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Yes, could use different tags for literal display and rendering eg ```tex and ```eq.

I'll have to read the book, but in my mind, the (emprical) study of humans and their brains doesn't shed light on the metaphysical question of the nature of mathematics. What they …

> I am very curious if anyone else has a good argument for other parts of math being fundamental. Groups. You can stay in your kitchen (the neutral element) or go into the bedroom,…

> No, it's actually, "ta-da, we're not conscious! but here's why we think we are!" And of course the "think" has a quality to it that the hard problem is about. It's interesting ho…

It can't be "literally everything". It is experience that enables us to correct those misconceptions in the first place. It is by experiencing that we discovered and experimentally…

Build the thing on a sea platform. Launch the counterweight into water. Make it sharp-nosed like the payload, so it could potentially survive impact with water and be recovered.