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From: vallor@cultnix.org
On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:12:10 -0700, Alan wrote in
<108g2nq$3215v$7@dont-email.me>:
> On 2025-08-24 14:56, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:35:38 -0400, Nick Charles wrote:
>>
>>> As for Ken Thompson, he is now 82 years old and works for Google.
>>> That tells you all you need to know about his state of mind.
>>
>> Resorting to ad-hominem attacks to try to discredit a well-regarded
>> authority with a long-standing reputation is ... a sign of desperation,
>> let’s face it.
>
> While I disagree with the nature of the attack, the previous poster just
> used a different logical fallacy:
>
> Appeal to authority.
That isn't relevant.
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Argumentum ad verecundiam (Appeal to authority)
The Appeal to Authority uses admiration of a famous person to
try and win support for an assertion. For example:
“Isaac Newton was a genius and he believed in God.”
This line of argument isn’t always completely bogus when used
in an inductive argument; for example, it may be relevant to
refer to a widely-regarded authority in a particular field, if
you’re discussing that subject. For example, we can
distinguish quite clearly between:
“Hawking has concluded that black holes give off radiation”
and
“Penrose has concluded that it is impossible to build an
intelligent computer”
Hawking is a physicist, and so we can reasonably expect his
opinions on black hole radiation to be informed. Penrose is a
mathematician, so it is questionable whether he is
well-qualified to speak on the subject of machine intelligence.
https://infidels.org/library/modern/constructing-a-logical-argument/#authority
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