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Wakes up. Checks Twitter. . . . Uh... . . . 📈 Lookups fo... . . . Regrets checking Twitter. Goes back to bed.
June 2017
@fortelabs @airtable My community of practice tried using it last summer to connect our various models, principles, practices, and incidents. 1/
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Anyone used @Airtable for anything personal-knowledge-management-related?
@fortelabs @airtable It was quite promising, despite some limitations on eg recursion (it couldn't do two-way-linking between elements of the same type)
@fortelabs @airtable We then later tried adapting it to use for organizing our vast amount of recorded conversations, but cost of upkeep was too high.
@fortelabs @airtable I think that maybe if we'd gotten a @zapier set up with google drive... maybe? Might also be solveable with a different personal workflow
@fortelabs @airtable @zapier I'd be game to show you around what we had, via video-chat + screenshare, now or at some other point. We're always interested in systems++
@fortelabs @airtable @zapier Storing files in GDrive, so several steps needed before an entry even existed... different people doing uploads, hard to standardize wflow
@fortelabs @airtable @zapier We're also in a fascinating place Throughput-of-Learning-wise. So we might be able to make it work now in a way we couldn't last year.
@fortelabs 1/ ie serious attempts to get everyone on the same page with any given workflow turned into even more serious attempts to
@fortelabs 2/ get everyone on the same page about what getting on the same page is.
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@Malcolm_Ocean ah yes. I'm more convinced than ever that knowledge mgmt is about routines, habits, culture, not the features…
My first thought was "how much would it take to buy out whatever is making you too busy to write?" Not bidding, but serious question.
Overhauling my twitter so I can actually have conversations on it without getting lost in weird corners. I have a LOT of shit to unfollow.
Okay, & a lot of not-shit. Also just ppl talking about things I dont want to have conversations about. Which includes most of politics atm 😐
I am pretty 👌🏼with most of my past self's decisions, but starting to seriously wonder about my follow heuristics over the past 8 years...
Also damn, twitter's decisions the past 3 years. Do they think they're facebook? Stop showing me ppl's likes and show me their tweets.
@amelapay Turning 💡→words such that there exist ppl who: A) can turn those words→💡 in their own heads B) haven't already had those 💡 💡= understanding
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Did the productivity intervention work or did the mindset that caused you to try it work? It's probably the latter.
@kaleidic Yeah, like it or not, we ain't in modernity anymore, and so whatever model you're using needs to work with that. Have you read @Meaningness?
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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” — Annie Dillard
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This is often overlooked. People who make a lot of money by "chance" are way more likely to invest in other weirdos. It u…
@GretchenAMcC A gonzo journalism version of xkcd's "My Hobby" series
"The future's already here, it's not just evenly distributed" ↳ speculative writing is easy now: just move to the future (paraphrasing @vgr)
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Random thought: why do we tweet? It's kind of strange if you think about it from a further degree of remove.
@freeshreeda @sarahdoingthing fracture into factors and refactor into refractures (+looping in @SarahAMcManus)
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@Malcolm_Ocean @freeshreeda @sarahdoingthing Aw, I love being looped in as a strange loop refractor!
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Eye-opening: How the public hears #science. Know your audience! #wileyEs2017 @theAGU @nedasays
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If these are all we ever get out of computer vision research, I think I'm OK with that....
@chenoehart @nickarner Wow, Memphis architecture is *awesome*. Just looked it up.
@chenoehart @nickarner Huh, interesting. It seems to me that modernism & postmodernism aside, the leftmost-middle-row has a bunch of things in common with the rest
@chenoehart @nickarner ......huh.
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Then: no point learning things you can just google Now: no point learning things you can deep learn Breadth: ❌ Depth: ❌ Rhizome:…
@vgr The Intertwingularity Is Near
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slowly morphing every word in a sentence to the word "humming" using phonetic similarity embeddings...
Replying to @Learn_Things
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The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of attention which it can use for something else
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@fnedrik I think writing on the internet just means assuming that for any given reference, lots of people will get it and l…
@vgr I'm more worried about the word than the last name.
.@tiredofmydayjob Want to interview me? My story's been profiled at indiehackers.com/businesses/com… but I imagine you'd have a different take!
