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@QiaochuYuan

Oct 5, 2020

poll 1: how many holes does a straw have?

two
23.7%
one
57.8%
zero
7.4%
NO SUCH THING AS A HOLE
11.1%

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

y'all thought this was about topology but no motherfuckers it's about n e b u l o s i ty

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In the Cells of the Eggplant | Meta-rationality

An introduction to meta-rationality: ways of using rational systems more effectively by understanding how they relate to their contexts.

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Anthony Goldstein, Ravenclaw, Jewish wizard.

@nEquals001

Oct 5, 2020

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@QiaochuYuan

Yeahhhhhhh boi it's motherfucking chapman

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It's kind of a rationalist failure. Most of these have unambiguous contextual answers just like the water in the fridge question, it's just that there is no natural context which captures them all, so putting them in an unnatural "philosophical" context creates unnatural problems

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Reading Meaningness gave me the vocab to describe (among other things) what irked me about this brand of pop-topology

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Raymond

@rfinz

Oct 5, 2020

sometimes, maybe, depending