Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth it's okay, you're not under space, you're enveloped within it like a hug 💕
August 2020
Replying to @m_altcroft
@m_altcroft @alt_visa This app is on the backburner. @_stevenxie how's it coming along?
@michaelcurzi When I was... I think 16, at summer camp, I suddenly got inspired to go talk to god (I don't now recall the context exactly) and went out to a field with a drum and asked about the meaning of life and got back some sort of answer in the form of a short song.
Retweeted @balajis
On TikTok - China banned Facebook & Twitter long ago - India recently banned TikTok - A US ban means we're truly exiting the…
Huh! Discuss?
Had a bunch of dreams last night of @JustinTrudeau doing water acrobatics, at least some of which defied the laws of physics as currently known to mankind. 🤨😆
What's something I do well? What skill or understanding of mine would you like to download if you had a link to my mind? Asking for a friend. But uhh... about me, not about the friend.
@maltybegray @JustinTrudeau He like, flipped over backwards with his head underwater, then gradually tilted, and at the moment his head was fully out of the water, somehow it would launch him like 10m into the air. (Major energy conservation violation with how the water pressure was working there.)
@maltybegray @JustinTrudeau Have you seen this? youtube.com/watch?v=eySDeB…
@yashkaf do I get to keep the teleporter so I can reverse engineer it?
Retweeted @meditationstuff
Update: Kind of becoming a fidelitous, global-externality-sensitive relationship anarchist. Checklist: She does/n't ha…
@RichDecibels @Rob_Worth At bay area rationalist parties a few years ago, it was really common for people to be testing weird conversation starters, so I started opening with "so, how have you been opening conversations lately?"
@michaelcurzi @nosilverv @sonyasupposedly @DanielleFong @PrinceVogel need to go to bed, so ultra-pithily: - culture coherence is super hard - needs to have new post-blame cultural platform / meta-protocol - #GameB is pointing at this space, for instance - in the meantime need to manage to avoid doom attractors nearby
@m_ashcroft @CompliceGoals Mmm resonates a lot with this: (this tweet in particular, though also the whole thread)
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
The purpose of goals is to influence how we behave in the present, to organise us to move in a particular direction. Whethe…
…facing the inevitability of me sooner or later ending up part of a quartet called The Meta Four. and by quartet, I might mean music but it could also be a superhero troupe idk
Nuanced interview with @tferriss, re meaning. > …my friends will sometimes say, “I don’t want to deal with that. I don’t want to open up that Pandora’s Box.” I try to emphasize that, at least from my experience, no matter what, you are dealing with it. gq.com/story/tim-ferr…
Retweeted @mattgoldenberg
"Design is not just for unlocking doors. But for creating doorways where there previously were none." -@Malcolm_Ocean
@michaelcurzi No but now that we're talking about music I have a totally unrelated thing to say that's been on my mind for a couple weeks: the singer/keyboardist of dirty loops reminds me of you! youtube.com/watch?v=gYc5zr…
Replying to @ryn__x
@context_ing 24" screen… about 10 feet away, which makes it about the same size as my phone screen held at arms length. Huh, hadn't considered this but it may be relevant that I think my corrected binocular vision is like 20/12 or so. Way better than 20/20.
@RichDecibels Related:
@nosilverv > fuck around and become a christian gonna exegize your phrase here uhh yeah, this is how it usually happens you fall for someone whose memeplex outclasses yours* and so in order to be with them, you convert *(can be in asymmetric intolerance, or in other ways)
@yashkaf Reflect on ex
@the_aiju @nosilverv well put
@m_ashcroft @AskYatharth ...I think the paradox is in the word "just". If you can find a way to "just" do the thing, then "just" do the thing. Inasmuch as the resistance is to taking-in-not-having-done-it, it may not actually be in the way! But don't assume you can always "just":
This is really cool. Neat topic, a slice of conversation. And well done in a really subtle way, with the messages sliding in visually but not overwrought (and the scrollbar still shows the overall length of the piece)
Reminds me of this tweet:
And this one, replying to the above one:
It's epistolary, but a very different aesthetic than eg letter.wiki I think @aaronzlewis or someone could potentially make a whole thing out of having a plugin or site for publishing these exchanges.
Retweeted @balajis
Cancellation is anti-worker. Employees should start demanding 90-day cooldown periods in contracts such that they can’t be pr…
@HunterBergsma @aaronzlewis Relatedly I saw a tweet (I think recent, but can't seem to find it) about a spectrum of public ↔ private broadcast ↔ direct content ↔ convo and organizes like classic news → facebook/twitter → chat/DMs it distinguished fb & tw, but I forget how and it's important 😕
❚❚❚❚❚❚ LUST ❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚ PRIDE ❚❚❚❚❚❚❚ GLUTTONY ❚❚❚❚❚ ENVY ❚❚❚❚❚❚WRATH ❚ SLOTH ❚❚❚❚ GREED
@fuehrerking disappointed by the lust silhouette not being sexy smh
@mattgoldenberg @nosilverv he often talks about the choice between "being somebody" and "doing something" (idk source but it's all through his biography, which I read like half of years ago)
@spiderfoods I think you'll appreciate this tweet & the surrounding conversation:
@maybegray you might like this playlist I have of 40+ songs all of which have vocals edited in glitchy ways beyond the point of legibility (some of them also have legible lyrics, some don't) play.google.com/music/playlist…
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
i wanted to write a tweet like this for awhile but i reflected on it a bit more and realized that "dopamine" actually has…
@QiaochuYuan "hope" is great for dopamine—nice! Translation attempts for serotonin: - fullness - okayness - satisfaction - abundance - security - dignity sources: various things, including its relevance to food-satiety & these vivid 🤯 paragraphs from @s_r_constantin srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/pat…
@QiaochuYuan @s_r_constantin yeah, "abundance" seems to be the thing that best captures it across all of those
The number of total confirmed cases in Canada is now about 120k. The number of new confirmed cases in the USA is now about 60k/day. Population ratio is about 10×, but just in terms of sheer individuals, wow.
About what % of deaths do you think are from suicide? (annually, globally, not accounting for covid - I'm using a 2017 data source here, fwiw)
This thread is for discussing this poll, to avoid spoilers on the original poll.
After guessing, above, discuss here:
Also! Do you think that the percentage of deaths by suicide, globally, between 1997 and 2017, went up or down?
Soooooooooooooooooooo turns out it's 1.4%. It felt fair to round that to 1.5% given that probably suicides are substantially underreported in some countries. Probably more people would have guessed that if I hadn't made it the highest option; biasing is a thing.
I was surprised by this! Would probably have guessed 0.5%. Based on the first couple dozen poll results, seems like many of you were also surprised, though I guess fewer than I'd thought.
It's weird that suicide has as much stigma as it does, given that probably at least 3% of people have made a suicide attempt. Tho not surprising, given challenges of talking about it. (Hard to find stats on this; <8% of attempts are successful, but many repeats are same-person)
This one is tough—suicides have gone up substantially in America, but ~12% down globally.
As @catherineols aptly put it, GPT-3 is like an improv player, who picks up the scene and is able to play along. And you can even play that improv game "shoulda said" where you rewind and the player generates a different response and the scene moves forward with that!
Context of @catherineols' remark:
Talking with @SarahAMcManus about talkboxes and showed her this early piece... her response was "this is so unsettling! I love it!" youtube.com/watch?v=_R9an8…
My internal clock has been convinced that today is Tuesday, all day today. I keep correcting it but it's insistently like "and then later today we'll" and "oh shit, did you forget this thing" and… …it's still Monday.
@ChanaMessinger @JeanClaudeFox2 further on chairs:
@ChanaMessinger @JeanClaudeFox2
@mattgoldenberg @nosilverv broke: being > doing woke: being = doing
Replying to @original_chills
@original_chills this passage says no
@DharmagarageU What book is this from? I wannn it.
@DharmagarageU @utotranslucence this passage kind of jams with the one we recently read from Rob Burbea
@DharmagarageU Apparently I could tell!
if you don't consciously create your limits to growth, then limits to growth will create you
Retweeted @RichDecibels
Srsly funny to watch teenagers mock my partner's unshaved armpits thinking they are being cool + mean, oblivious that the…
@mattgoldenberg @RoamResearch I said something similar over here! But yeah, on the whole agreed that notetaking itself is deeply constraining.
@mattgoldenberg @RoamResearch thinklinking Roam is a thinklinking tool.
@mattgoldenberg @RoamResearch I see you've been practising.
@interpretantion rewind metamodernism and postmodernism and go back to modernism
@DanielleFong and there are probably lots of people like me & @KevinSimler who thought that school was, you know, enjoyable, fine, etc… until we recently realized we'd been repressing the horror of it
@DanielleFong @KevinSimler lots of people still to wake up
Replying to @ponekarl
@ponekarl <3
Replying to @ponekarl
@ponekarl as for specifically why, not sure there's an unsatisfying explanation like "because you stand out in his experience along this dimension" which of course... then... why that? but it does point to something. I feel like there's something to do in terms of letting that in
@xuenay The alternate versions are binary-based! 1s digit is the little diagonal tick in the top left 2s digit is the bottom line 4s digit is the middle line 8s digit is the top line huh, this means it could naturally be extended to count up to 15, ie to write hexadecimal numbers!
Replying to @ryn__x
@context_ing Damn, wow. There's a major kind of "a stitch in time saves nine" thing with the exponential growth.
@maybegray You know, you might think that, but my life actually has more weekly structure now due to repeating zoom calls and our house having a weekly grocery routine now.
@maybegray That's a great image though and I'm glad you shared it 😂 Does aptly capture my experience of being self-employed more generally. Plus the experience of going to the store and it's closed and it's like "oh today's a holiday? I had no idea, I work completely random days anyway"
@ChanaMessinger @dinglevery Which opposite? "The way people express their love is the way that they have uniquely been loved" ? Yeah, that seems probably apt too.
Replying to @jstanotherview
@jstanotherview @Human__Age @DRMacIver If anyone wants to see my tweetstorm about that, it's here:
@marginaliaclub What's up for Relational Exegesis this week? I propose David Bohm!
