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		soist on July 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters Just making sure no one is confused by common computationalist sophistry and how they attribute personal characteristics to computers and software. People can have and can create experiences, computers can only execute their programmed instructions.

gowld on July 15, 2024 | [–]

Username `soist is an abbreviation for `solipsist, then?

HeatrayEnjoyer on July 15, 2024 | [–]

On what priors are you making that statement?

soist on July 15, 2024 | [–]

Rephrase your question. I don't know what you're asking.

nertirs on July 15, 2024 | | [–]

I think he meant to ask, what is the difference between an experience and a predefined instruction?

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