Holy shit, gorgeous meteor or something over/NW of Vancouver minutes ago. Hugest such entity I've seen in my life by far. Looked like colorful sparks coming off. A comet?
September 2021
Have you tried taking the problem out to a fancy restaurant and buying it dinner?
Retweeted @visakanv
and it feels like a big relief if I can just say, I do it bc this is what I fucking do. I don't need to explain myself. I can…
Am back from meditation retreat! It was cool. I did my first 90min sit ever, which comprised probably half of the total amount of formal timed meditation I did, but I did lots of other loose reverie and so on in accordance with meditationbook.page
@visakanv @m_ashcroft wow, that would have been right about as I was graduating high school I have no memory of such a song though, interestingly, and there are few I've forgotten. but it sounds like a sort of contrived rather than inspired one
@visakanv @m_ashcroft Oh, same year though, I wrote a Meta Song:
@MasterTimBlais @__justplaying I think I was half-aware of that when I wrote it. Like there's a reason that I posted it as a thread rather than just leaving it in the messenger chat where we were originally talking!
@m_ashcroft Mmm yeah, this is part of what's going on with my trust-dancing & frame-dialogue stuff too. The difference between an assertion "you are X" and "I can't confidently say you're not X" is HUGE.
@Prigoose @CurziRose I'm mostly not taking new ongoing clients, yeah, though I'm down to do some one-off sessions with people if they're interested in exploring the Internal Trust-Dancing process I've been developing. Example annotated transcript of that process here: malcolmocean.com/2021/08/intern…
@jonathandubin Ohhhhhhhhh true. Yeah it was this:
@utotranslucence Oh shit there's now a new contender for "most meta thing I've ever done" although it's arguably about the same amount of meta as the jamming-honing 2×2. It's these 4 tweets:
The 🟪🟧 graphic maybe kinda does a bad job of explaining jamming & honing. The actual relevant question is simply "[on a given scale] is there some particular meaning that one of us is attempting to get understood? if so, we're honing on that; otherwise, we're jamming"
@jonathandubin tho
@metaLulie @m_ashcroft @TCSphilosophy Oooh, exciting! I was just on @tasshinfogleman's podcast this morning. Looking forward to hearing y'all jam ❤️🔥🤸♀️🤩
@AskYatharth what book is this!? 😮
Revisiting the original post, it seems that while the initial examples are very clear, the later discussion results in me confusing these concepts for something closer to explore/exploit in ways that I can see led to creating the misleading diagrams.
eg with this excerpt👇—too much jamming isn't about whether the ideas are getting critiqued or improved. Too much jamming is about people just saying shit that sounds good and not actually paying attention to ensuring that anybody has actually been understood by each other.
Similarly, the main failure modes of honing aren't necessarily about "critique" per se, but about a lack of space for adjacent ideas to get considered, or simply that a conversation is exclusively honing on one person's ideas without ever trying to get the other's meanings meant.
@DanielCJonas sure
@AskYatharth release from a left-hemisphere dopamine tunnel vision because there's no further dope to immediately dope after
@AskYatharth @nullary I've read Entering the Heart of Sun and Moon and Spectrum of Ecstasy—this looked like it might be by the same authors! Seems like it would also be good though I don't think it's top on my queue.
@AskYatharth @nullary Having said that, feel free to DM me or @ me in excerpts of it!
@QiaochuYuan @NLRG_ @__justplaying powerful.
my type of people
@AskYatharth ahh, disrupting LH? yeah, seems like a thing!
Retweeted @visakanv
There is an art to replying and commenting, and probably like 60-70% of people I’ve seen on the internet fail at it. The impo…
@jonathandubin @paul__is__here I described myself to @tasshinfogleman earlier today as having gotten "now-pilled" at age 15 when I read Eckhart Tolle 😂
🧵 thread for new pronoun proposals that aren't about one's whole-self identity but about clarifying part-whole relations #neologisms
relatedly, fractional pronouns! (my original phrasing of "zeroth" was mistaken; this could be 1st person, or 2nd, or 3rd) plural : singular :: singular : fractional
this thread (scroll up and down) features some conversation about the difference between we-the-whole and we-the-individuals "we're dating, but uhhh... not each other"
(that same thread also features a foray into my youngest take on pronouns being bad)
Also just gonna say I added "y'all" to my lexicon a couple years ago and that was a great decision and I would encourage more people to do it. It's pretty boring but it's a good first experiment in intentional pronoun refactoring for increased referential clarity.
@vgr idk if this is obvious enough to people yet so I'm gonna belabor it again
Retweeted @metaphorician
A fractal village layout that's been stuck in my mind since it was mentioned in a TED talk I watched in 2007. It makes c…
Retweeted @AskYatharth
There’s two kinds of advice. 1. the kind of advice that tells you what to do 2. the kind of advice that explains how the…
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa reminds me of this:
Replying to @taalumot
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin musculine 😮
@gptbrooke I can purr and am looking forward to this 😻 (can't do it indefinitely like a cat can but I can make a very convincing simulacrum for 20-30s)
Replying to @pareinoia
@pareinoia I loved A Tale of Time City very trippy book was also very fond of Artemis Fowl
@ahidalgosre wild blueberries maple candy lobster donair
@satyashil_awadh @Austen I recently had a therapy session where I uncovered a generalization my childhood self had made from "there's not enough bacon" to "if I want enough for myself, I have to take from someone else" to "I'm fundamentally selfish" so uhhh be careful with manufactured scarcity
@VividVoid_ I recently tapped a felt sense of the reality of a kind of collaborative collective intelligence that is possible and outcompetes other types of intelligences, and realized that such a thing must eventually create an anti-Moloch because if "I don't do it, someone else will" 🤯
@DarbraDawn you might dig this book on rankism says the same thing but across all kinds of power
@AskYatharth this is why obviousness is so important I'm trying to make most of my NNTD writing like this lmk if I fall short!
@rothosphere @visakanv streaming services are a $3B industry and they all suck too people are bad at making good products, and demand doesn't solve that
@rothosphere @visakanv See also my perennial rant:
@__justplaying I was listening to this just today 😬😂 youtube.com/watch?v=dcLFmN…
@dmcdougall You might be into this:
Retweeted @lynam
@reddy2go @jennykim If the evolution of video games has taught me anything it’s that instruction manuals were phased out because…
Retweeted @blankbreaks
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@michael_nielsen Making Sense of Behavior: The Meaning of Control is an amazing dense clear layperson summary of Perceptual Control Theory sadly out of print, but you might be able to find a copy somewhere
@this_is_silvia amazing choice! that's one of the uhhh dozen or so additional ones I was thinking of ordering would love to collab on making some similar art with slightly different philosophical vibe (this site has elements of both nihilist/depressed and eternalist/monist)
Replying to @ponekarl
@ponekarl hm, half-agree? not enough data to tell, from my perspective "utterly unconcerned" doesn't seem to me to be about a lack of care but about a sense that the kids are at an appropriate stage of development, re modeling how the world works even w parent help, frustrations abound
@ponekarl will acknowledge that he's got a whole model around "self-control & self-regulation", plus the bit about getting kids to eat stuff they don't want to eat, that's evidence that he has a pretty mainstream/coercive view of parenting and selfing
@MakeSpaceTeam this looks super cool! Excited to check it out. I wanted to share a tiny copy error: the top of this demo says "Roundtable" for both the roundtable and the 1-on-1, which confused me briefly
yo @azlenelza have you seen @MakeSpaceTeam? elements of it seem like a multiplayer version of the sort of new contextual OS you wanted makespace.fun
@alexhughsam @hellojcho this is what my therapist (who also does coaching) said 😛
can also be seen as "which frame on the largest level?" like a coach might help you deal with −➡️0 stuff, in service of some larger 0➡️+ stuff this frame is part of how our GCI workshops work really well. we look at emotional blocks & traumas, but all in service of goals
@m_ashcroft @michael_nielsen fyeah. this is gonna blow your mind like McGilchrist and I can't wait to talk with you about how the two might integrate
I keep coming back to this tweet. It's so good, drawing three totally different fields together ("3 poisons" is a thing from Buddhism)
@rmbalt ahh, seems like basically epub but with markdown instead of xml/html that's pretty smart—could maybe base it on epub? is it possible to have a textfile where ordinary text-editors ignore some chunk though? might be able to write an extension for sublime to edit or something
Retweeted @rmbalt
Here's what I want: Markdown, but wrapped in a light achieve format (like a .zip) that can also include the images embedded in…
@gptbrooke reminds me of a rant I saw at one point about women going to the gym, setting down 15lb handbags and picking up 5lb weights
@jamiemchale @nickcammarata not an answer but was suddenly reminded of Cory Wong saying "alright Grace let's harmonize!" right here: youtube.com/watch?v=24xGp1…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@utotranslucence Oh shit there's now a new contender for "most meta thing I've ever done" although it's arguably about t…
@jamiemchale @nickcammarata (I tweeted about this concert a couple weeks ago too)
Do you know about The Peculiar Longevity of Things Not So Bad? Brilliant lil paper: careymorewedge.com/papers/thingsn…
Choice quote:
@ketandket @visakanv @jamiemchale @nickcammarata oh man I have the paper for you
@ketandket @visakanv @jamiemchale @nickcammarata
@nickcammarata @maccaw I've recently had a very clear sense of "what I'm here to do" and it doesn't feel like a "put here" but it does feel in some sense fate-(em)powered. one grandiose articulation:
@powerbottomdad1 @goinggodward gautama would also be good
@goinggodward He's only been gone a few decades, but I'd love to hear from Gregory Bateson And of course it would be awesome to get takes on @RoamResearch and related phenomena from Ted Nelson or Vannevar Bush
@goinggodward Cicero the roman statesman and orator would probably have some great shit to say though, tbh.
@davidfactorial @Witchuals1 @this_is_silvia @liminal_warmth @mattroll_ @Virtual1nstinct nice
@rmbalt but epub is still html, not markdown! and then meanwhile it's html that browsers don't want to open but maybe the way to do it is an epub zip with markdown hidden inside (backwards compatible with epub!) plus a plugin for editing & compiling it
@davidfactorial @Witchuals1 @this_is_silvia @liminal_warmth @mattroll_ @Virtual1nstinct it hasn't been my active schedule for awhile, due to a variety of factors, but hopefully it's still the attractor I'll fall back into when I get a more stable place I'm also WAY comfier laying in bed not being able to sleep than I used to... used to be agitating, now peaceful
Retweeted @sarahzhang
One of the most provocative ideas to come out of the pandemic is that we can reengineer buildings to control respiratory di…
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania I'm working on some blacklight pills
similarly, in some sense any problem that you have that you have any relationship to other than "obviously doing my best" is one that you have some internal conflict about on some level t.co/viJnJPBPP4
@davidfactorial @this_is_silvia great work @this_is_silvia at doing this thing:
@rmbalt yeah it's just the only way html+images get packaged in a zip, basically (maybe mobi too, but it's basically equiv) so it seemed like both a good starting point and a "might as well"
pantaloons rhei
@newtruthiness @Austen @man_integrated does epic threads on geopolitical strategy I haven't done investigation into how good they are, but they seem thorough and mostly not just hot air hype or whatever
@wjarek @ann_aware @santomaggioli @Austen @TheEconomist @FT I think this article might be a copy: swiftheadline.com/china-and-big-…
@altsanabo I had a drug-free e-cig at a party once just to blow smoke rings, and I thought it would be funny to joke about it containing all sorts of weird things. I forget if I actually did or just thought about it though.
@jonnym1ller @visakanv @m_ashcroft @p_millerd Nice! So this is the change you're aiming to unleash in yourself, or each of the individuals that you help, or both?
@jonnym1ller @visakanv @m_ashcroft @p_millerd Also @m_ashcroft and @p_millerd, link me up with your dominos!
Replying to @dispirateparts
@dispirateparts @mesolude iPod shuffle is the way to go: complete surrender. sometimes I don't even know what a song is when it first starts, if it's one I haven't heard in a long time or often!
@SunnyDisposish1 @diviacaroline @QiaochuYuan Good point: Random idea of a way to test this:
@captain_mrs she showed me her tattoo of the obscure complex systems concept I had just brought up 🤩😳😍
@rfinz @uncatherio an important caveat to this is making sure to also do more quotidian experiments eg going to burning man together makes a great date, but there's lots of discomforts people may overlook for a week that they don't actually want day-to-day, month-to-month
@tjrwriting today, a few patreons tomorrow,
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF Totally, although it's possible for two of your parts to each be doing their best at a tug of war because it hasn't occurred to them they might be able to dialogue. And it feels qualitatively different than when things are flowing.
it's 2021 and I still have to pick a party rather than voting for specific priorities? I feel like... representatives should be locally-oriented (rather than party oriented) and then tasked with implementing the best version of a dozen people-voted policy issues #elxn44
altho this might be a bad idea, because
although... maybe we need pol.is or something in Canada and I think that would improve political discourse, maybe re-educating the public in the process!
