bloomberg2020

Agreed.

Personally I’ve given up on mouse GUIs

Why?

Photoshop pros use macros

Unix pros use text editing macros

Why teach new users single point and click methods of computing when the pros think it’s a waste of time

It’s from an era when computers couldn’t multi task and were largely business focused data entry terminals

Photo manipulation can be automated from a terminal and results displayed in real-time now

Why care about file menus? That’s just a set of keyboard macros unrealized.

The desktop metaphor is finally dying. Let it

We don’t have to work that hard for a comfortable life, and the gaudy material life the west has is not owed by laws of science or man. It’s taken as we can see by the bailout machinations

We don’t need grocery stores full of customized flavored drinks.

Fill them with raw ingredients and let people distract themselves inventing customization at home

Same with clothing stores. But we let a minority buy their way in, making us do the real creative work to prop them up

We extended government into our lives by creating corps and HR and letting the Corp owners then collude on the HR rules to our detriment in a society that claims to loath big government

And this community tacitly agrees with it by founding companies!

Americans go on about big government interference but that’s exactly what you defend by creating a market for one size fits all rules to filter into our lives at scale

Local communities can police themselves. We don’t need to curve our agency to what will get us a job

We need to get away from traditional values like “if I’m going to buy in, I expect a return on investment.”

Ok but many of us out here never invited you to play. Yet their demands of being rich are protected by all?

How’s that any different than them saying they shouldn’t have to spend money if they don’t want to?

Agreed

The crux of it is obvious: math is true from the perspective of a human consciousness

It’s defined after cognitive measure.

I won’t say it’s whittled down.

I would say ... it’s sight, sound, touch... attempt at quantifying our qualified experience

All the best math nerds were often deeply gifted and practiced forms of human art: poetry, music, sculpture... and many artists good at math, Brian May, for one example

IMO to get math one needs to build all those abilities

It’s really the people I know that don’t do that see math as a boring toolbox of rules and points

Not saying you’re not that

Math is not a thing like a rock because our ability to behave like more than a rock gave us the ability to define math. It has to be more than a simple this or that