econnor

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by econnor 8y ago
I'd kinda worked out that people who know about this stuff didn't think it was a good account. Was more remarking that calling things dark and black (and, indeed, wimps and machos) sort of invites simplistic and erroneous pop-scie
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by econnor 8y ago
There's a certain nominative-deterministic inevitability to all this. There are these things called black holes that apparently are a full of a lot of stuff and aren't completely understood. And there's this mysterious stuff
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by econnor 8y ago
This triggers some thoughts that I haven't quite joined up yet. Likewise, some reds and some greens are interchangeable to me. I imagine the different colouring of intervals that you hear in different keys is due to tempering. I don&#x
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by econnor 8y ago
Surely you make your own intellectual life and take it with you wherever you go? You will think more interesting thoughts in a terrible place. Most ideas that matter are born from adversity or quiet reflection. And depth requires a bit of f
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by econnor 8y ago
And Europe
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by econnor 8y ago
Great article. The entanglement of The Enlightenment in everyday thinking is the source of much confusion and irony. I imagine we'll grow out of it. I'm reminded of a 1980s BBC film of Alan Bennett's "The Insurance Man&q
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by econnor 8y ago
Whenever mine has gone much above 30% (70ish prob highest ever) it generally turns out to be an unattended app left open on the android device I have hanging off the back of the TV. I recall the NYT app, for example, pinging home every 30 s
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by econnor 8y ago
It's like the dictionary vs encyclopedia thing. A dictionary (vocabulary) is probably the best we can hope for. I have a foggy recollection that Jerry Fodor (Holism) or maybe Eco had thoughts on the matter.
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by econnor 8y ago
My enduring memory of Burgess was on a highbrow literary quiz show where he failed to identify a passage from Proust. Chagrined and with as straight a face as he could muster he explained that he had only ever read Proust in French.
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by econnor 8y ago
I kinda imagine the HN bait (not taken up) was the guy who simply needed space to count to a million and back. I've read a lot of books less interesting than this story. If born a few years later, would he have retreated to his room an
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by econnor 8y ago
Don't try this at home ...
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by econnor 8y ago
I'm speechless.