or a Spanish remake of an ABBA musical

I immediately imagined a Mexican Spanish adaptation of Georges Bataille's "Ma Mère"

yeah they're great! it's fun to see a varied group of people all scrutinising a specific thing with such nerdy precision

the energy drink never got marketed

I once took part in a focus group for an energy drink and it was so much fun. x-phi at its best

it was the "I read papers, they seem good" which made me think that Brett is doing more of the latter (also because I'm wondering if there's a parallel with the way he defends contemporary jazz against people who claim that most of it is bad compared to stuff in the 50s etc.)

following this conversation, I'm wondering whether it isn't just that you have different standards, but also that you have different attitudes to how you judge goodness, i.e., comparing works relative to a standard vs. appreciating the value you get from any individual work on its own terms

I'm writing a book review of Rasmus Larsen's "Psychopathy Unmasked", and want to include a critical discussion of how "empathy" is operationalised in psychological tests. thanks for the recommendation! I've found Betzler's new paper

perfect, thank you!

ah good call. thank you! "embodied cognition and theory of mind" has the sort of critique I'm looking for

lol I was actually looking to criticise Bloom's theoretical conception of "empathy"

quality parenting right there 😂