Reductionism worked pretty well from Newton’s laws through much of the 20th century. But over the past few decades, progress in the most reductionist branches of physics has slowed www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore
The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Reductionism worked pretty well from Newton’s laws through much of the 20th century. But over the past few decades, progress in the most reductionist branches of physics has slowed www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
I'm "class reductionist" only in sense that I care little about sexism and racism experienced by rich and powerful, but I care a great deal about all forms of intersectional oppression suffered by the weakest in our society.
This is the intersectionality of Angela Davis, not class reductionism.
This is the intersectionality of Angela Davis, not class reductionism.
December 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'm "class reductionist" only in sense that I care little about sexism and racism experienced by rich and powerful, but I care a great deal about all forms of intersectional oppression suffered by the weakest in our society.
This is the intersectionality of Angela Davis, not class reductionism.
This is the intersectionality of Angela Davis, not class reductionism.
The discussion around smart machines, not being smart, even though they do the same things with creative language that humans do, simply because they're not human is reductionist to the point where you would have to question if intelligence exists at all.
December 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The discussion around smart machines, not being smart, even though they do the same things with creative language that humans do, simply because they're not human is reductionist to the point where you would have to question if intelligence exists at all.
Vincke struck me as a fellow who knew what to say to foster player goodwill but he’s a CEO and he’s going to act in his class interests. I will be a class reductionist here: that’s why this happening. :/
December 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Vincke struck me as a fellow who knew what to say to foster player goodwill but he’s a CEO and he’s going to act in his class interests. I will be a class reductionist here: that’s why this happening. :/
We’ve got a very cool guest that will be our first episode of January 2026!
He’s a musician, harm reductionist, psychedelic advocate, former heroin user, and so much more.
He was featured on This American Life, among other media.
Can you make a guess? 👀
Stay tuned for release on 1/5!!
He’s a musician, harm reductionist, psychedelic advocate, former heroin user, and so much more.
He was featured on This American Life, among other media.
Can you make a guess? 👀
Stay tuned for release on 1/5!!
December 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
We’ve got a very cool guest that will be our first episode of January 2026!
He’s a musician, harm reductionist, psychedelic advocate, former heroin user, and so much more.
He was featured on This American Life, among other media.
Can you make a guess? 👀
Stay tuned for release on 1/5!!
He’s a musician, harm reductionist, psychedelic advocate, former heroin user, and so much more.
He was featured on This American Life, among other media.
Can you make a guess? 👀
Stay tuned for release on 1/5!!
(I do not fw some of the links off of this tho a few of them are very reductionist)
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
(I do not fw some of the links off of this tho a few of them are very reductionist)
PPS: The CS argument maybe sounds glib or reductionist, but I actually think it's fairly deep. The point to my mind is compression is itself, if not identical to, certainly quite similar to compression. And complex language cannot be used without compression, due to physical limits.
December 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
PPS: The CS argument maybe sounds glib or reductionist, but I actually think it's fairly deep. The point to my mind is compression is itself, if not identical to, certainly quite similar to compression. And complex language cannot be used without compression, due to physical limits.
This strikes me as particularly dicey because Searle wants to claim more than something like "LLMs can't have mind." He thinks programs per se cannot produce mind. And maybe I'm too reductionist, but given the basicness of the idea of a program, his view seems to require some kind of magic.
December 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This strikes me as particularly dicey because Searle wants to claim more than something like "LLMs can't have mind." He thinks programs per se cannot produce mind. And maybe I'm too reductionist, but given the basicness of the idea of a program, his view seems to require some kind of magic.
not to be all identity reductionist but i do think a white man critiquing consent as a framework is wild (he makes the argument that consent is insufficient and i'm still not entirely sure how to summarize his argument)
December 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
not to be all identity reductionist but i do think a white man critiquing consent as a framework is wild (he makes the argument that consent is insufficient and i'm still not entirely sure how to summarize his argument)
and reductionist, Manichean, marxism and anticapitalism, and everything already mentioned. It is dumb, self-defeating, and all it achieves through its perpetual failure to represent an alternative is to lose ever more support and just fuel the extreme right. A left that remains frozen in ->
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
and reductionist, Manichean, marxism and anticapitalism, and everything already mentioned. It is dumb, self-defeating, and all it achieves through its perpetual failure to represent an alternative is to lose ever more support and just fuel the extreme right. A left that remains frozen in ->
I get where you're coming from, but I disagree. Social media is a tool to inform and coordinate. It definitely has its value, but it isn't a replacement for actual action. It can masquerade as that, but suggesting that its only function is to distract from the real is reductionist and condescending.
December 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I get where you're coming from, but I disagree. Social media is a tool to inform and coordinate. It definitely has its value, but it isn't a replacement for actual action. It can masquerade as that, but suggesting that its only function is to distract from the real is reductionist and condescending.
“Only by abandoning the reductionist language that frames Israeli wars as simple responses to armed groups can we arrive at a profound understanding of events in Palestine, Israel’s true motives, and the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump's “Board of Peace” is reportedly set to be announced before the year's end. This news coincides with increasing reports that the U.S. administration is serious about pushin...
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December 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“Only by abandoning the reductionist language that frames Israeli wars as simple responses to armed groups can we arrive at a profound understanding of events in Palestine, Israel’s true motives, and the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle.”
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I think it's fair to argue that many reductionists (then and now) hold a 'strong reductionist' view that goes beyond just 'everything is reducible' to 'everything can be derived up from the smallest things'. The latter is what Anderson took issue with.
