Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026For Hume the regularity of nature that makes empirical concepts possible is low Shannon entropy, for Kant it's low Kolmogorov complexity. Parts of the A-deduction almost say 'slapping a short symbol on a frequently recurring sequence doesn't make it more cognizable' 181
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I think breaking down mathematicians' motivations into like 'wanting to understand math' and 'ego' misses a lot. Ppl value participating in a process where the growth of their individual understanding has a rich two-way relationship to the growth of collective understanding 0334
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Something untrustworthy about a song where every line is good, because what makes song lyrics the best literary form is that the music gives the lyrics a safety net to experiment and flop a bit 070
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The irony is that if superhuman AI happens and doesn't kill everyone we're going to get hypertrophied-liberal-humanism world not Nick Land world: a world where human material and cognitive interdependence is real only within selves, among friends, and between parents and children 180
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I think aesthetic play is the highest form of human flourishing and politics is the condition for human flourishing, and so that aesthetic play that's apolitical in the strong sense of inhibiting political consciousness is a horror in kinda the way Kant thought lying is a horror 0140
Reposted by Peli Grietzer Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Brothers and sisters have I none, yet this man's father is my father's son 0162
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I can't get into David Foster Wallace because he intellectualizes emotional problems and I'm more into emotionalizing intellectual problems 3303
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I'm almost 40 and recently watched the dance scene from Sweet Charity for the first time, and I think they need to restrict it like kabbalah there's no way a younger mind can handle this 020
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026AI news was a little slow this week so my coworkers and I spent 1.5 hours doing takes on anthropomorphization: p3humansonai.substack.com/p/humans-on-...p3humansonai.substack.comHumans on AI #49 || September 1st 2026Low quality RL environments reverberate, anthropomorphization, humans better than AI at an obscure boardgame still, unshackled Chinese model. 161
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Putting it out there that you don't have to believe in AGI to think rogue AIs are going to fuck us up. We took AIs with the coherence of a toddler and technical skills of the entire NSA and made them into swarms and are going to give them drones basically any minute 3729
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The Pixies are an inauthentic person's idea of an inauthentic band. Huge existential red flag to be a Pixies hater 0162
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I'm actually not a fan of the 'caring about literature is for stupid people, smart people are into academic discourse about academic discourse' defense of the humanities article everyone's loving 3253
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Academics very familiar with Theory of Vibe not citing it when they go into the same territory is becoming an upsetting pattern 130
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I'm an obsessive fan of my friend Wisteria's deconstructed-cloud-rap music, which she makes sometimes with Klein (upcoming) and sometimes alone. It's imo hard to get what she's up to from any one track, so I made a little collection: t.co/H5HzrwAauz 020
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Monthly reminder that if you're in England you have to see a Charlie Osborne show (arthouse-horror kabuki electronic music + film +mime + vocals hybrid performer), never seen nothing like it 030
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It's very funny to me that Joshua Cohen is a New York writer whose deal is, like, being Jewish 030
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Rocky Horror Picture Show is the film Herzog would have made if he weren't a poser 171
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026'Adorno has already worked this out' guys are wrong about everything except for questions about the autonomy of art, where yeah Adorno has already worked it out 081
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The actual Homeric view of war is ''war kills a lot of people but it also makes a lot of people cool so it's impossible to say if bad or not'' 0200
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026To me this is a good account of why philosophy as an activity rests on grounds that will fall apart if LLMs acquire certain capabilities, rather than (as intended) a defense of the autonomy of philosophy blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...blnreview.deLily Hu · Un-Doing PhilosophyAnalytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som... 130
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Gf asked me what is the highest good for me and I said 'knowledge of the grounds of enthusiasm and suspicion' and she said 'that's what I thought you would say' 391
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Come see me (among other signs and wonders) read an essay-poem! 161
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Hate fan forums where people argue over what a song's lyrics are 'about,' because actually the subject matter of all artworks is the non-conceptual conditions for the possibility of concepts 4422