@DarbraDawn just came across this headline which conveys something about this whole thing
@reighleyc @humanisque @liminal_warmth @DarbraDawn this looks like a photo of the original, and it seems like the huts are mostly the same size? but hard to tell reminds me of burning man
@DarbraDawn could probably do it up on shapeways (they sell 3D printed metal things including jewelry) though it would need some polishing to be good
@RahmSJ @captain_mrs bifurcation diagram
@meekaale I have no idea if this is the answer (probably depends on the kid) but this is what came to mind: youtube.com/watch?v=5jmjBX…
who's got a business idea or prototype that needs a day of help from a dozen friends to tip it over into actuality? you could be the focal point of the first tcot virtual barn-raising! if you're nervous about putting your hand up, comment below for some encouragement
I guess if we don't get any responses here I'll have to host an ii salon on ideating small businesses or something
more convos like this one: twitter.com/davidfactorial…
@visakanv what's the timing on this salon?
@arontfoster @liminal_warmth kinda micro-self-impressed that I got 2/5 on this one without even being American (I was in air cadets in Canada 🤷♀️)
@arontfoster @liminal_warmth damnit my math competition jacket probably doesn't count 😝
@arontfoster @liminal_warmth I got 36. Not really sure what to make of that—would be cool to see where the points come from... Probably part of my disconnect here is due to being not American and kinda weird (eg I grew up without a TV, which is just a whole different thing) But this broadly fits.
@daretorant passion isn't the same as pleasure there can be conviction and clarity in passion and people sometimes go to great unpleasant lengths towards passions but yeah, ultimately the question is whether you can resolve any conflicts that arise
just found out an old friend, someone who changed my life a few times over in really good ways, died last year we haven't been in touch in years, so nothing changes... but... it matters am feeling the texture of grief gently move through my body and the space around me 🪞 🖐️
Replying to @Hyperstitioneer
@JayneMagic but lawyers? my rough plan is to have everyone contributing (more than advice or encouragement) sign a 1-page CLA (Contributor License Agreement) similar to those used for open source projects, that assigns ownership of whatever they contribute that day I think that'll suffice
@JayneMagic @maybegray would love to get your take on how to do IP clearly & simply for barn-raisings
Replying to @Hyperstitioneer
@JayneMagic What have you got in mind? 😀
I keep forgetting how good it feels when whole bodymind is clear how good it feels when whole bodymind is clear how good it feels
Grief ➡️ I just want to message all of my friends and tell them I'm so glad to have known them. Life is so fucking precious. Friendship is so fucking precious. 🥲
@_StevenFan what are some of the factors that come to mind when you think about pulling the trigger?
@catthu yaasssss more friends what sorts of things would you like to contribute?
@__drewface okay let's talk! ❤️🔥 o shit, wait... 😮 since you guys are kinda building an API/platform, we could do 2 layers of barn-raising at the same time, by having someone else build a prototype of some product that uses your platform! 🤯 MAXIMUM SYNERGY 🤩
@davidfactorial I'm trying to think if the barn-raising events themselves could use a tool. I think the answer is probably yes, but we won't know what it is til we've done a few.
@visakanv that's 8am pacific but I could hustle to get up for it I'll be moving Oct 1, so Oct 2 is out I think we have a McGilchrist book club call Oct 9, 2h later, so maybe that's not a good fit either. Oct 16 would be dope if that doesn't feel like too far away
Retweeted @nickcammarata
“Most people we know want to dominate life .. and they can’t imagine that doesn’t actually work for happiness” https://t…
Replying to @jstanotherview
@jstanotherview @sokindling One approach is to assume it's building and proactively (though gently) go looking for it. This article might also be illuminating:
Replying to @jstanotherview
@jstanotherview Mmmmmm 🙏❤️🔥
I just blurted out a description of hackathons as "caffeine-fueled tech orgies" 😂
@__drewface (ultimately I think that it could be good in general to do 2-4 businesses per event, so that people who can contribute something high-leverage that only takes 1-2h could do so for a few things in parallel)
@ketandket both imo
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF well last night being tired and needing to sleep was holding me back 😛
Retweeted @jongold
men want one thing and it's disgusting (a collaborative document editor that doesn't have a huge barrier to sign up, works wit…
@visakanv LFG
@daretorant @TheAnnaGat insofar as it connects meaningfully, I think it kind of points at a surrender to a drive you don't totally even identify with or understand "that which must be endured" = "can't not do"
Retweeted @nickcammarata
Epistemic status
@altsanabo honestly I think this is a great idea and these should be marketed way more or something
@MasterTimBlais "Good artists copy; great artists steal" — @visakanv
@dismaien @andy_matuschak Hi! Seriously, welcome. You're right on time. Yeah, I'd say start by just replying to people with whatever comes to mind when you see their tweet—kinda like in-person conversation! (Also set up a profile pic, even if it's not of you, so that you look like you're here to play😊)
@visakanv @jonnym1ller @m_ashcroft @p_millerd is this... 🦋 ...expanding awareness?
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF Now I'm stoked af about barn-raisings and related ideas, and the moment has passed where I want to send all those messages. Should the impulse arise again, I'll likely message some people. It's a lot of people!
Retweeted @nibrasibn
Gave my friend a head rub earlier and she went from near burnt out (several days of high state anxiety) to being so relaxed…
@nibrasibn @tferriss I've been a huge Tim Ferriss fan for years—was one of a few inspirations that set me on the path towards solopreneurship-for-the-sake-of-being-able-to-do-other-cool-shit. Role models are huge.
@nibrasibn @tferriss What has Tim said about non-coercion related stuff?
@nibrasibn yeah, there's unfortunately no way to do QTs in a way that puts the QT before the tweet imo this should straightforwardly be an option when QTing, so people can properly yes-and with QTs rather than just frame them
one dimension along which I'm domino'ing [draft]
@jonnym1ller @visakanv @m_ashcroft @p_millerd I just made one of my own, although it only captures a slice of what I'm working on:
Notice what's working and see if you can do more of it.
Thread · Tracing the barn-raising idea back through DMs and goal data
I was suddenly struck today by how this idea was in some sense incubating in the back of my mind since last fall when I first wrote about the self-energizing meta-team meta-vision like "but what was I doing that catalyzed the clarity here?" the answer: DMing w @nibrasibn
which was downstream of this reply...
to @utotranslucence asking "What is your plan?"
Which means I think I've just converted one of my middle dominos from a "???" to a specific!
@CompliceGoals helped me track this down. I looked at my data for my meta-team goal on the day I tweeted the original barn-raising tweet, and saw "more messages w Nibras" and was like "RIGHT!"
The barn-raising tweet literally started as a DM. I wrote to Nibras: > in my ideal world, once a month I'm helping run a hackathon for someone who has an app/business idea and a—welp, apparently I decided this thought wanted to be a tweet:
It feels important to track this sort of thing down, because otherwise I could forget that there was a causal chain at all to this great idea. But clearly I wouldn't have had it if I hadn't been being active on twitter, both in tweets and DMs!
So yeah, if you want to trace my thinking on this back even further, you can check out the self-energizing meta-team meta-vision thread:
@made_in_cosmos I've considered exploring this (I definitely have some ADHDesque properties and could certainly get a diagnosis without much squirrelling) but haven't gotten very far.
@Austen so many assumptions people really don't appreciate how many assumptions there are
Important thing to know about this study: it's from 2011, well before "ivermectin bad" needed justifying by covid consensus machine. Someone else shared it as "a new study" and that would be WAY less trustworthy. Article doesn't mention date either 🤦♀️ wfla.com/community/heal…
Important caveat is that this was after 11mo of treatment at 150ug/kg per day IVM. So decent odds acute treatment of covid infection with five days of 300ug/kg per day would be safe, but I know a few smart people taking IVM prophylactically and uhhhh I'm gonna be forwarding this.
Replying to @RonFilipkowski
@RonFilipkowski not a new study, actually, which makes it way more trustworthy since not biased by news cycles
@fortelabs the left looks like it's from the 80s (in that photo) but I'm more drawn to it visually
@fortelabs (I think that's just because it's not printed on glossy paper etc)
@JoinCommunities How is RTing gonna work? (serious Q, not skeptical) I'm hoping there's still some amount of internal-to-community signal-boosting available, unlike with locked accounts.
Replying to @Hyperstitioneer
@JayneMagic whoa, wtf deck is this? super trippy
this actually works okay as long as the list of tasks for the day is short enough I often feel very motivated to complete a couple more things today so I don't have to move them onto tomorrow's list one superpower of complice.co's daily rhythm t.co/oWQjdNBqx1
Replying to @KenBearIsland
@KenBearIsland @yashkaf I gather from some of his blog posts that she encouraged him to get back out there promptly
@nvpkp @liminal_warmth haha yeah I teamed up with @LordChisholm for his podcast Contextual Eyes—he likes talking & editing, and I do the finding guests and promoting episodes! (I also like talking; I just only have so much time in my schedule so it's fun to get to fill two calendars!)
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth @pragueyerrr @nvpkp it's happening~~~
@aphercotropist I don't think they tested it beyond the initial period, but it seemed pretty devastating (over half a dozen markers of messed-up sperm) so I'd be surprised if it recovered fully. ig gonads are pretty adaptable tho
Retweeted @empathy2000
Type of guy who calls acceleration “metaspeed”
@joespurpleshirt this is my default experience—I love tests just show up and do your best (and study as much as feels wise beforehand) unlike homework/essays, where you can second-guess whether they're done or not my guess is it's self-reinforcing, and you're afraid of your own panic
@joespurpleshirt might be useful:
the finger of blame has turned upon itself and I'm more than willing to offer myself do you want my presence or need my help? who knows where that might lead... 🎶 youtube.com/watch?v=PGkR8F…
@ennuigogo @chaosprime uhhh, ma'am
Retweeted @fvathynevgl
here's an experiment for when you're doing something in public that makes you feel embarrassed: imagine a bunch of people…
@m_ashcroft @jonnym1ller @super_ just gonna say I kinda hate those long standalone sales pages they can be better and worse, ofc but they remind me of times I was hypnotized into being convinced I needed something I didn't actually need
cool chill thread that gets into some of the inefficiencies that show up with neurotically trying to please other people
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ wait is this a typo? should it be: "Do what you wanna do until you don’t wanna do it anymore then do what you wanna do" (removed first "don't")
Retweeted @AndJohnsonAnd
great thread but also, shit, i'd retweet for the poetry of that third sentence alone.
Thread · Fragments extracted from longer works that stand on their own · 1 of 6 tweets
> It is not an argument, except inasmuch as each man's life is an argument for who he is. ❤️🔥
Replying to @innerstitial
@AndJohnsonAnd @empathy2000 nice! I added it to this:
@DarbraDawn @taalumot @QiaochuYuan I spent a few minutes trying to hack this together and it's definitely possible but unless I use the simplest possible version of the logo then there's too much fiddly shit to clean up to get the "Budweiser" out of there. here's where I got: (font is "Brewmaster")
Replying to @taalumot
@taalumot hey @uncatherio it's the Dionysian/Apollonian thing again
@jonnym1ller @m_ashcroft @super_ it's a good Q and I'm not sure I have an A GCI landing page is as close as I've ever gotten to making a page like this, & it's pretty short & almost aggressively unaggressive like "fyi this event is happening, cud be gud, wanna come?" complice.co/event/gci
@dthorson @meditationstuff has some really great stuff on how to tell when forcing (or anything) is adding net layers vs net clarity here's one sort-of-an-intro/contextualization meditationstuff.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/mak…
@dthorson @DougTataryn @meditationstuff I have a take on this:
@dthorson @meditationstuff oh my bad he's where this convo started haha I still think you could get a lot of useful stuff out of his writings!
Retweeted @joyurge
Mike: "does @CompliceGoals exist?" Twitter: "yes." twitter.com/mmasnick/statu…
Replying to @mmasnick
@mmasnick @KendraSerra I'm so impressed by the extent to which you managed to describe Complice without having seen it. Most people don't even get it that well *after* they've seen it. Mad props.
Replying to @mmasnick
@mmasnick @triketora @KendraSerra @CompliceGoals "changing my views on managing tasks" yeah, most other systems have dead metaphors and aren't seriously thinking about what it *means* to have things you want to do people have learned a bunch just from trying Complice, let alone using it long-term
@pomeranian99 @dimatosj @triketora this is baller, Clive. @joyurge and I were talking of starting a podcast where we interview people about {death and productivity} because obviously finitude is profoundly related to what it means to do things, or to prioritize but it doesn't get talked about much!
