The socially defined behavior of electronic components.
What it means to be a 100 Ω resistor is inherently nebulous, and negotiated and renegotiated between manufacturers and customers. By @robamacl http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ram/art/essay/components/ …
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Replying to @Meaningness @robamacl
Am I just being dense, or is this confusing the thing and how we talk about the thing?
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Not sure I understand the question? There is an idealization of a perfect resistor; those don’t exist. Actual resistors are nebulous physical objects with imperfectly characterizable behaviors. Whether something counts as a resistor is a matter of social negotiations.
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Sure, but a specific resistor that you may have in a circuit behaves the way it behaves & remains what it is, regardless of the consensus definition changing around it, right? So this is a point about language, not about the thing.
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Ah, I see, maybe! There is a way of misunderstanding “social construction” as “we can make things be however we like by agreeing they are that way.” Nobody actually believes that.
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mrgunn Retweeted mrgunn
Tangent, but the poorer handling of
#covid19 in countries with authoritarian leaders is evidence that people accustomed to forcing their will on the world do believe something pretty close to that.https://twitter.com/mrgunn/status/1263152711907737602?s=20 …mrgunn added,
mrgunn @mrgunnAuthoritarian leadership and#COVID19 is not a good mix. If you get used to being able to force your will on the world, you'll disregard experts telling you what can't be done, and you will inevitably be brought low. The tragedy is in how many you'll take along for the ride. https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1263032990680186880 …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
That may be a good counterexample! I do find this behavior baffling… are they really incapable of thinking six months into the future?
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My theory is their epistemology is crap. They can & do, but they have the wrong inputs:https://twitter.com/mrgunn/status/1261682500704731142?s=20 …
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mrgunn @mrgunnTo have the right beliefs, you needed to dispense with all the simplifying assumptions that allow us to navigate our complex world & grapple with the bare reality. To do this, you needed to greatly simplify the number of things you were doing. The reason simplicity is needed is /Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Great thread!
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Replying to @Meaningness @robamacl
Thanks, that's nebulously meaningful coming from you
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