@Meaningness @TaylorPearsonMe @garybasin @vgr @mistermircea @KevinSimler Speaking of braindumps, it would be awesome to get the Lost Manuscripts of Control. Any strategies for this? Looks like joeldiana.com is down as of mid-2017...
January 2018
Reply to this tweet with an article that helped you make sense of where we are in history!
@garybasin @vgr @Meaningness @TaylorPearsonMe @mistermircea @KevinSimler Probably. It's become pretty foundational to how I make sense of myself and others' behavior, and larger systems also. In addition to being relevant to your question, it's in my top five of recent mind-blower books:
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3️⃣ Let’s make fluid, meta-systematic thinking the new fashionable IQ signaling device! It's even more difficult than pomo…
Talks about an emerging new form of meaning making that is post-postmodernist. Which, man, we have needed for awhile! It uses examples from media &+ to talk about a new way of being-in-the-world that is playfully sincere, rather than just cynically ironic huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-is-…
This article talks about the history of how this is a bit of a dark ages of rational thought, starting in the 60s. It includes a hilarious quote from a student in 1969, “Mr. Greeley, I think you’re an empiricist.” Empiricism now unfashionable! theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Tagging @Meaningness, @garybasin, @ryan_nayr_, @fortelabs, @TaylorPearsonMe, @Connoropolous, @dthorson, @vgr, @sarahdoingthing, @sonyaellenmann who I expect would be interested in this thread, in addition to having possible answers to it!
@micahtredding Related: this poster on @SarahAMcManus' wall, which reads: "Futurism: Building a Fake Future in hopes that the real future will show up to mate with it."
@Meaningness @garybasin @TaylorPearsonMe @vgr @mistermircea @KevinSimler Ha, wow. I would be amused to hear Joel or Diana's account of the experience, although now that I say that I think I can basically imagine how it would go. *sigh*
To predict something, first control it. (caveats: • applies more to complex systems than simple/complicated ones • absolute control is neither necessary, nor desirable, nor possible • the predict↔control relationship isn't linear, it's a loop ) twitter.com/justchap/statu…
Replying to @ConceptualJames
@GodDoesnt You might find this article on metamodernism valuable: it talks about some cracks in the armor, through which authenticity & sincerity are returning... huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-is-…
@fortelabs @Meaningness @garybasin @ryan_nayr_ @TaylorPearsonMe @Connoropolous @dthorson @vgr @sarahdoingthing @sonyaellenmann Like @dthorson, I'm super curious about why. I'll happily accept things related to "where are we in the history of productivity?" from you 😉 (Also, if that is *also* a question you avoid thinking about, I am super fucking curious and fascinated about that.)
Replying to @wgalyean
@wgalyean Nice! I'm slowly curating my follow list to be a cluster of people that has interesting conversations about mostly-not-politics. I think I need to aggressively unfollow a bunch more people to really get there though...
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@wgalyean @ryan_nayr_ You might find this spreadsheet helpful for tracking your reading! malcolmocean.com/bookreading (I guess I need to update the template for this new year though, damn!)
@ryan_nayr_ "feel good rap"... this. I had been trying to pin down something about certain rap songs (eg a bunch of the ones from Hamilton, but also many others) that I really liked. I think this points at the thing.
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@EvanBThomas @sonyaellenmann @literalbanana @garybasin and others made a very non-woo but pretty cool unstickment deck. I have a very-intermittent relationship to Tarot, much as @sonyaellenmann described: it is helpful for providing a scaffold for organizing meaning.
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there ARE beautiful futures left to imagine—both visions, and realities. imagining a beautiful future is the closest thing to…
@ctbeiser I made this my facebook micro-bio: facebook.com/malcolmocean/p…
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@sonyaellenmann @Meaningness @garybasin @ryan_nayr_ @fortelabs @TaylorPearsonMe @Connoropolous @dthorson @vgr @sarahdoingthing That would be one lens. Another would be where we are in relation to the future, or to the past: What is true of the present that wasn't true 5, 10, 50, 100 years ago? Why? What are the implications, for society or for individuals?
