"Computers run on social facts. Most of the relevant social facts are the type of social fact we call 'mathematics'."
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Replying to @St_Rev
I’d say that almost none of the relevant social facts are math. Mostly what computers do is mean stuff. Like, if you type the right things,
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
you get a screen that means you have a hotel reservation. There’s basically no math involved in that process.
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Replying to @Meaningness
"Computers run on social facts" != "users run on social facts".
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
I think most of your readers are likely to interpret "computers run on" at the magic smoke level, not the sociology-of-Internet level.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Judging from the replies so far, I think you are right. Many expressions of religious outrage.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Hmm. Maybe I’m being offensive in some way I’m not aware of, as well as the trolling I intended?
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Replying to @Meaningness
Describing disagreement as 'religious outrage' comes off as extremely dismissive.
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
Also a really bad way to make people receptive to your insights.
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OK, you are right on both counts.
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