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A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning — new Melting Asphalt post meltingasphalt.com/a-nihilists-gu

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this is great

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anything stick out at you as something I got subtly (or grossly) wrong?

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one thing I'm interested in: some things get *less* meaningful as they're connected to more things...

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maybe a song reminds you of your first date but then you hear it 600 times on radio + now it's meaningless

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I have jargon for that, "dense and meaningless", been meaning to write a glossary entry

10:52 PM · Jul 11, 2016Twitter Web Client

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essentially, it's about distinction/distinctness vanishing through overconnection

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I ranted on it in this thread a while ago

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@The_Lagrangian @lumenphosphor so the platonic realm unconstrained by human conceptions of math would be like the Library: dense, homogenous

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there, I wrote it down synkretie.net/writings/dense I write little long form so it's very terse

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tbh I think half of it may be incomprehensible, I'll revisit it later when it's swapped out

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