@alex_guzey re: 1... I was thinking "wouldn't UBI allow people to do more meaningful work?" ...but then that seems more like point 3, in some ways
@JJC1138 I cover my skin w/ cold water then stand in front of a fan for a few mins to cool. Then more water on my front before I lay atop sheets.
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every conversation people have over and over is at the wrong level of abstraction
Thread · Schmidhuber on compression, surprise, and why fractals feel beautiful
1/ Reading Schmidhuber's paper on Compression, Interestingness, Beauty, as part of homework for ribbonfarm course arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360
2/ My community of practice has lately been stoked about "post-surprise", as in "get over being surprised when you know better" => relevant.
3/ To the extent that you're surprise-able when you could-not-be, you're not compressing things well. Thus probably attached to some frame.
4/ DbCP also making me wonder if the awesomeness of fractals is ability to be totally novel yet instantly predictable via self-similarity
5/ Yet also not totally predictable. So there's a kind of figure-ground perceptual oscillation between novelty and predictability.
6/ Technically a spiral is a fractal, but it doesn't mind-blow b/c it's 100% predictable. But I guess Sierpinski, Koch, ferns... hm.
Sometime people ask me if I'm joking or serious, or kind of 50/50. I like to aim for simultaneously being mostly-joking and mostly-serious.
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@sarahdoingthing clown, soaked in gasoline, jumping into a burning helicopter.
"don't tell me definitions—tell me meanings" (quoth @sarahdoingthing's friend)
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@sarahdoingthing @DoTheWeirdStuff Hopefully your husband is also your friend ;) (Btw I initially read the name as Andrew Bresee, who *is* a friend of mine, and I was like 😮)
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slide from tonight's class - when to write
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the magic of longform essays (compared to books) is that you can write the thing while it's still interesting
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@sarahdoingthing this same phenomenon is why mentorship from someone just a little ahead of you on the path can be way better than from an "expert".
Speaking of which, huge shoutout to @dreev & @bmndr for mentoring me and @CompliceGoals in exactly this fashion!
will be of interest to those who like #lojban #malglico
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@sarahdoingthing I think @harmchop interviewed some experts and tried to figure out what they're actually doing (vs what they think they're doing)
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it's weird how twitter used to be the place I'd rush to when there was news, and now I shut it off immediately because all ta…
@ctbeiser Yeah, I've been dramatically overhauling who in following so that instead of random news it's people I want to have conversations with.
Ontologically speaking, is googling something to cause yourself to know something you don't know, an act of "asking"? (asking for a friend)
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1/ Blockchains will replace networks with markets.
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Disproving an intellectual system has little effect unless you open a portal to a more exciting alternative …
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My griping re eternalistic rationalism & nihilistic pomo anti-rationalism will go nowhere until the meta-rational alternat…
@sarthakgh @TaylorPearsonMe @sacca @tferriss @GeorgetownLaw The ♪ Room Where It Happens ♫ ...that's accessible to everyone
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27/ It’s also a useful diagnostic. If you’re unhappy about something, you’re probably in the wrong room.
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26/ If you want better relationships, figure out how to get in the room with people who have good relationships.
@ctrlcreep I went through a phase where I heard the phrase "7 billion people" in justin bieber's voice. This struck me fnord as dangerous.
@kaleidic @JamesGRickards @Ruano13Cesar Moreover, the fact that everyone has to pay dollars, as taxes if not bills. Fiat money given value by governments accepting it for tax.
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Why the world needs Blockchain/DLT, explained with a bar of chocolate. medium.com/@surematics/wh… @melonport @radixdlt @coinSl…
Delightful! Just backed you on Patreon :)
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On Impressionist Writing or: how to wordsmith like a blacksmith (by yours truly) thirtywestph.com/column/2017/5/…
@vgr SOOOO called this: "The smartphone, which I understand conceptually these days via a pacifier metaphor" (from ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/09/wel…) twitter.com/dehowell/statu…
This site allows importing from kindle hightlights! Structured serendipity :) Thought it might interest @fortelabs & @TaylorPearsonMe
@chenoehart I already knew @dreev a bit from having given him extensive feedback on @bmndr. So I kind of just reached out to him!