@hardy_lisa_a @RoamResearch @Complice I'm actively designing a @CompliceGoals+@RoamResearch integration—just added you to a channel on the roam slack where we're discussing it a bit. Would love to hear your thoughts on how it can be 🔥🚀💯
@protoneutype @cognazor Uhhhhhhhhhh what! I definitely feel like I can identify the shapes of many thoughts as being more LH or RH, but I don't feel like I have any particular physiological-level activation move. How did you learn this? I'd love to play with it if you can convey it 🤩
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@QiaochuYuan "hope" is great for dopamine—nice! Translation attempts for serotonin: - fullness - okayness - satisfactio…
@davidmeh @andy_matuschak Just came across this exchange now via a search—I'm also working on a new iteration on this that will actually require you to break the notdone into smaller pieces in order to pull it again. (It currently suggests this but doesn't actually have a UI for it)
@davidmeh @andy_matuschak Also If you're curious about my thinking in designing this feature, here's a post I made about it at the time: blog.complice.co/post/149127901…
@davidmeh @andy_matuschak And a more general philosophical one riffing on the same "rot/decay" imagery @davidmeh uses above: blog.complice.co/post/112024416…
@davidmeh @andy_matuschak Very curious what you're working on here and would love to jam with you on it. Realizing I haven't spent any time trying to redesign email. I guess I'll type some initial thoughts here: intertwingled.blog/#/app/malcolmo…
@davidmeh @andy_matuschak Ahh, so kind of a world brain / memex type thing? Not an inbox for messages. Interesting... I'm not sure what I want in this space... I think mostly I want a hotkey to dump a link (with some metadata) into my roam.
@davidmeh @andy_matuschak Yeah keep me posted :)
@davidmeh @andy_matuschak Yo try complice.co Given my read on who you are, maybe check out the Philosophy page: complice.co/philosophy
@jborichevskiy @hardy_lisa_a @RoamResearch @Complice @CompliceGoals Of course! Just invited you. Anyone can join, it's a public channel called #complice-integration
Welp, apparently I have thoughts about redesigning email (not really surprised). No coherent "do this" yet but thinking about it out loud helped me notice a few things I hadn't yet grokked about how @heyhey works. Hey still utterly unworkable as far as listservs are concerned.
Hey has: - Imbox - The Feed - Paper Trail I want to split Imbox into: 👥Groups/listservs (nobody expecting me-in-particular to see it) 💌 Correspondence (actual conversation, not transactional) ☑️ TODOs (eg "fix billing info") ❗️ FYI (eg calendar event cancellations)
Hey kind of handles Correspondence with "Reply Later" and kind of handles TODOs with "Set Aside" But utterly fails at listservs because it filters just by sender and it matters who the receiver is too. & I think Paper Trail would end up eating some FYI & TODO items
@uncatherio Hmu with doppelganger!
@GPTherio @micahtredding @uncatherio Bold claim
@GPTherio @micahtredding @uncatherio "at least somewhat normal"
weird to think of what would have happened if the July 26 1945 ultimatum had resulted in surrender and no nukes dropped on Japan if I had to guess, meaningless as it is, I'd put some weight on increased odds that The Bomb would have fallen on other civilians at some point
@maltybegray too much for what? for who? for some? probably but there's no global "too much" 🔥
Inspired by @visakanv I have experimentally decided to put this in my display name: Malcolm Ocean (10/1000 pull-ups) Will this cause me to do more pull-ups? I predict so. I'm sort of treating this behavior as simply a behavior, not as committing to anything.
Ofc, me being me, my very next step is "how do I make a system for me to update this number without getting distracted by twitter?" Solution: go straight to twitter.com/settings/profi… with this userstyle to hide bg div[aria-modal="true"] { outline: 1000px solid black; } ➡️
Thread · Looking for a producer to turn my songs into electronic tracks · 2 of 5 tweets
I've written some pretty cool songs (lyrics+melody) that kinda want to be electronic songs? I don't have the tools/skills to produce them. Could learn, but instead... who wants to collaborate? I sing & give high-level creative direction, you make it a real track.
By "high-level creative direction" I mean things like 🎷 "I feel like this part wants a sax solo" 🥁 "Here's a beatboxed rough take of a drop after the first verse, can you make it with actual electronic drums?" ✨ "What if we did stutter edit here, like [demo]?"
(If you know people who might be into this, pass the word along!)
Thread · Looking for a producer to turn my songs into electronic tracks · 2 of 5 tweets
I'm open to a wide range of how involved I would be, depending how many degrees of freedom you want. In some cases I've figured out chords, harmonies etc. In one case I recorded a whole multitrack demo with acapella & guitar & beatbox, but the audio quality is shit.
I did actually make an album, mostly-self-produced, at a studio in 2012, so I broadly know the deal with production, I just can't do it to a level I'm satisfied with, and I think now's not the time for me to take on a whole learning arc around that. maleidoscope.bandcamp.com
@haideralmosawi And you're the one who PWYW'd $50 for it back in 2013! That was so encouraging 🥰 I think that's more than half the $ in sales I've made on bandcamp 😂
Thread · Looking for a producer to turn my songs into electronic tracks · 1 of 5 tweets
For an example of the kind of thing I can do on my own, here's something I made in audacity with zero special effects (the bass sound comes straight out of my throat) This is totally an example of something we could make a pro version of: soundcloud.com/maleidoscope/o…
@WaterUndersea @visakanv I am definitely flexing
@AndruC yeah but then you have twitter on your phone
@AskYatharth That's most of what's available on the internet atm, except some youtube stuff from a decade ago. There's also this song. Not the best recording of it but it's got wonderfully rich lyrics. Wrote it just after moving to Berkeley & meeting the CFAR ppl. youtube.com/watch?v=VkJe3W…
Okay twitter, what songs are just TOO FUNKY? Like this one for instance. Terrible! Way too funky. Geez. youtube.com/watch?v=34pHnL…
Wow yeah this is a great list. Haven't seen many people besides me who are this aggressive about various things. The whole thing about being able to compose emails without seeing your inbox is vital. Can also do that by setting up mailto:%s as a "custom search engine"
Retweeted @dataisplural
you're so meta you probably think this song is about itself
Finally got so sick of that @SublimeHQ pop-up saying to purchase a license that I bought one. Really should have done this awhile ago lol, but I had developed lightening-fast reflexes to closing it with ESC. But my computer started freezing sometimes when it popped up, and, well.
Anyway, I want to support @SublimeHQ anyway, and I have the money now, which I kinda didn't when I got started, so there's that. Am looking forward to not having that pop-up freeze my screen. I think that's actually straight up worth $80 to me.
Re how to set up the mailto thing, right click on address bar, hit Add, then put in: keyword: mto url: mailto:%s Then you just open a browser window and type "mto" and either the person's email address or just their name.
If it's their name, obviously you'll have to fill in the email later, but the point is it takes you straight to the compose view, with no inbox in sight. Not even a button to get to the inbox (if you use gmail).
@m_ashcroft Canadian here; as a kid "LEGO" was considered how it was pronounced by people in-the-know. I think I kind of always thought my american friends who owned $$$$ of LEGO and called them "LEGOs" were countersignalling 😂
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot Anyone who thinks this is a good idea doesn't understand leverage points. The Fed basically has access to only the weakest leverage point: 12 Constants, Parameters, Numbers. (& a little #11: Buffer sizes) Thread on leverage points for those unfamiliar:
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@lisatomic5 random ideas/phrases that capture some or all of this: - "sense & respond" (often contrasted with "plan & control") - bottom-up - emergent - myopic - responsive/reactive - immediacy-oriented - saliency-oriented - local - depth-first
Retweeted @GPTherio
"if I can't get you to believe that I'm sincere, I'm just going to continue being sincere"
generated by @uncatherio + GPT-3 discuss?
@QiaochuYuan @nibrasibn Recently had a long convo with my dad about him feeling offended that I would sometimes disappear without a hi/bye, and related stuff. Was tough but we got a fair bit of shared reality about unless things get going really live, I treat messenger more like email.
@harveykrishna_ When I saw this I knew immediately Weird Al was going on the right. Didn't take long to decide on Depp on the left, but he has a lot of different styles, so it actually took at least 10 mins to find an ideal photo (with a few detours en route)
@uberstuber Ooooooooooh that is a very cool point. I've been meaning to check it out since I saw your summary.
@mikemitchell50 @threadreaderapp Honestly for anyone wanting something other than a twitter thread, I might suggest just reading the original essay 😂 It's more words but might be an easier read since less ridiculously-condensed. donellameadows.org/archives/lever…
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot “Time after time I’ve done an analysis of a company, and I’ve figured out a leverage point… Then I’ve gone to the company and discovered that there’s already a lot of attention to that point. Everyone's trying very hard to push it IN THE WRONG DIRECTION!” donellameadows.org/archives/lever…
@learning20201 @HunterBergsma @QiaochuYuan @SeanMombo Whoa! This is super cool. Definitely seems worth trying out. @Beehtrix have you seen this?
@utotranslucence Yo get yourself set up on bandlab.com (recommended by @learning20201) and then we can properly add tracks on each others' demos!
@QiaochuYuan "Tell Me Anything"
@QiaochuYuan My fav part of this is that it fits the meme but *also* I would actually be very down to be played by Weird Al, were the opportunity to arise.
@davidmeh I can't read anything in that
@protoneutype @cognazor Cool, I'll play with this and see what happens
Replying to @original_chills
@original_chills Nah it's fun to organically discover the intertwinglement
@nataliebeatrice Uhhh… it assumes you're starting at the start of the year, and so it's basically actually asking "what is the number N such that you have a datapoint for day N of the year and no datapoints for any days of the year after N?" Not sure if it's working perfectly but it seems to be
Replying to @ponekarl
@ponekarl Hi you! It's pretty rich and textured and challenging and beautiful to be me at the moment. What's it like to be you?
Replying to @ponekarl
@ponekarl As for your question, I think it's related to left hemisphere dominance, basically the same as I describe in this tweet:
I wouldn't think this was impressive if I hadn't tried playing the "lander" game that shows up when you're in an empty videochat room on @usetalky, which you can also play here: talkylander.com Simply going up, then sideways, then landing—with a rocket—is HARD.
@uncatherio I know, that's my fav part
@uncatherio I think it's basically like, in order to make long-term love work, each of your values needs to evolve to come into coherence with each others' values. (Some people might frame this as compromise but I think it not just *can* be both-and but largely *needs* to be)
Before covid, I would have considered something less clean if it hadn't been touched in weeks. Now it feels *more* clean, because any covid would have died. Different types of clean, which I hadn't distinguished before.
Smh at mobile apps that can't handle an external keyboard. Many don't let you send a chat message with enter OR shift-enter. Have to reach out & touch screen 🤦♀️ @SlackHQ is good on that front, but its formatting hotkeys (ctrl+b etc) don't work on android.
