compilerbitch (
compilerbitch) wrote2007-01-31 05:45 pm
Things I *don't* do as a hobby
Inspired by Scott Adams' wonderful oneliner from his current Dilbert blog:
I just started wondering if you lot had antihobbies. An antihobby isn't the absence of a hobby -- I mean, there are loads of things I don't do, like polevaulting for example, but I can't say that I make a hobby of not polevaulting.
<flamebait>Vegetarianism, for some people, appears indistinguishable to others as making a hobby of not eating meat.</flamebait>
Discuss.
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Atheism is religion the same way that NOT collecting stamps is a hobby
I just started wondering if you lot had antihobbies. An antihobby isn't the absence of a hobby -- I mean, there are loads of things I don't do, like polevaulting for example, but I can't say that I make a hobby of not polevaulting.
<flamebait>Vegetarianism, for some people, appears indistinguishable to others as making a hobby of not eating meat.</flamebait>
Discuss.
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[Poll #918141]
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I love playing with ideas that break classical logic, and this is a good one! If you disallow ¬¬x = x, all sorts of fun stuff happens.
I'm fond of logics that have a Hasse diagram like
*
/ \
F T
\ /
B
where F = false, T = true, * = top (could be either F or T) and B = bottom (no information)
This lets you quite elegantly deal with nondeterminism, so you can say things like F /\ * = F, T \/ x = T, etc.
Things get even more fun if you allow values to change over time, however!
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*
/ \
F T
\ /
B
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