Society's Child

Amy Wax: Fighting the corruption of universities

Jason Morgan
The Postil Magazine
Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:55 UTC

Professor Amy Wax is a scholar of law and society who is noted for intellectual rigor and fidelity to data and empirical fact. She is also a proponent of academic freedom, working to help her students understand a spectrum of ideas.

For this — for doing her job — she ran afoul of her university, which has now subjected her to extraordinary sanction. American academia is now openly hostile not only to free inquiry, but also to logic and objectivity.

Many would have thrown up their hands in despair. Professor Wax, however, chooses to stay and fight. In this interview, Amy Wax explains why she is not leaving the "woke madrasas" which American universities have become. If academic freedom has a future in America, it is because of brave scholars like Professor Wax.

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Gator · 2024-11-01T18:32:22Z

Buffalo_Ken Dwoods44 I was just discussing this with several here on SOTT and what Prof Wax is going through is exactly what they went through, as one brought up questions of the Holocaust and the other on a more current phenomena Indian Residential Schools.

The postermodernists, have also spawned the Woke mind virus that also gave rise DEI initiatives...and ruined academia and generations of students !

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-11-01T19:26:42Z

Gator - the love of my life…..both her father and her mother were college professors. Oh, I know about professors.

God bless professor Wax I reckon. ~

These wokist group-thinkers are the opposite of learning. Especially they call themselves professors. Who needs “higher education” from dimwit group-thinking professors tis a fair question. Especially when tis so easy these days to be self-taught.

So - fuck college - tis a waste of tuition.

Dwoods44 · 2024-11-02T04:36:57Z

Gator Thanks. I haven't watched this video yet, but education in the USA is crippling students psychologically.

It shows what a collective group think mentality where "follow the scientism", "follow the experts", dye your hair purple, put tattoos over your face, rings in you nose, if you are male dress like a woman, if you are female shave your head, don't read, don't write, be "spelled" by Taylor and Beyonce as "role models", get angry at truth, and run from discussion does...it keeps them as 13 year olds. Of course all of the vaxxes, ADHD drugs, and puberty blockers enhance that "education".

Gator · 2024-11-02T21:29:20Z

Dwoods44 Indeed thats true.

Dwoods44 · 2024-11-02T06:38:21Z

Here is a connected link. Charlotte Iserbyt has worked from the inside of the Dept of (mis)-Education. She has done many interviews discussing how the current USA education is dumbing down America.

Here she connects the global education leading to destruction. [Link]
A second link on how it has developed over time. [Link]

Gator · 2024-11-02T21:29:45Z

Dwoods44 Thanks for the links.

VooDoo6 · 2024-11-02T16:58:47Z

“American academia is now openly hostile not only to free inquiry, but also to logic and objectivity.”

Something about Free Will - independent thinker -

Nihilist’s vs. Atheist‘s

Triggered Limbic Brained vs. OODA Loop - Survival Cortex Brained

Ministry of Truth - Academic Tyranny -

yada yada yada - yoda yoda yoda - yodh yodh yodh 😎

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-11-02T17:04:49Z

VooDoo6 - "American Academia" have totally been subsumed and lost their way in most disciplines, but maybe not in "engineering" one can hope - but who needs to go to college in the first place tis a fair question - seems it has made itself - "not worth the tuition".

Seriously - if I had another child, I'd say - lets learn together and fuck college education of higher learning my ass......

Now - can you please help me pick up these sticks son.

BK

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-11-02T17:08:07Z

OK - all you mathematicians out there - what is infinity divided by 0?

And to be fair what is 0 multiplied by infinity?

I think I know the answer....

I'll never tell!

Ah screw it -

the answer is "time"

tis uncertain but moves on endlessly

otherwise - how would I be typing this?

How could you be reading it?

~

Anybody - got a better answer?

My supposition is time moves on in a "fixed way" absolutely.....never ends and who knows whether it had a beginning - can't be known....uncertainty - live with it - tis part of life.

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-11-02T17:12:12Z

Buffalo_Ken - what matters is the future however is a concept easily proven, and if you think you got the ability to change the future - then join the club I reckon....

some clubs advocate this - others advocate elsewise...

Either way,

Let the best ideas prevail.

~

typically ideas with merit resonate.

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-11-02T17:17:13Z

A few more questions...

1. What is infinity + 1?

2. What is 2 - infinity?

3. Does "zero" have parts?

~

this is not a trick question and as I typed this - time moved on - and I know I am not alone...

