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Inverse Text=Negation
Interpret text display as a large integer with a truth value which whose complement has the opposite truth value | |
I'm seeing this page as black text on a white background.
If I were using a bitmapped font, it might well actually be
easily interpreted as a string of binary integers.
Concatenated, those integers might form a large integer.
For instance "I AM HERE" is potentially equivalent to
something
like:
00000000
00010000
00010000
00010000
00010000
00010000
00010000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00111100
01000010
01000010
01111110
01000010
01000010
00000000
00000000
01000010
01100110
01011010
01000010
01000010
01000010
00000000
00000000
01000010
01000010
01111110
01000010
01000010
01000010
00000000
00000000
01111100
01000000
01111100
01000000
01000000
01111110
00000000
00000000
01111100
01000010
01111100
01000010
01000010
01000010
00000000
00000000
01111100
01000000
01111100
01000000
01000000
01111110
00000000
i.e. a number of the order of 4722366482869645213696.
Similarly, "THE CAT SAT ON THE MAT" can be expressed by
a fifty-two digit decimal integer. Clearly variations in
font, case, language and the like would mean the same
meaning could be communicated by a large set of very
large numbers. Therefore, in a sense that very large
integer means the proposition it expresses and that can be
true or false.
In terms of Boolean logic, these are strings of truth values.
Therefore, their complement is the opposite truth value.
This means that if the display of the text is assumed by the
person sending it to be black on white but is read by the
intended audience in an inverted form, it will have the
reverse truth value to that intended.
This is helpful because of the fact that we often undertake
legal and other agreements online. We read a long wall of
text (or don't) and tick a box next to a sentence saying
something like "I have read and agreed to the terms and
conditions".
Therefore, what we need is a software control for the
display which will invert the terms and conditions, so we
can affirm the black on white text which says that we've
read the terms and conditions, which when we actually
click on them displays them as inverted text, meaning that
we have actually agreed to the opposite, i.e. the negation
of every statement made in those terms and conditions.
However, this software control needs to be installed
without the user's consent so that they can't be seen as
having done it deliberately, and they then need to be
informed that they have done so.
That way, everything we do online in terms of these ToCs,
which include all sorts of things such as paying for stuff, is
thereby negated beyond our control, and nothing is binding
or our fault.
It needs to be argued by a good lawyer of course.
I don't mean any of this
http://imgur.com/Tux5C36 ...and didn't agree to the Terms and Conditions [nineteenthly, Nov 22 2014]
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Would it not be simpler just to view the screen from
the other side? |
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I've always been faintly disappointed that, as soon as you take a logical operator bitwise, its semantics disintegrate. They (the semantics) don't seem to explode, or twist themselves into a knot, or anything interesting; they just up and die. |
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I applaud this idea as a blow struck against that disappointing seeming. [+] |
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Hey [nineteenthly] I wanted to talk to you about "carrying the weight" vs. "free bird". |
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There are so many variations on negating text, though. The cat sat on the mat =/= the cat did not sit on the mat. Or the uncat stood on the unmat. Or the mat sat on the cat. Or the tack sat on the tam. Or absolutely everything happened all throughout time except for the cat sitting on the mat. |
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What I had in mind was just sticking something like "not" in
front of the main verb of every sentence, so "the cat did not
sit on the mat" or "I am not here". |
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