Charlie (In my unghost era)

But if we take the opposite direction, we would end up arguing that "this statement is inferable because objects C and D are similarly placed in the category of linear relations" and at that point it would simply be more useful to just do "science"

A key tension is the future role of universal properties and their usefulness at doing proper philosophy(and not simply naive classification), in short, I think that if we make it a goal to chase philosophical concepts as UPs we'll be taking away the necessary generality for properly employing them

My hot take is that I don't think that Category Theory will be particularly useful to philosophy, but (applied) Category Theory will definitely end up being a nice and perhaps, more elegant compromise between logicians and theorists

Guy who thinks that measure theory would be somewhat simple to understand because he once read some pages of information theory on manifolds (me)

Eric Weinstein is like the Zizëk of physics, and no, I will not elaborate

The EU is in that weird place where it signals total commitment to the climate crisis and yet, values more the mechanisms of the free market than the long term health of its citizens, there's barely no argument for blocking solar panels or adjacent tech from China simply bcs they receive subsidies

Google search: How does one gets a religious sense of forgiveness without becoming religious?

They need to invent a dating app for people who were born with the innate knowledge that they will die alone

We need a pop-scientist that remakes the failed study that stated that there's a daily limit to the amount of willpower one has, but this time, applies it solely to the amount of likes we give on social media

Let me just say this, a few years back when I was there in vacation my cousin asked me if I had a girlfriend in Portugal, I said yes and right after he asks "Why don't you get another here as well?"

Cheating in France is actually extremely normalized so this is probably not only true for those secret agents but for the average French as well, I wish I was joking

Tbh I think that kind of writers block is a perfect occasion to use ChatGPT, you can simply ask it to write some bullet points and you write the rest yourself

Brb, I'm introducing Web devs to the concept of "if and only if"

At the moment, if you tweet "setwitter.com" on ios it automatically changes to "sex.com" and if that's the level of current twitter developers, it definitely means that I'm skilled enough for a senior position there

Baby, who's to say I'm not fine-tuned to love you

Physicist who for some reason hates Peter Higgs so he tries to write "RIP bozo" but the autocorrect fixes it to "RIP boson"

Map of the trajectory of the 2026 total solar eclipse in Europe

Thinking of becoming the type of hater that goes to the northernmost tip of Portugal to see the 2026 eclipse instead of just entering Spain

I actually don't know who wrote which section, they simply didn't put the authorship anywhere from what I can see. They might've not read them direct but some of the texts have references to authors directly influenced by them like Stirner, Barthes, etc.

Wait, you read Grothendieck in french? I know you have "Pierre" as your name here but I always thought that you were British

In particular, the issue that I'm reading(n16, 1973) has a lot of interwoven topics such as structuralism through hegelian lenses, anti-vax stuff, critiques of eco-fascism, critiques of scientism, revolutionary ecology. Nowadays, there's hardly no contemporary journal that could hold these together

Wow, I knew he was an ecologist but I had no idea he and others had wrote so much about it. These almost feel alien to me because their critiques of modernity genuinely sound like they could've been written by Heidegger(if he wasn't a fascist), did you found these via second literature, or?

By the 80's even pure mathematicians were well aware of the dangers of climate change, see Grothendieck "The rising sea" in nLab

If it's an A. G. Cook mix, all you need to know is that she's mother!

If a so called 'philosopher' ever made me mad, I would simply leave the function while whispering "That's how I know you never really left Plato's Cave" and smile knowing that it would left him devastated

Short introduction to Baudrillard:
- The real becomes fake
- Disney was always fake
- LA's role is to spread fakeness
- The Gulf war never happened

The thing about conservatives shouting "DEI" is that its so vague that it can't be easily classified as a conspiracy theory, even though that in practice it works exactly like one

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Academics not too late to make your voice heard l

Yeah, global warming is chaotic and the consequent mass extinctions will damage the fragile equilibrium of our ecosystems, but overall, I will get to experience less mosquitos so there's no way to say if it is good or bad

New dream job just dropped:
1) Ask ChatGPT to write an essay that conveys the idea that "no one wants to work anymore"
2) Profit ???

I have a theory that gravity bends light in such a way that it becomes possible to see celestial bodies outside of their usual coordinates whenever a big enough star is in front of them, I called it "gravitational lensing", too bad I'll have to wait for the next eclipse to empirically prove my claim