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I think rather the inverse? Programming is the one arena wherein a block universe can actually be observed and probed, especially since this exercise of external influence is optional (and as discussed, does not influence the definition of the uninfluenced case). Take for example the start-up...

Well, my point here is that you can read the block and make an observation about what time and locations are involved in some event. The responsibility is generated by whatever evokes the existence of the block as it is, but these are observable by any outside observer. Part of how you design...

But my point is that determination requires the constant conjunction. There's no shortcut to creating a continuous series of sequentially hierarchical events without some rule being applied on earlier states to evoke the later ones. You can't just say "show me what happens at frame 1000"...

Not predetermined. Just "determined". Predetermined: "I the god of fate say that you will say ABCD in 5 seconds; even if you try not to, the fact I said it compels you to that outcome like a magnet following a vector of force, like an apple falling from a tree" Determined: you make a decision...

You seem to be delusional. Compatibilists do not, in fact, think "necessity" in the way you seem to (badly) understand the topic is a problem for the notion of free will. The initial condition is not "necessary" either given the fact that the initial condition was different literally everywhere.

..or maybe for the last 700 years or so there hasn't been much opportunity to recognize that the pre-scientific understanding of human sex and social development was pre-scientific, that the church's suppression of "third gender" and "gender atypical groups" as heresy was ill-informed, and that...

Those who are offended by my broad calling-out of moral grandstanding and using folks as props can be offended for all I care. Of course, they could say "unlike (Republicans for whom this is a political prop), I really do care because X/Y/Z", we see "this offends me!". The only reason I can see...

Someone's "sex" being "real" and "material" does not make it the case that the "sex" is perfectly or cleanly or consistently "male" or "female", or even in majority "male" or "female". The statistical modes are not explanatory, they and they are only as descriptive insofar as someone happens to...

Ok, so, look at the vinyl record. That's a good example for this: when the record was produced, could it have possibly be produced with that tune without at some point before it ended up on the record, it having been created by a temporal process? At some point, it was determined by process...

No, they are all determined, without the "pre", by the nature of whatever defines the set. In order to handle this without the insanities required to think about infinities, I'm going to reduce the problem to a much smaller finite example: a system with only two states per location, sixteen...

Why would you consider this to be the case? They are not predetermined events, but just determined by the structure and whatever defines the nature of the interactions. Free Will in it is no more an illusion because there is still "time" even within the block, it just is not the "time" of the...

But I think the point here is that the structure of the block encodes a directionality of "responsibility" within it, a smooth flow not unlike the frames of a movie, and the changes from one frame to the next are constrained in what will be seen by some unstated form of relationship that is not...

Your will is inevitabl[y free] because [when] it was generated by inner necessity [(yourself), which is the basic requirement for compatibilist free will]. The obtuseness of your replies is palpable.

Not to mention that "they" is almost always proceeded with a contextualizer. It seems like a massive kvetch over literally nothing. Nobody just says "they went to Germany" without saying it in response to a context token of some kind, even if that context token is a solidly pointed finger as...

¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Well, my point through this whole exchange, perhaps not clearly stated, was that I think the video is a piece of performance art sensationalizing and making hyperbole on the prevalence and behavior of porch pirates. The most effective attack against a porch pirate one is...

"Waah, I'm being called out for my equivocation games, and for treating Cluster Concepts as if they had explanatory power." Grow up. Cluster concepts do not have explanatory power.

As to the accuracy? I would say conservatives do tend to lack an overburdening of intelligence, as interpreted as the capacity to learn over time, else they would not be so attached to outdated views that time has moved beyond. But as to porch pirates... Same, although having a Ring camera it's...

Nor are conservatives.

Indeed, I think that the solution here is to expect hormonal and spermatological intervention before transferring someone. I imagine this is only opposed by certain parties because it would lead to a political loss, namely they are no longer "men's" and "women's" estates, and that the real...

I'll note that the dictionary, or wiki, or even linguistics as a field do not really act as constraints on the use of language. Generally, the desire to be understood is the greatest and only constraint on real language excepting when someone seeks to make language political. That's the real...