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🧵🧵🧵THE QUESTIONABLE GEOMETRY OF GEOMETRIC UNITY, A THREAD 🧵🧵🧵 Or, how the first definition in Eric Weinstein's Geometric Unity draft (v April 1st, 2021) is quite bad, so you might as well ignore the whole thing.

In contrast to Gödel's own notoriously mystical Platonic views of mathematics, Gödel's own work essentially proved that mathematics isn't scientific. In other words, it can only ever serve as useful epistemic heuristics and can never ever be considered adequate enough to serve as the ontological basis of any kind of science. Unfortunately, even to this day, a lot of mathematicians, physicists, and virtually all neoclassical economists still have yet to get the memo about all this.

An interesting phenomenon in dynamical systems is the limit cycle. A limit cycle is an isolated periodic trajectory, often taking form as a self-sustaining oscillation, where a system’s state follows a closed path and repeatedly returns to the same values.

I would note that using "hallucinated citations" as incontrovertible proof of AI usage is starting to be problematic. Hallucinations and Google Scholar ingestion errors are quickly converging.

I’m going to run a sequence of polls over the next few days to gauge how Platonist math twitter is. 1. Does the Goldbach Conjecture have a truth value?

Sam Altman texts Mira Murati November 19, 2023

Are gay people in Algeria🇩🇿 rare like a legendary Pokemon or they're all around us but closeted so they don't get killed ? 🤔

Can you swim in shade balls?