#platoscave — Public Fediverse posts

@OutOnTheMoors

"the stupidest version of Plato's cave" is the perfect image for the manipulated form of public discourse that corporate social media inflict upon us.

Thanking God and her army of angels and archangels for giving us the Fediverse and protecting it from these evil forces.

#PlatosCave

@kelvin0mql
Lord Kelvin, if you find - in the popular imagination - such deviations from reality to be distracting, I fear you shall become so devoted to trying to explain to people that they are living in Plato's cave, that by the end of your life you shall have good units of measure that well represent reality named after you.

Heuristic shortcuts are EVERYWHERE. Most heartbreaking (to me) is when someone is imprisoned or excommunicated or killed because they used reality (or its closest proxy) as their benchmark, and their judges (&/or police) did not. An almost-literal witch-hunt.

#thereIsNoBoxYouInventedTheBox #platosCave #francisBacon #reality #cargoCults #witchHunt #politics #justice #science #hollywood #memes #memetics #thought #policing #police #whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo

@kelvin0mql
Lord Kelvin, if you find - in the popular imagination - such deviations from reality to be distracting, I fear you shall become so devoted to trying to explain to people that they are living in Plato's cave, that by the end of your life you shall have good units of measure that well represent reality named after you.

Heuristic shortcuts are EVERYWHERE. Most heartbreaking (to me) is when someone is imprisoned or excommunicated or killed because they used reality (or its closest proxy) as their benchmark, and their judges (&/or police) did not. An almost-literal witch-hunt.

#thereIsNoBoxYouInventedTheBox #platosCave #francisBacon #reality #cargoCults #witchHunt #politics #justice #science #hollywood #memes #memetics #thought #policing #police #whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo

@kelvin0mql
Lord Kelvin, if you find - in the popular imagination - such deviations from reality to be distracting, I fear you shall become so devoted to trying to explain to people that they are living in Plato's cave, that by the end of your life you shall have good units of measure that well represent reality named after you.

Heuristic shortcuts are EVERYWHERE. Most heartbreaking (to me) is when someone is imprisoned or excommunicated or killed because they used reality (or its closest proxy) as their benchmark, and their judges (&/or police) did not. An almost-literal witch-hunt.

#thereIsNoBoxYouInventedTheBox #platosCave #francisBacon #reality #cargoCults #witchHunt #politics #justice #science #hollywood #memes #memetics #thought #policing #police #whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo

@kelvin0mql
Lord Kelvin, if you find - in the popular imagination - such deviations from reality to be distracting, I fear you shall become so devoted to trying to explain to people that they are living in Plato's cave, that by the end of your life you shall have good units of measure that well represent reality named after you.

Heuristic shortcuts are EVERYWHERE. Most heartbreaking (to me) is when someone is imprisoned or excommunicated or killed because they used reality (or its closest proxy) as their benchmark, and their judges (&/or police) did not. An almost-literal witch-hunt.

#thereIsNoBoxYouInventedTheBox #platosCave #francisBacon #reality #cargoCults #witchHunt #politics #justice #science #hollywood #memes #memetics #thought #policing #police #whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo

@jonmsterling I once read of someone being complemented for their ability to think outside the box, to which they replied: "there is no box", and then after further thought they added: "you invented the box".

I write wagering that you might sympathise with such a commentator, who finds themselves explaining to their listener that they might live in, or have their thought constrained by, a box of their own making.

In a not-wholly-dissimilar vein, I wish that I knew to whom to attribute the quote "there's no such thing as software", which I came across, I assume written by an electrical engineer, when I read for the first time of Single Event Upsets or Bit-Flips.

As an aside I am also reminded of this short fictional story from @linuxgal https://techhub.social/@linuxgal/115442398217937734

#platosCave #plato #francisBacon #maths #math #mathematics #physics #science #firstPrinciples #FPGA #electricalEngineering

@jonmsterling I once read of someone being complemented for their ability to think outside the box, to which they replied: "there is no box", and then after further thought they added: "you invented the box".