Phil Anderson's "More Is Different" was not an anti-reductionist view! This is literally the first sentence of his paper.
December 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I think it's fair to argue that many reductionists (then and now) hold a 'strong reductionist' view that goes beyond just 'everything is reducible' to 'everything can be derived up from the smallest things'. The latter is what Anderson took issue with.
The physicist Philip W. Anderson "succinctly framed the nascent anti-reductionist perspective with the phrase 'More is different.'"
Life (in the abstract) IS marvelous & I welcome other scientists to biology's big tent. 🎁🧪
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Life (in the abstract) IS marvelous & I welcome other scientists to biology's big tent. 🎁🧪
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore
The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.
www.theatlantic.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The physicist Philip W. Anderson "succinctly framed the nascent anti-reductionist perspective with the phrase 'More is different.'"
Life (in the abstract) IS marvelous & I welcome other scientists to biology's big tent. 🎁🧪
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Life (in the abstract) IS marvelous & I welcome other scientists to biology's big tent. 🎁🧪
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Anderson was any-*constructivist*, not anti-reductionist. He didn't think that studying lower levels was necessarily useful in studying higher levels -- basically everyone agrees! But the higher levels still come out of the lower levels.
December 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Anderson was any-*constructivist*, not anti-reductionist. He didn't think that studying lower levels was necessarily useful in studying higher levels -- basically everyone agrees! But the higher levels still come out of the lower levels.
Phil Anderson's "More Is Different" was not an anti-reductionist view! This is literally the first sentence of his paper.
December 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Phil Anderson's "More Is Different" was not an anti-reductionist view! This is literally the first sentence of his paper.
Otherwise good video. Wish the social democrat Bernie Sanders was pushed on his failure to acknowledge the reductionist view on borders he has. Fluidity of labor is not precarity for the existence of people being able to come in, but for the existence of the employers exploiting it.
I have gripes.
I have gripes.
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Otherwise good video. Wish the social democrat Bernie Sanders was pushed on his failure to acknowledge the reductionist view on borders he has. Fluidity of labor is not precarity for the existence of people being able to come in, but for the existence of the employers exploiting it.
I have gripes.
I have gripes.
i love how genre is only a reductionist way of understanding the real continuity of inspiration that weaves through fiction, it’s one big complex layered system. Always Historicize! and whatnot.
December 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
i love how genre is only a reductionist way of understanding the real continuity of inspiration that weaves through fiction, it’s one big complex layered system. Always Historicize! and whatnot.
So like yeah, maybe we could challenge Republican hegemony, especially in the mountain west by running basically class reductionist candidates, but this wouldn't really be a supplement to the Democrats, it'd just be a competing form of conservatism.
Long-Hawleyism. Hardly fucking socialist.
Long-Hawleyism. Hardly fucking socialist.
December 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
So like yeah, maybe we could challenge Republican hegemony, especially in the mountain west by running basically class reductionist candidates, but this wouldn't really be a supplement to the Democrats, it'd just be a competing form of conservatism.
Long-Hawleyism. Hardly fucking socialist.
Long-Hawleyism. Hardly fucking socialist.
Netanyahu & his govt are scum. You can say that without being anti-Semitic.
Don't be so fucking reductionist. Be smarter. We're not maga,ffs.
Don't be so fucking reductionist. Be smarter. We're not maga,ffs.
I've been off social media a lot, for me, this afternoon, but catching up and what the actual fuck is wrong with some people. You can absolutely condemn the Israeli government for its genocide in Gaza. If you use that in any way shape or form to minimise the attack in Sydney you need serious help.
December 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Netanyahu & his govt are scum. You can say that without being anti-Semitic.
Don't be so fucking reductionist. Be smarter. We're not maga,ffs.
Don't be so fucking reductionist. Be smarter. We're not maga,ffs.
the arguments weren't about convincing people to vote, they were about convincing people to vote for democrats regardless of those democrats' politics. people who call voting harm reduction def don't consider my vote for psl harm reduction - and good! because as a harm reductionist, i don't either.
December 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
the arguments weren't about convincing people to vote, they were about convincing people to vote for democrats regardless of those democrats' politics. people who call voting harm reduction def don't consider my vote for psl harm reduction - and good! because as a harm reductionist, i don't either.
You just showed exactly why it's used for pro capitalist propaganda, it's material is a reductionist parody of history in a baby format that can so easily be interpreted as anti revolutionary rhetoric
December 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
You just showed exactly why it's used for pro capitalist propaganda, it's material is a reductionist parody of history in a baby format that can so easily be interpreted as anti revolutionary rhetoric
I don’t think he helps the situation and it’s fair to look at how he has changed politics for America and internationally
But still think it’s reductionist to blame the attacks on him
But still think it’s reductionist to blame the attacks on him
December 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I don’t think he helps the situation and it’s fair to look at how he has changed politics for America and internationally
But still think it’s reductionist to blame the attacks on him
But still think it’s reductionist to blame the attacks on him
It’s a little reductionist to say white supremacy and antisemitism which are millennia old are due to the comments of one person. I think it lets us off the hook for evaluating our culture
December 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It’s a little reductionist to say white supremacy and antisemitism which are millennia old are due to the comments of one person. I think it lets us off the hook for evaluating our culture
I'm not normally a spiritual reductionist, but dukkha + wanting to make it everyone else's problem + enough money to make it everyone else's problem could explain a lot of nonsense.
December 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I'm not normally a spiritual reductionist, but dukkha + wanting to make it everyone else's problem + enough money to make it everyone else's problem could explain a lot of nonsense.