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When there’s a heated argument, and someone responds “it’s subjective” or “personal perspective” — They are nearly always:
Anonymous Poll
26%
Right - question being argued about ultimately has ONLY SUBJECTIVE answers, none objectively better
74%
Wrong - question being argued about ultimately has OBJECTIVELY better & worse answers
JOKE FUNNINESS FORMULA: Do you feel that it should possible, at least in theory, to create some systematic formula or piece of code, that can capture some objective, generally-applicable measure of the funniness of jokes?
Anonymous Poll
33%
Yes - If humans can agree on funniness, then it’s possible to make code that can measure the same
67%
No - Joke funniness fundamentally can’t be measured by computers, it’s part of what makes us human
BASIS OF BELIEFF: Is your the belief in the correctness of your answer to the previous funniness-measurabilty question is mentally-JUSTIFIED BY:
Anonymous Poll
41%
(A) YOURS IS PROVABLY CORRECT - believe there could be a sound argument why your answer is right.
2%
(B) OTHER IS PROVABLY FALSE - belief that the other answer could be somehow proven or wrong.
5%
(C) LACK OF PROOF - belief that if other answer’s true, or yours false, you would’ve heard by now.
19%
(D) ANSWER CORRECTNESS UNPROVABLE - believe it to be perpetually impossible to prove either way.
33%
(E) WTF IS PROOF?