This is the big one! My essay on art, poetic knowledge, and the scientific image of mind, language, and nature:

For the purposes of this tweet Theory of the Novel was published in 1916, when the Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft articles came out

Our witchiest poet

Sad to have missed the death anniversary of TS Eliot, whose lines feel like a tentacle's caressing my skull from the inside

Literary theory worked on this take for 110 years...and...he just...he tweeted it out

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

Grok is now undressing photos of me as a child. This is a website where the owner says to post photos of your children. I really don’t care if people want to call me “scorned” this is objectively horrifying, illegal, and if it has happened to anybody else, DM me. I got time.

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 it's that the deepest motivation just wasn't made-salient right

You couldn't write Theory of Vibe '25 today (you'd have to call it Theory of Vibe '26)

Was an 80,000 Hours fellow, MATS fellow, Cosmos Ventures grantee, SFF Speculation grantee. Have my own lightly-funded personal AI alignment theory project but still do external work (e.g. helped ACS Research get a paper into PNAS)

I'm looking to pick up some extra contract-work this winter. Research in AI policy and AI alignment, also open to technical writing and science communications contracts if very high-end

Crosswords should come with at least ten bonus squares so I can write in the names of my original characters

Cosplay resource imperialism is close to the mark I think.

You try going to the movies these days to check in on Anora and they’re not even playing anything about her. Why do they get us attached to these characters and then just drop them???

I read this and start screaming

a naive tendency is to conceive of people in countries undergoing situations like the one in venezuela as either revolutionary or reactionary political agents as opposed to random people who wonder if they'll be able to feed their ailing grandmother or children in the coming week

My girlfriend read out an extremely stupid post to me and I immediately asked 'is it by somebody named Justin Murphy'

Elon could easily make it so Grok is incapable of making these images but he isn’t doing that. Ask yourself why

For real though they're very enjoyable in their form and profound in their substance

This is just Platoslop, you only believe it because your soul is recollecting the Ideas

More than the integers and fewer than the reals things can be true