@mattgoldenberg @chris_mahan I didn't invent the stages or substages, I just named the notation as such: malcolmocean.com/2014/10/subjec…
@mattgoldenberg @chris_mahan Oh, I guess this probably is the clearest online explanation of the substage structure as well, although lots of people have written about the main stages. My fav intro to those: @Meaningness' vividness.live/2015/10/12/dev…
@mattgoldenberg @chris_mahan This was my previous favorite intro. It's more of a full-on summary, including all of the stages not just the adult ones: web.archive.org/web/2014011620…
@ryan_nayr_ @Meaningness @garybasin @fortelabs @TaylorPearsonMe @Connoropolous @dthorson @vgr @sarahdoingthing @sonyaellenmann I think it's totally reasonable. His piece on the rotation of political axes, as well as the history of how meaning fell apart, have been core for me as well! meaningness.com/political-left…
@ryan_nayr_ Hamilton the musical. I'd say just listen to the whole soundtrack. It's not all rap, and not all feel-good, but it's all high-quality stuff. My Shot would probably be the best answer to your question though.
@adrien Huh, weird. That's a bug that some people have gotten. I'm pretty sure it'll be fixed by a major new update I'm pushing in the next week. Twitter is good for urgent things; if you want to increase the odds of something getting attention eventually, the in-app intercom is better
@adrien (if you're not seeing a purple (?) in the bottom right of complice, you probably have it blocked via uBlock or something)
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@fortelabs the following Bertrand Russell and Richard Feynman quotes adequately describe my worldview, in which your question…
@chris_mahan @mattgoldenberg It's impossible to gauge someone's CDT level (or any subject-object matter) from a single sentence fragment. That said, I would be quite surprised if someone who was stage 2 or stage 5 would have said what you did.
@chris_mahan @mattgoldenberg Someone who was stage 3 could say "kindness, love, and compassion are always the right thing to do." but for them it would be a kind of received wisdom, and it would be unquestionable because of the unquestionability of the authority of whereever it came from.
@chris_mahan @mattgoldenberg Someone who was stage 4 could say "kindness, love, and compassion are always the right thing to do." and this would be their own personal principle—not even a trusted authority could cause them to question it. This seems more like what you were saying ("true for me" etc)
@chris_mahan @mattgoldenberg My general read is that someone who was stage 5 would tend to phrase their principle in a more context-sensitive way, and not in terms of "right thing to do". But there are—very unfortunately—not that many stage 5 people around! So my sample size is small.
@chris_mahan @mattgoldenberg *nods* makes sense! I highly recommend meaningness.com, which has helped me a lot with making sense of the 4-5 transition. This article talks explicitly about that: meaningness.com/metablog/stem-…
@chris_mahan You're not alone in thinking that! There are a bunch of charts like these that link cultural development and personal orders of consciousness. I think they have to be taken with quite a few grains of salt, but they are interesting.
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2018 resolution: more frequently ask myself, "am I about to spend my time, or invest it?"
@adrien I guess so, yeah!
I'm continuing to dig @useintent's gentle nudges to use the internet more sanely. In particular, I like the invitation to step away from whatever distracting site I'm on. It would be great if I could customize where it sends me—in my case, to my complice.co list :)
@useintent Oh, here's another request: give me a step-away button next to the the start-timer one here:
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Just reread one of the most important and elevating psychology papers: The vast majority of people do not break under trauma…
cryocurrency
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Why are you punishing yourself? Does it even work? garybasin.com/punishing-your…
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You: Why does it take you so long to write a blog post? Me: (from this fantastic interview theguardian.com/books/2018/jan…) https://…
Replying to @wgalyean
@wgalyean Any tips on systems for doing the unfollowing? I've found manageflitter.com to be pretty good, but it's still hard.
@DRMacIver ...in the glorious carbon nanotube future...
@bahrami_ @ncasenmare have you seen this? it's like a superpowered version if your joy.js turtle!
@stickermule Any tips on sending your magnets via USPS? Canada Post didn't want to send them (at least not internationally) but this article (about.usps.com/postal-bulleti…) suggests that it's probably fine with USPS. (I don't want to waste time trying to send them if it won't work)
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@Malcolm_Ocean Nice job on the continuing enhancements to @CompliceGoals. This has been in continuous improvement. There i…
Corollary: nothing is as unimportant as you think it is when you're not thinking about it.
