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evening out
May. 4th, 2004 03:46 amWhile I was originally going to decline, so's I could get to bed early (silly idea, that), I opted to take Garrett ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lomonthang and Lloyd up on their midnight invitation to Go Hang Out.
We ended up heading to Village Inn, where we discussed all manner of stuff... and tonight, we brought up:
- How Village Inn should serve Large Ungulates. We imagined a scene in which the waitress overhead the phrase "large ungulate" (we'd been discussing dinosaurs and how some of them swallowed rocks for digestive purposes, and how maybe some ruminants do that too) and then leading a live zebra to the table... "A zebra's an ungulate, yeah?"
- Why dinosaurs are insulting
- Fleeting moments of glory in which people get to live out their fantasies of being Tom Jones
- Necessary beings and an eternal idea of goodness, and little chunks of theology in which God is considered to have a higher goodness value because He didn't create the Goodness Function; it's co-eternal with him... (which seems like a terribly strange idea to me, and I'm probably not cogent enough to communicate this idea right now, er... nor is my background in philosophy strong enough)
- A sudden intellectual connection in my head, linking a Nietzschean "all values are human values and I have sufficient pride and strength to choose or perhaps modify my own" outlook and Minsky's idea of a two-'n'-a-half-level metareasoning system. It made sense at the time, but also, this idea occurred to me at some time around 0300 hours.
- How Everything Can Be Known Through Suitable Application of Statistical Methods, including Eternal Truths And Stuff
- The Denver nuggets, and how, while they don't sound like a terribly threatening basketball team (just wrt their name -- we don't actually know anything about basketball), they're very likely at least as attractive as The Laker Girls. This will be known through a Random Telephone Survey in which survey-ees are asked to state the first thing that pops into their heads. The most common response shall be "The Denver Nuggets are at least as attractive as The Laker Girls".
- Lots of dream analysis and all sorts of thinly-veiled Freudian symbols we've found in recent dreams.
lomonthang and Lloyd up on their midnight invitation to Go Hang Out.We ended up heading to Village Inn, where we discussed all manner of stuff... and tonight, we brought up:
- How Village Inn should serve Large Ungulates. We imagined a scene in which the waitress overhead the phrase "large ungulate" (we'd been discussing dinosaurs and how some of them swallowed rocks for digestive purposes, and how maybe some ruminants do that too) and then leading a live zebra to the table... "A zebra's an ungulate, yeah?"
- Why dinosaurs are insulting
- Fleeting moments of glory in which people get to live out their fantasies of being Tom Jones
- Necessary beings and an eternal idea of goodness, and little chunks of theology in which God is considered to have a higher goodness value because He didn't create the Goodness Function; it's co-eternal with him... (which seems like a terribly strange idea to me, and I'm probably not cogent enough to communicate this idea right now, er... nor is my background in philosophy strong enough)
- A sudden intellectual connection in my head, linking a Nietzschean "all values are human values and I have sufficient pride and strength to choose or perhaps modify my own" outlook and Minsky's idea of a two-'n'-a-half-level metareasoning system. It made sense at the time, but also, this idea occurred to me at some time around 0300 hours.
- How Everything Can Be Known Through Suitable Application of Statistical Methods, including Eternal Truths And Stuff
- The Denver nuggets, and how, while they don't sound like a terribly threatening basketball team (just wrt their name -- we don't actually know anything about basketball), they're very likely at least as attractive as The Laker Girls. This will be known through a Random Telephone Survey in which survey-ees are asked to state the first thing that pops into their heads. The most common response shall be "The Denver Nuggets are at least as attractive as The Laker Girls".
- Lots of dream analysis and all sorts of thinly-veiled Freudian symbols we've found in recent dreams.
