Do you love yourself or your field? - by Lydia Nottingham
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A flavor of grief I can’t taste
Here’s a tweet from July: i thought about this. i wrote down “i like the person math is making me become”, & thought about roon’s tweet: i feel healthier—more like myself—on math & (crankery incoming) it co-evolves with my world-ideology. because it can’t just be a thing you do, it’s the air you breathe the water you swim in. this is why i find math reverence weird, because to fetishize math is to alienate yourself from it, & why would you do that? i think it just has to become part of who you are, so well-integrated with your life and the filter through which you process incoming…
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