@pomeranian99 @dimatosj @triketora @joyurge I also intentionally put death front and center on the Complice homepage (the line in Mary Oliver's poem *before* these ones is "Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?" but I left that implicit so as not to come on quite so strong)
@acesounderglass @KenBearIsland @yashkaf yeah fair and this guy doesn't seem like the sort of person to say "the woman is always right" or "my wife definitely knows better than me" 😅
@pomeranian99 @dimatosj @triketora @joyurge Tbh Clive you might like Complice! It's an app with similar constraints as paper—you re-enter your tasks each day, and not-dones don't automatically roll-over day-to-day.
@pomeranian99 @dimatosj @triketora @joyurge It does have a system for grabbing yesterday's notdones for today, but they're left to the past if ignored for a few days. And if you don't do something 3× in a row...
@MasterTimBlais somehow what comes to mind is "you've kissed a guy ever" thinking mind is second-guessing this but I'm just gonna hit that button before I can stop myself
@dthorson @DougTataryn @meditationstuff I may be very confused, ofc. I'm very far from these sorts of ends, though I have a vantage point from which there's some obviousness that what I'm doing will work, albeit with many unknowns. Might die first ofc.
@QiaochuYuan this is not quite true but it has a grain of truth that is mostly unstated elsewhere, so... keep up the good work. I think the missing piece is ~ the value of the smile is itself multiplied by some other factor of partner-quality, which includes sex appeal, wit, & <everything>.
Retweeted @visakanv
it can also be fun to do a date-change ceremony anything can be a ceremony if you deem it such turn it into an occasion, dr…
Replying to @not_chalant
@not_chalant @Lithros uh oh
@Lithros based
@nibrasibn hmmm I'd be curious what your take would be on Complice! lmk if you wanna explore this 🚀 I haven't trusted most designers to go anywhere near it because they don't ɢᴇᴛ ɪᴛ
@everytstudies @ArtirKel yeah I resonate with the sense that something else is possible here vague handwavings in that direction:
@sunofdopamine I am not sure; I only had a quick glance at the study... having another glance ............wait it looks like 90% of the men with river blindness were ineligible for the study because they already had low sperm counts? uhhh uhhh what? that seems too obvious
@nibrasibn yes let's. (cc @joyurge 😊) slowly & quickly, it's happening...
Somehow didn't realize @everytstudies had a patreon! Obviously gotta back him substantially. This guy is doing basic foundational work in the nascent field of erisology: the study of discord & disagreement. patreon.com/everythingstud…
"It was a good datapoint though. At least I think it was a good datapoint... I may need more datapoints to know." — @LordChisholm
the problem is we can't talk about it
Retweeted @GarrettPetersen
Since its inception, the SEC has had one purpose and one purpose only: to identify and eliminate time travellers. Peop…
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ ahhhh gotcha
@GarrettPetersen @not_chalant @Lithros I wasn't! Just moved to BC last Dec, and have only been in Van this summer. Then moving to Victoria in Oct. Context on the original move: malcolmocean.com/2021/01/2020-f…
How do you get the part of you that thinks you're still in school being told to sit still, to know that you're an adult now? Doesn't matter that the rest of you knows. Arguing just reinforces it!" Me re: ift.tt/2Mn5hjr
@mesolude @hormeze Helpful, thanks. We're looking into getting something like this.
@m_ashcroft Yo legit
@DarbraDawn It do be like that
Yeah I did this and it's not that it's not worth it it's that it's not even a compromise that needs making. making music fuels my work twitter.com/sheherenow_/st…
What if search engines were good tho? There would be completely different search pages for 🧐 "locate known resource/info that definitely exists" 🤔 "find IF well-sourced answer to factual question exists" 🤠 "get overview of domain" ➕❓ Completely different priorities.
Talking with @utotranslucence about setting up a task force to build adaptive defenses for the people in the attention arms race. Club goods (paid access) rather than public goods. If you're the person to build this, let's talk. I'll support you. #TimeWellSpent @tristanharris
In this convo I was like "we should make it happen" and @utotranslucence was like "well, I'm not the person" and I was like "I'll make it happen" but then I was like "well, no, I'll find someone to make it happen" But I kinda need to find a "find someone" someone 🧐❤️🔥
as I said before
@jambarree @utotranslucence @tristanharris ahh terrible syntactic ambiguity. lojban when I meant adaptive defenses in the attention arms race, for the people [as opposed to the corporations] not adaptive defenses, for the people in the attention arms race [as opposed to people who aren't]
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
ok, hear me out: what about follower *invites* for locked accounts, rather than requests?
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
On a call with @Malcolm_Ocean and he highlights the double meaning of the word "first" as in "do this first" and the other…
@FryeSouthrop @m_ashcroft Yeah that's exactly it The > "first you do no harm" but "then you can do whatever the hell you like" is a joke based on confusing the two meanings of "first", the ordered one and the in-each-moment one
@captain_mrs worth noting that only sometimes do large numbers stat properly sometimes averages are completely irrelevant people started using averages for humans because they were a popular way for modeling planetary motion but uhh maybe humans aren't so simple
Retweeted @captain_mrs
everything about statistics seems so sus - like law of large numbers, wtf? who's making that happen?
@captain_mrs also surveys are basically hearsay taken to the worst possible extreme
Retweeted @literalbanana
stating things in oversimplified terms as The Truth vs stating things in oversimplified terms to get an idea of where th…
stating things in oversimplified terms to increase the energy factor on your cunningham's law strategy
@startuployalist @TylerAlterman oh fyeah the day I first conceived of and uttered this phrase 👇 I also had a thought something like "oh I totally get what Jesus was up to"
@startuployalist @TylerAlterman also had a sense of picking up his work where he left off
I've personally always had an intuitive sense that there's a perfect amount of drunk to be that's well below 🤮 or 😵 so when I'd hit that state at a party I'd hide my drink from myself in another room & drink water til I sobered up enough to go "oh yeah, where did I put…?" twitter.com/pli_cachete/st…
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa boom. this is a great example of frame dialogue, also! avoiding the common trap of fighting for "this word is good", finding the underlying agreement on the meaning level
@darpyu depends on what you want, but almost certainly yeah people quoting my old blog posts back to me is always a trip. love it. allows a cool depth of thought.
baha I forgot I'd made the streaks display in Complice get nervous when you're about to hit a new hundred 😂
@jambarree @utotranslucence @tristanharris @ConsilienceNews @ConsilienceNews feels like a huge part—very stoked about it also ad-blocking systems (although maybe the free ones are good enough) maybe certain curated things? I think @utotranslucence had more concrete ideas here
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
Recording Conversations and the Non-Naive Trust Dance with Malcolm Ocean (@Malcolm_Ocean) - Reach Truth Podcast https…
@irishdrug1511 Yeah! I wrote a thread about the design of it here (if you or others are curious)
Thread · Designing a site for on-demand design rants
boom, purchased whatifitweregoodtho.com 💥 for my design rants but currently... it's bad! it's just a parked domain. so... what if whatifitweregoodtho.com were good tho?
my first idea is that if you type any url, eg whatifitweregoodtho.com/xyz, then it would perform some sort of search for "xyz" and if it found something, it would redirect you to that and if it didn't, it would prompt a tweet: "Hey @Malcolm_Ocean, what if xyz were good tho?"
and I could alias a bunch of things to the same thing, eg "spotify" and "ytmusic" and "tidal" and "deezer" and "musicstreaming" and many others could all point at this thread:
an example of the prompt→thread workflow in action
I'm happy to do a design rant on almost anything, though not necessarily for longer than the duration of a single song. (You can propose a song if you want, though no guarantees I'll use it. Certain ("swagger") moods better for thinking outside the box.)
So! This overarching design of the whatifitweregoodtho.com website means that basically you can always get an assumption-busting redesign of anything either • one that already exists • one I come up with in response to your query.
And I guess in rare cases I would simply have it redirect to an actual product that I consider good enough to be the answer to "what if X were good tho?" whatifitweregoodtho.com/todolist → Complice 🤑 It'd be sincere! Maybe should redirect to complice.co/philosophy, not homepage.
Okay, I have a design for whatifitweregoodtho.com, but... it still needs building! I think I could do this manually with WordPress but it'd get unwieldy to maintain. Probably wouldn't take long to hack together a simple NodeJS website I could keep updated very easily tho.
But while part of me is tempted to just dive in and do that right away, I know from experience that "wouldn't take long" when it comes to software development is often overlooking a lot of abstractions.
OH WAIT. Maybe @davidfactorial could build this for/with me as one of his 100 tools! twitter.com/davidfactorial…
Although… part of me is asking if this current idea is anything other than a url shortener 🤦♀️ So I shall @AskYatharth: what do you use for yatharth.link? surely some simple service exists for that. Ultimately probably would be good to be able to customize things tho.
@visakanv welp
Overheard a mom telling ~5yo kid "notice how "I would like" sounds better than "I want"." What's this psy-op? Feels psy-op'y but I'm not sure how. Feels related to something I was saying yesterday about people having bad self-other boundaries.
@gptbrooke escape room has part of it
@yashkaf @gptbrooke @this_is_silvia @tcotvibecamp Mmmm I also really like how the colorful cloud also matches "vibe" as a word.
@jicapal @this_is_silvia @tcotvibecamp fyeah hypercube
Retweeted @wolftivy
A real guilt bankruptcy settlement will not be comfortable. It will involve the heaviest religious self-transformation equipm…
Beautiful statement about the level of reconciliation that's needed, including the implied fact that we may not really know how to do it yet. Not sure what I think of the rest of the thread but it's thought-provoking and worth reading!
@michaelcurzi @cheascake @bungoman @erienneyoung @goblinodds @__frye @DesidErratum @Rididelduol @plesmasquerade @TeddyRaccovelt @embryosophy I came across this tweet while I happened to have this AI Art Machine tweet pulled up and clearly this was the prompt to put into this state of the art device. So, this is a computer's mental image of: a guy named bungoman
Retweeted @fortelabs
My guiding question for everything I do: What is the content/product/experience that only I can create?
@davidfactorial Sure, sounds good!
Thread · Building a thing that lets others create what only I can create
Guiding Q for everything I do—yes! > What is the content/product/experience that only I can create? Am also annoyed by how many lifetimes' worth of stuff that seems to be true of. So... now I'm creating a thing that will allow others to create what currently only I can create.
One dimension of this = getting off the ground 🛖🛫 People have trouble getting over initial hurdles & activation energy, and I have a plan of how to help:
Another dimension of this = seeing what could exist that doesn't 👁️🤯 People have trouble realizing how much better things could be, and I have a plan of how to help:
Another dimension of this = finding win-wins and effortless upward spirals❤️🔥🤸♂️ People (including me) are still learning how to unleash our can't-not-do energy, and I have a plan of how to help:
At one point I was like "maybe this thing is just a company?" but there's a necessary type of liberatedness—of thought, or perception even—that isn't possible within traditional (or modern/postmodern) companies, for structural reasons.
In other words,
@fortelabs Nice. Thanks for this; it was perfectly timed to nudge me to write this thread:
Realizing that most of the time I actually barely care who on twitter sees or likes my stuff. It's doing a great job of helping me think more clearly, and that's kind of the main point. More reach may connect me with new perspectives though, which is good.
Hey @davidfactorial, tool idea for you maybe (there's an open-source prototype in the comments you might be able to build on)
I stopped wanting more followers when I hit 4000.
The number keeps going up, non-monotonically (as of this writing I'm at 4926) but its rise no longer gives me a feeling of excitement, more just bemusement and gladness that it isn't growing faster.
Probably some of this is downstream of having heard people talk about challenges of having more followers, such that I imagined making a tool that would stem the tide.
@hormeze Stoked for you ❤️🔥
@VividVoid_ Completely unlike the borg. Very appropriately individuated & differentiated, while attuned to each other.
@meditationstuff Yes, pursue obviousness.
Thread · Why you can't really choose a mindset · 1 of 8 tweets
❤️🔥
Retweeted @meditationstuff
Unsurprisingly, something in the close neighborhood of a steelmanned bodhisattva vow just falls out of long term pract…
@hormeze idk if this quite counts as a meme but I've been really digging this guy's art lately some of it verges on monist, and some on nihilist (weird combo lol) but lots is really great! raminnazer.com/products/two-l…
@QiaochuYuan @monodevice when I was in Kenya for a volunteer trip in 2009 I was intrigued to see that the folks in the rural area we visited had a particular kind of tree branch that they would break off and use to clean their teeth—I tried it a few times and it seemed to work okay. just a datapoint
@QiaochuYuan @monodevice (to be clear, I am not attempting to imply anything in particular with this datapoint! I don't know what it means. these folks didn't eat candy but they probably ate a decent amount of fresh fruit, which is sugary. they mostly had pretty good teeth iirc? could pull up pics lol)
@egocv ha! I was today years old.
