francis kafka
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Reinhold, Religion and the Fate of Reason | francis kafka —
Reinhold, Religion and the Fate of Reason | francis kafka —
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here is my latest post, which touches on the 18th century controversy over reason and the Reformation, through a reading of the first of Karl Reinhold's Letters on the Kantian Philosophy
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here is my latest post, which touches on the 18th century controversy over reason and the Reformation, through a reading of the first of Karl Reinhold's Letters on the Kantian Philosophy
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Reinhold, Religion and the Fate of Reason | francis kafka —
Reinhold, Religion and the Fate of Reason | francis kafka —
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June 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
here is my latest post, which touches on the 18th century controversy over reason and the Reformation, through a reading of the first of Karl Reinhold's Letters on the Kantian Philosophy
listed.to/@pachabelcan...
listed.to/@pachabelcan...
here is my latest post, on my experience reading Hegel, and the impression of his prose, plus thoughts on Alexandre Koyré's essay "Hegel in Jena"
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My Experience Reading Hegel | francis kafka —
My Experience Reading Hegel | francis kafka —
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June 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
here is my latest post, on my experience reading Hegel, and the impression of his prose, plus thoughts on Alexandre Koyré's essay "Hegel in Jena"
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what is the general Hegelian response to Schelling's late "positive philosophy"?
May 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
what is the general Hegelian response to Schelling's late "positive philosophy"?
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I am a complete doomer about cooptation, ftr. I more or less just think you should say and advocate for what you think is true, and can defend on good grounds, and never bother trying to hedge against people coopting your ideas. Ideas can always be coopted, there is no defence against that.
May 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I am a complete doomer about cooptation, ftr. I more or less just think you should say and advocate for what you think is true, and can defend on good grounds, and never bother trying to hedge against people coopting your ideas. Ideas can always be coopted, there is no defence against that.
man this website is kind of terrifying. though maybe because my first exposure in a while is looking at the "bullying is good actually" discourse
May 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
man this website is kind of terrifying. though maybe because my first exposure in a while is looking at the "bullying is good actually" discourse
What the hell, the President elected in 2008 in Stephen Baxter's 1997 novel Titan sounds just like Trump II—cutting off foreign aid, rumours of troops in Panama, raising tariffs, building the wall, hawkish over China and cutting science research
May 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
What the hell, the President elected in 2008 in Stephen Baxter's 1997 novel Titan sounds just like Trump II—cutting off foreign aid, rumours of troops in Panama, raising tariffs, building the wall, hawkish over China and cutting science research
soon after things pick up with my bsky account i plan on posting some of my longform twitter threads here
May 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
soon after things pick up with my bsky account i plan on posting some of my longform twitter threads here
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i generally dislike "STEM needs humanities" arguments but this is actually a case where it legitimately applies, albeit for not the reason you imagine
The level of hatred these AI bros have for creative people I just do not understand
May 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
i generally dislike "STEM needs humanities" arguments but this is actually a case where it legitimately applies, albeit for not the reason you imagine
the qts are so weird with the "yeah bullying and death threats are cool, get out if you can't handle it" like what. hard to imagine someone affirming this wholeheartedly
people get mad at me when I say this but it's a Serious Problem for bluesky's long-term viability that the userbase actively tries to bully people they don't like off here
The problem is that Bluesky is still a niche platform at 1.3 Mil active users per day globally. Getting your boss to say yes to making an account and dedicating the time and effort to maintaining it means they need to see positives for that investment. A middle finger isn’t a good return.
May 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
the qts are so weird with the "yeah bullying and death threats are cool, get out if you can't handle it" like what. hard to imagine someone affirming this wholeheartedly
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man ChatGPT o3 is an extremely weird little guy. why was it able to do this. it did not seem to access anything external in order to produce this weird map in response to just being fed the logs from my tabletop game
May 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
man ChatGPT o3 is an extremely weird little guy. why was it able to do this. it did not seem to access anything external in order to produce this weird map in response to just being fed the logs from my tabletop game
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"there exists a rigorous mathematical description of the commonalities between every Seinfeld episode sufficient to reconstruct new episodes recognizable as instances of the genre" is an indisputable and bizarre fact at this point, even if the episodes reconstructed in this way are bad.
this is where ive been. it's insane that when chatgpt generates you a sitcom dialogue it can only do it bc its extracted a principal component vector for the concept "sitcom", and done so from what words appear next to each other. several insane implications there even if the result is a bad sitcom!
