From 07b6b6b8f6d056e6530b11020ef0587a41056827 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 14:01:41 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] publish "Neither as Plea nor as Despair" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This one is pretty obscure, but it's my blog and my æsthetic --- .../neither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) rename content/{drafts => 2017}/neither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md (62%) diff --git a/content/drafts/neither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md b/content/2017/neither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md similarity index 62% rename from content/drafts/neither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md rename to content/2017/neither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md index d3fd314..7cfeab4 100644 --- a/content/drafts/neither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md +++ b/content/2017/neither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md @@ -1,18 +1,15 @@ Title: "Neither as Plea nor as Despair" -Date: 2017-09-22 +Date: 2017-09-23 14:01 Category: other -Tags: Atlas Shrugged, cathartic -Status: draft +Tags: cathartic Basically the question is, do you want to be Dagny Taggart in the school play at an all-boys school, or do you want to be Eddie Willers in the school play at your actual high school Both schools deserve to exist (I mean, your actual high school doesn't deserve to exist, but its analogue in a nearby alternate universe that puts on _Atlas Shrugged_ as its school play, probably does) -In an infinite universe of infinite space and infinite time, all possible configurations of matter are instantiated infinitely many times—but not at the same rate, frequency, density, [_measure_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_problem_(cosmology)) +In an infinite multiverse of infinite space and infinite time, all possible configurations of matter are instantiated infinitely many times—but not at the same rate, frequency, density, [_measure_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_problem_(cosmology)) -[...] - -When everything exists and everything happens, choices between alternatives become rather a question of how we allocate measure between them, the definite answer to which is no less determinate than if there were only one of you +When everything exists and everything happens, choices between alternatives become rather a question of how we allocate measure between them—the relative frequencies at which the equivalence class of patterns constituting you is related to other patterns—the definite answer to which question is no less determinate than if there were only one of you I don't know what you want to do with your measure; that's not for me to decide -- 2.17.1