nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1u5tpktgc8gv8jw22cyjyh5gy5nr07v88hmrvtut7zkr06q0py6fs30xmf3 It’s the logic of how you sometimes try a USB plug both ways and it doesn’t work, but then you try a third time and it works

nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1u5tpktgc8gv8jw22cyjyh5gy5nr07v88hmrvtut7zkr06q0py6fs30xmf3 It's fucking crazy because we learned about these fucking crazy rules of logic that make me mad forever.

Normal person:

~~P => P

Constructivist:

That's not necessarily true, but:

~~~P => ~P

:kanna_suicide:

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1u5tpktgc8gv8jw22cyjyh5gy5nr07v88hmrvtut7zkr06q0py6fs30xmf3 you have my sympathy there ... thankfully I’ve escaped this torture somehow

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1u5tpktgc8gv8jw22cyjyh5gy5nr07v88hmrvtut7zkr06q0py6fs30xmf3 Depending on your definition of “alien species” I can perhaps give one example already: Doron Zeilberger believes (apprently sincerely) that even large integers do not exist. What exists, in his view, is the ring Z/nZ for some n (larger than what is physically possible to compute).

Less flippantly, I take your point. Mathematics as a whole is quite arbitrary, which also makes it feel more freeing in a way, but also more depressing because the “dialectical forces” which drive its development tend to come from people and fashions rather than fundamental reality. The rules of logic seem universal to me (inb4 constructivism).

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1u5tpktgc8gv8jw22cyjyh5gy5nr07v88hmrvtut7zkr06q0py6fs30xmf3 Depending on your definition of “alien species” I can perhaps give one example already: Doron Zeilberger believes (apprently sincerely) that even large integers do not exist. What exists, in his view, is the ring Z/nZ for some n (larger than what is physically possible to compute).

Less flippantly, I take your point. Mathematics as a whole is quite arbitrary, which also makes it feel more freeing in a way, but also more depressing because the “dialectical forces” which drive its development tend to come from people and fashions rather than fundamental reality. The rules of logic seem universal to me (inb4 constructivism).

nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw It was a great movie because of how it leaned into the greatness of its source material. The portrayable was portrayed well, including the experience of scientific discovery (which is abstract - a lot of science films miss this, while the kekule story gets it right), and what was unportrayable was appropriately left unportrayed. Oppenheimer staring into a close up shot, distorted by the frame into seeming to look both directions at once, is so frequent that it’s become a meme but it’s used well

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw he's a Mathematician? Oh so that's the reason why he's a dumb nigger.

nostr:npub1u5tpktgc8gv8jw22cyjyh5gy5nr07v88hmrvtut7zkr06q0py6fs30xmf3 nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw You know, I actually agree with this, in a way. It’s what I find so tragic about science. These “greats” were romanticized but the discoveries would have happened without them, give or take a few years. Ideas seem to arise from their own mechanics and then animate the people who later claim credit for them. I think Hegel’s dialectic is meant to be a theory of how humans are just the avatar of ideas working themselves out, but I can’t speak to that. In the movie (as in real life) the Germans *are* ahead at first, and that is *why* America must try hard tk build the bomb. This is the flip side of Mutually Assured Destruction which often goes unappreciated.

This lack of agency is something I deeply identify with. Kill Oppenheimer, kill Einstein, hell, kill all the proponents of Judenphysik, kill the Nazi geniuses, kill the Soviet megaminds, kill all of them - you cannot stop the “next big thing”, the new “one weird trick”. Someone will do it because the field is ripe and the market is efficient. Einstein tried to stop quantum mechanics but it was already “in the air.”

It’s also why I find beauty in things like Kekule’s story. Benzene is canonical, it follows from the laws of our universe, it came before humans and it will exist long after. But it is because Kekule thought of it first that we associate it with the ouroboros.

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw tbh there's no need to watch movies anymore. It's always the same shit over and over again. Whoever watch movies regularly are like people who watch TV daily. They're dumb niggers.

nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1u5tpktgc8gv8jw22cyjyh5gy5nr07v88hmrvtut7zkr06q0py6fs30xmf3 I think it's not worth watching unless you're a young adult or teenager living in the 1990s/2000s

It's the archetypal "teacher inspires students to not suck total ass" movie. It worked in the 80s when it was made, but it falls flat now.

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1u5tpktgc8gv8jw22cyjyh5gy5nr07v88hmrvtut7zkr06q0py6fs30xmf3 Haven’t seen it, I’ll check it out!

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1u5tpktgc8gv8jw22cyjyh5gy5nr07v88hmrvtut7zkr06q0py6fs30xmf3 Good Will Hunting is my favorite math movie and I don’t care that the math in it is not research level

nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw imagine liking hollywoodslop so much that you wrote something like this. You guys must remember that Oppenheimer did nothing, they got their data from the Germans. He was just a retarded jew like Einstein who deserved to be killed at a moment notice. I thought you're smarter than this lol but you can't even think beyond what's portrayed by the media.

nostr:npub1vmtc8smdjzgwj5z4tsrcfawr9s7yjtes0g32upg2ks832k3e75fq2duely Huh, a lot of trans people are using Arch. Maybe I should too, considering I've heard it works well with the AUR being one of the best Linux repos and stability not being such an issue if you know what you're doing (plus, I'm starting to feel more and more :blobcattrans:​ over time).

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1qh2njwwrsmdnlqdrn6ktu2k32txpumqzcln778t2mdasa85kep7shvugqs nostr:npub1z06laf0rhhwzd7h0y303hfp6e7r29e8p6vyl2yr7nv5uefdgtcfslny3q9

> If they're trustworthy, they want to never be holding onto your dox!

.... it's a good general rule ofc, but it's fine to get to know people selectively. calculated risk and all that

I'd be pretty cautious around places like this tho :02_laugh:

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub12uu5y8cqmjc8w5406yskz5smqd9gea46hp7mpe4rsccj0a972emsuqxccs this has happened to ex friends too :(

https://i.poastcdn.org/5593605777d28b489fa66a6990a3ec1a89593d74ef094316c257b5057d0c04b6.mp4

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1z06laf0rhhwzd7h0y303hfp6e7r29e8p6vyl2yr7nv5uefdgtcfslny3q9 Well yeah, you'd only do that if you already trust the person.

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1z06laf0rhhwzd7h0y303hfp6e7r29e8p6vyl2yr7nv5uefdgtcfslny3q9 Open it on-site and inspect it. Even if it has a tracker they'll only get as far as your post office.