Zompist Bboard Again

My reporter cousin says Jharkhand is BJP's next target.

https://scroll.in/article/1092633/in-half-the-seats-bjp-won-in-bengal-total-sir-deletions-outnumber-victory-margin https://scroll.in/latest/1092669/bengal-communal-intimidation-vandalism-reported-a-day-after-bjp-comes-to-power BTW, regardless of what citizens in the West think, Modi and the BJP beli...

I reread the books on Platonic Theology by Proclus: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Six_Books_of_Proclus,_the_Platonic_Successor,_on_the_Theology_of_Plato When you read this, you realize the things he says in his hymns weren't poetic metaphors for him. For example, his metaphysics has something c...

Looks like BJP wins. There's no safe place for me.

PS. This is what I mean by failing upwards. Even after messing up so much, BJP is still gaining ground in India.

PPS. Representative democracy under a capitalist economy has led to good results for me 0 times so far.

This is like pulling teeth, but there you go, at least. You have something in your ontology called "facts." Do you need God to make sure that facts exist? I'm sure you'd both assure me that no, that level is unneeded. I'm saying the same about these "agents" that you want to loo...

Why do you need or want an agent? You go on to say that the agent can get things wrong! That means that there is something for the agent to be wrong about. You already have a procedure for deciding truth, because you're using it to evaluate the agent . Without the agent, there is no one to judge it...

Well, that makes two of you. But at least this formulation invites a follow-up quesiton. If an agent is judging something... what are they judging? What condition obtains such that they spit out "true"? Abstract homology ignoring low level details. For example: You have two boxes. The lef...

Truth is a judgment. It's a thing an agent says when two sides of an equation match, like a verbal assertion and an experimental fact.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2026 11:46 am (E.g. if the universe ceased to exist tomorrow, math would cease to exist with it.)

Technically, I don't think all laws of transformation will ever go away.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2026 11:31 am Online, they have been spreading memes saying that no one born in a Muslim family is really secular. We're all fundamentalists, apparently.

Meanwhile, there are Islamist parties in West Bengal that are willingly helping BJP win this election.

malloc wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 11:29 pm

rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 10:31 pmI'm trying to get into Schoenberg.

Good luck.

Thanks. I liked this one: https://youtu.be/kpTXZDVe5Wg

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Patrick Boyle's latest video: https://youtu.be/rnW3Bq6_-6k

Steve Keen is an economist who follows Post-Keynesianism in the tradition of Minsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Minsky I agree with many of the criticisms of mainstream economics at the opening of this lecture series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0A21A329D01D0CFE I'm concerned that ...

rotting bones wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2026 11:31 am I would seek "employment" as a delivery driver if I knew how to operate a vehicle other than a bicycle.

BTW, there have been instances where customers refused to accept deliveries from Muslim drivers.

Edit: I wonder if the same problem exists in freelance coding.

My view is that abstractions such as math are emergent from matter, while operating as an abstraction in terms that are independent from the matter from which it emerges, and likewise matter is dependent on abstractions such as math (as the laws of nature operate in mathematical terms). I'm a duali...

Just to be clear, Nazrul might be the national poet of Bangladesh, but our clan originates from what is now West Bengal. In fact, the Bangladesh Liberation War was allied with India from the beginning.

If BJP tries to say I'm Bangladeshi, I will call them all Pakistanis even if they kill me.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/assembly-elections-live-updates-may-2-2026-tamil-nadu-west-bengal-assam-kerala-pondicherry-results/article70930663.ece Depression is starting to affect my work. When I'm in an optimistic mood, I think: It's a win-win. Either TMC stays in power and treats me lik...

Personally, I'm tempted to posit a dualism of matter and the laws of transformation that operate on it.

The same simulation can execute on multiple, mutually incompatible substrates. The same pattern surfaces when you ignore low level details. See my post if you haven't yet: https://snapshotsofthelabyrinth.photo.blog/2026/05/01/abstraction-as-simulation/ Any Turing-complete system can execute the Gam...

Math is an abstraction which has an identity and rules independent of the physical substrate; things like 2 + 2 = 4 are not tied to any particular physical representation , whether it is electric charges and currents or grains of sand or thoughts in our heads. Generalizations over physical laws app...

Math is an abstraction which has an identity and rules independent of the physical substrate; things like 2 + 2 = 4 are not tied to any particular physical representation , whether it is electric charges and currents or grains of sand or thoughts in our heads. Generalizations over physical laws app...

The key thing is that math is an abstraction divorced from any particular thing in the physical world . One can express math countless different ways in the physical substrate, yet the math remains the same regardless. By your logic, math itself is inseparable from the physical world, and hence the...