Can't tell if you're agreeing with Kareem here.
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Replying to @TheSpeakman @arthur_affect
Disagreeing. This is not about math. It's about the relationship between our ideas and reality. They have a very smart way of saying our ideas are fundamentally divorced from reality. It's philosophical Skepticism. I'm not here for it.
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Replying to @shekfu @TheSpeakman
It really isn't, math isn't a real thing in the first place, math itself is a construct This statement was controversial among mathematicians at one time but really isn't any longer
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Read Gödel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter, and the fascinating story of how Kurt Gödel cruelly shattered the ambitions of Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica
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Replying to @shekfu @TheSpeakman
Yup this is the response you get when you try to get people interested in educating themselves about the history of ideas Cool cool
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Replying to @shekfu @TheSpeakman
I mean come on You've got people out here saying you've got to be careful and protect your mind and the only way to really understand math is to avoid actually getting a PhD in math at all costs The state of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheSpeakman
What really has to be protected is their sacred right not to have to think very hard, or question their premises, ever. They're not subjective, you are! Nyah!
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I mean, I love the phrase "epistemological chaos". Like chaos isn't the realest thing there is, like epistemology doesn't exist specifically so humans, who are uncomfortable with chaos, can fine-tune to the extent possible the inherently artificial order they impose on chaos.
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The natural and healthy state of epistemology is chaos and anyone who tells you different wants to put his boot on your neck
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