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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Aug 2020

      Truth is not a boolean. Things can be more or less true. Truth is AT LEAST a two dimensional space.

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Aug 2020

      2/ I first got a glimpse into this when I was around 13 and read Tales of the Flying Mountains. It's a "fixup" novel (i.e. a bunch of short stories later tied together with interstitial material to make a novel, of sorts), and >>> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1369358.Tales_of_the_Flying_Mountains …pic.twitter.com/J2k50Obn1k

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Aug 2020

      3/ the framing / connecting tissue is that a society that evolved in the asteroid belt is trying to create a curriculum to explain their culture to the future generations. The first question is "what should we say?" The first answer is "the truth, of course!"

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Aug 2020

      4/ And the immediate rebuttal is "The truth? All of it? Every single day in every single one of millions of lives, for decades / centuries? That's impossible. We must prune and simplify." Heady stuff for a 12 or 13 year old.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted ragegun

      5/ uh... "Time" is not an actor. Individuals simplify and write histories.https://twitter.com/_ragegun/status/1293637906846949379 …

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      You don't have to prune and simplify, that's a function of time
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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Tyler DIR DIN

      6/ > at any precisely enough defined point. So you've just taken the complexity that I spoke of and moved it out of the datum and into the meta-data. That seems... trivial/ boring, no?https://twitter.com/SquaresToCubes/status/1293638913219682304 …

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      Tyler DIR DIN @SquaresToCubes
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      Truth is a boolean at any precisely enough defined point. It is the n-dimensional area of functions describing the physical and nonphysical universe that contain many true and false (and undecidable) values that we oversimplify.
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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Aug 2020

      7/ It's like if I say "on an insanely stormy sea, the exact interface between 'water' and 'air' becomes hard to pin down" and you say "ah, to the contrary, if I define 'water' as any cubic centimeter w density D (specified to 8 places), then it's very easy" THAT'S THE POINT

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Aug 2020

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      8/ btw, want to circle back to Poul Anderson. One of the things that makes me sick about the modern state of SF is that the kids haven't read the classics, and so they reinvent stuff, [ extremely ] poorly.https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1293637088823390209 …

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      2/ I first got a glimpse into this when I was around 13 and read Tales of the Flying Mountains. It's a "fixup" novel (i.e. a bunch of short stories later tied together with interstitial material to make a novel, of sorts), and >>> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1369358.Tales_of_the_Flying_Mountains … pic.twitter.com/J2k50Obn1k
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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted dji  ☠️ nnius Ξ(0, (0 . 0))

      9/ inb4 'loobeans'https://twitter.com/djinnius/status/1293640211151216642 …

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      dji  ☠️ nnius Ξ(0, (0 . 0)) @djinnius
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      type(Truth) != bool is a hilarious thing to say no lies detected but, gosh human language is a fuzzy and gnarly thing
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        1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Tyler DIR DIN

          10/ > Truth is boolean OK, I accept that that is your argument, but that is exactly contradictory to my statement / argument. I don't see any reason in your tweet to change my mind / accept your assertion.https://twitter.com/SquaresToCubes/status/1293640695333285888 …

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          Tyler DIR DIN @SquaresToCubes
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          No. It'd be more as if your initial claim was 'some things are neither water nor air.' Truth is boolean. Molecules have a definite type. That both are often hard (or pointless) to describe as such is also true. My only point was the *problem space* is n-dimensional, not truth.
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        1. dji  ☠️ nnius Ξ(0, (0 . 0))‏ @djinnius 12 Aug 2020
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          ಠ_ಠhttps://github.com/mnemnion/ax/blob/master/boolean.md …

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