On the Lex Friedman show Donald Knuth says he prioritizes what he hates the most on his todo list and that he is happy by the end of the week to have those tasks out of the way. He also had the principle by seeing what needs to be done and do it instead of planning.
My model of science is consistent with King Crocoduck’s model of science which is in the Big 4 Operational Criteria.
His premise is that science evolved with cognition long before it could be socially constructed. That would mean my model of science being a subset of religion would be coherent as my broad definition of religion.
Today I read The Pimp Game books 1 & 2 by Micky Royal and The King in Orange by John Michael Greer.
I still need a way to slurp up all my books into a database like MariaDB or Elasticsearch so I can query them all easily.
Are strip clubs analogous to a house of worship?
Applications to investigate as a base for rapid prototyping.
GNU Emacs
Wolfram Mathematica
LibreOffice
Blender
Chromium
Sabine Hossenfelder shows how the Quantum Eraser magic trick works.
I like this forum post so I am going to link to it from here.
I am identifying as Rosicrucian now.
Rosicrucians just give books away on their official website.
The Magic Rope is the electromagnetic rope that ties every atom together but never tangles or gets caught on anything.
The Phantom Thread is the object that doesn’t exist that Bill Gaede uses as a backdrop to present physics on.
They are apparently rational, but my problem with them is that they aren’t very useful. There is no good reason not to substitute these geometric models with geometric-arithmetic models we can do math with if they are analogous. Yes, this would make me an accursed mathemagician.
Bill Gaede finally gave a definition for shape between 2:07:00 and 2:08:00.
shape : anything you can draw or imagine
Based on the way he uses rational, we can can also conclude that shape and rational are synonyms. When ever Bill says something is irrational, it means he can’t draw or imagine it, and he usually uses a reduction to absurdity by attempting to draw and imagine it anyways and point out the flaws.
We have a more clear, revised definition for object now.
object : that which you can draw or imagine
Now for some textual support for the revised definition.
The Rope Hypothesis
Appendix 5
Not all objects are visible or tangible
At first impression, the definition of object would seem to be
quite inoffensive. We all knew it, right? Kindergarten stuff!
Actually, this is not the definition that has always been
applied or followed. Most people have the cursory notion of
ordinary speech in mind: that which we can touch or see. We
are so used to seeing and touching everyday things that we
casually assume that those are the properties that define an
object.
Then again, we cannot touch an impossible object such as
a tribar. We can at best touch the paper or the ink where the
image lies. And we certainly cannot see the air we breathe.
Therefore, touch and see are not universal attributes of objects
whereas shape is. Can you imagine an object that does not have
shape?
Nevertheless, touch, see, smell, taste, and hearing
invariably invoke a second object: the witness. This would
make the definition of object circular. We would have to invoke
two objects to define the word object.
Just as self-defeating, the definition of object would be
contingent on the interaction of these objects. The Moon would
not be an object until an asteroid struck it. We need to run a
test in which the senses of vision or touch are involved before
we can call an elephant an object. This is not a definition, but
a proof disguised as a definition: an operational or functional
definition.
If we can’t see or touch a star on the other side of the
Universe, does the word star not refer to an object? Is the Moon
not an object to the blind man?You can touch the
paper and the ink,
but not a tribar.…And, fortunately, we cannot see
the air, for else that would be the
only thing that we would see.Lastly, the word object is a static concept; no motion is
involved in its definition. The definition of the word object
necessarily precedes the definition of motion. Only objects can
perform actions. Hence, a scientific definition of object should
embody no verbs, motion, or any of the five senses.What is not readily apparent is that choosing shape rather
than the touch/see criteria leads to radically different
conclusions in Physics. This becomes evident when we
converge upon the properties of the invisible mediators that
Mother Nature uses to do her daily work.
The strategic word ‘object’
is a static concept. Its
definition should not
embody any movement or
invoke any of the five
senses. The only attribute
that all objects have is
form.
I am going to reset the definitions I made at the beginning of the year. I feel a strong need to clarify some definitions.
definition : a set of criteria that limits the extent or usage
object : that which you can imagine or draw; that which has shape
distance : separation between two objects
location : the set of distances from one object to all others
entity : an object that has a location; that which you can see or touch
exist : to have a location; physical presence
motion : two or more locations of an object; to move
time : to have more than one location
context : the set of objects being invoked or embodied by an object
universe : a set of objects that have physical presence with each other
multiverse : a set of objects that conditionally have physical presence with each other
frame : saved state of a universe; film in a movie
energy : difference between frames
dimension : number of coordinates needed to specify a location on an object
nothing : object that doesn’t exist that you present science on
religion : the process of manipulating variance of a universe
technology : the process for detecting invariance of a universe
science : to explain; the presentation
Bill Gaede obfuscates some of his definitions, and they have to be deciphered by comparing usage over multiple videos and documents.
Object and concept are actually synonyms, but concept is a derogatory form used to degrade alternate hypotheses.
The term “rational” is a religious term used to label notions Bill supports.
You have to present your presentation on an object that doesn’t exist in your presentation because it is not possible to do otherwise. You are always constrained by language and assumptions and that always shapes the presentation. It is impossible to imagine something doesn’t have shape, by definition. You also can’t give that object a location inside the presentation because it doesn’t have a distance of separation between other objects because it is everywhere. That is why I call it the nothing.
You can’t do pull with Magic Rope because it is intangible.
The term “set” runs into Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. I really can’t define it, I have to explain it.
I no longer need to use the term “pseudoscience”, I can more precisely say that a particular technology is bad. For example, I can say Flat Earth is a bad technology because it can’t be used to figure out the size of Earth.
Hi @Oflameo
I think I remember you talking about programming, or spell software, I saw this YouTube video, thought you would have gotten a kick out of it.
I listened to Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Doctorate in Computer Engineering and Ontology because he was an expert in Metaphysical Idealism.
I binge watched an Analytic Idealism Course w/ Bernardo Kastrup.
On the MythVision Podcast Dr. Richard Carrier AMA I asked the following.
In Egypt, Pharaohs are worshiped as gods. We have historical confirmation that Pharaohs existed. How do atheists separate the divinity from Pharaohs?
Richard Carrier said that rulers in general were divine and that they tended to be deified after death. He separated deities into 2 categories politically and supernaturally.
There may be a communication, domination dichotomy.
Her description seems to line up with mine from Oflameo's Doom Bunker - #6 by Oflameo.
