Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026why? still makes me laugh pretty consistently 130
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Seeing the way Anne Carson and Agnes Callard dress I'm willing to believe the ancient Greeks really did do this 061
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'd define poetry as something like 'using incidental relationships between things to map essential/structural relationships between things, to the point where the effectiveness of the process starts raising questions about incidence and essence/structure' 2223
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Turns out a lot of tech people feel about mathematicians like Marvel fans feel about 'film bros' 1132
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Everyone was correct that French philosophy was going to destroy civilization but had the wrong French philosophy plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr...plato.stanford.edu Jean Jacques Rousseau (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Spring 2021 Edition) 050
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I can't overstate how important it is to refuse the 'caring about anything besides consumption is just ego' framing AI boosters want to lock us in 2161
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Also this is why my version of vibe is way more interesting that Robin James' correlational, collective filtering-y account of vibe 030
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And this is why neural nets are Kantian and not a victory for empiricism like people say. Inductive biases favoring economically expressible dependencies are doing all the real work 141
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 0344
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 · 10/09/2026I'm not happy about it I wanted to participate in objective spirit 2100
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 · 02/09/2026But the emotionalizing-intellectual-problems GOAT is Georg Büchner, obviously 020
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 · 01/09/2026I really want to spread the message to my cultural commentator friends that you can think AI is in some deep sense stupid and still worry about rogue swarms of AIs 1391
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 · 14/08/2026Also I can never get over how American lit departments went all in on German/French philosophy built on 3rd Crit foundations but were like 'the one thing those ppl got wrong is thinking that aesthetics is real lmao' 190
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026In this fucked up American ecosystem a defense of Theory is always also an attack on the conditions for high art, since high art is staked on the intelligibility of a peer relationship between art-work and the work of scholars/critics who engage it 190
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Every year we get another round of this uniquely American gambit where Theory constitutes itself by throwing literature under the bus 1120
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 · 25/07/2026The whole internet loves Dinosaur Punks, the new Rowan Please song about monsters having a music party! *2h later* I regret to inform you Dinosaur Punks is about being a kid scared of the world 030
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
