Do I know people who are NodeJS devs w/ experience debugging memory issues? Not my forte, but currently my problem. I'd love some help debugging today. heapdump newrelic request timeout memory quota exceeded If phrases like 👆 make you crack your knuckles in anticipation, hmu!
May 2021
(If money wants to be on the table, money can be on the table—I don't have a ton of it but I'd be happy to contribute some to someone who's happy to tackle this problem! Not yet sure what arrangement is appropriate; decent odds this is a "20 minutes of advice suffices" situation)
I'm also slightly-longer-term looking for someone to take ongoing responsibility for a bunch of the Complice backend, since my heart & skill is in the design of the user interface. Someone who resonates with my self-energizing meta-team vision 💞🔥🚀
Damn most of the responses to this are legit 🤬 haha. I feel simultaneously really understood and really misunderstood 😂 If you wanna feel preemptively undermined, try tweeting this question:
@LexiestX @cutelioncubs Right? I really, really, really don't know what to make of these results. I'm legit not sure there isn't a paradox in here somewhere.
@jstanotherview technically not actually I wrote it a few minutes later when I was on the toilet I was busy… sending a really important text message 😆
@metaLulie > is there a way to *not* have relationships form who you are? no, but that's okay. it IS possible to untangle yourself from the mental arguments though, via self-validation & perspective-taking. I could probably walk you through this if you want.
Retweeted @pragueyerrr
i rly went from feeling immense shame around my body, serious body dysmorphia most of my life (to the point where i hadn’t…
anybody want me on your 9 minute podcast?
@NormanChella @DaltonDEmery @m_ashcroft @racket100 @reddy2go Looks like we just need a 10-person follow ring. I'm racket.com/malcolmocean, hmu!
@jambarree I thiiiiiiiiiink I do but the main thing that changed was node engine v10→v12 (since tried downgrading, didn't help) and a bunch of node module versions (none major semver; since tried reverting... and tentatively, maybe this helped? but jeez that seems fragile)
shoutout to @mayfer for helping me track down at least one piece of this issue (not the central problem but an older bug that was at minimum making it harder to debug and possibly exacerbating actual problems) and generally helping me feel less alone with the whole thing
Replying to @mykfmn
@mykfmn @harveykrishna_ "a fed" vs "the fed"
I made a lil instrument with @mayfer's ToneHack experiment. I call it pulseo. (I love the "timbres from scratch" tagline - it very much is!) tonehack.com/i/pulseo
I think @mayfer & @maxkriegers want to check this out, for slightly different reasons. t.co/eAhKKpz9Iq
suddenly struck by a realization that in almost all circumstances "the alternative" is a really really weird thing to say 🤨 (as in eg "better than") *THE* alternative? as if there's exactly one and everybody knows what it is? wat.
@va2lam this one is better than literally every other one as far as I can tell insofar as "dying young" is reasonable general category and is for most people pretty bad no matter how it happens (even though there's a huge variety and some of those ways are more awful than others)
@va2lam having said that, "old" means at least 2 things: • existing longer, the alternative to which is ceasing to exist • senescence (biological aging process) which goes slower/faster depending on some factors, & can possibly be halted or reversed in our lifetimes
@va2lam in addition to simply "existing longer", in the context of humans "getting old" also implies a ton of things about gaining some kinds of wisdom and also usually shifts in values towards eg family trees, and also usually becoming less paradigmatically fluid.
@taoroalin yes! BATNAs are very important, and they're also very very specific & personal three candidates for the same job may have wildly different BATNAs, eg - another exciting offer - meh offer; keep searching - moving back in with parents
@taoroalin and even there, those candidates might reify what they think their BATNA is as "the alternative", when actually there are other possibilities they haven't considered!
@taoroalin so maybe best is to say "the best alternative I'm aware of"
I would just like to say that it is my conviction That longer hair and other flamboyant affectations Of appearance are nothing more Than the male's emergence from his drab camoflage Into the gaudy plumage Which is the birthright of his sex
There is a peculiar notion that elegant plumage And fine feathers are not proper for the male When actually That is the way things are In most species.
Brave has gotten weirdly slow for me, and Chrome seems kinda sus. Soooo seriously trying out Firefox for the first since I was like... 12? Ah, no, it was my main browser in high school too before Chrome got big. It's fucking fast now! Thread of adaptation learnings. 🧵
Great to find some of my fav extensions here: - LastPass ofc - Stylus & TamperMonkey (userstyles & userscripts) - complice.co new tab page (in part thanks to a user helping!) And I don't even need JSONview because ff automatically handles that sort of thing.
Quicksearches a lil better, mostly worse. Can right-click a search field to add easily, but no way to directly create a new one, even by keywordifying & %s-ifying a bookmark. Gotta *modify* some other search and that works, but that's super jank. +Worse preview=harder to trust.
EW. It handles ctrl+left & ctrl+right slightly differently than everywhere else (chrome, sublime, terminal, gedit, nautilus, unity) Wanted to add "now" to end of "It's fucking fast!" and ctrl+right took me *past* the "!" That's just....... wrong? That's just wrong. @Firefox wtf
I literally might not use Firefox just for that. The whole fucking point of having & using ctrl+right, ctrl+backspace, etc, is that they function in an extremely consistent way so that you can do stuff without having to stop and ensure it's understood you.
@mchapiro say more? I've mostly had a good impression so far but I haven't looked at it that closely
Retweeted @beauhaan
What someone tells me... Dude, I've got a crazy idea~ I listen.
massive if true nature.com/articles/s4158…
@daemonhugger @VinceFHorn Shadow work is about untangling the particular tangles that are in your psyche, which are different from others' tangles and are a result of your unique history. Awakening is about paying attention to the world and perception and seeing fundamental universal truths about such.
Retweeted @lexfridman
A human jumping on Earth (1g), Mars (0.38g), and the Moon (0.17g).
@PeterorjustP nothing formal/direct but I've got a page with that title in my roamblog: intertwingled.blog/#/app/malcolmo…
@DashBarkHuss @FreddieCarthy @BackyardBrains @arduino @girlscouts Aw damn. Not a bad price, but sad when this stuff is so contingent & rare. Can they open source the design of that discontinued part? Or is it still IP they they need to stay competitive?
This was fun, and feels like a monumental phase in some ways. Esther Perel publishes real counselling sessions, but this is public realtalk *about* sessions, which is a nonlinear further step.
Replying to @phr31nd
@metaphrand_ @hippieforlife11 Yep. There's a whole pill around this. If you want it, Girard is one keyword, Zvi's Moral Mazes series is another (thezvi.wordpress.com/category/moral…) and @ben_r_hoffman has great stuff on benjaminrosshoffman.com Afaict, trying to fight *against* this thing directly is an antipattern tho.
@metaphrand_ @hippieforlife11 @ben_r_hoffman What I mean by trying to fight against the thing is an approach I've seen many people, take: becoming hostile towards or protective against anything one perceives to be an instance of this pattern. Such a response is understandable (I used to do it!) but it reinforces the thing.
Replying to @phr31nd
@metaphrand_ @hippieforlife11 That seems about right, although deciding whether to do anything or not is only the simplest case, and there's also cases where it's not even totally clear what you would do if you were to do something, or when. Eg you see a friend maybe getting sucked into a cult. Uhh... hm.
@nibrasibn Just got the -2.75s and went outside with them on for the first time this week and I felt like it was definitely different than what I was used to. But felt like the sort of thing I could plausibly adjust to. Like my eyes just weren't quite ready.
@nibrasibn Now I'm a little bit like "did I fuck up by ordering a whole 90-pack of -3s too?" but that's only 45 days of every day, so not hard to enjoy burning through them if I discern that I want to shift to full-time -2.75s.
~> If you value being better at something than someone else, you're driven to put them down - their improvement is your loss. If OTOH you value being good at something, you should aim to build them up, so that they in turn can help build you up. @DRMacIver notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-05-…
@visakanv @nickcammarata @mesolude Huh, would be curious to hear more from Visa about this or more from Nick about where Tim has written about the money & fame thing!
Retweeted @LordChisholm
Always Be Calibrating
What's something you've got on your calendar or to-do list that you feel ugh about? 🤔 Got something? K. Can you say no to it altogether? 🖐️ If not, can you make a small change to it to make it more yes? 🥰
Either way, seems like a Boy Who Cried Wolf phenomenon (among other things). twitter.com/KtheEphemeral/…
@czrobertson school also generalized goodself/badself dynamics, reifying the part that made the plan as having been correct and the parts that have important other information that requires adjustment as being bad, like "my laziness" as opposed to coherently purposeful themselves
Thread · The absence of long-haired men in panels and media · 1 of 8 tweets
I don't think very often about how unusual my long hair is, but I just looked at some collections of panels decried as non-diverse and I've yet to find a single long-haired man in any of them. This demographic is suspiciously narrower than "[white] man".
@dakooata It's from the musical Hair youtube.com/watch?v=qz4vXV…
@m_ashcroft Yesssssssssssss.
@pragueyerrr > wiser? sexier? more confident? I mean, we are 😎 Just kidding... unless..?! I feel a bit like Samson in this regard, except that it's not my strength that hinges on long hair, but more like yeah, confidence, vibe, something.
Thread · The absence of long-haired men in panels and media · 3 of 8 tweets
after a bit more scrolling I've come across one Italian man with long hair and one zany wavy-haired guy presenting at a biohacker conference. this is out of 100s of photos.
Memories of years of my usually-pretty-open-minded dad saying "you really should cut your hair" every time I was doing co-op job interviews. I joked about this once with my interviewer, a man with long red-dyed hair (for a bay area tech co). (We were talking about my vibe.)
Retweeted @AskYatharth
want a permanent screen in my room that’s just connected my Zoom room that’s open all day for friends to just pop in and o…
@coladaclan here's uhh... an extreme option youtube.com/watch?v=8NCsIF…
@natural_hazard Yeah, I'd add the word "simply": "Once you conclude the other party is simply deluding themselves, you've effectively ended the conversation." How exactly is which part of them deluding which other part of them, and why? Lots to work with there!
