Theists: Hitchens Wager

[Edwardo Piet]

Have you ever met someone who you disagree with that you think is smarter than you?  For example, they hold some conclusion that you can't figure out how to get to, but you think they might be right?

Not yet. It's why I never need or use intuition. I don't get that thing that other people seem to get where X seems right but I don't know why. It's probably why I'm so dispassionate. Seeming and feeling seem connected.

When playing poker online, where 'people reading skills' is really just pattern recognition and problem solving, what do you think holds you back?  The game theory?  But game theory is really just reducing something to it's core using logic.  Although, that often involves some math.  Is it the math that you get hung up on?  Why do you think that is?  Math is so closely tied to logic, that it's an odd pairing to have a lot of one of but not the other.

I suck balls at math. Holding numbers in my head is hard. Because the numbers don't stand for anything. It's why I suck at remembering phone numbers. I find words much more memorable. It helps that I bloody love words. When I was much younger, I once spent 8 months reading the dictionary every day. What I especially found interesting was all the different but similar senses of the same word, and how often people get them confused. And, I found it very amusing looking at defintiion for really basic words like "that" lol.

I struggle with symbolic logic. That's, again, because I forget what the symbols stand for. Feels too much like algebra.

I'd be great at mathematics if I had a better short term memory, basically. I don't feel like I need one for logic because words are incredibly vivid and memorable to me.

Although it would take perhaps a little more than memory. I'd also have to find it interesting. Words fascinate me. Numbers all feel like of the same to me.

As a small child maths I adored maths. It was only after I got more fascinated in definitions and logic that maths took a back seat. Which was still from a very young age. I didn't get past the basics of maths before I moved on from it, finding it compartively dull. Although, if I were better at memorizing numbers or symbols that aren't words... perhaps I'd still find maths a lot more interesting. That's it you see, it works both ways. I get good at stuff I'm interested in and I'm interested in stuff I'm good at. I also remember stuff better when I'm more interested in it.

It's the process of logic and maths that I find interesting. And it's all logical. But words are more memorable than abstract symbols or numbers. Also, you can talk to someone in words, and think in words. You can't do that with numbers. Numbers feel very limiting to me.