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I got an email from FreshDirect today that started "Dear Valued Customer" and I really think this is what all people should…
July 2018
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3 levels of personal knowledge mastery: 1. Embodied cognition: your ideas are embodied in tangible, external artifacts 2. E…
@fire__exit I had ice cream for nearly every meal today because it's way too hot here.
Every heart, every heart To love will come But like a refugee 🎶#NowPlaying Anthem by Leonard Cohen
@callumflack His deep purposefulness is directly evident in the depth and density of his lyrics.
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To put it into context, this was the first time people could privately immerse themselves in music in a public space. It li…
Adversarial Goodhart among human intelligences @MIRIBerkeley intelligence.org/2018/03/27/cat… twitter.com/ebruenig/statu…
@visakanv I've long been tempted to go and spoil my ballot by writing ELECTORAL REFORM NEEDED FOR ADEQUATE RESPONSE or something on it and not selecting any candidate. But I've only had the chance to vote a couple of times, and have been in swing ridings so I voted strategically instead.
@visakanv ...I am clearly not as creative as my fellow countrymen though:
Retweeted @reasonisfun
Fear of making mistakes in improv comedy can be soothed by remembering that justifying something that didn't make sense in…
@reasonisfun I really like that description of improv! I've written a bit myself on the relationship between improv and mistakes: malcolmocean.com/2017/11/transc…
@reasonisfun Goodhart's law. This is a large part of why I love working for myself. There's nobody to convince, just stuff to do, if I want to do it.
@Quintrino Flow and happiness definitely go together. [based on personal experience and tons of research] But only some productivity is flowy. Some is anxiety-driven, or involves pushing hard to have creative insights.
re @reasonisfun's 2010 post: True but wrong level of abstraction: the reason meta is often bad is that ppl are doing argument-as-war, not argument-as-dance, so meta is a more powerful weapon instead of a more powerful way to achieve collective clarity. reasonisfun.com/blog/against-m…
Realized there's a much pithier way to say this: The conversational metaphor determines what's the conversational meta for.
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
Realized there's a much pithier way to say this: The conversational metaphor determines what's the conversational meta…
Metacosm, n. Like a macrocosm or microcosm, but fractal.
@reasonisfun Can someone explain this tweet to me? (Maybe I get it already but it seems like there might be something non-obvious.)
@reasonisfun Ha! Okay, makes sense. Thanks!
🎵 I wanna be in the zoom where it happens, the zoom where it happens, the zoom where it happens... 🎶 @zoom_us #Hamilton
@Quintrino Making Sense of Behavior: The Meaning of Control, by William T. Powers, which is an excellent introduction to perceptual control theory.
Retweeted @atroyn
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union: - waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it'…
Retweeted @pamelafox
I made a list of improv games that might work over video-conference (at @borismus' request): github.com/pamelafox/impr… ...I'v…
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
@rosieodsey Yeah! Also... you don't HAVE TO try it out sometime. You GET TO try it out sometime 🙃 (ie you can apply th…
@Quintrino @pmarca's answer from yesterday:
Replying to @BenMillford
@BenMillford Cool! I like the animation. Strikes me as an odd choice of font for a workout gym with that name though.
Retweeted @michael_nielsen
Now, many powerful ideas are better expressed as systems, prototypes, and protocols (http, tcp/ip, BTC, mother of all…
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More generally, it’s plausible that most powerful ideas are best expressed in executable form. And so unless academi…
@michael_nielsen Mmmm this resonates with my conversation with @FalkLieder yesterday. We're planning a collaboration where his group does experiments on motivation with a modified version of complice.co, then he publishes papers while the app is live for people to use immediately!
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@michael_nielsen Mmmm this resonates with my conversation with @FalkLieder yesterday. We're planning a collaboration whe…
@michael_nielsen @FalkLieder This seems like an obvious kind of thing to do, as it's a clear win-win-win (his group, me, and the users). I wonder why we don't hear about it happening more...
Replying to @HiredThought
@BenMosior No. 😉
@visakanv Fight, but not overtly. See this article & video: malcolmocean.com/2018/02/laught…
@micahtredding The built-in link shortening means that the link-shortening service actually becomes a website host! (which uses eg itty bitty as a ~API to interpret the source) ...🤯
At the end of John Gall's "Systemantics: The Systems Bible" (the whole book is this playful) @reasonisfun
@autotrnslucence @reasonisfun I'm about 20% of the way through, and so far yes! I haven't figured out where it's going exactly yet. It seems quite pessimistic at the start -- systems systematically don't work. Based on my experiences working on meta-systematicity, I feel a sense that lots is possible!
