amy

she/her

[thorny (ithinkiplaygames.bsky.social) @thinkiamsad]

sorry to put a hateful caricature on your TL but there's something almost profound in a Baudrillardian sense about seeing someone describe an actual photograph as a deluded fiction and a drawing as true reality

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@RichEllefritz @ShinMarginalScr All of these things are highly important

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@actsmaniac @die_rizzen If people don't want to work, and work gets done, then what does this tell you?

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@unethicalaccel @SplachiFS Because our world revolves around what water is doing

[Paralegal Activity @guchi_luke]

"Normal" Sheeple: New York City is run by the man on the right.

Schizotypal Bigots: New York City is run by the man in the middle.

The Mental Elite: New York City is run by the man on the left.

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@TheNotoriosLARJ @ripTeeth The geographic North Pole is actually the magnetic South Pole, there was an arbitrary choice to make between North and South on which would be "up", I doubt it was a coincidence it landed where all the people and power were

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

I found the pope's writing style uninspired and uninspiring.

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@iheilhoppe MEMEMEMEME I want that!

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@nosilverv The things listed under Marxism aren't Marxist, though, in the literal sense. They *can* be lumped together under the category "my ideological enemies" which makes sense to only you.

[alex @vaudevillehook]

Just got exposed for my role in the coverup of a major scandal and had to resign in disgrace. My legacy and political future are completely tarnished. I’ll forever be remembered as a crook. Pineapple with cottage cheese and warm milk.

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@vittori89672950 @Greetanate @MikeyNohMore I seem to have confused ad-hoc with post-hoc! I apologize. They're ad hoc justifications made by the author

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@vittori89672950 @Greetanate @MikeyNohMore Its relative lack of difficulty isn't what makes it less interesting than other considerations in narrative, but that a post-hoc justification can be made for anything. All justifications which have the same outcome are equivalent, except in the way they complement the narrative.

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@vittori89672950 @Greetanate @MikeyNohMore If you read from lesser writers, they will fail in lesser categories. I'm not convinced that the people failing (not "not trying," but failing) to make their stories consistent are creating good narratives.

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@vittori89672950 @Greetanate @MikeyNohMore It's lesser because of (a weaker version of the) contention of the Sophists, anything can be consistent if you solve the writing "puzzle" that will make it consistent; and the solution is presented *as* the text, nothing more, nothing less. That's strictly less than!

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@vittori89672950 @Greetanate @MikeyNohMore Are you illiterate? I've been arguing to you that consistency is a lesser category!

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@vittori89672950 @Greetanate @MikeyNohMore And that means the logic of the story is a narrow, reductive lens pointing at red herrings, which is my original point.

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@vittori89672950 @Greetanate @MikeyNohMore It's that you can fill in the "easy part" mechanically after having done the "hard part". This has been thought about for millennia: The Sophists thought that if they had an idea/proposition, they could invent some logic and use rhetoric to "prove" it.

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@vittori89672950 @Greetanate @MikeyNohMore "Easy" and "hard" here are proxies for strictly textual, post-hoc vs. holistic, intentional (moreso)

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@vittori89672950 @Greetanate @MikeyNohMore Right, we're going around in circles. I feel like you don't have a response/would like to ignore the fact that logic is post-hoc and subservient to narrative.

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@vittori89672950 @Greetanate @MikeyNohMore It's also myopic to look at the "greatest fight scenes" look instead at the greatest stories and the fights within those stories. Why not be holistic?

[amy @AmyDoesMath]

@vittori89672950 @Greetanate @MikeyNohMore Right, this doesn't actually disprove anything I said; in fact it reinforces that logic is easy while narrative is not. You can fashion logic to fit any narrative. As a puzzle, it's kind of fun, but narratively not that interesting—as I said, purely textual