And by zeitgeist-ingly mindblowing, I mean in-game discussions like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-bijO3uEw … (ignore the crappy music) /cc @exiledsurfer
@exiledsurfer interesting, he follows me. GEB was a bible for my gen of mathematicians, but I never got all the way thru it
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@asteris@exiledsurfer Howdy, y'all. My ears are burning. My novel/novellas are all about Hofstadterian ideas; esp Cheap Complex Devices. -
@jsundmanus well met, I've veered away from mathematics as a practice, but the ideas were etched in place. Need to revisit Hofstadter :)
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@asteris Try 'I am a strange loop' first. then go back to GEB. Might be how you tick. -
@exiledsurfer ah, much appreciated. And thank you for another stimulating discussion over and under the quotidian, my friend :) -
@asteris all is relatively well in the world when u an me can 'do culture'. heh. It's always a pleasure to have u at my side all day :-)
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@asteris oh, and btw, did you ever see the stuff i was working on with Ian D Mclean? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DpWmDyXeaslL-UoJZAgcnx_8tHpygN-_ahPp3QU5DsM/edit?pli=1 … No? enjoy :-)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@asteris@exiledsurfer "Hofstadter Prize for Machine-Written Narrative" The Prize & Society for Analytical Engines both invented by me. -
@jsundmanus@asteris cheeky bugger. why you go inventing shit? What you want to do, INSPIRE people? lol :-)
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@asteris@exiledsurfer Cheap Complex Devices purports to be the report of the Society for Analytical Engine's . . .Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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