On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You call yourself "I" and I call myself "I", simultaneously, and we don't > fight over who deserves the title, because that is how pronouns work. > Pronouns work fine today because nobody has yet made a "I" duplicating machine, but when they do the English language is going to need a massive overhaul. > > > If the bet is that "SP1 will see W" then this will happen as a matter of > definition, and it isn't an interesting bet. > I know that's the problem. But there are worse things than being uninteresting, like being incoherent. > > If the bet is that "I will see W" it may look like a similar bet but it is > in fact different > I agree it is different. One may be boring and predictable and pointless but it is a bet, the other is not a bet, it's just a sequence of words. > > > So one copy wins the bet > So which one wins the bet? The one that sees W. But which one sees W? The one that wins the bet. And round and round we go. > > and everyone agrees on this. > And everyone correctly predicted this. And I correctly predicted it would be silly. John K Clark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