@nosilverv I try to do that with the GCI workshops. Sometimes people think movement not-in-the-right-direction is anti-progress, but I like to point out that sometimes you can't see where you need to go until you're on your way and you reach a clearing or mountaintop
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
earlier this week, i got a tattoo that I asked @this_is_silvia to design. it represents the Four Brahmavihārās (of whi…
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa hm? something feels funny about this post with this caption
@alt_visa funny like 🧐
@davidfactorial yes, for sure! idk if someone has made that already though, would be good to check
@42irrationalist I have a thread on how they're constructed but non-arbitrary, building on & critiquing Lisa Feldman-Barrett's work on this:
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF Ooh. I care about keeping stuff clear here. What would you say makes this clearly not a psy-op? I maybe had pretty loose boundaries around the concept.
@haideralmosawi Yep that sounds right.
@sonnenmimi 😙👌
@piva_jonas @Tracytms What's the BC report?
@piva_jonas Wow, glad you shared this 😊❤️🔥 Starting in a small way with a friend sounds like a great way to do it. Can gradually untangle the unworthiness stuff and see what's going on there.
@m_ashcroft check out @treetopian's Outdoor Computing experiments mgsloan.com/posts/deck-des…
@ben_mathes not totally certain but I think I agree maybe related thread
@DanielCJonas passionate space and spacious passion
@mmasnick @KendraSerra Also I think it's actually far from overdetermined that something like this needed to exist! I launched the first version 7 years ago and there's still nothing else like it. Most people have way too many assumptions to see it.
I put "mind sex" into this AI Art Machine and it came up with this image... which is kinda more "brain sex" 😅 but I'm not gonna say I don't find it a little hot anyway.
@cortexfutura @patio11 @ejames_c @commandodev I feel like I should have an answer to this but I'm not actually sure. Things that produce tipping points and nonlinear returns and enable more experiments? Depends a lot on the business.
@cortexfutura @patio11 @ejames_c @commandodev One reco I guess is this equation by Geoff Ralston: Priority = Breadth × Depth ÷ Cost B = how many users affected D = how much affected C = how long to build Key isn't doing only very top items, it's avoiding bottom half. I made a spreadsheet out of it blog.geoffralston.com/startup-priori…
@davidfactorial @smallkewlhuman @reddy2go was exploring this I think
@smallkewlhuman @davidfactorial I think basically yeah, though there'd be a whole trust-dance to navigate in order to understand if you were really safe. I'd be very interested in if there's any way to show the dogs that the shock is over without dragging them.
This is a good example of a situation/reason why it sometimes might be good to try a thing you're terrified of... this might require willpower, but it's different from counteractive approaches in that the use is to have a new transformative experience, not to maintain new state. t.co/3xV7mjRWwo
@everytstudies hmm... feels related to something I might call "frame pushing"... because there's often deep but partial truth to what the person is saying, but the confusion lies in them ignoring anything outside the frame in which their thing is true
@everytstudies I would guess we don't have a word for this in part because almost everyone is doing it to a greater or lesser degree most of the time
@dthorson @MonasticAcademy I've grappled with something similar, including having had for years a similar default of not having kids... ...but something about the vibe/tone here creates a response in my body of disturbance & disgust. the piece reads... like a dark ritual, sacrificing something vital.
@HighIQBull @paulg He's talking about "how this period is remembered" though, and so to the people in question, the pandemic costed lives in the past, and climate change lives *are* the present.
Retweeted @leashless
What does it look like? Every human being gets the same right to emit carbon: a quota. It shrinks every year. People sell th…
@visakanv @m_ashcroft @SarahAMcManus You might really like Primo Levi's Carbon Story Link to 5-page PDF: transitionnetwork.org/sites/www.tran… twitter.com/Mr_Seaside/sta…
@dthorson @MonasticAcademy I have more I could say, but what I've said already here is kind of intense, so I'm taking some time to reflect more privately before saying more here. (I may do a separate thread, also, as in some sense this isn't about you, Daniel.)
just tried again with same prompt, but flavor=thyme (instead of cumin) and got this:
@acesounderglass @tragedyoftheco1 huh weird I tried to upload it to giphy and that failed too
@acesounderglass unlike an AI paperclip maximizer, biological evolution can't creatively leap from one local maximum to another humans can clearly do this though I guess the question of whether corporations can do it is uhhh, debatable 😅
@acesounderglass also by weird coincidence I typed the "is debatable" line, then kinda vaguely thought about grabbing one of my own tweets to QT, then bounced away onto your page and scrolled a bit, only to find literally the perfect thread to QT right there
Replying to @JamesWords
@nullary @m_ashcroft @treetopian yeah I was just thinking that something like this could be really good. imagining buying the 25" one for a community space, to have a shared outdoor desk shop.boox.com/products/mira?…
Thread · Things I want to exist: apps, tools, and funding mechanisms · 1 of 21 tweets
Here's a thread of single tweets about various things that would be great if they existed. Very similar mood 💞
"gorgeous painting of ecstatic superorganism"
"gorgeous painting of ecstatic superorganism" (cumin flavor; above was thyme I think)
Truly, we live in an age of __________.
Oooh huddle.works seems like it's in an adjacent space to the barn-raisings I'm working on, and to my longer-term vision, although different flavor (paid w cash & equity rather than being a friends/commons thing, which is interesting since it's somewhat FAANG folks)
@Serjhunt_ARK hm, but there's also a lot of meaninglessnesslessness
first thought: hm, not bad! I like the update second thought: wait, baseball games aren't a public good... these 3 folks aren't in the bleachers... did they buy tickets? who's supporting the games?
@QiaochuYuan @EpistemicHope JUMP Math is a program for grade school that breaks the steps of learning math stuff WAY tinier than anyone who already grokked it would naively imagine Some results: everyone acing standardized tests, 1y after previous avg of 54th percentile 12min talk youtu.be/Qbxnk5SKaTA?t=…
Retweeted @AnneSelke
I did a play fighting workshop yesterday. So powerful to explore what (dis)connection, resistance & flow feels like in my bo…
@meekaale I like to be confused 'cause then I learn 🎶
Retweeted @reasonisfun
You’re not burnt out because of capitalism you’re burnt out because you only know external motivation and you never learne…
@visakanv @reasonisfun I'd say that the specific flavor of external motivation we all know is downstream of capitalism, but old feudal models were their own kind of externally motivated systems
@visakanv @reasonisfun this:
@utotranslucence yeah, it's like, capitalism instead of what?
@visakanv @callumflack 2 years later I finally got your joke here me: > anyone who boos at capitalism without gesturing at what they're saying is better does not understand capitalism. you: > can get rich booing at capitalism
@visakanv @callumflack (though ofc the joke relies on an equivocation of two meanings of "understand" here; "know how to exploit" and "know the implications of and why we might or might not want something different" are v v diff)
Replying to @instar_imago
@NibiruDakini I'm apparently playing with an AI Art Machine for hours instead of sleeping so here's one rendition of "small mammal bodies and raindrop souls":
@this_is_silvia total spitballing... kombucha?
@mechanical_monk @egocv my people ❤️
Retweeted @this_is_silvia
sometimes i'm sad and i want to say that i'm sad and i want to be allowed to remain sad while i do stuff with you and i…
Retweeted @tylerangert
Whenever ur learning something new / hard the key is to find a project with minimum viable interestingness ™️ so u don’t g…
@visakanv This has got to be the most hilarious one yet. Even better than Elvis. Because the message is literally boycott.
Retweeted @RomeoStevens76
Rationality or, as I like to call it, the Copenhagen interpretation of optimization.
RTing because it has good replies
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia When I was a toddler I had a trick of freaking out adults (particularly guests?) by running full-tilt towards a wall then braking at the last moment and gently bonking my head then giggling.
@gptbrooke *flings arms open wide*
Replying to @grantadever
@grantadever Yeah it's good shit
Retweeted @the_wilderless
Which do you normally identify as An Organism (the way you recognize a human or a cat or a tree as An Organism)? (Retw…
@the_wilderless Ant is organism, ant colony is superorganism. Plants are fuckin' weird tho and it's hard to divvy up their organismhood.
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
New note on how sharing your ideas online is the price of entry to the online game. The first thing I do these days when I…
@visakanv @TwitterSupport Maybe @paperlemonade can help get this bug report where it needs to go? twitter.com/paperlemonade/…
@pee_zombie Yeah I've had some non-rationalist friends lose a lot of cred with me because they thought my nudging in that direction was saying they should definitely immediately change their minds.
@__justplaying @pareinoia Wow this is a whole... Wow. (This one is kinda meta to the other ones)
🔢 takes on this: 1. successfully avoid tweet causing wwiii by accident 2. literal treason 3. if he broke promise (& didn't warn pre-attack) who'd be able to hold him accountable anyway? so if Li buys it, best of both worlds for US! 4. if Li pretended to buy, false sense of sec
Retweeted @Conaw
Every time I try to design a process for our team in Roam, keep coming back to this. Complex systems that work ALWAYS emerge fr…
Retweeted @yashkaf
someone told me that chamomile tea is woman-coded and I just want to say thank you to the lady programmer in the cosmic simula…
@antonjw love you
damn this is a good thread t.co/KGAELd8xOY
@danlistensto there's a really trippy bit in one of the ST encyclopedias but idk if it's ever used on the series, of a battle maneuvre where you use FTL to move sorta-but-not-directly towards your opponent at such a speed that far-you appears as a decoy a few lightminutes before you shoot 'em
@danlistensto (just made that drawing from memory; I may be missing some key part of this but it really tripped me out as a 12yo and I thought I'd share it as an example of a kind of fighting you can't use normally)
@danlistensto also the death star ofc; not really billed as a "ship" but I don't think it was exactly stationary either
@Evolving_Ego not sure how good it is as an *intro* per se but I got some useful senses of it from this interview, which talks about factors that allow economic systems to evolve better, with interesting comparisons to midstage communist china youtube.com/watch?v=CHQi1H…
Retweeted @Conaw
Simple rules produce complex behavior-complex rules produce stupid behavior
Retweeted @Conaw
In the spirit of Yom Kippur.. I present for you the most beautifully technical discussion of the social/spiritual technology of…
This "World's Greatest Stretch" lives up to its name. I usually don't feel much difference from doing stretches but this one I noticed an immediate asymmetry after I'd done it on only one side. Have been doing it regularly since and 🤩 Source: youtube.com/watch?v=BGrw5z…
yo @visakanv, if you haven't already seen it, check out this article by @Meaningness on how cargo culting can be a stepping stone towards growing intellectual sceniuses, if legitimate peripheral participation is well-organized metarationality.com/upgrade-your-c…
Oh yeah!? Well, I'll give you a peace of my mind!
@QiaochuYuan missed the poll but for reference: yes | yes, sometimes one particularly powerful success with quitting a videogame cold-turkey I'd been playing intermittently compulsively for ~6mo this blog post somewhat describes how: malcolmocean.com/2017/11/self-r…
also if anyone wants hilarious & painfully insightful quotes from John Gall's book, follow @SysQuotes
@m_ashcroft business is the best game because the points are redeemable for money
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
New note on how I'm making business design decisions in order to encourage behaviours from me that are good for me and my b…
@m_ashcroft nice, this is good stuff I notice that the GCI workshops are a huge blob in my priorities when sales are live, and I don't think about them much otherwise... given that they're noncentral to what I'm up to, this is kinda good, but it could be nice to have it be flowier/ongoinger
@m_ashcroft also the feedback is made of money
@m_ashcroft @xuenay hmmmmmmmmmm maybe I'll start playing with this
@hormeze that's why I picked it! :D
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
Had a dream last night where I was singing How Great Thou Art. What a gorgeous song! Does anyone know a song that chann…
@danhines09 hm, thinking about what it means to have an I-Thou relationship with {everything}
@m_ashcroft @xuenay damn I went for a walk this morning without my phone or anything and I wrote a new verse to a song I've been working on for 4 years ❤️🔥🎶👩🎤
Retweeted @xuenay
@Malcolm_Ocean @m_ashcroft Out: #sobsquad In: #walksquad
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
"it's human nature, i wonder what its evolutionary purpose is," wonders guy who has not checked whether anyone was doing i…
be weird whenever possible. it is always possible.
