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Posted by
Kalepha
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03 December 2007
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Considering all my attitudes about the community, really perhaps only one or two are negative. But when they're negative, absolute zero causes big bangs. Still, fortunately, they're not about projecting blame or wanting to hinder what are overall wonderful intentions.
I hypothesize infinitary value in philosophy, mathematics, science, and engineering, and that they ultimately have more commonalities than not, or that they're really a unit (e.g., as in culminating in Tegmarkian Level 4 mathematical universes).
Now, occasionally folks in the community will use vague as a disparaging modifier, where I would've used abstract in a necessarily somewhat different context (functionalistically nonetheless, but hopefully that can be beside the point here). To me, to use vague in that way is to connote the message:
I hypothesize infinitary value in philosophy, mathematics, science, and engineering, and that they ultimately have more commonalities than not, or that they're really a unit (e.g., as in culminating in Tegmarkian Level 4 mathematical universes).
Now, occasionally folks in the community will use vague as a disparaging modifier, where I would've used abstract in a necessarily somewhat different context (functionalistically nonetheless, but hopefully that can be beside the point here). To me, to use vague in that way is to connote the message:
There is no value in this object or its relations, for it doesn't exist, only its lower levels of details (whatever "it" is), the low enough ones where I say there is, in fact, value [in "detail" objects and their relations]; or else beware that I'm on the side of those who shall develop the conditions that extort you into my [trivial] value space of infinitely secured non-vagueness.
If there's any obstacle to the possibility of coexisting eternal egos, it'll probably be the one that roots from circa 2000 CE vagophobia.