@schakalsynthetc But it's the difference between saying 'birds are dinosaurs!' (true, interesting) and 'birds are velociraptors!' (fuck you)
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@St_Rev ya, I've had the thought that I probably would, if nothing else, at least have been content with my lot in life if I'd gone that way -
@St_Rev who knows, maybe I'd have hated it and rebelled somehow. counterfactual is counterfactual. -
@schakalsynthetc I'm on Feynman's side WRT that. Fun is fun and skill is skill but some skills aren't worth developing. -
@St_Rev sure, otoh as long as your fun is honest about itself and you've got nothing better to do, why not have fun, I guess -
@St_Rev if I come to find out Moldbug *does* have the chops to make a real intellectual contribution & did this instead then I'll be sad -
@St_Rev but then I almost certainly wouldn't have been the next Noether or MacLane even if luck had been 100% on my side, either, so. Ionno.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.