Even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground
(Self-promotion: this is the epigraph to the novella I’m working on, which is not really about rationality but is about what we’re pleased to call “human nature”, and which you may read the beginning of here if so inclined.)
Read the first chapter of your novella. Were it not for the delineation I probably would still be reading and hiding from sleep. Work tomorrow, I expect I’ll come back to it after.
exactly. and that’s a man simply trying to gain his point. The bottleneck for the ideas on this blog finding reality are in f*d up economic incentives and feedback loops. I think it’s asenine of us to stick to our ball to the wall INTJ-ness in light of the current economic and political events. it may not be that bad, but it’s light years away from the optimum.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground
(Self-promotion: this is the epigraph to the novella I’m working on, which is not really about rationality but is about what we’re pleased to call “human nature”, and which you may read the beginning of here if so inclined.)
Reading through that, I itch to give feedback (even if just the spelling alone). What’s the best way to do that?
Read the first chapter of your novella. Were it not for the delineation I probably would still be reading and hiding from sleep. Work tomorrow, I expect I’ll come back to it after.
exactly. and that’s a man simply trying to gain his point. The bottleneck for the ideas on this blog finding reality are in f*d up economic incentives and feedback loops. I think it’s asenine of us to stick to our ball to the wall INTJ-ness in light of the current economic and political events. it may not be that bad, but it’s light years away from the optimum.