if i don't make a golden age happen I will nevertheless die assembling the best library of all of the serious writing/thinking everybody has ever done on the matter. this seems like an actually-manageable project
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it seems to me like there are like about 20 good blogposts on the matter
one of them, written in 1997, argues that there are no actual good books on the matter, no proper history of it
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I want to read what Gray, Kroeber and McClelland had to say. wonder if they're still alive. wonder if David Banks is. wonder if I can get him on a zoom call, if he is
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I haven't felt this euphoric since I was about 20
I have scanned most of the available material and it appears to be stuck in stasis, everyone is doing 101 sketch of existing material
I think I can get to the top 0.1% cutting edge of understanding of this stuff in like a year
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super excited about this as a research project 🔥