“Are attitudes more resistant to change when they are more central to a belief system?”

Researchers changed conservatives’ and liberals’ attitudes (!) using moral reframing.

However, they found “no evidence that central attitudes were more difficult to change than peripheral attitudes”.

https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2980

#politics #epistemology #psychology #xPhi #Quine

def quine():
q = 'def quine():\n q = {!r}\n print(q.format(q))\nquine()'
print(q.format(q))

while True:
quine()

#quine #python @kali :troll:

"As Quine puts it in “On What There Is,” “nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not?” (1948, pp. 1–2)." (Alyssa Ney, Metaphysics)

We are all over the place in our ruminations this morning.

Our take is that the only way where nonbeing could not be is in a universe where there was no intelligence to imagine nonbeing.

#logic #metaphysics #philosophy #Quine #being #nonbeing

Are we to settle on the notion of identity as nothing more a useful idealization that allows us to predict the behavior of quantal entities?

This is the kind of shit that pushes me back into the arms of Leibnitzian monadology.

As #Quine said: “No entity without identity!”

#Leibniz #QuantumTheory
#ZdzisławBeksiński

Very excited about the last year of #philosophy #MA ‼️
1. I hope to write my #MAthesis on a concrete comparison of #Sartre #Antisemitism ("Réflexions sur la Question Juive" 1946) & #Salamon #Transphobia ("The Life and Death of Latisha King" 2018) - both are examples of booming 🚀🚀area of #CriticalPhenomenology
2. This summer my last exam, an oral exam, on #Critique of #OrdinaryLanguagePhilosophy where I will probably do the megaclassic #Quine #twodogmasofempiricism

#Philosophie
@fernunihagen

#quine #gopher #CommonLisp #question (s)
I juiced up my eve quine (now just a quine in that she implements the 'MAKE-LOAD-FORM generic) class with pubsub and class-cloning superclasses
gopher://tilde.institute/0/~screwtape/216933377-eve-quine.lisp
and I'm not sure if I remember how to do an in-lisp-image #pubsub . I ended up having a :shared allocation weak-hash-table and iterating over it to find someone in particular's children.
???
@ldbeth @mhcat @svetlyak40wt @galdor how to do CLOS pubsub?

Mic drop moment in W.V.O. #Quine.

#philosophy of #science @philosophy

Eve #quine #CommonLisp today, a beautiful object oriented / generic quine I am calling an eve quine emerged from the wreckage of my smoky brain explosion quine last night. Please do have a look.
gopher://tilde.institute/0/~screwtape/217186972-notes-on-eve-quines.txt
gopher://tilde.institute/0/~screwtape/217186972-eve-quine.lisp
@mhcat @ldbeth did I get my contrast of lexical scope, infinite extent <-> special scope, dynamic extent right here?

After writing that #'loopcar macro @pizzapal I ended up doubling down on craze and writing a meandering filesystem-scope closure, then writing for very many lines when I should be sleeping:
#CommonLisp #quine #sleepy #gopher
gopher://tilde.institute/~screwtape/217266648-insane-quine-post.txt

"Each of us learns his #language from other people, through the observable mouthing of #words
under conspicuously intersubjective circumstances. Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost."
#Quine (1960),p.1

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262670012/word-and-object/

Still working on the new addition for the “Code is…” series: considering a different motion logic.

svg8.svg: Code is numbers
w.i.p.

#cryptopart
#NFT
#textmode
#asciiart
#wysiwyg
#quine

More Friday #Quine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vw8Q6hUy8Y

Grateful to YouTube uploaders who help us hear otherwise difficult-to-obtain (or hear) #Quine albums. Apple Music, Spotify and Qobuz all show entries for Robert Quine/Fred Maher - "Basic," but clearly don't have clearance to play them (even outside the US).
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD5B5A6BA7B6150C9

Nice description of the experimental set-up from Willard Van Orman #Quine , "Pursuit of Truth"

Emphasis on "whenever a certain observable situation is set-up"

#philosophy

Quines are programs that output their own source code. I put together a Ruby quine that includes commentary on how some other Ruby quines work: https://gist.github.com/composerinteralia/a2abdbda01c249aaaf96a58d25127361 #ruby #quine

#perl #quine

# "quine"
open $[ and
print readline
eval crypt $^H,$"

Having fun this evening talking about unusual code with youngest kid.

We discussed quines [1], the legendary "hello polyglots" program [2], and ran a bash fork bomb [3] on my MacBook.

(Results: high CPU usage, loud fans, excess heat, forced reboot, giggling child)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
2: https://www.yarchive.net/comp/polyglot.html
3: :(){ :|:&};:

#Programming #Quine #ForkBomb

Yusuke Endoh’s incredible 128 language quine relay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF75PjxHHA
https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/xxahp0/yusuke_endohs_incredible_128_language_quine_relay/
#ruby #programming #code #quine

This morning I'm mostly working on unarchive. Currently hacking on "make release" stuff, found out how to make tar archives files be bitwise identical for bitwise identical files:

https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/archives/

"make release" from a git checkout now creates an unarchive-${VERSION}.tar.xz, which after extracting, "make release" in its folder recreates the exact same file tar.xz file (provided no files were modified).

Is this a #quine?

@Alamantus And, what's more (looking at the "Features" page): it's a #quine!

https://alamantus.codeberg.page/FeatherWiki/?page=features