Peli Grietzer
@peligrietzer
Mathematized philosophy of literature
This is the big one! My essay on art, poetic knowledge, and the scientific image of mind, language, and nature: aeon.co/essays/why-poe…
is "black milk" a real thing that exists in the world? or only in poems
They should get Potion Seller guy to write the script for the Elden Ring film
10 years ago there was a version of this called Lulu and I emailed my friend who sleeps around a lot to tell him his Lulu reviews are impeccable and he wrote back 'if I wanted to know what a bunch of internet-addled women think about me I'd check my email.' Pretty funny
Tea is now the number one app on the App Store Tea is a women-only app where users anonymously share info and warnings about men to spot red flags and get feedback.
due to a series of deeply evil actions on columbia's part that i don't even have the heart anymore to go into, i'm without a teaching position in the fall and unemployed. if anyone knows of literally any kind of job opening anywhere, i'd be so grateful if you'd reach out.
Imagine how out-of-this-universe The Stooges must have sounded 10 years before punk became a genre
'AI can't do anything that is not boilerplate or a game' is actually batting a thousand so far. People dismiss it due to prior theoretical considerations against the idea that 'creativity' is a scientifically meaningful concept
I find it mildly amusing how mathematicians are currently clinging onto the hope that there is something special about their creativity that AI will not also be able to pull off in a year or two.
My mom roasts me every time I say 'kisses' to sign off an in-person conversation and she's right to do so
They'll never make a guilty-pleasure movie better than Closer
A Serious Man is technically a poem, because its entire aesthetic value hangs on the weight of the phrase 'a serious man'
I was put on earth to make everyone know how good this song is youtube.com/watch?v=wp4Clh…
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