Important Philosophical Questions + POLLS

Not that I want to get dragged back in to this firestorm I apparently started, but you finally wrote a short post :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I find it amusing that you are using an example of people whose argument and belief you disagree with as proof that controversy doesn’t exist :sweat_smile:

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It is not that I do not agree with their “argument”, it is that no actual reader of the Stormlight archive would ever complain about the final fifth book being “too long” when none of the previous four books of the series was smaller that 1000 pages in their hardcover versions.

The second book was provisionally called “The book of endless pages” for God’s sake and here those people were trying to create drama about “the length of the final book”. :stuck_out_tongue:

Imagine someone going “oh, the latest Ferrari? They’ve lost their touch. It is SO fast and stylish! Horrible!” … :rofl:
Who would take that seriously? The only question is whether that is some wacky ragebaiters that either do it on purpose or really know nothing about the brand.

P.S.

At least they didn’t complain that Sanderson writes too many books. :sweat_smile:

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I dont know what with your examples man? Most often new cars are being critisized because they are “ugly” compared to previous ones(not because of looks, but overal lack of previous models style and etc. I dont know why you think those people are ragebaiters, honestly, not a big fan of cars but even myself I often had simillar thinking///

It was meant to be a bad example.
A Ferrari is supposed to be fast and stylish. If someone complains about them being so, then they are ragebaiters or have no clue. Either way they get disqualified into taking them seriously and into account in answering the question “whether people like a Ferrari car or not”.

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I mean you have brought “stylishness” point, which is oviuosly debatable, and speed point, wich is tebatable too(Sometimes there are too much for a type of car, etc). I just dont get your point, you think for debatable things(forget speed, LOOKS), there couldnt be any controversy???

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I’ll try to put this as simply as possible. When there is an established brand with some very characteristic aspects, then when that brand puts out a new product, you cannot really complain that the brand follows the aspects which made it famous. These aspects are what makes the brand and what people want to buy, when buying said brands.

A Ferrari is stereotypically fast and stylish. Therefore when a new Ferrari comes out you EXPECT it to be “fast and stylish” and noone familiar with the brand complains about it being so.

A Stormlight archive book is always 1000+ pages. Therefore when a new Stormlight archive book comes out, you EXPECT it to be 1000+ pages and noone familiar with the brand complains about it being so.

When you read an Agatha Christie book with Hercule Poirot there is always a murder. Therefore if Christie was alive and she published a new Poirot book, you EXPECT it to be about a murder, therefore noone familiar with the brand complains about it being so.

and so forth…

You know what those brands/people are about. This is what made them famous, this is why their products sell, so, when those brands remain consistently good with their product the people that do complain about maintaining consistency are either:

a) Ragebaiters that do it for the clicks and engagement
or
b) Totally oblivious/ignorant about what the brand is all about.

In either case, those people should be ignored because “category a” is purposefully creating drama for their own gain and “category b” is ignorant about the basic facts on the issue so, who cares?

Not every complaint should be taken seriously. In fact, it can be argued that in many cases they shouldn’t even be considered. If anyone doubts, working for a few months in retail would convince them in practice, without any need for words. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Stereotipicaly stylish? You realise to some extinct thats impossible? You talking about looks, they could be stereotipical, howewer it is debatable, escpecially with a new models. So there WILL be a controversy whether is it stylish or not

I realsie you logic where A is being constant trait and x+A wont be able to complain about it, but thruth is, its the “x” we are talking about.
For example, someone uses some pattern(4 stripes for example). If they will put on afwull looking car, they will complain about it, especially if they think this stipes ruin the car
“Your expectations - your problems”
Ofc there are trademarks, nike logo or adidas and etc, we are not talking about them, and they do not bother anyone(but they could if “x” was afwul enough)
We are talking about subjective trademarks, like “expensive” or modern looks. For example car brend specializes in expensive cards, no one will complain about. Howewer, there always be a debate whether new car revolutuinisngly good or just “pure sh*t”, we want old style

Let me be clear, I’m talking about subjective trademarks, not ones that just exist. Like Stormlight book for 1000 pages, if book is awful I will complain about amount of pages("Why is this **** so long), but if it will be great its a plus, because “What a masterpiece that I can read for eternity”
Its not about trademarks, its always about where they are putting them

Maybe it’s worthwhile to create a new thread for this discussion.

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:man_facepalming:

If the book is awful, then you can complain about the book being awful. :man_facepalming:

Be my guest. I am out, however. That was my final effort.
I honestly cannot express such a simple idea in any simplier terms.

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Would you mind if I quote you on this later, hypothetically?

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No problem at all.
If you’d like a clarification I am not out of the topic itself (by its nature it is made for a wide variety of questions and polls), but this particular issue that was being discussed. If something else interesting comes up (be it poll or question), I might be keen to participate in that discussion. :slight_smile:

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Same here. + To that I’m sorry for any inconvenience, didn’t mean to be rude and everything like that, speaking sincerely. Thanks for the convo!

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Does every idea have a simplest terms in which it can be expressed?

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r/eli5

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Why won’t you accept my no-receipt-return on this grocery cart full of items, most of which you don’t even carry?

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it is an important philosophical discussion

that thesis would be false if there exists at least one idea which can be expressed in at least two equally simple but different ways with no simpler ways to express said idea. I suspect intuitively that such a counterexample exists, but it would be hard to prove that a proposed counterexample actually is a counterexample

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Yes :wink:

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Is the simplicity order a well-founded relation…? :thinking:

We’d need an infinite sequence of expressions, each entry being simpler than the previous one, but there is no term simpler than all of them that expresses the idea.

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I didn’t say unique! But you’re right, one (impossible?) challenge is to quantify simplicity. Idk this is the philosopher thread

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