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Dr. Jauge
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Dr. Jauge
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If “compression is the first grace of style,” I don't have it.
Brussels/London/Newcastle Katılım Mart 2009
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I live in the West End of Newcastle, where kids drink cider and smoke weed on bits of Hadrian's wall between Budgens and the all-night garage
Funes@Bulkington___
Always fascinated how people in the middle ages for hundreds of years just lived amongst the ever decrepitating Roman ruins. It was just a part of daily life for them.
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Editorial here narrowmarginquarterly.com/02/editorial and see some you at Light Industry shortly!
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I'll be in town for it! Come by and say hi NY people
Joshua Peinado@tenmoreskies
Narrow Margin Magazine present two films by Jean-Claude Biette at Light Industry, December 14. A rare print of Far From Manhattan, drinks and discussion from @drjauge and @HishamAwad4, and the release of Issue 2 of Narrow Margin + more! Text on LI by Hicham and yours truly
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@deontologistics 'Big if true!' was pretty funny. Trust me fellah, I've experienced enough Lacanian contact highs to know we're at the tip of the iceberg here
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My reaction to this is some variant of the old Thought Slime line that 'most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day'. This man is simply unable to be irritated by the discursive norms of Continental philosophy in the way that I am. To me, he is like a little baby.
Bentham's Bulldog@Benthamsbulldog
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New book: F. H. Bradley & the History of Philosophy: Animating a Lost Idealism. Ben Woodard. Edinburgh: UP, 2025. "relevant for renewed interest in Spinoza & Hegel". edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-f-h-bradl…
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Good news everyone! My long overdue second book - The Revenge of Reason - is currently at the printer and is now available for pre-order on the Urbanomic website (estimated to be sent out mid-October). Link below!
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@plain_simon @littmath @peligrietzer The questions 'would an LLM trained on 1890s maths eventually discover results about density of points?' and 'would it develop the concept of "Lebesgue measure"?' seem very different, and the latter a more obvious no. But those kind of differences then ramify very quickly!
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@plain_simon @littmath @peligrietzer In that moment, if you want to developing a concept of measure, refine the notion of integration, set theory is used in large part because it's useful for human mathematicians as a medium of representation. That really might not be the case for Peli's time travelling LLM
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'AI can't do anything that is not boilerplate or a game' is actually batting a thousand so far. People dismiss it due to prior theoretical considerations against the idea that 'creativity' is a scientifically meaningful concept
Sabine Hossenfelder@skdh
I find it mildly amusing how mathematicians are currently clinging onto the hope that there is something special about their creativity that AI will not also be able to pull off in a year or two.
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@EqualParallel Certainly talk of aesthetics has replaced the social justificatory role of appeals to the (religious) spirit. To roll out the old line from Jan Ritsema: 'Every bourgeois family used to give one child to the clergy for the sake of their eternal souls. Now they have an artist.'
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Two separate things on this:
1) I'm increasingly convinced that the future of the humanities turns on coming with a social justification for 'secular monks'
2) Peli's point is a reason why mathematics is adjacent to the humanities in a way that, say, structural engineering isn't
Peli Grietzer@peligrietzer
I'd call this something like 'the mathematicians-as-monks interpretation,' on which we fund mathematicians to embody mathematical understanding rather than to produce mathematical knowledge. I think there's something right about it
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@EqualParallel I suppose I'm attached to mathematics as a paradigm of non-instrumental rationality, which can also stand as a case for the humanities, because it's a neat way of advancing an anti-instrumentalism polemic while avoiding going all Die Frage nach der Technik
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@EqualParallel Maths is both an enlightening and confusing paradigm case here as arguably its purity lies in its self-regard: maths is uninterested in non-maths things except as 'examples'. That it makes a good model for secular monkdom, but potentially misleading one if generalised
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It is possible that we end up in the same position wrt to pure maths done by humans, i.e. that we must defend its institutional reproduction not in spite of but because of its lack of instrumental value. How to do that without religious justification is a serious question
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Related: one of my biggest turnarounds this last decade has been from agressive eyerolling while listening to Peter Osborne argue that the modern university doesn't know what do with philosphy because its value is essentially 'unmeasurable', to basically thinking that is correct
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