@natural_hazard Self-delusion happens all the time. Everyone's hanging out in frames that omit key aspects of theirs & others' experiences. Sometimes these can be easily corrected/adjusted, other times they have majorly resistant self-reinforcing blindspots held in place by repressed panic.
Retweeted @natural_hazard
something I just read "Once you conclude the other party is deluding themselves, you've effectively ended the conversat…
@Acre108 ooooh
@VVlifts I have a friend who used to be terrified of being such a person, which seems like a whole different layer. He wasn't able to relax into the idea that we were co-creating meaning with a convo, kept feeling like he had to perform at it and prove he was worthy of respect.
@maybegray @interintellect_ keep me posted! (not usually available on fridays tho)
Retweeted @chwoodiwiss
Play high-stakes games, accept high-stakes responsibilities. "But how could I possibly begin to know about / account for…
@pragueyerrr 😚👌
@chwoodiwiss yeah, we need better tech for adequately accounting for effects, both info tech (to organize it) and social tech (to create the kinds of conversations that will actually usefully surface stuff) (I'm working on the latter)
@visakanv @shahidnowshad @nickcammarata Yeah commitments are a super interesting one. I used to be very not into commitment but I've since discovered from the inside more about how constraints really do produce new freedoms.
@visakanv @shahidnowshad @nickcammarata On which note, to be free is to be beloved.
@natural_hazard If you wanna learn more about the gears of confabulation, I highly recommend checking out Iain McGilchrist's work on brain hemispheres. Helped me see the world from which confabulation makes straightforward obvious sense, like ofc you would do it.
What did it feel like when Michelangelo & Pope Julius II shook hands to agree that Michelangelo would paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? What do spiritually historically monumental decisions feel like from the inside?
@MSlavin my inbox is basically a personal feed at this point I don't even zinbox once a quarter anymore
Replying to @BenRatkaj
@BenRatkey ataraxia intertwingled shenanigans
Retweeted @meditationstuff
What activities (jobs, careers, hobbies...) require extreme emotional & social health? Like who are the Olympic athlet…
Replying to @abhayance
@AbhayPrasanna @brandontoner @AskYatharth other people have coined it independently I think
Replying to @reckoner165
@reckoner165 @visakanv want to have a call sometime?
@deepfates wait they called a queue a stack? sus.
@deepfates I sometimes really like soundcloud or youtube DJ mixes because they flow really smoothly for a whole 1-2h without any pause between songs, and they get me moving (I use a standing (read dancing) desk) #nowplaying my new fav mix: some funky house soundcloud.com/freddy-j/coast…
fellas,,, is it gay to want homeostasis?
> Before Europeans learned about zero, Descartes could not have come up with Cartesian geometry. All anyone had ever tried was to do better & better Euclidean geometry Great piece. ift.tt/3v98tET
Retweeted @uncatherio
from someone calibrated, I expect to see both "this is a toss-up" & "the effect size is huge and real" on diff Q's excess…
Very tangential but this tweet had me suddenly imagining what sorts of crazy plants would grow/evolve on the moon where gravity is 1/6th. Could have a sunflower 5× as tall maybe. t.co/zmStpDmbgG
Retweeted @NebulaOfCity
@wildbuddhini To summarize as I understand: Broke: there's physical and magical and they don't interact Woke: there's on…
Replying to @phr31nd
@metaphrand_ @hippieforlife11 Yeah I'm not sure how it all connects, but I've a sense that it does, from reading relevant reports and seeing the subtle silhouettes of enormous egregores.
Retweeted @fvathynevgl
"women are the fairer sex": a result of men having few norm-conforming style choices. even explicitly caring about their l…
@fvathynevgl yeah, this all seems about right having well-groomed long hair as a man is a legit status signal that says "I can take good care of myself without needing to conform" (and have been doing so for some time! which dyed hair doesn't convey) I can let my hair down.
@nosilverv @xuenay I'm an enneagram 7(w8) Was attracted to rationality scene because it was some of the most interesting people I'd seen, having fun doing introspection (7 has a kind of fear-of-internal-world thing going on) and then eventually EA hooked into some other stuff I think.
perfect zero-algo #Twiptych from realtwitter.com (which redirects to this search results page) @Meaningness & @cognazor seem to me to be critiquing exactly the same sort of thinking/phrasing: "what you think of as "you" is REALLY..." ("just"~="really")
"just" is sus
Retweeted @Aryeh___
Some new writing :) on how photographing spiders helped me out of a rough spot, changed how i perceive the world and helped…
Ahhhh turns out it wasn't a coincidence after all—@Meaningness was replying to @michael_nielsen having QT'd Sam.
can you imagine a campaign to Stop Laughing
.@LordChisholm: what do you think of tropes as a language? me: hmm... well, they're a level of abstraction up from specific moments like Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra...
Frenaissance
@hamnox @LordChisholm Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, his explanation implausible
@nickcammarata also fucked up that "learning" and "assessment" are artificially separated
Retweeted @nickcammarata
It’s messed up that we’re “graded” by authority figures every day starting from six years old. Kids that young aren’t ca…
@made_in_cosmos @harveykrishna_ I always felt really missed when my parents suggested I hit a pillow maybe it felt like the meaning of what I was sitting with was being missed? not sure, but something to watch out for
@nickcammarata this song is about all sorts of shit that is good shit doesn't specifically reject anything in particular youtube.com/watch?v=_OTRIp…
Retweeted @nickcammarata
Can’t believe we can listen to whatever music we want for free whenever we want
Replying to @instar_imago
@NibiruDakini bespoke afterlives, nice (anyone into this sort of thing might enjoy the short story anthology Sum by David Eagleman)
@meekaale @LordChisholm ^ relevant to you and stuff we've been talking about re life and the minigames of life
Retweeted @selentelechia
learning a lot about frustration tolerance from watching the baby
very cool thread about learning & frustration, and the importance of feeling like people have your back and are attuned twitter.com/selentelechia/…
This is so cool! Someone built a tiny tiny app out of the core complice.co workflow 🤩 twitter.com/tmkadamcz/stat…
For a thread of me being stoked to see someone doing something similar to @CompliceGoals, and talking about my philosophy of self-energizing collaboration, go here 👇
Retweeted @nickcammarata
the funny part is that it’s not literally stunning, in that we’re not all confused all the time. We’re all in the midst…
mashup of Richard Hamming "You and Your Research" and Professor X
Retweeted @meditationstuff
everything around me was ruled by malleable and reversible sensory and cognitive bottlenecks I picked up in elementary…
Retweeted @algekalipso
An alternative to a think tank is a feel tank. Alas, feel tanks will generally just feel and never build knowledge. I prop…
@metaphorician @algekalipso I say make up your own well-wishes! Either with yourself in mind, or another person, or everybody. But then direct it at everyone who would want such wishes 💠
@made_in_cosmos @harveykrishna_ I don't have a super clear memory but maybe I would have wanted them to deal with whatever I was mad about? I was often angry at my little sister tormenting me, and while I understand them not wanting me to hit her... something something tit for tat? That was a whole mess tho.
I'm... not sorry 😎
@danhines09 @CompliceGoals @RoamResearch Oh weird. @AbhayPrasanna didn't you have this working awhile ago? I haven't changed auth stuff since I don't think) (I've also experimented with putting Roam in a Complice iframe, but they're sameorigin so it requires a dev-oriented browser extension)
looking forward to going to some events in the states in late July or August, if/when the border opens up so far that's mostly just a few close friends' birthdays, but there could be something more! maybe with this tweet imma twitter.com/nerdposterino/…
@lswank The only way out is through, dude.
Retweeted @AbhayPrasanna
Some are asking - Yo I love that vision but also I use Roam for my own personal use and have no intentions on collective…
@wildbuddhini me irl
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
1/ "the mere copying of quotes almost always changes their meaning by stripping them out of context, even though the words…
@sokindling I feel you my 2021 theme is always dancing
The meta-shadow-work of integrating your shadow-work framework's shadow.
@Meaningness @michael_nielsen @emmaconcepts @stubborncurias @nicknaraghi > People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment they attempt any depth or generality of thought, they go mad almost infallibly. This struck me as very relevant to your bits on reasonableness.
@Meaningness @michael_nielsen @emmaconcepts @stubborncurias @nicknaraghi Reading it I find myself with the sense that he's deeply wrong in a way that's hard to pin down. Which...
Reply to this tweet and I'll tell you which emotion you should take most seriously for the next two weeks. (as commissioned by @wildbuddhini) t.co/dDGw73J3Sx
@wildbuddhini This is great! Wasn't sure what to expect but I'm into it.
@meditationstuff Pretty fond of Montserrat, which is the main title font for Complice (Open Sans also used as the body font). I'm super into geometric fonts—in this particular case, the C looks beautifully similar to the C in the Complice logo.
@tasshinfogleman in non-covid times, I've found doing Free Hugs at a bus terminal or mall or something is pretty great uhhh instead let's go with talk to some of your oldest relatives (or friends) about how they feel about getting old
@bloobsandnoods (my response to a similar request — you might find tons more recos there)
@bloobsandnoods went for a walk in an area where someone figured it made sense to paint rocks & put them places. this was in a stump:
I initially read the mum's remark as "as long as no one knows what you're doing" with the implication of the reply being "no one knows what anyone is doing"
Replying to @paperlemonade
@paperlemonade @Twitter Search power user here! advanced keywords are great. I have a bunch of quicksearches set up to quickly search my own tweets, or tweets from my followers
@paperlemonade @Twitter combined-operators like gmail search would be 🔥 such as OR I could imagine searching `bodhisattva from:(@meaningness OR @_awbery_)`
@paperlemonade @Twitter @Meaningness @_awbery_ lots of twitter is screenshots what about OCR for the screenshots then make their text also searchable? while we're talking images, should be a has:gif keyword or something
Replying to @Post_Market
@Post_Market @paperlemonade @Twitter +1 to "search things from both who I follow and who the people I follow, follow." We could add a few more categories, like "people I follow or who are following me" or "mutuals" or "people on xyz list" (!!)
