windbaggery & charlatanism
explanatory gap
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not defending ChatGPT about which I know virtually nothing but what makes you think that many/most human beings are not programmed to think/believe/utter formulaic platitudes if not outright misinformation? Dickens' caricatures of individuals fixed in robotic personalities are not really far-fetched.
most brains are hives of others' voices & only with effort does one "think for himself."
please note that US society is built upon contradictions; it is considered maturity to politely not notice these.
at least ChatGPT is "only" a device. just pull the plug.
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It’s tragic that ppl are so unfamiliar with reading, they think it must be “performative” to read a book in public.
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there’s obviously a nostalgic “humanist” reading of people falling in love with AI bots (ie. everyone is so desperate for any connection now, etc) but the antihumanist one feels correct: humans have always fallen in love with flat/partial/projective/“machinic” qualities in others
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I'm developing a raccoon theory of male sexuality:
- male sexuality is racoonish in character
- we love raccoons, raccoons are great
- raccoons can maul people, and in those cases need to be shot or imprisoned
- raccoons do not belong in the workplace
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it’s wild how contentless this genre of writing actually is, if you skip over all the aesthetic posturing the only actual take here is undergrad level econ 101 bullshit lmao
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We do not need more AI no thanks we need like an agricultural revolution and new tortured fashion geniuses and much more curious doctors
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hamlet *could* have seized the throne with his general intelligence and education level but met his tragic fall due to some combination of emotional problems, chasing "cool" professions (acting), disdain for the business world (weary, stale, flat, unprofitable), and laziness
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Conforming to our cognition must feel so good if you’re the object
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imagining if kant had been a contemporary airport book author and after the critique of pure reason, he published 40 variants like "critique of pure teenager reason", "critique of pure grandma reason", "critique of pure coffee lovers' reason", etc
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Retinol is interesting because when you’re impatient/consistent, part of your face literally falls off. You sacrifice this outer layer, withstand looking gnarly and abject in the present, partly out of duty to a Self that lies decades away. I hope She appreciates this.
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(angry, precritical voice ) they don’t want reason. they want to endlessly critique reason
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Holy shit someone sent an email asking me to follow up on some edits. Really messed up, DM for venmo if you feel comfortable sending some money so I can get through this.
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Wow an academic paper hosting website which if you just leave it as an open tab for too long says you have timed out and reloads away from the paper into the front page. The absolute unmitigated violence, the complete lack of regard for our culture and lifestyle.
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This is a very nuanced thing and I'm wary of speaking in broad brushstrokes, but it really is alarming how much we reify traits about ourselves with this kind of over-identification. Most ways of being are about the choices you continually make, not what you intrinsically 'are'.
