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@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing There's a (modal) distaste for talking about the Big Issues for their own sake, maybe Grothendieck fallout.
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Talking about Big Issues is a common feature of cranks who gravitate to math departments, too.
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing Yeah, that would probably be me :-)
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing No, I'm talking about genuinely damaged people. Every department seems to have one.
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing At FAU the guy had some kind of brain injury, obvious scar on his head, people were afraid to run him off.
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing At UGa it was an autistic guy in a windbreaker who showed up at department teas to scarf cookies.
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing I think that would describe most of the MIT math department as I remember it—certainly my advisor!
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing No. There are certainly damaged people with tenure but these people were obviously *broken*.
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing Is the straw man “lightbulb mistake” or “concern only with truth, not beauty”, or ?
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Straw man, roughly: "these people use <strawman description of> theorems as a way to dodge...
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing ...<my special snowflake concept which they actually clearly don't neglect, they just use other words>"
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Actually reminds me of Thurman's "everyone KNOWS reincarnation is real they just deny it to themselves" too
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Typical Mind Fallacy is ugly when you have a strongly atypical mind to begin with.
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