Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 27, 2016Poll: how frazzled/fragmented do you feel right now?A million lil pieces24.3%Pulled in a few dirs47.3%Horns of a dilemma14.2%Whole and integrated14.2%148 votes·Final results312
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 28, 2016Replying to @mtravenyour residency posts btw have recently merged into rf trunk with almost no merge conflict. We are simpatico except for moral stuff11
mtraven@mtraven·Sep 28, 2016Replying to @vgrMaybe everything I've ever written is merely a commit note on some conceptual source code that can't actually be accessed directly.13
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 28, 2016Replying to @mtraventrue of all of us if you buy a generalized version of Paul Erdos "God's book" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_from_THE_BOOK… ...I like the idea on MWF11
mtraven@mtraven·Sep 28, 2016Replying to @vgrYeah that is one of those [meta]ideas that is so powerful that I feel obligated to fight it. See http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2014/03/accursed-ipsissimosity.html…11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 28, 2016Replying to @mtravenhmm. This sounds like irreducible subjective as opposed to platonic crossed with noumenon which is odd becuz embodied= phenomenon2
mtraven@mtraven·Sep 28, 2016Replying to @vgrI have no mental bindings for "noumenon", I think it's a case of strategic lack of education (that is, I'm better off not knowing it).11
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @mtraventoo late you already know it hehe. Kantian idea is that it is unknowable if it exists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noumenon3:45 AM · Sep 28, 2016