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Alas, I see that we (you and I and great-grandparent) are talking past each other.

(1) You speak as if by “we” (or “society”), grandparent was exclusively referring to men. We (non-men, for example women) are a part of society, and some of us can be quite awful t…

Not exactly a “generation”, but you are onto something here - men (broadly speaking) do appear to be more susceptible to radicalization.

No, it would mean not attributing innate value to maleness or femaleness, so to speak,, but to the relevant metrics. One can still compute a mean afterward and potentially find tha…

Exactly - it’s still there (and still has its own semantics), but it’s also inert. And, to address your point directly, of course mathematics detached from context can be used in p…

Not in SF (for better or worse). But yes. I would further suggest that sometimes people get too invested in online spaces and calibrate their worldview based on it perhaps a bit to…

I actually agree with you - “the symbols mean something different now” isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. But I was trying to point out (what I saw as) a big ambiguity in parent’s commen…

My program depends on glibc. Does glibc necessarily depend on my program?

Yup. You run into that all the time in abstract algebra. Although people usually don’t like to touch the equality sign; the usual practice (based on my limited exposure) is to inve…

1. I would object to the “similarly”, because they are not similar types of statements. And yes, the tautology aspect is the whole point of the axiomatic method (which has limitati…

Wow, I guess my mental model (so to speak) is even more “radical” than yours. I don’t think mathematics is really part of the (empirical) universe, but that they are their own kind…

It would seem that, when you try too hard at being creative, chatgpt usually just loses it completely - in my experience, it often starts falling back on even worse cliches, or it …

Absolutely agreeing that true “intelligence” would come from such a synthesis - it also loosely matches what we know from cognitive psychology. We won’t go anywhere without rigorou…

> Creative writing I tried to get it to write _1984_ erotic fanfiction, which it did - but everything it spewed out was a cliche. I imagine it had read all of FFN and AO3. > gather…

As a (former) student of psychology, I personally subscribe to the view that both platonism and constructivism are true (edit: in that they both accurately depict different-but-int…

2+2=4 is (roughly) the same kind of truth as “two groups each consisting of two elves have a total of four elves”, or “if you travel a distance of 2cm twice, you’ve traveled by 4cm…

This is a very shortsighted, historically-ignorant take that singles out M2F trans folks disingenuously - there have been plenty of calls from all over society, from cis women to t…

And sometimes fined, but also sometimes having their convictions overturned - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_the_Unit... Not “literally” the same as assault ch…

Which is not to the parent comment’s point anyway.

Classic DARVO.

“The population is mostly poor outside a few cities” seems to have been a historical norm in most of the world, for one reason or another (regulatory capture / colonialism / declin…

This is the real question. The sources that I dug up from a casual search seem to suggest this is the ratio of tenure-track faculty to administrators specifically. Still a shame - …

More demographic proportionality?

The description is not a metaphor. “Lost my marbles” is a common one for psychosis, dementia and the like, though.

Are you kidding me? Mainland China has the worst virtue-signaling bureaucracy that I’ve seen anywhere by far (and the corruption that came with it). Administrative bloat (and the t…