My take has a few facets:
We’re friends online yet never saw each other face to face. Both friends and strangers.
Another facet: We have common understandings, which makes us not entirely strange to each other, therefore no strange, stranger, strangest scale at all.
There was a third facet but I forgot.
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You made a profound statement that needed no additions or subtractions from me. It stands as it is. Don’s needed an addition to his subtraction for a sense of potential completion, which is why I responded as I did.
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Ah. Well, I blame the English language. The whole “you” thing really is ambiguous and leads to communication failure frequently.
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I like being the 0.0001% relevant. The 99+% irrelevant avenues can broaden and expand around the relevant and circling back, rejoining the relevant with just a little bit more discussion, keeping a topic from being too linear and binary.
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We could but utility can usually be mapped out with a little effort.
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ok: it has something to do with the Hamming distance and the signal to noise ratio: perhaps the efficiency vs effectiveness dichotomy?
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Ah! Answer: +-0
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game I read this as a boy in the library stacks after school one day when it was in the New Book’s section. Between that and War Games, I could see the power of gamifying things and their dangers too.
But yes, I think it’s interesting.
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So, is it possible to calculate morality? y(n)e(o)s.
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I spent the $3 on a domain once to express a similar notion:
http://sifferent.com/
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that speaks more to my ‘answer to boolean logic’ than math but similar ’cause of their relationship.
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