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The color change of the words "YouTube discussion" in the OP are so subtle on my browser I couldn't tell it was a link. I normally put a link on a separate line and show the actual address so you can clearly see it. But, now that you mention it, I see it now.
May your bits be stable and your interfaces be fast.
Ron
May your bits be stable and your interfaces be fast.
Ron
I have the opposite problem in dark mode. The red font on the dark grey background makes it almost impossible for me to to see the words unless I hover my mouse cursor over it.The color change of the words "YouTube discussion" in the OP are so subtle on my browser I couldn't tell it was a link. I normally put a link on a separate line and show the actual address so you can clearly see it. But, now that you mention it, I see it now.
May your bits be stable and your interfaces be fast.
As I watched, in the back of my mind, I could hear Maxwell Smart saying, "I wouldn't ask that."
I just want to thank the original poster (@Duckpaddle) for sharing this video. Watching it started me down a really fun and rewarding rabbit hole. I'd always considered myself reasonably well-read, but had taken the (modern) field of philosophy to be frivolous, i.e. people arguing about the nature chairs, or whether trees falling in the forest make a sound.
After watching this video, I started wondering about Russell's Paradox. So, I watched a few more videos. A guy named Daniel Bonevac from U of T at Austin uploaded a number of his class lectures to youtube, so I started watching those. I found a book called the History of Philosophy by A.C. Grayling at my local book store which gave me a jumping-off point to read some of the more well known names in the field, many more of whom are waiting patiently on my Kindle.
As stated above, I hadn't take philosophy seriously, and I've been of late surprised how many more references I get from movies and literature now that I have at least a passing familiarity with the subject matter. The breadth of the field surprised me. Number theory, classical and quantum physics, ethics, linguistics (something might be said of the on going discussion of "'Person' in the Middle Attacks"--SN 983), religion, political theory ... I wouldn't have understood half of Dick's Scanner Darkly without having first been introduced to this stuff.
I'm not going to run out of things to read anytime soon!
After watching this video, I started wondering about Russell's Paradox. So, I watched a few more videos. A guy named Daniel Bonevac from U of T at Austin uploaded a number of his class lectures to youtube, so I started watching those. I found a book called the History of Philosophy by A.C. Grayling at my local book store which gave me a jumping-off point to read some of the more well known names in the field, many more of whom are waiting patiently on my Kindle.
As stated above, I hadn't take philosophy seriously, and I've been of late surprised how many more references I get from movies and literature now that I have at least a passing familiarity with the subject matter. The breadth of the field surprised me. Number theory, classical and quantum physics, ethics, linguistics (something might be said of the on going discussion of "'Person' in the Middle Attacks"--SN 983), religion, political theory ... I wouldn't have understood half of Dick's Scanner Darkly without having first been introduced to this stuff.
I'm not going to run out of things to read anytime soon!
I only watched the first minute of this, but it seems similar to a piece of paper with the sentence saying "The statement on the other side of this piece paper is true" While on the other side it reads "The statement on the other side of this piece of paper is false". Figure that out.
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