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yeah, I wish we could be more specific here. Like I appreciate the things you’re saying, and I don’t doubt the truth or sincerity of that opinion — but I feel like I’ve encountered…

Great, so what are those benefits all the way up?

You’re sort of making my point — there are people out there who think math education sets the mind free and opens the gates of higher cognition, and then others talking about hum d…

My claim isn’t really that there’s no benefit or utility to math — that’s obviously false — but that maybe its benefits to regular people are more modest than the cheerleaders want…

Math doesn’t seem to me the only source of thinking clearly, or learning how to learn, etc. And if I’m searching for an aesthetic high, there are definitely better places to look —…

I’m actually interested in the “can benefit from” claim in this title. I don’t particularly doubt that most people could become reasonably good at math, but I wonder how much of th…

a post which will spawn many bad takes on philosophy in the comments section by tech workers who barely know the subject but believe they are experts

lol bro, I can’t imagine thinking that Wittgenstein is obfuscation. If anything that guy’s entire life was dedicated to de-obfuscation through logical analysis. Probably you don’t …

This is not accurate. Ethics is very well-studied in analytic philosophy, and discussion of Plato and Kant are central topics.

> The reason might be that philosophy is actually practically mostly irrelevant. I have not seen one undisputed statement of philosophy. And so it can neither test its statements, …

sounds like you don’t know what philosophy is and why it’s dope, so rather than me try to explain in a comment on hackernews, I would say try reading Plato

I’m not sure what your professor writing some book with a vague title is meant to show. Am I supposed to google this to find the thesis? Yes, there is a sub area called philosophy …

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Im a grad student in philosophy, and this one unfortunately risks perpetuating the annoying myth that philosophers are somehow in competition with the natural sciences — usually be…

I did not know “strafe” which I guess a lot of guys do? “Gauss” I just thought of the mathematician; forgot it was a science thing. I’m not at all sure what to make of where “shema…

Maybe, but it doesn’t seem like a requirement. Like having an understanding of jazz at the level of music theory vs being a jazz musician.

They talked about this on an episode of Very Bad Wizards

Reminds me of https://telegra.ph/