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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

good, that original versions phrasing is atrocious

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Marxist philosophy be like, who fucking cares if it's the same boat, wasn't it repaired by slaves each step of the way to this question being a thing?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Same ship, different version.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ship 2.1.4 changelog:

-replaced boards on walkway

-fixed issue with rudder disconnecting from boom sail

-added additional rowing oars

-drummer's position is no longer in the way of belowdecks stairway, as this causes pathfinding issues

-reduced number of breasts on the figurehead to the correct number of two

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Ship 2.1.5 changelog:

-reverted change of number of breasts on the figurehead following user feedback.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

we need a three-eyed awooga to go with our 3-breasted figurehead

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

If you gradually remove all the bits of the ship and make a new ship out of all the bits you replaced, which ship would be the original?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Neither. It was never the bits that made the ship, but the ship that was made from the bits gathered along the way

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

that's an "oh fuck off" question because you can't actually do that. Wearing parts would be dust, a broken board would still be broken, etc and an "all the replaced parts" reconstitution wouldn't hold its shape.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You are injecting the idea that bits are broken into the thought experiment

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

no, that's what happens when wood rots.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No part of the original question necessarily indicates any wood has rotted, you added that

Edit: no wait, I see. Some internet random in 2003 added that. Either way it's not a fundamental part of the thought experiment

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

So as long as you carefully document the changes to the ship, it remains the same ship. Makes sense I guess

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Early Wikipedia was weird.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My computer is a ship of Theseus actually. I've had "it" for 12+ years but have swapped 3 cases, 4 motherboards, 3-5 sets of ram, 2 power supplies, 3 CPUs, etc. I actually finally got rid of the original 750GB hard drive like last year.

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