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🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

25 Mar, 7 tweets, 4 min read

Someone on Twitter just shared this very interesting essay. "Does A=A? I'm not so sure" by James Lindsay

It's a postmodernish musing on the truth of arithmetic statements! 😂 I read it so you don't have to.

It disappeared while I was reading so this tweet is now the only copy!

I know it sounds like I'm making this up but this essay is gone like it never existed! The only reference I could find to the page on the internet is this comment on goodreads. goodreads.com/author_blog_po…

It may (or may not) surprise you to know that this man, James Lindsay, has mocked me mercilessly with all kinds of mean-spirited memes and sneering tweets for my philosophical musings about arithmetic. Portraying me as juvenile and dangerous.

Let me save you reading his whole essay. At the end of the essay he concludes A is not always A if A is not an abstraction. In other words, he makes the same point I made that mathematical statements are ideals that don't necessarily correspond to physical reality.

His argument is things change over time. It sounds like 2013 James Lindsay would agree with me on a lot but disagree with 2021 James Lindsay.

James Lindsay ≠ James Lindsay.

This is the original link to the essay. It seems to be dead as I mentioned.

“Blog has been removed”

goddoesnt.blogspot.com/2013/07/does-a…

For folks posting the wayback links, those don’t work for me. I think the page might be deleted but all the servers on wayback aren’t updated yet. This “archive is” link seems to work though archive.is/iBGNe

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