Yo @RoamResearch there's a bug right now when you try to edit text between two block refs. This is what showed up when I tried to add "then". Gotta tack a ? onto a greedy regex, probably. (Are others in the #roamcult getting this?)
emotional skinny dipping
Had a dream last night that involved hanging out with some friends at a grocery store. umm brain that's not how covid works. nice try though!
memetically, the original technical concept of a meme got outcompeted by the idea of internet memes
— paraphrased from something I overheard one of my colleagues say, on some unknown zoom call
@meekaale @utotranslucence @learning20201 @endlesssfm iOS only :(
@AskYatharth Yeah I'm down. Sometime this weekend or next week.
@AskYatharth Hmm... I'm first wanting to note that sometimes the answer is to reduce those delays in perception or execution. eg I switched from getting complice-is-down alerts via email to getting them via slack, for faster notification.
@AskYatharth > Delay in execution = after you turn knob, takes while for flow to change. Re bathtub, it's more like: - after you turn knob, takes awhile for bathtub to *fill* - after you turn knob, takes awhile for water to become hot (which is sort of isomorphic)
@AskYatharth I sorta feel there's something we're not understanding together here… not sure what it is. But if you look up PID controller you can see examples of physical control systems and how adding faster derivative feedback can compensate for delays. Intro/math:youtube.com/watch?v=UR0hOm…
@AskYatharth And here's a demo. When he starts saying "subscribe" around minute 2, jump to minute 7. You don't need the stuff about 3D printing in the middle. You can see how slowing down (Kp) doesn't solve it. Need to add velocity-based (Kd) feedback loop. youtube.com/watch?v=JFTJ2S…
@AskYatharth (I actually studied PID control systems in my university degree!)
@davidmeh Yeah definitely. The Philosophy page is the best one; I need to overhaul the manifesto which is currently more of a minifesto. complice.co/philosophy
@AskYatharth Yeah I think this is probably somewhat arbitrary, based on where you draw the boundary between "you" and "the system", who are ofc not fundamentally separate. But yeah, "time to fill" is rate of syschange. Execution delay more like if you had to cross room to turn faucet
@AskYatharth So like, you might see from across the room "ahh crap the water is about to overflow" but by the time you get there it has filled up more. That's the delay in execution.
@AskYatharth We were both confused lol
@AskYatharth Also my uni degree was called Systems Design Engineering but it was like 3% Systems, 5% Design, and 92% Engineering. (It was more than 3% systems if you count mechanical/electrical systems, but I don't. It didn't teach systems thinking / general systems theory at all.)
@Beehtrix @dremilyanhalt This evolutionary dentist, I think, thinks it makes sense for your tongue to rest on the roof of your mouth. I haven't looked into the specifics of "mewing" in depth yet though so consider this a "thing to look into" not a prescription.
Man I am holding so much tension in my gut rn and it feels so good to relax it but then 20s later it's tense again.
me: The Guiness World Records official used an electron microscope to measure who could cut the most perfectly parallel slices of cheese. GPT-3:
@zrkrlc All other readings on my dashboard report yes 🤷♀️
I apparently had a dream recently where we got @mattoflambda to implement some software (maybe a blockchain?) for positive sum double-entry accounting. I don't quite know what that *means* but despite that it still kinda feels like a good idea if we knew 😂
Holy shit this makes a ton of sense. I'm tentatively sold on this. That is: if, with no further deliberation, I had to pick a voting system for Canada to adopt, it'd now be this. @visakanv check this out, it's related to some of what you said during the SG election.
(Note that it DOESN'T work for presidential elections because it relies on there being 100s of seats so the randomness is actually representative not just random. Maybe still would make sense for US Congress, but that has less impact on overall leadership than party→PM.)
@salemwitchfyndr @MattOsterndorf Yeah schools are fucked up. I don't know what the replacement looks like (for the part where they provide daycare and some social mobility) but we clearly need to rethink the whole thing.
@mattoflambda I mean the thing that is most funny to me about this is that (as far as I'm aware) "double-entry accounting" in particular is like... the epitome of zero-sum 😂 The whole point of "double" entry is to make sure the inflow and outflow add up to zero.
Had the thought that the colors on complice.co can seem "noisy" but they're 100% signal. (each goal gets a different color and anything (tasks, reflections, etc) associated with that goal also has that color)
Man I feel so respected by @PCFinancial's chill but groovy hold music, that isn't interrupted every 30s to tell me "your call is very important to us". I get to actually just have the music playing in the background while I do other stuff.
(Not super surprising—they're one of the earliest banks to have no branches, just virtual service, so if they hadn't figured this out they would have gone under years ago.)
(Wow, and turns out I actually could have resolved this problem online (probably couldn't have for most banks) although I don't think I could have known that the situation I was in was one that would be resolved by resetting my PIN, just via the site.)
I wanted to QT this tweet above but I couldn't find it for the life of me. Now I now why: I kept searching "jaw" instead of "teeth". Found it again by total coincidence by discovering a tweet of mine where I'd QT'd it, saved in my roam.
Retweeted @AskAuntieEm1
Unclench your teeth, your ass, & your gut. Exhale.
@learning20201 Yeah and the audiobook, and went to one of Ann Weiser-Cornell's workshops, and I found it didn't work very well for me mostly, though I've gotten a ton of out BioEmotive which is based on Focusing.
I have discovered a darktheme userstyle that works better than most manually created ones. Needs a little tweaking for some sites but it's basically just this: body, /* invert & flip everything */ img /* invert & flip images back */ { filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg); }
Retweeted @literalbanana
In order to remain ignorant of bullshit, one must learn to skillfully withdraw curiosity. “Skillfully” is a contractio…
A: "Objective and singular truth/reality/goodness exists" B: "In any moment you are the final arbiter of what’s true and good." What's your read on each of those 2 statements? I'm looking for a sort of immediate response, not a whole treatise. No wrong answers.
probably like every musical instrument ever, including the ones there are at most a dozen of in the world, like the octobass flute 🎵🥁🎙️🪕🎸🎻🎺🎷🎶 (& I guess ofc I'd want to hire someone to run a studio with the instruments in it so there are always people there to jam with) twitter.com/epicciuto/stat…
@natural_hazard I feel this way too, and this is what makes me a "Both" because I'm like "well if you actually have both then they kind of compensate for each others' misguidedness"
@natural_hazard @Meaningness Yep, all of this. Btw, if you haven't read my thread on why goals are like magic, I think you'll like it 🙂
Also instruments that aren't officially available, like the ones Blue Man Group makes
Feeling one read on comma ellipses (",,,") as being kind of a dramatic speechlessness, as opposed to more of a pause.
omg @otter_ai transcribed "Malcolm's" as "napkins" ded
you don't have to force yourself to do things you don't have to force yourself not to force yourself to do things you don't have to force yourself not to force yourself not to force yourself to do things but it's okay if you do
@coponder I dunno about video games but facilitating bioemotive / NEDERA has taught me more about this than the rest of my life experiences combined.
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
broke: "poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing. mathematics is the art of giving the same name to d…
@OneBigOh Not intentional. The Adams quote reminds me of this:
Thread · A running collection of delightful animal clips · 1 of 35 tweets
tiny bird robot dance (HT @SarahAMcManus) twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl…
saw this again and now wondering what civilization would look like built on this principle (I can think of both utopian and dystopian versions)
@QiaochuYuan Loving your application of that jamming/honing model here! It's a more precise way to say something I've been thinking about for awhile re twitter, which is funny because you literally used an old model of mine to make the point 😆
@devonzuegel doesn't exist yet, but here's some high-level thinking:
@RichDecibels cancelling is about the outgroup
@NeoSomaliana many books have changed my life by totally changing my perspective on something a book is a way to have a kind of conversation with someone, including someone who isn't alive or lived centuries ago diff kind of conversation than real-time, but still real
@NeoSomaliana While a book doesn't allow the author-as-interlocutor to respond to questions or critiques, it *does* allow them to lay things out at a level of depth they couldn't possibly do live.
@NeoSomaliana And then if you read a thing, and I read a thing, we suddenly have a kind of shared context as if we were in the same conversation before, and we can build on that.
@yashkaf I clicked Envy. Could be any of them, depending on my mood and on the specifics of what's being said and how it's expressed.
Q: can I search for gifs by putting in just an emoji as a query? A: yes! it works super well TIL
Figured twitter might appreciate this game of PersonDoThing that I had last fall: Person Person think Person no want > Person no want think? Person no want think Person no want have . . . . . . . . = Monk 🧘
it's okay to do things that are unsustainable, as long as it's not unsustainably unsustainable hell, it's even okay to do things that are unsustainably unsustainable, as long as
@lisatomic5 what's a cool thing that's happened to you from your recent explorations on twitter?
Slack just generated a notification for a message that: • I had already read • was sent over 2 weeks ago • by me Wtf. (I've gotten similar weird outdated notifications for my own messages, but this one takes the cake as oldest & weirdest. This is desktop web fwiw.)
Replying to @Jay5w
@Jay5w also "tends to"
@garybasin @lisatomic5 FFREAM has a nice ring to it
@lisatomic5 among most of the people I know you could literally send the text of your above tweet, either just the part in quotes or the whole thing, and that would work #TeamMetacommunication
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa yo, wanna have a call where we try bioemotive? (probably doesn't make sense to have that be our first talking-face-to-face-in-real-time, but we could still orient to it as a thing to do)
@lisatomic5 Would probably be something I blogged about awhile ago, so that I could focus on practising delivery rather than on figuring out what to say, good examples etc. I generally create & learn speeches by just rehearsing, without ever writing the text out. malcolmocean.com/best-posts/
@visakanv yeah same
@JESSCATE93 @Conaw @RoamResearch That section also resonates with my experience building @CompliceGoals. Was great to finally get the complice.co/philosophy page up so I could direct people there when they asked me to make it something it was never supposed to be.
@bubbleteaPhD @jtbooth1021 these aren't fundamentally different afaict except inasmuch as with drinking or smoking you could sort of quit at the stage of resisting *buying* any, especially in covid-home-times. nice delay there.
@coponder This might train it for sounds: twitter.com/youfoundanisha…
> But the point was that because of design, the selection pressure ended up “preferring” systems that kept the evolutionary game going. = Infinite Games (James Carse) Great interview of @timoreilly by @David_S_Wilson, on @EvonomicsMag: evonomics.com/the-sweet-spot…
@Conaw you want to read this ^ article on architectures of participation. Very relevant to how you've been leveraging the #roamcult, and your plans for roamdepot.
@dela3499 Yeah, reading this definitely affected my perspectives on sustainability. I still think DD is confused about complex system dynamics though and doesn't account for the very realistic possibility of overshoot and collapse.
