This seems incredibly sad somehow To me it would be a mark of living death
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Replying to @vgr
WHAT okay how i feel like i'm not accurately expressing the beauty and potential here but explain
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Replying to @nwilliams030
90% published research is garbage put out by sad cronyist scholarly communities. Stuff at best worth indexing for broader trends in a PDF dump. You’d be choosing to live in an aestheticized landfill Old books would be slightly less sad: less garbagey, but even more dead.
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Replying to @vgr @nwilliams030
I barely like the sight of my own paper copies of the few papers I’ve published. Tossed most of my physical paper collection (2-3 shelves of 3-ring binders) a few years ago — andvthats filtered and selected stuff. I still have a few hundred digital pdfs in Dropbox.
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Replying to @vgr
Wow okay - is there any library-type ideal for you then?
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Replying to @vgr @nwilliams030
Twitter is genuinely superior as a discovery environment to any library I’ve ever used. You get to be in the middle of a million messy, ornery, grumpy, but living, thinking minds. You are in the gravity field of the actual creative destruction of ideas.
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Replying to @vgr @nwilliams030
At any moment a bunnytail might open up for you that leads to a new Alice-like wonderland. Could be esoteric theoretical physics or some silly ascii art subculture. Or just the one weirdo in the world who knows all about some random shit
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Replying to @vgr
Hm I like this argument a ton but I guess my thought in that case is not seeing a library with the intention to maximize for a discovery environment
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Alright then, unpack how you got to your dream arrival/made it state market then
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