It feels good to say something unmeasured and unexpected to a friend when you are used to expressing emotions only after they’ve been curated to a fine point that can’t come back to hurt you.
First of 2026. The best novel ever written in the English language, by a ‘diarist, compulsive notetaker, poet manqué, alcoholic philosophizing rambler.’ In short, a buffoon. 3rd time reading, but not like this. Never anything like this. I retraced every step. I owe him everything
"It��s fortunate that LLMs are not conscious," Ted Chiang writes, "or else the actions of the big AI firms would be even more scandalous than they already are." https://t.co/N7hkn0NIRK
These boys too confident being zeroes. Like all there is to life is cancel out or carry over. Like the fool will never fall off that cliff, the absurdity corresponding mysteriously to the certainty of mathematical impossibility. Whatever... I like numbers with actual personality.
I believe in a forthcoming revolution of attitudes and conceptions which will make everything that has gone before turn red with shame. (Friedrich Hölderlin, 1807)
@SamBuntz That is what someone who lacks a poetic nature & who has never truly understood what those words mean would say. I’m sure you’re getting all the girls on the Fourth Way at the parties but it might be time to go on a retreat. Read a book
@SamBuntz River Merchant’s Wife is very good. I read it when I was 17. But because I have feeling for poetry, respect the patience & charity involved in creating a path toward deeper, more intimate understanding, I want to grow, express gratitude. Not remain a child, with childish opinions