"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 @Meaningness @St_Rev
Apparently 7,000 words will be required after all!
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
I think it’s funny that computer scientists think they know what computers do, and have a theory about that which is obviously false,
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
and have strong emotional reactions to having that pointed at…
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
You might have struck the pedantry nerve with a rocket-propelled Thor's hammer on this one.
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Replying to @Meaningness @David_Hatten
As a sometime "white-hat" troll, I try to troll in a way that confuses audiences but does not create an emotional reaction to *me*.
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