Raids on the Unspeakable

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September 2023
Creativity and the problem of the improbable
> The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any…
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Attention as a thing which leaps
> … chickens, twenty, a hundred apples, if you can find nice ones, a hundred or two hundred eggs, if they are for sale there at a fair price … 8…
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The hand in human history
> For according to that which is present to them doth thought increase in men.
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August 2023
Compression and prediction as finite and infinite games
> Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work.
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The golem
Aptly my earliest experience of a story coming to life, exerting its own will.
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Let me make you beautiful, granny!
This inspired by odd thoughts upon reading a line in Dream of the Red Chamber.
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July 2023
History is too large for men
Time was once a personal relationship with eternity, now tends instead entail a mathematical dominion over the individual.
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Birth and behaviour in the sacred beetle
> Hail to thee, O Khepri, who came into existence by himself.
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Bureaucratic intelligence and the zone of proximal development
> What resides in the machines is human reality, human gesture fixed and crystallised into working structures.
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June 2023
Preliminary remarks on desire and obedience
> Perhaps there was one who thought it fitting enough that the wish was no longer vivid, that the barb of pain was dulled, but such a man is no knight.
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Alone over the ocean, I saw it with a different eye
> A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
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