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> The profit motive is what creates abundance. Abundance for whom? Surplus is allocated by the few at the top (board of directors, c-suite, etc.). Why should they choose to give it…

> the desire to find the best way forward has often been used throughout history to justify genocide and lots of other horrible actions Does that mean we should never again root fo…

My need for homeostasis is independent of the economic system in which I live, certainly. But that does not refute GP's point that it's difficult "to create legal organizations tha…

Minor pedantic point: there is sometimes a distinction made between profit and surplus, where the former is a surplus that is allocated wholly at the whims of the employer/capitali…

A marvelous work of interpassivity [1], I think Zizek might say! Now he can have AI perform his meaning-filled labor for him ;) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev4gwxGkReQ

A cursory look at the table of contents of Volume 1 turns up various topics such as: - the length and regulation of the working day for factory workers - the division of labor - th…

Note: Capital is available to read for free here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ The beginning of Capital is quite dense (establishing the basic definitions o…

This is incorrect. Dying drops your character to Standard league, which is a league that almost no one plays. It's mostly used for testing mechanics/interactions/bugs, etc. Hardcor…

https://nilaykumar.github.io/ I recently redid mine to use org-babel with org-publish. I'm pretty happy with how it came out, though it's still slightly under construction. Maybe a…

Location: Chicago Remote: Yes (preferable) Willing to relocate: No (with exceptions, e.g. NYC, Philly, ...) Technologies: Java, LaTeX, python Resume/CV: on request Email: nilaykuma…

I'm not too familiar with the physics side of things, so maybe I'm misunderstanding the notion of gauge symmetry, but even in the absence of matter I think there is a U(1) gauge sy…

Why is A_\mu a vector field on spacetime? In the standard treatment A is the (pullback to the base of the) connection 1-form of a connection on a principal U(1)-bundle on spacetime…

"John Stuart Mill says in his Principles of Political Economy: ‘It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.’ That…

A less intimidating and slightly more practical approach might be to look at how we classify our own work on the arXiv: https://arxiv.org/archive/math The MSC is of course quite us…

By the end of the last run, the people I talked to at CERN were fairly certain that there's no SUSY in the current dataset and that SUSY will likely not be found during the upcomin…

It doesn't buy you anything, just as fine art and music do not buy you anything.

Quick comment: I think people are emphasizing too much the 'logic' of mathematics, over its content. Mathematics is NOT about rigorous thinking and logical patterns (unless of cour…

One might find another one of Tegmark's papers of note: http://arxiv.org/abs/quantph/9907009 . I've barely skimmed it, but being vaguely familiar with how decoherence a la Zurek is…

This is a tad off-topic but: I'd argue that a large proportion of scientists and mathematicians don't want to waste time trying to achieve Victor's goals. We have jargon for a reas…

Check out Emancipator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSN4DLG6Ng&list=PL7669BCCE53... Trip-hop.

Agreed. But keep in mind, the content is not all there is to it; the historical context and influence on society is also an integral part of the humanities. Or at least, that's wha…

"It feels like they always try to hide some equivocation under fancy text, starting with "we define X as Y", then jumping through a natural-language use of X to get Z, then assert …

Oops! Thanks!

Yes, I see what you mean. I guess my intellectual is anyone who has built up a strong foundation of techniques for analytical thinking, whether it be from the sciences or the arts.…