I write wagering that you might sympathise with such a commentator, who finds themselves explaining to their listener that they might live in, or have their thought constrained by, a box of their own making.

In a not-wholly-dissimilar vein, I wish that I knew to whom to attribute the quote "there's no such thing as software", which I came across, I assume written by an electrical engineer, when I read for the first time of Single Event Upsets or Bit-Flips.

As an aside I am also reminded of this short fictional story from @linuxgal https://techhub.social/@linuxgal/115442398217937734

#platosCave #plato #francisBacon #maths #math #mathematics #physics #science #firstPrinciples #FPGA #electricalEngineering

@jonmsterling I once read of someone being complemented for their ability to think outside the box, to which they replied: "there is no box", and then after further thought they added: "you invented the box".

I write wagering that you might sympathise with such a commentator, who finds themselves explaining to their listener that they might live in, or have their thought constrained by, a box of their own making.

In a not-wholly-dissimilar vein, I wish that I knew to whom to attribute the quote "there's no such thing as software", which I came across, I assume written by an electrical engineer, when I read for the first time of Single Event Upsets or Bit-Flips.

As an aside I am also reminded of this short fictional story from @linuxgal https://techhub.social/@linuxgal/115442398217937734

#platosCave #plato #francisBacon #maths #math #mathematics #physics #science #firstPrinciples #FPGA #electricalEngineering

@jonmsterling I once read of someone being complemented for their ability to think outside the box, to which they replied: "there is no box", and then after further thought they added: "you invented the box".

I write wagering that you might sympathise with such a commentator, who finds themselves explaining to their listener that they might live in, or have their thought constrained by, a box of their own making.

In a not-wholly-dissimilar vein, I wish that I knew to whom to attribute the quote "there's no such thing as software", which I came across, I assume written by an electrical engineer, when I read for the first time of Single Event Upsets or Bit-Flips.

As an aside I am also reminded of this short fictional story from @linuxgal https://techhub.social/@linuxgal/115442398217937734

#platosCave #plato #francisBacon #maths #math #mathematics #physics #science #firstPrinciples #FPGA #electricalEngineering

@jonmsterling I once read of someone being complemented for their ability to think outside the box, to which they replied: "there is no box", and then after further thought they added: "you invented the box".

I write wagering that you might sympathise with such a commentator, who finds themselves explaining to their listener that they might live in, or have their thought constrained by, a box of their own making.

In a not-wholly-dissimilar vein, I wish that I knew to whom to attribute the quote "there's no such thing as software", which I came across, I assume written by an electrical engineer, when I read for the first time of Single Event Upsets or Bit-Flips.

As an aside I am also reminded of this short fictional story from @linuxgal https://techhub.social/@linuxgal/115442398217937734

#platosCave #plato #francisBacon #maths #math #mathematics #physics #science #firstPrinciples #FPGA #electricalEngineering

I feel sad for people who rely on #BBC #TheGuardian #nytimes #CNN as a source of #news to understand the world.

Their worldview is that of a person in #PlatosCave - trying to make sense of an increasingly complex world by looking at a set of carefully curated shadows; the courage needed to crawl out of the cave euthanised by their puppet masters lest they be shocked by the level of their own misinformation.

@Readsalot

I beg your pardon; I chose a dreadful way to convey my thinking. I merely meant to differentiate between things that can be demonstrated to exist or be objective laws, and things that are human constructs.

Many of the basic concepts in #maths and #physics can be agreed to exist (for a given actuarial definition of existing) or be true. Many things like money and churches and nation-states are constructs of the mind; usually shared constructs, and often well-defined legal fictions.

I meant only to suggest that without a clear, universally agreed definition of 'health' or 'security' or some other such human construct, I feel unable to agree that such a thing exists or could be said to be true.

