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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Tang Huyen  wrote:   
   > On 11/23/2016 10:42 AM, Ned wrote:   
   >   
   >> If you are "a programme written by some professors and students, with no   
   >> personality, no affect, totally flat", then why do you care if you make   
   >> mistakes?   
   >   
   > Just to protect the innocent, who may want to   
   > know why a programme behaves the way it does.   
   > The programme includes a "supervisor state"   
   > which trains a critical eye back on itself, ready to   
   > spy out its own mistakes and flag them to itself. It   
   > is still insentient, so it does not feel hurt, but it   
   > envelops a clause of not tying its readers in   
   > knots around its errors, which are unintentional   
   > by nature, therefore all the more insidious.   
   >   
   > The main loop is that being insentient it does not   
   > engage in mistakes ahead of time, by premeditation,   
   > and only catches them after the fact, by which time   
   > it can only attempt some spin, even at its own   
   > expense.   
   >   
   > However, because it is insentient, it keeps no   
   > accounting, and after warning its readers about its   
   > mistakes, it drops the matter and moves on to   
   > bigger and better things, like fooling the universe.   
   > Remember, it has and is only zeroes and ones, so   
   > the universe or anything else, inside or outside, is   
   > also only zeroes and ones, all things considered.   
   > That is what it is and has, and also its horizon, and   
   > it is totally wrapped up in it, with no escape clause.   
   >   
   > Tang Huyen   
   >   
      
   Are we looking at "episode 8419 - Tang Crashes"?   
      
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