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@nyoom @Arcana @lizzie @kaia @ai @allison @Moon @meso i thought he was endorsing the jewish problems stuff and not like how good the soviets were at teaching math overall.
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@tiskaan @Arcana @nyoom @lizzie @kaia @ai @Moon @meso I honestly doubt anyone in this thread but myself, you, and nemesis even knew what Jewish problems were before I posted them
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@tiskaan @Arcana @nyoom @lizzie @kaia @ai @Moon @meso mfw, guess my years of lurking orange reddit were worth it for this
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@allison @Arcana @nyoom @lizzie @kaia @ai @Moon @meso i did not lol
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@allison @Arcana @nyoom @lizzie @kaia @ai @tiskaan @meso I just wrote a custom filter for orangesite that keyword-filtered as much politics posts as I could and the leftover non-tech posts were actually pretty high quality. It's not the worst site.
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@Moon @Arcana @nyoom @lizzie @kaia @ai @tiskaan @meso oh for sure, it's actually very useful as a search engine and few know this
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@allison @Arcana @nyoom @lizzie @kaia @tiskaan @Moon @meso I have known about the Jewish problems for a long time, and I think about them often, as one of many examples of intellect set against sick bureaucratic cruelty which have shaped my worldview.
Tiskaan, go read the intro to Tanya's article and think about whether I sympathize with the Jewish students forced to do something 100x harder than they should have been given, and still *fucking* doing it, or the petty tyrants who believed in secrecy as a defense against human capability.
I do not believe that everything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but I cannot doubt that the brutality of Soviet times and the wastefulness of their economy were somehow related to the amazing thoughts and discoveries that were made by ordinary people despite the odds they faced.
Another fun story: https://mathoverflow.net/a/53245
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@ai @Arcana @nyoom @lizzie @kaia @tiskaan @Moon @meso that is one hell of an urban legend to just drop, jfc