The Eternal Doorman

Recorded at a Rethinking Economics Oxford event, moderated by Panos Tsoukalis. See her book  Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention . Subscribe to FREE . 

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This is really interesting. She looks into the principle behind the Third Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Third Amendment (Amendment III) to the United States Constitution places restrictions on the quartering (mandatory housing) of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent, forbidding the practice in peacetime. The amendment was a response to the Quartering Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain during the buildup to the American Revolutionary War, which had allowed the British Army to lodge soldiers in public buildings. My comment : This is a hiding to nowhere. You cannot effectively protect personal data using legislation because the nature of the technology used to process that data makes it effectively impossible for anyone to verify compliance with the legislation. So any such protection is just an empty promise and the only purpose it could possibly serve would be to lull people into a false sense of security.  See  Robert Elder - W...

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44:25 On impredicativity and interpreting mathematics.  Earlier they talked philosophy of practicing mathematicians with Deborah Kant:  This is a nice example of what I wrote about here:  Edward Frenkel on Abstraction .  Subscribe to  About Logic .  Brouwer and the Formalists - Logic prior to Gödel.  Subscribe to  Fadi Akil . 

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This was a talk he gave on March 13 at the UNESCO International Day of Mathematics 2026 .  Subscribe to  Edward Frenkel .  See the whole thing here , or here: Subscribe to  IDM .  They didn't invite me, but here's my address:  Abstraction (and the objective nature of mathematics) comes from our abilities as living beings to communicate with each other in language and, most crucially, to be able to talk about language itself, and thereby construct schemes which allow us to describe translations between different ways to describe the same thing. The objective mathematical world that we imagine to be "out there" is in fact something (that same thing we are describing to each other) that emerges from our activities in describing our own communication with each other. So there is in fact just one fundamental mathematical object from which all others are derived. Here is one way to describe it: RULES <- RULE | RULE ?ws? RULES  RULE <- SYM ?ws? '<-...