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Stuff related to my ('s) dissertation. At least tangentially.
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██████████ Sep 10
Death's End Cixin Liu (2010, p.116)
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██████████ Jul 26
Replying to @microjudgments
A knot of knots in a network of social relations, in a network of chemical processes, in a network of emotions exchanged with its own kind.
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██████████ Jul 26
Replying to @microjudgments
A family is not a thing, it is a collection of relations, occurrences, feelings. And a human being? Of course it's not a thing; like the cloud above the mountain, it's a complex process, where food, information, light, words, and so on enter and exit. . .
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██████████ Jul 26
Replying to @microjudgments
A cloud above a mountain is not a thing, it is the condensation of humidity in the air that the wind blows over the mountain. A wave is not a thing, it is a movement of water, and the water that forms it is always different.
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██████████ Jul 26
Replying to @microjudgments
Simple events, and more complex events that can be disassembled into combinations of simpler ones. A few examples: war is not a thing, it's a sequence of events. A storm is not a thing, it's a collection of occurrences.
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██████████ Jul 26
Replying to @microjudgments
Alt text for the second tweet: We cannot think of the physical world as if it were made of things, of entities. It simply doesn't work. What works instead is thinking about the world as a network of events.
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██████████ Jul 26
Replying to @microjudgments
Conversely, a kiss is an "event." It makes no sense to ask where the kiss will be tomorrow. The world is made up of networks of kisses, not of stones.
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██████████ Jul 26
Replying to @microjudgments
Alt text for the first tweet: The difference between things and events is that things persist in time; events have a limited duration. A stone is a prototypical "thing": we can ask ourselves where it will be tomorrow.
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██████████ Jul 26
Replying to @microjudgments
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli (2017, p.99-100)
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██████████ Jul 26
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli (2017, p.98)
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Computational Complexity as an Ultimate Constraint on Evolution Artem Kaznatcheev () (2019)
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██████████ May 10
Anscombe's Quartet. Or, how to err with statistics. (Plot by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers)
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██████████ May 9
First Law of Technology: Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral. — Melvin Kranzberg
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How Propaganda Works Jason Stanley (1995, p.20)
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"There is a powerful democratic objection to inequality: inequality tends to lead to epistemic barriers to the acquisition of knowledge, ones that imperil democracy." Jason Stanley How Propaganda Works (2016, p.7)
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██████████ Apr 6
Claude E Shannon The bandwagon (1956)
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██████████ Apr 2
Replying to @neilhimself
Thank you, . The map you gave me was a good one to follow!
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██████████ Apr 2
Replying to @microjudgments
"I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
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██████████ Apr 2
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"I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system."
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██████████ Apr 2
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"I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies."
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