drunken philosophy

IcedEcliptic

I once recieved an amazing spam email, that I think was almost poetic: the haiku of spam:

Here is the complete text of a spam email I got, offering "Viagra Herbal! SPECIAL ON SPECIAL!"

"A departure stirs a tip. Energy hangs from the bursting wine against the clipped handbook. Energy contracts the due soap past the telling shock. Boost cheats into Energy.""

Oh, and a quote from futurama: "Your grandfather? Stay away from him you dimwitted monkey. You mustn't interfere with the past. Don't do anything that affects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to do it. In which case. for the love of God, don't not do it!" (Prof Hubert Farnsworth from Futurama) discuss!

TheStatutoryApe

I remember those. The first time I received one I was in awe. I posted it to my blog.

Phrak

Innnteresting.

The cannabis induced twaddle called postmodernism can be synthesized with the Postmodernism Generator.

Perhaps there is another for simulating brain + alcohol = philo. I haven't located how this guy identified his synthetic generator, nor if he has been mixing martinis in his hard drive.

DaveC426913

That's If I could save Klein in a bottle.

cronxeh

eek. Pocket protectors come to mind.

Math Is Hard

You can say that again.

DaveC426913

Q: How do you tell your engineer is an extrovert?

A: When he talks to you, he stares at your shoes.

EnumaElish

Game theory is not famous for explaining how players reach an equilibrium, in a step-by-step fashion. Even with one blonde and one brunette, and two guys, how does each guy know which of the two women that the other guy is going to approach, so he should stay away from her? If the guys talk and come up with a plan before they approach the women, is this any longer a "non-cooperative" game?

What game theory is good at is to postulate that if (somehow) one guy ends up with the blonde and the other with the brunette, neither will have an independent reason to change his preference, supposing the other does not change his.

Moonbear

My worst experience ever at a party was to be cornered by a drunk philosopher...well, a philosophy grad student anyway, so on her way to becoming a philosopher. A lecture on reductionism is no less fun when drunk than sober, by the way.

Edit: Okay, maybe it wasn't the WORST experience ever, but it was memorably unpleasant.

IcedEcliptic

My finest philosophical moment came when my rel-phil 101 teacher hosted a texas hold 'em game and revealed that he is was a genuine master of the banjo. :)

cronxeh

Did you do the 'what did the 5 fingers say to the face?' joke on her?

Moonbear

No, by that time of the evening, every time I held up my hand, it had 10 fingers. Instead, I had to wait for someone else to wander too close and then tell her something like, "Oh, I think that person is also a reductionist and would love to hear your thoughts on it."

Okay, I have a drunken philosophy topic inspired by music. Everyone has been posting about Dio's death on Facebook, so how could I not consider something inspired by Dio.

"Rainbows in the Dark." Do they exist? (Please define existence first.)

Math Is Hard

How many fingers do reductionists have?

turbo

Two fingers of single-malt, please.

Moonbear

Definitely none. They just have collections of molecules that have aggregated into the shape of fingers. (If that's completely wrong, "Blame it on the alcohol.")

EnumaElish

Exactly as many as the number they need to summarize the output of their chemical reactions, using the binary system, to the comprehensivist they've just met.

IcedEcliptic

10 more than a solipsist will admit to having.