Re: Great SWT Program

On Aug 24, 11:25 am, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

[snip stuff that seems snarky, but that I can't *prove* is hostile; it
certainly is OT]

I suppose I do, in that I am evidently far more logical than most
others I routinely encounter.

To use another pop-culture catchphrase (which I may be getting
wrong, since I'm getting it secondhand at best): How's that
working for you? Does it help you accurately predict the
behavior of others?

If you're asking if I model others as perfectly rational, the answer
is no. I model them stochastically, to a significant degree. I do
anticipate the possible moves of an opponent in an adversarial
situation using logic, of course; while keeping in mind that they
might do something illogical (i.e. make a mistake) so I'm ready to
pounce on any such opportunity. Determining their worst-case attacks
and the defense to employ against same necessarily means assuming they
carry out their attack logically and compute and use those worst-case
attacks though. It's a nice relief when (and this happens quite often)
they don't, or miss the mark in some other way, though.

Of course, my own behavior tends to be logical with respect to the
goals involved at the time.

Further, I wouldn't assume that if someone says "I really like
Microsoft Word" it means he/she thinks OpenOffice is junk;
maybe it means he/she has tried them both, found something to
like about each of them, but in the end found more to like
about Word.

Then there's a padded cell somewhere with their name on it. :P

As I said -- hard to imagine. (Why did you snip that out of
the quoted text? It was on the same line as "about Word", and
removing it makes me look like someone who likes Word, which
I most emphatically am not.)

That wasn't the intent. It's just that my own response was to the
portion actually quoted, but not to the rest.

[ snip most of long digression ]

And where did *that* come from .... <shrug>

My comment referred specifically to the paragraph I *did*
quote, not to the part I snipped. That's not apparent from
your selective quoting. And I suppose you only bother with "[
snip ]" when you want to summarize, in your, um, distinctive?
way, the snipped content.

This is precisely why I don't leave other quoted material between the
quoted material I'm actually responding to and my response to that
bit.

In any event, the quoted part you seem to have been referring to was
still part of the "long digression". The end portion applied the
reasoning in that digression to another observed and sometimes odd-
seeming phenomenon to prove its predictive power and provide an
example.

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