Tired: Management by Objectives Wired: ______________________
@chenoehart @dreev @bmndr Yeah! And now we have all sorts of cross-promotions too! eg blog.beeminder.com/complice/
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2/ a) No need to hide that we all like and want to make money b) I genuinely hope we will move to a more decentralised we…
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the density of insight in it is absolutely absurd: these are the highlights from the first chapter. I would suggest to just…
@chenoehart @spacetimebldg Sounds like a great idea! In addition to weekly checkins you might get value from setting up a coworking room on complice.co/features#rooms
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Something I want to either start or join if it exists: weekly online group holding ea. other accountable for progressing w…
@ciphergoth @chenoehart I'd be interested in hearing any useful generalizations on what makes that work (might help improve complice accountability partner feature)
@cstross I like it because it lets me do awkward+hilarious ~Freudian slips and then assert that it literally wasn't me. = new kind of humor.
@ciphergoth @chenoehart Haha yeah I haven't run the stats but I suspect almost all Complice users who successfully do their weekly review are beeminding it :P
@chenoehart @spacetimebldg Well there's no audio, so it's sort of just like working in a coffeeshop w/ friends, except w/ structured work/break times & task visibility
current thing I am attempting to do: turn last chapter of BCP into something that makes sense without having read the first 17 chapters.
(tweeted that verbatim from my captain's log. BCP= Behavior: The Control of Perception, ie this awesome book on PCT amazon.com/Behavior-Perce…)
Transcended any good dualities lately?
Been hanging out with @vgr, now my whiteboards are all like
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There's a very important operation "stop trying to determine X and start trying to determine what you were doing by tryin…
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@1000wordvomits 9. Boredom is a bug of the mind (usually tired mind seeking hyperoptimal solution in cluttered space with unc…
@Mikel_Jollett @EvanBThomas My facebook has lots of #xrisk conversations too, but yeah, this is part of why I came back to twitter, for real.
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I don't always exhale, but when I do... 🎶 twitter.com/alyshabrilla/s…
Does anybody else get the feeling that they're timesharing their own mind with their past & future selves?
@mfeathers @kaleidic Was really hoping he was going to be playing Free Fallin'
@garybasin Fascinating, eh? I posted about this to fb & people questioned the studies tho :-/ Anyway, extensive discussion here facebook.com/malcolmocean/p…
I initially thought this was an Unsong chapter summary. unsongbook.com
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@literalbanana my twitter feed is perfect @Malcolm_Ocean
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This is a way bigger deal than people think. The ability to see content without installing extra stuff is core to why the…
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Analytically superb piece by Scott Alexander: slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/aga… HT @sanctusmaximus (Prescriptions seem conspicuousl…
@StefanoZorzi To be sure I understand: you managed your money in units of thousands of dollars instead of dollars?
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@vgr worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%2… TL;DR: Three types of thinking: stories, logic, and system dynamics. Most people can only h…
@StefanoZorzi Relatedly, if trying to imagine being 10x, 100x, 1000x richer, instead of "what to do with all that money?" imagine everything 100x cheaper
@StefanoZorzi (Notably, this involves a shift from additive thinking to multiplicative thinking, which is key for thinking sanely about money)
@Evolving_Ego @vgr Thanks! It's my attempts to distill some insights that are coming out of grokking Perceptual Control Theory :)
@Evolving_Ego @vgr How does politics fit in? My sense is modern politics is way on the "escalate conflicts" side of this diagram. The sides play tug of war.
@Evolving_Ego @vgr Hm, maybe. Could be an issue with axes. In general, attempts to move → on this diagram also cause movement ↓, and it's hard to go ↑ w/o ←
@Evolving_Ego @vgr ie increasing integration makes it harder to have clear purpose, and becoming more purpose-driven makes conflict more present &/ apparent.
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Node-edge duality: In orgs, roles have titles. In networks, relationships do. The equivalent of "entry-level internship" is "bozob…
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Updating your philosophical convictions based on evidence, #6
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I'm beginning to realize that authors invent characters because it's a way to keep talking without coming across as endlessly…
I find it's the digesting of pride that's really the challenge. Requires some enzymes that not many stomachs have.
@visakanv I recommend becoming a weird multicolored sun.
@ctrlcreep The black hole would have to be some dense to reject me! ;D
The things you don't want to do because you (feel you) have to, but would love to choose to do if it really felt like a choice.
@chenoehart Yeah, it's a big concern: firstness means huge chance of arms race. People worried about xrisk are worried about it: futureoflife.org/open-letter-au…
@patio11 Yeah people ask me why @CompliceGoals doesn't have a free version and I'm like "because then I'd spend so much time on people spending $0"
Replying to @sehurlburt
@sehurlburt @mel_reams @patio11 Tons of stories on @csallen's @indiehackers. My interview with IH is here: indiehackers.com/businesses/com…
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@nice_byte @sehurlburt That's definitely one factor! Interesting question how much is normalization versus people being able to help each other up afterwards.
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@Malcolm_Ocean I propose "hubrase" as a name for a pride-digesting enzyme!
@mel_reams @patio11 @sehurlburt Totally. I think even better is more case-studies-written-while-executing, like @fortelabs describes here:
@emareaf Ahh. Fair: I haven't really been focused on pride enzymes... have been doing extensive development of enzymes for fear, shame, blame, etc...
@cstross @HumonComics You might wanna make a comic out of this one :P
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"Weekend or weekday, there is no difference to me. Nobody counts my hours.” - @therealsager bit.ly/2ss3qCp
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The ruling class is actually toxoplasmosis gondii twitter.com/countermoonbat…
Mgmt by Objections wins, but Mgmt by Objectivism was a close second. Not sure if that indicates I have Randian followers or...
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors OR borrow it from our children; we rent it from our NIMBYs
@rozturner32 I'm unfollowing you because your entire feed is updates about your follower count. Just fyi.
...man, terminology is so bloopy.
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When Amazon enters your market twitter.com/YoufeckingIdio…
welcome to "the medium is a mess" age
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Freedom is arguably freedom to go deep: into rabbitholes, relationships, missions, w/o regard to cost, reward, time, productivity,…
@_bravely Hm. Can you take a screenshot?
Replying to @lovecrypt
@0xa59a2d 😮 My creditcard bill once had same last 5digits as bank balance, leaving me w/ exactly $X,000.00 after paying it. This is even less likely!
How is it possible for me to hold my arms out like a T and stretch hands away from me, if my muscles can only contract? What mech wizardry?
@vgr Made an account but haven't gotten to actually writing for it. A bit chicken-and-egg because I don't feel like I know the audience there.
I don't manage this and I work alone! ...probably because I don't have enough documentation.
Replying to @jtth
@jtth Conceptually I know that must be the case, but I still don't quite understand the mechanics of it. Or the mechs of how I can extend my neck.
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Complicated thoughts on this metaphor; should probably write them up. Broadly speaking they're more similar than you'd think.…
@nick_kapur ICYMI @GretchenAMcC
@chenoehart Defs −correlated in general. My efforts over the last few years have been focused on creating both, and I have to say it was very worth it.
=@fortelabs' SSSBDAMW course "Building a Second Brain", except for spiders+webs instead of humans+evernote. quantamagazine.org/the-thoughts-o…
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Happy Tau Day, 6/28! I brought 2 π to work, to celebrate τ! @tauday
Replying to @GKhuyen
@GKhuyen @vgr ~=explore/exploit. Though I'm trying to point at a different set of dimensions where you can actually max out both at once.
@GKhuyen @vgr This blog post (which I'm guessing you saw) goes in more detail about the dimensions and the magical top-right quad: malcolmocean.com/2017/06/toward…
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User logic
@fortelabs Reminds me of when I remarked as a teen "learning breakdancing from a video is hard because the video doesn't know how to breakdance either"
@chenoehart @CompliceGoals provides plenty of $ to live on & doesn't need more 3 h/week of my time. Most weeks I work more than that, to scale & learn
@chenoehart @CompliceGoals @ extreme end of the thing I'm doing is @tferriss; he hires ppl to do his email so he has more free time to leverage his $ & relationships.
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Man, I'm old enough to remember when all MTV did was produce fantastic longform articles from diverse, dynamic writers.