> That being said, to paraphrase Martin Luther King, “the arc of history is long, but it bends towards evolutionary fitness.” 😂😂 Such a great way of articulating the unfitness of injustice. evonomics.com/the-sweet-spot…
Canada released a COVID contact tracing app a couple weeks ago and it already has >1M downloads in a country of 38M. About 3%. And I just now got a text from my carrier about it, which means probably it'll have substantial adoption within a week. canada.ca/en/public-heal…
@mauve_sky fellas, is it gay,,,
@m_ashcroft I've used it once or twice when tweeting about sensitive topics, figuring that would keep things potentially chiller. Have also used "only you and people you tag" on polls that are "guess the value of this stat" to avoid spoiler or hint replies, eg
Got some new questions inspiring me and I'm spontaneously writing a few thousands words a day now. It's all super context-sensitive and nowhere close to being something that I'll publish directly on my blog anytime soon or whatever, but wanted to share that this is happening 🤩
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
I love this framing. "Be the person other people want to summarise." twitter.com/juvoni/status/…
@natural_hazard Ooh that is clever. > Critics of the way Occupy protestors use mic-checking [...] have criticised it for producing the illusion of group consensus amongst those acting as the "amplifiers" Huh yeah that illusion, not just external but internal, seems kinda doomy.
And ofc half an hour later, the same message in French 😂🇨🇦⚜️
@visakanv Someone: "can you help me with this thing?" Me: "right now?" Someone: "uhhh I was thinking some nebulous time in the future" Me: "can we just do it right now?" Someone: "no" Me: "okay come find me when we can do it right now"
I resonate with this.
Very related thing:
I can coordinate with my future self enough to do things (I basically built complice.co to help me do this in a sane way, and it is still very NOWish—plan today only) but I try to minimize how much I have to time-coordinate with other people in order to do things.
@lisatomic5 I suddenly had an epiphany 💡 and found this tweet again so I could reply. The name for the second mode is "ADHD" 😂 Seriously, people on tumblr talk a bunch about ADHD cleaning strategies and they look a lot like this: hyperactivehedgehog.tumblr.com/post/618454180…
Replying to @por_ous
@por_ous 📞 Me: sry boss can't come in today Boss: what's going on Me: I have major ataraxia and coming into work would exacerbate my situation Boss: okay, take care of yourself
Oh shit I've been wearing one of these sometimes. I've also basically not been 6' from anyone I don't live with, in months, so it's pretty minor in my case, but this is important to know. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/well…
Anybody else in #roamcult feel like you have to log back in to @RoamResearch way more than you would have expected? Usually just between sessions, which isn't great but not too bad... but I just hit "duplicate tab" and the new one displayed as logged out 🤨
Lol I want a use-mention distinction for my @RoamResearch tags. eg: - Service Worker Full Offline mode #inprogress[mention] - [[August 11th, 2020]] - maybe today I'll wrap up some #inprogress[use] things
@SarahAMcManus See also this one (by the same people? super similar style) that is gifs arranged by peoples' internal emotional responses to watching the gif. (So not what the gif represents, but what it evokes. eg a clip of tetris→nostalgia) s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/emogifs/map.ht…
@SamoBurja @jayanthkumarak this ~600 person for-sale campus was in a town with a population of only 3000
@QiaochuYuan I have seriously speculated that the workaholic vibe of the bay area rationalist/EA scenes means that the social fabric would fall apart if everyone were monogamous, because the non-work social graph would be a bunch of isolated duos instead of a dense network.
@QiaochuYuan Relevant: > Oh. Maybe attachment bonds were never meant for just your parents and your romantic partners. Maybe they were meant for your tribe. thicketforte.com/2018/07/05/mea…
Retweeted @mekarpeles
Come join us tomorrow @ 10:30a PT to discuss how 4M book lovers on @openlibrary might work together 🤝 to overcome the chall…
A project of mine needs a list of reasons ppl might have trouble getting "shared reality"about something: - different meanings of words - different sets of experiences - < what else? > Feel free to restate same thing but different. Redundancy helpful here.
@spacecrone yep, vital one and often overlooked another possibility: both people amygdala hijacked, but into a different survival scene:
@Elodes12 Ooh yeah great article.
@FrediSampron Ah nice, different word-meaning, but on the level of connotation rather than denotation, and maybe more personal.
Replying to @ryn__x
@context_ing I have a page on my roamblog (roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…) featuring my various spreadsheets (many with templates!) for: - visualizing my assets & debts - tracking how long tasks take - optimizing my college grades (back then) - tracking daily reading of many books
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@eigenrobot i want this too if i were a billionaire i would just spend all of my time funding weird experimental shit rais…
@DanielleFong I really don't know what you mean but it vaguely sounds like a good idea to me
@QiaochuYuan JavaScript gets this. Most people probably think it's a weird quirk like other weird JavaScript quirks due to type conversion, but I guess it's just Math being Math.
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa 😍 I've been having some of these conversations with @joyurge about Complice, and would love to have them with you if some point emerges when your ebooks have digested you and left you with more capacity 🎶
@danlistensto I'm a mix of verbal arrows & power-will display
@aaronzlewis Yeah, it's basically impossible to update to "I'm crazy", and if there were, that would be a crazy-making thing to do, even if somewhat accurate. People need to find a way to integrate their conspiracy-based understanding with the rest of reality.
@aaronzlewis We need an antidote /anti-conspiracy that helps people bootstrap out in a way that doesn't involve feeling like an idiot.
@DRMacIver went through exactly this last year, including lamenting the further days lost to logistics after I decided but before it had arrived
@m_ashcroft me: mightn't there be some sort of 4D knots with 2D surfaces instead of 1D lines? internet: yep, knotted surfaces are a thing imaginary.org/film/knots-in-…
Man, double binds should be illegal. (Not actually; that is not the level of abstraction to solve that problem. But seriously, the questioner here (see further excerpts, linked below) seems to be in contempt of reality.)
Here Visa excerpts a bunch of other stuff. Some kinda funny, snarky, facepalmy, etc. Mostly made me go "oh god that sounds awful"
Replying to @qchurious
@qchurious there are people who have an automatic thing set up to block anyone who follows anyone in {very large set of supposedly-insufficiently-woke thought leaders}
@nosilverv stuff would correlate with it, though unfortunately because EU you can't just short portugal's currency
@AskYatharth Mmmmmmmmmmm "incorrect" is not the word I would use there. Any interpretation is nearly always partially correct in some sense, and in a different sense whatever interpretations arise are *always* your best guess, and you need to validate them as such even if they're inadequate.
@AskYatharth Although also I would say "he's annoying" is not a feeling. "I feel annoyed" is a feeling, and that's also probably to some extent quite accurate! (separate from what's going on with "him")
@AskYatharth @m_ashcroft @visakanv @QiaochuYuan and I got some good conceptual resolution on this from the BioEmotive retreat last summer: Core Feelings, eg "worthless", "hopeless", "inadequate" Relational Feelings, eg "abandoned", "attacked", "ignored" (ones you could stick "by Person" after) Emotions: 😀☹️😡😨
Replying to @alicemazzy
@alicemazzy Yeah, this is a serious tragedy. Instead of ad bizmodel, what about one where you have to pay twitter & the developers if you want to link more than 5 apps? That would encourage so much creativity!
Replying to @selentelechia
a super fancy pair of bluetooth headphones that replace the silence of brief signal drops with simulated record-skipping instead
@rothosphere @meditationstuff @vgr Oh fuck yeah, I will have lots of fun with this. I have a few ideas for forks already too.
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Prowess is the feminine form of prow. Prowl is the neuter. You may not like it, but this is what peak etymology looks l…
@ChanaMessinger This is the fucking content I come here for.
@QiaochuYuan @liminal_warmth It's probably this shit:
@_jordan_bates Love lets go. Love, let's go!
Just found a great case study in Thinking in Systems, of a situation where *increasing* a kind of delay can reduce system oscillation, clearing up a confusion @AskYatharth and I had had last week. The pages in this tweet have the context; next tweet has the solution.
By *slowing down* her response delay to better match the tempo of the delivery delay, the owner is able to reduce the oscillations instead of increase them. Dampens cycle of overreaction to gap (in both directions: ordering too many then ordering too few)
For substantial elaboration & clarification on this, check out these tweets:
"if you're in control of your helplessness, is it really helplessness?"
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
my name is Moth and wen im smol, i pick a danger path to crawl. i wont get stuck on sunny dew - i spring the trap. i lik…
@rothosphere Something something emotional schemas that predict helplessness, and in their fear of that helplessness act to generate experiences of helplessness. The original tweet sounds profound in part because of equivocation/ambiguity in the word "you".
complice.co is counter-intuitive. complice.co is intuitive. These are both true, and it depends on how you've trained your intuitions. ANYTHING is counter-intuitive until you have learned to do it.
@AskYatharth Agreed there's nuance. I think this is intended to basically mean what it literally says. Someone with plenty of intelligence (IQ?) & domain expertise, but no grasp of system dynamics & feedback loops will often exhibit behavior that has results that are clearly suboptimal.
@AskYatharth The simple PID controller I described in another tweet, if well-tuned, could also avoid oscillations here... if you can't tell that customer demand has just bumped up but otherwise is unchanging, you're not measuring important variables. (the derivative, specifically (D in PID))
Retweeted @lisatomic5
There’s a new shitpost style in town. All the top productivity bros know it 🚀 I’ll teach it to you *right now*: Short se…
@QiaochuYuan be the maxwell's demon you wish to see in the world
@Austen @netspencer Yes, trying to make an acronym out of just those 4... would be a major GAAF
@keikreutler Not totally sure what you mean but when I was a kid I would rent Paper Mario (N64) from the local video rental store and I always had to hope nobody else would wipe my saved game. (They didn't)
Retweeted @alexeyguzey
years later, still thinking about this paper.. forum.guzey.com/t/misperceivin…
@CurziRose Hihihi! Very classy intro. Looking forward to connecting more with you 😊
@Plinz @tcooney8 Check out the book Sources of Power, which has a detailed model of how decisions actually get made in high pressure situations when there isn't time for rational approaches that enumerate multiple options. Model is called "recognition-primed decision-making" Very cool shit.
Retweeted @mattgoldenberg
Alright getting in on this. 1 like = give me the illusion of being loved and supported 1 retweet = give me the illusi…
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth I'm working on this but I only have a couple dozen so far
Actually it's telling people you can teach them how to detect cult leaders twitter.com/eigenrobot/sta…
Google: "organizing the world's knowledge" Twitter: "organizing the world's nowledge"
Smartphone + Bluetooth Keyboard is a totally underrated singletasking writing set-up. There's just the input device and the words I'm typing, and nothing else. No windows, no tabs. (Gotta use DoNotDisturb / ✈️ ofc)
you should no better
@snarayan Yo @KHPavle I think it's time for me to get a Ponder demo. Jiving more with some of where I've been at lately.
