Peli Grietzer
@peligrietzer.bsky.social
Mathematized philosophy of literature
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Peli Grietzer
@peligrietzer.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Why poetry is a variety of mathematical experience | Aeon Essays
Machine learning theory is shedding new light on how to think about the mysterious and ineffable nature of art
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Last year I published my big essay about art, poetic knowledge, and the scientific image of mind, language, and nature: aeon.co/essays/why-p...
I think it's great that for 22 episodes the writers of Sex & the City couldn't find a single thing for Aidan and Carrie to talk about so whenever they are alone they're just giggling at each other
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I think it's great that for 22 episodes the writers of Sex & the City couldn't find a single thing for Aidan and Carrie to talk about so whenever they are alone they're just giggling at each other
Feeling the kind of deep stupidity and hatred that usually means a migraine's coming up. Pray for me
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Feeling the kind of deep stupidity and hatred that usually means a migraine's coming up. Pray for me
A short overview of my essay On Eudaimonia and Optimization, which I link at the thread's end
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
A short overview of my essay On Eudaimonia and Optimization, which I link at the thread's end
Me sitting backwards on a chair to talk to high school class: 'Destroyer + Kara Walker was the KATSEYE of their day, in that a corporation randomly put them together and we're all better-off for it'
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Me sitting backwards on a chair to talk to high school class: 'Destroyer + Kara Walker was the KATSEYE of their day, in that a corporation randomly put them together and we're all better-off for it'
About to zoom-interview the experimental choreographer Dana Michel, who's a pretty good friend of mine, and I'm still nauseatingly nervous about it
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
About to zoom-interview the experimental choreographer Dana Michel, who's a pretty good friend of mine, and I'm still nauseatingly nervous about it
In a depressive spiral but at least I'm one half of a soulful-eyed couple
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
In a depressive spiral but at least I'm one half of a soulful-eyed couple
I love dark academia (turning the light off in the seminar room)
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I love dark academia (turning the light off in the seminar room)
People outside the AGI-prophecies world don't know that 'life's about human relationships and play, and no AI can change that' is the AGI prophets' company line. Only the thought that human intimacy and play require a context of collective human coping with the world runs contra
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
People outside the AGI-prophecies world don't know that 'life's about human relationships and play, and no AI can change that' is the AGI prophets' company line. Only the thought that human intimacy and play require a context of collective human coping with the world runs contra
Wait this explains so much! I saw her give a talk at Yale last year and she seemed nervous as hell until she said this line 20 minutes in and got a good laugh from the room, at which point she totally relaxed and it became clear she was nervous about whether the joke will land
Just learned about Hanna’s book title and I thought you guys would want to know
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Wait this explains so much! I saw her give a talk at Yale last year and she seemed nervous as hell until she said this line 20 minutes in and got a good laugh from the room, at which point she totally relaxed and it became clear she was nervous about whether the joke will land
Charli XCX - In Search of Lost Time featuring Marcel Proust
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Charli XCX - In Search of Lost Time featuring Marcel Proust
I'm a very financially comfortable bohemian weirdo but New York (contra Berlin) and age and the prospect of kids are starting to shift my financial standards away from bohemian weirdo territory and it's making me depressed
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I'm a very financially comfortable bohemian weirdo but New York (contra Berlin) and age and the prospect of kids are starting to shift my financial standards away from bohemian weirdo territory and it's making me depressed
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Finished teaching my first seminar course today! Had tons of fun introducing my students to the rational foundations of human-like cooperation. Now that the course is over, I'm sharing the syllabus more widely!
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Finished teaching my first seminar course today! Had tons of fun introducing my students to the rational foundations of human-like cooperation. Now that the course is over, I'm sharing the syllabus more widely!
It's useful to distinguish between autotelic activities in general and games, which are autotelic activities whose state-space we have arbitrary control over
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
It's useful to distinguish between autotelic activities in general and games, which are autotelic activities whose state-space we have arbitrary control over
I really enjoy Charli XCX but I am sorry this is 100% a John Cale featuring Charli XCX, it's one of the most John Cale sounding tracks of all time there's no way he didn't write it
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I really enjoy Charli XCX but I am sorry this is 100% a John Cale featuring Charli XCX, it's one of the most John Cale sounding tracks of all time there's no way he didn't write it
So much about my worldview is comes from thinking the perceptual phenomenology of experts (in whatever) is the crown jewel of Being
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So much about my worldview is comes from thinking the perceptual phenomenology of experts (in whatever) is the crown jewel of Being
Post-woke jam company called 'I Support The Currant Thing'
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Post-woke jam company called 'I Support The Currant Thing'
Seems So Long Ago, Nancy by Leonard Cohen is 100 times as eerie as the next most eerie song
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Seems So Long Ago, Nancy by Leonard Cohen is 100 times as eerie as the next most eerie song
Pluribus... that's real sci-fi baby! Very good
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Pluribus... that's real sci-fi baby! Very good
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The "average human touches 1 spiderweb a week" factoid actually just statistical error
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The "average human touches 1 spiderweb a week" factoid actually just statistical error
Wait is the melody of That's No Way to Say Goodbye just the melody of Suzanne sped up?
November 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Wait is the melody of That's No Way to Say Goodbye just the melody of Suzanne sped up?
Got painted by my painter friend Damon Sfetsios
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Got painted by my painter friend Damon Sfetsios
In Hellfire from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame the guy sings 'Of my virtue I am justly proud', but pride is actually considered a bad thing in Christianity? Do your damn research Disney
November 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
In Hellfire from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame the guy sings 'Of my virtue I am justly proud', but pride is actually considered a bad thing in Christianity? Do your damn research Disney
Finished Lonely Crowds. Imagine a book-club book so good it becomes The Man Without Qualities
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Finished Lonely Crowds. Imagine a book-club book so good it becomes The Man Without Qualities
Just now learned that it's called 'the want ads' not 'the wanteds'
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Just now learned that it's called 'the want ads' not 'the wanteds'