No progress since barter economy. No metric system = no civilization with cosmist ambitions. https://twitter.com/sillyolyou/status/1260397243552673794 …
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I don't trust the metric system. Base tens lets numbers talk to themselves, unyoked from non-numeric values.
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Metric system is the edge of impersonality. To twist Hegel words, it's when the Geist no longer trades in dirt and water, but has concretely attained the star-making level of numeracy unshackled by the weight of its own historical limitations :)
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