Justin Murphy

@being_on_line @GrayAreaorg ruby are you coming to Austin?

on new aesthetics saturday 5PM at Gray Area @GrayAreaorg RSVP below!

@mr_scientism interesting idea which I intuitively agree with, I would also note that almost nobody thinks this

The social sciences are by far the most prestigious and influential discipline in the modern world, far more so than the natural sciences. Since at least Mill we‘ve understood the natural sciences in terms of the social sciences, not vice versa.

@januszamunra @DisgracedProp Thanks

@jmrphy @DisgracedProp I really like your writing.

I liked this a lot. Longform culture writing seems to be having a moment. every week or two a long form analytical piece from some anti woke indie online magazine becomes a hit. Jacob Savage’s “Lost Generation,” Helen Andrews “The Great Feminization” Sometimes it’s Yarvin, etc

@DisgracedProp Definitely. It just feels like the jealous hateful peanut gallery has either grown in size or intensified in a palpable way. Or it's an algorithmic function.

@jmrphy This happens every time. It’s just jealousy from the dorks. I’ve never seen more pathetic jealousy than after Jacob’s piece got RTd by Vance

@lfschiavo This is great

My “I don’t have LLM psychosis" hoodie has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my hoodie.

@brunellaism Many of the greatest writers throughout history hacked it in unique and strange ways, what they had in common was just that they were seriously committed and entrepreneurial... It's never been easy but we have it easier than any of the 6 I study. scholar.otherlife.co

@g_shullenberger Well you've thought it about more deeply than I have, I'll give you that. ;-)

He didn't say "introspection was a novel thing 400 years ago"—he said it wouldn't have occurred to anyone to do it at all, and that it was invented by Freud to make people feel bad in 1920. You're defending another, more plausible version of his claim that you made up, not what he actually said. It's true that in one interpretation of Hamlet, encouraged by the "to be or not to be" soliloquy, introspection is regarded as at odds with action, although that's actually a lively topic of debate within Shakespeare scholarship (discussed, in fact, in Freud's analysis of the play, where Freud claims it is not excessive introspection that is the core issue!). Milton's Satan ("The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n") is maybe the opposite sort of figure to how Hamlet is perceived: a creature of immense introspective depth who is also a "man of action" who literally tries to overthrow God, and thereby becomes the key point of reference for all of Romanticism, a literary movement closely associated with interiority and introspection but also with the figure of the "Great Man." I could go on and on about how astoundingly bad a take this was, but I'll leave it there.

In Marc’s defense one could say that these works testify to the novelty and problems of the new modern self-consciousness or introspection, i.e. Hamlet is precisely not the stable successful man of his time! And largely bc of his self-consciousness. I don’t see a debunking here.

@jack_gk welcome

Ok that settles it, I'm moving to Austin. Three days at SXSW and I've already made up my mind. This city is the most concentrated collection of builders and innovators I've ever been around. Everyone wants to connect. Everyone wants to help. Started Saturday worried we had no guests lined up. Sat down for breakfast next to Roy, founder of Connectd. Podcast rolling an hour later. Then a message from Steve Starrobinsky, head of partnerships at Pudgy Penguins, confirming a 5:30 slot. Serendipity, thy name is Austin, Texas. I've barely scratched the surface and I already know. This is home.

@thetripathi58 @LapsusLima look at this

@ChristianTalour yep

@jmrphy I like this take. Perhaps by "human" you mean fallen-human, because we'll be changed into something new in the twinkling of an eye, changed into something like what Jesus was after his glorification.

p(doom) = 0 p(sim) = 0 “Nothing human makes it out of the future” is the good news. It will be awful for the City of Man, and exhilarating for the City of God. This is Catholic accelerationism. This is my viewpoint.

@DanielSacilott6 It’s just one tweet my brother, hardly cosplaying at anything.

@jmrphy I like you, Justin, but cosplaying as Land is a bit cringeworthy. You just don't have that writing style in you, and it comes across as forced and silly.

@urbit I’m still open minded just asking hard questions!

If you think the ball of mud is not a problem, you haven't been paying attention.

@thekinocorner This is the way. Good man. Do the work that matters.

My looksmaxxing script will be the third script I write in a year. Stepping away from YouTube to focus fully on screenwriting has given me so much more creative energy. Also nicotine and caffeine addiction.

Much of human history is going to be overturned. Run your favorite non-fiction book through Grok Heavy or GPT-5 Pro and ask for a fact-check. Humans are absurd to assume that in the human-AI relationship they are the judge and not the judged. Trying to detect "slop," trying to secure "alignment"... All cope for much more painful issues, which are neither abstract nor speculative.

@OctaviusOmen oh yea lol you're right, I wonder why since this show is so huge

@jmrphy There’s $500 in volume on a lot of those names. Totally illiquid.

@codegraph I mean urbit makes no sense in this light, with tailscale and AI? The big ball of mud is no longer a problem, the client-server architecture of the web is no longer a problem, what could possibly still excite about urbit? Or am I missing something?

@jmrphy urbit cells btfo

Wait Tailscale wtf? this is a thing? You’re telling me you can have a private mesh computing network in 5 minutes with all the computers in your house and no middleman? or hundreds of friends around the world? for free? Wtf