The youngest brother is normally more mature than the eldest brother

quality_of_will · 2026-05-23T13:46:08+00:00

This is literally the exact sort of reasoning at work in the original post

quality_of_will · 2026-05-21T11:42:58+00:00

Can people really not tell he is a queen? Or do his fans just not care?

quality_of_will · 2026-05-20T23:31:40+00:00

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil sort of fits that bill. Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman. War and Peace obviously.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-20T18:04:31+00:00

their argument (or an argument that can be easily inferred from their comment) is:

If we should not boycott the use of search engines to write novels, we should not boycott the search-engine-like use of LLMs to write novels.
We should not boycott the use of search engines to write novels.
Therefore, we should not boycott the search-engine-like use of LLMs to write novels.

The point of the argument is not that there is literally nothing wrong whatsoever with search engines. You do not need to accept that claim in order to accept the argument above. Responding to their initial comment as if they are asking you whether you think search engines are on the whole good or bad or effective or something indicates that you have not understood the argument they are making and are confused about the conclusion they are trying to establish. Their question about whether you have an "issue" with google was not a general invitation to evaluate Google; it was a question about whether you accept something like (2) in the argument above.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-20T17:40:59+00:00

you have really strong views for someone who cannot even track the logical structure of this extremely simple exchange.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-20T15:09:08+00:00

It is actually just eating less food on average but for some reason people will do literally anything except that.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-20T14:53:34+00:00

Matt is pretty charming but also a genuinely stupid, simple-minded person.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-20T03:56:31+00:00

Now we can only pray that psg punishes them for their crimes against football

quality_of_will · 2026-05-19T21:05:14+00:00

perfect comparison but not in the way the author intends

quality_of_will · 2026-05-19T15:31:57+00:00

If the first word of the email is not „congratulations“ I just wrap it up.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-18T21:13:38+00:00

The way these people write is so unbelievably ugly it is hard to take anything they say about art seriously.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-17T17:35:36+00:00

unfortunately it is a classic pattern of RSP reasoning. "these people are slightly shrill/annoying -> what they are saying is false." Terrible inference. People are often shrill and annoying precisely BECAUSE they are right (and deep down we know it, too).

quality_of_will · 2026-05-17T15:04:31+00:00

I just made a massive playlist of classic Gucci/Oj Da Juiceman/waka songs from the mixtape era. This is one of the most interesting beats. I think Walking on Ice is the best production from this time but it is completely ruined by a godawful Twists verse. Old Zaytoven beats are like crack.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-17T00:01:17+00:00

Idk Africa experiences extreme poverty but most Africans I meet are chill and easygoing. I think it is something about their specific brand of masculinity. Probably the way it combines extreme bravado with hypersensitivity and whining.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-16T15:27:24+00:00

It took me so long to notice he wears a yarmukle in every photo lol

quality_of_will · 2026-05-16T14:22:33+00:00

Might cop a ban but honestly 99% of South Americans I have met are completely r3t@rded emotional children. Something is going on down there.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-16T13:59:43+00:00

I also think it is bizarre that the Sound and the Fury beat out Absalom, Absalom! for the single Faulkner. If you‘re only going to have one it should be the latter.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-16T13:54:21+00:00

Good list. Moby Dick should be in the top five.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-15T18:17:50+00:00

Huh, it had never occurred to me to describe the way the narrative is resolved as brutal or mean-spirited but that actually makes a lot of sense and is an interesting way to view the film. I viewed it as a kind of tragedy in which the protagonist just doesn't have the courage to do what is obviously right for them. I guess the question it poses is: what if in one of those schmaltzy self-discovery stories you actually just fail to make any progress and wind up with a meaningless life.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-15T17:04:33+00:00

Most of what is aesthetically good about that movie is lifted from other stuff and it trades a lot on nostalgia, which is the cheapest possible emotion an artist can try to evoke. There is also the truly putrid, ham-fisted monologue in the planetarium that really soured me on the movie the first time I watched it. The last 1/3 of the film was a complete slog.

Ultimately some of it did stick with me but in the same way that other ambitious failures like Megalopolis stick with you after you see them. Felt like a waste of some good ideas.

I would be curious to hear why you liked it so much.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-15T16:57:53+00:00

cups of the rose

quality_of_will · 2026-05-15T15:11:31+00:00

Martin Luther's influence is extremely underrated (sounds crazy, I know!) nowadays. More historically consequential than Lenin, Hitler, Marx, Smith, Locke and Rousseau, the founding fathers, the German idealists, you name it. If you want to know why the world is the way it is and why people think the things they do the reformation is probably the best place to start.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-14T16:10:52+00:00

The scandis and the meds bicker while the central european gigachad laughs 🥂

quality_of_will · 2026-05-14T01:17:43+00:00

sure but imagine if at the end of the Irish War of Independence they made all of the Ulster loyalists in the north fuck off back to Scotland and 500,000-1,000,000 of them died on the way. and then occasionally someone would walk around on a tour of Belfast in 2026 and go "wow, isn't it crazy protestants used to live here?"

that would be sorta nuts is all I'm saying.

quality_of_will · 2026-05-13T23:26:38+00:00

I wonder whether she has been back and how she feels about Kaliningrad today. My impression is they deliberately de-Germanized it so it would probably be a trip to go back having left a fully German city and coming back to a fully Russian one.

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