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I've been following this discussion closely because I work in adjacent areas and have dipped into Coq and Agda. Now that I see it on hackernews and all sorts of comments speculatin…

Almost by definition society is the negotiation of our behavior toward each other because otherwise we would impinge on each others' freedom to act as we please in intolerable ways…

What people say are their values and the values revealed by their actions can be different. Moreover one can express certain values in pursuit of goals that are incompatible with t…

We live in a society

> I am curious as to how? Special relativity describes a flat lorentzian manifold. The uniform expansion of the universe implies that the curvature of spacetime is slightly negativ…

Non-measurable sets are precisely the kinds of things Arnold wanted marginalized in mathematical pedagogy, instead of placed front and center. They are necessary auxiliaries to the…

The first use of complex numbers was as intermediate quantities in the calculation of the roots of cubic polynomial functions. This use is analogous to using negative numbers in a …

For Arnold, mathematics is rooted in physical intuition and experimental inquiry. Can you name some math that is completely disconnected from that intuition?

A lorentz boost is just a change of perspective. Let's say you have a bubble that is at rest with respect to your reference frame. Well, someone flying by your solar system has jus…

Why is this obviously wrong?

So the thing that paper does is it assumes you can make warp bubbles in any reference frame. The original paper makes one warp bubble and this doesn't lead to anything paradoxical.…

The name tachyonic antitelephone is a bit unfortunate because it need not involve tachyons. All it takes is the ability to send a message outside of your light cone. Along the path…

it's not like a thunder storm. The wikipedia page has a worked out example. If you can go back and forth between 2 places FTL you can arrive before you left and interfere with your…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_antitelephone

Volunteering yourself, or others?

I got a batch of medlars from a farm this last winter! We ate the first few too soon but the rest were amazing, and very late into the winter when we dont really have fruit besides…

Since ssrn is like social science arxiv let's just throw preprints around. This paper examines the submitted one as well as another. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16084 This paper exa…

The analog hole applies to digital currency, too.

So much for the tolerant left.

He wasn't just a white supremacist, he developed the framework he did specifically because he wanted to elevate certain forms of music as superior and "White". > Using Music theory…

I dont know which video you watched but it's basically true that what most people call Music Theory focuses much of its attention on a narrow period of music on a narrow continent …

MLK was not by any means color blind. The only way you could come to that conclusion is if your entire understanding of his politics were a single sound bite.

It's not an axiom. It's a fundamental disagreement about how society should be and an understanding of what the world would be like if nazis have the power to change it to suit the…

It is entirely and issue of the means of communication being concentrated into the hands of a few powerful organizations, like its been since the radio was captured by capitalist r…