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Biggest news story of the month, which was last month, and you didn't hear about it. twitter.com/PDChina/status…
August 2018
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Unlike modern software, our minds - amazingly - never suffer total failure, even while changing in each moment. Try constantl…
@dela3499 Makes me think about the differences between complex and complicated systems. #cynefin #systemsthinking (although of course there's much more to it than that.)
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This is an awesome, eye-opening #visualization! Pictures like these really do help you understand the world better. https:…
@visakanv @justchap Similarly, @SarahAMcManus and I have started having most of our emotional arguments in the form of animal noises. That lets us experience expressing frustration together without it feeling like a taking-sides kind of thing.
Quite a thread on subtle snark via jewelry. These dimensions of politics that aren't at all about policy make me think of meaningness.com/metablog/virtu… twitter.com/SamuraiKnitter…
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@CoatOfPainter I think it's less about pleasure & more about dissociation. Lots of long-term beneficial activities are also pleasurable in many ways (flow states an obvious main category) but harder to dissociate while doing them. People aren't pursuing pleasure so much as fleeing discomfort.
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I'd really like to see some mash-up of @swardley maps and decentralised/token-based value chains. I think a lot of absurd a…
Replying to @cosimia_
@CoatOfPainter > "eating a bar of chocolate, staying in bed instead of going for a walk, scrolling through social media etc." I still think that most of these choices aren't about pleasure. Eating a tiny square of chocolate is about pleasure. Eating a whole bar is usually about escape.
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@CoatOfPainter I think it's less about pleasure & more about dissociation. Lots of long-term beneficial activities are a…
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Pleasure is the killer. It’s much more persuasive than the pursuit of activities that you logically know will benefit y…
Replying to @cosimia_
@CoatOfPainter Yeah. I was being somewhat misleading when I referred to these as "choices". They *are*, but the thing that people tend to dissociate most from is the fact that each moment they're making a choice. Sometimes this makes sense—this is part of what flow states are about! But...
...the ever-emerging unfolding continues to emerge and unfold...
@yashkaf Not familiar with PP, but Perceptual Control Theory (which has a similar hierarchical structure). I have a rough sketch of a theory that says self-deception emerges in this hierarchy due to goodharting, like Soviet factories producing giant nails to meet weight quotas.
@yashkaf I also think that, as with multi-person organizations, it is possible to structure internal incentives so that they don't produce this kind of goodharting. This is related to shifting mindset from praise/blame/reward/punishment to "what makes deep sense?"
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@yashkaf Not familiar with PP, but Perceptual Control Theory (which has a similar hierarchical structure). I have a rou…
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@yashkaf I also think that, as with multi-person organizations, it is possible to structure internal incentives so that…
@visakanv The goats look like they have googly eyes on their right ears. What other animals could be enhanced through application of googly eyes...? 🤔
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if Waluigi did not exist it would be necessary to invent him
@pamelafox I maintain the correct name is "Cthulhu's Hand". Also yeah, investigating the history of citrus hybridization is a fascinating afternoon 🍊🍋 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_ta… Start: pomelo, mandarin, citron pomelo+mandarin → orange citron+orange → lemon pomelo+orange → grapefruit
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A fundamental limitation of the menu-based GUI application that still hasn't been fixed after what, 34 years? is that items can…
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@reasonisfun this is part of what I was referring to when talking about complex systems (vs complicated systems) the other day. The model I mentioned is Cynefin: youtube.com/watch?v=N7oz36…
@ctrlcreep Related: Get Some Scars by Lux Lisbon ♫ youtube.com/watch?v=D13lu3…
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My favorite solution to the Marshmallow Test: A friend-of-a-friend's kid, who picked up the marshmallow, carefully scooped…
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Different ways to not care what other people think: 1. Model their mind as compatible with yours. (There’re no fundamenta…
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1 is hard (can be fragile to slipping in to conflict avoidance; requires creativity) 2 is judgemental/close-minded 3 pre…
@MatjazLeonardis @reasonisfun Nah you can predict someone's output while still treating their internals as somewhat of a black box. I had this flavour of strategy 3 for years.
The Dark Knight of the Soul: Na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na ...Atman!
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A quick environment check: Can people... [ ] ask questions freely without being judged? [ ] say "I don't know" without…
Help! I'm trapped in my ontology!
@reasonisfun Huh interesting. I hadn't thought about this as a general pattern, but when I was younger (4-12?) I was pretty awkward around my peers but precious and gregarious with adults. Seems related...
@devonzuegel If you're the kind of person who likes tracking books you read, I've invented a system that incentivizes this kind of reading over reading in series :) It's a Bookantt Chart - track which books you make progress on each day! malcolmocean.com/2014/07/focus-…
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I used to feel guilty about reading ~a dozen books in parallel (c'mon just focus on one and finish it!) but it's such a gr…
@devonzuegel There's also the concept of "diffractive reading" which is basically reading different sources through the lens of <other source>. Comes from Karen Barad, I believe.
@reasonisfun Everyone has some pieces of "who's got which pieces?" and nobody knows who's got which pieces.
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Anyone can now make a temporary virtual coworking room, without having to log in! 🍅📹👥📈 Try it now 👉 complice.co/rooms
@reasonisfun And the choice of who or what to trust is structurally inalienable, because if you try to delegate it, that's making the choice.
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How would you live your life if the future of the planet depended on your behavior? Good news! It does.
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@webdevMason The anti-library is an asset—unread books are much more valuable than read ones (except for impressing people).…
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<recent 🧠→🎆> Behavior: The Control of Perception @Meaningness Intro to General Systems Thinking Rationality A-Z In Over…
That was a year ago, and those books still stand up (naturally). More recently, @DavidDeutschOxf's The Beginning of Infinity has really been blowing my mind. amzn.to/2P0Mivy (Also new since last year is a single emoji to express "mind-blown": 🤯)
You can't make me!
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OH (a former CTO of Autodesk): “I can walk through most buildings and tell you which version of AutoCad was used to design i…
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You absolutely MUST get out of your comfort zone Because when you’re in it, you’re literally less alive Habituation an…
In the morning we will wake up happy and we won't forget one another.
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Bats can hear shapes. Plants can eat light. Bees can dance maps. We can hold all these ideas at once and feel both heavy…
@reasonisfun This seems like a problem with "fake frameworks" not a problem with fake frameworks. As you said in a recent talk: all frameworks are fake.