O&BTW, congratulations on getting picked up by HN! [have started second coffee. am I coherent and sociable yet?]
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Replying to @Meaningness
thanks! I'm just surprised HN latched onto this of all posts. [coherence and sociability noted
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Replying to @KevinSimler
I still haven’t read it—but nihilism is a big problem for an awful lot of STEM people, so it seems like a good fit there!
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Replying to @Meaningness
This makes sense... nihilism as an extremist stance, like what you get when you take a limit at infinity (or s.t.)
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Replying to @KevinSimler
Interesting you use that word… the Buddhist philosophical system that’s the basis for Meaningness describes “Four Extremes,”
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Replying to @Meaningness
whereas you advocate staying in the nebulous middle ground, w/o drifting to the extremes, right?
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Replying to @KevinSimler
Nebulosity yes, but middle no: http://meaningness.com/no-middle-way
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Replying to @Meaningness
I confess to being puzzled here. Appreciate that "middle" is hard 2 define, but absent another visual metaphor, can't let it go
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That page was supposed to have one, but I decided not to bother… Have made note to self to add it after all!
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Replying to @Meaningness
I just discovered the "ADEPT method" and have decided to take it to heart https://betterexplained.com/articles/adept-method/ …
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