Flip the script. The landscape of most modern math really does amount to just a drunken homosexual orgy.
And to add to that comment, so much of modern life is due to that. In the problem of Theodicy, I blame the drunken sex glutton, not nature.
Burning Man's Mathematical Underbelly
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#12A nice article for someone who knows nothing about Burning Man. If you've been, you will learn little that you don't already know. Burners choose to play in a difficult, often uncomfortable environment. They have a higher than average desire to be challenged - by everything from esoteric math and physics discussions to learning (as novices) moderately advanced contradancing (a radically inclusive danceform [1] that h…
Surely not all burners come off this smugly?
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#13A nice article for someone who knows nothing about Burning Man. If you've been, you will learn little that you don't already know. Burners choose to play in a difficult, often uncomfortable environment. They have a higher than average desire to be challenged - by everything from esoteric math and physics discussions to learning (as novices) moderately advanced contradancing (a radically inclusive danceform [1] that h…
> They have a higher than average desire to be challenged
... perhaps somebody's ego needs to be challenged ... ;)
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#14A nice article for someone who knows nothing about Burning Man. If you've been, you will learn little that you don't already know. Burners choose to play in a difficult, often uncomfortable environment. They have a higher than average desire to be challenged - by everything from esoteric math and physics discussions to learning (as novices) moderately advanced contradancing (a radically inclusive danceform [1] that h…
What does “radically inclusive danceform” mean? Looks like you’re trying to make a fun dance seem like a political revolution.
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#15A nice article for someone who knows nothing about Burning Man. If you've been, you will learn little that you don't already know. Burners choose to play in a difficult, often uncomfortable environment. They have a higher than average desire to be challenged - by everything from esoteric math and physics discussions to learning (as novices) moderately advanced contradancing (a radically inclusive danceform [1] that h…
What does “radically inclusive danceform” mean? Looks like you’re trying to make a fun dance seem like a political revolution.
"Radical inclusion" is one of the guiding principles of Burning Man: https://burningman.org/culture/philosophical-center/10-princ... I don't think it's particularly political.
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#16A nice article for someone who knows nothing about Burning Man. If you've been, you will learn little that you don't already know. Burners choose to play in a difficult, often uncomfortable environment. They have a higher than average desire to be challenged - by everything from esoteric math and physics discussions to learning (as novices) moderately advanced contradancing (a radically inclusive danceform [1] that h…
>They have a higher than average desire to be challenged A lot of them also take a lot of MDMA and drink a lot of alcoholic beverages. There's something for everyone at BM.
Hangovers are hell in that environment. If you got to burning man for the free drinks you're an idiot and won't come back. MDMA is fun to make a night of but not the drug of choice out there.
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#17> you can get everybody onto the same page by talking about the complex plane in terms of the layout of Black Rock City: the Man is at zero, Center Camp (Esplanade and 6:00) is at i, the main entrance is around - 2i, the 3:00 and 9:00 plazas are at ± 1, and the Temple (a nondenominational, pan-belief, transient, and intentionally flammable structure) is at + i. While this is accurate, after seven years of attending B…
I read that paragraph as a joke, but sometimes it's hard to know what's a joke out there...
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#18A nice article for someone who knows nothing about Burning Man. If you've been, you will learn little that you don't already know. Burners choose to play in a difficult, often uncomfortable environment. They have a higher than average desire to be challenged - by everything from esoteric math and physics discussions to learning (as novices) moderately advanced contradancing (a radically inclusive danceform [1] that h…
What does “radically inclusive danceform” mean? Looks like you’re trying to make a fun dance seem like a political revolution.
Contradancing does not require any specific footwork and revolves around dancers flowing through and bonding with eventually all the other dancers in a line. It is an all ages activity (from babies in papooses to dancers pushing 100). It is possible for many with disabilities. Around the US I know contradancers who are completely blind and others who are deaf, are amputees or who are in (athlete style) wheelchairs. Engrained in the subculture is the idea that dancers gently guide other dancers who are drifting off course and they constantly adjust their style and speed to match the needs and preferences of each new dancer they meet.
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#19A nice article for someone who knows nothing about Burning Man. If you've been, you will learn little that you don't already know. Burners choose to play in a difficult, often uncomfortable environment. They have a higher than average desire to be challenged - by everything from esoteric math and physics discussions to learning (as novices) moderately advanced contradancing (a radically inclusive danceform [1] that h…
>They have a higher than average desire to be challenged A lot of them also take a lot of MDMA and drink a lot of alcoholic beverages. There's something for everyone at BM.
Perhaps there's some kind of correlation there? The science/math/tech world is rife with users of amphetamines (including the ones that are prescribed for use by medical professionals, e.g. Adderall, Vyvanse, etc.). Mathemetician Paul Erdos famously championed them.
Maybe you can explain why you felt the need to point this out with such disdain?
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#201 drug + 2 drugs = 3 drugs
I encourage you to think constructively how your commentary can further a discussion which, by both the article and other comments, has proceeded well beyond infantile jokes and worn-out stereotypes.