Ruthvik P

philosophy, language, and technology. building tools to help us see more detail in the world. formerly philosophy mlitt, and product at startups

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A bit about Warburg, keeping our personal digital archives/collections alive, and what I'm trying to do with Pond: https://t.co/puhqOPixEG

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@freganmitts @olsonkyleg i’m a little surprised at your surprise because it feels like excavating ahistorical truths has been the mainstream anglo-analytic vision from the very start

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@clioputra send cat map

[सम्यक সম্যক @samyak128]

Fascinating passages from Naipaul's "Among the Believers", from the Indonesia chapter "The Rice Goddess"

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@ryanhasbadtaste good to see the many ways the liberal soul has been stirred into voting

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@amaldorai @akhivae plainly racist to think reason is exclusively for european religions.. do the upanishads not consist of reason? what about the buddha’s teachings?

you can choose to believe christian teaching dogmatically, just as you can reason about buddhism

[Rob Haisfield @RobertHaisfield]

It will never stop being funny to me that the best practices developed in the Tools for Thought and personal knowledge graph era are now being ported over to agents. These best practices were always too effortful for humans to maintain, and are perfect for patient agents.

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@paulg Today’s powerful aren’t particularly literate; difficult to see how this could be different in a future that does not broadly value literacy

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@EqualParallel can only imagine what sports youtube is like, but i see it in a lot of ‘cool history or economics fact’ ones—a lot of “everyone’s thinks this but here’s what’s quietly missing”

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every one of those informative short form video essays now entirely uses an llm script and nobody in the comments seems to notice!?

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@cxgonzalez quietism pilled

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the sideways on view and its consequences etc etc

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

nobody is allowed to straightforwardly trust their own subjectivity anymore; the only people who are qualified to tell you completely obvious things about your first-person experience are Scientists who study Brains, because Brains and Science are real but your experience isn't

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this place is dangerous because unless you have a separate nuancemaxxing practice scrolling through here ingrains in your mind hot take dialectic patterns

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@surplustakes @nosilverv Reposted by your Guy too

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@14JUN1995 I’m on both

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@deontologistics yes insofar as it consists of claude praising and confirming what i’m saying

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@14JUN1995 @No5mallf3at i agre with you, but he probably just saw that as an anthropological and not strictly philosophical concern? in any case his ideas led me to an interest anthropology!

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@14JUN1995 @No5mallf3at maybe this is unsatisfying, but i think it’s consistent with his quietism

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@14JUN1995 @No5mallf3at this is a plausible reading of the rule following considerations; Witt wants us to see the ways in which we use a word, but any search for a ‘why these ways’ will bottom out in a “it’s just so in our form of life.”

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

Pre Partition India in Colour

Pre-partition colour photography of the Subcontinent is exceedingly rare, but a small archive does exist in the form of Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet in Paris.