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  • Piracy still gives them a platform to justify their surveillance.

    It’s a bullshit justification and they would be surveilling anyway. People shouldn’t base their actions on how dishonest, exploitative capitalists will portray it.

    The only correct take is a full boycott

    False. There is no such thing as a “correct take” much less a single correct viewpoint. There are many valid means to resist capitalism. Piracy is generally better than boycotting because it’s easier and requires no sacrifice. Thus it is far more likely to be widely adopted, as we’ve already seen. Many many people are already pirating compared to some imaginary boycott.
















  • I might go even further and say there’s no “math”. There are a wide variety of axiomatic systems (eg. games). None has the sole claim to being “math”. Maybe they’re all “math”.

    (On the other hand… I guess any system that contains the “natural numbers” would be sufficient for the bulk of what’s widely considered “math”.)


  • I think saying that a theorem is true presumes the axioms from which it was proven and so the entire system is “true everywhere forever”.

    I often find it helpful to think of chess as my axiomatic system. When we say the king is in checkmate, it presumes that we accept all the underlying rules of chess. And these pieces that theoretically form a checkmate will always do so forever… Assuming the usual rules of chess, assuming they’re unchanging, etc.

    When you put things in terms of chess, these “deep” statements about “math” often become banal. And it works for any game that’s a “formal system” (eg. most board games).