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Greg Egan on Twitter
Greg Egan on Twitter
Maybe the real memories were in all those gigabytes we assigned with malloc but never actually used.— Greg Egan (@gregeganSF) August 25, 2022
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Greg Egan on Twitter
수정 요새 해제
수정 요새 해제

<계약직 신>은 결국 정상성 규범과, 당연하게 받아들여지는 질서와, 우리의 인식 이전에 있는 틀에 대한 이야기입니다(제국주의와 식민지와 주변부에 대한 이야기가 될 수도 있고, 정신병과 신경다양성에 대한 이야기일 수도 있고, 더 나아가 무대 자체는 다분히 마르키온적인데, 그런데 그런 것들은 일단 넘어가도록 하겠습니다). 로안의 기억-덮어쓰기, 테네브로즈의 전두엽 절제, 메기도의 (죽여 달라는 요구와, 그에 따른) 망각은 교집합인 부분이 있는 벤 다이어그램 관계를 이루고 있습니다. 공통적으로 궤를 같이하는 부분이 있음에도 불구하고 이 넷은 동치로 놓일 수 없고, 동치로 놓일 수 없음에도 불구하고 어떤 문제의식을 여전히 공유합니다. 제가 <수정 요새>를 쓰면서 문학정신 1992년도 7·8월호를 다시 들춰봤다는 사실을 말하려 합니다. 왜냐하면 140화까지 쓰고서야, 그제야, 이 글이 모더니즘이 아니라 포스트모더니즘의 논리 아래 직조되었음을 깨달았기 때문입니다(방법론뿐만 아니라 내적으로도 어느 정도는 포스트모던인데, 위에 말했다시피 이 글에서 논하기엔 시기상조이므로 건너뛰겠습니다). 따지고 보면 이 글은 언제나 패러디와 혼성모방으로 이루어진 메타텍스트였고, 스스로도 그 점을 계속 감안하면서 써 왔는데(고비 사막의 여섯 도시를 대륙에 세우고, <El Critico>를 인용하고, <크리스털 세계>의 공간을 빌리고, 에픽 판타지에서나 볼 법한 신화와 근대를, 뉴위어드-SF적 외삽을, 그리고 키치/컨템포러리의 요소들을, 모더니즘 텍스트마저 의도적으로 접붙인 것처럼) 어째서 이게 포스트모더니즘이라는 생각을 하지 않았는지는 다소 의아하게 느껴집니다. 아마도 줄곧 스스로를 속이고 있었기 때문이겠지요. 2021년의 이 시점에 포스트모더니즘을 소환한 다음 그걸 재료로 뭘 하려 하다니 참 우스운 일입니다. 문학정신 1992년도 7·8월호의 맥락에서 생각하더라도, 이인화는 자신의 첫 번째 작품과 그게 빚어낸 논란보다도 박근혜 게이트로 더 유명한 사람이 되고 말았지 않습니까? 포스트모더니즘은 이론장에서도 유행이 지났고, 애당초 문예와, 이론과, 문예이론 모두가 유행이 지나버린 이 시대에(심지어 정치신학과 메시아적 종말론은 한국 땅의 이야기조차 아니죠), 저는 도대체 문피아에서 무엇을 쓰고 있는 것일까요? 어쨌거나 참으로 시대착오적인 일을 하고 있습니다(1930년, 혹은 1950년에나 했으면 딱 좋았을 이야기를 60-70년대의 방법론으로 2020년에 쓰고 있는 겁니다). 그리고 그 착오가 <계약직 신>을 최종적으로 완성시키는 것이겠지요. 물론 이 글에서 그러한 맥락을 탈각시키더라도 고전 비극과 서사는 남게 될 것입니다.

·fruitwangler.postype.com·
수정 요새 해제
Truth, Math, and Models
Truth, Math, and Models
(Part 8 in a series on the scientific method ) In the last installment I advanced a hypothesis about what truth is , which is to say, I sugg...
·blog.rongarret.info·
Truth, Math, and Models
A Scientific Theory of Truth
A Scientific Theory of Truth
(This is part 7 of a series about the scientific method .) The over-arching theme of this series is that science can serve as a complete wo...