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
Sometime people ask me if I'm joking or serious, or kind of 50/50. I like to aim for simultaneously being mostly-joking…
Retweeted @ESYudkowsky
This piece of real science producing real and startling definite knowledge reminds me of how sad is the culture of "statis…
Replying to @HiredThought
@BenMosior @vgr There are some people who wouldn't be worth following if it weren't for the [Turn off Retweets] option
Retweeted @C_Harwick
Why would the breakdown of shared culture—as @sarahdoingthing pointed out to me a few years ago—result in a preoccupation wi…
Retweeted @wulannasution
Today the entire world is rooting for the same football team. Pray for #ThaiCaveRescue
Retweeted @tallgreg
What a phenomenal story of allround, bravery, resilience and hardiness this is! #ThaiCaveRescue
PSA: there's a turn off retweets option. Apparently many people don't know this!
Replying to @prinxeMu
@prinxeMu I once spent the whole morning in the principal's office due to a pun. First class of the day, we were learning about "Cause And Effect". The teacher would name a cause, & students suggest potential effects. Teacher names an effect, students suggest possible causes.
@prinxeMu Teacher: "I ended up in a cast for 3 weeks". Me: "Ooh, ooh!" Her: "Yes Malcolm" Me: "My parents enrolled me in drama camp" Her: "..." Me: "Get it? A cast..." Her: "Go out to the hall." Another student got sent out for laughing. A few minutes later we were sent to the principal's.
@prinxeMu (Obv she was having a bad day already or something.) Anyway, when I finally was debriefed at end of lunch hour, I had to call my mum and tell her I was in the office. I did so (in front of principal & teacher) and said "I'll explain later." Mum just laughed when I told her.
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@Tylertish65 @michaelblume if everyone knew ASL, ASL would be incredibly useful, even setting aside accommodations for the…
@compluvi (Actually, it wasn't a glitch with the module, but the fact that I wrote my comparison & merging algorithms in such a way that merges sometimes thought they still needed to be merged with their component parts. Hmm... should catch this better if it happens though.)
Retweeted @reasonisfun
“Recontextualise the meta-narrative: change the way it changes you.”
TFW your credit card has a really cool 3-digit number on the back but you can't tell anyone.
@fortelabs 👍 I'd also include paper-based tools just for completions' sake, which (broadly speaking) optimize for tangibility/reification and slower, less distracted thinking
@fortelabs And within "writing by hand" one must distinguish between longform linear writing in notebooks, sticky notes, and large posters/whiteboards (which optimize in part for common knowledge)
The idea that problems are problematic is problematic. (inspired by convo w @reasonisfun)
Replying to @tessafyi
@tesselately Haha what. That was way better/weirder than I expected.
Retweeted @vgr
Freaky thought: when you talk to someone on the other side of the planet they’re upside down relative to you It’s ludicrous, I se…
@sarthakgh @morganhousel I've been putting a bunch of really good articles in Pocket that are so good that I find myself leaving them there to read again, which seems to be an approach to it that doesn't have this common issue... (How do I find so many consistently-good articles? Hm, gq...)
I boggle at the first Q here whenever I read something brilliant from decades ago (Korzybski for instance). Not just "why didn't more people get into it?" but "why didn't its small, intense followership achieve more great things?" I can tell the ideas are amazing, yet somehow...
@juliagalef I seriously think that roughly this transition is necessary for humanity's survival. (though it's not about the language but the underlying cultural assumptions about what sort of thing a norm is) See "metamodern norms" in my tweet from 2 weeks ago:
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@juliagalef I seriously think that roughly this transition is necessary for humanity's survival. (though it's not about…
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I wonder how it would change society if our language didn't have any normative language in it ("People should do X"), and i…
@fortelabs I found myself thinking "digital commonplace" but I didn't really know what it was. I just like the name.
@fortelabs Hmmm... while I see how Anki is in a different cluster than what you're focused on, I don't see how it's not knowledge. Unless we have different definitions of "knowledge"?
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My kids won't go to bed and I just opened the door and yelled, “That's it! Enough! You just lost it, and you're not getting it…
Replying to @asteroid_saku
@sknthla I found myself thinking that @gwern and @slatestarcodex would both want to know about this.
Replying to @asteroid_saku
@sknthla How long did you have to take it for that effect to happen?
Retweeted @ToKTeacher
A great idea. Yet one day we’ll all look at this and think “How old fashioned” because we will almost ALL notice he shouldn…
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
The words of the day are: "spandrels, pendentives, corbels and squinches"! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_…
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Decisions: • If you can’t decide, the answer is no. • If two equally difficult paths, choose the one more painful in the short…
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@hermesofreason @Malcolm_Ocean
@DoqxaScott @reasonisfun @hermesofreason Because then there'd be nothing left to do!
Retweeted @hermesofreason
“While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.” -Karl Popper h…
@visakanv I've been recently trying on a more Popperian worldview, based on following @reasonisfun, @DavidDeutschOxf and others. It's definitely different than where you're coming from atm, but I have the sense that it might be a good fit based on what I've seen of your tweets.
