@sarahdoingthing Last sentence is the most interesting to me. Given his Heideggerian orientation, I wonder what he thought about this?
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing There's a (modal) distaste for talking about the Big Issues for their own sake, maybe Grothendieck fallout.
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@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 Yes, sorry, I was making a joke. I do know the sort of person you mean. The MIT AI Lab was a magnet for them too.
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Well, I attribute this distaste to the foundational crisis and Hilbert’s attempt to side-step it…Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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