December 2011
6 posts
My Side Project That I Would Have Made My Main...
A lot of aesthetic merit is explicitly about modeling one phenomenon in terms of another phenomenon or showing how two phenomena can be modelled based on a common prototype.
A lot of aesthetic merit is explicitly about finding a short or elegant description that intuitively generates vast data (i.e....
Big Nights
The strangest visual experience I ever had is looking at a picture of a pizza and then suddenly not seeing it as “pizza” but a dish of hot specialty bread baked in grated tomatoes and cheeses.
I LOVE 'Shit Girls Say'
What makes it so amazing is the language in it is so slightly gender-correlated: the subject matter is almost invariably gender-neutral so it’s down to syntax and vocabulary, and occasionally illocution. Also the correlation is itself slight for the most part — like, most of the sentences are like “yeah, a woman’s 10% more likely to be saying that than is a man.”
Can't Ever Tell if I'm The Last Person or First...
There’s a cute way to unify verbal irony, dramatic irony, and “isn’t it ironic” irony: A thing’s ironic from perspective s if it involves a person with perspective s’ that is less well informed than s who for that reason would describe the thing in a way that is opposite of how a person with perspective s describes it. In verbal irony s is the speaker and...
The Fairest of the Seasons
When I feel strong I want ideas, people, works that satisfice rigour and maximize novelty. When I feel weak I want ideas, people, works that maximize rigour and satisfice novelty.
A Volitional Analysis of Intense Happyness?
My view is that pleasure is liking an experience, and that supposed objectless pleasure (mood, euhphoria, what have you) is just liking our intra-bodily and agential experiences. Also my view is that liking an experience is to have certain attentional dispositions towards that experience. Basically my view’s that the hedonic does reduce to the volitional once you recall that the volitional...