Notices by mandlebro (mandlebro@qoto.org)

@sun If I remember correctly Nietzsche distinguished between pity and sympathy. Sympathy is the desire to help others while pity is pain you feel at someone else's wretchedness. So pity is not compassionate, it is actually a self centered and base emotion in his view. He is not against helping or caring for others. He says things like "Everyone should give to the poor but beggars should be abolished" because giving out of compassion is a higher act while giving to ease the pain you feel at a beggars wretchedness is abase act.

@LukeAlmighty @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @Kerosene > doesn't know the difference between an infinite sum and the analytic continuation of the Reimann Zeta function

@augustus What a grand and intoxicating autism!

@augustus Its like its about European music or something

@augustus I just re-listened to it and to me, it does not feel like it works as a three movement piece for a similar reason. Ending on a slow emotive movement like that leaves a sense of qn unresolved emotional state that asks for a conclusion, but the conclusion he chose colors the whole sonata. If you interpret it as a peice about death, than the the third movement has a sense of melancholy acceptance to it. The last movement undos this and leaves you with a sense of anxiety and dread. It feels like a death rattle to me. Like you know what's coming and you can't do anything about it and can't quite come to terms with it even though your trying. Really unusual and specific emotional color thats definitely not an obligatory bookend the way some of Beethovens early last movement feel.

@augustus Never. We may someday be able to accurately reproduce his style in new pieces, (as a well trained and talented composer probably could now), but Chopin was an artist that continually evolved throughout his lifetime. True new Chopin would be a continuation of that evolution. However, without the pressures of the human experiences that made him evolve the way he did as an artist, I can't see how that evolution could be continued. Why would an AI trained on earlier Chopin write something as shocking as the scherzo at the end of the b flat sonata? It would have no reason for that statement, while Chopin did because of what he was going through in his life.

@augustus Different mountain in krakorum. Its name is Baintha Brakk

@augustus Have you heard of the summit of Ogre I? It was only first submitted in 77 and it is one of the most insane accounts of human preserverance I have ever heard. On of the climbers had to descend the entire mountain with broken legs.