mitigatedchaos

@rendakuenthusiast

It’s weird that most people don’t pretend to be the other gender online, honestly.

Eh, there’s still existing gender conformity rules (though more for men than for women) saying not to do it, plus I think a lot more people are vaguely comfortable in their gender roles than they let on.

Not that I don’t recommend it.  I have many faces, and I like to let people assume.

shieldfoss

If you end up being the person running the @argumate account, I am going to be livid.

mitigatedchaos

We are all running the Argumate account, ShieldFoss. The steady and unrestrained stream of anons assures that the Argumate blog is a democratic and participatory process.

squareallworthy

We are all argumate, but none of us know it, because argumate is a Chinese Room whose output is determined by symbols that we pass around to each other without knowing their meaning. 

stumpyjoepete

Chinese-Australian room, surely.

mitigatedchaos

If all owl possible owl hoots from all possible worlds in all possible contexts are placed into a lookup table, is the resulting lookup table an owl?
- anonymous, On the Nature of @argumate​, 2054