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...
Sad to have missed the death anniversary of TS Eliot, whose lines feel like a tentacle's caressing my skull from the inside
January 6, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Sad to have missed the death anniversary of TS Eliot, whose lines feel like a tentacle's caressing my skull from the inside
I get jealous of other people's fame and recognition if I think we are about equally good, because if they're way better than me it's like 'yeah that's right' and if they're worse than me than what they have is false fame and false recognition, which is actually bad to have
January 5, 2026 at 11:19 PM
I get jealous of other people's fame and recognition if I think we are about equally good, because if they're way better than me it's like 'yeah that's right' and if they're worse than me than what they have is false fame and false recognition, which is actually bad to have
You couldn't write Theory of Vibe '25 today (you'd have to call it Theory of Vibe '26)
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Theory of Vibe '25
If you’re a longtime reader who is curious where Theory of Vibe is at in 2025 in terms of ML science, then here be the post.
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January 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
You couldn't write Theory of Vibe '25 today (you'd have to call it Theory of Vibe '26)
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I'm in a kind of a weird situation where a project I really believe in (formalizing/naturalizing a virtue-ethical viewpoint on agency) tends to get an 'I like it but don't love it' response from people. I hope maybe some of the motivation just isn't articulated vividly
January 5, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I'm in a kind of a weird situation where a project I really believe in (formalizing/naturalizing a virtue-ethical viewpoint on agency) tends to get an 'I like it but don't love it' response from people. I hope maybe some of the motivation just isn't articulated vividly
I'm looking to pick up some extra contract-work this month. Research in AI policy and AI alignment, also open to technical writing and science communications contracts if very high-end
January 5, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I'm looking to pick up some extra contract-work this month. Research in AI policy and AI alignment, also open to technical writing and science communications contracts if very high-end
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I sometimes wonder how often big accounts reverse the natural order of things and get parasocial relationships with small accounts, like there's some reply guy they think of as their nemesis who's absolutely obsessed with them but for the reply guy it's just Tuesday
January 5, 2026 at 11:40 AM
I sometimes wonder how often big accounts reverse the natural order of things and get parasocial relationships with small accounts, like there's some reply guy they think of as their nemesis who's absolutely obsessed with them but for the reply guy it's just Tuesday
My girlfriend read out an extremely stupid post to me and I immediately asked 'is it by somebody named Justin Murphy'
January 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM
My girlfriend read out an extremely stupid post to me and I immediately asked 'is it by somebody named Justin Murphy'
Cultural history is a beautiful field that studies how semi-canonical concepts, ideas, and traditions got promoted to very-canonical but for some reason calls it 'the invention of [concept/idea/tradition]'
January 4, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Cultural history is a beautiful field that studies how semi-canonical concepts, ideas, and traditions got promoted to very-canonical but for some reason calls it 'the invention of [concept/idea/tradition]'
'Judaism has no hell' and 'Judaism doesn't have a concept of faith' gotta have some of the worst ratios of truth to respectability out there
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
'Judaism has no hell' and 'Judaism doesn't have a concept of faith' gotta have some of the worst ratios of truth to respectability out there
When the magazine asks me how the 2 pieces I promised them are progressing
January 3, 2026 at 7:58 PM
When the magazine asks me how the 2 pieces I promised them are progressing
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for the record, this is still happening as recently as 3 minutes ago. I know there has been some reporting on it, but most of it seems to center around the Grok account's fake apology rather than on the fact that neither X nor xAI are stopping this despite it being entirely in their power to do so.
January 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
for the record, this is still happening as recently as 3 minutes ago. I know there has been some reporting on it, but most of it seems to center around the Grok account's fake apology rather than on the fact that neither X nor xAI are stopping this despite it being entirely in their power to do so.
We need to study JCO's brain like we're studying that immortal jellyfish
January 3, 2026 at 12:10 AM
We need to study JCO's brain like we're studying that immortal jellyfish
This is just neuroslop, you only believe it because of the electricity in your brain
January 2, 2026 at 2:44 AM
This is just neuroslop, you only believe it because of the electricity in your brain
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Since there is no random evil, no disease or death; it's a realm of full agency and freedom; there are still physical constraints but full control over the creative process, and its realization is never hampered by outside forces or weakness of will; therefore the Stardew Valley setting is Valinor,
December 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Since there is no random evil, no disease or death; it's a realm of full agency and freedom; there are still physical constraints but full control over the creative process, and its realization is never hampered by outside forces or weakness of will; therefore the Stardew Valley setting is Valinor,
This New Year's Day I'm thinking about Gramsci, who said: 'All days are New Year's, but not all days have in society the function of new years. Now is the time of New Year's'
January 1, 2026 at 5:18 AM
This New Year's Day I'm thinking about Gramsci, who said: 'All days are New Year's, but not all days have in society the function of new years. Now is the time of New Year's'
Do people ever relate Marx saying that under communism there'd be no morality to Aristotle saying that between friends there's no justice
December 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Do people ever relate Marx saying that under communism there'd be no morality to Aristotle saying that between friends there's no justice
Analytic philosophers in the left who had to sit through 'A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy' last year to our Western Marxist friends today
December 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Analytic philosophers in the left who had to sit through 'A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy' last year to our Western Marxist friends today
I know most of you hated it but Kinds of Kindness still makes me laugh 2-3 times a week through the power of memory
December 30, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I know most of you hated it but Kinds of Kindness still makes me laugh 2-3 times a week through the power of memory
Apropos nothing this is my favorite essay (and favorite essayist) in American letters: www.pseudopodium.org/search.cgi?e...
Nothing Personal
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December 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Apropos nothing this is my favorite essay (and favorite essayist) in American letters: www.pseudopodium.org/search.cgi?e...
'No currency has intrinsic value' lmao WRONG
December 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
'No currency has intrinsic value' lmao WRONG
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Earth’s pivot to video.
December 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Earth’s pivot to video.
A good metaphor for chat-LLMs is that they're like magnets that snap to ideas, including subtle ones, but from short distances
December 29, 2025 at 5:43 AM
A good metaphor for chat-LLMs is that they're like magnets that snap to ideas, including subtle ones, but from short distances
Looked into this last year and it turns out that there's a back-and-forth where a friend of Adorno's wrote a 'what about Armstrong and Parker though' response-essay and then Adorno wrote an 'I mean all that stuff, it's all the same' response-essay back
December 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Looked into this last year and it turns out that there's a back-and-forth where a friend of Adorno's wrote a 'what about Armstrong and Parker though' response-essay and then Adorno wrote an 'I mean all that stuff, it's all the same' response-essay back
IDC what you say, Brigitte's a genius and an icon and her ferocity into old age inspires me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT-J...
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Brigitte Fontaine - Vendetta [live Radio Nova]
YouTube video by Leo Couderc
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December 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
IDC what you say, Brigitte's a genius and an icon and her ferocity into old age inspires me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT-J...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT-J...
One thing we know for sure given how I respond when people say snide things to me on twitter is if I could drive I'd be in jail for life over a road-rage incident
December 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
One thing we know for sure given how I respond when people say snide things to me on twitter is if I could drive I'd be in jail for life over a road-rage incident