Great article on different kinds of time, & a way to have a workable interplay of the two during quarantine. I usually refer to these as "chronos" & "kairos" after two greek gods of time. Related ofc to @pg's classic Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule medium.com/hcil-at-umd/wh…
tiny @RoamResearch idea {{index: ((blockid))}} would produce the same number as that block would have next to it when set as a numbered list so you could say "related to thing #{{index: ((blockid))}} above" and have it dynamically update if you reorder the list
Name 2 songs that you like that both have the same title, but are different songs (not one a cover of the other). I'll go first: "Better" - Cody Fry: upbeat jazzy funky love song - Jack Garratt: indie-edm introspective social anxiety song
Retweeted @curiouswavefn
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to fin…
@vgr You might as well also check out Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford
@ctbeiser it's almost like the designers thought about the situation, except for the part where it's so clear that they didn't
is an unread book a liability or an opportunity? there's a kind of wisdom to be living one's life on such a border where this is maximally hard to discern
I know the difference between "its" and "it's", and I just found a typo in some rough journal notes today. Finding myself asking if there's any value to differentiating those (doesn't seem to reduce any ambiguity) besides signalling educatedness/polishedness.
Like, for what ought I care about "it's/its" in my notes? When in the future of English might either of those become an "acceptable" spelling for the other usage? Why not now?
Linguistic prescriptivism is almost always a helpless cause, but I think it's further worth distinguishing between cases where it's taking a stand for a meaningful difference, vs "it's/its". An example of meaningful difference: drift of "literally" into intensifier like "very"
(Although as I understand it, "really" and "very" both themselves in some sense used to have non-intensifier meanings, and went through a similar process as "literally" is now. We will, I suppose, find a new word to mean "literally", literally. Necessity & invention & all that.)
@_TomCassidy_ yeah it seems like this spikes cognitive load a bit, though also it's not like we actually have issues with it when talking. my kingdom for a different pronunciation of "mimetic" and "memetic"
@DRMacIver @lisatomic5 there are stats on this and last I checked (7 years ago) most knowledge workers spend 2-4h/day doing *actually vital work*, with maybe another couple hours doing work-related stuff like reading through emails, that may or may not cause anything meaningful, even indirectly
@lisatomic5 I say yes. Even if it's not stated, or even if it's explicitly denied because shorter hours for some people would do weird things to morale, that's part of the point of a salary (vs an hourly wage)—that you're not having to stress about clocking in & clocking out.
Retweeted @nosilverv
the solution is OUTSIDE YOUR FRAME OR YOU'D ALREADY HAVE FOUND IT
Retweeted @utotranslucence
Ok now if anyone needs me to explain my anti-authoritarian criticism of many complex political movements, I can just s…
@natural_hazard I don't except for a brief time when there was a discord that was only open for 1h a day, and I used to check it sometimes
@Morphenius I was reminded of this tweet when we were talking today about solutions to perennial problems being a kind of dynamic balance
@__justplaying @peak_valley_pea @ebenwert I liked this as an intro to metamodernism on a general cultural level: huffpost.com/entry/what-is-…
@__justplaying @peak_valley_pea @ebenwert This article by @HFreinacht presents snarky critiques of premodern by modern, modern by postmodern, and postmodern by metamodern, in succession. I don't agree with everything Hanzi says but this piece is evocative and as such quite useful. metamoderna.org/from-premodern…
@__justplaying @peak_valley_pea @ebenwert @HFreinacht Also this tweet of mine:
@__justplaying @peak_valley_pea @ebenwert @HFreinacht These are largely separate from the post-rationalist / meta-rationalist thing, for which I would agree that meaningness.com is a great intro. Also Iain McGilchrist:
Oh shit this is super good. twitter.com/bodhidave3/sta…
Wow, timeline super meh again right now. Good timing — I've got stuff to do.
@nateliason Aldous Huxley's amazing eutopian novel Island features a psychedelic coming of age ceremony.
"There are three distortions [antidoting comparison mind] removes. The inferiority complex, the superiority complex, and the equality complex." — Thich Nhat Hanh (via Romeo Stevens)
@michaelcurzi @m_ashcroft Not so much "wrong" as like "reinforces the old pattern" rather than allowing both people to go meta on the pattern.
@cj_pais Fyeah!
@QiaochuYuan Bro you can't just *give* me a "fight hypothetical option. That makes it too easy.
@danlistensto Weird answer: Kinesis Freestyle 2, which also splits in 2 pieces and you can tilt it up diagonally to save even more space.
Short talk by Thich Nhat Hanh on the subject:
Retweeted @selentelechia
fun to imagine that this might actually be a Good timeline in which we are getting exposed to just enough failure modes…
@EpistemicHope When I was getting into twitter (like a decade ago) I got some advice from my mom, who'd been using it for a year already (she's in PR) and she said one heuristic she'd seen was to have about 1/3 each of: - RTs - replies - other tweets
@EpistemicHope Those were, ofc, different times, when RTs were fairly new, character limit was 140, and threading was nonexistent. Here's an intro I wrote for @QiaochuYuan last year:
@EpistemicHope Daniel Schmachtenberger is definitely more on the civilizational collapse side, but I have the sense he's also looked at AI risk.
@Aella_Girl The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGilchrist utterly blew my mind last year. It's incredibly well-cited while being quite accessible, and pulls together a non-obvious thesis from a ton of existing data. Relevant to psychedelics & enlightenment too. amzn.to/2FNk7A8
This question raises another: opinions on which level of abstraction? • Which of two major shitty parties to vote for? • What ought be on those parties' platforms? • How to go about implementing any sorts of policies? (top-down, distributedly, etc)
@jack_meditates Why? What are you hoping will happen? What questions do you hope people will ask? Which ones are you nervous people will ask?
@yoshikischmitz new languaging terms like mutual causality
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
extremely off-brand but i am going to experiment with seeing if i can just decide to not be depressed
@GRITCULT @QiaochuYuan I think it's not the depression part but the "just"
@QiaochuYuan 😆❣️ (I did know this)
@QiaochuYuan Oh also this!
Is there a platform that allows anonymous discussion among a selected group of people? Like invite only but once in nobody (even mod) can tell who sent specific messages. Asking for a friend, who wants to run "a group for discussing things that people don't necessarily endorse."
Thread · Victor Wooten's "You are here" game for finding the key by ear
Victor Wooten 🎶 game: "You are here." Difficulty: moderate (maybe advanced?) Put on a song. Strike a note on your instrument. (You can move one semi-tone up or down if it feels totally "wrong".) Then keep hitting only that note and try to feel where you are in the scale.
I've been kind of doing this implicitly for awhile. Just had another experience of striking the non-dominant 7th note in a minor key song (as in the QT below), this time a G in the Am key of Linkin Park's Burning in the Skies
While writing the previous tweet, I tried out an E in When They Come For Me (I've got Linkin Park's Ten Thousand Suns album on 🥰) and it was weird, so I dropped down a semitone to Eb, and just kept playing it and I was like "mmm yeah this wants to go down to D then C" - Cm! ✔️
Lest you think I've got perfect pitch, I had some trouble with Robot Boy just now, though I just looked up the chords and it's kind of fucky, with both Bb (Bb chord) and B (G chord) in it. No wonder my initial F# then G felt weirdly natural but also foreign.
tried out a C in Waiting for the End... nope. B... yeaaaaah B feels pretty chill, pretty stable, can just hang out here and hit this B a lot and it works with whatever's underneath... but it's not home. Home is... E. Yup! Song is in E.
Anyway, this skill took me a lot of noodling around on a keyboard over the last year to develop, and this after years of other instrumental explorations, piano & guitar and otherwise.
But internalizing the bit from Victor Wooten made a huge difference! There's no wrong notes, just… notes that take a bit more ummm explaining to do if someone walks in on you.
I have no idea if this skill is accessible to other musicians at whatever skill level or just a weird quirk I've developed over the last year. Based on some of the recent videos I've watched that analyze jazz, my sense is that jazz would train this 10× as much as most genres.
The beginner version of this game ofc is just "put on a song, and hit notes on your instrument until you know what key you're in." This is also a lot of fun and is improved by a wootenesque philosophy that says there are no wrong notes.
@dela3499 That's actually pretty good! And if you don't want pseudonymity then you don't need to include nicknames at all. I think there's something valuable to not having a given handle build up a sense of having particular opinions.
@mattgoldenberg Hmm from my perspective pseudonymity is inadequate. It would mean a building sense of perspective associated with each handle, which would be non-ideal for various reasons from potential doxxing to just distraction.
The whole dream felt significant, though I'm not sure quite whatly/howly.
Retweeted @DougTataryn
I like the translation of Dharma to mean "the way things are" Buddha Dharma == Buddhist version of the way things are An…
@DanielleFong I feel you. Had a few weird coughs last week and I was like "okay I've been social distancing hard and so have my housemates... this is probably an allergy thing or something given only 40 active known cases in the city I live in in Ontario" Would have been scarier in SF etc.
@DanielleFong (Got a test at a drive-thru (in my case walk-thru) center friday afternoon, negative result 24h later. False negative rates are fairly high, but again: priors.)
@_jordan_bates You might like this article, which talks about scientific orthodoxy. Written by @morphenius who used to be very close to the center of the bay area rationalist scene. medium.com/@wiseknowing/t…
@xuenay @Meaningness @_jordan_bates @Tipsycaek Also this article, which I posted in response to @_jordan_bates' original tweet above, before seeing this subthread.
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
most ppl who say that their guilt is what keeps them productive still struggle with productivity and have never seriousl…
@CompliceGoals See also these comments:
Retweeted @Aella_Girl
one of the *worst* conversational moves i've ever seen is when someone goes "Oh that's not what I meant" and the response i…
Retweeted @JvNixon
What is the best guide for making 'ideas people' productive? For grounding fantasizers in reality?
Thread · A running collection of delightful animal clips · 1 of 35 tweets
adorable giraffeline 😮 twitter.com/BexyWillRise/s…
@mattgoldenberg @xuenay @visakanv > Creative tension is also needed, and it's definitely not a default way of interacting. Creative tension would seem, based on a PCT model, to be utterly structural to how the brain works. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you? I think CT isn't default because we learn oscillating T.
@fanaagooo @DanielleFong A Canadian target I read somewhere was "60% of results within 24h, 80% within 48h". When I got my test she said "could take up to 4 days".