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth @jambarree @RichDecibels @HiNaryan @niran yeah I know the feeling—maybe a dozen people in this category for me, depending on the size of the loan; many more to whom I'd give money on a pay-it-forward basis if they needed—but not really sure what the benefit is for reifying this stuff
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
Okay I should have read this years ago, it fits in so well with Alexander Technique Even some similar language. I think P…
@m_ashcroft Book club for Making Sense of Behavior next? cc @Jeanvaljean689
@magicianbrain yeah lol I had a therapy session just after playing a bunch of 5D chess and it gave me really trippy imagery of myself going into the past, creating a new parallel timeline, and so on
idea: app for thrift stores to easily look up which of their incoming books are out-of-print ones that would fetch >$50 on online markets, so we can get those books to people who really want them (I'm thinking about Making Sense of Behavior here, which is 💯❤️🔥🤩)
@m_ashcroft @michael_nielsen Called it 😝
"when you stop doing the wrong things, the right thing does itself" + "feeling good is not merely the absence of feeling bad" 🤔🤔🤔 @m_ashcroft not saying this contradict exactly but they prompt me to be looking forward to ever more precise articulations of all of this
@m_ashcroft I'm guessing it relates to what @meditationstuff talks about around how good & bad are sort of provisional or something like, the right thing does itself, but "right" is still very narrow-to-what-you-know, not absolute or anything like that meditationbook.page/#68a
Trying to buy a kettle and there's all these gorgeous glass+LED ones but they're all blue light, which like, for night-time tea... 😑 Blue isn't even the color of "hot"! 🥶 Weird effect of blue LEDs being newest-invented color, I think.
Retweeted @visakanv
btw this is what art is *for*. what it’s all about. literature, music, painting. about bridging loneliness between people. ab…
new incentives to not cross the street while looking down at your phone, or more generally to maintain expanded awareness (cc @m_ashcroft) youtube.com/watch?v=5CgeTb…
if you don't trust everybody, what that mostly means is that you don't trust yourself to: a) discern who you can & can't trust b) interact with people in ways that will be workable for you, and/or learn to do so better it's not actually that much about other ppl at that point
Importantly, this distrust of yourself contains important information, and you can't just dismiss it.
Retweeted @Conaw
"Just another notes app" Tonight on a whim, live, from within the graph, one of the new members of the @RoamResearch team (who…
@RichDecibels Ahh I think this is part of why the PWYW pricing for our GCI workshops works. We have an up-front choice of "Pay $25 now then PWYW" or "Pay $275 now", so it immediately gets the workshop outside of the "free" category—which was very intentional on our part.
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daily reminder to self: it is not my job to solve all the injustices and heal all the traumas of capitalism, it's my job…
Overheard: "If I were willing to brave the abyss—actually, with caching, the abyss isn't *that* scary"
@SarahAMcManus but surely we can't reach those temperatures here. maybe in the UK where they have twice the voltage coming out of the wall sockets.
Retweeted @diviacaroline
I think there’s a very close analog on the personal level, though a clear description is still eluding me. When a proc…
@TylerAlterman I'd say switch from modus ponens "how do I be more rational?" to modus tollens "given what I am doing is already rational on its own terms, can I figure out how I must be seeing things for that to be so?"
@prerationalist @TylerAlterman wait r these different?
Retweeted @reddy2go
after talking to @Malcolm_Ocean i'm left feeling there's so much to talk about so let these 9 minutes just be a springboard t…
Replying to @dispirateparts
@dispirateparts excited to see this when it's ready and maybe to vibe on the design in the meantime!
@NathanpmYoung Have heard good v stuff about niacin. twitter.com/chaosprime/sta…
@JeffLadish yes, and on some level,
@JeffLadish yessss I've been saying this
Replying to @instar_imago
@NibiruDakini I'm glad we're here ❤️🔥
This is simultaneously silly & great. The vid is hard to tell apart from a parody—"every has rectangular phones… why not a circle?"—but at the same time, that very "why not" is busting an assumption usually taken for granted… ...and I don't take assumption-busting for granted!
I just set a target of running 10 virtual barn-raisings by summer solstice next year. That's about 1/mo. I've got the first one lined up for Oct 9th if you want to save the date—will be announcing shortly. So lmk if you could use a day of help launching your business!
kinda can't believe this tweet got 700 retweets (my top) such a niche joke maybe the original meme had enough velocity to go viral among people who missed my caption? or maybe it was so niche that literally all 700 people who got the joke just *had* to RT it to signal as much
@nowtheo I think that it's mostly a way that people justify something that's better for them as being better for someone else, and it would be better for everybody if they just owned that. Relates to self-other boundary problems
@nowtheo tough love can also map onto the kind of bs where schools tell you they're made for your learning, as opposed to acknowledging that a lot of how things are are for the teacher's benefit or something else
@acidshill @visakanv relatedly, I hate commuting, by which I don't mean "driving to work every day", I mean "going anywhere then going straight back" going for a walk = great going to place A, then place B, then back = great single roundtrip = ugh it's a really strong response, not sure why
@chaosprime @palecur Assuming by "gestural typing" you mean eg swiping, I disagree. You have to express the word you intend, *before* any algorithm runs. So you're generating it rather than recognizing or receiving it. It's in that sense not much worse than spellcheck.
@chaosprime @palecur Although spellcheck is kinda bad too, and I guess gestural-typing is categorically worse because it will completely prevent you from typing a word it doesn't recognize, not just highlight it after the fact. But still nowhere near full on markov chain.
empiricism, n. belief in the rightness of empires
"Someone said Obsidian was a Roam replacement but it doesn't even WorkFlowy" — @LordChisholm
"For a brief moment in 2012, I thought the internet would allow us to talk to each other, but instead we're now able to not talk to each other in new and exciting ways!"
@aphercotropist @selentelechia @TylerAlterman yeah I literally went up to @aphercotropist at a party recently and was like "yo can you explain your philosophy to me"? and it was a great conversation his philosophy is legit good, and easier to explain live than via tweets or whatever
Retweeted @hondanhon
Our civilization has discovered how to make 20 tesla high-temperature superconducting magnets! 🧲 We should keep researching…
@mherreshoff Oh huh! I assumed they actually were related somehow, and that the meanings had just diverged.
_______, v. to cause and be caused by to create and be created by to be in a mutual-causality relationship with "the high levels of trust & psychosocial safety on the team _______ed a collective capacity to effectively look at tough problems from novel angles."
@DanielleFong Might be worth clarifying whether in Canada or US, since last I checked you're a person of both. I imagine the relevant laws vary a lot.
Retweeted @Austen
❤️
"guys, guys ummm hey how about...? oh yeah, what's up!?" twitter.com/Unbelievablelm…
what a mood I have this thought probably about once a week
...someone be my cofounder on my plan to bootstrap having arbitrary amounts of cofounders for stuff? 🥺 👉👈
Retweeted @gene_minkov
"Interface" is a funny concept
Replying to @taalumot
@taalumot upgrading peoples' internal dialogue capacities and documenting & sharing the process malcolmocean.com/2021/08/intern…
Retweeted @xuenay
This year, I've been feeling more emotionally secure, thanks to various kinds of internal and external work (the stuff at https…
Replying to @pli_cachete
@Tjdriii if I were running a school I would have certain kids planted to ask questions to the science teachers that are matters not known to *anyone*, and any teacher who didn't answer "idk" would be fired (not actually, because they might misunderstand the Q as something they knew, etc)
@Tjdriii but yeah, minimum bar for safe teaching relationship is being comfortable not getting something or not knowing something related story from my life:
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
the last time i held anything resembling a real job i noticed i wanted someone in the organization to get mad at me for no…
@visakanv nice
beliefs are like shoes: they're not worth much if you don't regularly bring them in contact with the world
beliefs are like shoes: properly bring them into contact with the world may wear them down
beliefs are like shoes: I only have a single pair of them
@utotranslucence exactly
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth @BellaRudd1 @eigenrobot @CathyReisenwitz mmmm tcot has a bard
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth what did he say?
Retweeted @vgr
Do you have a speculative, hard-to-classify but well-scoped project you’re doing on your own time/dime, for which you have no clea…
Replying to @dispirateparts
@dispirateparts yessss I await this glorious love
Retweeted @AndJohnsonAnd
beliefs are like shoes: unprecedentedly cheap to fabricate and distribute with modern technology.
Replying to @innerstitial
@AndJohnsonAnd and yet still with really high margins
@relic_radiation makes sense—existential kink has its roots in tantra! here's two links describing charnel ground & pure land vividness.live/charnel-ground vividness.live/pure-land
@prerationalist @acidshill @visakanv something like that, yeah unwillingness to spend a whole stone on only one bird
@JeffLadish I guess more precisely it's like, we can't talk about it adequately to untangle our double binds twitter.com/chaosprime/sta…
@JeffLadish on a geopolitical scale I think the solution might be something like SimPol; very curious what you think of it. not sure the best intro but I liked this interview: jimruttshow.blubrry.net/john-bunzl/ simpol.org
@xuenay @m_ashcroft I've been playing with framing this as "sky before screen"
@xuenay @magicianbrain omg nailed it, yes the frozenness seems daunting if you don't have time-travel tech, but if you do, it's actually a huge weakness
@patcon_ oh cool! is there stuff happening in Canada?
@VitalPixel @dismaien @andy_matuschak 😀 yes! also my meta-advice would be not to try to do more of my advice, but to get curious and welcome whatever parts of you think that would be bad or to just follow your appetite and re-read pieces of writing that excite you, to deepen insights & obviousness
@_holyweather Kinda tempted to say Cascadia, which is roughly the west coast of the US & Canada / PNW. It's not a *recognized* nation, but this is a thought experiment and you said "politics aside" so I'm going with it anyway. (Personally I'd include NorCal as I have many friends in the bay)
@GKCdaily great thread on this:
@aspiringpeasant @_holyweather yeah, I'm worried about fire—I just moved to BC and didn't realize before moving the extent to which fire was up here, not just in NorCal/Oregon if you've got recommended reading re what the future holds here, I'd be interested!
Thread · Announcing the first virtual barn-raising
Announcing the first virtual barn-raising! Want to help get a business off the ground? 🚀 October 9th all day (9am-midnight pacific) Featuring a bookings platform by @Prigoose & @__drewface. I'm excited to have them be the first barn-raising, for a few reasons shared below 👇🧵
Reason 1: main difference between barn-raisings & hackathons is that usually nothing ongoing happens after a hackathon. Sometimes a project gets legs anyway, but it's not the default. But Priya & Andrew have been working on this for months, and they're not about to quit!
Reason 2: They're exactly at one kind of get-over-the-launch-hurdle stage where a barn-raising is pivotal. Too early = not enough surface area for people to plug in = won't get anywhere satisfying in a day Too late = too much complexity to bring people up to speed
Specifically, the stage they're at is that they've got 2 beta customers, and they've got a prototype version of their product that one of the beta customers is using in a production application. Good signs of viability.
Reason 3: I feel this will do something really good for the momentum of the barn-raisings as well. We'll definitely do barn-raisings for projects less far along or smaller, but it feels important to make it clear that these one day events are for realizing something long-term.
Reason 4 that I'm stoked to have them go first is that there's a ton of different stuff to do: • clever sales & marketing strategy • redesign logo, website elements, name • open-sourcing some of their work • & more!
Reason 5: Their product is a platform/API, so we can also have people hacking *using* the platform, in parallel! What Stripe is for payments, they're that for bookings. Got an idea of something you wanna make bookable? Help by working on your own thing!
Reason 6—which wasn't in the first draft of this thread—is that they've been really engaged & creative around designing how the barn-raisings will work! So I'm feeling like this 👇 is already coming true a bit 🥰
On which note, there's tons of meta-work to do—the first barn-raisings will also involve working on the format itself. So if you want to help build, iterate, or document systems for self-energizing teamwork, that could be another great reason to come!
So what now? Here's a sign-up form for the Oct 9 event with @__drewface & @Prigoose! It just takes a minute! (go ahead & fill it out even if you're busy that day but want to stay in the loop—you can mark that on the form) ajroberts0417.typeform.com/to/xyEW680E
@catthu it's happening! friendify yourself here:
@utotranslucence the fun is in the works:
@SeishinWrites it's happening! you can even just sign on for a few hours if you want those skills all sound super useful for this:
@jonathandubin timing for first event is Oct 9
@NathanpmYoung first one is scheduled - sign up here:
@TPSReport we're on the fence about whether there'll be much competition but I think participation in such a thing is totally bragworthy
@garbledgarfield event one is scheduled if you want to show up and bring your hard skills or your misc skills :D
Retweeted @__drewface
I'm so so excited to be experimenting with collective action like this! On Oct 9th, we'll be throwing a virtual party (and…
@jameswjesso @drrickbarnett wow, yeah
@JeffLadish ohno.png umm... I mean the original stuff you pointed at, I'm basically saying that there are kinds of conversations we could have at various scales that would result in solutions, but we don't know how to have them so we're caught in tugs-of-war between incomplete policies.
