A Tale of Two Patterns - Gold only has value if it can be traded. Knowledge only has value if it can be applied. - Insecurity is loud. Confidence is quiet. Introduction Well, as we all know the PI/OM/AC online community is currently in its latest death throes, with a pretty intense and nasty civil war going on between Hyperianism and the AC/PI . This is either the second or third iteration of online Illuminism (*1) that has failed, at least according to the AC. As an outsider, and someone who is not involved in either the AC, or Hyperianism, I wrote a prior post called "The State of the (Collective) Monad" commenting on this situation already. *1 The first being the "cypher gang" era, the second being the Diabolically Informative era, and the third being the hyperianism era. After writing this last "state of" post, I thought I was done commenting on the politics of the community. As I've made clear in my prior posts, being an engineer and m...
Ontological Math Snigglets # 4 Quotes Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. - Brian O'Driscoll We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been, quite possibly, bamboozled. - Super Colonel Sarge of Red A civilization or individual who cannot burst through its current abstractions is doomed to sterility after a limited period of progress. -Alfred North Whitehead One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. -Walter Bagehot The MAGA Left You've probably heard of the MAGA right, but what about the MAGA left: Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon? Infinity Infinity is just something that converges on some sort of behavior and then doesn't change once you add to that. You never reach infinity, but you effectively do once you reach this emergent behavior. A circle is a polygon with an infinite number of sides. However, you don't really have to get to an infinit...