any philosopher i've read that's written clearly (Schopenhauer, Spinoza) has been extremely enjoyable to read and provided me cool ideas.
But the more opaque (Heidegger, Derrida, Hegel) have changed the way I think. Even if i don't always understand what they are saying.
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Ok I increasingly get philosophers being """opaque""" lmao. There’s no shared language for the deepest stuff, you gotta make your own
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Just because you can model the universe that way mathmatically doesnt mean thats actually how it works. The free parameters are telling the story.
we made ufos. man will become alien
Northwestern engineers built a drone that spins its own body 25 times a second to disappear mid-flight.
It's called Phantom Twist.
No paint. No clear plastic shell. No camouflage.
Most of the frame rotates. 25 turns per second. 1,500 per minute. A full turn every 40 milliseconds.
The propeller spins the other way.
That's the trick. The counter-rotation cancels the spin, and the aircraft holds steady while its body turns into a smear.
The eye tracks a bird. It tracks a normal quadcopter.
It can't lock onto a shape that redraws itself 25 times a second.
You see motion. You see blur. You never see the outline.
Every camouflage in history tried to match the background.
This one just refuses to hold still.
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I think your attitude towards the "whale facts" chapters really determines whether you are my type of reader.


