We played "star wars": lightsaber duels with invisible swords. It looked bad so the teachers asked us to stop, but I remember arguing our case to the principal that the fact that we were dueling without any sort of stick made it nonviolent; they conceded & let us continue! 😤 t.co/qKxepcHpcy
@Knipps @tcotvibecamp wow I totally didn't have the context to appreciate this when I saw it as a teenager anarcho-syndicalist peasants 🤣🤣🤣
@mechanical_monk @gptbrooke @tcotvibecamp @Lithros yeah I feel like if someone needs to ask then maybe they're uhhh not part of the thing? it's not about whether someone *does* ask, but about whether they NEED to ask. we're a curious bunch, and people might assume there's some important layer they're missing
@gptbrooke @mechanical_monk @tcotvibecamp @Lithros you should just link them to this tweet:
@etiennefd @m_ashcroft @LordChisholm check out this stuff about the online game — could be relevant for articulating your "Being in the Scene" goal
Retweeted @etiennefd
From @m_ashcroft on the Online Game: "Make, publish and share. That’s level 1, which gives gives access to level 2 (make new…
without downloading any new pics where are you mentally
@MasterTimBlais yeah I have this on a quicksearch so I just open a new tab and type twf and then my query
@etiennefd I'd count myself at level 5, although some combination of less directly and/or perhaps in some sense less than the others there. Here's one way in which I'm upstream of a bunch of stuff:
@etiennefd The barn-raising project I'm up to right now is also a level 5 thing! (On which note, I'd love to see you there!❤️🔥)
@etiennefd I guess I got a huge head start: I was blogging (with no audience) and following lifestyle bloggers in high school. My blog & related projects helped me land a job and have places to couchsurf in SF. And @CompliceGoals and the GCIs have been helping others shape their lives.
This is a great yes/and-ing thread. If you're thinking about playing the infinite game here on this global mindcity, you wanna check this out:
hey @visakanv we now have some provisional levels for
some of y'all have never refactored your self-other boundary and it shows
Was just skimming an article and the first subsection opened with: "Look, ..." And I had this immediate response of "no, you don't talk to me like that."
@piva_jonas another breadcrumb:
@CarnunMP Nope, closed the tab.
@rsmck yeah, for IP planning to have contributors sign a 1 page very chill contributor license agreement that grants a nonexclusive right to the company to use whatever people contribute that day people will work for free because it's fun and because
@rsmck oh also because they don't have to that's a really important piece expecting/forcing people to work for free sucks *getting* to contribute to something larger, on your own terms, is GREAT
@rsmck and: my ultimate vision here (beyond the barn-raisings) involves members/participants being financially supported by the whole system, while still maintaining the self-energizing nature of their work
Retweeted @metaflav
cool. this is how we solve complex problems. we keep movin, bump against barriers and bounce back.
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
people periodically clown on tech guys for treating what seems to them like a common-sense observation as a shocking insig…
Retweeted @meekaale
I have never heard a better description of perfect blissful utopia than “an open horizon of free time”
@meekaale yup
Huge day for @CompliceGoals—team page now tells our whole story, the primary impetus being that @joyurge is now fully on the team! He's essentially my cofounder in the next phase of Complice, as we prototype noncoercive teamwork principles & practices. complice.co/about-the-team 👀
@fortelabs "high-level" "cursory" came to mind but I guess some people think it has negative connotations. depends on context I guess
@rsmck True. Those others who will profit though are also the ones who have to do all the ongoing and sometimes-unfun work of keeping the business alive. So I think it mostly works out. I'd like to find ways to have the finances flow back, but forward also good.
@rsmck This is roughly the template I'm intending to use: tableau.github.io/2017.02-Tablea…
@11kilobytes @AdmiralOPG @maltybegray face pulls might be good youtube.com/watch?v=h3PZZy…
re collective awakening practices (QTing for my own future searching because " awaken " seems to be my go-to keyword for this)
Replying to @qchurious
@qchurious re the "for your benefit" thing:
what factors make twitter feel more like a giant web of conversation as distinct from just a bunch of people shouting into the void?
Retweeted @acidshill
perhaps the more that kindness is framed as a matter of virtue or morals the less likely people are to realize how rewarding…
@clarityscape getting Les Mis vibes from this, nice
strangely earnest twitter musical when
Replying to @pli_cachete
@Tjdriii seems like strength matters but leverage matters more? unless you have to both link at the knee
Retweeted @quotidiania
One day, I'll lie down with my beloved, and we'll listen to all the songs our former lovers showed us. We'll cry for what…
@FosterCoWriting I write best when I'm not using predictive text.
Retweeted @visakanv
As you journey on, you encountered a tormented hypertext spirit. “Please,” it begs. “You are blessed with a great bounty of…
@visakanv re Polarity Management jpr.org.uk/documents/14-0…
Replying to @jiggityk
@jiggityk this is really good and I want to RT it but your account is locked how would you feel about me reposting it, with or without attribution?
insofar as societies have surplus, it makes sense for it to be well-organized many people struggling to pay rent seems like poorly-organized surplus are there better ways than taxes to perform that reorganization? probably, but idk what they are UBI beats welfare tho
Retweeted @visakanv
here’s what I’m obsessed with: how many of us have had painful problems for years that someone else might know the solution…
@visakanv mmmm for sure finding the others and having them find you
@EnzikaOfAsh so true such good twisty spaces we find ourselves in in this big virtual conversation
@cxy yeah, the sense of being listened to
@acidshill interconnectedness
@CyrusOfHearts structure is sexy
hmm this is relevant both to my barn-raising meta-project and to Complice exploring a rebrand from "lifestyle business" to "self-energizing self-funded self-paced startup"
@visakanv where's your tweet about noticing someone making an awkward smile while they say something during a date or whatever and kinda playfully zooming in on it? I have a thing to post that is relevant to this
Retweeted @mr_james_c
Maybe the real Robocalypse was that we didn't automate enough jobs soon enough?
Thread · Why people signed up for the virtual barn-raising · 4 of 8 tweets
Gonna quote anonymously some of the reasons people have shared so far for why they're interested in participating in virtual barn-raisings (it's one of the Qs in the signup form: ajroberts0417.typeform.com/to/xyEW680E) > I like to BUIDL > It seems cool and I'd like to pop in and watch.
> Help out in whatever way I can > Helping out people, building things, making friends, what not to like? > I just like you people. > interested in trying/making something new
> I enjoy software development and making friends by doing things together. I am also very curious about high-quality online interactions and collective intelligence systems and this seems to be a good way of practising this interest. > Gotta support the homies
> I love the idea of modern barn raising, & I’d love to meet others who value community the same way. I’d be happy to contribute where I can :) > Really appreciate the idea of barn raising & would be stoked to participate in the first experiment > Barn-raising is a cool concept
@SchwynBen @Aella_Girl @Nearcyan oooh yeah run a 4-answer version that splits by gender
@CurziRose this quote suggests they're fairly related:
@CurziRose though I'd said only if you include lower-case t trauma, including the kinds that basically everyone gets from school and culture and jobs and just the inevitable confusingness of being a little kid
@CurziRose so I guess I'm sort of negating your original question frame, but in its frame the answer is "no, but there are barely any untraumatized people" and even there, sometimes there are crisis moments that precede large paradigm shifts, in which everything makes less sense
Retweeted @G_S_Bhogal
Crazy thought: What if the people you disagree with are not stupid, evil, or insane, but have simply had thoughts and exper…
these 3 quotes of why people want to participate highlight the power of the barn-raising metaphor #MetaphorsMatter
If you don't have a feel for the power of the barn-raising metaphor, check out this timelapse of a barn being built in a day (via @davidfactorial here: twitter.com/davidfactorial…) youtube.com/watch?v=AsTB0H…
If you don't have a feel for the power of metaphor design in general, check out my writing on metaphor design:
@visakanv oof
I'll be there! Stoked to help get more people into self-directed lifestyles they love, with my barn-raisings and other meta-team projects to be discovered. Note that if you're west of Singapore it's on Saturday Oct 16th.
Retweeted @visakanv
a thing I believe strongly in is the power of using your own words you don’t actually have to use the vocabulary everyone el…
@visakanv re "limitations of power"
Retweeted @xuenay
I mentioned elsewhere that I think the "System 1/System 2" terminology, as popularized by Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and…
Wondered that this thing @visakanv talks about here is equivalent to the meta-move used in MoL therapy (based on Perceptual Control Theory) > how many times in a row can you notice what's in the back of your mind while you're talking, and switch to talking about that?
This was prompted by watching this old clip of William T. Powers: > we were musing one day about how you can be talking to somebody and having the conversation, but at the same time you're thinking something else youtube.com/watch?v=sdnOg8…
> it was purely experiential, or phenomenological. it wasn't therapy at the time, it was just an exploration of a mental phenomenon.
@visakanv yes!
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin I'm re-reading Making Sense of Behavior and it has a part where it's like "look at your hand" that trips me out every time.
@visakanv true, although was the loop ever completed in this way, by someone bringing in a blown-up reproduction of a political comic and displaying it in Congress? that's I guess the weird part
@this_is_silvia oooh yesss I am increasingly seeing a raminnazer.com-like shop in your future
@m_ashcroft @this_is_silvia "Mdash" would be good for this
@this_is_silvia > the thought is brewing that could also be on a tshirt
@this_is_silvia we could make a whole series of tshirts with classy illustrations of quotes by our twitter scene sell 'em before & at @tpotvibecamp ❤️🔥
Huh, just noticed that my explanation here also explains why people think they've debunked the 10%-of-brain myth by fMRIs showing that the whole brain is in use. But activity doesn't mean productivity or creativity—they picked a bad proxy measure.
below, serve up some tweets that would be good fodder for illustrating and putting on a tshirt QTs = QuoteTees 💡🤯
I'd wear this classic:
this one would have to be extremely out there maybe even like a print on a tie-dye shirt ...but somehow substantially weirder still than that.
oh wow. this would be a whole thing❣️
Replying to @NonMurkyConsqnc
@NonMurkyConsqnc didn't see these at the time—they're great
Thread · Any future you aim for has this moment in its past
any future you can aim for from here has this moment in its past
google maps' driving directions always start with "continue on Current Road for x distance" even if you're facing the wrong way and need to u-turn as soon as you can
the kind of life you want to live includes this moment right now
another of my own—I want to see other peoples' tweets tho! I just don't have them as well-indexed
national borders feel very arbitrary & fake to me but I just realized this probably has a lot to do with being an anglophone Canadian. almost all borders except Canada-US border (our only border!) have language differences
Whoa, super cool, @giovannicoppoIa made some Alfred workflows that allow you to set new intentions and control Complice's timer from anywhere in OS X. Check it out here: github.com/giovannicoppol…
@WatsonLadd the existence of Quebec honestly is probably part of it as well—we have more language-difference-border inside the country than we do at its outer reaches
@marcio_lopes Oh true! Yeah, that would be the main other place like this, ofc. And I guess Arabia. And then Africa has a whole different kind of arbitrary nation-state borders that ignored local languages.
@luispedrocoelho Hmmmmmmmm I think you are mostly incorrect although I'm sure that it helped solidify & reify it. Language diffs predate westphalian sovereignity. To the extent the causal arrow does point the other way, I'd guess it's not about "legal" borders so much as limits of empire reach.
@tasshinfogleman I scrolled through a lot of these before discerning that you're being very context-aware in assigning them, and thus deciding that I would accept. (btw, have not forgotten that I promised you in 2018 I'd make a WardleyMap of Upstart & have not done so 😅…hope this goes better)
@luispedrocoelho Ahh yeah totally. The fuzzy linguistic borders still seem like a way less arbitrary thing to base a nation-state border on than uhhh the 49th parallel. That's all I'm saying.
@luispedrocoelho The eastern side I guess is a bit more reasonable, divided by the lakes and by french and by which colonies stayed loyal to the british king at the time of the revolution.
