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The other categorical error seems to be him ascribing moral valence to a numerical fact about this universe “If one times one is one, that diminishes the value of two” (Can’t look up exact TH quote easily right now ; it’s from Rolling Stone article”)

Its an odd example of a kind of confusion of the Humean is-ought or fact/value distinction Once he ascribes that moral valence (& my working theory about why he does that is he is a brillant guy who is somewhere on a hypothetical spectrum of schizophrenia-like constellation...

...of symptoms) - once he gets locked in on seeing this as a moral issue, he feels free to logic-chop and abuse algebraic notation in the most preposterous ways to make his case It’s a special case of motivated reasoning. I’m wary of reducing everything to brain functioning

believe me, but this kind of idée fixe’d motivated reasoning seems to be a complex dynamic failure mode attractor state, perhaps partly mediated by pathways in brain that are not communicating properly with each other. And partly by early childhood deprivation/trauma/ACEs and

...no educators around in early life to help him grow a sound foundation for mathematical reasoning

and a narcissistic arrogance to believe that he has uniquely made a breakthrough that has eluded everyone else for thousands of years

Yep, subtle ungrounded narcissistic inflation also diminished intersubjective & interpersonal relating skills. His “theory of mind” about others’ is diminished in a subtle way as is his ability to participate in a shared effort to understand consensus reality is diminished

Again I’m wary of coming across as reducing this person to a set of symptoms, [and extremely aware of the abuses of psychiatry and it’s historical errors] but I think the psychological-neurological lens is extremely necessary to understand what is going on with THow and...