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@eigenrobot And then off in some totally different direction of twitter celebritydom is @SarahKSilverman (click through and read whole thread)
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fucking salute twitter.com/officialmcafee…
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Needed: a word for the expectedly unexpected. Perhaps 'nomalous', as in, "The nomalous winter storm nevertheless shut down JFK";…
In which I set out to respond to @AlexiSargeant's article "Simulating Religion: A Christian takes stock of Silicon Valley’s rationalist community" and it ends up basically being a pitch for @Meaningness malcolmocean.tumblr.com/post/169526961…
@AlexiSargeant @Meaningness On "the inescapable human longing for the Kingdom of God":
@callumflack Started as just a playful inversion, but I think there's some truth to it. In some sense things have zero importance while not thinking about them, except of course to the extent that thinking about them in the future is downhill (malcolmocean.com/2016/06/you-fl…)
@callumflack And also deeply connects with an experience I've had of practically forgetting that people or projects are real when I'm focused on something else.
This would be a good idea. Tiago knows his stuff.
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If someone gives me a free ticket to SXSW I will graciously offer to deliver a talk
@Meaningness I'm interested to know what you think of that post, btw! I think the closing is quite good, but earlier the parts on moral realism feel more rambly and less clear—is there anything good there? (I'm keen on helping spread the Nuanced Word of nebulosity!)
@fortelabs Have you seen Loving Vincent? Highly recommended. The *story* is told through the eyes of others (the plot is someone asking people about Vincent's life & death) but the *scenes* are all through the eyes of the artist himself, since they're directly based on his paintings:
@visakanv some combination of [it's not well-condensed enough] and [people don't live long enough] (although probably it's actually mostly [the majority of people are in a "permanent state of emergency"] as sort of depicted in benjaminrosshoffman.com/sabbath-hard-a…)
Wow, ATL has free wifi but it seems to inject ads on insecure pages. uBlock Origin takes them out (leaving only a little red X that would normally close the ad) but still wow.
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intimacy built on revealing your worst selves vs intimacy built by being your best selves, together—we construct complex sys…
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@Malcolm_Ocean I don't think it needs better condensing; I think it needs better marketing. People don't realize how relevant…
@drethelin It's a term that's gotten a bit burnt (probably by some postmodernists) but the *useful* meaning I know of is of a view of differences that doesn't hold them in opposition but rather as interpenetrating things, each containing the other. Usage as such in The Guru Papers:
@callumflack Yeah! I find my thoughts stay more flexible when I try out their opposites, along various dimensions. @garybasin has a newsletter series of thinking toys, also, and the first one he published was Inversion! I think I've been doing it for long before that though, eg spoonerisms
@Meaningness @AlexiSargeant I think it's worth noting that Alexi was kind of writing from an anthropological perspective, and that also I was not per se attempting to write a *reply* so much as a series of reflections.
My understanding (based on personal experience and reading etc) is that this is true of a large fraction of people (although the specific patterns/strategies vary). The other people have patterns/strategies which absorb blame on the surface, but still deflect response-ability.
Have updated my Bookantt Chart template to have a 2018 year (12018 for me since I use Holocene Calendar in my personal files) malcolmocean.com/bookreading There are too many books to try to finish them all. Instead of tracking completion, track any time you spend reading!
@humairahamid They all tend to involve internal conflicts. - entrepreneurship: 1000× as much things that need doing as time to do them - minimalism: the struggle between simplicity and preparing for contingency - addiction: the struggle between the addictive urges and life's big-picture
@TRManderson Excellent! I've been taking a bit of my own advice on that this New Year: have been experimenting with a challenge of posting some writing every day (only criterion: 100words+). Was going to announce it, then just didn't. There's something really satisfying doing it just for me.
"Thanks Tom, but I'm not interested in being on a list of Top 25 Collaboration Technology Companies Who Were Willing To Pay Us Three Thousand Dollars To Be On This List" — me rn, responding to an email
Upwards, like
Retweeted @GrumplessGrinch
Don't believe things. Entertain possibilities. Take possibilities out for a night on the town. Let possibilities crash…
@chenoehart One question that I often come back to that seems relevant to this, is "Am I causing something to happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise?" ...and in the case of IKEA furniture→no. For most central cases of "Maker", there seems to be some sense of causing new things.
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@sehurlburt @xernobyl @COmm0x41NDOr Yeah. This is discussed in @lToddRose's book The End of Average, where he describes it having come from a naïve belief that intelligence was 1-dimensional and that if you didn't get it at the average pace you were never going to get it. Or something. It's a good book!
