Sumpfmann

2021-03-15

Der Sumpfmann ist ein Gedankenexperiment um das Problem welches sich auch beim Beamen von Menschen stellt.

Das Gedankenexperiment des Sumpfmannes von Donald Davidson baut auf der Zwillingserde von Hilary Putnam auf und bekräftigt das Konzept des semantischen Externalismus. Vorgestellt wird es in dem Aufsatz „Knowing One’s Own Mind“, der 1987 von Donald Davidson veröffentlicht wurde.

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Goodhart's law

2021-03-13

Egal wie man Leistung mißt, es wird vom Ausführenden ausgenutzt. Immer.

Goodhart’s law is an adage named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who advanced the idea in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom, Problems of Monetary Management: the U.K. Experience: Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes. It was later used to criticize the British Thatcher government for trying to conduct monetary policy on the basis of targets for broad and narrow money.

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List of animals with fraudulent diplomas

2021-03-11

Eine Liste von Tieren die einen akademischen Grad besitzen.

This list of animals with fraudulent diplomas includes nonhuman animals who have been submitted as applicants to suspected diploma mills, and have gotten a diploma, despite not achieving academic success. On occasion, they have been admitted and granted a degree, despite not doing any classes, as reported in reliable sources. Animals are often used as a device to clearly demonstrate the lax standards of the awarding institutions. In one case, a cat’s degree helped lead to a successful fraud prosecution against the institution that had issued it. On occasion, accredited institutions may have awarded mock degrees to animals for humorous purposes (e.g. UNSW awarded a dogtorate, not doctorate, degree to a dog); such cases are not included below.

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Vandellia cirrhosa

2021-03-07

Ein bisschen Genitalhumor thihihi.

Vandellia cirrhosa ist der größte Vertreter der Unterfamilie Vandelliinae aus der Ordnung der Welsartigen, der in seinem Verbreitungsgebiet Candirú oder Canero genannt wird. In den Medien werden die Fische auch als Harnröhrenwelse oder Penisfische bezeichnet. Vandellia cirrhosa ist wie alle seine näheren Verwandten ein reiner Süßwasserfisch, der im Amazonas- und Orinokobecken vorkommt.

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Homicidal sleepwalking

2021-03-05

Mord(?) beim Schlafwandeln

Homicidal sleepwalking, also known as homicidal somnambulism or sleepwalking murder, is the act of killing someone during an episode of sleepwalking. There have been some cases in which an act of homicide has occurred and the prime suspect may have committed the act while sleepwalking. The veracity of recorded cases is disputed. About 69 cases had been reported in the literature up to the year 2005. One such case is that of Kenneth Parks, who was acquitted of the murder of his mother-in-law in 1987 after using the sleepwalking defense.

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