[FRIAM] Cringe

[Prof David West]

they are — but only for those in the know. There is such a thing as "numerology porn," but I won't help you find it.

davew


On Thu, May 14, 2020, at 3:17 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> I've never understood why 99 and 66 aren't equally salacious.  
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Clark University
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> Subject: [FRIAM] Cringe
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> We talk a lot about filosofy, culture, and politics on this list. And 
> we quote a lot of old white guys. Sporadically one of us will lament 
> about how difficult it is to keep up with tech or cultural concepts 
> like trolls. Well, I've posted at least 1 video from her before. But if 
> you ever want an excellent synthesis of many of these topics, Wynn is 
> fantastic. I got tired of Sanderson's understated sense of humor 
> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw> [†] the 
> other day and instead watched Natalie explain the modern evolution of 
> "cringe":
> 
>   https://youtu.be/vRBsaJPkt2Q?t=4607
> 
> I've given you the summary slide time link, there. But I highly 
> recommend the whole video. I could quote mine her for days:
> 
> "You know I've met people who never cringe at themselves. And ... let's 
> just say ... they're not my kind of people."
> 
> "If it's any consolation ... uh ... nothing matters."
> 
> 
> [†] E.g. The other day he asked the audience to vote for their favorite 
> number ... they picked "69" and his justification went like: "... 
> which, I assume, is because if you take all of the natural numbers 
> between 1 and 9, and then you look at the divisors of each one of 
> those, you look at the numbers and list all of their divisors and you 
> add up the divisors, it adds up to 69. And adding up divisors like this 
> is a very fun and common thing in number theory so ..."
> 
> Yeeeaaaahhhh. That's it. They picked 69 because it's fun to add up 
> divisors. >8^D
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