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Help I'm 27 years old and I don't know what things are
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Understanding is a continuous fabric, like the quantum field. Cutting it into blog posts does violence, like pretending el…
@Meaningness This might be your issue, @visakanv, re:
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Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of http://t.…
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They're back—this time with bonnets and separate bells
Complaint: I can't play YouTube videos while listening to music on @GooglePlayMusic, even though #YouTubeRed isn't supported in Canada -_-
Replying to @EvanBThomas
@EvanBThomas This is how my blogging process feels like too (which is part of what I was hoping the ribbonfarm course would help with)
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Looking for users to test a new UI for the outcomes submission process :D Get a sneak-peek at the future of daily goal…
@EvanBThomas Seems the ribbonfarm course helped a bit, but I'm now thinking I need to join @fortelabs' SSSBDAMW course "Building a Second Brain"
Replying to @GKhuyen
@GKhuyen @vgr This is another cool 2×2, though again, it seems to be gesturing at balance, as opposed to a thing to be optimized.
Awaken. Orient. Launch. Catalyze. Burn. Digest. (↳ daily)
Replying to @basche42
@basche42 Seriously. I'm so looking forward to being able to use my whole room as a digital workspace. Arranging my thoughts in midair. Can't wait.
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Where does the energy you feel when the beat drops come from?
@fortelabs Surrogate heartbeat.
Replying to @sehurlburt
@sehurlburt People who think parallels here crazy probably mistakenly think there's a fundamental difference between business rships & romantic rships.
@sehurlburt I wrote a blog post last year modelling how awkwardness functions much the same way in both contexts: malcolmocean.com/2016/09/awkwar…
@fortelabs Hmm. Where does the energy you feel* when something funny happens come from? *(released in the form of laughter, not dancing)
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Please send me your favorite diagrams made by crazy people- I'm making a collection (cc @GENICON, @sarahdoingthing) htt…
@andrewvle The karmic-balance enforcers have gotten more aggressive, it seems.
What do particle physicists and clinical psychologists have in common? Both spend their careers trying to figure out "What's the matter?"
@fortelabs 5a: Constant tradeoff between process-level throughput vs object-level throughput.
@fortelabs 5b: OL throughput necessary for good feedback ∴ necessary for improvement, and also scary if fear of failure or if goals are conflicted
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5/ It strikes me as a giant, self-reinforcing structure designed to justify not taking action, not producing, not finding re…
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@Malcolm_Ocean And both make a LOT more money if the Matter is dark.
@fortelabs 5c: Also Gall's Law: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."
@fortelabs 5d: So no perfect system ex nihilo. @fortelabs would do better job making a killer system than a theorizer w/o experience w/ kludgy systems
@fortelabs Yeah. eg I asked @Meaningness about site tech (hover-glossary) & he said he had to keep from tweaking it (PL) instead of writing (OL)
@Meaningness @fortelabs The other option is to actually form an OL project around the system. eg my livelihood comes from complice.co, which I also use.
@Meaningness @fortelabs Another ex: my community of practice, where our *main* focus is improving our ability to collaborate & upgrading our collective intelligence
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@Malcolm_Ocean @fortelabs Chicken & egg: are there so few hypertext books because no tools to create them, or are there no…
@Meaningness @fortelabs Good question! Seems worth doing a bit of market research on; poll the ribbonfarm colony, your readers, etc. I'll ask my facebook friends!
@Meaningness @fortelabs So we still aim towards having output on the levels below this, but we err on the side of going meta or reflecting on our process.
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Aw, we *are* kinda adorable:
*So* much better than autonomous weapons race. Competition (incl war) fuels innovation, but insure fx of competition don't cancel out.
datapoint: I didn't read the LW Sequences in full until they were converted into the R:A-Z ebook. Almost got stuck similarly w/ meaningness
but I recognized that it was THE THING I needed to read at my stage so I just buckled down and went through the posts in order.
I'm recognizing that part of the issue with hypertext books like @Meaningness is simply keeping track of what you've read. ➔ one tool idea💡
@Meaningness I think this is in part due to the satisfaction of completing a goal, as described in its glory & danger here: facebook.com/spencer.greenb…
@Meaningness But it seems that this desire for completeness (of reading a book, say) is probably an eternalistic fallacy in the first place.
This is an epic tweetstorm. I've also read the paper he's talking about, and it's indeed super profound.
Not to detract from main point, but the chief value of taking friction/drag WAY down is going faster: drag is proportional to velocity²
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So... which one of you is the generative network and which one is the discriminative network?
@Meaningness @fortelabs Here's the facebook thread. Mixed results so far, but interesting discussion: facebook.com/malcolmocean/p…