On Wed, Jul 29, 2015  Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:

> ​> ​
> if he
> ​ [Bruno]​
> slips back to talking like a normal person you have this shitty argument
> ready to deploy.


​Normal language doesn't work worth a damn if people duplicating machines
are involved; precise language is a necessity and so is precise reasoning.
At this point there is simply no excuse to continue to babble about "you"
and " *the *1p", especially if it's coming from a logician.

  John K Clark



>








>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:12 AM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> ​
>>> > The question is asked to any entity, or machines, before they undergo
>>> a duplication. The question is: what do you expect to live.
>>>
>>
>> The question is why does
>> ​
>> Bruno Marchal
>> ​ absolutely
>> insist
>> ​​
>> on using personal pronouns even when duplication machines makes them so
>> obviously ambiguous?
>>
>
> The question is, why does he still waste time with this discussion.
>
> Nouns are also ambiguous. Human language relies on context, it assumes
> some intelligence on the listener. Otherwise it would be really hard to say
> anything. Bruno has gone through the trouble of removing ambiguity over and
> over again, but if he slips back to talking like a normal person you have
> this shitty argument ready to deploy. You are not arguing in good faith and
> you never gave the idea a chance. You just want to show that Bruno is an
> idiot. Why you devote so much time to that effort, I don't know. It's weird.
>
> This mailing list used to be interesting.
>
>
>>
>> > what do expect to write in your personal diary
>>>
>>
>>
>>> To complete the experiment after the duplication
>> ​
>> Bruno Marchal needs to find the person, the one unique person, who wrote
>> all that stuff in the diary. How does
>>
>>> Bruno Marchal
>> ​
>> intend to do that?
>>
>> ​  John K Clark​
>>
>>
>>
>>
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