@rerarom damn, yup. thanks for sharing
@KasraKaley @EternalPuppy_ that's not a tweet tho. my concept is tweets on a shirt
I hate homework part of the nature of homework is that it doesn't matter but also part of the nature of it not mattering is that everybody's doing basically the same thing
this is part of why I felt good replying to @tasshinfogleman's tweet here. was nervous it'd be a bit homeworky, but I checked and he seemed to be finding quests for people that are the sort of thing only they can do
@AskYatharth if you cannot, then you're concluding that you have to throw out the universe and get a new one 😆
Retweeted @AskYatharth
what does this mean? it means to believe in this possible future, you have to be able to see this present moment as compa…
What tool would you like to see existing that would involve some sort of booking of some fungible but non-duplicateable resource? (rooms, time, gear,.) Could be something for the twitter scenius, or for your personal life, for your community,. @davidfactorial's gonna build it! t.co/dp9j4wv5Cf
@davidfactorial @Prigoose @__drewface let's brainstorm beforehand so we can hit the ground running here's a starting point:
Retweeted @RomeoStevens76
Do you want to be part of the solution and not part of the problem? Only sleep with people who are truly self sufficien…
*gestures around* this is a pretty fun search query: twitter.com/search?q=gestu…
@adamputterman @visakanv I think it's implied that “you have the attention span of a child” means “you have the attention span of a child [trapped in a classroom being expected to pay attention to something they aren't interested in]” not a child in their natural habitat
Updating one's OKCupid Q answers is actually one of the best ways to find out which opinions of your have changed. Aside from all of the noise, and the other issues. But I suspect there isn't an alternative that's better and widely used. (—me 2015; still no better tool exists)
Thread · Inner conflict in a letter to a child one chooses not to have
I've decided to respond to this, because it seems to express confusions I've myself had, and illuminates something about the nature of inner conflict. (This thread written assuming someone has read the post, though you're welcome to read my framing first) zenrants.substack.com/p/dear-son
I want to start by saying that I have tremendous respect for the author, @AlfieriJamie, for the courage to share such intimate thinking with the world ❤️🔥 Seriously. Revealing oneself in process and in detail helps others find clarity, whether in resonance or in dissonance 💞
Like the author, and like @dthorson who shared this post, I've also struggled with making sense of where having a kid fits in with uhhh the urgent global everything situation. For me it was "I don't want a distraction from xrisk" plus roughly this:😅
And I respect whatever decisions people decide to make on this front. There are no right answers here. Yet... something about the vibe/tone in this piece creates a response in my body of disturbance & disgust. The piece reads... like a dark ritual, sacrificing something vital.
I first wrote in my notes when I read it: > It feels like an act of violence to speak to this son he's choosing to not instantiate > (says some part of my gut) I'd now clarify: "to speak 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺 to this son he's asserting that he won't instantiate".
In the language below, of "ritually sacrificing the child", it feels to my body that the child is... not laid to rest, but still suffering on the altar of this man's indecision and turmoil.
There's a place for heroic sacrifice, but it has a totally different energy. True resolve comes from conflict being *resolved*. This piece of writing looks to me like someone trying desperately to convince himself.
He speaks with a conviction that doesn't match his own self-recognition as a "deluded fool". He's trying to convince himself; in so doing, he's cutting himself off from what else he knows.
If the kid were laid to rest, he'd feel peace and clarity and determination to save the world on service of everyone else's children, or something. He might have even written to such a child instead—a real child, not born of him but the living recipient of his fatherly energy 👑
Maybe not—who am I to say? Sometimes one writes letters that one never sends, in order to let go, and that was clearly the attempt here. But those are usually about the past, when someone has died or a relationship has ended. Not about a decision that could still be re-made.
Some of what I'm saying here is specific to this one author, but I have some sense that this attitude is supported by the "cult" he feels he must join. Partially just priors. Partially because when I was at a BioEmotive retreat at MAPLE in 2019, most residents seemed desperate.
But *particularly* my sense here is because of a specific story about MAPLE's founder that suggests that > the principle at its root is “disregard what you want in favor of what Must Be Done” (source: facebook.com/caroline.f.hub…)
This suggests that for all of its beauty—and there is deep beauty to what MAPLE is doing—there's a basic organizing principle that is going to keep people compartmentalized and make it hard for them to actually maturely & sanely engage with the meaning crisis & xrisks.
I don't know what the answer is, but I'd feel a lot more optimistic about the organization if it found a way to transform & untangle that organizing principle. Perhaps some way that Soryu could go be a mendicant and someone else could step in who more integratedly wants the job.
On the original content level: "if you think conscientious people shouldn't have children, you're saying the world should be inherited by unconscientious people (memetically and/or genetically)" It's an obviously self-defeating strategy under how evolution actually works.
Can raising children be in service to solving xrisk/meaning/enlightenment? I think for some people, it's going to have to be. We can't build a eutopia out of dissociated sacrifice. Others may integratedly discern that in this lifetime they don't want kids, on balance. Legit.
I personally don't think that Alf, who wrote this letter, has achieved that level of integrated clarity, but that doesn't mean I can confidently predict what the resolution ultimately should be. I just don't want him or others to confuse his present declaration with integration.
I wish him & others the best of luck at finding clarity on how to organize their one wild and precious life in the face of enormous pressures in conflicting directions. It's rarely easy but as far as I can tell it's always in some sense possible and nearly always worth it.
If you want to read more of my thinking about common confusions regarding "committing" as a strategy, check out this 🧵👇 Feel free to ask Qs or share experiences that seem to contradict what I'm saying! That's how we deepen collective understanding 👁️👁️
@dthorson @MonasticAcademy Took a lil while but I've now done said separate thread! 🙏
finding myself resisting the urge to abbreviate "I guess" into "ig" idk why—iirc prescriptivism has always been bad imo, so afaict I'm usually on the forefront of these evolutions. imx it feels imbalanced or something, ig ...ikr?
@jonnym1ller I think there are lots of ways to use them that on net make sense, but pretty much only for really tangible things, not for committing to mindsets or stances, and definitely only temporarily
@davidfactorial if @savvycal_ didn't exist we'd have to invent it, but it does, so I'm feeling pretty satisfied on this front (which I wouldn't be from the various other offerings out there)
@AskYatharth it's so expensive to replace tho and the warranty expired a long time ago idk if I even know where I put the receipt
@storebrandguy @cocohergie I'm optimistic about No Bad Parts, just published by Dick Schwartz a couple months ago, mostly just based on the based title but while I have a copy I have not yet found time in my schedule to read it 🙃
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I’m intrigued by @Malcolm_Ocean talking about this “MoL therapy”, comparing it to - visa’s interview style: person respon…
@patcon_ not gonna take any lead on it but I want to support you so lmk how I can help! I was recently in touch with the Canadian coordinator for simpol.org too
@WilliamAEden looollll but nah it's more of a Cascadia thing I'd never lived within a <1day driving distance of friends but with a border in between, prior to moving to BC, so I think it's prompting some realizations
@WilliamAEden although it always struck me as weird that the federal border, with completely different attitudes and priorities to the bay area, gets to decide whether I can visit the bay
@aspiringpeasant @_holyweather Hmm… yeah, broadly looks like Cascadia region is gonna do okay (definitely compared to SE) except for aspects of fires & I guess a bit of coastline sea-level issues. Broadly things look pretty good for Canada except for the part where US citizens have more guns than our mil 😅
@dthorson Hmmm... I don't think it's demonic. And the story about Soryu is just one particularly vivid piece of all the data I've had. The desperation I've seen firsthand among MAPLE residents (and iirc heard on Emerge you speak of in yourself) is a separate source of data that resonates.
@dthorson I would love to read your twenty tweets, and would support you in inviting them forth if I can. As you said, this is nuanced territory and I wouldn't expect you to be able to adequately respond in just a few minutes.
@dthorson I would like to be on the same page with you about these important Qs! Both because I respect your thinking a lot on a person-to-person level and because I care about how MAPLE is going about its navigation, in service of everything we all care about.
Replying to @gas_bitch
@gas_bitch Oooh this happened to me recently! Old, naive 16yo lines: You have somewhere you're going and I have no way of knowing if you're happy or if something's wrong New, wise, 29yo lines: You've got your whole thing going and I have so little way of knowing everything you must hold
@m_ashcroft @RichDecibels Meeeeeeeeeeeeee! Although maybe also not in your group 🤔
@mekarpeles I read an article that talked about this, and wrote a thread about it, which you might appreciate:
@mekarpeles I also have some very abstract thoughts on the subject
Thread · Would there still be taxes in eutopia? · 1 of 10 tweets
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Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
@dthorson I guess I'll add that what I'm saying here is broadly not firm conclusions but provisional impressions. I may have over-represented my confidence; I was attempting to speak in a way that would map to my uncertainty. Some of this does seem obvious from my vantage point though.
@dthorson And yeah, reviewing my tweets: > creates a response in my body > says some part of my gut > looks to me like > Maybe not—who am I to say? > I have some sense that > story [...] that suggests that > I personally don't think that > as far as I can tell ...I feel pretty measured.
@tasshinfogleman that seems well worth doing! and definitely matches this sense of criterion
@tasshinfogleman we'll see if, with this having been drawn to my attention, it ends up feeling like this! and maybe we can playfully orient to how to make it feel more like this
part of why we need double negatives in speech is to represent modus tollens "he said some things that he couldn't have said if he didn't understand how this sort of thing works"
(I guess you could say "could only have said if he did", but it doesn't seem to make the point as clearly, at least in some cases)
four horsemen of roommate-apocalypse
@mekarpeles glad you appreciated it! I didn't understand how society worked well enough, so I kinda had to break it into pieces and put it back together hope it still works when I'm done with it 😅
@thesravaka "customers have problems and I'm the only one who can fix them" is what comes up for me when my work, which is running a business, sucks (usually challenging bugs)
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@taalumot @deepfates I can get behind this
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@selentelechia @meditationstuff @eigenrobot I was taught the alphabet by my older sister before I learned it in school, and I've got great proprioception but it's taken me a bunch to get back interroception
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@leashless @utotranslucence @dthorson @MonasticAcademy valuing you weighing in gotta solicit @meditationstuff's take on this, since it seems sufficiently contrary that I'm regularly questioning if yall even have the same referent for where the path goes
@Mike_Drop415 Ahh, good question. I hadn't really thought about it, but I think I'm sort of pointing at "what would happen if everyone who was conscientious agreed with you?" and while a single parent is a small factor compared to global memeplexes, if *all* conscientious people had no kids...
@Mike_Drop415 (and insofar as what I'm calling conscientiousness comes from memes, which is surely somewhat) then their memes would have to be pretty damn impressively good at attracting folks from different backgrounds, or they'd be gone in a generation.
@Mike_Drop415 of course, there are small-scale versions of this, of which monasticism is the prototypical example! historically, monks would be celibate (this isn't true of MAPLE monks, though people don't have sex *at* the monastery) and get new members via memes (and orphans, in some cases)
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@taalumot I don't fuck around if it's a word it's a word
> Spirituality needs to integrate Darwin and the space telescopes not just QM. 🙌 twitter.com/leashless/stat…
Retweeted @the_wilderless
“Not all truths go together” seems like something we should have inscribed in marble in the town square
@m_ashcroft @DougTataryn @dthorson When I told my dad I wasn't necessarily intending to have children ("because *gestures wildly around*) he was like: > "I had the same thought in the 80s, and I decided "my kids will be part of the solution" ...and damn I feel his vision alive in me 🥲
@davidfactorial > problem with pure capitalism, which has no incentive to do this Yeah. Great use of "pure" though, because by charging for @CompliceGoals, I also avoid getting feedback & feature requests from people who just aren't a good fit with the whole vision of the app. Money helps here!
@Conaw @ejames_c Oooh! Yeah, I picked up Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, last year, and it seems remarkably compatible with the emotional coherence framework. I talk in the Dream Mashups post about how this is the same brainstuff that does trauma responses malcolmocean.com/2021/06/dream-…
@Conaw @ejames_c Sources of Power, by NDM founder Gary Klein, which is not well-named since I've forgotten the name multiple times, is a book talking about Recognition-Primed Decision-Making, his framework for how NDM works link: amzn.to/3zIE8xW
intending to take the rest of the day off twitter may emit a couple tweets via IFTTT but not intending to read or respond to stuff here at least for many hours if not til tomorrow
@Kirsten3531, I don't like your petty drama but I want to say your white-hat/grey-hat work today will almost certainly do more for the long-term capacity of EAs and LWers to have non-naive trust than anybody who immediately deleted the email
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Did it hurt? When your body kept the score
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Galaxy Brain, Thought Leader, Galaxy Brain Thought Leader, Venture Capitalist
@jesterreborn @altluu Nailed it.
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
yesterday @Malcolm_Ocean sent me this helpful thread about revenue and small businesses while we were discussing my Pa…
@tasshinfogleman @prerationalist oh damn I didn't know the meta-team had this animation skill on it! epic ❤️🔥 (prerat I don't wanna frame at you super hard about this so if you don't resonate with me gesturing at you being on the emergent distributed meta-team no worries) (this thing 👇)
@ricvolpe @tasshinfogleman Excellent! Had a great convo with @danluu today in Vancouver as well, about various levels of what's going on at Twitter—might be neat for y'all to connect. (He probably can't reply to this thread tho since it's @tasshinfogleman's peeps only)
Yo @EnsoRings. Fix the quality control of your molds. On the left—a ring from 2018, which unfortunately broke. On the right, *allegedly* same product from now. See the ridges? I contacted support and they sent me another one still with ridges. Fix your molds. No excuses.