Again I ought to reiterate that when I say exists I mean exists like a prototype of a kilo of metal exists, or could be said to be true like addition or multiplication or perhaps thermodynamics could be said to be true.

My gut feeling is that we want to use the same words in different ways, rather than that we disagree upon the fabric of reality.

I of course welcome readjustment if I am clearly mistaken.

I regret again my limited lexicon; that I suspect I do not have the wit to adequately articulate or present my beliefs for wider consideration. I also accept that finer discussion might be out of scope, although I do think it might still bear some relevance if anyone can frame it with greater clarity than my feeble attempt.

#thermodynamics #physics #engineering #science #reality #platosCave #philosophy #maths #math #law #religion #health #security #money #safety #economics

The #BlindMenWithTheElephant is a better allegory for today than #PlatosCave, in the same way that #BraveNewWorld is more relevant than #1984. But they are all essential. #LiberalValues

#MastoPrompt "Tassel" -- cont. from today's #vss365 prompt:

But someday I’ll get out of here:
I simply need to persevere,
To watch in silence (and behave)
Projected shadows in this cave,
Regurgitate the things I learn.
And so I’m told I’ll finally earn,
Through jumping hoops and general hassle,
A piece of paper and a tassel.

#poetry #shortpoems #riddlepoems #childhood #school #graduation
#education #platoscave #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

continuing my ragingly popular studies on #elonstans, #cryptobro and #altright philosophical studies here...

#npc #thematrix #platoscave #meme #mamema #memes #musk #twitter #laplace #laplacedaemon #causality #entropy etc

"#philosophy" for crackheads

continuing my ragingly popular studies on #elonstans, #cryptobro and #altright philosophical studies here...

#npc #thematrix #platoscave #meme #mamema #memes #musk #twitter #laplace #laplacedaemon #causality #entropy etc

"#philosophy" for crackheads

continuing my ragingly popular studies on #elonstans, #cryptobro and #altright philosophical studies here...

#npc #thematrix #platoscave #meme #mamema #memes #musk #twitter #laplace #laplacedaemon #causality #entropy etc

"#philosophy" for crackheads

continuing my ragingly popular studies on #elonstans, #cryptobro and #altright philosophical studies here...

#npc #thematrix #platoscave #meme #mamema #memes #musk #twitter #laplace #laplacedaemon #causality #entropy etc

"#philosophy" for crackheads

continuing my ragingly popular studies on #elonstans, #cryptobro and #altright philosophical studies here...

#npc #thematrix #platoscave #meme #mamema #memes #musk #twitter #laplace #laplacedaemon #causality #entropy etc

"#philosophy" for crackheads

that whole community of we-are-gonna-escape-that-whole-libtard-matrix-and-become-billionaires i.e. #muskstans is obsessing quite heavily with who is or isnt a #npc..

..after having played video games and watched #thematrix they realize a theorem someone came up with 2500 years ago in some cave, i guess

guys, the debate didnt end there, it was (kind of) ended some 2200 years later.

lots_of_long_boring_books_with_trilling_ideas in between.

#musk #twitter #kant #schopenhauer #platoscave #mamema

update on the #platoscave #meme!

how could i have forgotten the most relevant platform of them all; #truthsocial.

so, there we go!

#joinmastodon #philosophy #meme #memes #mamema #trump #riptwitter #elonmusk #musk #facebook #twitter

help your friends to phase into the #fediverse

they are trapped in their #socialmedia patterns. confused about #mastodon

...it is too hard for them to grasp. seriously;

"mastodon is wired and complicated"
"am i now an instance?"
"is this a cult of some kind?"
"i will join #elonmusk on mars"

help them, as this pic has helped so many middle schoolers.

#joinmastodon #mastodonmigration #eternalnovember #twitter #facebook #plato #platoscave #meme #memes #MaMeMa

@Effortless lucky I am shackled to a cave wall and all I get to see is noagenda social for my inputs about the outside world. #platoscave