"it was ad hoc, but maybe all we need." "...adequate hoc" "that sounds like a bird. an okay bird."
@reasonisfun @hermesofreason "I got 99 problems... and I love all of them!" - @SarahAMcManus when she saw this quote
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@reasonisfun @hermesofreason "I got 99 problems... and I love all of them!" - @SarahAMcManus when she saw this quote
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Many people believe that without anxiety there would be no motivation for a creative life. “If I am to be good, someone…
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You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? OK, so there's a physical problem with our eyes: We move th…
Just found this on a shelf in our library... @Meaningness, suggestions on how to assess its quality?
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
"A task without a vision is just a chore." (- a Complice user, talking about how Complice helps him stay in touch with…
I keep spotting better and better examples of what @Meaningness calls the Atomistic Era:
as clouds wander by between the sun and window: nightlight on and off #haiku
Retweeted @michael_nielsen
I love that Aldrin is still amazed by his moon walk. The Onion was exactly correct. The moon walk & LIGO's detection…
1/ It's pretty common these days for ppl to lament Descartes' “I think, therefore I am,” as being a kind of naïve dualism, but I keep feeling like they were missing his point: the fact that I can ask the question "do I exist?" proves the answer is yes. Am I missing something?
2/ To be clear: I'm aware that Descartes *did* have a whole naïve dualism thing going on, but it seems to me that "we cannot doubt of our existence while we doubt...." (as he later put it) is a pretty solid point despite that.
3/ Maybe that foundation is a legitimate foundation (in the sense of being sturdy) but is just profoundly limited in what you can build *on* it, and this is the thing that people are taking issue with?
@justchap I liked @HareeshWallis' take on this: your self is real, just like how Gandalf is real.
@fortelabs Standard template for @vgr: 1. You know that thing that seems like a spectrum? 2. Check out this other dimension... 3. ????? 4. 2×2
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I acknowledge I'm on rocky ground because it's considered creepy to overtly talk about this but I feel like we're veering so…
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
Today I drafted a map to orient to the very, very meta conversations we have in the group I'm part of! …
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Glossoflailia (n): The act of expressing emotion, especially frustration or panic, through waving one's arms wildly and…
Broke: Move fast and break things Woke: Breakfast and move things
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@mattguttmanorg Well it's a matter of partial narratives like everything else. It's not true that beliefs are derived fr…
@semaphore_P @mattguttmanorg @ESO I find myself wanting to tag @DavidDeutschOxf, since I just read the section in his book #TheBeginningOfInfinity where he talks about what it means to "see" something, and how in the deepest sense seeing an image from a telescope is just as real as seeing an image from a retina.
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Wow. 20 years of real footage of stars orbiting the black hole in the center of our Milky Way from @ESO. You can even see…
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.@fortelabs has just made his articles on the PARA organizational system and the PS notetaking system FREE! I highly recomme…
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Being meta to a system is an act of interrelatedness. There’s usually some respect involved – because if there is no apprecia…
@_awbery_ This makes me think of John Shotter's excellent paper More than Cool Reason: ‘Withness-thinking’ or ‘systemic thinking’ and ‘thinking about systems’ PDF: lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Mail/xmcam…
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Thread: difference between ‘outside’ and ‘meta’: Recently I’m noticing systems shopping conflated with being meta to system…
Original thread ends up with just an airpods recommendation, but what to do for Android users?
@garybasin @james_clear I've a recurring yearly calendar event "REMINDER: not everyone can Be Paid To Exist" created in high school. I was intending to make a lifestyle business but worried I'd end up with a naïve mission like "everyone can be paid to exist" which requires *robots*, not lifestyle design
@garybasin @james_clear Reflecting now: years later, I have a successful source of passive income (@CompliceGoals) and I think it is still easy for me to forget what the going-to-work lifestyle is like... but I think that my explicit thoughts on the subject are still reasonably sane.
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@garybasin @james_clear I've a recurring yearly calendar event "REMINDER: not everyone can Be Paid To Exist" created in…
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@garybasin @james_clear Reflecting now: years later, I have a successful source of passive income (@CompliceGoals) and I…
Replying to @HiredThought
@BenMosior Agree in general. Caveats: A) important to have firebreaks (things to avoid getting stuck in ruts and not noticing) B) for pomodoro-scale things, it can be worth breaking mid-sentence to return to something easy, yet forcing oneself to persist at least a bit through challenge.
Retweeted @cdgoodart
"Why the Bleep did you do that?" This is an article about how to dispel justification. #hwa malcolmocean.com/2018/01/dispel… @Compl…
@ctbeiser Related: one of my first Quora answers, to the question "Should Quora ban anyone under 21?" quora.com/Should-Quora-b…