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Correct, these questions lie outside the internal practice of mathematics. If you want to see where that computational mindset breaks down, read Carnap's "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology" regarding internal versus external frameworks (or have an LLM summarize it...), or look into Brouwer's Intuitionism, or better yet into Lawvere and Topos theory, where the "underlying tautologies" literally change depending on the categorical environment you construct (but this may take some time to wrap your mind around so don't expect to understand much right away). Or, given the thread topic, you can just prompt an LLM to interactively walk you through how classical logic fails in a constructivist topos, or if you have interests outside of applied math or mathematics itself, you can ask it about foundational questions in science and mathematics, which unlike the prevailing opinion in many tech circles, aren't resolved.

I think the nuance they are pointing towards is that we cannot with any certainty say one way or another, as this is an unsolved problem in mathematics, and may possibly remain unsolved forever.

Your opinion is a possibility but it is not grounded by any proof, as such it is nothing more than an assumption. I think the more intellectually healthy approach is to list out the possibilities and figure out what they entail, rather than to throw all your eggs in one basket blindly, which amounts to a leap of faith or a retreat to commitment.

But that's just my two cents, take it or leave it.

Ah, "status quo", that's a Latin phrase! I'm particularly fond of "carpe diem": seize the carp!

I donno for me life's just good. I'm living that Asterix lifestyle lol.

Chill out brother. Life's good.

Turns out to be a grounding issue--it reliably does/doesn't do it depending on location.

Yes after more investigation this seems to be it--the clue was that it doesn't do it in all locations.

The same thing happened in the Apple store I went to visit. Devices tend to zap you when you touch them. Maybe the problem is localized to certain regions?

Ah yes it is a 2 pin...ungrounded. Is there a way I can ground myself/and-or my laptop? I just had achilles tendon surgery so I can't really touch grass, so to speak proverbially (or literally?).

Yes its relatively dry. I had a humidifier but the fuse blew so I'm kinda stuck with what I've got. Is there any other way to dissipate charge in dry climates than humidity?

Yes exactly! That's how it started, but now it happens even when its not charging...and for my phones too. Maybe it's just a change in my perception, like what was subliminal before is becoming liminal now because I learned to pay attention to it?

It used to only happen when I had it plugged in, initially when I took my MacBook to Romania a few years ago and plugged it into the power grid there, they use a different frequency and I had to use an adaptor. But then it started happening in the US as well, and even after I switched from the 2020 model to the new M series, and now it happens to me even when its not plugged in anything, whether I'm grounded or not...that's why I'm wondering if they're actively changing the EM field encapsulation specs.

No shit sherlock.

I am a reddit power user from way back in the day (2006), with multiple accounts.

Today I tried to make a few light banter comments and all of them got blocked by auto-moderators with insane rules.

What is going on at reddit?

Speaking as a former Amazonian who ran oncall for LSEs and high-impact events on my teams systems responsible for $130B/year GMS.