·blog.rongarret.info·
A Scientific Theory of Truth
negative space
negative space
wading through pools of cyber-melancholia
i’m horribly congested for the entire time i’m here. i’m still mandated to my hours of contracted remote work, which makes me feel like i am stuck in a microsoft-funded purgatory. i am pavlov’s dog, except the doorbell is the sound of an outlook notification. do i exist when i’m offline? well, of course i do. but when the world wide web is so big, the internet seems to demand your Self in order to Exist. an exchange with the devil, if you ask me. my friends exist online. my work exists online, as does my money. the record of my life exists within pixels.
·lexaprophet.substack.com·
negative space
the death of culture
the death of culture
what the fuck is a cool girl? have you seen my hot girl nightstand? do you think that this shirt i thrifted is giving me dark academia vibes?
i curate my own little worlds through the media i consume as i keep growing because this is what nourishes me, this is what waters me in my growth. because what am i if not the things i love? the things that i worship?
and slowly, the things that you love become you – which isn’t a bad thing, necessarily. but then we start to categorize ourselves based on those things. and after that, what is left? what does anything mean? are you meant to see any woman with a copy of the bell jar on public transit and assume immediately: oh, she’s depressed. she must listen to phoebe bridgers. she must be on SSRIs. this is the brain rot that social media has forced us to succumb to – so and so likes x thing which makes her y. x, y, and z is the new pinnacle of red flag media. avoid a man who likes so and so at all costs. this becomes the death of nuance. the homogenization of different media through algorithms, memes, assumptions, and categories, is perhaps the death of culture. meaning becomes diminished when things become categorized so much that the original work – whether that be a piece of art, a subculture, etc. – is decontextualized completely. generalizations create facades of what x or y stands for, which often gets so rapidly chewed and spit out into meme garbage.
everything has to become digestible in the digital age. subculture becomes digestible after being prepackaged, pulled out of its context for a mood board that’s copied a hundred times before it’s on an instagram meme account. what you think makes you unique is actually an amalgamation of everything that’s come before it, but now it’s commodified and easily available to purchase via the ten thousand ads you see on your phone from the data taken to spit out back to you.
in the case of literature, when we categorize tropes into real life, we diminish media to these tropes. where is the room to discuss what is taboo and what isn’t? why must there be a repertoire of novels or films or music that will make you into x kind of person? reading american psycho and frankenstein are surely red flags and reflect negative parts of my character, doesn’t it?
the effects of the internet and the way it homogenizes personalities and tropes so harshly and distinctly causes a commodification of art that is much more than the generalizations we assign to it. genuinely interesting, controversial literature becomes bastardized for the sake of trends, in which being “edgy” becomes a personality trait you want to require like you’re a sim. in these ways, everything becomes aestheticized. everything becomes empty. to break free from this, we have to break free from dichotomies as a whole. this generation’s hypervigilant need to be individual and distinct at all times becomes ironic when the same thought patterns transfer from person to person until everyone becomes the same in the pursuit of trying to be different. popular culture, media, aesthetics, trends — it all has become so decentralized despite the high saturation and speed of its production.
what is left after making yourself into something to be perceived in such a hyper-specific way until you’re consumed by the carnivorousness of internet leeches? in an effort to be something, it almost feels like the end result is to disappear completely.
·lexaprophet.substack.com·
the death of culture
the best way to count
the best way to count
an introduction to a numbering system that's objectively better than seximal- external links -footnotes, script, other readables: https://github.com/lucitone...
·youtube.com·
the best way to count
Emergent Time and Time Travel in Quantum Physics
Emergent Time and Time Travel in Quantum Physics
Entertaining the possibility of time travel will invariably challenge dearly-held concepts in fundamental physics. It becomes relatively easy to construct multiple logical contradictions using differing starting points from various well-established fields of physics. Sometimes, the interpretation is that only a full theory of quantum gravity will be able to settle these logical contradictions. Even then, it remains unclear if the multitude of problems could be overcome. Yet as definitive as this seems to the notion of time travel in physics, such recourse to quantum gravity comes with its own, long-standing challenge to most of these counter-arguments to time travel: These arguments rely on time, while quantum gravity is (in)famously stuck with the problem of time. One attempt to answer this problem within the canonical framework resulted in the Page–Wootters formalism, and its recent gauge-theoretic reinterpretation as an emergent notion of time. Herein, we will begin a program to study toy models implementing the Hamiltonian constraint in quantum theory, with an aim toward understanding what an emergent notion of time can tell us about the (im)possibility of time travel.