May 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"there exists a rigorous mathematical description of the commonalities between every Seinfeld episode sufficient to reconstruct new episodes recognizable as instances of the genre" is an indisputable and bizarre fact at this point, even if the episodes reconstructed in this way are bad.
It's not too late for William Zabka to become a poet
May 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
It's not too late for William Zabka to become a poet
I once dreamt that I drank a glass of rum and coke that was good enough to make me question my teetotal non-drinking position (I've never drunk alcohol & don't plan to)
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I once dreamt that I drank a glass of rum and coke that was good enough to make me question my teetotal non-drinking position (I've never drunk alcohol & don't plan to)
here's my latest blog post, about the pre-history of "memetics" before richard dawkins coined the word meme in 1976, covering nietzsche, gabriel tarde, freud, jacques monod (and althusser's critique of him) and jacques derrida
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Memetics Before Memetics: The Prehistory of the Meme | francis kafka
Memetics Before Memetics: The Prehistory of the Meme | francis kafka
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May 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
here's my latest blog post, about the pre-history of "memetics" before richard dawkins coined the word meme in 1976, covering nietzsche, gabriel tarde, freud, jacques monod (and althusser's critique of him) and jacques derrida
listed.to/@pachabelcan...
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thinking of porting over some of my threads from Twitter over here, if anyone is interested. i'm thinking of spending more time here, poking around here more. hoping that some of my writing has interest here
May 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
thinking of porting over some of my threads from Twitter over here, if anyone is interested. i'm thinking of spending more time here, poking around here more. hoping that some of my writing has interest here
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oh, youre here from tik tok? (chuckle's lightly ) Is that like reddit for babies
January 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
oh, youre here from tik tok? (chuckle's lightly ) Is that like reddit for babies
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i have come to feel that both of them (and 'pundit genre' they are a part of) are eating off of a fundamental revulsion not so much at the technology but the habits of mind of the people pushing them.
as an LLM skeptic, it is pretty annoying that two of the biggest LLM skeptics in the media (Ed Zitron and Brian Merchant) neither know anything about LLMs nor are particularly interested in them
December 21, 2024 at 2:17 PM
i have come to feel that both of them (and 'pundit genre' they are a part of) are eating off of a fundamental revulsion not so much at the technology but the habits of mind of the people pushing them.
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Not quite what OP is thinking of, but Black Library paperbacks are pulp, action novels designed to sell toy soldiers. And among them, there's Peter Fehervari, who's exploring narratology, memory, and the possibility of redemption in an imprint designed to sell plastic army men.
What’s a line/passage that’s stuck with you from what you consider otherwise a not particularly profound piece of fiction? Not necessarily from a bad film/book, just something that’s oddly evocative/poignant considering it comes from a not especially deep piece of art. This is from Reacher novel:
December 17, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Not quite what OP is thinking of, but Black Library paperbacks are pulp, action novels designed to sell toy soldiers. And among them, there's Peter Fehervari, who's exploring narratology, memory, and the possibility of redemption in an imprint designed to sell plastic army men.
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December 14, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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subtle problem in academic humanities writing I rarely see addressed is the expectation that you have your conclusive thesis articulated at the level of the abstract/proposal before you do any of the research or writing. this incentivizes both motivated reasoning and safe, obvious research
December 4, 2024 at 12:08 AM
subtle problem in academic humanities writing I rarely see addressed is the expectation that you have your conclusive thesis articulated at the level of the abstract/proposal before you do any of the research or writing. this incentivizes both motivated reasoning and safe, obvious research
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People are still arguing about what counts as reading when Wilfrid Sellars solved this decades ago.
November 27, 2024 at 10:01 AM
People are still arguing about what counts as reading when Wilfrid Sellars solved this decades ago.
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Content moderator at Bluesky like “man today was hard…had to witness two friendos duking it out over Frog and Toad lore.”
Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...
November 27, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Content moderator at Bluesky like “man today was hard…had to witness two friendos duking it out over Frog and Toad lore.”
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You guys are all gossiping about Wicked while the capitalist overlords are literally branding rainforests….but sure go back to brunch
November 26, 2024 at 5:10 PM
You guys are all gossiping about Wicked while the capitalist overlords are literally branding rainforests….but sure go back to brunch