~

So - what can be inferred from that dear reader here at sott.net?

azigzagidiot · 2024-11-02T20:08:21Z

Buffalo_Ken ..

..

Addressing your comment above, I do not think such operations can be performed without context.

So, here define c = a / b equivalent to c * b = a (and say a , b , and c are real numbers [Link] [wiki:real number]) to define our relation between division and multiplication, given some other implicit understanding. Then,

Does c = ∞/0 make logical sense , or equate with , c *0 = ∞?

Substituting for the numerator ( a =2) and using a decimal (a number trending toward zero, b =0.2) as denominator, to examine possible trends:

10 = 2/0.2 ; 10*0.2 = 2

We can see the value c we'd like to solve for is larger than the value of the numerator a due to the relationship established. What can be inferred , then, if the numerator a were ∞?

Of course, the situation changes if instead the denominator were to reach 0. It depends on the definitions that you've established to work in your field of mathematics. Two common definitions in play when dealing with 0 and ∞ include:

a *0 = 0 [1]

a *∞ = ∞ [2]

where a is some real number. So, if we take it that both 0 and ∞ are also real numbers, framing again by our first defined relation between division and multiplication:

∞/0= c ; thus equivalently c *0=∞ , but strictly applying equation [1] we get :

c *0=0 (note a in [1] and [2] is just a number, as is c to illustrate here)

Which I think illustrates a paradox: as demonstrated earlier, the resultant we might expect was trending towards a larger infinity (i.e. we had a number c 5x larger than a when using a small number b trending towards zero). Oftentimes this operation of division by zero is set to be "undefined" (or is not performed), but it'd be up to you to define it and have it make logical sense or be coherent to be effectively accepted as valuable . I think of it as a logic and coherence game; if other mathematicians concur with the logic, coherence, utility and interpretation of the operations you're performing it'd be accepted.

Next, for 0*∞, again define:

a/b = c , or c*b = a ;

so:

0*∞= c , or a /∞=0

using a =1 we have

1/∞=0,

which I think makes logical sense, and let's add here an established and agreed upon extension:

Using mathematical structures that go beyond the real numbers, it is possible to define numbers that have infinite magnitude yet can still be manipulated in ways much like ordinary arithmetic. For example, on the extended real number line, dividing any real number by infinity yields zero ,[...] [Link] [wiki: division by infinity]

In mathematics, the extended real number system is obtained from the real number system ℝ by adding two elements denoted +∞ and -∞ that are respectively greater and lower than every real number. This allows for treating the potential infinities of infinitely increasing sequences and infinitely decreasing series as actual infinities. For example, the infinite sequence (1,2,...) of the natural numbers increases infinitely and has no upper bound in the real number system (a potential infinity); in the extended real number line, the sequence has +∞ as its least upper bound and as its limit (an actual infinity). In calculus and mathematical analysis, the use of +∞ and -∞ as actual limits extends significantly the possible computations. [1] It is the Dedekind–MacNeille completion of the real numbers. [Link] [wiki:extended real number line]

The above is addressed to the prior comment you made.

Here, therefore, drawing on the last definition cited I feel confident to say:

1. +∞

2. -∞

3. There's a lot that can be conceived or conjectured about zero, so I don't know what to say about whether it has parts. I find the utilitarian definition useful, that, "...a real number is a number that can be used to measure a continuous one-dimensional quantity such as a distance, duration or temperature[quoted from the first link cited here to wiki on real numbers]." So by definition the magnitude or size of a real number is its distance from zero.

If the operation of multiplication is the inverse of division and vice versa, what then can be inferred about division or multiplication by 0? If the common definition of multiplication by zero equals zero is given what then can be inferred about division by zero? If you want to multiply or divide by infinity, do you suppose you're trying to perform operations with the "multiplicative inverse" of zero?

the inverse of zero you could say is 1/0

if we define a function of a variable, x, as f(x)=1/x, and try to solve for the limit value as x→0, the output values of the function tend towards infinity.

Calculus studies the behavior of functions in the limit as their input tends to some value. When a real function can be expressed as a fraction whose denominator tends to zero, the output of the function becomes arbitrarily large, and is said to "tend to infinity", a type of mathematical singularity. For example, the reciprocal function, f(x)=1/x, tends to infinity as x tends to 0. When both the numerator and the denominator tend to zero at the same input, the expression is said to take an indeterminate form, as the resulting limit depends on the specific functions forming the fraction and cannot be determined from their separate limits.

