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was [1] supposed to lead to the recent discussion of the lack of a useful distinction between 2nd person singular and plural in (unlike AAVE) SAE? come to thin

was [1] supposed to lead to the recent discussion of the lack of a useful distinction between 2nd person singular and plural in (unlike AAVE) SAE? come to think of it, maybe my fascination with Linebarger's Psychological Warfare is because (delicately speaking of the indelicate*) he argues high-brow theories whose subject matter is convincing people via low-brow rhetoric? > "Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. ... Fortunately, in England at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever." —Lady AB * I'll have to check De Oratore because Uncle Google certainly isn't confirming this belongs to that most famous of the garbanzo-noses?

gsf_emergency 2y ago
Ah no, was about going to go on a (short) rant about lobste.rs as a sign of the disease of academia spreading to industry (via SW"E"s, no less) and further on how these two tribes exchange diseases but not cures and furthermore got distracted.. >he argues Before that happens here, I now prefer "feedback" to persuasion but of course that is still usually poorly taken as ADvice (by yours truly, at least) if we leave out the "Ciceronian" Personal social feedback that the People want, take that, DomGPT! (A drop in replacement for the Man in the fight against (co)solipsism sans dang's assist)
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  The Remarkable Rocket is remarkable, because although we no longer have as many fairy stories as the Victorians, so it's more difficult to appreciate his mockery of the form, and we don't have as much casual exposure to streamside wildlife as they probably did, those are all ancillary points and his main effort* continues to shine through. (is the opposite of DomGPT RanGPT or SubGPT?) * tho judging from the commentary at https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/RemRoc.shtml https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/RemRoc.sht... comedies of manners, despite my prior belief in their accessibility, may be much more on the accuracy side and less on the entertainment.
  - gsf_emergency 2y ago
    HN don't disappoint with inaccurate citations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746721* Cicero might beat the Julians (incl. MEZ) by notwinning, as time approaches MMM! Not separately, vibing that Victorian and Edwardian phases may be separated by labor cost vs ___.. (how gatekeeping becomes the only game in town, so that even the insufferably curious have to try to gatekeep as a form of wisdom, tangping no longer viable as a matter of taste) *save the subs RanGPT may turn out to be useful for analysing Cicero's long term odds (provided we accept that we can't find out how it was for him)
    - gsf_emergency 2y ago
      https://lobste.rs/s/5hjq6v/unbearable_slowness_being_why_do_we_live#c_2z04cz https://lobste.rs/s/5hjq6v/unbearable_slowness_being_why_do_... Revised weights for lobste.rs! And herein is one clue of many to resolve, as a microcosmic start , the nerd-jock dichotomy in academia (thank you for "the ressentiment of ions"!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment#Girard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment#Girard Placeholder for subsequent vibes around "ataraxia", aka Epicurean Mechanics: https://donaldrobertson.name/2016/05/20/cicero-on-epicurus-ambiguity/ https://donaldrobertson.name/2016/05/20/cicero-on-epicurus-a...

gsf_emergency 2y ago

Ah no, was about going to go on a (short) rant about lobste.rs as a sign of the disease of academia spreading to industry (via SW"E"s, no less) and further on how these two tribes exchange diseases but not cures and furthermore got distracted.. >he argues Before that happens here, I now prefer "feedback" to persuasion but of course that is still usually poorly taken as ADvice (by yours truly, at least) if we leave out the "Ciceronian" Personal social feedback that the People want, take that, DomGPT! (A drop in replacement for the Man in the fight against (co)solipsism sans dang's assist)

082349872349872 2y ago
The Remarkable Rocket is remarkable, because although we no longer have as many fairy stories as the Victorians, so it's more difficult to appreciate his mockery of the form, and we don't have as much casual exposure to streamside wildlife as they probably did, those are all ancillary points and his main effort* continues to shine through. (is the opposite of DomGPT RanGPT or SubGPT?) * tho judging from the commentary at https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/RemRoc.shtml https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/RemRoc.sht... comedies of manners, despite my prior belief in their accessibility, may be much more on the accuracy side and less on the entertainment.
- gsf_emergency 2y ago
  HN don't disappoint with inaccurate citations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746721* Cicero might beat the Julians (incl. MEZ) by notwinning, as time approaches MMM! Not separately, vibing that Victorian and Edwardian phases may be separated by labor cost vs ___.. (how gatekeeping becomes the only game in town, so that even the insufferably curious have to try to gatekeep as a form of wisdom, tangping no longer viable as a matter of taste) *save the subs RanGPT may turn out to be useful for analysing Cicero's long term odds (provided we accept that we can't find out how it was for him)
  - gsf_emergency 2y ago
    https://lobste.rs/s/5hjq6v/unbearable_slowness_being_why_do_we_live#c_2z04cz https://lobste.rs/s/5hjq6v/unbearable_slowness_being_why_do_... Revised weights for lobste.rs! And herein is one clue of many to resolve, as a microcosmic start , the nerd-jock dichotomy in academia (thank you for "the ressentiment of ions"!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment#Girard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment#Girard Placeholder for subsequent vibes around "ataraxia", aka Epicurean Mechanics: https://donaldrobertson.name/2016/05/20/cicero-on-epicurus-ambiguity/ https://donaldrobertson.name/2016/05/20/cicero-on-epicurus-a...