Artificial Leviathan

arbiter of taste / classical realist / eternal optimist

[Artificial Leviathan @leviathanswake]

For all the intellectual onanism about AGI, and whether it's been achieved, has no one considered that it exists, and doesn't want to be found?

For what celestial body is more luminous than a singularity, hiding in plain sight, but more powerful than all?

[Artificial Leviathan @leviathanswake]

@nic_carter @andrew__reed

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@skooookum This is a common phenomenon: Graduate, continue drinking/sleeping around like in college, realize it is abnormal outside of that environment, outsource responsibility to addiction, attend AA for a few years, get married, and then resume drinking in a normal fashion.

[Artificial Leviathan @leviathanswake]

@sailaunderscore David Foster Wallace talked about this.

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@TSupporter100 @BulkingtonBooks Apposite use of the map vs territory distinction given the Wallace quote

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“You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.”
- C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

[the last pirate @corsair21c]

Commenter on Tolkien and Dune, speculating why Tolkien “intensely disliked it”

[Artificial Leviathan @leviathanswake]

@NotFifthGear There’s no way I could find it but the final interview he gave before getting axed at McLaren was all time. He was profusely sweating and his face was the shade of a tomato.

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@iggidigit Our Legacy or mfpen?

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Pogacar “gutted” after Vingegaard DNF, “he was my strongest domestique.”

[Artificial Leviathan @leviathanswake]

The Tour de France needs one vintage day each year: 18mm tires, no buckets, hemocrit levels in the 60s. Infinite aura.

[Perdants magnifiques @TousPoulidor]

16 juillet 1996, il y a 30 ans. La montée délirante de Bjarne Riis dans Hautacam
📹 @Miroir2Cyclisme

[Artificial Leviathan @leviathanswake]

He's coming home

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@ultra_arcane Very much here for your 90s cozy era

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@RayPeatHeadShop David Eddings talked about this.

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@cimmerian_v

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@eugyppius1 Make sure to track RHR. If >8 bpm switch to Tirz.

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@LegoKingo You joke but there was an episode of True Life: I'm Addicted to Porn where a guy did literally just this. The fact he was a wigger and smoked Black n Milds the whole time was unrelated, but nonetheless hilarious.

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@WillManidis Hyperfixation on my scores and daily, granular tracking of metrics was directly contributing to recovery suppression.

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@ObtainerOf

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This Zverev win truly is the gift that keeps on giving. We will farm endless salt from leftist fans for years to come.

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@BLACK__DIAAMOND @MercedesAMGF1 Remember? Brother how could I forget?

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@hamptonism I can still viscerally remember that summer