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book on communism (+ value, mechanism, pol theory, naturalism) soon(ish). would love to hear from you @ cbelton-at-tuta.io. all tweets reports of present pathos
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no haha i just have a lot of second degree winnipeg ties and a fairly robust mental map of all the winnipeg communists
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for some reason i never realised you were in winnipeg!
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text me about it lol
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thank you for putting in the time to keep one of the best journals in the discipline going!
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imo you should read portrait of a lady
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what century is britain in!!
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sorely lacking in business mindset...
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value theory in philosophy has absolutely no awareness of the existence of theory of value in mainstream econ, or the value theory in the marxisant stuff, which is especially funny bc the first uses of value are primarily economic, and the philosophical stuff back-ported
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i think it’s kind of awesome
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more or less. the difference is that intermezzo splits her identifications between two guys, whereas the others usually split them between a guy & a woman
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i hope it starts looking up! i've always been a believer in the redemptive power of the month of february
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yumm
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that’s a good idea. i’ve only spent a couple weeks lifetime in the southern hemisphere, not enough to make a study
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it's tricky to talk to people about things. where they listen + reply
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you didn't have to be born with all those teeth
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i think it’s one of those au courant analytic political theory things that just doesn’t get taken up with the same alacrity outside that niche. i discover stuff like this all the time. last week somebody asked me at my talk what my thoughts were on epistemic bribery. everybody was like yeah good q
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it's the political theory cluster up there, which hosts this huge volume of quite fun conferences & workshops
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it's a pretty campus! and i like the mancept guys a lot
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sooo funny
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then by the time it was in print (no thanks to graaff, who was already back in south africa farming) it was considered simultaneously very important & woefully out of date. who did it influence in the intervening 7 years? who heard about it? did anyone outside cambridge care?
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(this being a basically separate point i made in a paper a little while ago). just thought i would post this bc i was mulling about it on the train & didn’t think i had anything larger to say on the topic!
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anyway, i don’t have any big point here besides that global expressivist meta-semantics (& upstream, scepticism) make the right prediction here, for both humans & LLMs. we get good at saying the most likely next phrase before we get good at pretending to know how reference works
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craftsmen don’t get to produce a internally homogeneous corpus because there are a lot of subtle constraints besides genre + the ones you define for yourself: materials, tools, cost constraint, client vibe. your past works are much predictive of future works than an artist’s
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i think the reason why our intuitive guesses on this are so wrong is that we think of computers as rule following & creativity as free. weird, right? good artists make works of art that are relatively internally homogeneous. they define their own problem & constraints precisely
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and, conversely, the rote task is the one you have lots of experience with. you’ve line-edited many papers before, but never thought through one on this specific topic. so it’s very high cognitive load to sit down and puzzle out de novo. but the LLM has similar puzzles in corpus
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this is interesting because it’s exactly the opposite of the prediction both boosters & critics would make! the rote task (line-editing, punch-ups) is the one you’re doing, the exciting one (blank page ideating) is the one you’ve outsourced. but i think this actually generalises!
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though it stresses me also, i think big picture there’s nothing wrong with being the aesthetic experience equivalent of a cheap date
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to be fair i understand why she would be disappointed considering critchley's reputation. i came to him looking for analytic derrida & found him less legible than derrida!
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what’s your vacuum of choice? i currently have a roborock + a really cheap canister vac but am not massively satisfied with either
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roommates + former roommates also good for this
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a contrarian-ish friend of evan’s took a class on the history of rock. he listened to the delta blues, skiffle, etc and was like yeah, this is all great, i see where the beatles got it from, it’s all just hype. then the class got to the beatles and he was like oh ok nvm this is infinitely better
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i will read it so i can chat about it with you!
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my theory is daily ambien use (well attested that he's dependent on it to sleep, he's told journalists as much) -> chronic sleep deprivation (well-known side effect, also evidenced in e.g. that chart of his posting times) -> cognitive decline
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ngl i use one…
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this is like how you pronounce st johns sinjins and magdalene maudlin
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