Jacob
@JacobsArche
Physics & Philosophy | http://thearche.substack.com
Yes, patriotism today involves constructing a system where young Americans aren’t forced to compete with international slave labor for basic white collar jobs.
So-called "culturally attuned talent" when you explain that American values do not include selling out your countrymen to the lowest bidder
Thinking Out Loud: Discovering Good in the 21st Century x.com/i/spaces/1eaKb…
“Long have I desired to look upon the kings of old, my kin.” Authoritarian. Ethnic nationalist. Romanticization of the past. If Aragorn were alive today, he’d be posting “Look what they took from you.”
how amazing it must have been seeing this scene for the first time in theaters
All great work, and any striving for excellence, contains the social element. Nothing with such qualities can be achieved in isolation.
What good is all this study of philosophy if you cannot enjoy its fruit or heed its counsel.
Anyone who travels widely and in the process becomes less persuaded of the obvious truths of Human Biological Diversity is literally retarded. x.com/MarketPalmer_/…
A take: The more you travel, the less politically extreme you become.
One subtle benefit of learning math, and mathematical thinking in general, is it being almost half the work needed for the sciences.
“Of all social bonds, none is more excellent, and more enduring, than when good men of similar ways are joined together in a spirit of familiarity. ” - Cicero
“Plato compared life to a game of dice in which we must try not only to throw what suits us best, but also, when we have made our throw, to make good use of what turns up.” – Plutarch
If this were accurate, Mars would become a second thought.
A picture of the moon Titan taken by the James Webb telescope
“Although we need the Word to keep things known in common, people still treat specialists as if their nonsense were a form of wisdom. ” - Heraclitus
A good way to think about modern scientists is to see them as technicians.
One time, a physicist I know dismissed the entire field of philosophy with one simple declaration, and I still love him for it. “If we can’t know, it doesn’t matter.”
“Nietzsche talks about this.”
Thinking about this observation from @tylercowen again:
Leibniz spent much of his life unnoticed.
Leibniz 🤯 Why don’t we see this level of breadth anymore among intellectuals?
“You will find men who are completely upset by failure to win an election, and others who are actually plagued by the offices which they have won.” - Seneca
