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@asonix @shadow8t4@cybre.space *skreeee* *skitters under the couch*

@Soreth Ready Player One but Kevin "Rikoshi" Frane wrote it in 2013 and it's damned good, too: furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?i

@DialMforMara ... you mean a neural knitwork?

I'll see myself out now.

mh (-) 

@makyo Offers of hugs and space to talk are here. *offers pettin's*

@CoronaCoreanici Sorry, I have no idea what people know -- I've never asked your field -- and I've done some armchair digging into this. I'm at best a gifted amateur.

@CoronaCoreanici In that fashion, the inaccessibles parallel the existence of the infinites, which more or less get waved into existence by delcaring "let there be an infinite set: the set of all natural numbers" which is basically Axiom VII of Zermelo Set Theory. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo_)

@CoronaCoreanici Here's the money shot: "Because ZFC + 'there is an inaccessible cardinal' does prove the consistency of ZFC, if ZFC proved that its own consistency implies the consistency of ZFC + 'there is an inaccessible cardinal' then this latter theory would be able to prove its own consistency, which is impossible if it is consistent."

Basically, if you just straight up assume that they exist, you still end up with a consistent theory, but you can't derive it in advance.

@CoronaCoreanici There's a whole hierarchy of infinities that have been classified to date, but nothing yet that forces a paradox that's passed peer review of which I'm aware.

@CoronaCoreanici More recent than that; I'm over in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccess territory saying that ZFC basically says you can always find a way to reclassify 'the ultimate infinite' as a member of a larger set with a new set of properties."

@CoronaCoreanici I am aware of the philosophical concept of which you speak; I don't think the mathematicians have gotten around to arguing for its existence yet. Last I heard we were still trying to show that big things are really big and can be classified according to their bigness.

@CoronaCoreanici You mean, like, the inaccessible cardinals, or just aleph-null, or what?

politic, leftist infighting, medical, mental health 

@body@mastodon.social Mine was more like
1. Raised Objectivist.
2. Spent fourteen years deprogramming myself with patience from a large body of supremely tolerant people.
3. Spent nine months unemployed and unable to find work.
4. Realized that if I can do everything right and still fail, people who did anything weird were fucked.
5. Became a hardcore separatist/secessionist/anti-imperialist/anti-capitalist.
6. Built FALQSS out of driftwood and glitter.

Unpopular opinion. 

@drwho It does take a certain amount of scraping the smugness off of most entries to get to anything useful there.

Magic Masto Meta 

I'm looking at relocating my magic-based account and I'm looking for a new instance on which to host it. I know there's witches.town, but I'm wondering if there are others since I don't identify as a witch. Any suggestions? That's not a tag on joinmastodon or I'd go looking there.

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