Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. —MACHIAVELLI, The Prince (1513)
Janna Levin • Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
roberto
[...] the bullshitter is an antirealist, treating “reality as inherently risky and under construction,” fraught with a greater degree of uncertainty. [...] Bullshitters engage in “deferred epistemic gratification” by throwing a variety of ideas and claims out there without regard to the weight of the evidence.
foxwizard • 💌 How to Be a Better Imposter
Warpcast
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The Wundt curve shows that overly simple and predictable stimuli provide only neutral hedonic value. Positive hedonic value requires stimuli that are somewhat novel/complex/ambiguous. Too much novelty or complexity, however, leads to negative hedonic value. There is, then, a “sweet spot” for the right amount of stimulus novelty/complexity: slightly... See more
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
the holy grail for recommendation systems
David Lewis's now canonical idea is that conventions form in the process of trying to solve coordination problems.
What is Culture? Part Four: Conventions
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studio.moises.ai
Bop Or Not: Fine Young Cannibals "Johnny Come Home"
ordinary-times.com
clearly wrong ;-p