thought this was about joanna for a moment

—Say it, no ideas but in things—
nothing but the blank faces of the houses
and cylindrical trees
bent, forked by preconception and accident—
split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained—
secret—into the body of the light!

my first philosophy paper in college was a "revised pascal's wager" where, if you assume god is omniscient + omnipotent, and that you shouldn't worship an evil god, you should never worship god because only an evil god would punish you for not worshipping. turns out i wanted to track ten y/o me also

we might be rocketing towards a shit timeline, where it cuts out tons of art jobs, everything is uglier, it fucks up educational institutions, almost nothing is really more efficient, and we trigger a huge bubble burst and economic crash. tbf venture capital made this eventually happening inevitable

also the point of most email jobs is not really the emails per se, but having someone accountable to tasks, having the assurance that the thing is gonna be completed. at some point, nobody can juggle being accountable for a crazy high number of tasks, no matter how many AI buddies they've got.

YOOOOOOOO ice sounds my favorite thing in the world

i think for every ea who does that there's one that's basically interested in laundering race science. totally get why philosophically you wanna think through the better version of the view but as a claim about what ea/rats are like... well it's stronger as a claim about what the best ones are like

i rushed them thru some readings of the painting after because it was just an example but i wish i could've probed them into more interest/appreciation of it organically. alas, we had to talk about aristotle and their midterms lmaoo

they were mostly haters. phil majors here are more likely to be stem and econ people than they are other humanities people so many had the background radiation hatred for anything remotely abstract or nonrepresentational. a lot of them had serious disdain for the ghost, which was interesting to me.

i think horny would make it in my top 3 painting emotions, and definitely top 8

this is maybe too charitable to them even. importantly most EA/rats do not actually do the empirical or quantitative work, the first pass is often vibes and also the only pass. and even when they do some empirical work, how that data relates to utils is pretty much vibes also. it's just an aesthetic

huge mistake to not make horny one of the emotions tbh

the thought of doing that for 630,000 paintings... you're going to get very good at knowing whether you're disgusted or afraid i guess. that's something