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  • #31
    Heh. I thought you were going to go for a more esoteric answer. I suppose I should have expected that response.
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    "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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    • #32
      Me? Esoteric? Never.

      Do I look like a filosofofofical major to you?
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      • #33
        Originally posted by Japher
        The answer to the question is simpler: the reason computer scientists have such a low opinion of filsophizeriansist is because they have a low opinion of everyone. This is due to their insecurity with themselves, inparticullarly with the burning question that haunts every computer scientist, "if I'm gay, why am I secretly attracted to my mother?"

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        • #34
          < ari> Why do computer scientists have such a low opinion of philosophers?
          <@spb> depends which sort of computer scientist and which sort of philosopher
          < ari> The kind of computer scientist that tends to have a low opinion of the kind of philosopher that the kind of computer scientist that tends to have a low opinion of this kind of philosopher tends to have a low opinion of.


          Isn't the last sentence a tautology?

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          • #35
            It's supposed to be.
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            • #36
              I'll try to reword Ari's last sentence without changing its meaning.

              The kind of computer scientist that tends to have a low opinion of...

              (something)

              That something being:

              The kind of philosopher that the kind of computer scientist that tends to have a low opinion of this kind of philosopher tends to have a low opinion of.

              Which can also be phrased without redundancy as:

              The kind of philosopher that some computer scientists tend to have a low opinion of.

              Combining back with part one:

              The kind of computer scientist that tends to have a low opinion of... the kind of philosopher that some computer scientists tend to have a low opinion of.

              Now it is easy to understand.

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              • #37
                Regarding which computer scientists have a low opinion of which philosophers, Ari replied: those that do, and there are some that do. But in more words.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by Asher
                  Computer science is, ironically, not about understanding computers. Common misconception by someone with a filosofical mind.
                  Albeit one who did Computer Science at university. It might have been more philosophical back in those days, though. : punchedcard:

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