Glen Kappel

Renegade amateur philosophy enthusiast. Music software designer.

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Considering the viability of an all-and-only Ontology of Doodads. Maybe it’s just doodads all the way down

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@matt_olma @LatFilosof @Joe_ICHTHUS I was thinking of hilarious close-call setups to teach a lesson. Slipping on a banana peel, falling down an open manhole, but there’s a trampoline at the bottom and they shoot back up. Or strapped loosely to a big table saw with way too much time to wriggle free.

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@PAHoyeck Your conscientious studiousness has led you to miss a larger point: the Übermensch never reviews his own notes! 😤 He leaves them for his sister to work through.

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@Joe_ICHTHUS @matt_olma I thought exactly that the moment after posting. Fair! 😆

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@Joe_ICHTHUS @matt_olma Is it a funny kind of solipsism? What does that mean for the other members of our cult? You said we could be “co-leaders” but now I’m worried you’re secretly controlling our very existence..! 😰

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@lu_sichu @bas_logic @Aron_Adler I hate it when people just assume I’m “conscious.” It’s as inappropriate as when people assume I share their religion. Projection of metaphysical status without prior consent should be illegal.

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@akoustov Across domains. There’s a vocal contingent of music fans dead-set against any of it, but there are more professional musicians interested in and using it (in a variety of ways from stem separation, to ideation, elaboration/accompaniment, exploration) than vocally announcing it.

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@matt_olma @Joe_ICHTHUS @BlackestofLies Fellas, don’t leave me behind. I’m so down with slapstick morality!

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@madeofmistak3 Yesterday was legs/abs day. Today was cancel all my plans and book two naps day

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Wake up, babe. Your favourite sci-fi writer is calling for chatbots to be banned from ever using first-personal pronouns. Prohibited from claiming to “understand” anything in exchanges. Disallowed from making value judgements. 🫤

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@Cashstore1982 @BecomingCritter I feel for you. There is worse news: even *many* years later, I’d probably screw up again.

My immediate thought was just the logistics. I lived much farther away! Plus, the gentlemanly thing would be to see her home safe.

The good news: there are more determined women & they💥

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@BigGulpAmerikan @kunley_drukpa Giraffe the size of a Brontosaurus

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@madeofmistak3 Telling myself it’s the recent weight loss. “I am but a wispy reed. The window is open. The slightest breeze will affect me greatly…”

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@AndyMasley Paraplegic who can’t feel pain: “Ted Chiang doesn’t even think I’m conscious anymore.” 😢

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@PAHoyeck Guy who wants Liberalism to fail: “With this book I will explain the success that I hope this book will achieve.”

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@shutupari_ @grok Joe Thornton, asked about his teammate’s four goal game:

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@Cashstore1982 @BecomingCritter The driver cocking his head to glare at me through the rearview mirror will haunt me forever. 🤦‍♂️

Me [in bed 15 mins later]: …wait…oh, no…

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@akoustov Cornering a niche market. Journals selling frontier access to a trove of all-and-only human-generated specialty text for models to train on as the only readers of it, ever. What do the authors get out of this, you ask? Maybe tenure in ten years, somehow.

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@ben_j_todd “Toupee effect”: you notice bad ones and conclude they’re all bad. Good ones pass by unnoticed