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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 31 Jul 2016
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    About once a week, I think "I really ought to verify that Haskell is trivial." But because it almost certainly is, it's worth 15 mins max.

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      2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 31 Jul 2016
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        Mostly I was making fun of my own arrogance. The underlying question is: are there ideas here I need to know?

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 31 Jul 2016
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        The two that I’m not sure of, from having done programming language theory 30 years ago, are partial evaluation and “category th

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      2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 31 Jul 2016
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        So I don't want to, like, READ A BOOK on Haskell or anything. Instead I google up someone's blog post, and get lost in "category theory."

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 31 Jul 2016
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        I took a graduate course in category theory in 1983, long before computer scientists got hold of it. (From Gian-Carlo Rota, it happens.)

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      2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 31 Jul 2016
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        FWIW, category-theory-for-mathematicians as I learned it in 1983 is also basically trivial. Useful as a definitional framework,

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 31 Jul 2016
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        but there are very few theorems, so it doesn’t have a lot of bite. It’s just too general. I did enjoy it a lot, though!

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      1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 31 Jul 2016
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        Thanks! Yes, it seems that’s where the good stuff lives, and I’ll look harder there.

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      2. Meekaale Brockman‏ @meekaale 1 Aug 2016
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        but I also appreciate the jouissance of learning math stuff that sounds cool and getting to use jargon

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Aug 2016
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        Thanks, that’s very sensible!

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      2. Meekaale Brockman‏ @meekaale 1 Aug 2016
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        I try to remember that lots of irritating people on the internet are probably precocious 12 year olds just like I was

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        I still seem to be one!

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