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This seems as fruitful as debating whether my car brought me to work today because some connotations of “bring” include volition.
by brookst 2y ago
This seems as fruitful as debating whether my car brought me to work today because some connotations of “bring” include volition.
- Terr_ 2y agoExcept with an important difference: There aren't a bunch of people out there busy claiming their cars literally have volition. If people start doing that, it changes the stakes, and "bringing" stops being a safe metaphor that everyone collectively understands is figurative.
- brookst 2y agoNobody’s* claiming that. People are being imprecise with language and others are imagining the claim and reacting. * ok someone somewhere is but nobody in this conversation
- moffkalast 2y agoI think what he's saying is that if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and eats bread then it doesn't matter if it's a robotic duck or not because it is in all practical ways a duck. The rest is philosophy.