{"id":641,"date":"2005-05-20T13:59:44","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T12:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2005-05-20T13:59:44","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T12:59:44","slug":"laputan-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/laputan-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"Laputan Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ccins.camosun.bc.ca\/~jbritton\/goldslide\/gold08sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blog find of the week is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laputanlogic.com\/articles\/2005\/05\/index.html\">Laputan Logic<\/a> via Social Fiction (see sidebar).<\/p>\n<p>It manages to combine good scientific rigour with a wry sense of humour, and some nice sideswipes at irrationalist new-agery (and more <em>traditional <\/em>irrationalism&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>See for example: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laputanlogic.com\/articles\/2005\/05\/03-1238-8645.html\">Anti-Christ 616<\/a> on the alternate number of the beast; and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laputanlogic.com\/articles\/2005\/04\/14-1647-4601.html\">The Cult of the Golden Ratio<\/a> on hermetic geometry and all that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Honestly, people spout a lot of crap about the Golden Ratio .<\/p>\n<p>I mean that, to paraphrase the Willard character out of Apocalypse Now,  there&#8217;s just so much bullshit piling up on this subject that you practically need wings to stay above it.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Ratio, once a pristine jewel of geometrical truth and simplicity, has become a deity for a cult of hyperlinking headnodders whose chief devotional practice seems to be to handwave their way from one disconnected and unexamined falsehood to another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog find of the week is Laputan Logic via Social Fiction (see sidebar). It manages to combine good scientific rigour with a wry sense of humour, and some nice sideswipes at irrationalist new-agery (and more traditional irrationalism&#8230;) See for example: Anti-Christ 616 on the alternate number of the beast; and The Cult of the Golden &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/laputan-logic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Laputan Logic&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}