army1987 comments on Causal diagrams and software engineering - Less Wrong
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What there is difficult for you to understand? I can't make it much simpler than that and it seems to be more or less well formed vernacular.
If you are trying in a backhanded way to make the point "Humans are machines! The set you mention is empty!" then yes, that is rather close to von Neumann's point.
Indeed, I can't think of any plausible meanings for machine, do and tell which would make that quotation non-tautological but true.
And if everyone else was able to see that I guess von Neumann would never have needed to make the statement.!