#mathbrain

[pilmyeol]

saw someone laughing at tills round 2 score of 153 to acorns 20 and i had assumed the points were out of 100 but apparently there are a total of 173 points and youre competing to get more of them. who the hell made these rules��

[stephanleyhes]

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[deepseasmetro]

im getting so much vicarious joy from being an annoying mathbrained middle schooler who loved explaining this kind of shit to my uncaring friends through your posting can you make a poll about why .9999 (repeating into infinity) is mathematically equal to one next that proof is my favorite

you know whats funny, .0999 repeating = 1 is one of those things i was in the camp of "well i believe you guys but i dont get it" and this ask inspired me to look into it more. and now i get it but not enough to explain it. anyways

[max1461]

This is a little mathbrained but I do think it's an advantage in many ways: I basically never think in terms of "arguments, counterarguments, and which are stronger" (debatebrained), I just think in terms of "arguments and if they are sufficient". Like I never need to hear counterarguments for anything. If you claim X, and your argument is true and sufficient, then by definition X is true. If your argument is untrue or insufficient, or I can't tell, then I continue to suspend judgement on X as I was doing before. Counterarguments only come in when you're pointing out a failure in my own reasoning; if I judged an argument to be true and sufficient when it was not. Of course this happens, but it's less of a "counterargument to a position" than a "pointing out a failure in an argument for a position". Uh you get the point.

[trucygoose]

freaked up and gleevil that i still gotta do maths tuition. i think im mathbrained enough at this point so be able to survive vce maths

[5dtetris-revisited]

love when mathbrain takes over. DNW keeps becoming DNE anytime i type it.

[sybaritick]

and prev rb every "Vierlin has the abilities and guts she does partially from the poisoning" type OC I have written is just cope about neurodivergence, neglect, and gender. She cannot choose to be normal and the "tradeoff" forced on her took more than it gave.

But the idea that you got something in exchange for what you suffered is far more appealing than the truth that suffering is ultimately pointless and harmful -- it does not grant you anything. Hence describing it as cope-- much easier to accept "mathbrained because of the way they treated me" than "I would be better off, both cognitively and in general, if I had not experienced that childhood trauma." The second is the truth, but what a truth to have to swallow. Inferiority, however minor, that you can never shake off. I can't accept it because it would be an excuse for a lesser outcome.

[sybaritick]

But the idea that you got something in exchange for what you suffered is far more appealing than the truth that suffering is ultimately pointless and harmful -- it does not grant you anything. Hence describing it as cope-- much easier to accept "mathbrained because of the way they treated me" than "I would be better off, both cognitively and in general, if I had not experienced that childhood trauma." The second is the truth, but what a truth to have to swallow. Inferiority, however minor, that you can never shake off. I can't accept it because it would be an excuse for a lesser outcome.

it's this! (totally agreeing with you i just wanted to add this bc i think the same thing about him. he has to accept that the suffering was meaningless, but that is very hard to accept: in order to cope with abuse, people build a narrative around it, and that narrative becomes load-bearing in how they think of themselves. taking that apart is of course possible and part of healing from trauma, but extremely challenging.)

Still of the belief that Gortash is so Gortash because he simply can't accept that his life and childhood have been shit for no particular reason. Like he can't accept a bad day is just a bad day. For him everything has to have a reason and justification and if there's none he will create one if he has to. After all he has justifications for everything else he does and the terror he unleashes as well.

And that's also why he himself is so fucked up and stuck. There was no reason for what happened. He knows this, subconsciously, he is smart and quite rational after all, but he simply can't accept it. It has to have a reason, there needs to be purpose otherwise all the pain and misery will have been just that and that's something he simply can not deal with.

So he destroys himself and others and talks about a grand purpose and how it's for the greater good when in reality it's just a man refusing to accept that his agony had no reason. That he, much like everyone else, is a plaything for the gods or the fates and that's a truth that he refuses to live with. That's why he calls a titan his equal. That's why he's obsessed with what parents do for their children. That's why he needs to find out how much agony one can endure before dying.

It's simply to justify what happened. The downfall of the Chosen who prides himself on rationality was that he refused to accept his emotions. That he wasn't destined to be the hero or the shining knight, that he was just like everyone else. That he's just human, with everything that entails.

[max1461]

Yeah, I think the failure mode of a lot of mathbrained and also philosophybrained people in thinking about natural language is that they forget they have to check things empirically. Like, it's really easy to introspect on "how language works", and if you're of the systematizing type, come up with some nice ideas about it. And you can sort of handwave away places were the reality of natural language doesn't look like your nice system, because ultimately it's not the nitty-gritty of natural language you're interested in, it's something more abstract and more grandiose, like How Truth Works or what have you.