@EnsoRings left side: 😊 right side:👿
@EnsoRings Frankly I don't buy it. 1. "clean, finished look"? The ridge has a ton of tiny imperfections that look like stretch marks. Hard to capture them even with my macro lens but they feel like a mistake, whereas the old one was consistent. Can kinda below how new one catches light
@EnsoRings Reason 2 I don't buy it.... is the 3D render on the site still doesn't have those ridges. It shows a nice clean curve with a little bevel/chamfer—the opposite of a ridge.
@EnsoRings Personally I think you'd see sales go down if you added the ridges to the 3D render, which is exactly my point—it's a worse product (even if there *weren't* the extra imperfections along the ridge).
Replying to @dispirateparts
@dispirateparts I'd say maybe try asking the shame what it's afraid of, and seeing what images or memories come up as relevant.
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@dispirateparts dare you to tweet that first paragraph on main
brb imagining what the view of my 6th grade classroom must have been to my teacher, including what I looked like both when I was in "bright pupil" mode and in smart-aleck mode
my dharma is cybernetics textbooks
this reimagined BC flag is epic it incorporates the indigenous art style so well that I've seen so much of since moving here last year (by @LouannNeel1) (complex for a flag, but the original one was already basically too hard to draw with crayons, so🤷♀️) agassizharrisonobserver.com/news/indigenou…
@RigpaR yeah it's sometimes tough almost never as bad as people think/fear and one of the worst parts is people assuming that it's really bad
if books were gods, in the pantheonic sense, which gods have you made the most offerings to? offerings might include 📖 - re-reading - buying friend copies - seeking out despite inconveniences - ensuring that digital copies exist - tweeting screenshots/quotes - writing a summary
thinking about conscious relationships with memes
@utotranslucence I feel like The Guru Papers would also be on your list, given that it showed up in the relational exegesis and you used it as a test-book for marginalia 🥰 It's on mine too—I've bought at least 3 copies, if not 4 or 5.
@sunofdopamine @visakanv 😮👂 I hear an alarm—no wait, five alarms—going off. (I'm only 1 minute into this but it immediately reminded me of this thread and I'm like "welp, this is where I'm collecting the best funk concerts now") youtube.com/watch?v=pDZwGn…
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For many psychology ailments (eg depression) we look for transformations that will bring you from ailment state B back t…
@nickcammarata there's a great book called The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease, which points at how addiction is in some sense fundamentally a *learning* challenge, and that when people truly come out the other side, they know something they didn't on the way in
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hey, alert, there's a guy (@movebetterproj) hanging out in my mentions and he seems to be fixing people's physical issues lef…
@visakanv @movebetterproj @movebetterproj hmu with tips for chronically tense/tight calves (& maybe hamstrings) one clue maybe is that I tend to walk/stand with my feet angled quite wide/open (pronated?) (I also work at a standing desk but my calves have been tense for as long as I can remember)
@SamoBurja So much.
@ricvolpe @briandavidhall I was already on my way here to say this just from having come across the top tweet haha. Let's talk ❤️🔥 The self-energizing meta-team could use a Brian!
@startuployalist mmm! you have an interesting spiritual practice, with these colorful devotions that leave the god unnamed
having a satisfying experience of doing some writing that's challenging me to get clear on wtf I mean by some of the basic words I'm using a lot I've been talking about this "non-naive trust dance" thing, and here I'm like "wtf is trust even? what makes it non-naive? dance?"
@hyponymous oooh, I tried reading Steps to an Ecology of Mind and found it really tough to wrap my head around. the best exposure I've had to G Bateson's work was through Fritjof Capra's Uncommon Wisdom, which has a chapter about GB.
@startuployalist wow, so beautiful to hear the backstory 😍
Replying to @zetalyrae
@zetalyrae I'm not certain if I've read any novels 3 times. Surely when I was a kid, but I don't know which. Maybe Ender's Game. I've hardly read any twice. Just recently re-read David's Sling though, which was cool. Talks about hypermedia and sensemaking organizations in really cool ways.
@Cantide1 Nice. Misattuned and pushy proselytizers give evangelism such a bad rap, but it's true that sometimes you can have a conversation with a stranger that changes your life, and a book can be a beautiful touchpoint and flower that slowly blooms afterwards. (20 rereads! 😮)
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The amount of incredible thinking and progress that is happening every second around the world is staggering. I feel we stil…
Retweeted @selentelechia
I have decided that anyone who isn't mainstream famous is acceptable to talk to like a normal person. From this point o…
I'm trying to find that meme that went around awhile back, that was like "who would you like to play you in a movie | who would actually play you in a movie" and you'd post 2 actors I know I participated but I've tried a dozen keywords and nada.
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@movebetterproj @DaltonDEmery this comes to mind for me, not that it's particularly well-curated
@SarahAMcManus this model probably wants to be in your HowToHuman roam (and I think you'll like the original post too)
@nibrasibn not usually have long been pretty emotionally agile more recently (last year or so) have sometimes encountered a kind of scatteredness if I feel emotionally unheld, which is probably related to attachment stuff
still trying to figure out what time of the evening I need to switch from funk to lofi beats in order to get to sleep at a reasonable hour seems like maybe a couple hour lead time
me: "hey, I published a short post, like 1500 words!" me 4h later: "oh man now it's 2500+ because I added a bunch more paragraphs after the showtime made it go live"
@tasshinfogleman holy shit, yesss
also me "fuck it's 2am and I'm still up I should have joined the *other* timezone of @RichDecibels' microsolidarity cohort, which met 2h ago, not the one that meets in 7h I was like "obviously not european morning for me" but I'm up at midnight more often than 9am these days
huh I think this may have been because I still haven't quite adjusted to living in Pacific Time—I overlap with europeans at midnight now way more easily than when I was in Eastern Time
fortunately I'm pretty good at sleeping 6h, though have somewhat fallen out of my usual biphasic schedule lately
New blog post just dropped... sort of the first actual introduction to the NNTD framework itself, rather than just trying to convey the flavor & perspective of it as I've done on some podcasts and in some other posts. malcolmocean.com/2021/09/non-na…
would love to hear what you make of it! - what stands out as novel or interesting? - what seems sus to you? - what clarifies something for you? - what memories arise for you as you read it?
I'm gonna publish weekly until I run out of steam; if you want to sculpt my writing priorities, ask me about one of the topics listed on [[core principles of the [[NNTD]]]] here: (some topics do have prereqs tho so no guarantees) roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
also @SarahAMcManus helped me with some editing tonight S you're gonna wanna re-read the post—I added 2 new subsections after the showtime 😅 I think you'll like the taxonomy of naivety!
@visakanv I have an intro to "trust dance" now!
& shoutout to @this_is_silvia for the artwork ofc …we're developing an excellent symbiotic relationship image 1 below is what I sent, 2-4 are her iterations based on my feedback still building trust that it's okay to ask for changes I want ❣️ (apparently afraid of being rude)
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I’m glad to hear someone else describe this, me and eigen are very much on the same page on this leadership is real and you…
@visakanv yeah seems right "teach them how to say goodbye" ♫ role models necessary for steering
Thread · Meta-trust as the foundation for a distributed meta-company · 1 of 4 tweets
@davidfactorial this is so relevant to why I think the meta-team is gonna be more awesome than we can easily anticipate... people are hard to work with in various ways and we can get better and we can develop meta-trust in that learning process (cc @tasshinfogleman & @this_is_silvia)
> “Generalized trust” or “meta-trust” is “trust that whatever issues might arise between us, we can talk about things in a way that is workable for both of us and leads to issues getting resolved to our mutual satisfaction in good time.” malcolmocean.com/2021/09/non-na…
Thread · Meta-trust as the foundation for a distributed meta-company · 3 of 4 tweets
@davidfactorial @tasshinfogleman @this_is_silvia I talk about what I mean by "meta-trust" in the post I just published last night: malcolmocean.com/2021/09/non-na…
@davidfactorial @tasshinfogleman @this_is_silvia we can also get more object-level trust that we in fact have the skill to ask for changes in ways that are spacious rather than judgmental, and that we can hear others' requests without taking it personally (to the extent that those are true! which is part of the whole process)
@davidfactorial @tasshinfogleman @this_is_silvia and to the extent that we have a large cluster of feral free agents who have this trust in each other, we can do things that random strangers can't do which forms the basis of the meta-company I've been envisioning, and ultimately a new economy (cc @m_ashcroft & @visakanv)
worthwhile distinction to make, re eg scheduling calls: 🕐📆 clock/calendar availability: there is nothing on my schedule at that time 😀😴 energetic availability: given everything else going on that day, I expect to be in a good headspace for this at that time ht @Morphenius
@_koshjelly I think you could have secure attachment but not have the communication skills or shared worldviews to actually solve a particular problem, but broadly yeah there's a lot of connection here. I think you could also have this trust w someone you don't have an attachment rship with
such a fascinating collection of bots! @NYT_first_said tweets the first time the NYT uses a given word @NYT_said_where says where @NYT_finally reports from n-grams how many times it was used in a book *before* it hit the NYT @itsavailable reports that the domain is available
> Could it be…? Could it possibly be that the left has manipulated huge swathes of Trump voters into believing they are owning the left by not taking the life-saving Trump Vaccine? Wow...
yo @visakanv you're gonna LOVE the Word In Progress song at the start of this show. exactly *how* much you're gonna love it might depend on how many of the references you can get—as a longtime Mraz fan I caught a LOT of song titles youtube.com/watch?v=kpyGv4…
honestly the whole concert is great, and includes a lot of fun improvisation and stage banter Mr A-Z has been a huge inspiration for me as a songwriter Jason Mraz : Malcolm :: Hayley Williams : Visakan ? hmm
@visakanv mmmmm great point
did you know that your Following list on your profile is sorted by add date? you can find out who your first follows were (of the people you're still following, that is) (longest-running follow of mine is from 2012: my friend @psobot; we lived together at @UWVelocity)
@speakerjohnash Yeah the latest album is super reggae; not really my jam either. On my personal value axis, I'd say he peaked in 2010 with Love Is A Four Letter Word, every song of which is a masterpiece. music.youtube.com/playlist?list=…
@Coscorrodrift @visakanv when I was 14, my girlfriend at the time was really into him
Cool event for meta-team folks / barn-raisers, on decentralized leadership: ift.tt/2WoVZwo
oh cool I got a little alert from the WordPress app saying I have a bunch of traffic and it turns out an old post hit HN front page not_bad_obama.jpg
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new vocab word just dropped: meta-trust
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This frame was really helpful to give me confidence to have a go at building my own business. If you’re thinking about ta…
@RichDecibels huh, yeah, "preservation of life" is kind of oxymoronic lol
@RichDecibels I've seen them turn rotten many times too. Still something important there for me. I've been trying to find framings that still capture the ambitious vision of those projects without generating the same bullshit for instance:
@tasshinfogleman @prerationalist oh for sure, yeah! and yeah, ESR's stuff like The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and Homesteading the Noosphere might make good core texts for the meta-team along with workwithsource.com
@QiaochuYuan @taalumot @hormeze yesssss (I've been a full-time standing desk / dancing desk guy for 7.5y 👇)
@this_is_silvia @BenRatkey @eggprophet @parafactual mmmmmm (reminds me of @visakanv's "joke about outcomes that you want" although I'm not even sure this quite qualifies as a joke, or just a currently-nebulous plan)
"what if social media were good though" "the hope is that the serendipity engine becomes the heart ♥🫀 of the economy" — @jgreenhall @visakanv you're gonna love this youtube.com/watch?v=_5Mxqy…
"serendipity engine"
part of how this whole thing will work:
part of how this whole thing is already working:
Replying to @__frye
@__frye tell them you'll stay if you can work part time for better pay
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An experiment: Go outside for a walk one late afternoon, nearing sunset when the commuters start to yawn Pick a directi…
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On a video call RIGHT NOW with @KasraKaley. Kid is 14 and has already suggested we sit in silence for two minutes after we…
@EnzikaOfAsh we'll know AI has made progress re Moravec's law when the caption-generators start telling us that we're giving them silly images to caption
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In local, geo communities, there are lots of ways to support each other when needed: childcare, baking a lasagna so no cook…
time for more listing of underfollowed accounts! my nominations (from looking at the last few dozen people I followed) @briandavidhall @KasraKaley @harshas_ (only 4 followers!) @lilaexpt @EnzikaOfAsh @Knipps @meaningfulideas @altsanabo @empathy2000 @SurenVynn