tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post112513535773965254..comments2024-02-20T17:40:21.618-05:00Comments on jeremy freese's weblog: choose your own counterfactual adventurejeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755662766163119607noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1128132379587556292005-09-30T22:06:00.000-04:002005-09-30T22:06:00.000-04:00"I just came across your blog about **keyword** an..."I just came across your blog about **keyword** and wanted to drop you a note telling you how impressed I was with the information you have posted here. I also have a web site & blog about <A HREF="http://www.newdynamicmarketing.com/wp" REL="nofollow">national association of securities dealer automated quotation system otcbb</A> so I know what I'm talking about when I say your site is top-notch! Keep up the great work, you are providing a great resource on the Internet here!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1125207098776473262005-08-28T01:31:00.000-04:002005-08-28T01:31:00.000-04:00As soon as I rule out the sibling-life-saving-poss...As soon as I rule out the sibling-life-saving-possibility, I end up dating the guy in RWS's laundry room as well. Time travel is full of strange turns of events.jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12755662766163119607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1125199956354502852005-08-27T23:32:00.000-04:002005-08-27T23:32:00.000-04:00I believe that in my case, I would make pretty muc...I believe that in my case, I would make pretty much the same decisions. For all of the problems and mistakes I have made, I am happy with my life, for the most part. But yes, the overriding mantra would be, second-opinions for everything - the health care there does suck, I can testify to that. These were the same people who misdiagnosed my son's pneumonia with nearly disasterous results, yet accused me of breaking his collarbone because it showed up crooked in the x-ray (when he hadn't ever so much as bumped his head or even fallen yet). I guess one thing I would change is to maybe try harder to stop my mom from starting to smoke, although we tried very hard as it was when we were kids... She's quti, and is fine now, but it just worries me.<BR/><BR/>Your sister's case was very sad, and I wish you could go back and change what happened. They should have caught that one. <3jnsyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04233806457907286178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1125157498830378152005-08-27T11:44:00.000-04:002005-08-27T11:44:00.000-04:00Let me go at this in another way . . .Let's consid...Let me go at this in another way . . .<BR/><BR/>Let's consider two possible worlds: (1) I have never heard of counterfactualism, and in fact I believe in the basest of form counterfactal-less causality in which a demonstration of dependence is causation; (2) I know as much about counterfactualism as you do.<BR/><BR/>By your reasoning, a counterfactual move from world 1 to world 2 should make me more amenable to conversion to your postconterfactualist vision.<BR/><BR/>Do you agree? If so, have you yet made the leap to postcounterfactualism?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1125157193313323672005-08-27T11:39:00.000-04:002005-08-27T11:39:00.000-04:00What you postulate is exactly the world you are in...What you postulate is exactly the world you are in right now. Careful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1125155852264213192005-08-27T11:17:00.000-04:002005-08-27T11:17:00.000-04:00Seriously, given the current terrain of my proxima...Seriously, given the current terrain of my proximate intellectual circles, you might as well classify me as a Hypercounterfactualist or a Counterfactualfundamentalist. Only after you completely accept the counterfactual way of thinking can you start to see the path beyond.jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12755662766163119607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1125154279565460692005-08-27T10:51:00.000-04:002005-08-27T10:51:00.000-04:00For a revolutionary leader, this sounds rather too...For a revolutionary leader, this sounds rather too counterfactualist. Perhaps it is just a set up, so that you can now deliver the superior postcounterfactualist vcr? <BR/><BR/>Is it perfect foresight, or would that be exantecounterfactualism?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1125153606078475672005-08-27T10:40:00.000-04:002005-08-27T10:40:00.000-04:00Absolut: Yeah, I usually come up with some alterna...Absolut: Yeah, I usually come up with some alternative of the game that lets me continue with the game without letting the family event be the showstopper. The conversation with my family isn't really a fair thing to go back and rewind anyway, becuase it's me intervening in something that didn't involve a decision or lack of decision on my part at the time.<BR/><BR/>Anon 9:34am: You may live in a world like that, but if you do, you are posting from some world other than Earth. Here on Earth, we make all kinds of decisions over the course of our lives, and they vary greatly in terms of their ultimate consequentiality for our lives (although in unknowable ways).jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12755662766163119607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1125153265661749972005-08-27T10:34:00.000-04:002005-08-27T10:34:00.000-04:00what if we live in a universe ruled by the law of ...what if we live in a universe ruled by the law of averages and our individual history, as we experience it, is in fact an average of all the possible choices we had (thought we had)? this still leaves room for "choice" but not that much choice. in other words, even if we had a machine as you suggest, my suspicion is that our new choices would not be that much different from our original ones. so, stop fussing about your past choices, live with them and move on, there really wasn't that much more you could do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1125144776929051972005-08-27T08:12:00.000-04:002005-08-27T08:12:00.000-04:00Wow, that's pretty intense. Would it be cheating ...Wow, that's pretty intense. Would it be cheating to think that perhaps if you went back to a different point in time _before_ that conversation with your mother and sister and changed something on your own path then perhaps that conversation would've changed as well? So this way you get to change something on your own path, see how that plays out, while also assuming this family event turned out differently. Of course, this puts constraints on what part of the timeline you choose (has to be pre-1998), but hopefully perhaps you can let go of this guilty element.<BR/>By the way, I hate it when I work so late that I can't go to sleep afterwards. This used to happen in grad school. I would usually go for a ride when I left the office at 2am exploring the neighborhood. That sort of helped to calm me down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1125143793896912312005-08-27T07:56:00.000-04:002005-08-27T07:56:00.000-04:00There is no color of green that you do not embody....There is no color of green that you do not embody.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com