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Understanding your opponent
by michael 3/12/2009 - 6:21 pm
"My words are easy to understand
And my actions are easy to perform
Yet no other can understand or perform them.
My words have meaning; my actions have reason;
Yet these cannot be known and I cannot be known."
"Understanding" is a pretty complicated process. Hofstadter had a pretty good definition: Understanding is a homomorphy between two symbolic systems.
You can write a few 100s pages just on this topic.
1. You can not understand your opponent if you both have different sets of symbols. Unfortunately, nobody has exactly the same set, that's why people keep bitching about labels and definitions all the time. [Read more]
Obama is an evil man
by michael 3/10/2009 - 1:38 pm
For evil to succeed, good men should do nothing.
Thanks, but no thanks. We won't give him a chance to ruin capitalism and democracy.
Obama is an evil man. Or at least his agenda is evil. Remember, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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[....] The president connected his own path to the White House to the work of King and other African-American leaders of that generation. But Obama also conceded that at times as a young man he wrongly blamed his own failings "as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down."
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