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Re:Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don't think by ux266478 on Friday December 12, 2025 @01:11PM (#46246848)
It's just provencial nonsense, there's no sound reasoning to it. Reductionism being taken and used as a form of refutation is a pretty common cargo culting behavior I've found.

Overwhelmingly, I just don't think the majority of human beings have the mental toolset to work with ambiguous philosophical contexts. They'll still try though, and what you get out of that is a 4th order baudrillardian simulation of reason.

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Re:Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don't think by bruntofsaurus on Friday December 12, 2025 @04:29PM (#46249208)
"Just" is used here as a reductive device. You reduce others to a few sentences.

Sentences constructed of words and representations of ideas defined long before you existed. I question whether you can work with ambiguous contexts as you have had the privilege of them being laid out in language for you already by the time you were born.

From my reference frame you appear to merely be circumlocuting from memory, and become the argument you make about others.

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