re language and agreement i responded to jim s other articles today but i see that i neglected to respond to this one i wouldn t want him to think me a hypocrite for not responding to every stupid article on t r m m mwunix mitre org james meritt writes from my handy dictionary dictionary definitions of not disagree and agree deleted please operationally differentiate between not disagree and agree oh but i m weary of trying to wade through jim s repertoire of red herrings and smoke screens let s see what we get when we run all four articles posted by jim today through the discord filter a markov chain program that steve lamont was kind enough to send me taking action a white geese be held as an accomplice to be held as a decision upon the door a black and white goose waddles past the eyes of the door hits it with the confidence interval for that individual is held responsible for that that individual may be held as a getaway car may be held as an uncountably large number of the driver of something and agree a black goose waddles past the person imprisoned white goose waddles past the confidence interval for the population of geese be axed fine and white goose waddles past the door does running jim s articles through discord make them more coherent less coherent or has discord turned jim s articles into an angst ridden poem about making choices in a world filled with uncertainty yet being held responsible for the choices we make do the geese symbolize an inner frustration with ambiguity a desire that everything be black and white with no shades of gray does the getaway car tell us that to try to renounce the existential nature of our being is not to get away from responsibility for our actions but rather to take the role of the passive accomplice the driver of the getaway car as it were does the juxtaposition of man and machine car and driver reveal a subtext an internal conflict between determinism and moral responsibility or am i reading too much into a collaboration between jim and a random number generator dj
