#25 On doomsday
Dear Mat, Apologies for lateness. This time my excuses are: homelessness and food poisoning. Thanks for the comments on my hastily drawn up golden rule for politics, namely:
The work of Jamie Freestone and Mathew McGann
Dear Mat, Apologies for lateness. This time my excuses are: homelessness and food poisoning. Thanks for the comments on my hastily drawn up golden rule for politics, namely:
Most new conjectures are wrong. Yes good. Most old conjectures are wrong. Also fine. This is because new and old are pretty much unbiased subsets of conjectures in general. However
Dear Mat, I disagree with your conjecture. Most new conjectures are wrong. That’s definitely right. But I disagree that the inverse holds: that therefore more old ideas are right. I think there are
Dear Mat, Apologies for lateness. The fund I operate to give cash-transfers to dentists and mechanics has taken up a lot of my time lately. Man, I feel like there’s an
Dear Mat, The strict naturalist says that everything is made of quarks and there is no independent physical existence for concepts: they are either instantiated in matter or not. Of
Thank you for the kind words. I’ll now avoid trying at all to recapture that out of fear of failing. Shall we call you a non-Platonist? Or perhaps you want
And here I was thinking these letters might be my one sanctuary from any mention of Trump. Strangeness and plausibility, what a nice combo. I can immediately see how science,
Dear Mat, Congratulations and I accept your excuse. But I ask, How many more of these “children” do you anticipate having? And will their births interfere with more important work