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by seanmcdirmid 2829 days ago
Your cat might (and probably will) die before they like sushi roles, so your understanding of eventually might not be canonical.
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chimeracoder 2829 days ago
> Your cat might (and probably will) die before they like sushi roles, so your understanding of eventually might not be canonical.

Do you... have a cat? It's harder to get them not to eat the fish you don't want them to have.

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seanmcdirmid 2829 days ago
As far as I know, most cats won’t eat rice.
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mLuby 2829 days ago
Given infinite time, something called your cat will eventually like sushi roles [sic]. #Pedantic
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seanmcdirmid 2829 days ago
No, there are definitely diffeeences in timescales.

“It will eventually rain today” is very different in its truthiness when compared to “it will eventually rain this year”. It’s the same when comparing statements with a close by deadline (the expected death of a cat) and one that is much farther off (the dissolution of the USA).

Beyond that, Boltzmann brains tell us that some things aren’t possible given an infinite amount of time.

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