That is true… & I know you don’t like parades… but some aspects of his seem like they might be attractive to you
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Replying to @Meaningness @TristanSevers
Smug and willfully dishonest are both disqualifying characteristics.
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Replying to @St_Rev @TristanSevers
I guess I’m more willing to put up with some bad behavior if there’s some insight as well—that being so rare
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
The insight is non-zero but "better than MSM" is an extremely low bar.
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We can reunify the branches of this conversation by noting that Abramson has no idea how the Alignment system works.
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Pretty sure he also doesn't know what "generative" means.
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Replying to @TristanSevers @St_Rev
You are caviling. Any thinker has obvious faults. He also has a plausible way forward‚ and there seem few of those.
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
Are you sure? "Generative" seems to do a lot of lifting in this argument & I'm unconvinced it means a thing.
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Replying to @TristanSevers @St_Rev
What do you think the correct definition of “generative” is?
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
""Unsterile." My complaint isn't that his dictionary definition is off it's that it appears to be papering over vacuum.
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Point is that pomo *is* sterile. Nihilistic. From lit crit pov, big Q is how to create after meta-narrative collapsed
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As I said, I think the story is somewhat off because pomo’s analysis is off. But basically correct:
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Creation is necessarily historically situated, collaborative, improvisational, paradoxical, appreciative, engaged
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