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Re:The Death of a Public Intellectual by renlo on Monday October 30, 2023 @11:09AM (#38070399)
Philosophical dithering; reduce any concept to micro black-and-white distinctions to create the perception of grayscale when viewed in whole
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Re:The Death of a Public Intellectual by xwiz on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:09PM (#38072339)
That might be an interesting experiment. Poll people on a large scale about dozens of minuscule moral issues that can be determined as GOOD or EVIL, then try to assemble more complex moral issues out of these building blocks. You could end up with some sort of statistical model of morality.
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