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Subject: Stuart, your reasoning does make sense

Author: Telmo Escobar

Date: 21:46:11 10/02/02

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On October 02, 2002 at 20:56:19, stuart taylor wrote:


>And the first 3 games are statistically much more substantial than any other 3, >even consecutive, somewhere later on.
>

 >S.Taylor


>maybe you should go back to school...
   > Christophe

>That's a bit deeper than what you are thinking about!
>
>to me it is quite an intriguing subject, and I'm sure there is more than what
>meets the eye. It must be looked into some time by someone like Einstein, or
>even by some of us, together.
>I don't really have the head and time for it now, but no one has ever responded
>much to some of my thoughts.
>(I think Nunn would appreciate this subject)

 >S.Taylor

 Stuart, I feel you are right. This is deep and for this reason people, even
intelligent people, can misunderstand the point when they think about it.
 Yet people, even dupes, understand the point perfectly when they have to apply
it in real life.

 Let me explain: let us assume that I have uttered some 2000000 statements till
now. If somebody (God, say) has recorded the stuff and selects three consecutive
statements from mine, apparently stupid, to prove that I'm a dupe, you don't
need to feel convinced. Maybe God, as pervert as usual, has selected three rare
cases of particularly foolish affirmations (made, who knows, when I was drunk or
the like) in order to fool you.
 But if you just meet me for the first time, and the first three statements of
mine that you hear are stupid ones, you will deduce that I am a dupe, and that
will be a quite reasonable deduction.

   Telmo



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