Aesthetics; or, Things That I Love

the letter t, scotch-style drop cap here is no choice but to become cracked in everything at once. How difficult of an endeavor that seems! — yet, it is the only worthwhile path upon which to travel. You know this; you know this to be right. And there is, in the end, only to do what you know to be right.

There is a choice for you, the choice between living fully and dying slowly. It is written: kill not the part of you that is cringe, kill the part that cringes.

(What is this page?) (Similar pages: Music I love, Assorted links to things I like)

Liberal Democracy and globalization
Wikipedia
Textbooks on programming and formal logic
Fireflies
Jorge Luis Borges, especially Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius
Really good chocolate milk
The Blue Ridge mountains at sunset
Memetics and Anti-memetics
Cornbread and honey
Andrej Karpathy’s willingness to put out free educational content online

Haha, what a wicked and ironic comment bro. Now try saying something true and beautiful.

~Tage Erlinger

Secret Societies
Neo-Kantianism
Naturalistic imagery written by Nietzsche
All the different kinds of trees
Especially Oak, Walnut, Redwood, Pine
Even the names of the trees are pretty
Acorns and pinecones
All Souls College, Oxford; the exam.
Gödel, Tarski, Church, Turing; diagonal arguments.
Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. (the pretense is earned lol)
Language
Infinitely-detailed sense-specific word embeddings
Birds of prey
decoder-only transformers
arXiv preprints
Gradient Descent

Worldly ambition is so lame. Your ambition should be to learn your own nature and align it to the order of creation. (from Nate)

God; building God; also being God
Rejecting teleology and relativism
Failing to understand things correctly
Every religion
Carved wooden bookends
esoteric mysticism (e.g. Kabbalah)
Myths and Literary theory
Scripture/Literature
Postmodernism, or something
crying tears of happiness

The "alphabet song" is a fragment of a much longer ballad, a list of every glyph, every name, every planet—when the angels sing it, you'll remember (from neoltitude)

a hike in the verdant forest
Pleasantly strolling
The birds singing outside my house in the evening
producing value
people paying you for producing value
cozy fireplace in the winter
lighting candles (without air pollution)
midori md notebook a5
nice pens
symbolism
semiotics
paying for software and media, also Piracy
Isomorphism
A clean living room
A desk littered with pearl-white printouts, highlighted and scrawled-in books
Leitmotifs
free online lectures (e.g. MIT opencourseware, stanford online)
A book club (if you run one please invite me)
becoming the type of person who gets invited to book clubs
textfiles.com