@Matthew_Sweet @byudkowsky this is your aesthetic
Logical Positivists hate him
@DRMacIver @maxkreminski I think that in this context the relevant meaning of "addiction" isn't so much dependence but internal conflict related to an experience of compulsive use that the person regrets. Contrast "addicted to coffee" and "addicted to meth" (I realize there are exceptions for both)
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@maxkreminski I do think there's a legit discussion to be had about the design of a lot of modern tech (esp social media) ac…
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I’m “addicted” to my phone! also to my glasses, public transport, & plumbing yes, I’m dependent on tech, & yes, I’m occa…
@Evolving_Ego Or new experiences, that get interpreted differently!
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@DRMacIver @maxkreminski I think that in this context the relevant meaning of "addiction" isn't so much dependence but i…
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George Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Aldous Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us. Orwell feared w…
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i would like to recondition my relationship with twitter such that it becomes the place i go to share compact insights i…
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@djmicrobeads @_jordan_bates @ryan_nayr_ Just think of your own mind as a newsfeed that disappears once you come in contact w…
Just read through samreuben.wordpress.com/2018/01/14/ref…. Initially hard to follow but like a harold in improv, it pulls together into an incredible piece. @jesswatmiller @Meaningness @garybasin @KevinSimler
Retweeted @dodo
These total strangers rallied together to rescue a stranded dog. Most intense human chain ever!
I'm enjoying @psobot's latest album Presence! music.petersobot.com/album/presence (except for of course the one noise track that his albums always have. but the rest is really delightful ear-tickly stuff ☺️)
@psobot Bahaha. Well there's one called Noise Noise... :P
Replying to @sonyasupposedly
@sonyaellenmann @Tipsycaek @drethelin Eliezer actually wrote a piece about this, as a kind of bonus chapter to his latest non-fiction book, talking about people being indignant about him writing HPMOR equilibriabook.com/hero-licensing
@OlliTiainen @fortelabs Relatedly, I might suggest replacing "pleasure" with "flow", which has several advantages: - captures what is pleasurable about working without suggesting leisure - alliteration with "freedom" - is associated with high-focus states, without sounding unpleasant
@everytstudies @_molten_steel_ @TheZvi Uhhh... have you guys heard of shakespeare?
Thread · Curating a feed by dropping instrumental half-relationships
1/ Am currently unfollowing more people to curate the conversational feed that I want to have. One thing I'm shocked by is the number of people past-me followed in the idea that I'd interact with them and eventually ask a favor of them or something like that.
2/ On one level this makes sense: build relationships that can be leveraged for mutual benefit (eg being on someone's podcast). But on another level I realize now that I wasn't actually interested in that person or what they were saying or what we could talk about together!
3/ And this actually just ended up creating a kind of vague guilty feeling when I would see them in my timeline, because I kept feeling like "Oh I should talk with these people to build those relationships" but I didn't actually have much to say.
4/ I did something really similar awhile back with online communities: One not-very-prominent feature of my app @CompliceGoals is that it has virtual pomodoro coworking rooms. And I kept joining various online communities hoping that I could get the communities to make a room
5/ Over the span of 6 months I spent several hundred $$ on subscriptions to paid-only communities, and only actually engaged a small bit. Kept thinking "I should engage before trying to sell" but didn't actually want to engage much, so was stuck.
6/ Finally I conceded that I needed to cut my loses and unsubscribe from those communities until at least I had a better plan for how to pitch the virtual coworking rooms to them.
7/ Note that I think the virtual coworking rooms *are* really valuable and could be a huge value-add for each of the communities that I joined. So it's not that I was being selfish. But I was being kind of deceptive in my motives, and that wore on me a bit.
8/ The past half-year on Twitter has been very much the opposite. I'm getting a lot more focused on it being a place for conversation with people I respect, admire, am curious about, and have something to say to—something *I* am excited to say.
9/ So yeah. Going forward, I think I'm going to be a lot more clear about where I want to create a partnership, and not kind of having half-relationships with people who I'm not intrinsically stoked to connect with!
@fortelabs @OlliTiainen Really? I don't expect people to have read Stealing Fire but I thought Mihaly Csikzsentmihalyi's work was pretty well-known, and also that he himself *got* the term flow from the people he studied, many of whom independently used it to describe their experience of highQ work
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modernity has forgotten that people even have a system 3
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Retweet if you've ever met someone face-to-face after previously only knowing them from Twitter.
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Upwards, like
I think that for complex reasons related to dominant human interaction dynamics, most systems (whether they have human interaction or not) become alien machines. Having no human interface available is mostly a symptom of that deeper issue.
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Medication is supply-side treatment. We usually don't think of demand-side treatment, i.e. providing stressors such tha…
@djmicrobeads I could pretty trivially set up a @CompliceGoals virtual room for this, but it's not really optimized for this sort of thing. Still, if people wanted to test it or something.
@djmicrobeads I seriously want this. Are you going to make it happen? If you're on the fence about it, can I offer you $24 to make it happen?
@djmicrobeads @CompliceGoals Looks like the invite link has expired. And yeah, probably should have checked your timeline or something before trying it. Is it 6am UTC? I'm in EST so that's a bit late at night for me, but I'll come check it out.
@djmicrobeads Ahh, I see. I'm really trying to get to bed before 1am EST these days, but I will perhaps check it out at some point.
@chaosprime santa is one of the most powerful egregores today
@fortelabs Depends a lot on what kind of day I'm having. I am often holed away for hours working in my room, but on many other days my entire day is conversations in the common space, so the answer then would be "immediately".
@fortelabs Measured in income or measured in what percentage of people I would trade lifestyles with?
This tweetstorm is baus. Also: I've recently been reading The Big Leap by @GayHendricks, and it talks some serious smack about self-imposed limits. A lot of them stem from a common couple of sources, that converge in the question "How awesome of a life is it okay to have?"
Replying to @k_arin
@k_arin I like how this takes context into account. Both the historical context in the first question, and the current (or prospective) context in the second question.
@patio11 One option google translate gives is "squeeze the KPI", which I'm sure isn't quite it either but it does capture something important that it feels like "hitting" doesn't.
@othercriteria Can I interest you in some post-irony? huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-is-…
Replying to @mariashine
@mariashine @OortCloudAtlas Yeah it seems it's maybe even less about the beliefs themselves but about how one wields them. You don't need particularly sound beliefs to use them to shield yourself from others' realities.
@StartupYou What's an "address" anyway? This is diff. than "4% of people". It's almost more like saying "97% of gold is located in 4% of countries". Especially since many of these addresses are probably exchanges, & the funds are controlled by users even though they don't have the wallet
Replying to @HiDumbPeople
@AzizHayat @saranalateeqi Man I so wish there were a feature for phones where you could say "nothing gets network access except X" where X is some app, like phone or email or kindle or pocket or whatever
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@AzizHayat @saranalateeqi Man I so wish there were a feature for phones where you could say "nothing gets network access…
@jesswatmiller Ugh it's hard. Not remotely sorted or complete: @visakanv @micahtredding @Meaningness @garybasin @ryan_nayr_ @edelwax @cult_cognition Also @ctrlcreep continues to be bizarre and delightful.
ONE HOUR CLUB IS LIVE 😮🕐😎 twitter.com/djmicrobeads/s…
@ryan_nayr_ @visakanv @jesswatmiller @micahtredding @Meaningness @garybasin @edelwax @cult_cognition @ctrlcreep This is a large part of why you're included: twitter.com/ryan_nayr_/sta… The list is first and foremost a list of people I enjoy talking with on Twitter, not a "who's cool" or "who's smart". Although those traits affect conversational quality of course 😉
@GayHendricks While reading Big Leap, I'm getting the sense that one way to access my Genius is freestyle-singing. I recorded this today, and thought you might want to hear it since it is largely me singing *about* ULPs, the USMantra, etc: drive.google.com/open?id=1pOn-I…
@alexeyguzey Haha yup. I had over 1000 following then, got down to ~600, and then yesterday I got down below 400. I'm sort of vaguely expecting I'll land in 150-300, but honestly I could imagine having a pretty happy twitter where I'm only following like 2 dozen people.
Replying to @wgalyean
@wgalyean Probably diff from most people, but my facebook feels more like a university club fair. Everybody presenting abt things (personal, professional, political) they think are important, & many of these actually do seems important, but there's so much going on & it's hard to pay attn.
