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This image is a pretty good litmus test of your probability theory: Which one of these economists inspires you with sympathy and ambition, and which one inspires you with revulsion and disgust?

The best thing about getting into CS Peirce is that you start recognizing other Peirceans because we all start making batshit meta-symbols like this:

Some Samsung exec in the smartfridge division worked 100-hour weeks trying to "do something with AI" and ended up with this.

“For what is the highly touted reason with its omnipotence, infallibility, effusiveness, certainty, and evidence? An Ens rationis , an **oil god,** to which a shrill superstition of irrationality imputes divine attributes.”

The oil god modernity manifested:

You need to be security-through-obscurity-maxxing. You need to be imperceptible in the dark forest. Your actions need to be chaotic and self-ironizing. You need to turn your sensuous characteristics and behaviors into an interpretive trap for those who would seek to pattern your moves. You need to be planting false leads and heuristic traps. Your propinquities need to be delusional and holographic. James Jesus Angleton-core. A knife in the dark. A wilderness of mirrors. You need to be anti-telic

So to recap:

1stness = vibez

2ndness = leo_pointing_meme.jpeg

3rdness = pointing_spiderman.png

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Society if Harvard hadn't actively discriminated against both CS Peirce and Norbert Wiener in the early 20th century:

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