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@finn_hulse steve "connect the dots" jobs revolutionized design just by knowing slightly more than all the other tech bros (taking one calligraphy class)

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@finn_hulse for 99.9% of people avoiding knowledge to stay "unbiased" is just cope, once you start learning you realize your initial ignorance isn't "blank" and neutral but rather preloaded with unquestioned biases

but generally agreed, make the big play first, then figure out the rules

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@LonesomeWest @Benthamsbulldog @kantbian take kierkegaard's pseudonyms in either/or, he inhabits a worldview in depth and then lets the bottom fall out to reveal its self-undermining irony. it's not as clear as a direct argument but the reading experience is truer (an approach he modelled on socrates)

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@LonesomeWest @Benthamsbulldog @kantbian think of kierkegaard's concept of indirect communication, or nietzsche's on truth and lies, adorno's essay on form, derrida's signature event context, etc. to put it another way, we read texts for more than propositions.

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@Benthamsbulldog if you ever change your mind, I welcome you to the world of continental philosophy with open arms! and I recall violinist Yehudi Menuhin, when asked to name an overrated composer: "I can't say. But those who love something are more likely to be right than those who don't."

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@Benthamsbulldog @kantbian its like a room of jazz musicians calling rock music slop, you're taking at face value the opinions of ppl who *explicitly* chose/were trained in the opposite path+have ideological reasons for disagreeing. regardless ppl who do great work often have bad takes in other fields!

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@Benthamsbulldog @kantbian 3. an appeal to authority (lol) and the idea that "other difficult fields" aren't like this, never mind the scigen affair, soft sciences (psych/econ), the shitslinging of theoretical physics, etc.

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@Benthamsbulldog @kantbian 2. taking searle recounting foucault at face value when OF COURSE searle would want to make foucault sound bad, that's purely ideological, don't be disingenuous here (same for bourdieu critiquing french academic elitism)

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@chlouds121600 https://t.co/4LjpPbWBfj

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@Ancapta "You don't have to change your entire world model!" why tho, why treat humanities as part of the world and not STEM?

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@BreatheLesss thoughts on this essay?
"Analysis of music is also a reduction. [...] A listener need not know the root movement of a deceptive cadence or a German sixth chord to be surprised by the deviation from harmonic expectations."
https://t.co/OSmRdo6I50

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@chrrybbydoll some heavy hitter romantic-era piano concertos come to mind (Rachmaninoff 2, Tchaikovsky 1, both Schumanns, going a bit further Ravel). Robert Schumann piano quartet and Clara Schumann piano trio also highly recommended!

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powerful lazer experience

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@Tynamoguy

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@j3mpio @FlatPaper_ bringing this bet to him is worse than nico harrison trading luka to the lakers

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just failed no water 2025

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@eleanoir the real, the symbolic, the imaginary