Replying to @paperlemonade
@paperlemonade @Twitter I want to be able to search: • only tweets I've liked! ❤️ • only tweets I've *seen* (y'all probably don't track this for obvious data reasons but "re-find tweet I saw last week about xyz" is a HUGE use-case of search)
@ProfFeynman Yeah, all learning is by showing, fundamentally.
@jack_meditates ooof, "what it is" is way too strong imo. this is definitely one important (& oft-overlooked) piece though. to the extent that money *does* convert into needs met (which is clearly somewhat!) it transports past having-done-that into future potential-to-do-more-of-that
My 12 favorite problems/questions as of mid-2017 when I did some of #BASB Lots of similarities with current puzzles. As usual, I often notice key questions where I'm already starting to find initial intriguing partial answers.
@pragueyerrr This feels like the one I wanna share in the context of you tryna manifest, though it's not exactly a personal favorite! Very beautiful though. Live studio session version w commentary at ~19mins in this vid: youtu.be/MxavnZIzxU4?t=… open.spotify.com/track/5OUIqi6B…
Replying to @phr31nd
@metaphrand_ @wildbuddhini compersion
@Roamfu @wildbuddhini loss/grief
@waitbutwhy @itsjustmath This is my go-to news report every time there's a shooting. It's the only one that makes any sense to me at all. I think more stuff needs to be written with this "wtf" energy. theonion.com/fuck-everythin…
@itsjustmath @wildbuddhini confusion/bewilderment/befuddlement/bamboozlement
@sunofdopamine self-trust/self-assurance/self-love/confidence
@ElodesNL @wildbuddhini protectiveness/anger-on-another's-behalf
Retweeted @JeremyMcLellan
“it was then that i carried you” twitter.com/jil_slander/st…
@burningcopium @wildbuddhini smallness/insignificance
@embryosophy @wildbuddhini ineffability
Replying to @iamPeterRosso
@rossopeter_ @wildbuddhini excitement/thrill/anticipation
@paperlemonade @Twitter maybe more realistically than seen-ever, "seen in the last week"
@Post_Market @paperlemonade @Twitter or "people on any of my lists"
@brandontoner @wildbuddhini grasping/fixatedness
@lisatomic5 @wildbuddhini satisfaction.
Replying to @Lynoure
@Lynoure @wildbuddhini courage
@csageland @wildbuddhini delight
@hamnox @wildbuddhini warmth
@cortexfutura @wildbuddhini frustration 😜
@brandontoner ooooooh I want dis
@pragueyerrr if I were you I'd find a lovely novel to get absorbed in every waking moment when I'm not sleeping ❤️
Important thread for understanding the epidemiology of ideas. Fascinating stuff, Kuhnian revolution underway.
@embryosophy @wildbuddhini I'm playing a bit fast and loose with what counts as an "emotion" here. Basically "texture or quality of experience".
this is a cool summary though I'm a bit frustrated at an implicit generalization from "a particular covid skeptics community" to "anti-maskers" (as opposed to "these anti-maskers") lots of anti-maskers surely are not thinking much about science or epistemology. twitter.com/commieleejones…
if you really wanted to be scientifically controversial though, you'd be advocating n95-p100 masks + lots of skin contact, since there's mounting evidence that covid's mostly airborne (and skin contact is super necessary for being healthy mammal)
What kind of support from friends would help fuel you to do your best work?
@anonymiserly @wildbuddhini hilarity/humor/comedy/absurdity
Replying to @abhayance
@AbhayPrasanna @wildbuddhini smugness
@babarganesh @wildbuddhini compassion
Trust your own distrust unless you can't, in which case I guess trust your own distrust of your own distrust.
Thread · Why blindspot feedback is so hard to give and receive
And yet... blindspot feedback is hard. It usually creates tangles for one or both parties involved, and little net benefit. A thread of some of my realizations about this over the last year.
Afaict, this is basically true: > "Nobody knows what's wrong with themselves. Everyone else can see it right away." Two addenda: 1. This applies to groups too. Every group has a blindspot. 2. By default, nothing A says about how B's wrong will be comprehensible to B.
Let's start with this—the core of the blindspot feedback puzzle: > By default, nothing A says about how B is wrong will be comprehensible to B. Importantly, this is mostly true for communication patterns and other unconscious stuff. Can usefully give eg golf swing advice ofc.
Okay, so suppose you do something that systematically causes issues in your relationships. Unless you're a sociopath, you probably don't want to be aware you're causing these issues, and you probably *aren't* aware. Things just seem to happen to you. But someone else has a sense.
When they try to speak their sense, though, what they're saying will inevitably be attempting to point at something your worldview is set up to avoid looking at. This is not a comfortable situation for *either* person, generally.
It's uncomfortable to have someone point at your blindspot, because to the extent they're succeeding, they're generating errors for your subsystems whose job it is to keep you from looking there. Key: this is NOT something to be ashamed of. Doesn't mean you're bad or don't care.
It's also uncomfortable to be sincerely trying to point at someone's blindspot, because the more you try to adopt their frame (necessary in order to communicate),the less sense the thing you're trying to say makes—because it's that frame's blindspot. So you end up dumbstruck.
One assumption that keeps people stuck is the idea that if what you're doing is causing problems, you should stop it immediately. Not only is that not wise, it's usually not even possible. Practice this sort of response to feedback instead:
Develop the ability to entertain someone's feedback without feeling a need to change. Without that, here's 2 ways people usually respond to blindspot feedback: 1. "omg sorry uhh I'll xyz" (which may half-work but not longterm) 2. "uh what are you talking about? you're confused"
Both responses result in "layering" (from @meditationstuff's meditationbook.page/#47) In the first case, the feedback recipient adds a compensatory layer trying to subvert their own behavior. In the second, the other person adds a occlusive layer to avoid seeing the problem.
IN NEITHER CASE does anything get resolved. Can we do better? I think so. It involves the sort of thing I said above, of being able to acknowledge that you really don't know why what you're doing, and that you'll probably keep doing it until you understand why.
This blog post of mine is a short case study of one personal work-in-progress. You can witness a pattern evolving over a period of trying to bring it into awareness without trying to change it. malcolmocean.com/2021/02/lectur…
As a feedback-*giver*, my main suggestion would be to explicitly differentiate between your own experience and your own frame and someone else's, and to be clear (internally and overtly) that you're looking for some sort of correspondence, not a direct fit.
I ended up with a bunch of layers due to people seeing some of my behavior patterns as selfish/greedy or assholish, and then me trying to find my selfish parts or my asshole parts. Well, turns out I don't have any parts that identify as "asshole", so this was a wild goose chase.
Instead of saying "you're doing/being xyz", say "you're doing 🤷♀️something🤷♀️ that in my internal language I'm inclined to call 'xyz'." It's impossible to refute, which in this case is not a psy-op but actually helpful for both people, because it *needs* no refutation!
Needs no refutation because I'm obviously doing *something*, and you're gonna call it as best you can. This sort of spacious frame encourages dialogue participants to feel like they're on the same team, mapping some hard-to-explicate 🤷♀️something🤷♀️ from the inside & the outside.
Importantly, only go in as far as feels safe. If someone comes up to you and says "you're doing something I'm inclined to call narcissism" but you sense they're trying to manipulate you, you don't have to try to have that conversation and try to sort it out! (No have-tos ever)
Trusting your own sense of what conversations feel safe to have is paramount. It's your layering detector.
Why can't you be more NORMAL*? *in the geometry sense, as in orthogonal
@MarkMulvey @visakanv "If you're so wise, then tell me—why do you need smack?" —Roger to Mimi, in RENT youtube.com/watch?v=8oRZWX…
@gptbr00ke love = that there is other & that is great then there's a whole challenge of how to organize everything, which is where conditionality comes in but fundamentally the conditionality is subjective. some conditions make love harder to do, but no conditions make anyone less worthy
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@gptbr00ke love = that there is other & that is great then there's a whole challenge of how to organize everything, whi…
@gptbr00ke thanks so much for the prompt 🙏💜
Replying to @instar_imago
@NibiruDakini @Gyaltsen010810 people don't realize twitter is for vibing
@NibiruDakini @Gyaltsen010810 I mean honestly some people are so far into nondual spaces that they forget you also have to organize the particulars 🤭
@superstarcrashr sure
@nickcammarata @visakanv @MasterTimBlais I'm continuing to appreciate your ongoing normalizing of this. Even weirdos like me benefit from having a sense of what sorts of things are possible, and you're doing great work on that front.
@nickcammarata @MasterTimBlais @visakanv Musing on this since reading an hour ago, and I have a new answer: Peoples' concept of motivation makes this idea literally a contradiction. If your idea of goal-motivation is "feel bad until achieve goal" then setting happiness goal = instant failure 😩
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@nickcammarata @MasterTimBlais @visakanv Musing on this since reading an hour ago, and I have a new answer: Peoples' co…
@Javi_BT_ ...hot.
@brandontoner @CharlesSimsFarr Am I on that? I think I would like to be!
Great interview. Thanks @BlackForestBoi for tagging me. Major agreement with @Conaw's first point—consensus can't usefully be blockchained until it's actually been solved in the first place. Human cointelligence puzzle first & foremost.
Around 28mins @Conaw talks about wanting to get push notifications when authors who've influenced him change their mind about stuff(!) eg replication crisis. Occurs to me that solving this problem would also help with this:
@Conaw says "certain kinds of trust are transitive and certain kinds of trust aren't" I'd say interpersonal trust isn't usually, but subject-matter trust often can be. He's talking about liquid democracy & deferring, and how that also might get revoked with new info.
Liquid democracy seems to me to almost instantiate that push notification thing, in the sense that if I'm deferring to C and C defers to S, then C realizes S is a paid shill and shifts course, then my deferring to C automatically also updates. Hmmm...
Retweeted @mayfer
emojis as mind control the Unicode Consortium has allowed a select few people to decide on which basic emotions will become th…
Ooh, @Conaw talks about @RoamResearch creating a context for collective intelligence R&D. Reminds me a lot of what @mayfer is working on, which is a chat context that facilitates experimental forms of moderation & governance, whether human or programmatic.
