One reason I left literary studies is the Frankfurt School tradition didn't speak to me but I respected the stakes and didn't want to campaign for like 'let's study Beckett's syntax but then not try drawing transcendental-historical-political conclusions'
Had an amazing time talking to Caroline Busta and @lilinternet.bsky.social in New Models on the state of vibes and theories of which
Call me ChatGPT the way I need to waste water to think (long baths)
hmmm last point seems like definitive reputations, i withdraw
I think the offense is supposed to be something like 'a non-member shouldn't have the authority to bring up this painful subject in its most direct form at their pleasure'
'She's fucked up but you gotta understand she had a hard life, her family is extremely rich'
I sometimes get spasms thinking about how lonely I was in Berlin from 2018 to 2023
Me tooooo
*both. Fuck
I was born 100% sexy murder poet about qualia and 100% basically pleasant bureaucrat about everything else, and gradually started inverting the two, and currently i'm 55% smp 45% bpb about moth
You know the one
Catch me writing a book-length lyric essay about David Bowie and contradiction in 2026-2028
The 3 philosophy concepts that have a feverish hold on me are aesthetic Ideas (Kant), eudaimonia (Aristotle), and dialectics (Hegel). I formalized aesthetic Ideas in 2016-2025, formalized eudaimonia in 2022-2026, and dialectics can't be formalized, so I'm pretty much done
A beautiful message of peace and eigenvectors from Bayesian decision theory legend Kenny Easwaran
New Pynchon character just dropped
Would love to have a different name for my favorite type of movie
The term 'slow cinema' has weird 'if you like making love at midnight' energy
yes
Knowing it's a Nuri Bilge Ceylan film gave the apple the courage to roll dialectically
I don't understand how Nuri Bilge Ceylan got the apple to roll in a way that's not reddit
youtu.be/SEgkppTEfTc?...
I refuse that accept that you're not supposed to capitalize 'Chess'
Inverse of my experience with Ozymandias, which I always thought had loose syntax but turned out (when I prepped it for teaching) to be soooooo mechanically intricate
The Snow Man is the first poem I ever liked so I've read it hundreds of times since I was 12, and now is the first time I've noticed it barely has syntax
Desperate to not think/talk about AI anymore. If by the end of 2026 the world isn't in AI-chaos I'm never thinking about AI again outside my day job
My soul's getting malnourished from not working in the arts enough
My soul's getting malnourished from not working in the arts enough
Compared to @littmath.bsky.social I'm more open to the possibility of a 'glass fence' for RL-LLM performance. Could be that just like GOFAI is good for Chess-complexity tasks but not for Go-complexity tasks, big data neural nets are good for Go-complexity tasks but not for all tasks
Hegel is kind of a Hegelian synthesis of the two already
Thompson comes up explicitly, but I've never read Rödl. i've heard very mixed opinions on him -- are you a Rödl appreciator?
