New post, a little delayed this week: The Things You Carry: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/06/12/the-things-you-carry/ …
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Replying to @ribbonfarm
The things we carry (or keep around) are the complement of our garbage. Telling garbage from non-garbage is a complex judgment.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
Depressed people and certain others are not capable of it. The self and its objects become indistinguishable from garbage.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
Trying to tell garbage from non-garbage is emotional, subtle, and likely AI-hard in all but very obvious cases (food wrappers)
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing Distinction is basically arbitrary. Depends on perspective. Cf: rock garden made from garbage by just-died Nek Chand1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@sarahdoingthing The interesting edge case is garbage hoarders. I'd really like to read a detailed analysis of the psychopathology there.
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