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  • Daniel Reedersonekind@beige.party
    Dec 26, 2025, 3:28 AM

    @skry 90% of the responses on this thread exhibit common flaws with binary thinking, e.g. 'those are hard problems for other disciplines too!'

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  • skryskry@mastodon.social
    Dec 26, 2025, 8:44 AM

    @onekind Binary thinking is so often the elephant in the room. I feel like we need hazard signs in the hallways of tech companies. It’s almost as if duality were a deeper assumption constantly slamming our minds shut.

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  • Daniel Reedersonekind@beige.party
    Dec 26, 2025, 9:11 AM

    @skry I mean, yes, it straightforwardly is that and we've known that since the Enlightenment.

    But I think you might be using the term binary to mean Manichean instead.

    With binary thinking you get binary logic and an enormous array of different positions and claims become possible via the operators techies all treat as second nature — AND, OR, NOT, XOR, etc. The state model is only dualistic if you take it at a single time point and don't relate it to anything else. The moment you do either of those things, you get incredibly complex and diverse possibilities as an emergent property.

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  • skryskry@mastodon.social
    Dec 26, 2025, 7:26 PM

    @onekind I’m using “binary thinking” to mean “it’s either on or off; 1 or 0; A or B”. I was implying that some people are dualism all the way down.

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