@mayfer anyone can propose stuff though! I've been meaning to campaign for a few new basic concepts, for instance the unity of thinking and feeling:
@seconds_0 I vibe with this too, and I'm also really trying to figure out how to square planned cities with Gall's Law
@seconds_0 I guess even a small town still isn't simple. And maybe (maybe!) we know enough about cities now that they can in some sense be built from scratch in a way that wasn't possible before. But culture still a whole weird thing.
noice cancellation
Random idea 💡 crowdfunded conversations. Someone proposes a convo and people pledge $X towards "I'd wanna listen to / watch that" and then the momentum makes the convo happen!
What's one next step you could take that would move things usefully nextward?
Retweeted @beauhaan
🚨 HOLY FUCKIN' SHIT!!!! 🚨 Have your @otter_ai Voice-memos directly sent into your @RoamResearch graph, by the man I would ta…
@AnneSelke @modesofmeaning @rothosphere was part of making askhole.io @jimrandomh made a small-run thing awhile back
@doomsdayparent @TylerAlterman The only way out is through
@prerationalist @wildbuddhini panic even just fleeting micro-moments of helpless desperation
@natural_hazard @wildbuddhini sneakiness/cheekiness 😏
@thepericulum @wildbuddhini lostness
@Roamfu @wildbuddhini take it slow this isn't "try to have more X" just "pay more attention to X" maybe there's just a tiny moment of sadness when there's mould on your jam grieve it as much as it wants to be gruv (I still haven't grieved that this happened to me today, brb)
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin pretty sure @utotranslucence is moving back to SF soon but she may be interested in connecting in the meantime!
@DanPriceSeattle What do you think solutions might be? Like who needs to do what? I've mostly been thinking solution needs to give people more freedom to not take bad deals (UBI?) so that people can't get any benefit from offering them.
@Alephwyr @vgr have you tried asking him about investing *half* your money in Monero? I've been saying for years, "if you don't own any crypto, you're not diversified"
Oh man I like this a bunch but it could reify something confused. Taking stimulants to keep working *on something meaningful you have momentum towards* is fuckyeah. Drinking to connect with people? Also fuckyeah. My relationship to caffeine & alcohol is pretty functional tho.
@mayfer @Conaw @RoamResearch man if only we had... a system... to help us get on the same page about whether to approach this from a fractal consensus angle or an individual subjectivities angle 😅
@BellaRudd1 @ellegist now we're talking.
what time of year is it? here in Vancouver, it's lilac time of year and it's sun on my skin time of year
@CruzCalvo A decade ago at a hackathon I tried to build a facebook-integrated app called Faced Repetition that would do SRS on recognizing your friends from their photos. Your idea is probably better 😅
it took me a remarkable amount of scrolling before I confidently concluded this wasn't @Virtual1nstinct doing a bit
I'm surprised and I guess kind of impressed by the quality of conversation happening in this thread, given what it is.
Have been digesting more this "what if you felt 10/10 great all the time?" thing that @nickcammarata and others have been hyping up and I'm struck by how much my sense of moment-to-moment yesness correlates with listening to music I enjoy.
@JKahlerMusic hey dude, you okay? ♥️
Replying to @ellegist
@ellegist From Donella Meadows' seminal essay Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (which you can read in essay form here donellameadows.org/archives/lever… or in tweetstorm bullet form summarized at the bottom of this tweet)
Replying to @SpecialGravityO
@AzraelOz @GlitchesRoux every so often I wonder what xians would wear around their necks if JC had been hanged 😬
@natural_hazard umm I guess that almost everybody is settling SO HARD with respect to how they spend their time, and so many precious moments of experience are spent in states of skull-crushing boredom
@natural_hazard I feel you man. Mindblowing that we manage to not just have everything completely fall apart immediately.
@natural_hazard I don't like a lot of rappers and I do like Chali 2na a lot, so that makes him unusual 😛 (partially that's the wholesomeness of his lyrics, but also other elements of the whole thing)
@natural_hazard this is a bit gimmicky but it's legit good and feels like it belongs here youtube.com/watch?v=K_F2By…
@aspiringpeasant @Virtual1nstinct honestly I wouldn't put it past my friends to do a bit like this, so it seems pretty reasonable it would be a good bit
@nickcammarata @QuicksilverPool huh. this has me curious why this opposite isn't also true! (which it clearly isn't!) "if even a tiny part of your system thinks you deserve to be ballin those parts will succeed and make things that will make you miserable extremely hard to do" why does misery trump joy here?
@nickcammarata I think this is because of the same classic-but-weird conflation of A:"things that should make me happy" and B:"happiness". People know that "things that should make me happy"++ temporarily causes "happiness"++ then normalizes, but they call A:"happiness" and B:"?????"
@nickcammarata 1) Hell 2) Horrific (reality breaks down) 3) Tortured 4) Tormented 5) Very Uneasy 6) Uneasy, Uncomfortable 7) Okay🤷 8) Satisfied, well 9) Good, lively 10) Joyous, full of light, invigorated 11) Vast, grand, open 12) Blissful, saintly 13) Enlightened, spiritual unity —@HFreinacht
@nickcammarata @HFreinacht To fit tweet, had to shorten the one labelled "Okay🤷" above, from "Somewhat Uneasy, “okay”, full of small faults (most common)" These are what Hanzi calls "state"; moment-to-moment experiences. *Integrating* high & low states increases "depth". Source: medium.com/age-of-awarene…
@nickcammarata @HFreinacht It seems to me this model allows describing an axis I would expect to be highly correlated with ethical action: high state PLUS integrated awareness that others are in very low states and that that actually matters and is not just an illusion or whatever
@Conaw @mayfer @RoamResearch @DaveoftheAngels Huh. Hi Dave! Want to talk? (@Conaw if you wanna say more about what you're noticing, I'm curious!)
this is a very weird bot reply 😬😅🤔🧐
Can I stick my tongue in your name?
nice to meet you! ↳ broke: and how do you pronounce that? ↳ woke: can I stick my tongue in your name?
@made_in_cosmos can I stick my tongue in your mind?
Replying to @TetraspaceWest
@TetraspaceWest d'aww!
@m_ashcroft This is something more people could stand to be aware of in general 😂
Retweeted @hradzka
tfw you realize the whole actual Eye of Sauron has just turned its gaze upon you twitter.com/ddd1ms/status/…
Do you consent?
Have you ever experienced this? • you say a thing X to a friend/partner • they hear you as saying X* • thereafter when you try to clarify what you meant and update their model towards X, they hear you as contradicting yourself & don't trust it Suggestions for what to do?
I am SO excited for ecstatic dance after lockdown ends. It's already awesome, and: • there'll be more people there because anyone who only goes once a year won't have been for a year • there'll be a huge sense of shared experience & catharsis. I think it'll be really healing!
Still tru. Currently this Knife Party mix which is super dancy: youtube.com/watch?v=l32kME…
Why is @youtubemusic such a piece of shit? I can't search my playlists even using the search icon in the top right of viewing my playlists. Sorted by recency not alphabetical means it's an O(N) operation for me to find the playlist instead of O(log N). Unworkable with >dozen.
If I search the name of my playlist—anywhere—show me my fucking playlist. Especially if it's a unique term (in this case "ScatterVox") that has no public results anyway!
Anyway, Spotify might be slightly better along some axes but still doesn't have basic features like user-visible play counts. But they have shady business practices that basically amount to fraud:
[[Amplify what you do want, not what you don't want]] Here's my rant about what I'm wanting to see. (Companies, I'm not available for hire, but if you want to consult with me lmk.)
@strangestloop music varies a ton but usually few lyrics, and often follows the 5 rhythms (flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, stillness) over the span of 1-3h usually barefoot & people just go at it default is just solo expression, tho sometimes people dance together 5rhythms.com/gabrielle-roth…
@paulg Networks benefits too.
@lisatomic5 I generally try to avoid twitter first thing in the morning, in part for this reason! Not that letting people insert thoughts into your brain midafternoon is much better 🤔 Follow quality maybe the bigger thing here.
@nickcammarata Whoa, what a cool idea! A whole layer of situatedness beyond just "what does their feed look like" I'll add it to the list I've been keeping of potential twitter improvements.
@nickcammarata @HFreinacht @visakanv's already on it, damn.
@reasonisfun Yeah, recognizing the effect of chemical baselines (which can also be done by paying attention to what seems true when on drugs, including alcohol & caffeine) implies a need for a huge level up in reasoning about implications. Still underlying coherence.
@reasonisfun So it's something like, emotions all mean *something*. They're all situated in all of: • the sense data you're perceiving (unless dreaming) • your whole backlog of life experiences that have created your brain organization • the current neurochemical baseline
Replying to @abhayance
@reasonisfun But figuring out WHAT they mean, or how to trace that WHAT back to these different causes, is not a straightforward puzzle whatsoever. Interpersonally, I often say "if someone's upset with me, that's partially about me. but neither the size nor shape of the upset is about me."
@reasonisfun I'm the source of the sense data. But the size of their upset is going to be determined by neurochemical baseline, among other things. And the shape of their upset is going to be determined by the specific betrayal at risk, which comes from their past.
@TeamYouTube I've sent a ton of feedback in-app since y'all forced me to switch from @GooglePlayMusic last year, and as far as I can tell there've been no improvements to the app based on that feedback (or any at all?) Not feeling particularly motivated to try more.
@TeamYouTube here is isn't, in the search results ↙️ here it is, in the library ↘️ should be easy to repro I think this is working as designed it just... wasn't really designed
btw, here's a simple format for effective unambigous scheduling between different timezones: if you're in PST scheduling with someone in EST, write "how about noon=3pm?" = means both timezones no more "your time, my time" blah. just "the time that's both noon & 3"
my Algorithms & Data Structures prof gave an amazing impromptu final lecture talking about society & culture and there was this brilliant line that has always stuck with me: "you don't even have your own thoughts! you open your mouth, and your father comes out!" 😳 vivid image
.@AbhayPrasanna: if your model mispredicts, that doesn't mean the model is wrong, it just means it doesn't apply here Me: I guess a model that's wrong is a model that doesn't apply, in general
@joriamramos hey! 😀 @this_is_silvia said you'd be down to chat sometime. Feel free to DM me 🚀
Retweeted @AskYatharth
Any songs about beautiful men?
there is no simpler way —but! there is is a more joyous way!
Just read this article (HT @michael_nielsen) and it seems like huge news. Lots of ways it could go weird... but my first thought is that I'd hope to see longer grant horizons, to reduce publish-or-perish and time spent writing grant proposals. nature.com/articles/d4158…
Napkin math: 100B/5years / 1M PhD students = $20,000/student/y =everyone? Longer grant size would also substantially mitigate this issue: > an influx of funding [may] draw more graduate students and postdocs to research who won’t be able to find jobs if the budget later tightens
On the flip side, it can sometimes make way more sense to have shorter milestones, as this article illustrates. Incentives, incentives. This is for tech, not foundational science, but it's still pretty leading-edge engineering. thecgo.org/news/a-2006-na…
I think I'm winning in the sense that (insofar as trading lives is remotely coherent as a concept) I would trade with almost nobody …but I also think very few people would want to trade with me! And that also seems… like a good sign! A sign I'm using my taste, not goodharting.
@adolfos_tweets @SSS_music it's not easier but it reduces the chance of someone in not-PST remembering "noon" and showing up at the wrong time which literally happened to me at noon PST today since I only used local time last night since I didn't think the only non-PST person was coming to the meeting 😂
@mormo_music yes, requires both participants to know the time difference; if one person is in a familiar-to-both timezone and the other is travelling between timezones then it can make more sense to use that @AskYatharth & I scheduled some calls in PST while I was in EST and he was UTC+1 😂
@mormo_music @AskYatharth I think it also usefully functions as a common-knowledge collapser; if you've changed timezones (via travel or DST) and I don't know that and I say noon=2 then you might be like "what?" whereas if I say "noon your time" that's unclear
Great thread. Disambiguate all the things! ↔️ twitter.com/s_r_constantin…
As @EpistemicHope says, "favor" might need to be further disambiguated. My first attempt at that would be: F1: vibing with someone & enjoying their company vs F2: wanting them to benefit in particular, more than others trust or F1 could be reason for F2
> Until you conquer the fear of being an outsider, an outsider you will remain. C. S. Lewis lewissociety.org/innerring/
> But if all you want is to be in the know, your pleasure will be short lived. The circle cannot have from within the charm it had from outside. By the very act of admitting you it has lost its magic. the flip is Marx's "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member"
@nickcammarata have you faced mortal situations since?
@Austen in the sense implied by "100%": no & you wouldn't want to in some other more creative playful sense: can definitely curate feelings and intentionally steer them but you have to work with what the system has available can't control your feels any more than someone else's
Retweeted @nickcammarata
@sashachapin Buddha talked big game about being here and now but which of us is actually here now
Retweeted @sonjabl
What is the best definition of complexity that you have come across that is succinct and uses non-theoretical language i.e. it…
@epithetos @sagar__dubey @m_ashcroft oh whoa this is super cool!
Replying to @polyparadigm
@polyparadigm @pavedwalden @parafactual I tweeted this quote just hours ago, and semi-intentionally left out the first name because it adds to the hilarity. (Also twitter character limits, but that's just an excuse)
@parafactual At this point: not a rationalist not not a rationalist not a postrationalist not not a postrationalist kind of a metarationalist, insofar as I -ist at all why? postrat aesthetics aren't my bag "rationality" is a(n important!) subset of good thinking
Two kinds of decentralization. One is kind of smearing the center out over everything. Another is one that actually makes each node a proper center and allows for evolution & fluid reorganization.
☠️🤯 >Your brain continues to try to revive the body long after the heart has stopped. In some cases 30 hours later there has been found brain activity trying to make repairs to bring the body back. This is used to indicate time of death in murder victims. reddit.com/r/AskReddit/co…
Retweeted @LordChisholm
I'm not looking for a savior--I'm looking for a learning environment
paraphrasing @LordChisholm: "different people have different ways of reification, so it's like, knowing a concept comes from a certain person, I can go 'ahh, I need this enzyme to digest it'"
@LordChisholm asks "what do you like about that thing you just tweeted?" me: it's a really good pointer at... frame dialogue
if you had the chance to magically take care of your entire life's worth of going pee, up front, in one or two sessions, and then you'd never have to go pee again, would you?
@TeamYouTube Oh. That's at least designed-at-all, but I maintain it's bad design. Y'all started putting gmail search results in the main google search, because sometimes that's where the thing is to be found. This seems like a way more basic instance of "when searching, include my stuff."
Replying to @instar_imago
@NibiruDakini I do now❣️ (whoa, heart factorial?)
Replying to @instar_imago
@sunofdopamine modified version that doesn't encounter life ext weirdness could be "you have to get each years' pee out of the way all in one go during that year" (or decade, or something)
@lkbm Most normies can handle stuff like this if you preface it with "okay, so this is going to sound super weird, but—"
@MasterTimBlais in the literal sense? in the historical archetype sense? in the hypertrichosis sense? in the Twilight sense? in the Harry Potter sense? in the social deception game sense? in the Mage: The Ascension / White Wolf sense? ...what frame are we in here, man?
what a mess lots of interesting details here I didn't know, about the US tax system and weird incentives
I'm thinking about the Odysseus+Siren+mast story and struck by a sense that their song seems less beautiful and more hypnotic or addictive. Beautiful things generally produce awe & reverence, not desperate craving & grasping.
@ElodesNL yeah, it's like, it's like, I think there was still something cool about him tying himself to the mast to find out what the song is like, since it's clearly a phenomenon but like, in terms of what to actually *expect*, it's probably not satiation so much as pure hunger
Replying to @danielharan
@danielharan Agreed. Seems it's not *as* bad here? but that's hardly a good benchmark. We'd do well to compare ourselves in this sort of case to a country more like Estonia, where (I gather) you approximately get a text to confirm that your income is XYZ and whatever.
@LeelaHannSoden asking the right questions! it's your call where to do the (uhhh *does math*) 3 months ish of peeing
today's 2 genders
am very satisfied with this stupid poll so far
#TwitterDayOff Tuesday! I came on here to message @this_is_silvia about some art I'm commissioning, then just sent a couple tweets but oops, time to sign off for the day 🚀 Love y'all!
Retweeted @Aryeh___
Welcome to my tantric sex meditation class, my fellow men. Together we will become awarewolves
Retweeted @LeelaHannSoden
@xprize @elonmusk Carbon Removal goal of sequestering 1,000,000 tonnes of CO2 per year could be met with planting 42,00…
Had a lovely dream where I grinned at a stranger on the street then after we passed I started singing Feelin' Groovy by Simon & Garfunkel and he turned around and joined in in a tight barbershop-esque harmony. 🎶 So good ☺️
Huh, reading a description of stream entry and it seems very sutric in this frame and I'm wondering if there's a vajrayana equivalent (or several)… @Meaningness @_awbery_ This has some stuff 🤔 ift.tt/2T4exA3
Retweeted @acesounderglass
r/iamverysmart but for cooperation
Retweeted @parafactual
>:)
came across "antimask" in a dictionary and was kind of surprised it had made its way there already except wait
Replying to @danielharan
@danielharan Ohhh I meant specifically re taxes. Yes, other industries definitely have a bunch of regulatory capture here, in some cases worse than the US.
@alt_tatsu step one (imo) is definitely fully honoring your own experience of it not feeling acceptable to you to honor theirs it's utterly utterly not wrong for you to feel how you feel or want what you want
@alt_tatsu 🔥 well done.
@alt_tatsu Last year I had a situation where I found myself realizing "I can't respect your boundary, because I don't understand it" (housemate who didn't want to touch for allegedly vaguely covidy reasons but was fine sharing the same air etc, & we couldn't talk about transmission models)
@m_ashcroft yaaaaaas long haired men club repreSENT!
@harveykrishna_ ultra-ideal probably like 60% time big spoon, 60% time little spoon (which implies 20% time spooning with more than one person) lately... honestly not sure, might be about 50/50, and I'm not sure in which direction
@reddy2go @punkarelly @harveykrishna_
@harveykrishna_ although that ultra-ideal requires quite good ventilation
@pragueyerrr "I'm good at stuff... and you're into stuff" 😘🤭 youtu.be/r4G0nbpLySI?t=…
@_holyweather this is an interesting poll because it's partially a measure of desire but also of how successful the wanting-to-be-more-androgynous folks have already been at becoming more androgynous eg I'm a bit androgynous (used to be slightly more) but I don't feel desire to be even moreso
@m_ashcroft I felt very fancy as a kid because my dad had a business with a "fax" phone line and we ran the internet through there, so I could be on neopets for HOURS without the main phone line being tied up.
@m_ashcroft (I put "fax" in quotes because he didn't receive faxes very often so it probably was used more for internet and placing 2 calls at once than it was for faxing)
@DanPriceSeattle I thought the argument was less about working hard & more about BATNAs? "if other companies are offering bigger salaries for CEOs, skilled CEOs might go there instead?" tho that's already a shitshow—I'd want a CEO who cares about the company, not a primarily self-interested one
@Austen Delancey Foundation in SF, which helps convicts *actually* rehabilitate (instead of getting deeper into gangs in prison) explicitly separates: - untangling self-defeating psych patterns ("it's you, not the man") - community activism ("it's the man, not you") - learning skills
@timabray @DFisman hear, hear. we can (& must!) hold a higher standard for politics & politicians than the worst that we see
@timabray @DFisman though to rescue the point I think @DFisman was trying to make, I'd phrase it from "I get that this is politics" to something like: > "I get that there are selfish reputation incentives to lie in politics, but that doesn't make this not lying."
mood. a song probably will be written about this if it hasn't been already twitter.com/sheherenow_/st…
Thread · Trauma healing as permission to know and feel what you do · 3 of 6 tweets
& that it's okay to love what & who you love
Thread · Trauma healing as permission to know and feel what you do · 1 of 6 tweets
& that it's okay to enjoy what you enjoy
@Meaningness @_awbery_ Ah, and so you can have a taste of rigpa but then also there's realizing rigpa in every moment?
think of a recent dream, then type "I had a dream where" but instead of describing the events, describe one level up: what must've been true to make the events make sense eg instead of "I was having sex with X (who is not my wife)" say "X was my wife"
I continue to find it baffling that banks/gov agencies will ask you for specific info about your account to verify your identity, when all of that info is easily accessible if logged into website. Might as well just display 2FA-ish code on website & tell phone agent that instead.
Retweeted @reasonisfun
📃 NEW: Introduction to Alexander Technique – It's Not Posture lulie.co.uk/alexander-tech… Explaining these key ideas: 👁 Awar…
sure, I may be free from society's concept of what success looks like, but am I free from my *own* concept of what success looks like?
Thread · What pinned Factorio achievements teach about designing goal apps
I spent dozens of hours in the last week getting a couple of achievements in Factorio (playtime shown below is overestimate; I left it running in the background some) and I'm struck by a sense of how it was motivating to be playing with the achievements pinned to the top left. 🤔
Feels to me like there's some basic gamification stuff to take inspiration from here with respect to designing apps like complice.co—a goals app moreso even than a tasks app. How to pin your life goals to the top of the screen like that? Figuratively or literally!
(Aside: the "pin" icon actually isn't a pin, it's a magnet, which could also be an interesting metaphor for being drawn in towards your goal—I'm probably reading a bit too much into it though 😛)
Part of what's particularly cool about these achievements pinned to the top left is that the user *chose* them. Unlike the more general victory conditions of a game, which are kind of predetermined, the user is saying "I want to win *like this*."
Choosing which achievements to aim for is a very similar flip to what Complice guides people to do. Rather than taking for granted what success looks like, choosing for yourself.
Although huh, the chosen achievements still are chosen... from a menu. It would be neat (maybe this is already a thing?) to be able to define your own achievement in terms the game could understand, pin it, and work towards it!
Life is basically like that, in a fundamental sense. This is particularly true outside of the confines of the prison known as school, but even there—some people sent to literal prison decide to unlock "read 1000 books I'm interested in while in prison" and others don't.
It's mostly a mindset switch—one that I started with more of than most but over the years I've noticed how much further there is to go. And my developing the Complice app has a mutual feedback loop with my own learning. I make it and it teaches me.
So as usual, when I notice something like this pinning achievement thing and ask "how could an app do that for life?" Complice is already way better than most apps. One of the main views is the Next Action tab, which zooms in on the particular thing you're trying to work on.
I also just recently shipped a feature that makes that same next action BIG even if you're on the Organize tab. (although some users don't like this and so today I'm going to add an option to disable it)
There's also a new-ish feature called the "whole-day intention" which basically makes one of your intentions be your frame for the whole day, and tints the background color of the page to match. Could be a concrete project, or could be something like "take it slow".
But that's small stuff. At the other end of the scale, Complice doesn't just have areas of life or categories or buckets for your tasks—everything you're doing is organized towards a list of Goals. Even if open-ended, there's still a towardsness energy.
I think maybe the place that could use improvement is the Top Priority feature, which actually used to be called "Milestones" (& still is in retrospect—completed priorities are listed as milestones towards a goal) It's on a similar scale to the video game achievements, I think.
Currently active priorities mostly show up when you go to set your intentions, which makes sense in that once you've set your intentions, you want to focus on what you're going to work on today, not other things you may want to do this week.
But what if you could pin a Top Priority to the top left of at least the Complice webapp… or maybe depending on what your next action was, it'd automatically pin the top priority associated with that goal? That'd help connect each moment-to-moment action with long-term goals.
Okay, a simple experiment. Uhhh turns out the layout I'm using for Complice does not whatsoever afford sticking stuff in the top left like you can in a game where you walk around on a map. Both in normal mode ↙️ and distraction-free mode ↘️, this doesn't work.
So I need to figure out something else! But this is exciting. Anyway, time to sign off twitter and get to coding some of these API features. I've got an achievement to unlock!
inspired by a conversation with @uncatherio 🔥💪 anybody got other counterintuitive/flipped midwit memes?
also what's the name of the guy on the right? dimwit → midwit → ...topwit? fullwit? bigwit? 🤔
@moneyscarf also no. would be curious to see if you have it
@FryeSouthrop nice.
@FryeSouthrop also your handle is great
@CarnunMP @thecolorfelix you can't eat the menu
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A brief explanation of why I don’t believe in surveys carcinisation.com/2020/12/11/sur…
“Better not to start. Once started, better to finish.” I've seen this phrase around dharma spaces and I think there's a grain of truth in it but as written it's basically a psy-op for a couple reasons. Curious what others think, & can we come up with a better formulation?
@visakanv I've been rocking out to this song this week youtube.com/watch?v=HVJAvs…
got a 4k (aka retina) screen and am suddenly noticing various graphics of mine that aren't hi-res enough like my blog post header logo! which I've now properly made into svg idk why it wasn't svg in the first place, tbh. not enough support back in 2014? before ↙️ ...after↘️
the background diamonds could use an up-res as well, but it's not so glaring since it's in the background and a fairly simple pattern I guess
@PeterorjustP 🤣 here, zoomed af (this also illustrates how the bg image needs depixelating too, but that'll require redoing it, and I'm not even sure where the plugin went that I used for that)
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@AbhayPrasanna yo @LordChisholm maybe we want to get this
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Escher, Metamorphosis III (click to view full fedora.digitalcommonwealth.org/fedora/objects…)
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Consider that in principle no person can imagine the "best", or even a "good" configuration for society A good configurati…
@NibiruDakini originally thought of this one (src: youtube.com/watch?v=AyaxtI…)
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@byrneseyeview Solution there, it seems to me, is to create unpoppable bubbles.
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broke: what people actually want is love woke: what people actually want is meaning bespoke: what people actually want is…
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If mental systems one and two Cannot agree on point of view, Solution there, it seems to me, Is to create a System Three.
@thinkagainer reads all the books bf interesting thoughts gf
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@Virtual1nstinct I have mixed feels about this stuff. Some thoughts over here:
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I can’t tell if this is real or a joke, but I have contemplated doing this many times. I think I’ve just figured out my ne…
if you ever see me taking what looks like an actual job, this should be your first suspicion of what I'm up to
error-correction trumps plan every time
I decided to take a different approach to this, which is making some demo tracks that were actually recorded to a click and are ready to be mixed or built on. At this phase, I'm sharing these with a small DM group of potential collaborators—lmk if you want in!
@coponder oh man @LordChisholm this sounds like your kind of flirting
Guess how many tweet on average I have liked per day in the last 4 months?
@nickcammarata augmented reality, laying everything out in physical space in my room or my entire neighborhood
@deepfates @nickcammarata @BlackForestBoi ^ related to what you're working on
@thepericulum I answered "No" before I realized you said monogamous. I actually don't know what allows people to settle down into a monogamous relationship at all, or whether that's even wise. In any case, I suspect there are a lot of factors here and this one doesn't strongly affect it.
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Status Lattice: Hierarchies are degenerate cases of a healthy expertise deference network and people's objections to hi…
man, why is ceteris almost never paribus..!?
Twitter is like an ant colony 🐜 Individual users are like ants who mostly don't realize the extent to which they're participating in a larger pattern that emerges from all the individual interactions 🕸️🌐 ...what would happen if they did? (from a convo w @ricvolpe)
Twitter is hyperbolic. Exoteric meaning 📢 people on twitter exaggerate a lot 📈🙄 Esoteric meaning 🤫 the geometry of twitter is non-euclidean, with negative curvature 👣♾
@alt_tatsu I would generally incline towards telling them if I like them and they mean well but like, if that doesn't feel wise, may not be wise
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you know how marina and ulay walked from each side of the great wall of china and met in the middle to say goodbye at t…
what roles do most love playing? I'm pretty much always down to be my group's hug dealer
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christianity was the first hard fork
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A creator sells a Ticketed Space for $5. The creator, who people are willing to pay for, gets $2.80. Twitter, who faci…
@benthompson yeah if you compare this directly to a sales tax it's higher than any country in the world (zoom in: scale goes from 0-27%)
I am so fascinated and excited about this and also a bit daunted by the whole thing. Anyway, if you know anybody who might be interested in this in coastal British Columbia, send them my way!
Finally watching this vid @visakanv made about my Dream Mashups tweet concept, which he's been encouraging me to write up as a whole blogpost. Digging it. Enjoying the freewheeling style — I have a sense of "yeah, I could make videos like this"
Yeah, super key piece about how your oldest—most foundational—memories are from when you were young & powerless & overwhelmed by everything. And even if your childhood is pretty good, there's still a lot of meanings that can get stuck there.
Also yeah, frames you get from your parents, or your culture. Basic frames of reference that you then use to make sense of all of your experience. That's good stuff, I'll reference that in the blog post. Thanks Visa.
> "There were a few experiences that scarred me in some ways—I mean, when I say "scarred"... the words we use are loaded…!" I've found it really helpful to think in terms of "untangling tangles" instead of "healing wounds". HT @meditationstuff - source: meditationbook.page/#32
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one of the worst things rationality did to me (or, you could say, i did to myself using rationality, idk) was teach me to…
@pnw_ssbmars @QiaochuYuan yeah I mean there's gotta be some good explanation for why human teeth are crookeder now than they were 500 years ago... this is the best one I've heard
@jonnym1ller Unless you're focused mostly on the part of the nervous system outside the skull, then definitely check out Iain McGilchrist's stuff on Brain Hemispheres. Vital piece to understanding what's going on with embodied sensemaking. (it's not the old 60s model)
@jonnym1ller McGilchrist doesn't have any suggestions for exercises per se but there are plenty out there. Might incorporate some of @m_ashcroft's Expanded Awareness exercises—Alexander Technique is definitely pointing at a state of being where the RHem is operational & running the show.
@jonnym1ller @m_ashcroft Here's one potential place to start:
what to expect when you're expectorating
This has happened to me a couple times and those cards have since expired. The two cool #s I've had so far are 666 and 747. I enjoyed purchasing flights with the latter.
Replying to @instar_imago
@NibiruDakini you'll get there more generally-appreciateable stuff spreads faster you're incubating some amazing subtle magic and it's a slow burn to find the people who are ready for it
@embryosophy Nobody Expectorates the Spanish Inquisition!
@embryosophy next time someone asks if I can just swallow my phlegm instead of spitting it "So you're saying I should lower my expectorations?"
@embryosophy wow 2014, nice throbac
@WilliamAEden probably complice.co, which seems to be a completely unique remix on the concept of a productivity system
yo how do we make this happen!? seems like Step 1 is to get it to happen once what are some good candidates of research labs and/or vloggers for this?
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wasn’t kidding haha twitter.com/emmalsalinas/s…
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I'm a pope expert and this isn't cute, it's a threat display, popes only do this when they're very stressed …
@kitten_beloved I think almost all movements have terminal vibe cancer. put another way, they have an accurate description of the problem, and a completely unworkable proposal of a solution
@ricvolpe wins—it was 55! wild. thanks for playing @joyurge @EntropyKnows @nathanael_gould @Solar_Trex
Hot. (click to see whole pic) twitter.com/ferrisjabr/sta…
@BecomingCritter, how are you doing? what's going on for you?
Damn I am listening to this demo track I have made of a song I've been writing over the last 4.5 years and it is so fucking beautiful I am so excited to share it with y'all 🔥
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Discord is the worst and I hate it with a burning fire of a thousand suns... Ok. I feel a little better now. Thanks.
I'm ecstatically twerking & belly-dance-shimmying to GRiZ... how's your day going? youtube.com/watch?v=UsSzq5…
@this_is_silvia oh man I'm down for this
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Okay here we go
get on the floor if you got dat booty
@Aryeh___ awww shieet now I'm shimmying to this
@Aryeh___ ohh hilaaaarious I totally didn't recognize Wayne until he mentioned Whose Line probably mostly the outfit, including the hat also context I guess hoedown + loop machine 💞
Added a new page to my site awhile ago, listing a handful of collaborations I'm interested in getting involved in. The preview image was created in collaboration with @this_is_silvia, and was a lot of fun to iterate on. malcolmocean.com/work-with-me/
The basic concept was my idea, kind of like "this could be you, working with me!" And I got @LordChisholm to snap a photo for it. Here are the 4 iterations Silvia and I went through to get to the one I was stoked to put up.
part of the interesting puzzle with working with her style is that there's a deep holism to each figure since she does them with a kind of one-stroke style, so it's like each time I'm asking for adjustments I'm not just getting "edits" but summoning an entirely new whole creature
Working with this creature was very much like working with real people; you can't just take the personality from one person and stick it in the body of another person, with the expertise of another. Everyone's a whole person.
@TylerAlterman your concept of natural limitations and *actual* natural limitations are different you need to allow for things you don't understand but that are still possible
@tasshinfogleman oh fuck yeah I'm envisioning some of my work as aiming for kinda like... (Jason Mraz + Robert DeLong + Meaningness + Alan Watts)/4
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Loving this Zettelkasten thing so far This has all just come from: - How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live (an AT book…
Finally got access to @OpenAI beta, and so far I'm not really very impressed with this virtual life coach. Probably could have better prompts, hm.
@MasterTimBlais I object level the field
Aha, okay, this is going much better. Questions. Had to re-roll the last prompt twice, as the previous ones were variants on "Why?" and it just didn't feel helpful. This is me with my actual situation right now btw!
@ricvolpe @joyurge @EntropyKnows @nathanael_gould @Solar_Trex haha idk! rules weren't that strict since there wasn't a prize I guess
A food prayer for the global era 🙏🍽️ From wherever in the world this food has come, may those people be well From wherever in the world this food has come, may those ecosystems be well This food will energize me to act May my actions nourish the world as this food nourishes me!
"i like the word "kink" b/c the image of like something that was formerly a straight line becoming crooked is so apropos in several ways once upon a time there was a straight line to the thing, then something blocked that, so it… routed around the damage 😅" ~ @QiaochuYuan
Replying to @tensionopposite
@EntropyKnows @m_ashcroft Yes his voice is so lovely & soft & warm. Was very disappointed to find out he wasn't the reader for the audiobook. Would have gladly gone through the book a second time just to drink it in.
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@AbhayPrasanna I find myself wondering what kind of results I might be likely to get if I presented the conversation as something like "a case study of very effective use of XYZ method, literally like 'notice how the coach effectively guides the person towards answering their own questions'."
@Morphenius @LordChisholm Those were actually one of the inspirations!
@Morphenius @LordChisholm Although also @this_is_silvia's drawings already have a style much like this! So the Jerry-inspired concept was kind of the result of me asking "what might Silvia draw that would feel like a fit for what I'm looking for?"
@tasshinfogleman @this_is_silvia got introduced to her through your sexuality-spirituality post, so thanks for that❣️ tasshin.com/blog/exploring…
@tasshinfogleman @this_is_silvia oh man you've gotta get your site set up to put preview images in when sharing on twitter use this tool to test it (documentation linked from that page too) cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
@BecomingCritter oof don't forget, in the meantime, to enjoy enjoying what you enjoy enjoying!
@m_ashcroft me & @LordChisholm yesterday my curls looking particularly glorious
@_StevenFan yeah this is close to how I phrase it "life is ergodic. it's possible to encounter problems bigger than your capacity to solve them and reality is allowed to kill you or take you out completely til the end of the round. certain things increase the odds of this happening"
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@Virtual1nstinct argh. can also usually use archive.org to bypass paywalls but that seems to be failing for me here. maybe doesn't work for medium
@Virtual1nstinct anyway I just copy-pasted to google doc docs.google.com/document/d/19r…
Replying to @abhayance
@AbhayPrasanna @m_ashcroft @AskYatharth wait no I was aiming for enlightenment the whole time, idk what *you're* on about 😜
@prerationalist yeah, see that's part of the issue—the whole thing reifies the idea that there is one "start" and one "finish" when in practice (afaict) there are a whole bunch of different paths & vehicles and waypoints and so forth
@harveykrishna_ @jongold hot.
Outcome: newsletter got sent, although not before a bit more distraction and then also typing a bunch of stuff into a chatbox to think out loud even further. Still, without having done this thing I might not have gotten to it at all.
@coponder it's aight. thanks for sharing :)
@haideralmosawi @uberstuber @mattgoldenberg @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft @SarahAMcManus @xuenay relatedly:
@visakanv @nickcammarata [[Redesigning Twitter]] roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
@visakanv @nickcammarata I also have a thread
@nosilverv @nickcammarata @QuicksilverPool o yeah legit I wrote a thing about this already lol (cc @iwelsh)
@AskYatharth @m_ashcroft @metaLulie nice, yeah dovetails well with Perceptual Control Theory which says: trying to control your behavior is essentially what coercion is (I like your use of "micromanage") whereas your perceptual hierarchy will naturally self-organize towards controlling worldstates/perception
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Your body already knows how to do things . . . Let it. Intend “be in bathroom brushing”, instead of making yourself walk…
@AskYatharth oh yeah this is great learning is about calibration—make the other mistake (I got the "make the other mistake" quote from a blog post years ago but it's actually a confused post in many ways even tho the phrase is gold)
@visakanv @Lauracsc_ yeah let's talk, watchu makin? happy to help you puzzle out the exact magic that the existing systems are missing that you can create
@visakanv @Lauracsc_ (also I am pretty intermittent at checking main twitter notifs tab, so feel free to DM to get my attention!)
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@AbhayPrasanna you can investigate directly if your body is yours
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@AbhayPrasanna @Conaw @visakanv > a very tender form of courage in them that is found only through uncompromisingly facing this fundamental sense of marginality I'd love to hear you elaborate on this! feels resonant but I'm not sure I understand what you mean
@reasonisfun @phantom_opus @DavidDeutschOxf Haha yeah it's a well-known property of psychedelics that ppl who are on them tend to experience feelings of insight which are correlated—but only loosely—with any later sense of the importance of that particular thought. "omg X is the key to everything!" twitter.com/eigenrobot/sta…
@sympathetic_opp @TylerAlterman psyopogist
@rothosphere I've written about this phenomenon wrt Coleman Barks & Rumi 😂 (see thread/convo up/down from this tweet)
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written in the 14th century
@chaosprime @harveykrishna_ @lisatomic5 @QiaochuYuan had a great thread on this awhile back QT'd tweet got deleted (😬) but it was saying something like "men need to become down with soft comfy (spa?) spaces and embrace their feelings" (except more detailedly and vividly than that)
@chaosprime @harveykrishna_ @lisatomic5 @QiaochuYuan also this, which prompted some good discussion
@lisatomic5 @harveykrishna_ @chaosprime
@lisatomic5 @harveykrishna_ @chaosprime @DougTataryn may have thoughts here! Having him hold space for me to cry gave me a whole new sense of how possible it is to max out the "tender" & "manly" dimensions at the same time.
@lisatomic5 @harveykrishna_ @chaosprime oof you might also find this piece of writing I did helpful, here malcolmocean.com/2021/03/letter…
@lisatomic5 @harveykrishna_ @chaosprime the pillow thing only came up once or twice, but I didn't like it
@lisatomic5 @harveykrishna_ @chaosprime I talked with my mom about her sending me to my room and she noted it was often about her not knowing how to manage me & my sister's conflict. I think vital to own "I need you away because I don't know how to manage" vs "for YOUR own good"
Realizing this week that I have very few memories of rejecting people, like being like "I'm not into you" or initiating a breakup 🤔 Tho multiple instances years ago of not wanting to be with someone and getting super weird until they ended things (8mo+ rship, or just evening).
@michaelcurzi As far as I can tell @Stripe has the highest ratio of good-for-society/bad-for-society of almost any company its size. Which is mostly from making an amazing product that empowers tons of solopreneurs like me to focus on things other than payments.
@michaelcurzi I always loved the Old Spice ads. This superbowl ad is 30 seconds of ART. I switched to Old Spice self-awarely when this came out because I wanted to be associated with it. youtube.com/watch?v=owGykV…
@michaelcurzi The iPod Shuffle (2nd gen or 4th gen) is basically a flawless product. It's songs in a tiny lil clippy container, navigable by touch in pitch darkness or with eyes looking elsewhere. Have owned 3. Can use scripts to update as vanilla mp3 player rather than having to use iTunes.
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Gonna sound corporate as fuck for a second but really seriously want to know: what are your favorite companies & corpora…
I feel like there's probably a market out there for a video series explaining male multiple orgasm (eg nateliason.com/blog/multiple-…) where it's being explained by a pornstar couple doing sexy stuff while explaining it. Like a whole monthlong guide of different daily practice videos.
@AskYatharth @rebrandingthing The read I get is "to create drama"
Just got set up with Stripe Climate—1% of @CompliceGoals revenue now goes to funding carbon removal projects. Not that cost-effective now, but demand for it will help fund the tech becoming better (like solar, DNA)
"even let you undress my mind" ...hot. soundcloud.com/galimatias/ali…
@itsLuciKeller @michaelcurzi thanks I hate it 🤣
@nibrasibn @TheAnnaGat omg I saw your new profile pic and was like hiiiiiiii
@xuenay @yashkaf @nosilverv or of course doing "do that while appearing to don't" since that also avoids punishment or "do that somewhere else" the non-aimableness of punishment is practically a mathematical fact
@joespurpleshirt @tasshinfogleman oh wow, yeah, nice!
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot @reasonisfun @phantom_opus @DavidDeutschOxf seems to me that they might do that in the long-term "monocausal" is not quite the thing, more just like, overlearning the importance of some particular thing produces similar excitement to your monocausal tweet
@nosilverv @xuenay @yashkaf makes some sense to me, yeah! broadly feels like you're onto something important about frame constraints
@AskYatharth @SarahAMcManus this "emotions on a systems level" thread is relevant to your Foundations of Emotional Resilience work & your roam more generally
@AskYatharth Yeah I deliberately rephrased it from "I haven't rejected many people" to "I don't have many memories of rejecting people" because knowing me I probably have sorta blocked these out.
@abettertake @michaelcurzi o shit I am a huge toast guy (my nickname in high school was toast because I ate it every other meal when I didn't like what else was being served in the cafeteria)
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Don't you just wish you could speedrun emotional processing sometimes?
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My goal was to get Smart Contracts properly implemented because only with smart contracts could we properly measure *value*.…
have been feeling a bit weird about how chilly it still is in May in Vancouver compared to Waterloo but then I see headlines like "Ontario's likely seen the last 30-degree day for some time" and I'm grateful I become extremely grumpy and stupid in 30-degree muggy weather.
This is a really great thread on *actual* meaningful vision for cryptocurrencies, beyond just taking over finance and getting rich. tl;dr "FULLY ACTIONABLE FORM OF RADICALISED CANADIANS" 💥🇨🇦 @leashless & I aren't on the same page about everything, but I say he's spot on here. twitter.com/leashless/stat…
Replying to @Virtual1nstinct
@Virtual1nstinct this is some @chaosprime shit
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@kehwho found a short film about this the other day (haven't watched yet) > "Chameleon" is an unusual teenager who is convinced he can collect karma. He banks good deeds and rejects rewards so that "the universe owes him" for an act of personal retribution. youtube.com/watch?v=GAaNxb…
Replying to @sheherenow_
@jongold @nateliason new course idea, right up your alley
@Aryeh___ listening now. wow, yeah
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@MWStory if your local electrician doesn't know how to wire a plug, they might die if your local professor of medicine doesn…
I'm interested in others' thoughts on this, since it's one of those problems I started on the other side of so I can make up suggestions but I've never actually solved it myself!
@coponder @natural_hazard just did a QT of this:
@coponder @natural_hazard if I were to make something up anyway, I'd say: step 0: if you're super short on slack (eg living paycheck to paycheck literally or figuratively) then try to get more slack step 1: if even a lil slack, then Just Do A Thing nobody's expecting you to do: malcolmocean.com/2015/11/just-d…
@ElodesNL @liekovarpio @m_ashcroft @pragueyerrr @tasshinfogleman Mmmm I feel seen, partially as I am and partially as I aspire to be.
@Prigoose @TylerAlterman have you found good sources for learning more about Oneida? the biz dimensions & love dimensions both feel relevant to stuff I want to do! (Curious @Conaw if you've read about case studies like this, also)
@nikitanomo I like basically every tweet I'm glad exists (which is maybe half of the tweets I come across, tho obviously not half of all tweets) so I definitely have to actually say more stuff to actually be like "no, this tweet in particular is noteworthily good"
@coladaclan oh you've got a lil bit of 212 in there that is a hot song
The idea that by default when someone is banned all of their past posts should vanish is batshit insane. Twitter does this, so does @MightyNetworks according to a friend, who pointed out that it made it impossible to reconstruct *why* they were banned.
It's awful because it destroys the common resource of all of their past work—very clear in the case of Twitter and QT-castles. It's also awful because it's kind of memory-holing, pretending it never happened. 1984 shit.
I'm a "genre of gent" type of guy. twitter.com/instar_imago/s…
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Ah ya ya ya ya I keep on hoping @Malcolm_Ocean by the ocean
@aphercotropist you got me
@AskYatharth but then also
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anyone know if there's already a well-established word in the philosophy literature or something for "ontological splittin…
@ElodesNL @m_ashcroft @nibrasibn @liekovarpio @pragueyerrr @tasshinfogleman Ummmm maybe this wants to be an @interintellect_ salon or something? @visakanv what's the process like of getting on there?
@Triquetrea I often find myself recalling this bit from some Jason Mraz stage banter, where he encourages people to create a wikipedia page for one of his bandmates, "and just 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵" "...could say he was once a king of a small island" youtu.be/oj0s-Qb_pjI?t=…
> Anthropic’s mission is to figure out how to give [AI Researchers] [tools for grokking what their neural nets are doing], and to get the whole field of AI using safety tools because they have so many practical applications for making more sense of AI. Boom, great incentives.
Rather than trying to get people to think about AI Safety or AI Alignment because of ethical reasons, making tools that already align with the business case. Many details to get right for this to be deeply wise, but knowing the folks working on it they've likely thought of most.
The quote at the top is from @kelseytuoc's newsletter btw, which you can read below. voxcom.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/d/…
@Triquetrea Often what's going on is a problem-solution bait-&-switch because people don't understand this 👇
Thread · Not wanting to be overestimated, and the whiplash that follows
Apparently I have some pockets of insecurity I wasn't aware of! Reading a few comments like this about me has me going "uhh guys wait" I think there's a real thing there, that's like, not wanting people to overestimate me & then get whiplashily disillusioned, which has happened.
But it raises a fascinating Q about how to actually *do* the having-people-not-overestimate thing. They're ofc gonna have whatever expectations it makes sense to them to have based on their set of experiences (of life and of me). I don't *want* to give them shitty experiences.
Another Q of course is whether enough trust & meta-level workability can be built that we can weather whatever storms may come. If you aren't overcorrecting you're undercorrecting.
It's also important to note that as far as expectations & betrayal goes, I've mostly been a source of pain & whiplash to people I've been in really close intense relationships with, so people expecting me to be grounded on twitter and calls are in a sense well-calibrated.
But then there's the question of what sorts of extrapolations people are making from their various experiences, to other contexts. What are the implications of anything?
@CarnunMP this thread slightly answers this, maybe, even just by example
@markmarijnissen I don't now remember, but it's central to a lot of what I've been thinking about recently and you may find my yearly review blog post of interest in that it discusses similar themes malcolmocean.com/2021/01/2020-f…
@m_ashcroft @nibrasibn @ElodesNL @liekovarpio @pragueyerrr @tasshinfogleman aand now there's a thread of me thinking out loud about y'all loving me so much 😂
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what are the best things to read about the psychology & experience of people who did things that were not done before? partic…
(According to a friend of mine who works at @AnthropicAI, Kelsey's newsletter waaaay overfocuses on the explainability thing, when Anthropic is actually doing a bunch of different things, as listed on their website)
@TheAnnaGat @nibrasibn @ElodesNL @m_ashcroft @liekovarpio @pragueyerrr @tasshinfogleman @interintellect_ @visakanv I feel like the others have more of an idea of what they want this to be than I do haha. What do y'all wanna learn from me?
@jambarree Yeah, that's definitely part of the whole thing.
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This feels like simultaneously the dumbest and the most excellent idea I've ever had, which is exactly the kind of idea I lik…
Replying to @smithymusictwit
@joshtsmithmusic @tasshinfogleman @jongold @DnlJW_shington tasshin forwarded this to me but I'm less of a mixer guy more of a harmonies guy so now there's this soundcloud.com/malcolmocean/m…
@joshtsmithmusic @tasshinfogleman @jongold @DnlJW_shington I also made this awhile ago, on the subject of metta soundcloud.com/malcolmocean/f…
@maybegray @discomfrtble @LordChisholm ah man missed seeing this notification til now! wondering if there's a better way to be in the loop for these 🤔
@Prigoose @TylerAlterman @Conaw we could have a call sometime (you+me(+whoever?)) where we just research them in real-time together and blurt shit out about what we're finding
Making a new playlist called "Tender". What should be on it in addition to this gorgeous piece by Jacob Collier? youtube.com/watch?v=agmcrt…
Huh, fascinating thread. TL;DR = maybe until you're weeks/months in, your body only needs ~1 day/week of serious exercise to train, & lack of motivation to get into exercise routine might be body saying "enough for now!"
@coponder @natural_hazard a friend of mine sent this, which is pretty great 🧑🔬💥
