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Yeah I felt the third one was a really nice, small book, but the discourse really wanted it to be a momentous book because of who Rooney had become, and that resulted in some angst

yeah i guess that would probably be my ranking

for my money her best two books (though the other two are good too)

this mf just woke up and hasn't scrolled back far enough to see i've been letting em off since 6 am

Cormac McCarthy is ‘clunky’ says the New York Times

Also like the implication that ChatGPT *used* to be like cormac McCarthy

watch your fucking mouth

Far and away the maddest I’ve ever been about AI hype bullshit

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

starling (seth rogen): if you could take this survey that would be so awesome. i could get out of your hair before this guy's done jacking off.

hannibal lecter (danny mcbride): motherfucker that's miggs. me and him are boys, so you better watch yourself. i'm behind this glass cause i ate some dudes

i guess 'bold' is one word for it, sure

generally an incomplete list

my favorite part of psych papers is the 'here are some questions we didn't look into, but hey, someone should!' section

check out my man! my man laughing cause he only represent disjunctions of proximal stimuli! he laughing cause he know S_1vS_2v...vS_n!

what do you *do*? normative terms are supposed to be action-guiding, so i still need to know whether i should be rational_1 or rational_2 (on my justin clarke-doane shit rn)

one reaction people have to this sort of problem that i have some sympathy for but ultimately find unsatisfying is 'there's just different things you could mean by "rationality" and it's rational_1 to do one thing and rational_2 to do the other thing'. that's right in a sense, but the problem is...

David Gauthier, Rethinking the Toxin Puzzle - PhilPapers This chapter considers Gregory Kavka’s well-known “toxin puzzle” and argues that it can be rational to drink the toxin. It grants that drinking the toxin does not have the best consequences. ...

philpapers.org/rec/GAURTT-2

so you're also drinking the toxin then? doesn't seem terribly palatable to me (but, again, never thought seriously about any of this)

I’ve never thought seriously about Newcomb’s problem, but I quite like the beginning of this Lewis paper (and the pivotal gibbard quote). Quite generally, if you set things up to richly reward irrationality, then irrationality will be richly rewarded

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a timely song, and a timely sports controversy, together at last

in 'hey soul sister' when they sing 'the way you move ain't fair you know', he's talking about lebron's crab dribble

This is what I think about most of my paper drafts

It’s 70 degrees and two black lesbians pushing a French bulldog in a stroller just simultaneously said ‘I like your shorts’ and ‘I like your fit’ to me, so I’d say it’s a good day

good news guys! we've invented the Meno problem for dating: it's only responsible to meet people you already know

I’m stupid and I need to shut the fuck up
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Yeah it’s bad

I know the rationalization is that he’s being a ‘tough interviewer’ but that is only worthwhile if the questions have intellectual value!