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...
Is it a bad sign that me and my fiancee thought Phantom Thread was overall pretty romantic
December 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Is it a bad sign that me and my fiancee thought Phantom Thread was overall pretty romantic
Did anybody write about Flaubert being at once the 'aspires to thinnest mediation possible in his narration' guy and the 'writes about characters whose relation to world is maximally mediated by books and by sayings' guy?
December 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Did anybody write about Flaubert being at once the 'aspires to thinnest mediation possible in his narration' guy and the 'writes about characters whose relation to world is maximally mediated by books and by sayings' guy?
Maimonides on Balaam: 'his ass did not say that'
December 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Maimonides on Balaam: 'his ass did not say that'
Aside from being terrible I'm pretty sure After the Hunt was originally set in a Department of Government and they changed it to philosophy because people don't know about those?
December 6, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Aside from being terrible I'm pretty sure After the Hunt was originally set in a Department of Government and they changed it to philosophy because people don't know about those?
Seems like a big and pretty understudied question (in contemporary analytic): Is evaluative valence reducible to hedonic valence? Hedonic valence reducible to evaluative valence? Both? Neither?
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Seems like a big and pretty understudied question (in contemporary analytic): Is evaluative valence reducible to hedonic valence? Hedonic valence reducible to evaluative valence? Both? Neither?
Caught a few minutes of Good Will Hunting and died laughing when I realized they chose the lover-interest's name ('Skylar') to show off his Boston accent
December 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Caught a few minutes of Good Will Hunting and died laughing when I realized they chose the lover-interest's name ('Skylar') to show off his Boston accent
"Was the Shapers' War a bourgeois revolution" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,
December 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"Was the Shapers' War a bourgeois revolution" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,
Saying 'my work is not about literature and AI it's about literature and the math AI is based on' in a 'Lightyear is not about the toy it's about the astronaut the toy is based on' voice
December 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Saying 'my work is not about literature and AI it's about literature and the math AI is based on' in a 'Lightyear is not about the toy it's about the astronaut the toy is based on' voice
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 thread
December 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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 thread
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You read Les Fleurs du Mal
I write Les Fleurs du Mal
We are n̶o̶t̶ the same
I write Les Fleurs du Mal
We are n̶o̶t̶ the same
December 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
You read Les Fleurs du Mal
I write Les Fleurs du Mal
We are n̶o̶t̶ the same
I write Les Fleurs du Mal
We are n̶o̶t̶ the same
I remember learning about good germs as a kid and being like 'damn that's some nuanced world-building'
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I remember learning about good germs as a kid and being like 'damn that's some nuanced world-building'
Haven't felt interest in video games in like a year but goddamn does that Absolum game look good
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Haven't felt interest in video games in like a year but goddamn does that Absolum game look good
I hate that having to fight off weaponized antisemitism-accusations makes people effectively argue that antisemitism is the one form of historical oppression that's so shallow as to disappear overnight from mainstream and leave no unconscious or structural discursive traces
December 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I hate that having to fight off weaponized antisemitism-accusations makes people effectively argue that antisemitism is the one form of historical oppression that's so shallow as to disappear overnight from mainstream and leave no unconscious or structural discursive traces
Nothing in the entire world makes me as physically angry as somebody eye-rolling at me in tone of tired knowingness while being just completely fucking wrong
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Nothing in the entire world makes me as physically angry as somebody eye-rolling at me in tone of tired knowingness while being just completely fucking wrong
Every time I find out a friend of mine from the experimental arts world is into elves-and-wizard fiction I work myself into a stroke trying to decide what Brennan Lee Mulligan campaign to tell them to watch
December 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Every time I find out a friend of mine from the experimental arts world is into elves-and-wizard fiction I work myself into a stroke trying to decide what Brennan Lee Mulligan campaign to tell them to watch
Momus' Lucky Like St. Sebastian is the only cleverness-based work of art that's actually good
December 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Momus' Lucky Like St. Sebastian is the only cleverness-based work of art that's actually good
Last 72 hours have been some of my best ever: ill-thought well-intentioned intervention in some friends' life turned out GREAT, Theory of Vibe technical update's looking promising, got copies of the avant-garde poetry book I edited, and did dramaturgy for a Weiss play adaptation
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Last 72 hours have been some of my best ever: ill-thought well-intentioned intervention in some friends' life turned out GREAT, Theory of Vibe technical update's looking promising, got copies of the avant-garde poetry book I edited, and did dramaturgy for a Weiss play adaptation
Is the Weird Al fake biopic from 2022 really good? The trailer is kind of amazing
December 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Is the Weird Al fake biopic from 2022 really good? The trailer is kind of amazing
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how to make hot chocolate. I guess this is from before I discovered that you can temper an egg into it for a drink richer than Croesus
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
how to make hot chocolate. I guess this is from before I discovered that you can temper an egg into it for a drink richer than Croesus
Need to get better at stocking the house with things I rarely want but want extremely badly when I do, like hot-chocolate supplies
December 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Need to get better at stocking the house with things I rarely want but want extremely badly when I do, like hot-chocolate supplies
Everyone in the artists' loft I live in spends their off hours trying to perfect their 'comedy is ok, but clown is more difficult' accent
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Everyone in the artists' loft I live in spends their off hours trying to perfect their 'comedy is ok, but clown is more difficult' accent
Cool how the Avatar films are based on the 3 elements: regular, water, fire
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Cool how the Avatar films are based on the 3 elements: regular, water, fire
Every few years I am amazed by Kristen Bell's ability to make her 100th 'sassy blonde girl with light family trauma' character feel very real and totally distinct from the 99 that she did already
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Every few years I am amazed by Kristen Bell's ability to make her 100th 'sassy blonde girl with light family trauma' character feel very real and totally distinct from the 99 that she did already
I'm so proud to have played a part in Nadia John's Long Form (Hiding Press, 2024), one of the best avant-garde poetry books I ever read
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I'm so proud to have played a part in Nadia John's Long Form (Hiding Press, 2024), one of the best avant-garde poetry books I ever read