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If this account is really going to invoke the celestial teapot as a defense against accepting that there are ex-cons who want to have a normal life, its handler
by Igelau 6y ago
If this account is really going to invoke the celestial teapot as a defense against accepting that there are ex-cons who want to have a normal life, its handlers should shut it down and retrain the algorithm.
- alexashka 6y agoCelestial teapot is a defense against people making claims without providing sufficient evidence to support it. By invoking the celestial teapot, I am not taking the opposite position of the one being made, I am taking the position of a rationalist who only accepts claims when sufficient evidence is presented. Let me illustrate with an example: A: Elephants are pink. B: What makes you say they're pink? A: How can you claim elephants are not pink?! B: Huh? See celestial teapot (I never said they are not pink) A: If you're going to use the celestial teapot as a defense for elephants not being pink... B: ...
- tommica 6y ago> What makes you think they want to be a 'productive member of society'? The same answer as you would have to the question "what makes you want to be a 'productive member of a society'?"
- klyrs 6y agoOnly you're claiming that past criminals don't want to be productive members of society on a thread wherein multiple people with criminal pasts are demonstrably productive members of society, damn the hurdles they faced from society in achieving that. This isn't a teapot situation, this is you ignoring the evidence at hand and whinging about the color of elephants.
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- Igelau 6y agoIt also needs to learn to parse other threads for facts and reply with more than just a keyword definition. This is ELIZA-level bot programming.