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Comment Re:.PICT files (Score 1) 52

Follow the recipes on the web, get UTM and Mac OS 9.2.1 as a VM and you're back in 2001.

Open and edit PICT files in Simple Text, Claris Draw, Claris CAD, Microsoft Word 6, etc. Edit them with the contemporary tools and/or export them by printing to PDF.

It's a real trip down memory lane and, on an Apple Silicon, MacOS 9.2.1 runs faster than it did on the original G3 hardware and looks great on a retina display.

Comment Fallacies (Score 5, Insightful) 86

Carl Sagan's adage that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is not a "logical fallacy". It is better thought of as a statement about (Bayesian) inference.

For example, supposing that I have an a priori belief that the probability of life on Mars is one in a million. Loeb finds a rock that he claims has a 99% chance of being made by a Martian and and a 1% chance of being made here on Earth. I would update my belief to one in ten thousand, which is still a long way from being persuaded.

A better example of a logical fallacy is 'They don't seek the evidence and they argue, "Well, we don't have any evidence...."', which misrepresents his opponent's position and is a example of the straw man fallacy.

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