predetermination

Starting with a predetermination of conspiracy is just as bad (actually worse, IMO) as starting with a predetermination of honest behavior.

If the answer is 20% to both, great, you have no predetermination of wealth at all.

Similarly, a lack of free will does not mean predetermination or predictability.

The argument about predetermination is also wrong, because even if something (or everything) is predetermined, they follow certain patterns, e.g.

You would have to be more specific about what you are proposing, because it really sounds like testing for career predetermination.

The only way you can be disappointed by this predetermination is if you are trying to game the system with an emulator.

This is something we definitely can’t state for sure and seems like predetermination with a fancy name.

This does seem to imply a lack of meaning due to predetermination if we follow Descartes...

Unless you believe in destiny, predetermination, etc., there is no path along which either of those things will continue without requiring additional force to reach it.

I don't get that - with predetermination, there are no variables at all.

I think this happens when people with a predetermination to esoteric thinking become scientists: They reach the barrier of science and start to invent stuff.

It sounds like you're just finding an intellectual justification to support a predetermination that Google must be doing bad things with your data -- even though they're doing the same thing.

However, next time he talks about emulating Nintendo games or whatever, I'm sure Nintendo lawyers would love to bring it up and point "how the defendant brazenly defies law and order with predetermination malice".

Maybe it's me reading too deep into it, but that article sounds like the author had strongly held predetermination that simplistic ML translations that generate malignant deformations of English are "obviously objectively better", and could not accept the evaluations from actual first language speakers that they don't even make sense.

Republicans are overwhelmingly Christian, and even though Calvinism, or its branches, may not be the religion a majority of Republicans “exercise”, predetermination is a convenient explanation of why the world is what it is, and why no action should be taken - so it gets used a lot by right wing media, etc.