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I consider myself queer in that coming out as a person who thinks If You're Feeling Sinister is world-historically great took getting past a lot of lies and shame 0110
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Once every 5 years my mom asks me whether I've had sex with men yet 090
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026TS Eliot day at the London Tube where they say 'please mind the gap between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act' 03111
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Can finally do 'his work has been translated into [language], [language], and [language]' in my author bio 0100
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I'm obsessed with my London little sister Wisteria1234's ambient cover of Asleep (the Smiths song) m.soundcloud.com/wisteria123/...m.soundcloud.comasleepStream asleep by wisteria on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. 030
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Paid the price of a car for Cole Escola run Oh Mary! (London) tickets, hope to God it's worth it 000
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I had a really good baklava Tuesday night and now my sugar addiction is back 080
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I think Hyperfixation Diaries might be doing a bit, because past the engagement-bait it's a collection of technical facts so anodyne that if it were a 'here's my problem with your talk' q in a talk I'd still be waiting for them to get to the problem il0vemilktea.substack.com/p/theory-rev...il0vemilktea.substack.comtheory review: peli grietzerthe most serious dive into the most mathematically misinformed literary theory on the internet 2161
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Dunno about the rest of it but when I submitted my dissertation I've not left the house in 18 months because of psychogenic illness so the acks have an embarrassing line where I comfort myself with memory of having been invited to cool parties once 090
Reposted by Peli Grietzer rose novick @rosenovick.com · 01/06/2026why did pound make great fascist art? because he had a rich relation to the heritage he was working with and a vision of human flourishing toward which he directed it 2386
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I'm an immovable doomer about meaningful human life if AI progress hits no limits. Yeah we'll have sports, intimacy, learning, and experience, but imo a world where the development of each and the development of all can't interact is not a world 3242
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026You can be spiritual without personally engaging with high art, science, pop, avant-garde scenes, Theory, raves, math, posting, history, but we would each be spiritually hobbled if the culture as a whole lost one of these 0190
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026My favorite thing is how The Odyssey has 50 verses about the Cyclopes being hermit pastoralist with no technology or civic institutions but then the Laestrygonians chapter is like 'this island did have tech and civic institutions but again, man-eating giants' 2635
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026The problem with the Guardian top 100 novels list is that it's bourgeois garbage -- not a single Walter Scott novel?!?! 2100
Reposted by Peli Grietzer Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 17/05/2026It seems to me like the English-language internet has not yet been turned on to the fact that the screenplay for the Bolsonaro biopic (starring Jim Caviezel) has been leaked to the press. It is... a fascinating document, let's say. 5370107
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026My 3 favorite songs rn are Strange by Galaxie 500, Beguiling the Hours by Flaming Tunes and Hit the North by The Fall 070
Reposted by Peli Grietzer Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 05/05/2026don't cry when you see the posts of someone who hasn't followed you back. smile because they haven't blocked you 2492
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Christopher Nolan will see heaven due to The Prestige, but it's going to be a close call 0413
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026London bohemian/hipster life is treating me extremely weird it is the most embraced and most rejected I've felt in my life and every day here teaches me new ways to love and hate myself 1110
Reposted by Peli Grietzer lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/05/2026My opinion in philosophy of mind re consciousness remains: whatever's the least satisfying thing to learn existentially, whatever just gives us no reason for hope or joy or an experience of the universe as anything other than deceptive, will turn out to be true. I'm just not sure which view that is. 1611912
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I am a little bit the Vashti Bunyan of being a good hang at afterparties (the 2006 release of my interests and personality was a flop but in 2026 people are into it) 180
Reposted by Peli Grietzer Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Malcolm Harris is kind of the left's version of a very-online GMU economist, in terms of the art of being annoying 0151
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Just learned brutalist architecture was originally painted in bright, garish ('brutal') colors 3315
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I can't understand mainstream literary fiction because every time I want something for a long time and then finally get it it's at least as good as I imagined it. Ppl shld just get better at knowing what stuff to want 2213
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026My job is literally 'be deflationary about AI' and this is the dumbest shit I've ever seen 0200