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|content=No doubt, my points about K-meson decay and Hayflick limits in toxicology were also contaminated by my trying to make econ. a science? ;-)
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|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: Bad Theory is overblown. Good theory is a remaining threat to orderly science. But if you fear disruption, run the malware. Thx.
|content=New Topic: Scientific Malware, Theory-Phobia, and the Proxy Economy of Science.
|timestamp=7:44 AM · Nov 12, 2009
|timestamp=5:49 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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=== 2010 ===
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|content=5YO finds 2 distinct groups of order 4!</br>
|content=Let me make a [[Claims|claim]]: Science is too disruptive to result in an orderly market place of ideas. If you like orderly markets, ya got trouble.
[[Morals|Moral]]: Inability to put your $%#* pants on leads to Klein 4-group multiplication table. Go failure.
|timestamp=5:58 AM · Nov 12, 2009
|timestamp=3:20 PM · Aug 27, 2010
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=== 2017 ===
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|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: When a scientist removes talk of softness/ethics from discussion, you can't infer he/she isn't laser focused on grace/ethics/decency.
|content=What we have built is a compromise: a proxy economy which is nothing if not orderly. In fact, the proxy economy is a towering achievment.
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|timestamp=6:03 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|content=Old tweet rerun: Can (arguably) the world's most emotional 8 chord, chord progression really be generated by a cold dispassionate algorithm?
|content=The proxy economy gets results but in a weird way. A falsifiable hypothesis sent to a leading journal can be returned as 'speculation'.
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|timestamp=6:13 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|content=print "Pachelbel's Canon in C:"</br>
|content=The vulnerability of the proxy economy is that achieves an orderly market place of ideas at the expense of efficiency. Enter "Theory".
p='CDEFGABCDE'</br>
|timestamp=6:20 AM · Nov 12, 2009
for i in range(8):</br>
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=== 2018 ===
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|content=Try to imagine being an echidna or platypus and as actual egg laying mammals, not even being able to land the sought-after “Easter Mascot” account, being edged out by a f@&amp;$ing rabbit.
|content=There are *distinct* fears surrounding new theory. A) It is crap. B) If not, It threatens stabilty, my grant, my oeuvre, my self-worth.
 
|timestamp=6:42 AM · Nov 12, 2009
[[Morals|Moral]]: There are *many* glass ceilings. If you’ve hit one, know there are others.
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|content=A game is to make lay people interested in radical progress fear disorderly change as if they were rentseekers, by feeding the fear of crap.
|timestamp=6:48 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|content=The crap, though, is easy to spot. String triumphalism, genetic determinism, etc.. Yet so is an advancement like gauge theoretic economics.
|timestamp=7:02 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|content=So, in my case, while *experiment* shows consumer tastes changing, we claim any theory incorporating this is crap. Now, that's some malware!
|timestamp=7:20 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|content=In particle physics, wagers (more than data) have showed us how weak actual conviction in theory is relative to stated confidence.
|timestamp=7:34 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: Bad Theory is overblown. Good theory is a remaining threat to orderly science. But if you fear disruption, run the malware. Thx.
|timestamp=7:44 AM · Nov 12, 2009
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|content=So @orzelc claims I'm making a mistake fallling for economics as a science.  Yeah. I thought we were apes with behavior to study. My bad.
|timestamp=12:46 PM · Nov 12, 2009
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|content=5YO finds 2 distinct groups of order 4!</br>
[[Morals|Moral]]: Inability to put your $%#* pants on leads to Klein 4-group multiplication table. Go failure.
|timestamp=3:20 PM · Aug 27, 2010
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=== 2017 ===
 
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|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: When a scientist removes talk of softness/ethics from discussion, you can't infer he/she isn't laser focused on grace/ethics/decency.
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|content=Old tweet rerun: Can (arguably) the world's most emotional 8 chord, chord progression really be generated by a cold dispassionate algorithm?
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|content=print "Pachelbel's Canon in C:"</br>
p='CDEFGABCDE'</br>
for i in range(8):</br>
a=abs(i-5)</br>
print p[:-1][((5-i)/2)*2+i/7]+p[2:][a:a+3:2] #tweetypy
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=== 2018 ===
 
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|content=Try to imagine being an echidna or platypus and as actual egg laying mammals, not even being able to land the sought-after “Easter Mascot” account, being edged out by a f@&amp;$ing rabbit.
 
[[Morals|Moral]]: There are *many* glass ceilings. If you’ve hit one, know there are others.
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|content=@EstherOfReilly That’s what‘s so interesting about such a turning away from Judaism. I don’t see any indication that the Jewish concept of an Old Testament G-d would be simply loving, attentive, protective &amp; kind. It’s the recent softening of Deities that make G-ds seem so uncaring or impotent.
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|content=A century ago, my great-uncle Sasha was killed serving at the very end of WWI. The simple pointless loss of a sibling, kicked my great grandma Mary from Orthodox Judaism into atheism, altering everything in my family’s arc.
 
