Embracing openness, seeking closeness Yin/yang, partner dance, improv, singing/harmony, game dev https://nitter.cf/t.co/UBndqTSBQ5
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@myhandle's Navigation By Moonlight explored the feminine art of yin - setting up opportunities. Extend that logic to its natural counterpart - the art of yang is acting on opportunities - and you get a noble vision of what it means to be a man, that goes beyond just dating
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Loving-kindness got branded as being nice. It's closer to strength training for staying open when it would be easier to close.
Usain Rainbolt would make the PERFECT Jason Bourne/Mission Impossible character. The pieces are already there: Bourne identifying all the license plates before sitting down at a diner, Tom Cruise running
"I can tell you the license plate numbers of all six cars outside. I can tell you that our waitress is left-handed and the guy sitting up at the counter weighs two hundred pounds... I know that I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking"
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Our new motor is revolutionary. Up to 6000 revolutions in a minute, that's how revolutionary it is. Just think about how much power you could have with 6000 revolutions
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“ You riff with reality, and sometimes reality riffs back.
Anxiety about AI writing and art works on this same axis. We invest in reading a work because the writer has paid the upfront cost of writing it. AI writing has the same shape as a con - the person didn't invest their own effort into it, and we don't want to get "got".
In YCSE, Holmes defines lying as intentionally saying things that are untrue. This is a common definition, but I think our fear of "being lied to" works on something different entirely.
Our fear isn't believing an untrue thing, it's *getting more invested than someone else*
one thing i find fascinating upon rewatching YCSE is that it's entirely plausible that Holmes doesn't explicitly *lie* about a single thing in the film.
in the beach patio scene, when Nathan grills her on whether she's ever lied, she defines lying as "intentionally saying something that is untrue."
paired with the linguistic sleight of hand she stands by wrt the "this device CAN...", her (ostensible) confusion around the "Who's on first" bit, and her (alleged) ignorance of the Billy/A24 deal... it's not out of the realm of possibility to say that she's carefully constructed her reality (and/or memory; assuming she has lingering trauma) to only include True information that supports her narrative/case
the rest is up to Billy and whoever the fuck else wants to pick up the pieces, and you can see her lean on Billy to (messily) defend her, continually keeping her hands clean. she slips through the interrogations like sand
Good fiction is playing pretend, fully invested. Liars and con artists are *pretending to pretend*. We *want* to believe in fiction. What we are afraid of is looking silly when someone says, "Gotcha!"