The Clinamenic Co-Living Diary

[sus]

Can I come for a week and sleep on a couch as a visiting scholar

 

[sus]

I will put on a presentation on a topic of their choosing

 

[Clinamenic]

Can I come for a week and sleep on a couch as a visiting scholar

Normally they do a minimum of 1-month bookings, but I can ask.

 

[Clinamenic]

I will put on a presentation on a topic of their choosing

Only if you dress up like Caroline Polachek.

 

[sus]

Personal details rarely seem to interest me, which I think is part of why I've been having trouble writing fiction for the last several years.

I can empathize because I am a recovering generalist as @mvuent can attest. But life always exists in the details.

It is like distillation people think when you compress or distill something what you want is what's left behind. And the water you've evaporated is useless.

But if you distill salt water, say, you are precisely removing the living thing and leaving an inert rock. The receiving vessel of the alembic contains life. And the originary vessel is dead. That's what distilling everyday life to generalities does

 

[sus]

Normally they do a minimum of 1-month bookings, but I can ask.

Yes ask say I am a very distinguished scholar. An originating post rationalist and a publisher of Sarah Perry and Gwern. An author of several books, including an auto theory of the incel and a philosophical investigation of AI alignment as an ecological principle.

 

[sus]

The editor at the Cleveland Review of Books called me a genius and it wasn't just because he was hammered. He wanted to shake my hand. He wanted to fly me to the Cleveland zoo to write about it

 

[Clinamenic]

I'll also tell them you have a "massive old timey anthropological/medical diagram of pressure points and zones of intensities on the back of a Haitian field worker" I think that will go over very well.

 

[Clinamenic]

Only if you dress up like Caroline Polachek.

I wanna see sus show up in a ghillie pinafore and give an ethnographic presentation about incels.

 

[Clinamenic]

A 'ghillafore'

 

[Clinamenic]

You are doing exactly what I didn't want, which is brag and drop some proper nouns. While providing absolutely nothing that I could ever write about

Oh well here is something you may like. At these meetups, which regularly consist of people who haven't met each other in person and may not know what everyone looks like, rubber ducks are brought and placed on the tables where we are sitting, as a sort of code saying, "Yes, this table is for This Part of Twitter."

 

[sus]

Thank the Lord my efforts have irritated one Pearl, one luminous detail

 

[sus]

What did Weinstein talk about?

 

[Clinamenic]

What did Weinstein talk about?

I only overheard some of their conversations when he was here the previous day, when I didn't recognize who he was. Thought he was someone's intelligent dad or something. Anyway they talked a bit about AI alignment and safety and about utopianism and existential risk.

 

[Clinamenic]

He also talked a bit about Watson and Crick, and probably more about bioengineering and whatnot.

 

[Clinamenic]

Just rode in a self-driving car through San Francisco's homeless epicenter.

 

[luka]

throwing low denomination dollar bills out the window, giggling in a shrill lunatic fashion

 

[sus]

Just rode in a self-driving car through San Francisco's homeless epicenter.

Cosmopolis

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Just rode in a self-driving car through San Francisco's homeless epicenter, mouthing 'learn to code' at its feckless denizens. Love to do outreach.

 

[Clinamenic]

This is happening this weekend in Santa Cruz, but alas it seems like too much a hike to get to: