On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, Steve Holden wrote:
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Nicholas H.Tollervey <nt...@ntoll.org>
wrote:
On 06/12/16 12:31, Andy Robinson wrote:
Yes, but if the job involves "engineering" peoples' principles, it's a
bit worrying.
Depending on your level of cynicism that could apply to all sorts of
professions: from teachers via priests and "marketing types" to
politicians.
What's the principal principle to be observed in this principality?
Now everybody's friends again, I feel I can get away with adding:
There actually is a "principal principle" in the philosophy of probability
(and therefore arguably in physics):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_interpretations#cite_note-SEPIP-1
and here is a video that agrees it stems from a real problem in physics,
but is the wrong solution to that problem (you can tell from the title
what his proposed solution is :-):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfzSE4Hoxbc
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