Reason in Revolt

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Oct 9, 2024
I renamed the blog again
I renamed the blog again. Now it’s called “Reason in Revolt”, which is a lyric from an English version of the Internationale.…
Sep 10, 2024
A Mark-Shaped Hole
Tonight I went to the Acquired podcast live show. Acquired’s tagline is “Every company has a story: Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them as a founder, operator, or investor.…
Aug 30, 2024
What is computation?
Laputa, from Gulliver's Travels. Home of the hopelessly rational people who "If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geometrical terms.…
Aug 24, 2024
What is human nature?
In the ant community, each worker performs its proper functions. There may be a separate caste of sol­diers. Certain highly specialized individuals perform the functions of king and queen.…
Aug 6, 2024
Why are ideas from computer science absent from Marxist discourse?
The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps…