flâneur

Christine Yang

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  • signals, even if they are bounded by membranes.”
    jsomers.net | I should have loved biology
  • When I'm bored I send vibrations In your direction Through the satellite mind
    satellite mind lyrics - Google Search
  • I am reading objectification between the lines of your utility function analysis. I totally get how you think it’s okay because it’s “just rational” and it “isn’t mean” because I used to do that too, but it *is* objectification. Trying to “optimize” for “social net benefit” never works ((I have a theory that humans are irrational on purpose: it’s adaptive to complex nonlinear systems?; maybe the incompleteness theorem and the-map-is-not-the-territory are involved here)) and also, more keyly, reduces the people involved to functions you are trying to find maxima over.
    Misunderstanding Romantic Attraction | Christopher Olah's Blog
  • Evolution is a change from a no-howish untalkaboutable all-alikeness to a somehowish and in general talkaboutable not-all-alikeness by continuous stickingtogetherations and somethingelseifications.
    The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer