Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. What a year, huh?)
I think thatās more about Wolfram giving a clickbait headline to some dicking around he did in the name of āthe ruliadā, a revolutionary conceptual innovation of the Wolfram Physics Project that is best studied using the Wolfram Language, brought to you by Wolfram Research.
Unrelated William James quote from 1907:
So itās the complete graph on the set of strings? Stephen how the fuck is this going to help with anything
Hops over to Wikipediaā¦ searchesā¦ āShowing results for ruleal. No results found for ruliad.ā
Hmm. Widen search to all namespacesā¦ oh, it was deleted. Twice.
The Ruliad sounds like an empire in a 3rd rate SF show
Holy shit, I didnāt even read that part while skimming the later parts of that post. I am going to need formal mathematical definitions for āentangled limitā, āall possible computationsā, āeverything machineā, āmaximally nondeterministicā, and āeye washā because I really need to wash out my eyes. Coming up with technical jargon that isnāt even properly defined is a major sign of math crankery. Itās one thing to have high abstractions, but it is something else to say fancy words for the sake of making your prose sound more profound.
(Wolphram shoehorning cellular automata into everything to universally explain mathematics) shaking hands (my boys explaining which pokemon could defeat arbitrary fictional villains)
isnāt this just a particularly weird lisp </troll>