I'm excited to watch the JBP-Žižek thing. I want to be angry at myself for that but I'm just not. I want the insipid resolution of a boxing match.
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Replying to @generativist
oh god, I can't even imagine deriving any pleasure from it at all. On the one hand a buffoon in a tweed jacket whose primary trick is relying on the fact that he knows how to look like a smart person, on the other an apologist for Stalin, who murdered many of my relatives.
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Replying to @mykola
IDK much abt the latter's apologia. But, I think both are clowns and I would like something in political-cultural space to have a resolution at this point. Even if my momentary, fight-night side loses, at least something happens instead of just constant collision-less collisions.
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Replying to @generativist @mykola
Appropriate resolution is both in a rocket to the sun
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Yes, also a resolution! A realized outcome. Toss them both in the Colosseum -- fuck it!
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Replying to @generativist @mobileck
I see what you're saying. There is something interesting there - "recreational resolution" is the reason we read fiction, right? It's resolution within a bounded context. That only gets more and more important as resolution stops being a part of modern life, I think?
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Yes. Or, at least, I think -- this is all a very hot take. Maybe I am completely wrong and nothing has changed at all. That our level of substitutable awful always existed and defines social struggle at all points in history identically. But, I think ours *is* very different.
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Replying to @generativist @mobileck
Nobody in history has ever had THIS MUCH information to reconcile. It's one of those situation where a quantitative difference is so big that it becomes a qualitative difference.
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Yes. I've been working on an essay or even just notes on that exact idea! Instrumental rationality or whatever demands that you spend cognitive effort finding satisfying answers to unsatisfiable problems where each alteration breaks the whole thing. It's maddening!
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(My other account @microjudgments will have some excerpts from a few papers I've been reading recently along these lines later this week.)
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dope! :)
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