johnnyworker

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by johnnyworker 3y ago
You cannot compute what you don't understand, and even if you did by accident, you wouldn't know you computed it, as long as you don't understand what you're trying to do. That seems obvious to me. And "computable
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> For a "judgement" to be non-computable, it'd need to come from some factor in the human brain which violates know physics and can't be reproduced outside a human brain. You say this as if we are even close to unders
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Can someone explain the modern American usage of the word "ideology" to me? Because in my books, an ideology is something that promises to hold the key to all secrets and all future wonders, the explanation for all evils (which is
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> War, Fascism, concentration camps, rubber truncheons, atomic bombs, etc., are what we daily think about, and therefore to a great extent what we write about, even when we do not name them openly. We cannot help this. When you are on a
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
snippet from the WP article on the book: > Weizenbaum makes the crucial distinction between deciding and choosing. Deciding is a computational activity, something that can ultimately be programmed. It is the capacity to choose that ultim
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality, or as one says sometimes, our "personality package", for something. Now, this is
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> You've been posting many dozens of comments about this and basically nothing about anything else for a long time now. A long time? A few comments in the last week. Do I owe you token comments on other subjects? I am reading, I jus
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Thank you, so much. Maybe you give me too much credit in that I do it for a form of moral self hygiene, too. I'm German, and trying to grapple with the Nazis and the Holocaust is something I'll do as long as I live. So this strike
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Human rights apply to all humans, as the individuals they are, not as members of a group you assign them to. "They" is doing a lot of work here. Who is "they"? Half of the population of Gaza are under the age of 15. &quo
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Opening the gates of hell is not an actual thing. And the comparison with Mexico falls flat because the US isn't run by a government working hand in hand with religious zealots who talk about how Mexico actually belongs to them, and if
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> I’m not sure why you’re pointing specifically to American Jews They weren't. They were referring to prominent American Jews. They probably have specific statements in mind, by specific individuals but for the sake of brevity, didn
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> whose size is given as 107 GB, although it only takes 18.47 GB on disk In context The 107 GB and 18.47 GB are being contrasted, not 100 GB and 107 GB.
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
It's not a stalemate. https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/alerts-archive/issue... And that is part of the proclaimed calculus, such as: > "If we act strategically correctly, there will be immigra
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
You just repeat the trope about "human shields" in response to attacks in the West Bank, on refugee camps and more, on basic water infrastructure. It has been refuted. > leads people like you Can you refrain from personal attac
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Israel is also bombing refugee camps in the West Bank right now, destroyed water infrastructure last night. Hamas isn't in the West Bank. A few Politicians are criticizing Israeli politicians openly talking of complete ethnic cleansing
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
As Immortal Technique said in a recent interview, the US can't really protect Israel, or anyone in the region. It can only attack and deliver weapons, but it has no (credible) diplomatic voice with which to pursue anything but more war
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Thanks. I really just needed that acknowledgement to restore a sense of fairness, because I did assume if a response is called out, the context would at least be looked at. I am fine with adhering the guidelines though it's not always
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> As anyone can understand, Israel would likely close its border to such an awful region. Murdering or ethnically cleansing the population to then take over the area isn't "closing the border". The IDF created a situation
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
On top of the collective punishment and other war crimes committed en masse, the aim to make Gaza unlivable for the people living there has been repeated by several Israeli politicians by now and even more importantly matches the actions of
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Why not check first if it's true before you claim it? It takes the same time, too: I simply copied and pasted from your comment and here they are, take your pick: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the%20impact%2
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> There are many Arab countries all over the world, they are safe from Israel, Israel does not want to destroy all arabs in the same way that people want to destroy all Jews. Some IDF soldiers are dancing, chanting "there are no sch
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> Edit: But you can't post stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38849625 - that's just too aggressive, and "what part of X don't you understand" is both a swipe and a flamewar trope!
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
How is that not civil? And if someone says "it seems you're excusing killing Jews", I actually do have to respond to that. You see problem with one and not the other, that's noted.
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
The US not nuking Iraq in a war of aggression is proof that "the US" places a high value on human life? It would have started WW3 and there would have been no more US. Even the worst sociopath in the world wouldn't have done
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Man, you do have a thick skin, I'll give you that. How could I have been snarkier? Yet you breeze right past that to comment something generous and constructive. That's not something I am any good at, but I do respect it greatly.
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Got it.
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That's great. The claim was "the reason why such an attack happened is because the people who did the attack were the ruling government body of 2 million people for almost 2 decades". And that's transparent nonsense in s
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
They're a fig leaf and asset [1] for those who use them as an excuse for collective punishment and genocide. With predictable and predicted [2] results. [1] Smotrich: "In the context of delegitimization, Hamas is an asset and the
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
https://time.com/6334409/is-whats-happening-gaza-genocide-ex... > his sort of bombastic rhetoric hurts the pro-Palestinian cause. First off, that dichomoty of "pro-Israel" or "pro-Palestine" so

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