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| | [Epistemic status: Sharing current impressions in a quick, simplified way in case others have details to add or have a more illuminating account. Medium-confidence that this is one of the most important parts of the story.] Here's my current sense of how we ended up in this weird world where: Background context: 1. The ancient Greeks wrote down a whole lot of arguments. In many cases, we're missing enough textual fragments or context that we don't really know why they were arguing - what exact propositions were in dispute, or what the stakes were.
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| A new thought experiment indicates that quantum mechanics doesn't work without strange numbers that turn negative when squared.