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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2015
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      Peak WTF. RT @DailyCaller: Professor: Reason Itself Is A White Male Constructhttp://trib.al/jSjtDC1 

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    2. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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      @vgr This is news? The idea of some “pure reason” detached from any kind of situated embodiment has been, uh, controversial for a while.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2015
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      @atduskgreg there's a loooooooong path from accepting that our ape nature constrains how we reason to specializing it to white-male apes

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    4. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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      @vgr but not to recognizing that how we talk about and use “reason” has a history. Multiple competing histories, actually, across cultures.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2015
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      @atduskgreg the claim that it is white-male-Christian is silly because there's a non-human mathematical reality under consideration

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    6. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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      @vgr I’m not an idealist so we can agree there’s external reality, but plenty of mathematicians argue that math has nothing to do with it.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2015
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      @atduskgreg I am a pure partisan in that. Math is external reality and part of the fabric of reality. We are also part of the same fabric.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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      @vgr That’s a challenging position because there are multiple internally consistent but mutually contradictory versions of some bits of math

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2015
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      @atduskgreg Imagining humans, even white Christian males, invented the Mandelbrot set or Godel's paradox is giving ourselves too much credit

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    10. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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      @vgr I’m enough of an institutionalist that I don’t care about whether those things are “true”. I care how knowledge is created & propagated

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2015
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      @atduskgreg that's an honest position. I wish more people were as honest. I am the opposite. I care about new truths, not how they're found

      8:28 PM - 3 Jul 2015
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        2. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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          @vgr If you care about new truths you should care about how they’re found. Chasing “pure reason” you can cripple actual engines of knowledge

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        3. Paul Baumgart‏ @paulbaumgart 3 Jul 2015
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          @atduskgreg @vgr Why not care about both, but independently?

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        2. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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          @vgr Also if you care about truths you should pay close attention to the mediums in which they’re embodied: people, institutions, tech, etc.

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        3. Sam Panini  🇺🇸‏ @SampathPanini 3 Jul 2015
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          @atduskgreg @vgr I feel like I am watching Drucker vs Deming play out.

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