@meditationstuff @AbstractFairy @bigmastertroll Not-not-forgiveness is vital. Forgiveness is a patch on having a blame-based paradigm in the 1st place. Blame-based ways of understanding are confused like geocentrism is confused.
@meditationstuff @AbstractFairy @bigmastertroll "Punishing bad actors" is pretty confused. Sociopaths don't respond to punishment, basically at all. Inasmuch as non-sociopaths are fucking shit up, they need their trauma untangled, not to be tangled more by more punishment.
@meditationstuff @AbstractFairy @bigmastertroll Turns out most people, broadly speaking, care about other people and want to do nice things for others and the world, and if they're not doing so it's because they're scared or confused. The idea that that's not so is self-reinforcing dualistic propaganda.
I quite like spicy food, yet used to think I didn't, since capsaicin (/chili & related peppers) is one of my least favourite spices. Much prefer piperine (black pepper or other peppercorn) or ginger, garlic, cloves, etc.
@michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel @mattgoldenberg @TylerAlterman @DodsonMorgenth2 @Jesper_G_Ostman @WilliamAEden @JeffLadish Open to being tagged in this sort of thing in the future!
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia @eigenrobot @meditationstuff @forshaper @QiaochuYuan @Aella_Girl Mmm, cool. You've thoroughly inspired me to read these books! My other exposure to Earthseed was in talking with @joyurge about McGilchrist saying "God is Becoming", in talking about grokking the phrase "the only constant is change" (thread below)
@mattgoldenberg @xuenay @visakanv Hmm seems to me that non-human animals, maybe relatively simple ones but at least crows, obviously have control systems that look ahead at least somewhat. Human non-look-ahead seems to be due to trauma-trained overwhelming sense of present not-okayness.
@Morphenius - related to your work:
@mattgoldenberg @xuenay @visakanv I know you're well-versed in trauma stuff from reading eg Unlocking the Emotional Brain, but idk if you're familiar from reading eg David Deutsch's Beginning of Infinity how rampant traumatization is as an enculturation method.
@mattgoldenberg @xuenay @visakanv What I'd point someone at for the other half of the thing is... Already Free by Bruce Tift (probably gonna be my top book recommendation for 2020) The book is deliciously dense & relevant. Here's an excerpt that's central to what we're talking about:
Retweeted @selentelechia
Earthseed (from Octavia Butler's Parable series) seems like a v well-designed quasi-religious movement; I wonder how oft…
@JvNixon Pick Four, one of the inspirations for complice.co, sorta fits this. It's like, a goal-setting workbook plus 12 weeks' worth of daily and weekly reflection pages. Like "pick some things & set targets then work on them every day. it'll be fun and you'll get somewhere"
@Jeanvaljean689 I noticed it. He makes very little reference to any popular reference to lateralization models. Guessing there's a general sense of not particularly wanting to endorse any; I haven't read DRSB but it seems like it wouldn't be confused in the way a pop-psych book would be.
Replying to @mwiik
@mwiik @visakanv Neat stuff, and enjoying in principle the play around "restricted conference" though I'm not feeling particularly draw to add anything and it sorta feels quiet and I don't feel clear on like, why to restrict this except to try it out.
@reasonisfun @micahtredding "shame" and "fear", to me, point at something much much more specific than such a gap. shame is one way of relating to such a gap, and is part of the coercive anti-rational memeplex. could try to rehabilitate the word "shame" to mean something else, but it's not a natural move
@reasonisfun @micahtredding for instance, I would say "shame is secretly a defense—it makes something about me which is not about me, and reifies a problem. this is true whether I'm ashamed of hurting you, or whether I'm ashamed of my art"
@reasonisfun @micahtredding in both cases, it's a distraction: from the hurt I've caused, or from the art itself shame, as an emotion, is trying to say "I submit, don't hurt me." social fear works similarly it blocks actual learning
@reasonisfun @micahtredding fear is a natural emotion and not intrinsically part of the coercive way of organizing human beings, although it is profoundly overused as part of coercive societies, and is awful for steering things because it mostly just says "avoid this" try giving someone directions that way
@schlagetown @anthilemoon +1 to Thinking in Systems for other systems thinkers, check out: - Joanna Macy (I particularly liked Mutual Causality but it's quite technical and many may prefer other books) - Nora Bateson (though hm, she has a couple books but I mostly know her through talks)
@RichDecibels focus on shifting from rankism to dignitarianism, rather than atomistic overwhelm about the intersectionality of specific -isms. Dignity for everybody, from everybody. No exceptions. Epic book on this: amazon.com/Somebodies-Nob…
@rroudt wtf it claims these are words but half of them are either archaic af or... oh, okay, realistic pseudowords. anyway, half of my typos have been caused by my brain chunking what I'm reading inaccurately like I see "raction" and I'm like "reaction; wait no"
@nosilverv hmmm... seems not without a novel problem to solve.
Thread · A running collection of delightful animal clips · 2 of 35 tweets
this guy has a bunch of great clips with voiceover like BBC talks to animals, but a different flavor
here's another: twitter.com/analeally/stat…
Potent. I've returned to this a few times, & shared it with others.
@marginaliaclub what about this week? cc @utotranslucence
an article about akrasia, but instead of examples like "not doing my homework" the examples are shit like "googling butt implants when I really actually on reflection did not want to know more about butt implants"
@JeffLadish Also appreciating his "I don't have HARD evidence", in that various sciency officials in this pandemic have been really confusing by saying "no evidence" when they actually mean "conflicting and/or unclear evidence". There's *some* evidence for all sorts of impossible shit.
@reasonisfun re "fighting evil" as a frame, I think Carse is onto something important here:
@micahtredding Jordan Hall talks about this in relation to a project he's working on called Civium… …in some ways (minds collaborating) remote-tech makes the whole world one giant city, without running up against scaling challenges of packing everyone together. youtube.com/watch?v=3CH4ml…
Retweeted @alifeofmovement
Less than 10 years before professional therapy/relationship counseling is watchable with professional commentators lik…
@nickcammarata what do you make of mine?
@WeftOfSoul Meanwhile I grew up a literal stone's throw from the bay with the highest tides in the world, so when I go anywhere with ordinary 2-4m tides it basically feels like there's no tides. Image below is not my hometown but I had to look for a couple seconds to be certain.
Retweeted @nolemonnomelon
does "turn down the AC" mean you are making it
@pieratt @meditationstuff Hmm never speaking of it again sounds like a way to end up with some layering, fwiw.
Thread · Panic, childhood flashbacks, and not needing feelings to go away · 2 of 8 tweets
SQUAD GOALS
Important caveat:
> However, if you can gradually learn to tolerate feeling abandoned—which is already how you feel; it’s nothing new—you may find it’s not going to kill you. It’s not going to harm you. — Already Free by Bruce Tift. This book is a loving, challenging friend.
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I'll note that there are 2 elements to this. One is learning not to fear feeling whatever you're feeling. Bruce Tift speaks brilliantly to this, in eg this excerpt: (a substantial chunk of the dharma seems to be learning how to not need feelings go away)
The other element, which is probably in some sense more what @emmalsalinas is referring to, is untangling whatever has your current system organized to produce panicked responses in relation to certain situations.
Inasmuch as each emotion has a *purpose*, and panic (unlike straight up fear→run) seems to mostly make us helplessly freak out, it seems to me that panic's purpose is probably purely infantile: get comforted by parents, including found if lost.
If you're feeling panic, and you're an adult, ask yourself if you feel small. Your system may be having an emotional flashback to a time when you were very young.
If you're reading this and think you don't have childhood trauma, well... I don't know you! I do know that 4 years ago I didn't think I did and that is clearly false, and I also know that our society is built up to systematically traumatize people.
Important caveat: having childhood experiences that got stuck in tangles and now generate adult flashbacks does NOT mean anyone did something wrong. It just means you faced situations that you didn't know how to metabolize at the time.
@emmalsalinas welp I went and did a whole thread inspired by this, remixing some old ideas
Replying to @dhanesh_arole
@dhanesh_arole @wiredmau5 Can you guys say more about what the "acknowledges the trigger" feels like? It sounds like you mean something specific here, that I've probably experienced but I'm not quite sure what.
Replying to @abhayance
@AbhayPrasanna @krishashok yes, I love Indian food
@AbhayPrasanna @krishashok …although lots of it has chilis nowadays—the Saag Lamb I got as takeout this week had a whole pepper (serrano I think? one of the tiny ones) in it. I was okay with this—I like capsaicin better as a lot of pain all at once vs just dominating the whole dish.
@speakerjohnash @emmalsalinas I think there's a role for CBT & similar stuff but it's a much smaller role than I thought before reading Unlocking the Emotional Brain which points out that CBT can have a repressive rather than integrative effect. book summary: lesswrong.com/posts/i9xyZBS3…
@wiredmau5 Have you seen stuff about how Cauchy distributions (power-law but looks like a normal bell curve) don't work with the CLT? Blows my mind every time. Both expected value & variance are undefined. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_di…
@uncatherio @meditationstuff @ben_r_hoffman What @uncatherio said, except also "wait what, explain?"
Yo @RoamResearch I am really sick of you inventing a page with the few letters I've typed and adding it to the page name autocomplete dropdown milliseconds before my "down" arrow key was gonna select the existing long name. Similar awfulness as this, though less catastrophic:
@visakanv also lol I just looked really closely at that gif and it has the word "Roam" in it
Didno Tvote 2020 who gets the VP ticket? 🤔🤔
@bryankam Chirality is super cool. I'm not aware of any reasons to think it relates. Plus some organisms with bilateral brains have them organized in the opposite way, including a small % of humans, which would imply it's not dependent on chirality. It's macro-structure that does this.
While I'm at it, there's another weird thing that's harder to describe, that's just shown up in the last couple days, where pressing End to escape typing the pageref sometimes jumps my cursor back into the pageref.
Also kinda frustrated that when I try to type a url with https:/ or a "/" in the middle of a sentence that the dropdown appears, but that's mostly distracting, not actually preventing me from doing what I'm trying to do. Though can't type A/B<enter>, without getting blockref
Got some feedback on my twitter bio. Soliciting alternate bios! Followers, how would you introduce me (/ my twitter account) to people?
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dun dun... dun dun...
