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2024-11-19T22:14:28.049925 | 🔗

It’s funny that all the Trumpies feeling spurned by higher education rail on and on, while this is Trump proudly announcing the elite credentials of his nominee (see all defense and UN Ambassador). Thiel had some interesting stuff to say about this.

2024-11-19T17:21:30.888023 | 🔗

Another thing I want to write about is a trade-like (H-O) model of labor and AI as a change in trading partner comparative advantage or something like that.

2024-11-19T16:57:17.732883 | 🔗

Will write at some point on the economics of counterfeit people h/t https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/problem-counterfeit-people/674075/

2024-11-18T23:30:25.628677 | 🔗

“First principles. “Time, space, place, and motion”—he wished to blot out everyday knowledge of these words. He gave them new meanings, or, as he saw it, redeemed their true and sacred meanings.” Excerpt From Isaac Newton James Gleick

2024-11-18T23:16:06.631159 | 🔗

Sanity, being not mentally ill, is an absurd condition.

2024-11-18T23:15:41.552484 | 🔗

“The new mechanical philosophers, striving to create a science free of occult qualities, believed in matter without magic—inanimate brute matter, as Newton often called it. The virtuosi of the Royal Society wished to remove themselves from charlatans, to build all explanations from reason and not miracles. But magic persisted. Astronomers still doubled as astrologers; Kepler and Galileo had trafficked in horoscopes.18 The magician, probing nature’s secrets, served as a template for the scientist. “Do you believe then,” Nietzsche asked two centuries later, “that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not beforehand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?” Excerpt From Isaac Newton James Gleick

2024-11-18T23:05:15.465234 | 🔗

“A lack of vocabulary hindered both men; but what Newton had seen was just what Hooke had sought.” Isaac Newton by James Gleick

2024-11-18T22:59:38.487859 | 🔗

“Lonely and dissocial as[Newton's] world was, it was not altogether uninhabited; he communed night and day with forms, forces, and spirits, some real and some imagined.” Excerpt From Isaac Newton James Gleick

2024-11-18T19:29:33.782000 | 🔗

If gender is a spectrum, what are its anchors or directions?

2024-11-18T18:11:21.191395 | 🔗

“Philosophy had mired itself in its own florid eloquence. They sought “not the Artifice of Words, but a bare knowledge of things.” Now it was time for plain speaking, the most naked expression, and when possible this meant the language of mathematics.19Words were truant things, elusive of authorities, malleable and relative. Philosophers had much work to do merely defining their terms, and words like think and exist and word posed greater challenges than tree and moon. Thomas Hobbes warned:The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; reason is the pace.… And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless and ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities.20” Excerpt From Isaac Newton James Gleick https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=0 This material may be protected by copyright.