there’s a form of stepwise thought where this leads to that, which leads to that, too. and that, and that, too. the last step is typically the apocalypse or salvation. but i don’t trust the rhythm. life goes sideways, we all find the bridge.
i don’t trust “effective altruism” because it does not seem to have enough humility in the face of human complexity, the depths of evil and the heights of good
@sivori with many collaborators, i helped design the slum mortgage, school and banking systems in india. when i returned home, i offered to re design these in america. everytime, the ideas were rejected by progressive factions over identity.
Nagarjuna said phenomena are empty of inherent existence. Raymond-Robichaud proved this mathematically. The quantum world is local-realistic: what we observe is a projection of a relational noumenal ground that cannot be read back from observation alone. Sunyata is a theorem, not a metaphor.
He did indeed. I was flabbergasted by his result, which has made much existing (and continuing!) work in quantum foundations obsolete. But it has received grossly insufficient recognition from the community. They still don't know what hit them and are still ingeniously discussing non-existent things like "quantum non-locality" (and "the measurement problem") in ever greater detail.
He deserves patrons.
beautiful piece of music and artful tweet! it worked for me. pulled me right out of infinite scroll. reminded me of what it means to be awake, alert and human 🌞
i think the idea of a meaning crisis always seems stupid to me because i'm from a culture where we've already been through this several times since being brought to this country and some part of me is like "y'all will figure it out, you love the music we made about it"