lumpen 🍉 III (@scrum)

@Air_Quotes_Comedian

right on, yeah when it comes to the popular discourse around theoretical physics or quantum mechanics it's an absolute shitshow, largely because this stuff isn't even taught in schools to most people, so the first time they ever get exposed to any of this is in a video about how "scientists prove we live in the matrix" then again theoretical physics itself is kindof, a fucking mess lol, and there's lots of grifters in this space ( from what I can tell Stephen Hawking is not very well regarded anymore ) but because of the general ignorance and how the media doesn't even employ knowledgeable writers to cover these subjects, there isn't even a frame of reference to talk about these controversies, that are mostly mathmatical in nature

I'm sure you know a lot more about physics than me, i'm more social science/humanities/philosphy person. I will say, and I think Marx remarks on this in his day, that a lot of scientists, lacking any familiarity with philosophy will sound like absolute bafoons as soon as they talking outside their field, Pinker or Sam Harris are the worst examples but they're just tip of iceberg