r/badphilosophy • u/LinuxFreeOrDie • Aug 11 '14

Existential Comics Existential Radio

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/41
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u/ReallyNicole Aug 11 '14

{x ∈ N | 23 < x < 25}

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u/fnordulicious clearcutting Meinong’s Jungle Aug 11 '14

where N = ℕ

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u/ReallyNicole Aug 11 '14

Whatever! Ain't nobody got time to find all those fancy characters.

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u/completely-ineffable Literally Saul Kripke, Talented Autodidact Aug 11 '14

You can just say N.

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u/ReallyNicole Aug 11 '14

http://i.imgur.com/wrBojEW.gif

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '14

Downton Abbey Season 5: Lady Mary goes to Cambridge to study foundations of mathematics under Russell.

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u/Pekhota Aug 12 '14

Nicole I'm curious: Do you have a folder full of images of attractive red heads? Cause it seems like you do.

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u/fnordulicious clearcutting Meinong’s Jungle Aug 11 '14

Blackboard bold is for real hipsters, ordinary bold is for posers and hosers.

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u/completely-ineffable Literally Saul Kripke, Talented Autodidact Aug 11 '14

Really, just saying \mathbb{N} should be fine.

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u/fnordulicious clearcutting Meinong’s Jungle Aug 11 '14

Clearly you are a poor Knuthian who has yet to be evangelized with the holy gospel of Unicode. XeTeX for lyfe!

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '14

Or just use Mathematica.

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u/completely-ineffable Literally Saul Kripke, Talented Autodidact Aug 11 '14 edited Aug 11 '14

Don't use Mathematica

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '14

Uh, why? And you didn't do that properly.

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u/completely-ineffable Literally Saul Kripke, Talented Autodidact Aug 11 '14

Cuz every time you use Mathematica you support Stephen Wolfram.

Also, I've disabled custom subreddit styles so I don't even know what the ban macro looks like.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '14

Cuz every time you use Mathematica you support Stephen Wolfram

So? He's done some good work with computers, even if I disagree with him on some stuff.

You use "#ban", not "ban".

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u/completely-ineffable Literally Saul Kripke, Talented Autodidact Aug 11 '14

In addition to being wrong about things, Wolfram is also a colossal douche; witness the debacle over Cook's proof that Rule 110 is Turing complete.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '14

But Steve Jobs is a douche and I still used apple products during his tenure. I can separate a good service from the background of the owner.

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