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@youzicha
LLMs becoming capable of identifying authors stylometrically seems like an unpleasant surprise for people who left orphaned works on AO3. Like, I guess pretty soon somebody will be able to run an open weight model on a scrape of the site to link all pseudonyms that are written by the same person, to figure out who is secretly problematic…
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What distinction are you using between Ideas and Concepts? i felt like i ALMOST understood that post but I'm not sure where to find context and I'm real curious now!
Re: this post. "Concepts" and "Ideas" are terms of art in late 18th and 19th Century philosophy. "Concepts" for both Kant and Schopenhauer are the contents of ordinary propositional knowledge. In both cases they think that concepts are not the object of aesthetic judgment or experience (respectively). Aesthetic judgment for Kant involves confrontation with an object we cannot readily assimilate to a concept provided by the understanding. Aesthetic experience for Schopenhauer involves overcoming the habitual, concept-laden mode of seeing things. They each use "Ideas" differently, but I think they actually are trying to get at the same explanandum and in both cases they're supposed to be special. I'll give on popular way to read what Schopenhauer means by ideas (which is slightly different from what I understand him to be saying, but close enough for tumblr work): when you perceive an Idea you perceiving its non-spatial, non-temporal essence. You are basically bracketing the thing and only observing its essential features (for more on this reading, I think there are parts of it in Shapshay, Janaway, and Young). One way of misunderstanding: "so you're just finding out the last of properties that it has that make it what it is?" No. Essences for Schopenhauer are not lists of properties but involve grasping something about the object that cannot be exhaustively translated into propositional terms, so listing off "red, such and such a beak shape, feathered, etc." for, let's say, "cardinal" isn't going to cut it. For Kant Ideas are equally weird: Ideas are products of the faculty of Reason that are produced as a result of Reason's "vocation" producing certain kinds of transcendental illusions that we mistakenly think we have a priori knowledge of, but which (nevertheless) are useful in providing regulative principles for our thoughts and actions. Things like the soul, God, etc. Kant thinks that beautiful things (really poetry specifically) can give sensible presentation to these things. These are Kant's aesthetic Ideas.
"What does this mean for real people?" Well, I think there are some thoughts that are really kind of dead from over-articulation, from having their entire existence in the propositional form. Running through the Romantics is this thread in which big parts of language are dead and the task of the poet is to make them Adamic and living again. This finds later articulation in the Russian symbolists, Russian formalists, early Anglophone modernists. I think the Romantic version of this in which thought needs to be reconnected with feeling isn't quite right: we can be triggered in a way to have certain emotions as a result of propositions (though perhaps they would discount this kind of unity). But there is something off about something that has its finality in speech. And I think it makes too salient the picture in which I compare the propositions in my head to the propositions on the page and assessment is simply a matter of matching. But corniness it seems to me is liking the ability for something to be plainly expressed and to find comfort in it. There is something corny in the sensibility of someone who likes an anti-war movie first and foremost because he can put to himself, in so terse a statement, "This movie is against war and I am also against war. This is my sentiment exactly."
for example
me: You probably don't remember, but when you were little we used to go to that bridge to watch cars. kid: Of course I remember! That was only like 5 years ago.
Well, yeah... but you're 7...
What did you do, Tipsy Bartender?
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David Hockney.
Someone was asking, how can Sam Kriss think that LLMs still sycophantically hallucinate, but recently I have been trying out Google Gemini (I enabled Claude's "memory" feature, and then got self-conscious about asking dumb questions), and at least on the default effort-setting it will cheerfully hallucinate entire airplane engines for you, just like the Claudes of yesteryear...
October once wrote that @materialist-scumbag is fun but it's more Claude than Kontext. And indeed, like,
He would not say that!
Asuka character design for Evangelion 3.0+1.0 by Moyoco Anno
David Hockney
‘The Arrival of Spring, Normandy’ 2020
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funny coincidence🤔
unemployed and posting about newcomb's problem
In his original paper on what we now call the "many-worlds" interpretation, Everett motivated it with quantum cosmology, since there's nowhe
livescience.com:
In 1925, Einstein went on a walk with a young student named Esther Salaman. As they wandered, he shared his core guiding intellectual principle: "I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are just details."
that's what I remember from when I tried to find a source for this quote. It's not something Einstein wrote, it's someone's recollection that he said soemthing more or less like this
Anyway, I'm interested in the spectrum of this or that element. That's always been metaphorically true of me, and for the last few years since I switched to quantum chemistry, it's literally true... well, not elements, but it's literally true that I'm interested in the spectrum of this or that molecule. Remembered this quote this morning while reading a paper in the cafe, after writing "50 nm shift between isomers!" on a graph of spectra.
The OP is a personal perspective about how Newcomb's problem discourse looks to someone like me, though I hope they frontpage it instead of classifying it as a personal blog post, since it's not just my personal perspective, it's the result of my training, and I think both valuable in itself, and helpful for understanding other people like me.
i feel like either you have to not call india a subcontinent or you have to also call something else a subcontinent. doing neither is not reasonable
europe is the obvious candidate but nobody does it! very silly. europe and india are the same in so many ways...
"European subcontinent" would just mean the same as Europe. The reason people talk so much about the "Indian subcontinent" is that they need a word to distinguish it from India the country.
we talk a lot about the Freikorps when it comes to political street thugs, but rarely about the American Protective League, a group of 250k given badges by the Attorney General to go rough up draft dodgers, Germans, and other disloyal elements of society.
what did he mean by this
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That translation from @sungodsevenoclock got me thinking about jaunty short-line rhyming poems. I started remembering a handful from, in particular, Elinor Wylie and her somewhat later contemporary Phyllis McGinley. Both of them had a wonderful knack for these very playful, jazzy poems that were often just excuses to show off how brilliantly they could do multisyllabic rhymes. Here's a chunk of Wylie's "Peregrine":
"He made pantries Of Vaux and Arden And the village gentry's Kitchen-garden. Fruits within yards Were his staples; He drank whole vineyards From Rome to Naples, Then went to Brittany For the cider. He could sit any Horse, a rider Outstripping Cheiron's Canter and gallop. Pau's environs The pubs of Salop, Wells and Bath inns Shared his pleasure With taverns of Athens..."
And there's an even more technically brilliant variation of this, which is exemplified in McGinley's "Lesson for Beginners." I'm going to transcribe the whole poem, because (though it's a bit glib), I have rarely found its equal for marrying verve and musicality to keeping on topic and not wandering into rhyme for rhyme's sake.
LESSON FOR BEGINNERS by Phyllis McGinley
Martin of Tours, When he earned his shilling Trooping the flags Of the Roman Guard, Came on a poor, Aching and chilling Beggar in rags By the barracks yard. Blind to his lack, The Guard went riding. But Martin a moment Paused and drew The coat from his back, His sword from hiding, And sabered his raiment Into two.
Now some who muse On the allegory Affect to find It a pious joke; To beggar what use, For Martin what glory, In deed half-kind And part of a cloak? Still, it has charm And a point worth seizing. For all who move In the mortal sun Know halfway warm Is better than freezing, As half a love Is better than none.
USS Cincinnati submarine memorial! It features the sail and rudder of the actual submarine, and a 1:1 scale model of the rest of it.
