Two Things That I Keep Thinking About This Year

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CNN's John Sutter has been thinking about what to talk about this holiday season. He says he was inspired by two things: Twitter and the FTX crypto collapse. The other idea came from his new job as a professor at Johns Hopkins concentrating on foundations of physics. "In some sense both of these things this sort of online set of kerfuffles ... come down to an appreciation for thinking slowly"

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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