Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Take a quick look around you. What’s the the closest thing to a pure and perfect platonic abstraction you see? Eg, a cube made of a pure metal.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Stable, pure, platonic things are kinda rare in the real environment Edges and corners wear, surfaces degrade, shapes distort with heat, materials oxidize…
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Daniel
@dmg
Your average tree or insect is more platonic than a cube. Cubes don't just *exist*.
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July
@july
Right here The platonic love I have for Ribbonfarm
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
a prism shaped tea bag
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Ike
@iw
A glass Klein Bottle on my shelf (?)
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Martial Artz
@mjbr
circular mirror
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Om Malik
@ommalik
Ice Ice Ice
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Metaversity
@metaversity
Ultra sound money a.k.a. Ethereum node/client/wallet!
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Brian Sullivan
@sullivan
Trick question! Platonic abstractions don’t exist in space or time; so the answer might be nothing…or every/anything.
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LucentMonk 🍖***🎩
@chado
Probably easier to find in nature, such as a dew drop. The best thing I have now is a toilet paper roll. :)
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🎩 MxVoid 🎩
@mxvoid
Just a full set of Platonic solids, NBD. https://i.imgur.com/1d3jFcV.jpg
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MIB
@dannamar79
The rounded case of my glasses 😎
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