While the world contains many differing views, a clash of opposing perspectives can both educate and entertain by highlighting the implicit assumptions that form our viewpoints. Consideration of an experimental Twitter bot illustrates how even simple artificial systems may aim for logical consistency in hopes of fostering meaningful exchange, and how a single metaphorical framework can bring together contrasting positions.

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3. With the world as it is
With Literal Language
With other world views
Educate us
Entertain us
Liberate us

5. A sharp clash of world-views can both
educate and entertain us, by bringing
into the foreground the many tacit
expectations that shape our viewpoints
Consider this
simple Twitterbot
by Darius
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6. Many bots aim
for a merely formal
coherence and hope
for a meaningful
of ideas

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Any single
metaphor schema,
or “likely” schema,
can be used to abut
two contrasting
views.

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