As an alternative to the common convention of working with fields such as the real numbers and leaving division by zero undefined, it is possible to define the result of division by zero in other ways, resulting in different number systems . For example, the quotient a/0 can be defined to equal zero ; it can be defined to equal a new explicit point at infinity, sometimes denoted by the infinity symbol ∞ ; or it can be defined to result in signed infinity , with positive or negative sign depending on the sign of the dividend. In these number systems division by zero is no longer a special exception per se , but the point or points at infinity involve their own new types of exceptional behavior.

In computing, an error may result from an attempt to divide by zero. Depending on the context and the type of number involved, dividing by zero may evaluate to positive or negative infinity, return a special not-a-number value[NaN], or crash the program, among other possibilities. [Link] by zero]

boli · 2024-11-02T22:56:27Z

azigzagidiot Hahahahaha... great stuff.

I hope that's a response from Artificial Stupidity, or at least you didn't have to type that wall of text on your own.

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-11-02T23:57:15Z

azigzagidiot - holy moly zig zag - I mean zag zig - damn....holy moly.

I think this.

Infinity divided by zero just gets even bigger....and zero multiplied by infinity remains nothing.

Moreover - infinity plus 1 is the same thing as infinity and 2 minus infinity is the same thing but negative.

But at the end of the day - I doubt zero has parts - how could it - it is nothing.

How can a concept that is "nothing" have parts - if it did - it would exist separately defined - and that ain't nothing now is it....just like zero really is hard to imagine I reckon zig zag....

~

So good day to you sir - I hope the votes get counted fair and I vote for NOTA.

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-11-03T00:03:52Z

boli - I can't help but think of this song...

[Link]

boli · 2024-11-02T18:11:46Z

1. Same as butter + 13

2, Same as 67 - rat poison

3. "zero" has four parts: "z","e", "r", and "o"

Nothingness has no limit.

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-11-02T18:15:19Z

boli - now I will show you boli Do you think 11/5 is a day in history - somebody planted bombs one day in the past....and now here we are pal.

1. butter is good no doubt but not infinity - so minus 1 for that flippant answer (-1).

2. rat poison has nothing to do with 2-infinity - so minus 2-infinity on that pal.

3. zero has no parts - otherwise it would not be zero you dimwit.

~

BK

ps - truly - how could "zero" have parts is a fair question?

so - you all think I can't debate with the best of em - and truly zero is nothing....just like

Nobody is forgotten and nothing is forgotten

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-11-02T18:18:13Z

Zero has no parts - it is zero for heaven's sake...

duh...

the act of spelling "zero" does not define nor diminish the concept of it - it is zero for goodness sake...

nothing

~

nothing is everything some nihilist think - I think they are on to something

and that they are wrong

by definition

toipup1 · 2024-11-02T20:32:37Z

someone walked into a shop one day, looked at the man behind the counter and said:did you just see me walk in then?the man said yes the other man said have you ever seen me before? he said no, the other man said well then how did you know it was me?

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-11-02T23:55:50Z

toipup1 - for sure on that - but did it not take some time for the discourse - that is the point - tis the prove that we are not alone....

As for infinity and zero - hells-bells on that - sometimes it seems like nothing is everything and vice versa, but I think I can prove that time moves on and that I'm not alone....so there is that.

toipup1 · 2024-11-03T03:30:01Z

Buffalo_Ken true enough bk , when i was riding and racing big motorbikes i come across an unusual thing in that the concentration seemed to slow things down (thankfully not the bike lol) but yes the capacity for decision making critical only to the ride seemed to expand rather than contract like you would think, i feel there is a big secret in concentration, certainly lack of same seems worse for us

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-11-03T03:33:48Z

toipup1 - I can't deny I like to concentrate sometimes - it makes for a better shot with the crossbow.

So thanks I think....

crazy, crazy times no doubt - but no matter what anybody thinks - uncertainty cannot be eliminated!

toipup1 ·

Buffalo_Ken

· 2024-11-03T03:37:07Z

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-11-03T03:38:03Z

toipup1 - you want to know the beauty of uncertainty?

Well - I can't tell....

it must be subjective -

ergo - how could I tell....tis uncertain.

~

I don't care what infinity over zero is - cause I know about love - and at the end of the day....

love rules is what I think - even though there might be uncertainty...

toipup1 · 2024-11-03T04:28:39Z

Buffalo_Ken amen to that bk, love rules bang on, no uncertainty right there thanks for that

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