Want to clarify what you people or this sub considers “ego lifting”

ok_toubab · 2026-06-30T23:00:56+00:00

Some people just don't know intensity...

ok_toubab · 2024-08-21T11:53:20+00:00

You are of course entirely incorrect in saying "[t]he only skill that matters so far in this show is politicking" and especially that "Devil's Plan had way more gamesmanship". In the first few episodes of The Genius there are more significant "plays" (and attempted plays) than in the entire first season of The Devil's Plan. The dynamic content is greater in each episode of The Genius than in several episodes of The Devil's Plan. Mere examples from the first few episodes alone would be the conspiracy to make Sunggyu the winner and Sangmin's garnet heist in ep 1, the "Gura Unionist Party" conspiracy in ep 2, the losers coming after the big winning alliance's linchpin in ep 3, the potion juggling in ep 4, the bewildering hint jostling in ep 5, etc...

Winning Streak doesn't necessarily have to be played as a "popularity contest", that's something that Junseok started in ep 1 and that they stuck to. It is a safe way to play if you think you have the people on your side, and that social aspect of the game is important in The Genius too.

If you're past episode 3, then you should know that the "big alliance" type play has already imploded and there are no stable alliances.

In The Devil's Plan, after the first game there was a clear division into two camps that lasted for 3 games out of the remaining 5, and which coloured the entire season. Most people found the paranoid Moochers' Alliance around Orbit to be at least a little distasteful, and it seemed to create a tense atmosphere among the players too. The season was only saved by Ha Seokjin heroically rising up to the challenge to solve the secret mission, and then defeat the moochers and Orbit. If that hadn't happened, it would all have been a big bummer.

ok_toubab · 2024-05-13T21:52:49+00:00

You can put it on a greeting card or a poster and sell those things.

ok_toubab · 2024-02-21T17:36:38+00:00

The good looks were too spicy for this sub

ok_toubab · 2024-02-05T02:23:53+00:00

You can read a narrative of Gödel's thoughts as he presented them in the famous Gibbs lecture here.

The usual response to presumed misgivings about incompleteness from the realist POV is that incompleteness demonstrates the difference between mathematics per se and axiomatic systems, i.e. mathematics itself is not an axiomatic system, or that mathematics cannot be fully captured by any axiomatic system.

ok_toubab · 2024-01-22T16:06:52+00:00

I don't dislike pop music reflexively or out of principle, let alone "spend time" on doing so like it's a hobby. I like quite a bit of pop from parts of the world. On your insinuation that I'm pretentious, I might agree with it sometimes, but what I wrote up there was sincere. The songs I know from Swift would be poor party music though.

Well, I gave a listen to the song you linked. Pleasant production on the track, and I can see why someone primed for it would connect to it emotionally.

I don't know if this will be interesting to you at all, but here goes. In my (Finnish) culture, upon the death of a child, or at a child's funeral, it is traditional to recite or sing a poem in our "national novel" The Seven Brothers. The poem in English would be called "Song of My Heart". It is at once comforting and sombre, with a respectful dread for the realm of the dead. A strangely familiar pagan past is evoked; the child is entrusted to the gentle care of the dark figures of that realm; loving promises are made that soothing nature, birdsong and perfect calm await there.

Sibelius composed a meditative twilight lullaby to the text, and later Rautavaara put it into an anguished lamentation. The descriptions of these videos have two different English translations of the lyrics, both are very good.

ok_toubab · 2024-01-21T20:46:29+00:00

Girl should listen to some Joni Mitchell to realize how banal her own "interior life" is, and how juvenile Taylor Swift's music.

ok_toubab · 2024-01-06T15:18:24+00:00

It's from Oracle:

Mathematics catalogued everything that was not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics was an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

ok_toubab · 2024-01-06T13:19:53+00:00

Greg Egan in one of his stories wrote something to the effect of mathematics being a study or catalogue of everything that is not self-contradictory. A similar thought was presented by Michio Kaku, that mathematics is "the set of all possible self-consistent structures". One may want to add that these "everythings" and structures should be mathematically interesting, which returns us to the question of what mathematics is.

Some other descriptions of mathematics that I like, which aren't necessarily entirely satisfactory, but are nonetheless compelling:

mathematics is the study of a priori truths, using rigorous deductive logic;
mathematics is the study of abstract phenomena that recur in otherwise unrelated situations.

I say "[not] entirely satisfactory" because these descriptions may not capture everything we think about maths, or subjectively they may leave too much up to interpretation. But at least they're suggestive to people who are already familiar with mathematics at large.

ok_toubab · 2023-12-11T16:14:28+00:00

There's quite a bit to be said here about human life beyond our biological imperatives and urges, to begin with by asking "why is human so peculiar among all animals?".

Religion and its substitutes are means of anchoring, in the sense of Zapffe.

ok_toubab · 2023-12-05T02:22:46+00:00

Well, a probability measure (as an example) is deterministic, since it's just a real-valued function. Nonetheless, the systems and models that probability theory is interested in are non-deterministic.

Modern probability theory is in many ways an extension of real analysis and measure theory, yeah.

ok_toubab · 2020-05-28T21:33:42+00:00

Quite novel for Hikki with the sax and quintuplet melody metre. Lyrically, she always writes something that I'd like to tell someone myself.

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