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i wrote a new post! on themes from classical rationalism of the early modern period present in lesswrong rationalism. sparked by a conversation between @OttokarHochman and @_AashishReddy I was tagged in listed.to/@pachabelcanon…

Thinking about how mad Spinoza would probably get over this tweet...truth/goodness never saddens (ie depresses potential) according to him

does Luke Skywalker have hysterical neurosis? And other fun questions to ponder

i think that im a 1975 fan now. i must now commit seppuku for being an insufferable male manipulator

Barthes proving that zoomers are right to be afraid of "communication" over the phone

Thinking that LLM-ish AIs could soon lead our science and philosophy and art is tied to thinking we already reached the end of science and philosophy and art anyway. Nobody thinks an LLM-ish AI trained only on variations on 17th century texts could get us to 21st century civ

The nice thing about striving to be a gentleman is that it gives you something to do always. You can just see a gallant thing you can do and do it just because you can

it's kinda incredible that the meaning of "fantastic" has shifted so much that this moment no longer reads as "4 guys calling themselves mutants" and more like "Captain Jackass and the Self-Loathing Trio"

it me. whom amongst us,

If I have kids I hope they're super into fairies so that I can do a 'broccoli is a flower, fairies would love to eat this' pitch

if plans survived contact with the enemy we would have to sabotage them ourselves

Psychoanalysis is a science of the poetry of life. Eg, I habitually step back from being loved, recognize this as a symptom, and end up being able to affirm my symptom in such a way that the knot comes undone; eg, I refuse to be loved out of love, and for *this* am loved.

nobody wants to hear this but kayfabe is a good sign that what ur looking at is real. they dont care to pretend when it comes to the fake stuff

Babe would you still love me if I was 10^100 shrimp

my chinese family holds to the tradition of giving your child a terrible nickname so the spirits will think “wow must be a shitty child” and move on to target other children, so I’m “dog” and my little brother is “dog #2”

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)

I'm reading Freud (back to form, it's the Three Essays)