From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 16:29:14 MDT
spike66 wrote:
>
> Shall we start ExI-math and take this elsewhere? Or trust
> non-math-geeks to be quick on the delete key?
Well, Spike, you know that math is just one more entirely ficticious
construct of patriarchal imperialist capitalist western civilization
that is used entirely for purposes of repressing women, minorities,
indigenous people, and the 'artistic' with boxes, labels, rules, and
limits. Even getting down to binary code, it demonstrates male
phallocratic repression of women, since 1, an obvious phallic symbol,
denotes a *higher* value than zero, an obvious womb symbol. Thus all
base two math and digital computation is sexist and a threat to
feminism. Your evil Python (aha, one more phallic symbol, a snake)
program always finds 'good' numbers, which you consider less perfect
than primes, which are only factored by themselves and one. Since one is
the symbol of the phallocracy, primes are a tool of phallocratic
control, and your value system judges other non-primes by their lack of
roundedness by more feminine numbers. The fact that math has no label,
or respect, for numbers factored by the womb symbol (zero), demonstrates
further that math is phallocratic.
By my personal, politically correct interpretation of the Extropian
Principles, both GIMPS and your own math work are un-extropian......
Mike
(who saved up his April 1st points)
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