn't have any silly dots
over an o. // |
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"coöperation". But that's a diaeresis (same as in "naïve"),
whereas the same-looking dots in "Schrödinger" are an
umlaut. |
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Is that a silent semicolon? I've never heard (nor seen) one of those before! |
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That's a halfbakery translation of a phone character.
The only non-silent semi-colon I can think of is in the
link above... |
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Funny. I thought they all spoke Deutch. |
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