Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy

• howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m saying that a definition based on something binary is not necessarily binary.

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  • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The closest analogy I can think of where this is applicable is that qubits could be compared to an embryo that could be said to not yet have a sex, with a measurement of a qubit being roughly the same as an embryo developing to the point of being sexed. Which sure, it’s an interesting analogy, but doesn’t dispute the sex binary.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s not an analogy. It’s a counterexample. One that is irrelevant because I appear to have misunderstood your argument, but you’re not clarifying, so I have nothing new to add here.

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      • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m legitimately trying to understand where you’re coming from here. When you say “definition based on something binary is not necessarily binary” that’s all fine and well but doesn’t imply anything about the binary.

        If X is a binary, and Y is something that results in X after a process, pointing out that Y isn’t binary has no bearing on the fact that X is binary.

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