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(Thread) What is a computer? Definitions are contentious precisely because there is so much at stake (culturally, financially, infrastructurally) in the symbols and narratives we construct around the "computer".Defining computers
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(Thread) A few years ago I came up with a system of distributed governance designed to systematize the consensus process at global scales. The proposal was called Polytopolis: a city
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Hanger metaphysics: an perspectival multi-scale model Imagine that the universe is entirely made of tiny metal wire hangers. Piles and piles of hangers in knotted tangled lumps, covering a massive
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Actually somewhat surprised that the correct answer doesn't show up in this thread among all the joke and wrong answers. Metaphysics is structure. That's all. It's not that complicated.https://twitter.com/lastpositivist/status/12456261816
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The "scientific revolution" was not science vs religion, it was science vs Aristotle. I'm regularly surprised at how little recognition this gets.https://twitter.com/eripsa/status/1193604553859571712 If anything can bring together the S
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