Replying to @paulorrj
@paulorrj @fortelabs Seems you have to hit the actually BACK button in the top left, which is a shame because HOTKEYS
Retweeted @sapinker
I collect ambiguous headlines. This one, on our President's health, is among the best.
@fortelabs First thought was that if it were a physical book, it would be really cool to be able to take out individual pages (ie storms) and have them as their own little units. But not sure how well that applies to ebook.
@fortelabs I guess the equivalent thing would just be to have a really easy way for the person to share a specific storm with people online.
@fortelabs Another idea: look through some of the top replies to your tweetstorms and ask their authors if they're open to having those replies included as well!
@Meaningness I dislike the idea of human suffering in Amazon warehouses, and I still order stuff from Amazon. It'll be automated soon though. I think that this carnivore position is actually pretty reasonable: ppl want the system changed, not to have to behave differently in the same system.
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The simplest, most obvious alternative to universities would be much cheaper and better. scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2018/01/modern… ♻️@St_R…
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@Meaningness This also seems like as good a place as any to share this comment I made in response to reading that post: https:/…
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LessWrong rationalist has kensho, attempts valiantly to explain to other LessWrong rationalists, frustration ensues. As @…
@visakanv @Meaningness Synthetic meat is one endgame. But I think on a different level it's actually just a willpower thing. People are like "slaughterhouses are bad, but the pain of *choosing* daily to not eat meat dishes I prefer isn't worth the very tiny impact that would have on slaughterhouses"
@visakanv @Meaningness & I'm guessing for most people "isn't worth" is less of a moral claim and more like "I don't think I could do it" this is of course to the extent that people are thinking about the territory at all, and not just virtue signalling because "slaughterhouse" sounds like a Bad Thing
@jesswatmiller @visakanv @Meaningness These models may be more similar than they appear on the surface; the only way to make it *not* a willpower thing for most people is to change one's identity in a pretty serious way, and... yeah, people don't want to do that either.
I put the abs in abstraction
Retweeted @rsnous
"The Xanadu® project did not 'fail to invent HTML'. HTML is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT-- ever-breaking links, li…
Thing I want: @WorkFlowy embedded in @Airtable. Like, being able to take conversational notes workflowy style, but have those note entries organized in a table with tags/dates/filters etc.
@visakanv @fortelabs @culturedcode I was initially confused because I thought you were opening the todo list thing with your mouse, but why would that matter if you then need to type in it. Then I realized you were talking about both mouse & kb shortcuts.
@visakanv @fortelabs @culturedcode The savings with this stuff tend not to be in the form of time but in attention+flow. I ranted about this here: malcolmocean.com/2015/12/interf…
@visakanv @fortelabs @culturedcode Whoa, I don't think I've re-read this post since I learned about Perceptual Control Theory. It seems I basically intuited that the body must have a feedback control system thing going on! Go past-me!
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@visakanv @fortelabs @culturedcode The savings with this stuff tend not to be in the form of time but in attention+flow.…
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@visakanv @fortelabs @culturedcode Whoa, I don't think I've re-read this post since I learned about Perceptual Control T…
@p_e Also don't be too focused on finishing all 50 books. Finish *some* of the books you read, but if you force yourself to finish all of them you'll never even get to the ones that really blow your mind. malcolmocean.com/2014/07/focus-…
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@p_e Also don't be too focused on finishing all 50 books. Finish *some* of the books you read, but if you force yourself…
This is the largest single chunk of code I've ever worked on (measured in hours or days or lines-of-code or commits before launching). I doubt I'll do anything else this big for awhile. Smaller iterations are way better. This needed a big overhaul though.
@impactology Haha no, I've been working on it since last October! But it is in response to user feedback, particular people wanting a mobile app, since this was kind of the first necessary step!
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OH a line I love from ex-pro athlete on a radio show: “Competition isn’t about winning — it’s about the work to put yourself in…
I wonder if maybe they read @ESYudkowsky's #InadequateEquilibria...
@chaosprime I like @Meaningness' satirical-yet-semi-serious suggestion for this: separate out voting for boring bureaucratic things and flashy value-signalling things, and each person only gets to vote in one of them (whichever they choose). meaningness.com/metablog/virtu…
Retweeted @willknight
“Human Uber,” developed in Japan, provides a way to attend events remotely using another person’s body. “It’s surprisingly…