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It just occurred to me that it's entirely fitting how often Kowalski refers to the Caudine Forks, for that battle is a metaphor for ping pong arguments: Suppos

It just occurred to me that it's entirely fitting how often Kowalski refers to the Caudine Forks, for that battle is a metaphor for ping pong arguments: Suppose we have two statements (Romans), A and B. A priori, there are four possible situations: A & not B | A & B | not A & not B | not A & B However, as mathematicians, let us play the Samnite. First we close one pass, in proving A → B, which is equivalent to ruling out A & not B. Then we close the other pass, in proving B → A (ruling out not A & B). Now our romans, err, statements are confined to A & B | not A & not B, and (with no truth values having been harmed) must therefore pass under the yoke of equivalence: A ↔ B.

gradschoolfail 2y ago
Note: algeria 1830s https://baheyeldin.com/writings/culture/how-the-dutch-got-their-funny-names.html https://baheyeldin.com/writings/culture/how-the-dutch-got-th... Thanks for application of irony to a thread about iron laws! Led me to the “unnamed” Ping-Pong Lemma, a great counterexample! Vespasian was, apparently, more inconsistent: https://sci-hub.wf/10.2307/1192680 https://sci-hub.wf/10.2307/1192680 (Im guessing he was as aware as MAA of the burdens of office) Hopefully we can return to the formalization of Nietzsche/Greco-Roman ethics/(New) systems of survival soon. State of my art, how to extend Boyd’s Ping-Pong Lemma* to Rao’s SoS (assuming it already works in JJ’s system) Maybe the eternal Culture War is indeed the Russell one (Banks’ having his Culture win the Mandate of H) . Hey, JAW was concerned too, we are now on the same hunt as the Masters? https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/physicist-john-wheeler-and-the-it-from-bit https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/physicist-john-wheeler-an... https://mindmatters.ai/2021/05/it-from-bit-what-did-john-archibald-wheeler-get-right-and-wrong/ https://mindmatters.ai/2021/05/it-from-bit-what-did-john-arc... *the same old, but generalizing boss to adversaries, also noting in passing parallelism of your justice-prudence to guardian/commerce, so temperance-fortitude maps to Blue/Red hypernormal/weirdo??? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Boyd https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Boyd Front page activity indicates that cpython is becoming hypernormal ;) (even if GvR as a concept remains a Wojak)
- gradschoolfail 2y ago
  > becoming hypernormal becoming -> being, typo, or rather, forgot my own earlier classification
  - aebtebeten 2y ago
    that reminds me, you might be interested in Prigogine, From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences (1980). Lagniappe: https://xkcd.com/2904/ https://xkcd.com/2904/
    - gradschoolfail 2y ago
      I did a cyrsory examination of the genealogy a while back due to the events.. Ilya was probably quite related to.. Yevgeniy (verify?)
      - 082349872349872 2y ago
        on a quick Boyd tangent, the japanese three pwns (三殺法) easily map into Boyd's OODA: kill the sword - you are observing your opponent's actions kill the technique - you are observing your opponent's decisions kill the spirit - you are observing your opponent's orientations
        gradschoolfail 2y ago
        Not enough spare cycles to chew on that yet, just pointing: To buy time: weirdo -> peripherally oriented hypernormal -> centroidally oriented (Neither really observing the states of opposing camp beyond 1st pwn level, though the hypernormal may regard the other hypernormals as memetic rivals [the individuation in the Apolline]) Linux kernel devs —> … ? (Those customs inherited by crypto coredevs, hence also Yarvin, by diffusion, ..) Edit: something reminds me of the threeway struggle between the RI, the klepts, & the Met in Gibson’s trilogy+adaptation, which is not cleanly an indo-aryan division, as the Met is clearly the 3rd estate yet a warrior caste, while the klepts are merchant princes.. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/TJ3/the-jackpot-trilogy/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/TJ3/the-jackpot-tr...

gradschoolfail 2y ago

Note: algeria 1830s https://baheyeldin.com/writings/culture/how-the-dutch-got-their-funny-names.html https://baheyeldin.com/writings/culture/how-the-dutch-got-th... Thanks for application of irony to a thread about iron laws! Led me to the “unnamed” Ping-Pong Lemma, a great counterexample! Vespasian was, apparently, more inconsistent: https://sci-hub.wf/10.2307/1192680 https://sci-hub.wf/10.2307/1192680 (Im guessing he was as aware as MAA of the burdens of office) Hopefully we can return to the formalization of Nietzsche/Greco-Roman ethics/(New) systems of survival soon. State of my art, how to extend Boyd’s Ping-Pong Lemma* to Rao’s SoS (assuming it already works in JJ’s system) Maybe the eternal Culture War is indeed the Russell one (Banks’ having his Culture win the Mandate of H) . Hey, JAW was concerned too, we are now on the same hunt as the Masters? https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/physicist-john-wheeler-and-the-it-from-bit https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/physicist-john-wheeler-an... https://mindmatters.ai/2021/05/it-from-bit-what-did-john-archibald-wheeler-get-right-and-wrong/ https://mindmatters.ai/2021/05/it-from-bit-what-did-john-arc... *the same old, but generalizing boss to adversaries, also noting in passing parallelism of your justice-prudence to guardian/commerce, so temperance-fortitude maps to Blue/Red hypernormal/weirdo??? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Boyd https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Boyd Front page activity indicates that cpython is becoming hypernormal ;) (even if GvR as a concept remains a Wojak)

gradschoolfail 2y ago
> becoming hypernormal becoming -> being, typo, or rather, forgot my own earlier classification
- aebtebeten 2y ago
  that reminds me, you might be interested in Prigogine, From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences (1980). Lagniappe: https://xkcd.com/2904/ https://xkcd.com/2904/
  - gradschoolfail 2y ago
    I did a cyrsory examination of the genealogy a while back due to the events.. Ilya was probably quite related to.. Yevgeniy (verify?)
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      on a quick Boyd tangent, the japanese three pwns (三殺法) easily map into Boyd's OODA: kill the sword - you are observing your opponent's actions kill the technique - you are observing your opponent's decisions kill the spirit - you are observing your opponent's orientations
      - gradschoolfail 2y ago
        Not enough spare cycles to chew on that yet, just pointing: To buy time: weirdo -> peripherally oriented hypernormal -> centroidally oriented (Neither really observing the states of opposing camp beyond 1st pwn level, though the hypernormal may regard the other hypernormals as memetic rivals [the individuation in the Apolline]) Linux kernel devs —> … ? (Those customs inherited by crypto coredevs, hence also Yarvin, by diffusion, ..) Edit: something reminds me of the threeway struggle between the RI, the klepts, & the Met in Gibson’s trilogy+adaptation, which is not cleanly an indo-aryan division, as the Met is clearly the 3rd estate yet a warrior caste, while the klepts are merchant princes.. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/TJ3/the-jackpot-trilogy/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/TJ3/the-jackpot-tr...