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by lengomango 3y ago
From the piece: "People have a weird habit of acting as if the university is an institution of the Enlightenment, dedicated to the free enquiry of the individual intellect. It’s not! The university, alongside the capitalist mode of pro
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by lengomango 3y ago
I'm pretty sure Sam Kriss knows Pierre Menard is a fictional character dude. He's using the story to make a point about how we've thought about originality in different ages. The idea is that an oral society couldn't com
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by lengomango 3y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing
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by lengomango 3y ago
That was... a journey.
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by lengomango 3y ago
Is it true that we don't have a monoculture, though? The author argues that algorithms have reintroduced monoculture: there was a period before the year 2000 when we had a monoculture (because of the scarcity of information) and a peri
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by lengomango 3y ago
I don't think most frat boys are in the habit of quoting Adorno. And with this particular author, it's not always advisable to take everything at face value...
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Is Nerd Culture Dying?(samkriss.substack.com)
36 points by lengomango 3y ago|113 comments
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The Cacophony: AI as Golem(samkriss.substack.com)
2 points by lengomango 3y ago|0 comments
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A users guide to the zairja of the world, or, why does AI keep getting worse?(samkriss.substack.com)
1 points by lengomango 4y ago|0 comments
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by lengomango 4y ago
I also really enjoyed this more recent post by the same guy: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/welcome-to-hell Basically he makes the argument (I think slightly tongue in cheek) that Twitter is analogous to a certain und
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by lengomango 4y ago
I'm not sure entirely how serious the author is being here, but it's a very entertaining read - a history of various interpretations of Hell in theology and literatue, and an argument for why the "hellsite" of Twitter mi
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by lengomango 4y ago
Doesn't he talk about precisely this in the first section?
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by lengomango 4y ago
Is it a highly political article? There's one short section on politics, but there's definitely nothing on Trump, and I don't see how his indictment is particularly relevant...