[[Morals|Moral]]: it’s the wise &amp; kind G-ds we make that fail us.
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|content=@EstherOfReilly When we make G-d in man’s image he generally becomes a character who is too simple, caring and comprehensible to survive repeated contact with random events. The G-d concepts that survive best tend to be less comprehensible and more dialectical.
|timestamp=11:47 PM · Nov 11, 2018
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|content=@JasonVerhoek @Cernovich I don't know why you would say that. I wouldn't. I would say that dying at the very tail end, just before its end felt pointless.
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=== 2019 ===
 
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|content=Many are asking me for clarification. In Romance languages the ‘C’ Letter/Sound is associated with ‘Hot’ and the first tweet was located in Italy. But English speakers *reliably* make a leap that ‘C’ means cold which is *exactly* the reverse.
 
[[Morals|Moral]]: Nuance can flip *everything*.
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|content=1/ Nuance v Activism on Twitter.
 
What Nuance-Twitter Says: https://t.co/bL3mPkuDIj
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|content=I believe in an exceptional almost complex structure on the six sphere.
 
To each her own.
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|content=@EstherOfReilly That’s what‘s so interesting about such a turning away from Judaism. I don’t see any indication that the Jewish concept of an Old Testament G-d would be simply loving, attentive, protective &amp; kind. It’s the recent softening of Deities that make G-ds seem so uncaring or impotent.
|content=Some folks believe in angels. They have magic in their lives.
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[[Morals|Moral]]: [[Don't screw yourself out of magic|don’t screw yourself out of magic]].
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|content=A century ago, my great-uncle Sasha was killed serving at the very end of WWI. The simple pointless loss of a sibling, kicked my great grandma Mary from Orthodox Judaism into atheism, altering everything in my family’s arc.


[[Morals|Moral]]: it’s the wise &amp; kind G-ds we make that fail us.
https://nilesjohnson.net/seven-manifolds.html
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|content=@EstherOfReilly When we make G-d in man’s image he generally becomes a character who is too simple, caring and comprehensible to survive repeated contact with random events. The G-d concepts that survive best tend to be less comprehensible and more dialectical.
|content=Magic is everywhere.
|timestamp=11:47 PM · Nov 11, 2018
 
The negative mindset dividing us is not worthy of us. This is our one life. Don’t force others to waste their precious time on earth protecting hard won freedoms and institutions from self hating madness posing as a thirst for justice.
 
Go read a 7-sphere.
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|content=@JasonVerhoek @Cernovich I don't know why you would say that. I wouldn't. I would say that dying at the very tail end, just before its end felt pointless.
|content=I believe in angels and demons.
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|content=Many are asking me for clarification. In Romance languages the ‘C’ Letter/Sound is associated with ‘Hot’ and the first tweet was located in Italy. But English speakers *reliably* make a leap that ‘C’ means cold which is *exactly* the reverse.
 
[[Morals|Moral]]: Nuance can flip *everything*.
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|content=1/ Nuance v Activism on Twitter.
 
What Nuance-Twitter Says: https://t.co/bL3mPkuDIj
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|content=Some folks believe in angels. They have magic in their lives.
 
But if you fancy you‘re too scientific/rational for that “woo woo stuff”, you‘re still stuck with “Exotic Spheres.” Well...What are they doing there?
 
[[Morals|Moral]]: don’t screw yourself out of magic.
 
https://nilesjohnson.net/seven-manifolds.html
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|content=Of the four names on the major tickets, I guess I might have rank ordered them:
|content=Of the four names on the major tickets, I guess I might have rank ordered them:


I) Biden</br>
I) [[Joe Biden|Biden]]</br>
II) Pence</br>
II) Pence</br>
III) Trump</br>
III) [[Donald Trump|Trump]]</br>
IV) Harris
IV) [[Kamala Harris|Harris]]


Where I guess this tells me that I want to take a pass on having Harris or Trump be the ones to lead us into the future. I’d rather a place holder for now.
Where I guess this tells me that I want to take a pass on having Harris or Trump be the ones to lead us into the future. I’d rather a place holder for now.
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|content=Moral: However you voted, I have no right to judge you on your vote.
|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: However you voted, I have no right to judge you on your vote.


Be generous of spirit. Let’s come back together and not waste another four years getting farther away from our best selves by arguing like fools while the CCP and others rivals watch us undo ourselves fighting.
Be generous of spirit. Let’s come back together and not waste another four years getting farther away from our best selves by arguing like fools while the CCP and others rivals watch us undo ourselves fighting.
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|content=I have no idea what to make of the change in the [[UAP|UAP narrative]]. What I can tell you with certainty is that for such an ENORMOUS change in the narrative there is no sane explanation for the DOE not to be talking new physics risks and taking every one of the few claims seriously.
|content=I have no idea what to make of the change in the [[UAP|UAP narrative]]. What I can tell you with certainty is that for such an ENORMOUS change in the narrative there is no sane explanation for the DOE not to be talking new physics risks and taking every one of the few [[Claims|claims]] seriously.
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|content=As we saw over &amp; over in the 20th century, any small change in physics can change everything almost overnight. From A-Bombs to Semiconductors.
|content=As we saw over &amp; over in the 20th century, any small change in physics can change everything almost overnight. From A-Bombs to Semiconductors.