·mdpi.com·
Emergent Time and Time Travel in Quantum Physics
lust trials
lust trials
women in malaise, carnality reflections, strangers in bed
i'm listening to taylor swift croon about distance timing breakdown fighting and i wonder why young people in my demographic are so attracted to angst as long as it’s resolved (or maybe not) in passion. i personally think it’s because our childhoods were so desolate that we grew up wanting things so deeply, so intensely that we could crush desire in between our teeth, juices running down our face. like an orange bursting in your mouth. it’s okay if it hurts, it’s more than okay if it contaminates, because then at least it means you are worth staying for.
·lexaprophet.substack.com·
lust trials
TUCKER on Twitter
TUCKER on Twitter
holy shit I love the weekend, I love clicking on heads, I love gamba, it’s a good day for CSGO// LIVE - https://t.co/gMISJbnhwJ pic.twitter.com/31HuLjX2EP— TUCKER (@JERICHO) August 25, 2023
·twitter.com·
TUCKER on Twitter
Chris Franklin on Twitter
Chris Franklin on Twitter
Okay but *ontologies*… https://t.co/unFglSGEwe— Chris Franklin (@Campster) January 14, 2023
·twitter.com·
Chris Franklin on Twitter
How to hack the simulation | Andrej Karpathy and Lex Fridman
How to hack the simulation | Andrej Karpathy and Lex Fridman
Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0 Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings - BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off - Fundrise: https://fundrise.com/lex - Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month of fish oil GUEST BIO: Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator. He's the former director of AI at Tesla, a founding member of OpenAI, and an educator at Stanford. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 SOCIAL: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman
·youtube.com·
How to hack the simulation | Andrej Karpathy and Lex Fridman
Rui Huang on Twitter
Rui Huang on Twitter
Concept did for a canceled project pic.twitter.com/r5tMW9721c— Rui Huang (@RuiHuang_art) November 24, 2022
·twitter.com·
Rui Huang on Twitter
Chris Franklin on Twitter
Chris Franklin on Twitter
As Twitter continues to teeter between insolvency and systemic collapse the question of whether it has any future at all is valid. But I think it may be worthwhile to ask what happens if it doesn't collapse.— Chris Franklin (@Campster) November 19, 2022
·twitter.com·
Chris Franklin on Twitter
Alex Heath on Twitter
Alex Heath on Twitter
Hundreds upon hundreds of Twitter employees have technically resigned but still have access to Twitter’s internal systems, with some speculating it is because the employees tasked with managing that access also resigned.— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 18, 2022
·twitter.com·
Alex Heath on Twitter
Akiva Weinberger on Twitter
Akiva Weinberger on Twitter
Random thought: "art for the sake of art", at least in terms of the words themselves, is two steps away from "artificiality for the sake of artificiality"— Akiva Weinberger (@akivaw) November 17, 2022
·twitter.com·
Akiva Weinberger on Twitter
weirdo on Twitter
weirdo on Twitter
tron: legacy, movie (2010) https://t.co/EAyoXBy7mC pic.twitter.com/DG7apgF8h6— weirdo (@vg_history) March 5, 2022
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weirdo on Twitter
weirdo on Twitter
weirdo on Twitter
magazine screenshot (1985) https://t.co/qU65V2xiHP pic.twitter.com/5xFFZC5U2A— weirdo (@vg_history) November 2, 2022
·twitter.com·
weirdo on Twitter
Venkatesh Rao on Twitter
Venkatesh Rao on Twitter
Product idea: AI dreamcatcher. You wake up in the morning and immediately describe your dream before you forget and it generates it.— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) October 30, 2022
·twitter.com·
Venkatesh Rao on Twitter
⛧ worm ⛧ on Twitter
⛧ worm ⛧ on Twitter
i absorb the pronouns of everyone i defeat in combat. my hair is bluer than you could ever imagine. my pronouns are he (x81)/ she (x74)/ they (x43) / any (x12). soon your pronouns will be none/none— ⛧ worm ⛧ (@worm_blooded) August 5, 2022
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⛧ worm ⛧ on Twitter