why’s it called a “dilemma” when there are 5 possible alternative interpretations?
are there only two alternative outcomes to choose among? maybe it should be called a “pentalemma”, or possibly a “quintlemma”? On May 25, 2019, 9:26 AM -0700, Tomasz Rola <[email protected]>, wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 07:00:04PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Inspired by one of the random discussions in the F2F meet yesterday. > > > > Silklist is a great place to ponder Warnock's Dilemma [1]. > > > > Discuss. > > > > Udhay > > This list, as any other mailing list nowadays (I guess) is distracting > people away because the mail does not have 'like button'. Or 'button > like'. But, like what? What button? There probably is a really huge > gap in expectations how things are meant to work. My way is reading > and writing with full size keyboard and terminal emulator. Not gonna > to be appreciated by those who think they can replace computer with > some stuff in their pocket. > 5 > From the page: > > # The problem with no response is that there are five possible > # interpretations: > # > # 1. The post is correct, well-written information that needs no > # follow-up commentary. There's nothing more to say except "Yeah, what > # he said." > # > # 2. The post is complete and utter nonsense, and no one wants to waste > # the energy or bandwidth to even point this out. > # > # 3. No one read the post, for whatever reason. > # > # 4. No one understood the post, but won't ask for clarification, for > # whatever reason. > # > # 5. No one cares about the post, for whatever reason. > > I think it is mostly 3 and 4, for whatever reason, like conspiracy to > kill email and move all comms into push messaging directly to cell > phones, plus people dumbing down because they get more and more > shorter and shorter messages faster and faster. > > Overally, if you ask me a question which cannot be answered with > conventional explanation/wisdom, I will recall some conspiracy theory > or make up one on demand. > > -- > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** >
