What does Even More Normal Land look like? Some guesses:Alice in What If Everything Were Even More Normal Land.— Member Of Species (@MemberOfSpecies) May 7, 2014
1. All foods taste like "calories".
2. Humans are covered in fur and often walk on four limbs.
3. Eating more food helps you to think longer, better, and deeper.
4. Seasons are synchronized across the northern & southern hemispheres.
5. Plants are black so as to absorb more light.
6. The classical heat diffusion equation is hyperbolic, not parabolic.
7. Purple isn't a color, since red and blue are on opposite ends of the visible spectrum.
8. Water shrinks slightly when it freezes.
9. When you put wrong numbers into a calculator, it still gives the right answer.
10. There are no irrational numbers. Pi is 3. Just Intonation and Equal Temperament tuning systems are equivalent.
11. Hoping for things makes them more common.
12. People don't sin if they don't want to sin.
13. Cats are girls and dogs are boys.
14. Every year has the same number of days.
15. The dimensions of people's physical traits are normally distributed around the average of the dimensions of their parents' traits.
16. Every word in a language has a single meaning. No two words in a language are synonyms.
17. The earth is flat.
18. People have probability distributions instead of beliefs.
19. People have utility functions instead of desires and preferences. The utility functions are cardinal and easily compared and aggregated interpersonally.
20. A hand has two thumbs, with one thumb on either side.
21. Learning a language is easier for experienced, developed adults than for ignorant, undeveloped children.
22. Program halting is decidable.
23. Regular pentagons can tile the Euclidean plane.
24. The standard model of physics gives finite predictions without the use of renormalization or regularization.
25. Oil futures contracts have positive prices.
26. Everyone is ambidextrous.
27. Pages that are intentionally left blank in books do not have any text written on them.
28. The number 1 is prime.
29. The universe has a globally simultaneous clock pulse.
30. There is a singular word for a member of a herd of cattle that does not specify its sex. The word is not "boof".
31. Land value taxation is common. Common law is less common than statutory law. First-pass-the-post voting is unheard of in federal governments.
32. Things are brighter when more people look at them.
33. God either does not exist or exists in all things and no one has much reason to focus in particular on whether he is an astronaut.
