Algebraically Delicious

Algebraically Delicious

@johnjanik.substack.com

Guerrilla ontologist, Ph.D. physicist, future climate refugee, citizen of Turtle Island. I think and write about fundamental physics, the foundations of mathematics, and stuff. Support here: bc1qwwq86dwmag6m93qamd2c3kwqy068t3zdshlq84

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During Jaynes’ times Homer's authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey was taken as true, but contemporary scholarship understands they were composed independently, as part of long oral traditions. Jaynes’s argument on consciousness is then flawed, because minstrels performed- not wrote the myths.

iflscience.comThe Strange Idea That Language And Art Emerged Long Before Human Consciousness, Which Only Appeared In 2000 BCEAccording to the idea, we used language and even composed the Iliad before human consciousness emerged, meaning it was written by a non-conscious mind.

What do you do when #somebutnotall of the #AISlop that you consumed turns out to be 100% factually true and exploded your world view, but you called it slop because you didn't understand it? It could happen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think the reason capitalism and the United States are failing is that neither is a participatory system of community building. They are both exploitative and extractive. Only when the USA builds community will it be great again. One problem is some want more than the community can generate.

Exciting news in the world of fascist thuggery. If somebody has a resource you want, just black bag their leaders and take it. I don't see why this should only apply to world leaders, steal your friends house, your neighbors land, some guys car. THERE ARE NO RULES. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comUS Set to Take Control of Major Portion of Venezuelan Oil WealthThe US is set to take majority control over a huge amount of Venezuela’s oil wealth in an unprecedented maneuver that officials said would create the world’s second-largest private oil company by rese...

If #AI cant 1. design a miniature personal 3D printed tokamak to power my life, 2. unify the Standard Model, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics, 3. eliminate world hunger and homelessness and end poverty and war, then I don’t think AI is worth it. That’s my bar for AI to be useful to humanity

Imagine being given all the power in the world, and the most you can do with that power is rename shit. You can’t house people, or provide adequate healthcare for all, you can’t even keep a promise to not start any new wars. All you can do rename bodies of water. What of fucking loser.

Since murder and accessory to murder are crimes punishable by death, then committing or funding genocide should also be punishable by death. Commit genocide, death. Use your personal wealth to support genocide, death. Vote for or sign a bill into law funding genocide, death.

If you want to know how fascist and right wing the USA has become: the Democrats, the so-called-left, have moved so far to the right, that Social Democrats have to distinguish themselves from them, to advocate for positions, that the GOP, the so-called-right used to advocate for.

there’s a stupid saying: the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. Leon has a different one, the problem with grifting is eventually you run out of suckers being born every day, due to declining fertility bc nobody wants to bring children into a dying planet

Strategically brilliant move letting your opponent know you're running out of ammunition. Who knew you could call a "time out" in war. Did Iran agree to the time out? Because if I knew you were out of ammo, I'd kick the shit out of you.

Hey #Dipshit, are the far left extremists the people demanding the release of the #Epstein files? What about the far right terrorists that attacked the capital on #January6 for your boss? Your smooth brained gobbledegook nonsense doesn't check out.

why bother with the pretense. just sell direct access to insider information and cut out the middleman. maybe it could go the other way too? Wall street could just pay trump to tweet things at specified times. make corruption great again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nothing says #freedom quite like paying taxes so that adjudicated rapists and pedophiles can enrich themselves, while giving weapons to a country that bombs children as we pay for the #healthcare of enthno-facists while #American citizens are being murdered in the streets by their own government.

Domain coloring of φ−1 on the vertex disk |u| ≤ 1.02. Hue is the phase of φ−1 (phase is cyclic) each dark ring marks one decade of |φ−1|. The full hue wheel repeats twelve times around the center — the winding number of the map — and the decade rings crowd toward the center at twelfth-power speed.

``A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a #tyrant, is #unfit to be the ruler of a free people.'' - the Declaration of Independence If the Declaration of Independence was good enough for us then, it's good enough for us now.