The Kolmogorov option
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The Kolmogorov option
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#2Looks like his blog's down? Guess I'll try again in the morning
Edit: seems to be working now
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#3The 503 curse.
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#4What's the hinted present-day ideology he dare not challenge?
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#5What's the hinted present-day ideology he dare not challenge?
From the references to secret police and gulags I can only assume he's blogging from North Korea or Iran or Turkey or somesuch.
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#6What's the hinted present-day ideology he dare not challenge?
A veiled James Damore ('Google Manifesto') analogy perhaps?
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#7What's the hinted present-day ideology he dare not challenge?
Equality / diversity attitudes such as those espoused by Google. See recent events.
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#9What's the hinted present-day ideology he dare not challenge?
A veiled James Damore ('Google Manifesto') analogy perhaps?
He says, 'I welcome discussion about the responses of Galileo, Kolmogorov, and other historical figures to official ideologies that they didn’t believe in; and about the meta-question of how a truth-valuing person ought to behave when living under such ideologies. In the hopes of maintaining a civil discussion, any comments that mention current hot-button ideological disputes will be ruthlessly deleted.' so it doesn't sound that way to me... more likely related to something in the Texas legislature, though he might be sympathetic to someone who's been dogpiled by the modern media.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the references to secret police and gulags I can only assume he's blogging from North Korea or Iran or Turkey or somesuch.
Texas.
Huh. I must have missed the bit where there were secret police rounding up dissedents and sticking them in camps where they were worked to death in Texas.
I'm surprised I haven't heard more about it.