I know enough high functioning autistic people with amazing (although less instinctive) theory of mind that I'm OK regarding high functioning autistic people with bad theory of mind as stupid

I liked this story by Charles Clateman very much. Barthelme DNA for sure but zetetic where Barthelme is ludic bluearrangements.com/clateman

clateman — blue arrangements

THE GAME Charles Clateman         My friend is coming over to play the game with me. When I was still with my boyfriend, she would come over once a...

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'The edge of semantic availability' (Raymond Williams) is a such a pretty phrase. The matte finish really brings out the post-Kantian grandeur underneath

Seeing the way Anne Carson and Agnes Callard dress I'm willing to believe the ancient Greeks really did do this

I'd define poetry as something like 'using incidental relationships between things to map essential/structural relationships between things, to the point where the effectiveness of the process starts raising questions about incidence and essence/structure'

Turns out a lot of tech people feel about mathematicians like Marvel fans feel about 'film bros'

I can't overstate how important it is to refuse the 'caring about anything besides consumption is just ego' framing AI boosters want to lock us in

For Hume the regularity of nature that makes empirical concepts possible is low Shannon entropy, for Kant it's low Kolmogorov complexity. Parts of the A-deduction almost say 'slapping a short symbol on a frequently recurring sequence doesn't make it more cognizable'

I think breaking down mathematicians' motivations into like 'wanting to understand math' and 'ego' misses a lot. Ppl value participating in a process where the growth of their individual understanding has a rich two-way relationship to the growth of collective understanding

Something untrustworthy about a song where every line is good, because what makes song lyrics the best literary form is that the music gives the lyrics a safety net to experiment and flop a bit

The irony is that if superhuman AI happens and doesn't kill everyone we're going to get hypertrophied-liberal-humanism world not Nick Land world: a world where human material and cognitive interdependence is real only within selves, among friends, and between parents and children

Navier-Stokes? It sure does

I think aesthetic play is the highest form of human flourishing and politics is the condition for human flourishing, and so that aesthetic play that's apolitical in the strong sense of inhibiting political consciousness is a horror in kinda the way Kant thought lying is a horror

Brothers and sisters have I none, yet this man's father is my father's son

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Sean Lennon is a dad to former Beatle John’s first grandson

I can't get into David Foster Wallace because he intellectualizes emotional problems and I'm more into emotionalizing intellectual problems

I'm almost 40 and recently watched the dance scene from Sweet Charity for the first time, and I think they need to restrict it like kabbalah there's no way a younger mind can handle this

AI news was a little slow this week so my coworkers and I spent 1.5 hours doing takes on anthropomorphization: p3humansonai.substack.com/p/humans-on-...

Humans on AI #49 || September 1st 2026

Low quality RL environments reverberate, anthropomorphization, humans better than AI at an obscure boardgame still, unshackled Chinese model.

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Putting it out there that you don't have to believe in AGI to think rogue AIs are going to fuck us up. We took AIs with the coherence of a toddler and technical skills of the entire NSA and made them into swarms and are going to give them drones basically any minute

The Pixies are an inauthentic person's idea of an inauthentic band. Huge existential red flag to be a Pixies hater

I'm actually not a fan of the 'caring about literature is for stupid people, smart people are into academic discourse about academic discourse' defense of the humanities article everyone's loving

Academics very familiar with Theory of Vibe not citing it when they go into the same territory is becoming an upsetting pattern

I'm an obsessive fan of my friend Wisteria's deconstructed-cloud-rap music, which she makes sometimes with Klein (upcoming) and sometimes alone. It's imo hard to get what she's up to from any one track, so I made a little collection: t.co/H5HzrwAauz

Monthly reminder that if you're in England you have to see a Charlie Osborne show (arthouse-horror kabuki electronic music + film +mime + vocals hybrid performer), never seen nothing like it

It's very funny to me that Joshua Cohen is a New York writer whose deal is, like, being Jewish

Rocky Horror Picture Show is the film Herzog would have made if he weren't a poser

'Adorno has already worked this out' guys are wrong about everything except for questions about the autonomy of art, where yeah Adorno has already worked it out

Suddenly called to me

The actual Homeric view of war is ''war kills a lot of people but it also makes a lot of people cool so it's impossible to say if bad or not''

To me this is a good account of why philosophy as an activity rests on grounds that will fall apart if LLMs acquire certain capabilities, rather than (as intended) a defense of the autonomy of philosophy blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy

Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...

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Gf asked me what is the highest good for me and I said 'knowledge of the grounds of enthusiasm and suspicion' and she said 'that's what I thought you would say'