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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

this can be almost offensive to thinky mcthoughtbois but I do think it’s straightforwardly true that past a certain minimum threshold of idea/audience fit, you have to solve for aesthetic resonance

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

here people get divided depending on the metaphors they think with: do you see aesthetics as stemming from ideas, rooted in ideas, intertwined with ideas, or separate from ideas entirely

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

wait stemming and rooted are both the same plant metaphor lol there are a bunch of other metaphors too for sure but I haven’t had my coffee yet so idk

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv Can we go deeper?https://t.co/YPmeziwt30

UltimApe@ultimape• over 3 years ago

Synosia. from "Aesthetic Cognition" "I argue that aesthetic sensibility is the basis for what scientists often call intuition, and that intuition in turn embodies (in a literal physiological sense) ways of thinking that have their own meta-logic."https://t.co/i6cuWjalyY https://t.co/aa8xpA8dVT

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4/25/2022

QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv been having similar thoughts! https://t.co/cnJiMbqpQm

QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

so "shadow work" is another example of a concept with a frustrating marketing problem like "self-love", where in theory it refers to a broad universal phenomenon but the specific words suggest a much more specific aesthetic https://t.co/cww3lT1AXj

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan yea in a way Introspect is a self-help book about self-love that takes quite an elaborate journey to avoid using those two phrases

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv "introspect" does have quite a different vibe from "learning to love yourself" or similar eh

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan yea i dont wanna make any implicit promises in the title beyond "let's look under the hood and see what's up"

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px@peakexperiments• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv Oh yes, rhetoric is real and "people just don't want to hear truth" is cope. Truth lovers have to git gud. Allies didn't beat Axis by sheer virtue of their superior righteousness but by force of arms.

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