askantriangle

data science ex philosopher aspiring philosopher again | cinephile | literatus | piano

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reactions to girlme

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"howlingly parochial" is the best line from de niro or really any movie, stardust (2007)

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how many joke constructionists does it take to screw in a lightbulb

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@mauve_sky have you reunited with penelope yet

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and he never gets to say the punchline. there's another possible variant here where the man is the empty set and the punchline is silence, e.g. "but doctor, " ","
kinda hard to vocalize these though

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get it the man is the set containing itself

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man goes to doctor. says he's in another version of russell's paradox. doctor says "that's easy. leave the set containing itself". man bursts into tears. "but doctor, ``man goes to doctor. says he's in...``"

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man goes to doctor. says he's in another version of russell's paradox. doctor says "that's easy. leave the set containing itself". man bursts into tears. "but doctor, ``man goes to doctor. says he's in...``"

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@sam_kritch just the tiniest ender's coded choice of word

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on the other hand some guys are like "I love musicals" and just listen to the Ragtime prologue on repeat (underogatory)

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@sam_kritch I was thinking more about an Ideal language if humans could instantly intuit meaning from lossless, dense representation (perhaps, say, with the future assistance of tech). would that actually be good? sentences using span-optimal-words still quickly exhaust the runway

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ideally we would have exactly one word for every conceivable experience, even including details of the speaker, place, time. such as "hungry-nyc-july-2pm-????" with the ?s denoting a massive vector embedding representation, except that it's poetic and beautiful and intelligible

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tolkien's ents do the former by being hyper explicit in longform and we can see how that turned out

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on the other hand, maybe the act of compressing, or projecting, the nuances of our life and emotion into the smaller space of publicly available words is beautiful too, by virtue of forcing us to intuit what's behind the veil with others

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one must imagine kafka unhappy

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one must imagine kafka happy too

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ari aster prophesied the rise of data centers from the desert sands of the american west as the new technooligarchic god. his finger is on the zeitpulse

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eddington (2025) is an incredible film and everybody should watch it. it's the only serious film yet to understand covid as an ongoing historical event

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it feels like a winter day outside in nyc right now

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every airport should be like the jfk twa hotel