@anorbericdream Omfg this gave me a ridiculous idea. The total voting population is considered the denominator, not the # of people who vote, and so if Didno Tvote wins, then randomly selected citizens are chosen to lead. Which would probably be terrible, so would disincentivize voter supprssn
@catherineols very unclear results :(
Retweeted @catherineols
TIL that chickens can be hypnotized by drawing a line on the ground in front of their face. (video here: …
@yashkaf this was quality informative & entertaining
@metaLulie @rivatez @HiFromMichaelV @visakanv @m_ashcroft This is an article I co-wrote about sort-of-this-thing 5 years ago. Would write it pretty differently now but broadly still stand by it. malcolmocean.com/2015/11/just-d…
@paulg I'm gonna say people who talk about "human error" mostly don't understand human factors / design. See eg this thread talking about a naval disaster that was blamed on the operators but was obviously downstream of poor design once investigated.
Oh man I have mentally referred to this thread a few times since but didn't know where to find it. Ummm a bunch of keywords I might search: architecture design temperature weather climate humidity japan water convection ceilings air flow airflow room height electricity modernism
@wrathofgnon People who like this tweet might dig the book The End of Average which talks extensively about how average-based design of anything from user interfaces to education systems is profoundly misguided.
@JimmyRis Yeah it's like, I think I didn't appreciate the extent to which I was going to want to refer to it again.
A tendency I've noticed emerging in my writing: I use "&" for conjoining nouns & short phrases, and "and" for conjoining longer clauses or sentence fragments.
I just uttered the phrase "socially-distanced noogie".
The new Emancipator album, Mountains of Memory, is really solid. Their best yet, I think. It's instrumental texturey electronica, slow but with beats. Similar to Tycho (particularly his early stuff). music.youtube.com/playlist?list=…
Retweeted @Nsousanis
My comic No Sides - on divisions & the importance of seeing connections in this current moment. Revised + a mobile version (…
@WeftOfSoul Yes. It's very weir'd.
@peak_valley_pea Huh. I did this to myself once with my visual field just based on reading a book about Perceptual Control Theory and then trying to suppress the layer of my brain's processing system that reifies objects. Was like the no-dog. Each object exquisitely beautiful for moments after.
@peak_valley_pea My meditator friend (Romeo Stevens) commented that this was very impressive that I could do this but it seemed to me like a pretty straightforward move based on reading this cybernetic neuroscience book. Haven't tried conveying the move to people yet tho. Would be fun to do so.
@peak_valley_pea Note that objects and concepts are not the same. I did this with objects—very low level. Just saw splotches of color and light and shape, no things. Vs objects without concepts, you still know what's foreground vs background, even if you have no idea the name/use of the thing.
@Mikeggibbs Continues to feel very weird to me that we're not trying harder to eradicate the thing within Canada's borders altogether, given how close we are.
@RichDecibels bandlab.com seems quite powerful (nearly a full DAW) and is totally online so you just make an account then start playing around. Had some fun with drum loops the other day. Not the simplest but the learning curve isn't that steep either.
Replying to @ryn__x
@context_ing I try to hang a lot of stuff on the walls. Feels way clearer than resting on surfaces somehow.
Retweeted @lisatomic5
Idk, I genuinely don’t think this girl’s an idiot. This seems like actually a pretty skilled gendered performance within th…
@yashkaf Does it have this tho?
@RichDecibels I feel like you've been iterating towards this tweet for a few days, and this is it
Update: turns out there are phrases where this actually matters! Lots of times it doesn't, but yeah. And out loud, this wouldn't be ambiguous I think, because of tone. eg "I was listening to Podcast and it's epic stuff" vs "I was listening to Podcast and its epic stuff"
@jameswjesso Cool I'll check it out!
@DaveProbably @madden_barrett @paulg On the gripping hand, I would say that any need-for-training that *can* be obviated with design though should be, and modal design is known to cause issues if people can't easily tell what mode they're in (and don't have any obvious cue to tell them they would need to check)
@EndersenL @jaltma @paulg If you're in tech support in such a way that you don't have any leverage for redesigning the systems to be less confusing to the users, this does actually seem like a useful classification. Though "problem in training" might still be more fruitful & less contemptuous.
Usually 'QT a viral video to argue against the haters' means arguing against the video itself, which our ppl don't do because we don't signal-boost cringe. In this case, hater is boringly hating on the video, & we genuinely find the original vid interesting, so want to boost it.
For context, this is the video we're referring to. The video itself drowns out the caption. This gal is thinking about math in a way that's curious & fascinated, and in touch with the beauty of puzzling at these deep questions. twitter.com/aIeturner/stat…
Here's a great short post by @Morphenius talking about how "Math — REAL math — is the sacred art of relating to truth on your own terms, free of illusions and confusion and social pressure." patreon.com/posts/wise-kno…
And here's some discussion by me & @visakanv about how to think about what to QT and why.
@robertskmiles @lisatomic5 My take:
@nosilverv @visakanv coercion ↔️ emotional repression ↔️ muscle tension @DougTataryn wrote a paper in 1983 that covers the second link: "Emotions, Muscles, and the Cortex: A Physiological Basis for Repression" bioemotiveframework.com/wp-content/upl…
@nosilverv @visakanv @DougTataryn coercion ↔️ emotional repression ↔️ muscle tension Then @DavidDeutschOxf has some stuff in Beginning of Infinity that substantiates... well, [coercion ↔️ trauma] or [coercion ↔️ repression of eg creativity].
@reasonisfun @nosilverv @visakanv @VladZamfir What do you particularly imagine my take would be on this? I feel like I've explored this space but a lot of others we follow have better things to say about it at this point. Not that I won't keep writing :)
Replying to @ryn__x
@context_ing cluttery piles of books atm but this pic (arm's reach beside my standing desk) shows many things hung up, including pencils/pens/sharpies on a floss line, various other objects on pushpins, and some stuff hanging from a hook.
nobody: me: so... about that attempt to replace "kill two birds with one stone" with "feed two birds with one scone" ...as cute as that parody is it's a bad metaphor because energy (or negentropy) is inexorably a rivalrous resource. Can't spend it twice.
@BakedGoodsYYC @EndersenL @jaltma @paulg Mmm, yeah. Problem in society training people to blame people (sometimes themselves, sometimes others) when they encounter difficulty, due to learned helplessness and other systematically-installed traumatic trigger responses, which inhibit both curiosity and empathy.
@lunaraptor I like your color palette, particularly how your emoji match your avatar.
@dreams_ofsushi Nice, that's for sharing. I hope she gets a satisfying answer to that last question. (~"Why are the people disagreeing with me the ones who are dumb, and the physicists and mathematicians are agreeing with me?")
@dreams_ofsushi "*Thanks", although the sentence is technically true with "that's" too.
Underrated tweet. I would buy a few shares in this one. Also seems like the kind of thing @chaosprime would like (or have come up with)
@AskYatharth What, in this metaphor, is the equivalent of knowing breakdance, or parkour, or MMA? I guess these 3 would all actually be pretty different--coordinating your emotional capacity to show off, navigate, or fight, respectively.
if someone gets criticism (or any info they don't like) two common categories of responses could be described as "shame" and "defensiveness" shame and defensiveness are not opposites -- they're actually two sides of the same coin there are other coins possible
@BakedGoodsYYC @EndersenL @jaltma @paulg Yeah, to be clear, my comment about suppressed empathy was about them not having empathy for you and your experience. People will go to great lengths (including cognitive contortions) to avoid feeling shame (eg re 🔌). This is part of the cultural conditioning I mentioned above.
@jonnym1ller My gut response is something like "Try sitting and doing nothing for 10 minutes before or during your work session" although *how* exactly that acts as a diagnostic is not totally clear to me.
@jonnym1ller I really want a biofeedback device that literally vibrates slightly every single heartbeat. @FlowGenome guys' book Stealing Fire describes how someone used one for a few days and with only a lil explicit practice learned to control their heartrate somewhat. I'd pay $300 for this
I had some confusions about UV & COVID. I probably still have confusions—hopefully fewer. Great source below, tl;dr: - UVA & UVB don't kill viruses - UVC does but would fuck you up first - sunlight maybe does (just bc so intense?) but facts unclear here bbc.com/future/article…
@jonnym1ller @FlowGenome Totally, re HRV. And that feels related to what I'm saying. I don't want to learn "a technique for lowering heartrate". I want to become attuned to every heartbeat and feel how everything I does makes it quicken or calm. Each breath, each movement, each thought & meta-thought.
@markmarijnissen @jonnym1ller @FlowGenome Tempting! Though so many other things. Can't someone kickstarter this? I bet this could breakeven with a team who even somewhat knew what they were doing. I'd support a kickstarter up to $1k (& promotionally!) if counterfactually that would make the difference of this happening.
Retweeted @garybasin
Owning real estate in America is a nice trick. Basically you get 5-10x leverage on an undiversified REIT with no risk of ma…
@Austen My top rec. Relevant to business, culture, politics, relationships, & well, almost everything. "Converting Moloch from Sith to Jedi w/ Daniel Schmachtenberger"
The other thing I hate about this is that it sometimes makes me think I already have a page with a given title, like if I type [[forgive]] thinking I'll probably call the page [[forgiveness]] but would use [[forgive]] if it already exists, then it seems like [[forgive]] exists.
Retweeted @regardthefrost
Abbott's $5 lateral flow antigen test is the size of a credit card and gives results in 15 minutes. It seems perfect fo…
Me to @SarahAMcManus just now: "this is great teamwork! I said a thing that was half-assed and then you found the other ass!"
I have an old 2014 blog post "Project Partners: make things. with people." Link: malcolmocean.com/2014/12/projec… Just re-read it and it's pretty good, but I added this italic paragraph below based on stuff I've learned in the last 6 years.
Had some vivid dreams last night. I forget most of the details now except: - weird college dorms - social distancing - using a pro dental camera on myself at my gparents' house (same dream) …and most excitingly, an overall feeling of being solidly secure in my self-worth.
@lisatomic5 See also "Mythic Mode" lesswrong.com/posts/HnWN6v4w…
@natural_hazard Hmmm somehow feel you may be interested in this article, which talks about the role of Newton's alchemy in his scientific discoveries. medium.com/@wiseknowing/t…
@natural_hazard Wow I hadn't even seen this 👇tweet when I posted that one 👆
@mwiik @IgorBrigadir @visakanv @DrewCoffman @eevee I don't think it was exactly a presumption or status thing, but there's something about learning to get your ideas to dance with others', and both the "only these 2 ppl can reply" plus the density of your articulations, made that difficult here. Keep trying, keep playing 🙂🙃
Yo #roamcult, ♥ or retweet this if you also think that pressing tab should complete the page/block ref dropdown with the top result, in @RoamResearch. I know it's not a democracy but the roaman citizens make enough of an uproar, we might get heard 😝
@RoamFm YES. I wrote a long rant to @Conaw months ago explaining that tab-autocomplete is appropriate here based on a case study of a bunch of other apps that work that way Ah, found it.