And this is fine if you're only ever interested in the philosophy or the math. Hence Russel, Frege, Wittgenstein, whatever. But if you ever try and turn things around, and reason about human-language-the-empirical-phenomenon by way of your nice theory, it won't work. It won't work because you can't philosophy it or math it, you have to science it! You have to check! You cannot determine how it is by thinking hard!

And when you check it's like, a bunch of weird shit. Right, all the shit that you thought was The Most Important Part is kind of, not. Like you might come up with some sort of compelling philosophical idea about the order that kids must learn words in, right, because the meaning of some words is dependent on others. Uh so they have to learn "horse" before "cart" or some shit like that. Feels like this is the kind of thing a 17th century guy would think. Well then you check and that just isn't true, the order kids learn words in is as much about how phonologically comfortable they find them as it is their semantics, etc. etc. There's a bunch of specific empirical shit you have to deal with.

Well I feel like a fair amount of non-linguist commentary on natural language is sort of a more advanced version of that. You gotta check! Always remember you gotta check.

...And don't just check English and French!

[lgbt-tiktoks]

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[eruditekid]

Combat boots & coffee

combat boots: are you a very forgiving person? do you like being this way?

i mean i am?? i try not to get into fights with people and even tho im okay with confrontation i generally dislike conflict u know? but like in the back of my mind i kinda remember and sometimes its hard 4 me to get over it even tho i do forgive them?? idk how to explain it. im alright with it tho, i think i do get to a certain point where i stop forgiving someone if they do it too often. like if u cross that threshold... ur done

coffee: what’s your starbucks order, and who would you trust to order for you, if anyone?

i actually ordered from starbucks for the first time 2day ayy what a coincedence. i ordered a tall coffee frappucino (w/ whipped cream) !! i’ll probably try other flavors one day. i would trust my girl @alienslovetea​ i trust her w/ my life dude

send me an aesthetic themed ask!!

[max1461]

They used to call 1 a prime. Then they stopped. This was a response to new knowledge—many theorems were discovered that applied to all primes except 1, and it became more convenient and perspicuous to stopp calling 1 a prime. The shift was certainly not arbitrary, it was very well motivated. Still, to call "1 is not a prime" an example of mathematical knowledge in the same way that the prime number theorem or the fundamental theorem of calculus are mathematical knowledge would be rather vacuous. It is a terminological convention adopted in light of mathematical knowledge, but this is a different thing.

I believe that @sigmaleph is rather mathbrained. If you are mathbrained or philosophybrained, the distinction between "real knowledge" and "terminological convention" is rather salient, and the failure of lay people to manipulate it fluently is the source of much annoyance. Consider that math is a field where it is not unusual for notational conventions to in fact depend on nontrivial results, e.g. to prove well-definedness or so on. The results are meaningful knowledge, but the notation is just notation. Math abounds with different notation systems for the same underlying concepts, and one of the major skills required of a mathematician (this becomes more obvious the more familiar one is with higher math) is the ability to recognize when the same underlying concepts are being presented in a superficially different guise.

i am profoundly surprised how many of you are approvingly reposting that pluto post. what is going on in ur minds? it's such a strange worldview.... all my questions in that thread to YOU

[stvdybuddies]

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[max1461]

I am very mathbrained but c'mon, any longtime reader of this blog should know I am a major rhetorichead! I'm always thinking about rhetoric! And always talking about how I'm trying to perfect my rhetoric!

Anyway, yeah, making things into human interest stories is rhetorically effective in a lot of cases, it's just not effect on me. And also it's definitely not "context"—in fact, it's precisely the oppose of context! It's specific details of an individual case, which are presented to give the larger story (the context) more color and flavor. It's like, anticontext.

its so annoying when informational books spend a bunch of time on like. personal narrative and stuff. or articles, god, its intolerable. like, i feel like more "narrative" journalists are doing a fundamentally different task from journalists that are telling you information you want to know. i mean, theres nothing wrong with that thing. but they should be, to the extent that this is possible (its not entirely, ofc will be things on the border), separated so you can get the ones you want when you want it. anyway. i love dry academic text that tells me a list of facts (or yknow, interpretations, speculations, etc. just not tedious details of randos)

[universi-tea]

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awesome!! I’ll look into, thanks!