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Cake day: September 1st, 2023

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  • Ah yes.
    The infamous “they” who control everything.
    But what “they” who control “they”, who are really in control of the lights in your room and the lights you’re trying to check?
    What if there’s an infinite amount of “theys” all the way down that by mathematical logic leads to myself?
    What if the interview being held and the question being asked wasn’t meant to test me, but to test you?
    What then?




  • The issue here is whether or not you are talking about something concrete or abstract and in current physics there’s a lot of concepts that are being treated as if they are objects.

    It’s as if you were reading a scientific paper where meteors are losing materials due to rocks breathing or birds flying into certain directions due to winds howling.
    Winds don’t howl, rocks don’t breathe.
    Poetry does not help one understand the fundamentals of how physics work.
    And I argue that this kind of fallacy is rampant throughout the physics community.

    I (and some others similarly) suggest that there should be a systemic rules to prevent that from happening.

    Here’s my proposal:

    1. Every sentence in the entire paper needs to be checked for fallacies and if they contain them, then they need to be crossed out with a red pen.
    2. This checklist of fallacies should be universal, thus not be part of a blind peer review where the peer could uphold his or her own logic.
    3. Every fundamental concrete word can be drawn with a shape.
    4. Every fundamental relational abstract word can be drawn with shapes and arrows.
    5. Every fundamental dynamic abstract word can be drawn with multiple frames.
    6. Other fundamental words are names.
    7. Words that are abstract cannot use verbs or properties that belong to concrete words, just like non-organism cannot use verbs or properties that belong to organisms.


  • What about trying to figure out first what the other two buttons do? Maybe they turn on the light of the room you’re in. And I can see light without entering a room right? Just open the door, no need to enter it. If not allowed, look at the foot of the door or try to see if the room has a window.

    No need to buy fancy equipment or even go into the room at all.


  • Computers.
    Not even computer games, although that would have added bonus points as a target for bullying, but using a computer in general.

    Then again, bullying was more of an attitude thing during my youth, so you didn’t get bullied for your hobbies, but for your behavior.
    Ugly geeky kids were left alone if they hung out with other geeky kids. They got bullied as soon as they tried to associate themselves with the cool kids.

    That took me a while to think about.






  • That the scientific method is fine as it is.

    On top of that, quantum mechanics, Einstein’s theories of relativity, Maxwell’s equations, Newton’s law of gravity, although Einstein “disproved” this, they both make the same mistake, and more.

    And before people false dichitomize me into the religious camp, the best and easiest example I will always give of what’s wrong with these theories is to take the holy trinity, argue what fallacy is taking place when one introduces a three-but-really-one monotheist deity as truth and then expand on that fallacy to take down the photon’s two-but-really-one wave-particle duality.





  • Yeah, I know that feeling.
    Are you diagnosed as autistic by any chance?
    If not and you haven’t done a diagnosis, I suggest you do so.
    One of the things I never noticed was that other people have enough energy left after 8 hours of work to have hobbies.
    That gave me insight on my own life.

    In any case, ask yourself. What is it that you would like your friends to know about you and what do they enjoy talking about?

    Think of your dreams, achievements, things that bother you, things that interest you, things you notice.

    What are theirs? How do they view yours?
    What’s their social circle like? What makes them enjoy the things they do?

    And then ask questions while also telling about a bit about yourself so that it feels like a conversation instead of an interview.

    And be careful with politics and religion.
    People can get very judgemental and confident on that subject, including oneself.

    And try to find common ground, because it’s nice to have shared thoughts.
    Like I could ask for example how you how got to communism and what it means to you.