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by philwelch 531 days ago
I don’t really think it matters because you can just compare the output to the input and apply the same standard, treating the process between the two as a black box.
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did you just call me a black box? :/

not sure how i feel about being reduced down to that as a human being.

As far as I’m concerned you are a black box. Just as I’m a black box from your perspective. In principle I could come over and vivisect your brain if you’d like, but I doubt you’d be interested, and I wouldn’t really want to incur the legal liability even if you were.

Besides, “black box” just means that your internal mental life and cognitive mechanism is opaque to me. It’s not like I’m calling you a p-zombie.