Hello everyone!
So, I debated whether I should even post this, but basically for a long while now I’ve actually been very frequently adding content to a website but it is just not this one and the other site is intentionally an anonymous (or perhaps “pseudonymous”) website, unlike this one.
The other site is focused on my creative work, which I am trying to re-establish and build out more. My studies in mathematics and logic have (for many years) largely been foremost motivated by a desire to explore a wide range of “possible worlds” and what interesting emergent qualities of things might exist and such, such as in game development and simulation especially, in theory at least. This is true even of my investigations into formal logic, though I do also simply love uncovering insights into myriad matters concerning the essence of things and clarifying and expanding my frame of knowledge and so on.
For a while now since I published Unified Logic, I have had somewhat of a mental block on several of my longstanding ambitions and that is in large part probably honestly due to how exasperated I was with dealing with the harassment and disingenuity of a certain small but vocal subset of people who reacted to my book and tried to blatantly and shamelessly misrepresent it (indeed, even though you could literally find exact quotes from the book that provably embodied entirely different claims than what the detractors claimed I said… they clearly predominantly weren’t even actually reading it frankly).
Given that almost any information given to my harassers has historically consistently only ever been blindly used against me (regardless of what I say and how wholesomely and benevolently and earnestly I approach things) to expand the surface area of attack against me (with often no real attempt to engage honestly or ethically with any of it at all), it has been much more pleasant for my peace of mind to simply work on the other site instead of this one and to just leave this one in stasis/hiatus.
That’s also why I haven’t even been disclosing what or where the other site is!
There may yet come a day when I stop being anonymous on the other site in some partial and deliberately not prominent way, but it will not be for a long while even then (i.e. years perhaps). I am quite happy with the other site and it is being updated very often and is growing at a nice steady pace (unlike this site).
I’ve also increasingly been abandoning platforms that put much of anything significant outside of my control at all, especially in light of recent immoral encroachments on our basic human freedoms and human rights by tech companies (such as “AI” plagiarism and copyright-laundering systems especially). Even some supposedly “open” platforms where things are nonetheless outside my control (such as WordPress, which this site here uses) have been grating on me.
A small number of platforms (and also tech companies) have far too much power right now. History has shown that too much centralized power and/or inter-dependent system design (regardless of its form or its designers’ supposed intentions) is a virtually guaranteed recipe for lots of harm and degradation of the best parts of what used to be a much more vibrant and healthy internet and computing industry.
As a society, we need to return as much as possible to fully independent and naturally resilient and predominantly private (perhaps even offline) computing. Computing also needs to be made as low-energy as possible before we ruin the ecosystem of the Earth. I do not like these recent increasingly out-of-control environments riddled seemingly almost everywhere with spyware in disguise, which can break at any moment whenever someone decides (often very falsely) they think they “know better” (such as when WordPress updates against my will and breaks things randomly intermittently… but which I cannot avoid due to security reasons, even though this site amounts to little more than a plain text system with how I use it).
This WordPress site (like all WordPress sites basically) is also obscenely wasteful of data and energy compared to what it actually is and does. With how dire the environmental situation is for Earth in recent years, it is ever increasingly difficult to justify any kind of wastefulness ethically, even for something as simple as this! I am (as always, for those who know me) very firm and stringent on matters of ethics!
I have even considered letting this site go dark one day, though I do want to keep my real-name domain name surely. However, if that ever happens at all, it won’t be for a good while probably. Yet, with tech’s recent climate, I have been highly incentivized to avoid this site and focus more attention elsewhere, where dependencies on brittle over-engineered energy-wasteful systems (like WordPress) and other forms of bad “tech” and/or bad attention (e.g. of disingenuous and/or exploitive people) can be minimized.
People who routinely try to suffocate any form of dissent or fresh thoughts are truly causing a great deal of harm to humanity’s future in recent years especially. Some people could benefit greatly from “touching grass” as the saying goes!
There’s more wealth in one square mile of forest than in any person’s wallet. It doesn’t take much to be happy in life in reality, if one is at all of genuinely sane mind. It never ceases to amaze me how much suffering some people are willing to inflict on others just for the sake of short-sighted and philosophically childish greed.
Anyway though, as for the great majority of wholesome and good-natured readers who have treated my work for what it is and always has been (i.e. as simply an honest, earnest, pragmatic, and fun exploration and mathematical research project into many interesting thoughts and theories in the foundations of logic and mathematics and so on: I have nothing but love for you all and I appreciate you reading my work and gracing me with your presence in my life! I also apologize for my routinely long and unpredictably intermittent delays in answering emails from you all. I tend to avoid my public email associated with this site for very long spans of time, especially since I am always spreading myself thin, sometimes even to the point of rendering many months futile in the sense of being intangible in outcomes. I’m working on getting better at that though.
Anyway, it will likely be a fair while before you hear from me again on this site, but know that my web presence is actually far more active than ever before (especially in the last year or two) and things are going well for me in that regard.
Indeed, it is a big relief to be able to express my creativity more freely there and without as much pressure, which is more authentic and more healthy for all involved. I also feel like the time I invest is much more stable and timeless outside the context of a locked-in and over-engineered dependency-riddled system such as WordPress.
I’m not sure if I’m ready to share the domain of the other site yet, though I may yet eventually. I am still thinking it over. Anonymity helps guard against various kinds of wasted time, energy, and interpersonal risks, to an extent. There are pros and cons, but the current tech culture is lately not as creator-friendly and intellectually savory as it once was.
There are only two true sources of authority that exist in this world: (1) concrete evidence and (2) logical proof. All other “authorities” are false authorities. This is what a true person of science adheres to, plus also ethics and benevolence. Intellectual honesty makes all the difference in the world and we need as much as possible of that now more than ever.
Anyway, that’s my post! I’m feel happy to have a more anonymous and unimpeded site that almost all of my website-allocated time and energy now goes to!
Here’s to a brighter future! Thank you for reading, supporting me, and being here!