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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 27/09/2026

specifically, resurgent interest in The Odyssey can only rightfully increase interest in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 27/09/2026

Hilda Doolittle (aka H.D.) needs a revival in readership

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 26/09/2026

that’s why they want to get an accelerated credit rating at the same time as an astronomical IPO. They intend to launder the debt through retirement accounts

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 26/09/2026

I don’t think we’re prepared for how bad it’d actually be if AI trade fails. It’s almost designed to fail, so that there’s no choice but to support it

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 24/09/2026

I’m oddly compelled

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/09/2026

then, on the other side of this, there’s how OpenAI delayed its SEC filings supposedly because of those (fake) alignment concerns. At the same time as this delay, the SEC working on unwinding its Enron / Worldcom accounting reforms. Seems like a convenient delay

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/09/2026

to my eye, this looks like betting your landlord that your housing costs will go up. you win once and lose twice!

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/09/2026

(middle aged man continues to read the newspaper): here’s another interesting fact. “OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278 billion over five years”. that means investors will be paying for OpenAI to actively degrade the so-called knowledge economy…

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/09/2026

I mean both views correct IMO and from different angles. Systemic racism and selfish familial neglect support — these two social phenomenon support each other

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

Even the most liberal person in the world can and often do use the racial makeup of a school as a proxy for the quality of that school for their kids. The mere fact they can even do that at *all* (and be correct most of the time) reminds you of the country we live in and its racist history.

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/09/2026

there’s a strong (let’s be grandiose) epistemic virtue in getting information slowly and steadily over time. I won’t elaborate now. I guess you’ll have to wait for it 😂

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/09/2026

I was tying my (unsubstantiated!) theory before you posted this question. Briefly, sounds like “expropriate corporate held property” is a local politics play that would get support in U.S. cities. Die Linke could be a model for social democrats in the Americas

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/09/2026

I don’t know anything about Die Linke or its policies, but that callout from FT that they “vows to expropriate property from corporate landlords” sounds like something that left-democrats in the U.S. could quickly pick up as a policy proposal. (Honestly I might vote for it or some other “Georgism”)

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/09/2026

Chancellor Merz and his party appears to have lost popular mandate. This is the first time in two generations that the CDU has been crushed in elections, and kind of an end to Germany’s neoliberal unification politics. Seems like a hard left vs hard right legislative battle here on out

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 20/09/2026

I'm finishing up Mark Siderits *The Buddah's Teachings as Philosophy*. This effort might turn into an essay, we'll see. I'll likely return to Cesar Aira *Five Novels* soon, too

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

I think we OD on describing the bad shit people do so much we often neglect painting the picture of what does "good" look like because we just assume its obvious. Well, if it *was* obvious we wouldnt need this fuckin conversation 😂.

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 17/09/2026

survivor bias until the end

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 14/09/2026

Now how to explain the near-universal pan of Amodei‘s blog post?

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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Does anyone know why human beings keep making these exact same mistakes? Because, burdened with the illusion of self, we are convinced that when the same shape of reasoning is wielded by ourselves, it must be more legitimate and amenable to these circumstances in some way. This is incorrect.

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 13/09/2026

they’ve been on a steady “Fear Uncertainty Confusion and Doubt” PR run all year, with an overpriced IPO in sight, and an accelerated credit rating timeline so they can launder their bad debt for institutional grade investments. That can only work if they have no competitors for the next 10 years

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 13/09/2026

Or, “we have as many resources as you’ll allow us to have, and we were never going to achieve AGI anyways, so let’s kneecap competition with a pause”

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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 11/09/2026

guys let's all tear down all barriers between ourselves and the world and experience it all unmediated

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 11/09/2026

everybody lost their fucking mind this week

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 11/09/2026

shit getting more bizzare by the hour meanwhile autocorrect on my iPhone barely functions?

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 08/09/2026

100% and don’t forget how many of the tools and frameworks exist to give someone a role where one isn’t necessary from either business or technical perspective

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 05/09/2026

I maintain that those people are not only evil, but also moral vampires

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 05/09/2026

it takes one to know one

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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One day we'll find it remarkable and insane that humans thought that they could ever stop interpreting non-human complex behavior through human lenses, let alone the idea that such a thing would be more useful. (Compared to what? What's a non-anthropocentrically-derived idea of what "useful" means?)

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 27/08/2026

“naive linear, orderable folk theory of ‘intelligence’” 🤣

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 27/08/2026

I can’t bring myself to watch Grave of the Fireflies. It sounds devastating

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 22/08/2026

reading the I Ching is the same exercise as reading treasury bond market analysis 🐢

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 22/08/2026

James Joyce Ulysses is not on this website 😂

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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 28/07/2026

moby-dick also needs to be a tv show and not a movie. if you aren't making the cetology chapter an entire hour-long episode you just don't have what it takes

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/07/2026

George: I knew it! I bought all that bronze for nothing!

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/07/2026

Seinfeld (to Odysseus in disguise): Oh! So you *are* the Sea People!

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 17/07/2026

I like the improvements in threading. this allows me to keep a more sustained conversation over a longer time frame, even if it’s just with myself. a useful social media ”hack” involves sustaining attention outside the medium so that you can come back with a solid orientation. keeps away nonsense

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 17/07/2026

I completed reading the inner chapters and am making slower progress through the out chapters. It’s necessary, too, to go back to the inner chapters here and there to clarify and enjoy some details with a more studied eye

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 17/07/2026

I’ve started reading Georges Perec, Life A User’s Manual Not my first Perec, and definitely not my first OuLiPo. But I’m glad I’ve come to this later in my reading life, as I’m able to enjoy the insider jokes and references more than I would have had it been my first

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 16/07/2026

I’ve been using my philosophy degree A PLENTY for work lately. ROI on that formerly useless paper positively skyrocketing 🚀

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 15/07/2026

have you ever seen a turkey wandering around town? basically goblins

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Candy Chang @candychang.com · 12/06/2026

1,440 unique handwritten bits form a binary translation of Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi on the potentials and limitations of language. This is also how I obtained 3 months of back pain.

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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 05/07/2026

guys let's all invent new english words to translate zhuangzi passages pretty

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 13/07/2026

I'm deeply enjoying Zhuangzi as translated by Brook Ziporyn. His translation's so beautiful and funny and deep all at once. Perfect balance for one of the greatest philosophers from China

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 13/07/2026

What are you reading this week?

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 13/07/2026

I haven’t been on in a while. going to start with compliments. i love the hat + watch + glasses + ring + shirt combo in your profile pic @shimminykricket.blacksky.app

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 19/10/2025

People are different but not as remotely as different as many people want to believe.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

My dad used to say this, so I have it on a post it note in my office. "May luck find you working."

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