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Joey Walnuts
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substack.com/@jolwalton/n... Part 1 here: Midas and the Golden Touch. These are Diet-zschean Ecce Homo titles btw, Why I Am So Rich and Why I Am The GOAT fell off
[Money Abolition] Why I Want To Be Rich
It was Nietzsche, philosophy's aristocratic rebel, who appointed Apollo the god of individuation, and named Dionysus his opposite number, god of dissolution and everything sort of smooshing together.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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substack.com/@jolwalton/n... Part 1 here: Midas and the Golden Touch. These are Diet-zschean Ecce Homo titles btw, Why I Am So Rich and Why I Am The GOAT fell off
[Money Abolition] Why I Want To Be Rich
It was Nietzsche, philosophy's aristocratic rebel, who appointed Apollo the god of individuation, and named Dionysus his opposite number, god of dissolution and everything sort of smooshing together.
substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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'internet' = specifically aol Teen Chat
October 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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This bit in Ghost Fictions:
Of course, some of these charlatans are simply nervous. To gild the lily is to feel you control the lily’s loveliness! Others can’t resist the allure of the ephemeral. When a new technology nudges the line between the believable and the unbelievable, for a brief time more lies become tellable, so why not tell them? Others just mean to be polite. The machines are pretending to be human, so they pretend to be the machines in return! But in the early 21st century, there were also more troubling reasons. We must remember that, in those days, many people were so accustomed to assuming everything around them was automatically produced—human labour would have made them feel guilty!—that it plunged them into a state of permanent confusion. When they saw something a machine really had done, sometimes they instinctively pretended a human had done it, just so they could go back to pretending a machine had done it. If that sounds very mixed up, that’s because everyone was very mixed up. Just as strangely, many people still felt that automation was always, at its core, a sort of theatrical illusion. Machines could never be more than actors playing parts, they told themselves. So they considered themselves to be good sports, playing along with the illusion, rather than illusionists themselves.
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Most incredible = sliced bread, internet = 3
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I was thinking yesterday that the weird thing about LLMs is they they ARE the most incredible (or maybe second) new tech I've seen in my whole life ... they really had their work cut out to get me disappointed and mad about them 🙃
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM