I would have given lightning to the airbenders, not the firebenders. It seems appropriate both physically and symbolically in the sense that lightning kind of comes out of nowhere and from a difference in electrical potential (like how wind comes from a diff in air pressure).
September 2020
This, of course, would also have balanced out the combat between the bending arts, and might have prevented the Fire Nation from just obliterating the Air Nomads so easily at the start of the hundred year war. 🤔
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth @SoundCloud now has this for Pro accounts creators.soundcloud.com/mastering-on-s…
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The loss of the distinction between ‘fewer’ and ‘less’ in everyday speech is not trivial because it is the ultimate norma…
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radicalize everyone, mandate the 3 day weekend twitter.com/local__celeb/s…
Part of me kinda vaguely feels like the reason that the color wheel seems to wrap around, with violet comfortably next to red, has something to do with how the wavelength of red is almost double that of violet. Kinda like how 440Hz & 880Hz are both "A", in music.
"So people will evolve to have a value system that's more inclusive when they see the causal connections more, and when they're not forced into a mindset of war based on a false theory of tradeoffs." — Daniel Schmachtenberger #postcompromise youtu.be/Pyy3veuvXVE?t=…
@stevejohnryan Not harshing my vibe at all! I figured it unlikely this little theory was actually correct, and am glad to have models as to why!
@complexulous Yeah great point. And tetrachromats would have a completely different perception of things. Moreover, a species could in principle distinguish pure yellow light from green+red light, and have a hue-space not adequately summarized by a triangle. They'd find RGB screens unnatural.
@complexulous Such a species would be able to perceive, directly, the unnaturalness of pink{=red+violet}, ie how it's unlike narrow-spectrum light of any particular wavelength. It would *feel like* the two ends combined.
@RichDecibels You might dig this thread and the other ones it links to. And Victor Wooten's work, more generally!
@mesolude beatboxing, and anything else that I do that 99% of people don't, including playing most musical instruments songwriting, though idk how you'd rank it spinning a staff about a meter long disambiguating ways people are using words metaphor design
@SamoBurja as in, for strategic reasons?
@mesolude idk if any of these are quite at 99%, but... chilling out connecting with horses recognizing celebrities ....I feel like by definition I never think about things I'm bad at, since anything I think about at all I generally try to be at least decent at.
@mesolude And unlike in my "top percentile" response where I said "anything else that I do that 99% of people don't" there are few things 99% of people do that I don't. "having a day job"? though that's kind of a humblebrag
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A friend just sent me this and—I want to swallow it whole. I think I could only describe how I feel about this poem in…
@DanielTabakman @mattgoldenberg
@nickcammarata great bit on public speaking & panic attacks at 53mins into this video talks about leaning into the fear, to prevent it from creating a runaway positive feedback loop youtu.be/jUn7_85R0M4?t=…
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When it comes to individuals, crazy and sane aren't exact antonyms. People in our culture could stand to become both crazie…
Gonna become the Leonard Cohen of metamodern meaning. 🎶 What's YOUR ambition?
@complexulous I think you'll dig this: (the whole 45min talk is great too) youtube.com/watch?v=-tRAkW…
@mattgoldenberg @RoamResearch Here's my rant about this "interfacing at the speed of thought" concept, for reference: malcolmocean.com/2015/12/interf…
Retweeted @PrettyBadLefty
It is pretty obvious that any plan involving 18 year olds not partying together on a college campus wasn't a real plan…
"...it doesn't seem the right answer to be constantly reminding oneself of the grim reaper hovering at everyone's shoulder. Perhaps a better solution is to look at the problem from the other end. Cultivate a habit of impatience about the things you most want to do." — @paulg
Source: Life is Short essay from 2016 paulgraham.com/vb.html
@JeffLadish @ben_r_hoffman @diviacaroline This article might be of value here: "Moving from Blame to Accountability" - The Systems Thinker thesystemsthinker.com/moving-from-bl…
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Interesting thread twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww…
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Where are professors signing loyalty oaths today? twitter.com/thomaschattwil…
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This is how I want all news delivered twitter.com/antoniogm/stat…
@utotranslucence Article: eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19… Haven't read the whole thing myself but have heard great things, eg:
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Keep coming back to this quote. Each of us has a psychological "suit of armor" that's useful to know how to take off. But every…
@yashkaf It's propaganda from ♋️
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia Does this old post of mine count? 😂 > “If someone was going to reward me with the abstract knowledge that I’m able to motivate myself to do really hard things using only hypothetical rewards, would I be able to do it?” malcolmocean.com/2014/04/mft-pa…
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@selentelechia I like "activated", which @DougTataryn uses (I think based on Gestalt therapy or some other older source) to talk about a general category of thing which includes PTSD trigger responses at the extreme end.
Thread · Getting stuck in exactly the problems you can't yet solve · 3 of 4 tweets
Everyone, inexorably, gets themselves stuck in exactly the sorts of situations they're capable of getting themselves into and not capable of getting themselves out of.
In this sense, the Peter Principle is a law of nature. > the tendency in most organizational hierarchies is for every employee to rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach a level of respective incompetence. It's only cynical without the possibility of learning.
When oriented towards learning, there's a figure ground shift where none of your problems are problematic (in the sense that you shouldn't have them). They are, in fact, exactly the problems you don't know how to solve yet, so of course you have them! malcolmocean.com/2017/11/transc…
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@dendricide idk something about what might be possible if everyone could have dignity
@dendricide see also the book Somebodies And Nobodies (these might be completely unrelated to your sense of the meaning of subhuman.capital) amazon.com/Somebodies-Nob…
@metaLulie Important distinction between "your feelings" and "your interpretations of your feelings". The former are always—in *some* sense—trustable/true, in the sense that you feel what you feel. The process of interpreting those feelings is a whole other thing.
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@m_altcroft @ponekarl When I tune into it, I'm getting some subtle emotional thing that's like... the meta account seems friendly and fun to play with, whereas the main account seems like she might make fun of me. 🤷♀️💜
@m_altcroft @ponekarl I think it also relates to this:
Replying to @harryhurst
@harryhurst If you reversed it and abbreviated "Helpfulness" as "He" instead, then the whole thing would be "He:CS" which would be pronounced "hecks" and then you could ask "how many He:CS does this investor give?"
@SimianSunny @xuenay You might like Rob Burbea's book Seeing that Frees. I've only read a few excerpts, but the one I read about Self Beyond Personality feels very related to your questioning here. Read here, though it's halfway through the book and can be hard to follow: docs.google.com/document/d/1Gl…
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@antoniogm This site has some similar things although it's more focused on steelmanning each side rather than illustrating how each is partial. theflipside.io
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@AbhayPrasanna @Conaw ah cool. here's how I see the difference:
@xuenay @SarahAMcManus, @Morphenius, I feel like this 👆 relates in a bunch of ways to stuff I've talked about with each of you recently
Thread · Getting stuck in exactly the problems you can't yet solve · 1 of 4 tweets
Haha I tweeted about this before:
A new take on this:
Whoa wtf is this!? (HT @brspirituality)
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Do your goals do this for you? If not, how could you make them more satisfying? twitter.com/qorprate/statu…
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We can do MUCH better than this. twitter.com/FEhrsam/status…
Soliciting equivalent for men! I've been digesting a bunch of stuff about this which feels exciting but I don't have anything articulable yet. (Although I guess by "modern" I would mean "contemporary" or more like "metamodern".)
Good conversation is a drug: use responsibly.
@danlistensto Since Trump's election, the device that normally measures approval ratings has been hooked up to a white noise machine.
@mattgoldenberg @byudkowsky? (thinking about your Obsession facet) (btw, your name over here on twitter hasn't been updated yet. handles are changeable if you didn't already know that)
@visakanv This seems like a great thing to do some emotional reconsolidation on! Could do NEDERA: try to just really feel the unworthiness as vividly as possible, & ask what it's trying to say… …or ~coherence therapy: explore "supposed I received/welcomed this? why would that be bad?"
@visakanv I mostly understand "deserve" to be very broken as a concept. That may not be that helpful to this small part, but seems worth pointing out as a thing to orient to.
@m_ashcroft Wow, looks amazing. See you on the other side!
@lisatomic5 Feeling like @selentelechia would have thoughts on this
@shrinetothevine I seem to be blocked by this account, but I checked it out in another window and I find this reply beautiful and potent:
Just discovered: if PersonA QTs an acct that has blocked you… it shows "This account owner limits who can view their Tweets" (I knew this—nice work making it ambiguous whether blocked or protected 😎) …but if you hit reply on PersonA's tweet, the compose UI shows the tweet! 🤦♀️
I have a plugin for linux that lets me make windows translucent, which I find nice sometimes. It trips me up with the skeumorphism of (browser) tabs though, which imply the inactive tabs are stacked under the active one, which should make them visible if… hm.
Right now I've got a translucent window fully-fullscreened (no border) on one monitor, with Complice on it, and in the same browser window I have a slack tab, & my digital object permanence sense keeps insisting there can't be another tab in that window or I'd see it underneath.
I have a new term for that experience when you're trying to read an article and suddenly there's something like this in your way. "Modal Eclipse"
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🤔 enlightenment: broke: nonduality, centerlessness, referencelessness, no things (the above being a milestone, touch…
Yo @YoutubeMusic. I'm finding switching from @GooglePlayMusic to be pretty workable, but I really miss the track playcount. Please add that as a feature and import that data from my GPM history before it's shuttered. It's meaningful to know top listens & what I've heard ever.
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
abstraction is a helluva drug
"Society is a multi-self-ular organism!" —@dswedlow
Holy shit @Conaw's hair has reached a whole new level of majestic 🤩 That is the important information here. I didn't read the article. theinformation.com/articles/a-200…
@Conaw Weird coincidence: a guy ran a session on thestoa.ca today with his version of The Glass Bead Game and I thought of inviting you based on us referencing it awhile ago... wanted to suss it out first, and it's not quite the thing, but was cool! glassbeadgames.com
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Pondering @RoamResearch, @MyReplika, and @khanacademykids at the same time leads to strange thoughts. Someone should alert Nea…
@Conaw @RoamResearch Ohhhh fuckyeah. That would work great for things like this thing I did awhile ago of rewriting a paragraph from a book called After the Honeymoon to be about business relationships instead of marriages etc. ↙️ New version Original ↘️
This is basically how I operate, and if you want a personal task management app that operates in a resonant way then check out complice.co (Complice is an app I made that has a very unique philosophy based on freshness—read about it at complice.co/philosophy) twitter.com/rjs/status/130…
I'm not the right person to spearhead this, but I keep thinking that something really useful to do might be collecting a series of stories of how people went from being entrenched in specific ideologies to a more metamodern space. #MemeticMediation #GameB
.…only the Avatar, master of all five love languages…
Just found a fitness goal description I wrote in 2013😂 "I want to have amazing abdominals, preposterous pectorals, delicious deltoids and beautiful biceps. And all of the ladies will love it, & the dudes will dig it, & the gender-non-binary people will generally appreciate it."
I'm seeing a bunch of people do amazing shit with #arkit and wondering if anyone has built (or could build!) an app to develop intuitions about earth being a sphere, by making an app that shows you which directions your friends around the world are in. eg I'd point down for NZ.
Some earlier thoughts on a very related topic:
😍 > "Wanted to compliment you on the onboarding process you designed for @CompliceGoals. Manages to feel like the notes are written just for me & they have a voice that, I suspect, sounds just like you. Not a easy to design, & I've never seen anything as good on another site."
@robertskmiles That already exists! There are hundreds of stargazing apps, just look 'em up.
Great article on "blands" replacing "brands". @visakanv, resonates with to boring dystopia stuff you popularized awhile back. @vgr, resonates with premium mediocre—ah, you're actually cited in there. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
@visakanv @nosilverv book Somebodies and Nobodies says underlying issue is "rankism", which is "it's considered somewhat okay for people with power (of any kind) to use that power to treat others in a way that denies their dignity" cyberbullying *anyone* is rankist amazon.com/Somebodies-Nob…
@jasoncrawford I looked into this a little bit some months ago and my sense is the the problems are mostly a kind of tail risk that most people don't want to talk about.
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@rkroeger13 related:
@natural_hazard depends on a bunch of factors including what the thing is, your relationship to the person, why you're requesting it, and whether they've actually said "no" or just missed your 1st request So I'd say "not wrong but usually is missing something key"
@m_ashcroft @AmazonUK Huh my experience is Amazon is usually great about stuff like this, though I've never had specifically this type of mismatch.
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@Virtual1nstinct the scale needs a bunch of options in the opposite direction. "nothing wrong" isn't the state to strive for. I strive for: - stoked - jazzed - ecstatic - expansive - bliss
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@vgr 1. A robot shall maximize optionality for humans, especially those around them. 2. Except in cases where a human choo…
@Meaningness @mtraven For anyone reading this & wanting more discussion of decontextualized trolley problems, here's a rabbit hole 🕳️🐇
@mattgoldenberg @DougTataryn this is indeed very annoying and is the main limiting factor on me being way more hooked on roam tbh. I have 5+ different active databases fortunately API & interlinking is coming soon
Apes aping. twitter.com/SteveStuWill/s…
@xuenay All 3, in some sense. I know almost nobody with whom I'd be even slightly tempted to trade lives with. I have a sense of huge as-yet-unrealized potential in my life. I'm concerned about global disaster so assuming the guarantee isn't "relative to others", that'd be relieving.
Thread · Systems thinking as rederiving indigenous paradigms
Systems thinking is what happens when systematic meta-aware science rederives, proves, & extends the deep truths implicit in indigenous paradigms.
(this was an attempt to rephrase @cognazor's tweet here, to exalt something I deeply resonated with and untangle something that felt confused)
I quite like this response as well: twitter.com/SupaMalaman/st…
For more on things being interconnected, check out this recent overhaul in thinking about brain hemispheres:
For more on cultural evolution, including similarities & differences between pre-agricultural paradigms and the new paradigms emerging now, check out Robert Gilman's foundation stone videos: context.org/foundation-sto…
@cognazor Mmm, appreciating this. I mulled on it a bit and came up with my own articulation:
What's the "holy grail" in your industry? ie a description of a problem that many have tried to solve (or claimed to solve) but everyone knows nobody has, and if someone *actually* did it would be a total gamechanger. (interpret "industry" however you want, above)
Speculating (based on very little detail so far) that the buddhist "two truths doctrine" might be related to reality as experienced by the two brain hemispheres. LH: "provisional" (saṁvṛti) truth RH: "ultimate" (paramārtha) truth
I would furthermore posit that much theorizing that has been attempted about the topic would thus be confused, because it would be the LH trying to understand both.
Context on how to usefully think about brain hemispheres, if you're unfamiliar:
> "Ideological purity—morality in its coldest and cruelest form—precludes the possibility of forgiveness." From this film review: ift.tt/3hsHMD4
@andrewchen I've been thinking about this for awhile! Thread 👇 (My thoughts have also brought me to concluding that aside from maybe fixing typos in the first minute, edit would actually break what's beautiful about twitter)
Some great answers to this already, and I'm hoping to get lots more 🏆
Yo @Heroku / @HerokuStatus I just shipped new code and I'm getting an H20 "App boot timeout" and when I rollback to a release from 4 days ago that was working fine *I'm still getting H20 timeout!* Can't figure out how to get complice.co back up.
Ahh apparently I literally just had to run this command AGAIN: heroku rollback v3368 first time it said it rolled back, and the releases showed a new version, but the logs I was reading showed no sign & H20 persisted ran it again and got an actual reboot in logs this time
So @Heroku I think this is your guys' bug, even if the initial "App boot timeout" was due to some error in my code.
@lisatomic5 Hmm... you might get something from reading about the concept of "goodself"/"badself" in The Guru Papers docs.google.com/document/d/1HK…
@ben_r_hoffman @lisatomic5 I have an essay on giving up on catching up: malcolmocean.com/2019/01/nothin…
@generativist @sama @Nsousanis doesn't have to be a new book to be a new recommendation! and I'll definitely second it.
@ben_r_hoffman @lisatomic5 Also this thread:
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@LucioMM1 @acczibit @browserdotsys @EPoe187 I think about this a lot Camping, home projects, competitive sports, pretendin…
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@eigenrobot @LucioMM1 @acczibit @browserdotsys @EPoe187 "Hardship: it can be fun" is a decent tagline for burning man & related events Though I've definitely experienced biting off more than I could chew with a theme camp and ending up with "fun: it can be hardship" instead, which sucked.
Retweeted @eigenrobot
joke: first person shooter broke: third person shooter woke: second person shooter
@jdj_writes only found with anaerobic bacteria *on earth* 🤷♀️ idk much about this but I'm feeling aware of the model uncertainty etc
@seconds_0 weird take: what if they weren't worth broadcasting, and you... broadcast them anyway?
@ZainRzv @cybersygh I once had to do a whole round of interviews after I'd already informally accepted an offer, based on how the uni's co-op program worked, and I got so many further offers because I showed up to connect & have fun & learn, like your Tip #3. Also shit like
"They say it gets better with practice. Hang in there my friends." - @algekalipso
Was thinking I might write up something about the concept of "mindset", and figured I'd ask if others have potent & pithy explications of what "mindset" means. I don't just mean fixed-vs-growth, to be clear, I mean the more general thing that that's one example of.
When you type a word and it has a red squiggle underneath it, what relative % of the time do you figure you're in each of these situations? 🤦♀️ accept the correction 🆕 add word to your dictionary (ignore situations where you leave the squiggle alone altogether, eg rare names)
@ClayNichols Nice! what do you think of: mindset = the context provided by someone for their own experience of themselves and the world
This is a great point, thanks @AskYatharth 👇 Kinda glad I also got some responses before clarifying further too, to see what associations are already in peoples' minds. Also curious what other examples people use!
Example #1: Fixed vs Growth Example #2: Inward vs Outward mindset @Arbinger has been talking about this for years, originally as "in the box"/"out of the box", and now has a book called The Outward Mindset, which I highly recommend: amazon.com/Outward-Mindse…
Example #3: the way that many people talk about a choice between Fear & Love. I don't actually know the original source of this one, or main promulgator. Searched tweets from my followers for `fear love` and found this great example:
Ex #4: Coasting vs Excellence Mindset, a model I wrote thousands of words on in 2016 but it got too complex before I published. Fixed→Growth: I can't → I can learn Coasting→Excellence: it's okay if I don't → it would be awesome if I did table: docs.google.com/document/d/1fd…
@natural_hazard I think pressure on your body always feels like *something*, but if by "sensation" you mean something like "the sort of thing that I feel in my hamstrings when I forward-fold but not when standing vertically" then maybe that would diminish. Not claiming here, just clarifying.
@yashkaf @magicianbrain woah ssc is back up!
@Conaw @ArtirKel @LauraDeming @RoamResearch I coined the term roamblog last year for my intertwingled.blog, which was one of the first public roams. It's not focused on explaining any topic in particular, but I think it fits the bill! A thread about why I have it and my feature wishlist:
Referencing "love & fear" earlier put this RENT song in my head. Watching today I wept anew 💔 All the emotional processing work I've done has given me an appreciation for how triggered & panicked Roger is in this scene (his past gf died of needle🡒AIDS). youtube.com/watch?v=8oRZWX…
Replying to @abhayance
@AbhayPrasanna Oooh, elaborate!
Retweeted @joyurge
Coming to see more clearly the difference between "letting go" and "pushing away". If I let go of something… it's still right…
Replying to @joyurge
@joyurge Seems embodied in phrases like “If you love someone, let them go. If they come back to you, they were really yours, but if they don't come back, they were never actually yours.” Difference between "let go" and "let go away" even. And of course 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺.
Just now, @SarahAMcManus to me: "What I wanted was for you to help me arrange these items on my 2×2. What I 𝘨𝘰𝘵 was an axial revolution.* What I 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙙 was to go to bed!" *I rotated her 2×2 by 45° 🤣
Retweeted @forshaper
Every shit I take is the most important thing ever when I'm taking it. I say this seriously. twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/st…
@AskYatharth @everytstudies has a great article about how he's simultaneously Liberal, Progressive, & Conservative, if you understand what he means by those. (I'm in Canada where the main ~left party is "Liberal" and main ~right party is "Conservative") cc @forshaper everythingstudies.com/2018/12/06/i-l…
Someone threw a brick at the Overton window and it has shattered.
"We can choose to act and live with a confidence that has no objective justification, or we can choose to act and live with hesitation and self-doubt—which, as it turns out, also has no objective justification." – Bruce Tift, Already Free
Accepting that something is a problem does not require accepting any proposed solutions. 99% of described problems are real and important, at least in some sense. 99% of proposed solutions are at best irrelevant and at worst actively would exacerbate things.
Whoa, I just accidentally long-pressed the native "back" button while in Android Chrome, and it showed me a menu offering my history of navigations, like it does on desktop! No idea that was possible. Wonder if it works in other apps...
Hey #roamcult! What do y'all do with concept pairs? Things like "fixed & growth mindset". I'd naturally write it that way, but in Roam it's like, do you do: 1. [[[[fixed mindset]] & [[growth mindset]]]] 2. [[fixed & growth mindset]] 3. #2 *plus* separate FM & GM pages Comment👇
@Jeanvaljean689 I love that flipped phrase. Had heard it before, but not in the context of improv. That's great.
@JasperGeh Does the Related:: attribute, in this context actually do anything in particular that doing "**Related:**" wouldn't?
@WaterUndersea Haha kind of like that yeah!
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@Malcolm_Ocean Oh man! I am planning to write a whole essay on this at some point. I have a few I use regularly. qua…
@lisatomic5 Yeah this sounds pretty fascinating to me. Idk if the papers you wrote would be though, given the selection pressures on those.
@WeftOfSoul I tried searching my past tweets for "a word for" and found this one, which is not quite central to what you're doing but I figured I'd offer it and see what you come up with 😊
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@selentelechia Mmm idk beyond versions of English, but Korzybski's writing, eg Science and Sanity, is very proactively designed to avert this. He coined the term "semantic reaction" instead of "thought" or "feeling", though it's a bit cumbersome and it's not clear to me that that helps.
@selentelechia Also because "reaction" seems oddly... behaviorist, almost, although General Semantics did kind of prefigure the cybernetics movement, so it's not like Korzybski (writing in the 30s) was as confused about this as most people.
@selentelechia He also invents new punctuation so he can non-verbosely say "etc" very often. ",." = "etc." (end of sentence) ".," = "etc.," (end of list midsentence) ".;" = "etc.;" Supports extensive use of extensional language., by referring to a few words, phrases,. learn.canvas.net/courses/191/pa…
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One tweet summary of @RoamResearch. Type a sentence like: - Had #meeting with #JohnSmith about #defi You get: - a page with…
@ssica3003 These two? 1. of or involving right angles; at right angles. 2. (of variates) statistically independent. [STATISTICS] These feel completely the same to me, but probably because when I look at the 2nd I immediately see a 2D graph, whose dimensions are *orthogonal* in both senses.
MOOD.
@sympathetic_opp Not something I've ever known how *not* to do... I've guided a few people into it though. Put on something groovy with a beat & changes in energy and start moving your body, and feel into which movements seem to "go with" the music. A fave of mine: youtube.com/watch?v=qZu0PE…
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot it's not clear to me that the generated image has anything to do with the text
Retweeted @BogochIsaac
Unfortunately this is what the start of the Canadian #COVID19 2nd wave looks like. Cases largely driven by Ontario, Quebe…
@mechanicalmonk1 @nosilverv Have read BOI and a few of Sarah Perry's ribbonfarm posts but not super memorably Meaning to read TWOB ever.
@nosilverv Not crazy-rare, but way too few people have read the classic books by William Powers on Perceptual Control Theory, in part because they're out of print and not available on kindle or whatever. For benefit of the world, probably should be uncopyrighted at this point tbh.
@DRMacIver @nosilverv +1 to Conflict is Not Abuse Have only read the first few chapters but really appreciated it and have recommended it to a few people in messy situations.
@dankuck @eigenrobot Tweet of the day.
@WeftOfSoul Ooh I've got one! When you say something that is true, sincere., in the general case but in the specific context in which you're replying, is kind of sarcastic, ironic,. Inspired by this exchange with @AskYatharth (other handle changed for anonymity)
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
"It is a fantastically fertile field of learning but we have to find the 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 in which we can pursue plans…
Anyone here do a quarterly review? What kinds of questions do you ask yourself? (Feel free to propose ideas even if you don't do such a review regularly yourself! This... uhhh... may or may not have something to do with a complice.co feature that's in the works 😉)
Vaguely thinking that a company needs a CEO and CFO: CEO: Chief Emptiness Officer CFO: Chief Form Officer
please allow me to lemonstrate 🍋
The Ones Who Take The Nope Train out of Omelas The Ones Who Don't Found Omelas in the First Place The Ones Who Burn Omelas to the Ground The Ones Who Drink to Forget About Omelas The Ones Who Think "Omelas Is A Nice Place But I Wouldn't Want To Live There"
@TristanMiano @SarahAMcManus @nosilverv Oh wow! Looks like there's a copy or two on abebooks as well. But yeah, it's really rare at this point, in a way it wasn't even just 3.5y ago when I got into it. abebooks.com/servlet/Search…
@delysis @nclaurence @jack_meditates +1 to TMAHE both its general awesomeness and its specific relevance to autism whatever underlying causes, autism definitely has something to do with an atypical relationship between the L & R brain hemispheres (note: "typical" does not mean "functional")
@delysis @nclaurence @jack_meditates @delysis & @nclaurence, you might be interested in my many threads riffing on the topic, if you haven't already seen them:
what if... it 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯'𝘵? 😬
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@nclaurence @FameEternal Riffing here: we use “as the crow flies” to mean a straight path between two places, but watch…
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Watch the gif til the end. So beautiful. I wanna play with them!
French is more verbose than English in 98% of cases (subjectively, speaking as a Canadian who's lived his life with bilingual packaging) but sometimes it's got these potent tiny words: "selon" = "according to" What a great little cite-word! This tweet brought to you by 280 cha
@georgeshep I wrote a blog post about regret. One way I articulate the insight in this post is almost exactly that: all futures you can reach from here, go through here. Even if they in some sense double-back (say you're literally lost) there's no undo. malcolmocean.com/2017/11/transc…
@WaterUndersea I'm not expressing anything in particular, just riffing on a theme from different angles. I don't know what will happen. Earlier today I tweeted a meaningless pun/portmanteau and someone wrote a poem!
@harveykrishna_ @m_ashcroft The way out of this is to create a cyclical chain where if you trace your coach's coach's coaches far enough, you end up with someone who *you're* coaching, then of course yourself.
@Thinkwert Reminds me of @Aella_Girl's sister: reddit.com/r/Art/comments…
I asked of myself "who am I?" I pointed: "here!" I pointed: "there!" The answer's neither here nor there; The pointing is the point.
Thread · Tanha as grasping, and the small self's fishbowl
🤣🤣🤣 mood. Okay so this actually illustrates something important about "Tanha", the Pali word often translated as "desire" or attachment", in Buddhist contexts, but perhaps better as "grasping". The explosion below is the shattering of a grasped image about a specific person.
My understanding of Buddhism has been dramatically improved by reading Romeo Stevens' "mis(Translating) the Buddha", which unpacks the meanings of a bunch of these terms and illustrates how confusions have crept into translations over the years. docs.google.com/document/d/10q…
In a conversation with @Morphenius today, he speculated that suffering is what occurs when the LH's models are: 1. sealed off from updating 2. don't match reality This seems to be precisely equivalent to "tanha is the cause of dukkha". Tanha very LH:
So, what makes the original tweet funny—I'm going to explain the joke I guess—is that it's told from the big picture plenty-of-fish perspective, whereas the "brain" has clearly tanha'd into in a tiny fishbowl where this news is devastating.
This experience is ofc hugely familiar, but we usually experience it subjectively from the *small* perspective, because intensity (of devastation) dominates. That experience of suffering is real. It matters. And—it's not all there is, even internally.
According to both McGilchrist's @divided_brain model & most spiritual traditions in one form or another, the big picture is always present too: RHem🧠 awakened mind God It's the 𝙄 𝙖𝙢-ness of it all. It is, by its nature, very hard to point at.
Beyond being hard to point at, getting in touch with larger wholeness is also sometimes a challenge because the smallness is clinging to some important perspective it fears will be lost. Eliciting that perspective can help. @byudkowsky has a technique: facebook.com/strohl89/posts…
Replying to @por_ous
@por_ous presumably for balance there are, of course, other ways to do balance read David Sirlin for deep takes on this: sirlin.net/articles/balan…
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The Shareholders Who Divest From Omelas
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More [[hemisphere dharma]], this time zooming in on tanha:
@TristanMiano @SarahAMcManus @nosilverv Wait, what's spooky about it? These books were just in pretty limited print, afaict, and enough ambient interest made all of the used copies get sold. Although ofc more will turn up as people give away their libraries, die, etc.
@Azeirah @nosilverv Ha! Yeah, evangelizing books is a thing I do. My latest two main foci are Already Free by Bruce Tift, and The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGilchrist.
Replying to @brspirituality
@brspirituality @Jeanvaljean689 @thichnhathanh Mmm, connects with Adyashanti's meditation instruction: "no manipulation"
@xuenay Ooh, fascinating, yeah. Intriguing to ask what keeps certain schemas unconscious post-enlightenment, such that one ends up with sex scandals or even just the repressed anger that @DougTataryn worked with Culadasa on, that had been resulting in him working on projects martyrly.
@xuenay @DougTataryn For context, Culadasa describes this experience in this @DeconstructingU podcast episode. There's also an interview with Doug on there. deconstructingyourself.com/culadasa-on-me…
Gradually, gradually, then perhaps suddenly, the obvious becomes mainstream. Thinking about Kuhn's paradigm shift concept. If we could forget what we thought ADHD was, and conceive afresh, how would we see it? From whose frame? Who gets to pick the frame, and why?
a meta-level question here: Has anyone done research on how corporate interests (in this case Big Pharma) interplay with Kuhn's model of scientific paradigm shifts?
Retweeted @RexChapman
Check-out this haunting 1902 film of the Wuppertal Suspended Railway in Germany — but now it’s been colorized and upscaled…
thus enspakenated zarathustra
@MatjazLeonardis Much of learning (skills, traits, &+) is not storing facts nor explanations, but reorganizing ones' perceptual and motor systems to be able to effectively respond to situations. That reorganization requires encountering how the situation relates to your existing organization.
@MatjazLeonardis Even learning that seems like it's on the level of "explanation" is often reorganization, because many explanations happen before consciousness. "Observations are theory-laden" & theories include emotional stuff: "world is safe", "crying is not ok", etc
Replying to @FerIsella
@FerIsella @Conaw block references for musical phrases!? 😮🤩🎶
Something about this seems right to me, at least in principle if not in this specific case: ie "this seems like the sort of thing that would happen in a situation like this". I vaguely think WWI may have also been part of it. (Note: I know fairly little about Europe.)
@_stevenxie any updates on Tailguard? (I mean I've checked the github and seen no new commits, so this is more a nudge to maybe polish it up at this phase.)
Retweeted @TheStoicEmperor
Taking offense is a form of self-harm.
I really want @RoamResearch to let me hit the End key to get my typing caret out of a page-ref that I'm typing. Right now it hops out then immediately hops back in. I refuse to use "Tab", which does that, because clearly Tab should select 1st autocomplete
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
@QiaochuYuan how dare you, sir! I will not stand for such slander of this beloved fractal vegetable! * throws down gau…
Inspired by a song lyric about history being written by the winners, I found myself suddenly curious how the Axis powers referred to their enemies during WWII. Surely not "Allies". ("Axis" was coined by Mussolini in '36 though)
I like these phrases that turn your concepts all inside out. They have a kind of Gödel-esque quality to me. (This isn't the perfect example, though it kind of depends on your worldview coming in.) Know other similar twists?
@haideralmosawi @visakanv Mmm I like the idea of this not being an every day thing, just an "I'm going to reach this number. Sometimes I might do a few sets in one days, sometimes I might not do any, but this is en route" Brb pull-up time.
@xuenay did you... did you... go to go go to go stop them?
Replying to @peternlimberg
@peternlimberg @utotranslucence @edelwax @aletheic @nik_limi @JaredJanes @spiral_virus @tyson_flows @Fooljeff @TylerAlterman I wasn't there but I'm curious how this went!
@thewiseturtle @altversachi Huh, idk which translations you've been reading 🤷♀️ I just looked up `buddhism desire suffering` and `buddishm attachment suffering` and got these:
@syncretizm Seconded what, exactly? My practice of switching to this when I can't manage to count my outbreaths? Or just in general the value of Adyashanti's work?
@xuenay @Morphenius @EpistemicHope ❤️ towards everyone here, and strong enthusiasm towards Kaj continuing to write for LW as he has appetite to do so I'm vaguely intending to write up a thing about McGilchrist ever but if someone else gets to it first I will be very happy as summaries etc are not my forte
@Morphenius @EpistemicHope @xuenay Here's my pre-written answer - pretty similar to @Morphenius's (it's a whole thread)
@Morphenius @EpistemicHope @xuenay I'm also going to send you an email, Eli, based on this:
@youtubemusic The ➡️ hotkey should skip to the next song, like it does in most music players. Just continuing my feedback saying "YTM hadn't reached feature completion before y'all started forcing people to switch from Google Play Music." (Also "Can't send feedback" in app🤦♀️)
@snarayan Oh fascinating. You might really like Romeo's mis(Translating) the Buddha, which talks about some interesting similar things, noting false cognates between Pali & Sanskrit. docs.google.com/document/d/10q…
@theorangealt 🤔 I think on some level I do basically nobody is integrated though; this isn't unique to *rats
@beondeck This is fascinating and attractive at a high-level—so in resonance re the core principles—but I haven't quite figured out what I would be applying for if I applied to this. @eriktorenberg / @julianweisser, is there another way to phrase it? Or some more concrete example?
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa Hmm, might run into difficulty with this eventually 😉
Btw if you're wondering where I'm hosting my roamblog (intertwingled.blog) so it shows up on its own domain, it's a cool tool called @getcloakist. I had a redirect before but this is a lot better & I can link to specific pages. Check it out at cloak.ist:
@theorangealt I was re-reading Behavior: The Control of Perception today (I very rarely re-read books so this is quite something) and the chapter on Learning resonates a bunch with what you're saying here. Recommend checking it out.
Retweeted @yashkaf
Every cause becomes a cult. Every cult becomes either a sex cult or a death cult. Sex cults are the good outcome.
@lisatomic5 7w8
@PoemsWeBurned @danlistensto ....right... it's not like anyone would have any success holding him to his word if he *did* commit. That's the whole problem.
@moshwey Reminds me of lots of beaches in Nova Scotia where I grew up ♥️ Huge tides so we'd see a lot of wet rocks!
Replying to @CyberKulak
@CyberKulak @ponekarl Your image game is on point holy shit. Plz follow me so I get more of this in my replies.
Probably an unconscious instance of "bad on purpose to make you click" but Bloomberg knows better than to use the word "added" in a headline about net worth increasing $14M due to share price increase. No addition occurred! That's misleading, practically a lie. #MetaphorsMatter
Man I love working with my android + bt keyboard, but it's really frustrating that web-apps & sometimes even native apps lose state and have to reload after 1-2min of inactivity. Hard to even copy-paste sometimes, or look up something while typing. (Anybody know fixes? Woul…
@SarahAMcManus Kind of resonates with something in the B:CP chapter on Emotion, where he posits that subjective feeling is a combination of a particular kind of response both exists and is blocked. I've definitely sometimes experienced happiness in a sort of pressurized exuberant way.
I used to want the voting age lowered below 18. I observe I seem to want that less now. I think this has something to do with a sense of how powerful & weaponized today's memes are. A decade or 2 ago, a teen had same info but less resistance to change. Now... idk.
Discourse everywhere about elections continues to avoid remarking on the background assumption that it's fundamentally made out of fighting, not dialogue. Win-lose, not win-win. This is a common effect of 2 party politics, but not inherent.
Yo @m_ashcroft: How, if at all, has reading about McGilchrist's hemisphere model affected your experience of trying to explain Alexander Technique? (question I didn't get a chance to ask on today's Stoa session)
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin @visakanv @lisatomic5 @kureshii_ @alt_visa @Conaw also a 7w8, btw! We're in good company.
Retweeted @alfred_twu
time to stick a big Prop 65 warning on the state
@ben_r_hoffman Reminds me of @EstherPerel saying on @tferriss show that after the holocaust she noticed that people followed two different trajectories after leaving the camps: • thrive: make something beautiful in the world… have kids, plant trees • survive: save money, avoid danger, etc
Retweeted @cbloggy
Used to be that conservatives and liberals would agree that the drug war is bad and needs to go. That's how the death of Breon…
@mattgoldenberg It's not exactly multiplication but that's way closer, in the sense that Bezos owned X shares of $AMZN, which then increased ~8% in value in one day, causing his net worth to be [whatever it was]×1.08 instead of [whatever it was] (ignoring his non AMZN assets)
@mattgoldenberg If money was "added" to his wealth, that would be some new asset coming under his control, which he would have not owned before but would now own, and which he could not lose without either using it (donating, selling), breaking/misplacing (like crashing a car) or having stolen.
@mattgoldenberg In this case, of course, those "billions" could also disappear the next day without him spending or getting rid of them, nor anyone taking them from them. (I typo'd in the first tweet; was $13B not $14M) Also lolwut this happened twice this year, both the stock event & "added":
@moshwey Haha I mean it's rly big, and water is rly sloshy. But yeah it's also rly far. Beyond the above, I don't have an intuition for why the moon should do that from how far it is.
@moshwey Oh! I think it's got something to do with… Surface-of-earth-scale heights are actually tiny on a planetary scale. Earth is super smooth! If it were the size of a billiard-ball, it would be smoother than said ball! So what seems like a "big" tide is 0.0001% of earth diameter
@moshwey Not crazy to think that the moon's gravity might be enough to cause the earth to bulge by a millionth - barely perceptible, unless you're a tiny creature standing on it.
TIL that in addition to the moon's gravity creating the tides by pulling water up about 1m (=~3ft) it ALSO stretches the solid Earth by 30cm=1ft Which means "water is sloshy" is… only part of an explanation for how gravity's so strong at such a distance:
The other half of the explanation, I think, is that earth is actually quite smooth! Not smoother than a billiard ball (as is sometimes claimed) but more "grippy" than "bumpy". twitter.com/physicsJ/statu…
Looking into this further I'm realizing this article adds additional elements, basically that the moon creates pressure that slides water from the poles towards the moonward side of the equator, which bulges things outwards. sciencealert.com/the-moon-s-gra…
That doesn't, intuitively, to me, explain why high tide is twice a day though, moon-side and far-side. Something I've been looking at in this quest today said something about inertia for that though. Hmm…
This article has interesting stuff in it (and is where I got the thing about solid earth tides) but it also says the billiard ball thing, which is refuted, sooo there's that. discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/t…
@moshwey I investigated this more. Thread:
@TylerAlterman Behavior: The Control of Perception Each chapter contains Qs at the end, some of which are phenomenological exercises. I tried turning off my thingifier for a few minutes & just perceiving lightness+color+shape, and when I turned it back on everyThing was gorgeous.
@visakanv Complice automatically linkifies everything that has anything://anything, but I just tested it and it seems to me that browsers basically don't follow file:/// links, so you have to copy paste anyway.
@visakanv Could run a tiny webserver by eg running python -m SimpleHTTPServer and then you could serve your files from there and link to them at http://localhost:8000/path/to/file but that might have security implications so don't use it on a sensitive folder without more research
Replying to @WhaleandRun
@WhalingPhoning @TylerAlterman Yeah the specific thing I said about thingness was just one example. The whole thing is very trippy. @WhalingPhoning if you haven't checked out Iain McGilchrist's work on brain hemispheres, it blew my mind in a similar way 2y later:
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goatnet botnet hm
@SamoBurja @jasoncrawford Yeah for me there's sometimes fear that someone will publish an idea before me, but it's mostly fear that it'll be bad and inoculate people against my version of it. If someone publishes something great, then BAM it's like a gift of a bunch of free hours I can use for sthg else!
@HarveyMultani Nice. I've done that a bunch. Looking forward to having a better tool than {{character-count}} (from which you currently have to subtract 19-20 chars since it counts itself) (Note it also counts children which is not great for images, & misses t.co -> all links 23 chars)
@Meaningness Unless you're on Music Twitter, ie following bands and people who mostly follow & interact with bands, afaict the algorithms don't like tweets about music. Same with FB. eg this tweet of mine got no likes, though 1 reply.
@Meaningness This ofc has a compounding effect where it discourages people from tweeting about music as much as they otherwise would. I feel sad about this; I love sharing music with people and want a better social network for it. (Twitter's UI also suboptimal here)
@Meaningness If you go to this url, it'll show you tweets by people you follow, with the hashtag #nowplaying. (For me this is 90%+ from the aptly named @danlistensto, who also tweets about other stuff but maybe started his account just to auto-tweet nowplayings idk) twitter.com/search?q=%23no…
@Meaningness The music industry is not doing great during the pandemic, but defs didn't die in 2015. This epic 2019 funk concert is a fav of mine; I've watched/listened over a dozen times since lockdown. Vaguely think you might like it but don't know your taste lol. youtube.com/watch?v=rv4wf7…
@visakanv @bandeauxx @alt_visa yeah was just gonna say, talk about it in terms of "relationship building" or "flirting with reality" or whatever
@visakanv Had this exact experience last year!
@visakanv Also complice.co is remarkably compatible with this productivity philosophy. Just keep your big list of todos in a different app (as you have to with Complice anyway since it doesn't have a place to put them) and then actually do your work in Complice, & voila!
@ben_r_hoffman How do discs and swords get suppressed? (figured I might as well ask)
@maybegray @acidshill This was sort of also my thought except I was gonna express it as "onlyfans when"
@Morphenius @ben_r_hoffman @lisatomic5 Fascinating case study of a guy who's taking over golf, who is maybe an ennea5.
"A lot of my practicing felt like play, because nobody had told me to do it." — @jacobcollier youtube.com/watch?v=t9jwpZ…
@moshwey Hot take (which is sort of what one of my sources said) is that the moon can't actually pull water *up* for shit (ie away from earth's gravity) but the sideways pull on the water that's sitting neither towards nor away from the moon, causes it to go sideways, which… I still dk.
@moshwey Oh right, centrifugal. Okay, so simultaneously the oceans want to bulge on the whole equator because centrifugal, and ALSO the moon's orthogonal-to-earth's-gravity-gravity on the two sides tangent to the whatever, flattens those sides. Somehow.
@TylerAlterman @jdj_writes opens ch2 of Seeing Through The World with a bit on Jean Gebser as "a form of catalytic literature, or a literary psychoactive par excellence: a reading that provokes an intensified state of awareness in the reader"
@moshwey @acidshill I seriously feel like having long hair helps me enjoy life and feel relaxed & spacious etc.
Mutuals DM me if y'all wanna make a shared alt or to add me to one that already exists, plzthx. (I may or may not be part of one or more already, that I may or may not add you to if you DM me.)
@jamonholmgren Fuck linguistic prescriptivism, "um" & "uh" are real words. languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=15718
Replying to @Hugo_Lz
@Hugo_Lz @DanielleFong In full agreement with your overall point. Having said that—math adjustment: At most 20% LT damages because 25% of cases asymptomatic so many probably omitted from this sample of PG's list of "adults I know who've had covid".
How long until twitter actually implements this? Remember that hashtags, cashtags, RTs, @-mentions, tweetstorms, & more, were all Twitter integrating unofficial user behavior into the app.
Haven't even read the quoted text but will happily use this to justify my not having published any blog posts since my 2019 review back in January.
@WilliamAEden @Meaningness Good timing with Ascension, I'm just getting to the end of Tycho's album Dive, so I guess I'll come back up! (slowly, so I don't get the bends) youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ih1a…
@sarelbic I do this too, whenever there's too much blood in my chocolatestream or wait do you mean you do this mixing outside your body? 😱
@josephflaherty @mseebach I think you might both be right. Maybe there are ~100,000 such people, within which there are multiple groups of ~10,000 where if all 10k were lost, it would bring everything to a halt. Critical number is lower than number of people who are critical.
@DanielleFong @Hugo_Lz Hm? I'm not following. What's "this" in your tweet. Asymptomatic cases?
@necoleman @cameronconcarne @QiaochuYuan This is true of most ways abstractions get taught: ignoring the majority of cases. In my years of engineering degree, all of my mechanics courses *except* Mechanics Of Deformable Solids assumed that all objects we were modeling would never bend or deform.
@necoleman @cameronconcarne @QiaochuYuan Similarly, all of my courses in mechanics and in electrical systems basically assumed linear performance. Of course, almost no real systems are actually linear except "approximately, within certain ranges". Keep doubling voltage or pressure and something explodes or breaks.
First Law of Frisbee: never make any prediction more specific than "watch this".
"Any scarcity can be framed as an abundance of something else." Thing I said today. Example: "scarcity of time vs abundance of things worth doing". Does this actually hold in general? I think the mindset-level basically does, but are some of the explicit reframes a stretch?
@warm_void I think group accounts must be legit because brand accounts are a thing and they obviously have shared access. (Unlike facebook where each account is a Person and brands are supposed to have a Page)
Replying to @burkelibbey
@burkelibbey Nah I think scarcity of breathable atmosphere maps onto "abundance of life", like below. This isn't a phlogiston thing where you just invert the original concept. twitter.com/reweirding/sta…
Replying to @GeorgeLanetz
@GeorgeLanetz hmm yeah, scarcity of joy, scarcity of meaning, scarcity of freedom... not sure how I would experience those as abundance except perhaps "I have so much work to do" youtube.com/watch?v=vC9tHI…
@DanielleFong @Hugo_Lz ah yeah. lots of uncertainty in both directions. we do know some people were having issues from SARS years later, but that doesn't really tell us that much. curious what seems like priority to you these days Danielle.
I'm voting in @CanadianGreens leadership race: #cdnpoli #1 Glen Murray: he knows how to get stuff done and has a plan to turn 33% popular support into actual Green seats - platforms are all hot air w/o seats. #2 Courtney Howard: collaborative, compassionate, calm, clear thinker
Context on @Glen4Climate: First 50 Seats Plan: glenmurray.ca/discussion_fir… Story, including his experience of being adopted & being discriminated against for being gay, and seeing government as a leverage point for various issues: youtube.com/watch?v=BOL32X…
Context on @courtghoward: As an ER doctor, she sees the interconnectedness of health, economy, & ecology. We need more systems thinkers & complexity folks among Greens. Her plan/platform: drcourtneyhoward.ca Talk on bridging health & environment: youtube.com/watch?v=FgIYak…
Kinda wish I'd investigated this a couple months ago so that I could've been encouraging Canadians to join the Green Party in time to vote in this race, but here we are. Nice to remind myself that US politics isn't all of politics, even if it affects me about as much as Ottawa.
Thread · Rethinking 'any mistakes are my own' acknowledgements
I really don't like when authors say "any wisdom herein is from [my teachers], any mistakes are my own". I think I see what it's trying to do and I think we can do better. I'm not totally sure how but I have some ideas. Thread 🧵👇
I get that it's intending to honor the wisdom of one's teachers and not make them responsible for ones' mistakes. But I think we can do that 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵: 📉 implying the entire enterprise of knowledge is always lossy 🤦♀️ over-humbling oneself 🤩 pedestalizing one's teachers
What might that look like? I'm interested in your thoughts. Newton's "if I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" is one approach I like. Honoring both ones' forerunners stature as well as… ones' own… uhhh… capacity to balance on someone's shoulders.
I might write… "I have learned so much from [specific/general teachers]. I could not have even begun to approach this topic without them. I also wouldn't've written this if I didn't think I had something to add. My teachers are not responsible for my errors, nor my wisdom!"
That sounds weirdly formal, but so does… "If there is any value to be found in this book, it is entirely due to the inspiration of [teachers]. Any faults are entirely due to our own inadequacies." …which is on the dedication page of a dharma book I'm reading & loving atm.
That phrasing seems to be essentially saying "my teachers get all of the credit and none of the blame", which is a beneficent gesture but still instantiates blame as an appropriate kind of explanation. (Blame is, as far as I can tell, incompatible with the dharma.)
Reflecting further on my phrasing: > My teachers are not responsible for my errors, nor my wisdom. The perspective of mutual causality (or "dependent co-arising" in buddhist lingo) says that this division is nearly as bizarre as "they get all the credit & none of the blame"
My teachers 𝘢𝘳𝘦 partially responsible for my wisdom & errors. This is true in the obvious ways: to a large extent, I learned what they taught, both wise & erroneous.
This is also true in non-obvious ways: Some of my errors may come from things my teachers understood so well they took for granted & forgot to explicate. Some of my wisdom may come from my teachers' confusions or blindspots—necessitating my inventing a way to make sense of that!
Ha! Okay, a snarky flamboyant take: "My teachers were brilliant & wise, otherwise they would not have have had anything to teach. My teachers were also fools who couldn't see what I now see. I am also a brilliant fool. Your job, dear reader, is to be your own brilliant fool.🙃"
Also, in all of this, worth dissolving your concept of whether the role of "teachers" is teaching. Wooten says it best: "I teach nothing because there is nothing to be taught." "But you said that you're my teacher." "'Teacher' is just a title..."
For more on Mutual Causality and the fascinating connections between systems thinking and the original dharma, check out this amazing book: Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory by Joanna Macy Link: amzn.to/3eH7CBX
I think CritRats/Popperians like @reasonisfun will like the spirit of this thread, as it's in part about exalting a concept of knowledge as something that grows over time rather than being degraded.
@QiaochuYuan @moshwey Incidentally, I watched this video a week ago and now I think I understand inertial reference frames better. Centrifugal forces appear when you have a rotating frame of reference (around 8mins in the video). (featuring Terry Tao & MathOverflow) youtube.com/watch?v=1VPfZ_…
@tasshinfogleman I think it's worth exploring some of what eg @_awbery_ has written about differences between sutric & tantric buddhism. I'd guess that *some* of these misconceptions probably arise from a unclarity of which is being talked about. vajrayananow.com/2020/07/10/sut…
@tasshinfogleman @_awbery_ As far as I understand it (not very far!) monasteries historically have been totally renunciate (and in the case of buddhist monasteries, sutric). MAPLE is clearly doing something different ("semi-renunciate"), but it's not clear to me *how* different or if it's even coherent.
@tasshinfogleman @_awbery_ And it seems like MAPLE would probably benefit from having good maps of the space outside of renunciate monking. VG for instance heard DTh's description of MAPLE's practices and what he saw was distinctly tantra, which MAPLE's core teachings are not. twitter.com/leashless/stat…
@made_in_cosmos can my profile pic and your profile pic be friends? 💖 🌌✨ (had a similar thought about smiling re mine, actually)
@nibrasibn I used to use manageflitter but I think they've changed their terms/pricing/features and it may not work well at all anymore. Lets you sort/filter by a ton of different factors. manageflitter.com
@visakanv @DVGGER @FknStrada @Conaw I work at a standing desk and this is pretty accurate for me.
@GeniesLoki @m_ashcroft Yo join my group alt that may or may not exist
@ben_r_hoffman Fascinating! I've had that happen a few times. Did a hakomi exercise, relaxed my belly, and felt [discs energy shift from knight to king]. I know little tarot & hadn't thought about it in months but when I looked it up it totally matched the scarcity→abundance shift I'd felt.
We're unable to grapple with, on all scales, the reality that nobody knows how to educate a populace to be able to run a democracy anywhere other than into the ground.
Noticing a kind of vague aimlessness, and wanting to poke something, make something happen, call a random friend... hm.
@TristanMiano Yup, that sounds like at least a substantial chunk of it. Taiwan got a bunch of this right on the tech side with g0v.asia, but there's also just like, the best of what we know about how to make good decisions has not been implemented into how politicians talk.
@visakanv Not a great photo but this was a lovely swoopneck top. This would have been twitter's 2013 xmas party, when I was an intern; not quite a nightclub but defs a party idk. (right = better photo of same top, by my photographer friend, a few weeks later) I had weird facial hair.
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth I asked @Morphenius this and he recommended Anodea Judith's Eastern Body, Western Mind. Seems pretty good so far, haven't dug that deep, but I trust his recos a lot.
fellas: is it gay to: use 2 colons in one sentence?
@danlistensto @tasshinfogleman I found Bean series fascinating and loved it more than Ender (read both as a teen). Books 2-4 of it take place on earth which is trying to sort out global power etc with a nascent version of the internet. Probably somehow relevant, though also might feel silly now.
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If you want a precise, neutral test for who's an extremist, the best might be anyone who says "Anyone who's not with us is again…
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I have a boring-straightforward answer to this one – I had a notebook that I kept during my military days that I lost and I d…
@visakanv love this Q. first thing that comes to mind is this shirt. got tie-dyed twice because first time still too much white, so it has a totally unique pattern & palette.
@artfulminimal @visakanv Mmm yeah I love it 🥰 Not 100% sure what happened to it. I think I gave it to the same friend who took the righthand photo of me.
Replying to @UNDICTION
@UNDICTION Nice! Super Mario Party has special dice for each character, with different tradeoffs. Some simple: Mario 133356, Peach 024446. can also choose standard 123456 any turn. I liked Shyguy 044444 because allows avoiding traps 1-3 away with ~certainty. Some have lose-coin sides!
So here's one that's in some sense "open": twitter.com/sadalsvvd/stat…
@visakanv "finance the operation entirely on her own.... or bring in another investor" Not exactly sure "investor" is the right word for this if you're calling yourself a nonprofit. "Donor" is usually used there.
Replying to @dendricide
@dendricide putting the uhh anal in analogy (that was too easy)
@eka_mark_moon @QiaochuYuan @moshwey Yeah that's what's weird about rotational mechanics, as opposed to uhh ordinary mechanics, or whatnot. Maybe put another way, if something is rotating, it's moving with respect to itself, which is not true with something that is just translating. Still don't quite know why.
@markmarijnissen I'd be interested in reading that! It sounds resonant with the sort of stuff covered in the Guru Papers, a book I love.
@AskYatharth @simiansunny Yeah nice. What Yatharth said.
@nclaurence "If this acknowledgements section is at all based, it is entirely due to the inspiration of @Malcolm_Ocean's thread the other day. Any cringe is mine." 🤣
@calebmontiveros Yeah! Not from a blame perspective (which Huemer is toying with here) but just like, "these people were part of my thinking process".
@ben_r_hoffman Mmm yeah. I have a fair bit of trouble with mind-body stuff often too. I'm probably not the one to try to explain energy signatures to you 🙃
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Ok, new mental revolution: these are skills of KAIROS and we live in a society of CHRONOS -- Faith (to hold out) and tempo a…
Wow I'm reading the Trump tax article and it's like he's allergic to paying taxes. In order to get enough business losses to pay no taxes, he buys failing businesses, and is way in debt. That's not strategic under any set of values except hating the idea… ift.tt/3i8EKUT
@visakanv Oh and here's me in rainbow morphsuit+sparklejacket at a ConBroChill concert a few weeks earlier. Gal is a random person I met & danced with. Guy in the background is one of the band members.
@visakanv I was one of the most wackily dressed people at this concert, which is impressive when you consider the bandmembers have all of these ridiculous homemade ducttape costumes and that's sort of their vibe.
@visakanv If you don't know Con Bro Chill, they're… if you crossed Malcolm + a boy band + a lacrosse team + Flight of the Conchords + a frat house + Blue Man Group + LMFAO + power rangers. Hard to see all that from just one of their videos, but here's a fav: youtube.com/watch?v=0NfsDL…
@visakanv And here's another one that captures a decent chunk of the rest of it. youtube.com/watch?v=ug7r-d…
@mattgoldenberg @xuenay Totally. I get the idea of reinvesting so you're constantly growing. I guess maybe it just looks weird in retrospect because he's so bad at it that it looks like he's just panicking at the idea of profit?
@m_ashcroft @visakanv Weird that it's a "for now" thing but you framed it as "ever" initially.
@m_ashcroft @visakanv Also I wrote an article about how you might not be as far away from being able to wear something like this as you think - it's usually mostly a framing thing. medium.com/@Malcolm_Ocean…
went on facebook and actually commented a few places for the first time in months & months what a mistake—now I have notifications on facebook 🤦♀️ on the plus side, the contextiness of friends-only posts feels like it makes talking about culture war tangles somewhat safer
@mattgoldenberg me!
@visakanv a friend of mine solved his similar situation with cannabis hadn't heard of nicotine for this though!
@mattgoldenberg then I want to check facebook
@eka_mark_moon ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shit. @QiaochuYuan @moshwey you guys get this?
@mattgoldenberg then I might make some comments, at which point see exhibit A
@mattgoldenberg on a deeper level the issue is that this loop has eaten a bunch of hours the last few days for me, not in a way that feels particularly meaningful
@mattgoldenberg it's pica for whatever this is:
@thesravaka I'm in the one further "no living stories of poverty in my family" category. Not rich, but at least doing-okay back generations. One grandfather born & raised on a farm though, so he would have had enough to eat but fairly little money I think.
@ssica3003 I recommend checking out the serial internet fiction The Fall of Doc Future, especially if you like sci-fi fantasy mashups but even if you don't. Features characters doing this to themselves and each other, in intimate & complex ways. docfuture.tumblr.com/post/823635512…
To all those people who reply to me from their locked accts I'm not following, causing the reply count to go up without anything showing: 🧐🤨🙄😒 Also to the folks at twitter who made it work that way: 🤦♀️
@thesravaka ancestors I'm aware of pretty much all came from Britain (mostly Scotland) to Canada, between 100 and 300 years ago iirc one allegedly brought a grandfather clock over on the boat, so I guess they were fairly well off
@thesravaka Uhh and by "Canada" I guess I mostly mean "the British colonies that would later become Canada" since Canada didn't exist as a thing til 1867 (oh and come to think of it, maybe some of them landed in the USA and then moved north? idk)
@danlistensto @aaronzlewis Seconded!
"love too cheap to meter" 💞 amazing phrase from @nickcammarata's bio
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth @visakanv @nickcammarata
"I want extreme sports but for self-love." Holy shit this is also super good.
@SarahAMcManus And let the internet know that I have verified that they are toastable... somewhat. Got the outside to brown but then it started falling apart. (Sarah said fish gelatin melts at lower temperature than beef gelatin, which might be it. Maybe also an erythritol vs sugar thing.)
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@SarahAMcManus @Shardrol @DeconstructingU @_awbery_ Vajrayana has only one thing to say: form and emptiness are aspects of…
@SpencrGreenberg Related, though not the same:
@meekaale Haha yeah Heidegger's definitely in there. Would love to hear your thoughts once you read more of it 😊
If you notice your life sometimes oscillates between 2 or more different stories based on salient facts & feelings, see if you can find a meta-level story that can hold all of it without oscillating. I've found this often helps me & others.
New Complice user: so how do I go about choosing between competing goals/priorities? Me: there's a few ways you can do it, such as <examples>, but also don't forget that sooner or later you're going to die and that some items on your list will never happen, and that's okay.
Thread · Productive and burnt-out modes as one system, not two selves
Replying to @btohtoh
@btohtoh The boring/trivial meta-layer is instead of "I'm sometimes a highly effective nerd and sometimes a burnt out anxious emo slob" "I'm a mysterious creature that operates effectively for a period of time then is dysregulated during my recharge process" point is: one you, not two
@btohtoh A maybe more detailed/useful model (may or may not be accurate to your specific case!) might be something like: "My left hemisphere skilled at suppressing certain needs/parts of mine in order to get important things done, but at a certain point they rebel and do random shit"
@btohtoh Either example constructs the two modes of you are part of one system, and helping to generate each other, rather than as separate. Even if you don't have a clue how they're connected, you can still hold a basic assumption that they are, because they're parts of a whole you.
@btohtoh Btw if the rebel thing above resonates at all, you might get something out of reading The Guru Papers, particularly this chapter on internal conflict. docs.google.com/document/d/1HK…
@mattgoldenberg @btohtoh Exactly. The new narrative needs to explain why this one system has been operating in two modes historically. It needs to be compatible with the past dataset & present behavioral organization without forcing it to change at all. Though it may create possibility for change.
@mattgoldenberg intertwingle all the things! 👆this needs a direct link to this 👇, methinks
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Great example of meta-integration. Likewise, if you find yourself frequently oscillating between two "incompatible val…
Retweeted @alifeofmovement
A complete elimination of micro trauma is the equivalent of mass suicide... Our lives create trauma through their very…
On the left hemisphere's role in self-coercion.
Don't bring an either-or to a both-and fight.
@maybegray 💞 How'd you hear about this? I saw on a private facebook group from another author who'd been in contact with Carse's family, so I'm pretty sure this is legit, especially if you heard through some other channel, but I haven't seen it anywhere else on twitter or google.
@maybegray @beatnikpicnic @alt_visa @sharanvkaur
RIP James P. Carse 💞 May your game continue on in me, and in everyone else who wants to play 🙃
@maybegray Just made this graphic:
@maybegray 💞 Part of what keeps the game going, from my perspective, is building on what happens. This image is now one beautiful thing that wouldn't have existed if Carse hadn't died.
I heard this beautiful song and started a new playlist "Peace". What's another song I want on my "Peace" playlist? youtube.com/watch?v=YDCrv3…
@dschorno Yeah, I resonate with both experiences, discovering that he was going to be a guest on The Stoa and getting to see him there live, and then discovering that… the era of being able to ask him questions is over. 🕯️🙏
@TomLisankie @Conaw If you wanna read a fictional account of a group who resolves disagreements like this, check out the novel David's Sling. Fascinating stuff. I vaguely recall recommending it to @Conaw in like 2015 or 2016 when he said he was building software that would support argument-mapping.
@sweatystartup following you on the basis of being someone who changes your mind on twitter, even though I have a lot of resonance with your original position - focus on what's in your locus of control (though your critics have a point too: sometimes the leverage points *are* in the system)
Retweeted @utotranslucence
Our deep reading group on Finite and Infinite Games just heard about Carse's passing, and I'm currently with a group o…
@prateek_agwl This person seems open!
Noice. Of course, goodhart's law. People would start going for one-take wonders and getting friends to check their stories or whatever. But there's something to this, as unrealistic as it is.
@tessafyi Dunno if this is quite the thing but it seemed relevant enough to be worth linking here!
@DRMacIver @fvathynevgl @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft The main ones that come to mind for me are actually books about Perceptual Control Theory. There's something about how they talk about conflict, external and internal, as being an inevitable result of trying to control behavior directly, rather than perception. Illuminating.
@fvathynevgl @mattgoldenberg has a pretty loud take about how just turning off coercive motivation doesn't actually give you an alternate system. I also broadly agree with this although our takes are probably different and mine maybe not as extreme as his, idk.
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@hmillerdev Few years ago @Malcolm_Ocean told me there were two twitter accounts that were doing Roam on Twitter @GRITCULT and…
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twitter is an improv game where an admissible move in a thread is to QT any tweet that has ever been tweeted in history, i…
Thread · You can just tell people things and change their lives · 5 of 6 tweets
Another case study of [[you can just tell people things and change their lives]]. Impossible to say what or where Roam would be if I hadn't pointed @Conaw at this, but it would definitely be somehow different.
I'm just creating the [[you can just tell people things and change their lives]] page on my roamblog right now, so I don't have this old theme saved, but lemme see if I can find a few old tweets about that. Aha, here we go:
@ben_r_hoffman Exactly.
Retweeted @AngularOcean
One of my best DM conversations was when someone assumed that I was an alt for @Malcolm_Ocean and just jumped in to a con…
Part of my alt strategy involves the existence of alts that seem like they're me but aren't actually me. For instance, this one, assuming I'm not messing with you 😉
@moshwey @eka_mark_moon @QiaochuYuan I guess… moon stretches the whole situation ~linearly? Technically gravity decreases in strength superlinearly… g = GMm/r² But tiny diff in r means ~linear I guess. 🌕 to near 🌎 = 403,600 km 🌕 to 🌍 core = 410,000 km 🌕 to far 🌏 = 416,300 km So diff in r² almost identical.
Replying to @BadMczee
@BadMczee @nclaurence malcolmocean.com if anyone wants the link
This again. This time it's @CoryWong live @ Brooklyn Bowl. I've heard this before and it's exactly what I needed right now. Digging his funk talk in the first minutes, James Brown style. Teaser that at some point there's a trombone motorbike. Let's go: youtube.com/watch?v=24xGp1…
@ClayNichols @visakanv If by <1980 you mean you're still Diggin' on James Brown, you might also dig this:
Oh wait I think it's a racecar not a motorbike. Anyway, it's good shit.
@mattgoldenberg @DRMacIver @fvathynevgl @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft +1 to both of these