James Marriott @j_amesmarriott
James Marriott @j_amesmarriott · 8h
Wittgenstein's (incredibly typical) response to a university friend taking him for a cheerful afternoon out to watch a boat race:
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"he suddenly stood still and explained that the way we had spent the afternoon was so vile that we ought not to live, or at least he ought not, that nothing is tolerable except producing great works or enjoying those of others, that he has accomplished nothing and never will, etc. – all this with a force that nearly knocks one down. He makes me..." [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A literary/philosophy anecdote about Wittgenstein's intensity and self-criticism, unrelated to AI directly — general intellectual-history reading material, no clear connection to the project's core threads.