The handful of PhD level claims are of negligible cost to investigate &amp; dismiss compared to a single fighter jet.  
The handful of PhD level [[Claims|claims]] are of negligible cost to investigate &amp; dismiss compared to a single fighter jet.  


DOE lost the plot.
DOE lost the plot.
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Shabbat Shalom to one and all.
Shabbat Shalom to one and all.
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|content=For some reasons that have never been explained or justified leaders in physics started making the claim that GR *was* also a gauge theory. This was done by claiming that general coordinate invariance in the form of the diffeomorphism group is a kind of Gauge Transformation. Which it clearly is not.  
|content=For some reasons that have never been explained or justified leaders in physics started making the claim that [[General Relativity|GR]] *was* also a gauge theory. This was done by claiming that general coordinate invariance in the form of the diffeomorphism group is a kind of Gauge Transformation. Which it clearly is not.  


This is absurd. Gauge transformations move the fibers and are defined not to move space time where as diffeomorphisms move space time directly.  
This is absurd. Gauge transformations move the fibers and are defined not to move space time where as diffeomorphisms move space time directly.  


So: why claim that GR is a kind of gauge theory? The only payoff I see is that this allows us to pretend that the SM vs GR incompatibility is classical vs quantum where it is staring us in the face that it is instead contraction-based (GR) vs Gauge Transformed (SM).  
So: why claim that GR is a kind of gauge theory? The only payoff I see is that this allows us to pretend that the [[Standard Model|SM]] vs [[General Relativity|GR]] incompatibility is classical vs quantum where it is staring us in the face that it is instead contraction-based ([[General Relativity|GR]]) vs Gauge Transformed ([[Standard Model|SM]]).  


The only reason this is at all controversial is that the people saying it were thought to be the leaders 40 years ago.  
The only reason this is at all controversial is that the people saying it were thought to be the leaders 40 years ago.  
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That didn’t work out. We have 40 years lost as a result.  
That didn’t work out. We have 40 years lost as a result.  


But the truth is anyone can see the incompatibility between gravity and gauge theory if they are not being told that gravity is a special kind of gauge theory. Which it absolutely is not as formulated by Grossman, Einstein and Hilbert.
But the truth is anyone can see the incompatibility between gravity and [[Gauge Theory|gauge theory]] if they are not being told that gravity is a special kind of [[Gauge Theory|gauge theory]]. Which it absolutely is not as formulated by Grossman, Einstein and Hilbert.


[[Morals|Moral]]: The problem holding us back from a Theory of everything is **Classical**, and not Quantum. The quantum comes as desert after classical compatibility. It’s not the main issue. A red hearing that throws us off following the scent. It’s a distraction that should have fooled almost no one who was thinking for his or her self.
[[Morals|Moral]]: The problem holding us back from a Theory of everything is **Classical**, and not Quantum. The quantum comes as desert after classical compatibility. It’s not the main issue. A red hearing that throws us off following the scent. It’s a distraction that should have fooled almost no one who was thinking for his or her self.
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|content=This is what is blocking progress in my opinion for physics to go beyond [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]] and [[General Relativity]].
40 years ago, the leaders of physics started claiming that gravity had to be quantized to be compatible with the [[Standard Model]].
But the incompatibility is *not* Quantum vs Classical field theory. The *classical* field theory of the [[Standard Model]] is already not compatible with classical [[General Relativity]].
[[General Relativity]], at least as it is now, simply cannot be gauged so as to make it a true gauge theory, because Gauge transformation does *not* commute with the Ricci Contractions used in the field equations, and within the Einstein Hilbert action.
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|content=I wish I deserved the heretic moniker, but isn’t asking whether spacetime is quantum or classical just common sense? After all, general relativity (GR) - our theory of gravity and spacetime - is special. It isn’t a gauge theory, and gravity isn’t a force. 1/
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|content=[[Morals|MORAL]]: No one wants @WSJ-Style Open Border Utopianism. Mass immigration *as it is currently configured* is an “Elite Program” that no one actually wants. It’s bananas.
|content=[[Morals|MORAL]]: No one wants @WSJ-Style Open Border Utopianism. Mass immigration *as it is currently configured* is an “Elite Program” that no one actually wants. It’s bananas.


[And by “Elite” I mean the social engineers who killed off the actual elite hoping no one would notice.] https://t.co/3aKJdDQhf3
[And by [[Extractive Elite|“Elite”]] I mean the social engineers who killed off the [[True Elite|actual elite]] hoping no one would notice.]
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|content=Ran an @X poll. Here were the results:
|content=Ran an @X poll. Here were the results:
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|content=The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) lobbied hard for years for a 5 word amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
“There Shall Be Open Borders.”
Are you also excited about mass immigration via open borders into your country of residence?
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