Do "postrats" and other adjacents even care about intellectual progress in any meaningful sense?
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Replying to @aphercotropist
just to get an idea of what you mean - what are some examples of intellectual progress?
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Replying to @literalbanana
The entire history of western philosophy and most of the ways you can subdivide that, even the ones that were exploring dead ends. The history of mathematics. Add in technological progress and you get the sciences. Add in aesthetic progress and you get pre 20th century arts
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Replying to @aphercotropist @literalbanana
Arbutus Tree Retweeted Arbutus Tree
See this subtweet for a little bit of context/details about what I think they're missinghttps://mobile.twitter.com/aphercotropist/status/1243602981586534400 …
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Arbutus Tree @aphercotropistThere's a point at which all this being super charitable and generous interpretation and steelmanning just means everyone is overinterpreting things into their own worldview and everyone talks past each other. It's a way to make vaguepoasts and insight porn workShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @aphercotropist @literalbanana
I see postrats posting things, long form. Insight porn. It has this air to it that suggests it's trying to go somewhere but it just gives illusory understanding, vague analogy, no rigor, no details, no hard work, never goes anywhere.
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Replying to @aphercotropist @literalbanana
But like, maybe I'm wrong in my assumptions about what they're trying to do. Maybe it has some other purpose.
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Replying to @aphercotropist @literalbanana
i view it as mostly poetry. make connections useful for understanding therapy-adjacent experiences (of myself and others) and suggest where to go in therapy-adjacent experiences in the future. not looking to write a thesis or anything
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan @literalbanana
The therapyish stuff that you're doing I like a lot and don't really have any problem with it. But it's not all everyone is doing and seems mostly orthogonal to intellectual progress. It's the people who seem to be trying to write theses that I take issue with.
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idk who you mean but is your objection that they should be doing something more “useful”?
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