I have a related rant about tab-completion:
@nosilverv yes, read girard
@AdeleDeweyLopez Speed limits on memes. "Sir, do you know how fast you(r meme) is spreading?" (Not a full coherent thought but an interesting metaphor, and one explored in a different way at platforms.fyi)
@visakanv Yeah those directions are probably where I would go as well. I could spend a few minutes talking about how curling is one of the most participatory spectator sports since it involves slow deliberation so your thought "she should do this" can actually resemble the player's.
@the_aiju My money's on your mom told her, based on the structure of the slip including but not limited to the correction to "person", possibly to avoid giving away that some one said anything to her if she isn't supposed-to-know. (I don't know anything about your mom.)
@m_ashcroft The manual solution: based on how fast you expect it to sell out, launch at a time of day when you'll be awake to watch it hit 50, then close it. (Which could also be like "launch, go to bed, sell a couple dozen while asleep then more the next day then close".)
@m_ashcroft @pringleben A bit weird though that people wouldn't be able to *know* whether they were in the first 50 while signing up.
@m_ashcroft I'm having this vague idea that probably doesn't make sense but it's an interesting thought, which is that if you had a stripe account we could set you up with a landing page on the Complice site like we have for the GCIs. It has these limits. Probably unwieldy in many ways tho.
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa 🎵 brick by boring brick 🎶
Good shit. Lots of educators in the replies noting that they kick students out for no camera. It seems like within months of this someone will make software that spoofs the student sitting there looking attentive, maybe even giving periodic thumbs-ups. Necessity & invention. twitter.com/SusannaLHarris…
I've been a userstyler for a decade, making custom CSS for websites I use. Main 2 changes: 😡 ReactJS produces the most utter garbage for trying to inspect HTML+CSS 😂 fortunately now CSS has accessibility aria-label attributes plus attribute selectors
Retweeted @PYeerk
You have to understand that 'leftists' who want to 'abolish sex and gender' have a Cartesian approach to autonomy, they're dual…
Thought while laying down to nap: I want to have a feeling of a secure relationship with the past (no regret or resent)... ...while daringly flirting with the future, feeling the thrill of the unknown. And these two mutually exalt each other. Confidence & possibility.
@AdeleDeweyLopez Yeah, and part of the whole challenge is finding a rigorous way to disambiguate between what's informational etc etc. Some scientists were being blocked by twitter as misinfo back in the early months of covid since they disagreed with WHO & CDC 🤦♀️
@TristanMiano @nosilverv I haven't yet either 😂 (I've read a couple short summaries and works based on his, so I feel like I've met him and seen him around, just haven't gotten to know him that well personally.)
@nosilverv bro I hear you, I haven't read Girard either
@TheOrangeAlt Fyeah, such an important capacity to have!
@natural_hazard I almost feel like I could *feel* the burning curiosity in the random tweet about Keynes. Like you felt like you were boggling at wtf Newton's deal was around alchemy.
@DougTataryn Ooh nice. That seems to me to actually be a great *definition* for "desire" in the buddhist sense, ie the word that is "Tanha" in Pali. So as a corollary: any desire that doesn't promise more than it delivers is not what the dharma is talking about.
Replying to @ponekarl
@ponekarl 🤩🧐🙃😏
@ponekarl more verbosely, I'd say that you are unusual in having been raised with such an explicitly philosophy, and it makes you relate to philosophy differently than most philosophers, who got into it much later than life you're very earnest & dogged about it, yet familiar & chill too
@ponekarl That tweet was not intended to be an expanded version of the emojis, although after the fact I would say they overlap in what they're trying to say by like 70%.
@LauraDeming Hmmm.... not confident about this but it seems that kids probably healthily have oversimplified models of trust, where some people (parents, fam) are simply trustworthy and others are not. But that's best (& rarely) outgrown at least in part by the end of infancy.
Retweeted @catherineols
I've been working on this for months, and I'm super excited to share it 🤩 It's a tool to quickly turn a scenario like "r…
@yung_shishtov kind of related to "rule omega", which is something like "try to find the signal in what they're saying first, rather than arguing against what you perceive as noise"
Retweeted @nosilverv
me sliding off your bullshit
Replying to @JoWolffBSG
@JoWolffBSG "places" is pretty ambiguous. If you mean cities, 2-3. If you mean "houses where I paid rent for more than a month", 5. If you include houses I've couchsurfed for a month, maybe 10. If you mean houses I've lived in for more than 6mo, exactly 1. I'm 28.
Replying to @Virtual1nstinct
@Virtual1nstinct Reminds me of Soryu saying to @tasshinfogleman something like "at some point, in your role, you'll probably make a mistake that costs MAPLE $50k. That's ok." and Tasshin gulping & making a note to read my essay on transcending regret (👇) when that occurs.
@micahtredding Yeah, the challenge is to experience the finitude of time without an accompanying sense of scarcity. The problem that many people run into is *deferred* scarcity where they take out a loan to feel abundance now, promising they'll pay it back later, then realize it's too late.
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia Therafields: The Rise and Fall of Lea Hindley-Smith's Psychoanalytic Commune I've only read 1-2 ch but it's fascinating shit. Therapist starts hosting groups, people start moving in, scales to 900 people and owns a lot of real estate in Toronto before collapsing due to conflict.
@selentelechia @QiaochuYuan & @meditationstuff you might find the Therafields story interesting. I think it could be done a lot better with today's psychotech, although unless you find the right balance of everything, that might mostly mean it explodes faster.
Replying to @Virtual1nstinct
@Virtual1nstinct @tasshinfogleman Mmm, appreciating your appreciation. Very curious how you came to have the relationship with regret that you do!
@eriktorenberg I remember thinking while I was at @UWaterloo doing CO-OP was that one of the main things I was paying for was license to work at 6 different companies in 5 years without it looking sketchy. Ended up starting my own ofc anyway, because I didn't want to actually work for anyone.
@eriktorenberg @UWaterloo This is making me think that something super valuable a network of companies (*cough* 🤭 @beondeck 🤭 *cough*) could offer is a legible cross-company internship arc where you get to try working at a few different places in different roles as part of one bigger thing.
@eriktorenberg @UWaterloo @beondeck I've been cultivating a vision for awhile of a network of companies that are all operating on a compatible version of a GameB human operating system, and thereby able to have resources & people flow remarkably smoothly between them, smoother than *within* one ordinary GameA org.
If you're not against "if you're not with us you're against us", you're against us*. *All of us. Not just some small crew of us. The whole us.
"it's not that you're crazy. it's that you're many different kinds of sane."
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That thing about introverts, where they are defined by being tired from being at social gatherings. What if they haven'…
@DougTataryn Not sure how exactly it relates but I have had a few friends report their experiences of taking bromantane, an unusual anti-depressant & anxiolytic, as something like "I had no social anxiety because I didn't care what other people thought. My friends/partner didn't like this."
@DougTataryn If an extrovert hasn't individuated, then they make things exhausting for *others*. Source: years of feedback I've gotten 😆
@DougTataryn Maybe others have already said this: I think what you mean (or what you meant to mean) is not that the monitoring is exhausting - that's natural, & vital for highQ convo. What's exhausting is monitoring for cues while repressing panic that you might be doing something wrong.
@DougTataryn I think bromantane probably works by inhibiting this panic, which is of course incredibly liberating but makes you into a jerk if you don't learn other generators for caring for others' experience. Which can also happen via integrating the panic.
"You are not crazy. You are many different kinds of sane."
Replying to @ponekarl
@ponekarl finding myself thinking: in some sense, people are at the centre of the universe. in some sense *you* are at the centre of the universe. in another sense, people are not the centre of the universe, and neither are you-in-particular
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🤯 at realising I *can* choose to do something simply because a past version of me thought it was a good idea. For so long…
@dreams_ofsushi @AskYatharth For captain's log in roam, I have an autokey autocompletion thing that when I type a few letters enters "#capslog @ 13:05" then presses enter and tab. And I just do it in daily notes. Works pretty well, though I hate how daily notes are upside down with the most recent at top.
@ryanaperera @RoamResearch To be clear, the correct behavior (imo) is not adding it at all. And no, it can't be that. If you watch, the existing page results show up near-instantly (they're in browser memory) and the NEW page a few seconds later. Tho could be shown instantly since same as typed text 🤦♀️
@ryanaperera @RoamResearch But like, why the fuck would I want to press the down arrow to accept exactly what I already typed?!
@AskYatharth You might dig this piece of writing by @Morphenius about choice. There's something I'm still confused about there, but he's definitely onto something too. patreon.com/posts/choices-…
@aleksil79 @nosilverv Wow I was kinda vaguely hoping someone would do this. I love twitter.
Cool. I've been wanting to read more about Girard. Initial conclusion from reading this is that an important leverage point for creating antirivalrous GameB cultures must be learning to interpret others' behaviors as trying to create upward spiral, while not being naive.
Some pretty interesting cross implications between what @aleksil79 wrote there & Perceptual Control Theory. Both agree it's hard to infer others' internal states from behavior. PCT says that everyone is fundamentally controlling perceptions, not world. That frame might help.
@KHPavle @Thinkwert Yeah pretty much with you here. If I couldn't have visits or whatever, I'd spend maybe a few months reading and writing and meditating and other stuff, and then go from there.
@KHPavle @Thinkwert Oh -- can I use the money while I'm there? Could do some really interesting tiny investments in people wanting to start companies or something. That could be a whole fascinating lifestyle.
@KHPavle @Thinkwert Another interesting variation on this, which seems different than what @Thinkwert has proposed, is that you have to pick the number of days in advance and you can't leave sooner nor later. Then would have to hedge against odds of events that would make you want to leave.
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TIL it is possible to take a cat out for a walk, it's just a bit counterintuitive: you need to put the leash on a box, not on the cat itself. twitter.com/majelismeyong/…
Replying to @insipidwanker
@insipidwanker @WISD0MTREE @jeffpicard @eigenrobot I'm also Canadian and this makes me feel vaguely uneasy about our capacity to defend our long border from the American public.
metaphor play is meta foreplay
@selfprime Inspired by @visakanv doing the same thing (for many things, though pull-ups is the first I recall seeing)
Replying to @selentelechia
@selfprime What if nobody wins?
@lisatomic5 Hmm hadn't thought about this but probably @ramez's Nexus has influenced this for me. Nanobots that allow everything from mental programming etc to collective consciousness. Lots of beauty and fuckuppery.
Currently feeling stoked as I head out to go camping for the week with @SarahAMcManus 🏕️ Won't be checking twitter or messages. Keep civilization going while we're gone, plzthx.