Mindscape Holidays 2022

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The Purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk is a good example of oversimplifying the world for some purportedly sensible purpose and then having it backfire on them. There's a happy medium maybe here to be struck between looking for simplicity and clarity but not thinking you have it before you really do. I am not in favor of the changes at Twitter since Elon bought it, there's a great increase in juvenile trolling including by the new owner,. Lack of moderation, lack of direction for the company and so on. Enough so that I personally have down shifted my own Twitter use.

Welcome to that beloved Mindscape annual tradition, the Holiday Message. An opportunity for a quicker and less-well-thought-out solo episode to round off another year. Ironically, this year the theme is the importance of slowing down and thinking things out really well! Illustrated by two things that have been on my mind: a couple of internet/tech kerfuffles (Elon Musk buying Twitter, Sam Bankman-Fried and the collapse of FTX), and the distinction between foundations of physics and “regular” physics. See if you can dimly perceive the thread that ties them together.

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