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@cosmiccitizen surprisingly common for philosophers to make the move of "my grand idea is deeply bound up with my pet peeve"

Deleuze (as so often!) did it right with treating books as toolboxes

Phillip Trammels fixed point solution for infinite regress was a capabilities paper, and he should be ashamed

(i shall say no more)

@Paradox Indeed anxiety! The dizziness of freedom, the burning off of tension :-D

@Paradox avoidance weasel, the little furry creature in the back of my mind inventing reasona not to talk to women I'm attracted to

Session yesterday, 12 weasels and a lot of warmup compliments

No approaches though I should do somwthing about that

And yesterday I was thinking that Deepmind is awfully quiet

@cosmiccitizen I wonder whether I'm deluded or if politics did have more content back then

("class warfare succumbed to brainrot")

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Algorithms were invented in 825 when Mohammed Algorithm tried to solve an equation of two degree at the same time

@Paradox ah, "attribute" as in "figure put who wrote what", not "say that X wrote Y"

I was ambiguous

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@Paradox yeah, Wikipedia editors usually don't do that :-)

@Paradox …not sure what you mean. I'm talking about attributing a specific part *of the article text* to the user that wrote it, which is orthogonal to the citations it contains, right?

Hm, MediaWiki makes it hard to attribute a part of text to a user—this makes asking someone about their reasons for adding something difficult, and perhaps encourages deletionism?

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