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Whaddya think about the Three Things?

Sounds good to me
's OK.
Nah.
Really don't like 'em
SSSSIIIIIINNNNAAARRRRRR!!!
[Voter is a lolcat playing with a keyboard.]

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Bauglir

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Re: Lol Polaticks
« Reply #45 on: November 01, 2010, 04:08:43 pm »
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« Last Edit: June 09, 2015, 09:59:38 pm by Bauglir »
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

Leafsnail

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Re: Lol Polaticks
« Reply #46 on: November 01, 2010, 04:55:41 pm »
Extreme example - outlawing slavery.
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Frajic

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« Reply #47 on: November 01, 2010, 05:24:53 pm »
Quote from: Bauglir on November 01, 2010, 04:08:43 pm
Quote from: Calhoun on November 01, 2010, 02:35:35 pm
Quote from: Leafsnail on November 01, 2010, 12:16:12 pm
Quote from: Calhoun on October 31, 2010, 08:14:07 pm
No matter what, I don't see how an legislation can create freedoms.
Go to Somalia.

Then try saying that again.

Incidentally, I'd put "hard" libertarianism in much the same place as communism - nice idea, wouldn't work in practise.
I never said it was pretty. I just said that laws do limit in some way or another. No matter what. I'm not saying the benefit can't be greater than the cost. I'm just saying that from a purely logical standpoint, it does not make sense.

It makes perfect sense; if the cost in freedom is outweighed by the benefit in freedom, freedom has been produced by the law.
"Preserve" is a more fitting word, actually.
And really, I find freedom overrated. Happiness is way better. Though without enough freedom, there is no way to happiness.
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