just pre-commit (and follow through) on "after the prediction has already been made i will [observe apparently random event] and base my boxing decision on the outcome". who cares about money in the boxes? we can pry at the foundations of understanding of the world we live in

the only morally righteous thing to do in a newcomb-like perfect predictor situation is to ignore the payoff matrix and use the whole setup as a scientific apparatus. try and force the predictor to predict e.g. quantum randomness. if the universe admits a perfect predictor of that that's useful data

The empiricism apple has had its immediately sensible qualities abstracted away, and is presented as a geometrical and algebraic idealization, and friend, that is rationalism.

here are some other tuckerman sonnets i like

(scansion crank* voice) pyrrhic feet don't meaningfully exist in english language iambic poetry *all scansion nerds are scansion cranks. it is impossible to care about scansion non-crankily

"And—shattered on the roof like smallest snows" scans as perfect iambic pentameter but hardly sounds like that should be possible, just a metrically brilliant line

Me took advantage of being at seaside to lay in store of sucking stones. They were pebbles but me call them stones. Yes on this occasion me laid in considerable store.

it's pretty good but man there is nothing like a tour of pre-1830s american poetry to make you really understand emerson's complaints about the sad state of american poetry in "the american scholar"

muppet the unnamable

and after all, why? why shouldn't i read the entire 1300pp. cambridge history of american poetry?

"Facing the discomfort of this strange reading experience, Lucretia realizes that this collision of perspectives, this moment when both readings of Roc coexist – uneasily – in her mind, is the passage’s heart." strangematters.coop/rose-novick-...

martin heidegger:

when a poem uses only the most hamfisted words >>>>

in the early 2000s, due to concerns about online (mis/dis)information, and after online bullying led to actor choi jin-sil's death by suicide , south korea implemented a real name system it did not work. - it was used by conservatives to crack down on critics - mis/disinfo did not lessen (cont)

the only case for real names is to engage in real life harassment of people who those with power find to be annoying

As more of our social, cultural and economic lives are mediated by the internet, prohibiting teenagers from accessing the internet is just preventing them from accessing social life. You're not helping them lead "healthier" lives, you're putting them in solitary confinement.

the reactionary centrists have found a home on the political compass

time to start knicks at pride discourse

"...there seems to be no world, no whole to which these parts may be said to belong... disclosure of some special meaning seems perpetually imminent... just at the point where revelation might occur, the curtain suddenly comes down..." (marjorie perloff)

oh so we can have grue pchats but not bleen pchats?

i grew up in nashville and live in seattle. not tracking the discourse super well but i'm pretty sure this makes me a new yorker

the fact that few surgeries are done on trans minors is not an inherent state of the world; it is a byproduct of a cultural regime where we are viewed as subhuman freaks whose healthcare is at best a luxury, at worst mutilation. in a just world, there would be vastly more of it

people asked by the chancellors of Vandy and WUSTL to draft a report about the politicization of the humanities will post anything. "Postmodernism is the main threat facing the humanities." No it isn't. That isn't true.

who called them "logical empiricists" and not "neurathypicals"?

the funniest thing about this is that not answering "they're both numbers" is just a matter of understanding grice

they did narcissism of small differences on something basically indistinguishable from a grape

hot take: prometheus

reposting, with much more readable formatting, the Ye Hui I posted a draft of a couple days ago. I also improved the translation maybe

plato already wrote this ("huge tease, never fucks me")

this façade js very cleverly painted to appear like there is a full structure, but i am not fooled

car with a "well-behaved women rarely make history" bumper sticker turning left at a red light

one of my hopes as a poet is that when (if) my turn comes to write something this beautiful it's not so damn pathetic

@rosenovick.com honestly, no. if they haven't added it by now they're probably never going to

RP @rosenovick.com: do we think bsky will ever add a reposts feature?

do we think bsky will ever add a reposts feature?

i'm a poet so you shouldn't believe anything i say about poetry. it's all true tho

i am always circling back to pound and the failures of pound's cantos

after millennials came gen sidgwick

took the translation i posted yesterday down because i've made a bunch of edits. i'll throw it back up when i'm back at a computer and can make it look pretty

just wanted to take a moment and set aside all the inside baseball shit about which gorpwoman and what bleemer said what about hydrodulase-7 levels, and focus on the actual stakes of The Trans Debate: namely, whether us trans get to live in society as equal citizens, or not.

cannot believe inventing the term "spinozhuangism" maxes you out at "the world's number two teleology hater"

update: i killed nina protocol

brief flash of being back on old philosophy twitter because someone quoted my celebrity birthday post with some ignorant anti-philosophy invective

my favorite celebrity birthday i share? i dunno, probably greek philosophy

will it make yaoi of the classic wes salmon "tom bayes meets tom kuhn" paper or does that trip the safety filter

we do this every time we impose meaning on it

wait harambe died on my birthday?

“He’s 12 years old” and correct though. That 12-year-old opinion is correct.