Benji
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Benji
Why is culture moving toward a fascination with liminal spaces? All of a sudden we want our pop music to be infused with smooth 80s jazz and we like pictures of old abandoned malls. See Justin Bieber/Dijon/mk.gee/tres leches/vaporwave, etc. I found myself bobbing to Geico hold music yesterday. The fuck
Music taste is (also) a next token prediction — LessWrong
lesswrong.comThe image that stayed with me from Welwood’s work is being a big tent at a festival. The life inside it is the life inside us always at play, but we’re also the container that protects that life from the elements with wide open sides that enable an ongoing interplay with the world. We’re tied to the earth, but constantly expanding in all directions... See more
What’s Missing Says More: The Semiotics of Omission
We spend our lives surrounded by signals. Most of them are obvious—what someone says, what they wear, the metrics a company puts in a slide deck. But some of the most telling information comes not from what’s there, but from what’s missing.
A woman on a dating app with only headshots is probably sig... See more
We spend our lives surrounded by signals. Most of them are obvious—what someone says, what they wear, the metrics a company puts in a slide deck. But some of the most telling information comes not from what’s there, but from what’s missing.
A woman on a dating app with only headshots is probably sig... See more
What’s Missing Says More
One last thought about Heinlein’s “dying culture” claim: Is it true that our culture is dying, given all the rudeness? And if so, are we too far gone to turn it around? On many days, things do look bleak, as online nastiness seems to become the dominant style. But my personal defense mechanism also aims to act as a countercultural force: I see poli... See more
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“Desire that arises in agitation is an expression of the ego; desire that arises in stillness is an expression of the soul.”