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Arbutus Tree
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Arbutus Tree
@aphercotropist
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trees, the meaning of being, and category theory
Vancouver, BC
Joined March 2019
- Any sufficiently advanced field, when faced with too much popularizing pressure, will gain an antimemetic field: a false and oversimplified version of the field created by edutainers to cater to people who do not have the requisite knowledge and skill to meaningfully engage in it
- If you learn to enjoy hell, they let you leave
- Jordan Peterson was driven insane by recommender algorithms. His life work was presented to the world as engagement bait, and he was in turn tempted into turning it further into engagement bait on the false promise of furthering his life's work and reaching more people
- Using these for cartomancy like a tarot deckSigned prints of the entire card set available at theartofpants.com
- U know what sucks? When one of the things you're most interested in is literally antimemetic, so it's a struggle to even make it intelligible to other people so that they can even begin to be aware of it. That thing for me is ontology
- Replying to @aphercotropistThis happens in math, where popular math is like wow different infinities, fractals, e^ฯi - 1 = 0, and 0.999... = 1 In physics it's "if u zoom in real small u'll see atoms" and talking elementary particles as if the audience has the background for the background to understand it
- Replying to @mikerexbooks and @KCTV5Well thankfully they don't really have the social structures in place to efficiently pass on generational trauma
- The three primary colors: oxygenated hemoglobin, chlorophyll, and Raleigh scattering
