Replying to @SlowwCo
@SlowwCo me! I'm working on articulating and refining the meta-protocol for human trust-building & collaboration malcolmocean.com/2021/11/meta-p…
March 2022
Replying to @SlowwCo
@mateoyoyo @anielsen108 sure but don't forget the DSM fallacy
@Morphenius Gabe.
My stoa video about my NNTD framework is now live! I think the presentation was a solid "okay", but the Q&A was stellar on all counts (as I would expect from the stoa!) Check it out here 👇 (Q&A starts 27mins in if you already know the gist of NNTD) youtube.com/watch?v=JAxq96…
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 10/100 - live presentation & Q&A featuring a cool live case study about what's going on when people raise a concern to a presenter
@AskYatharth video is now live:
@goldenmindeye it's live now! cc @bilalghalib
@PrinceVogel @metaLulie @Morphenius I think you'd find this model of memetic evolution feedback loops relevant
@mattgoldenberg Aha, yes! You were already on my list as this is very relevant to the puzzles you're looking at at MAPLE. I've shared it with you & @dthorson now!
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
you’re tasshin, loving the whole universe [music video]
@m_ashcroft I thought someone (@visakanv?) made a version of the video embedded on twitter, but some searching is failing me
@RomeoStevens76 @natural_hazard yup! and if you're goodharting on someone else rewarding you, there's still a fundamental separation between the actual good things and your ability to *fake* the good things I've now written this up: malcolmocean.com/2022/02/toward…
thinking about this vis-a-vis "neutrality" insofar as swiss banking is supporting russia's capacity to invade, perhaps (in some sense) to *not* sanction russia would be to "take the side of the oppressor" would it be a stretch to say "staying neutral requires the sanctions"?
Punishment can't steer because awayness can't aim. Towardsness can. (Corollary: rewards aren't quite towardsness) There's a fundamental asymmetry between approach and avoid motivation. malcolmocean.com/2022/02/toward…
boom, published (decided not to bother trying to improve the image for now, but the offer above still holds!)
Retweeted @kinrany
Not reading the article, but the idea seemed both new and immediately intuitive.
@edsaperia that's a good point I was looking at this the other day people have argued that: positive rights produce obligations, which can then negate negative rights
@edsaperia part of why it's easier to get consensus on awayness is that it's much easier to articulate a problem than it is to have a workable solution (*especially* a workable solution that doesn't piss anyone else off)
this blog post tweet has gotten way more RTs than most of my blog posts I think partially because it's a very accessible idea, but I'm realizing it's also probably because the tweet itself contains the insight right there
as one quote-tweeter put it:
sometimes when I don't feel like working I just say "okay, how can I make things as awesome as possible for whatever future-me next feels like working"
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa yeah
Retweeted @DanielleFong
irreversible damage is not an exaggeration whenever we lose species, for example. but losing entire biomes, the greenland…
Replying to @NonMurkyConsqnc
@NonMurkyConsqnc "BUT! if by venus, you mean..."
@Douglas_Main @rjgoodin some context for people who don't know why this is so important: youtube.com/watch?v=fTPt70…
Retweeted @maiab
I know I'm personally not a great fit to work at a company -- an outdoor cat, as they say -- but to be honest I'm surprised ANYO…
@ben_mathes @maiab can increasingly do this coordination as micro-entrepreneurship tho hbr.org/2018/11/the-en…
@discomfrtble exactly! it's structural repulsion and attraction are different on a systems level before one even starts talking about them as emotions or feelings or whatever
@ContraPoints ah, envy at work I like how this essay makes sklavenmoral into an emotion like shame/guilt/fear (although I think we need a catchier word for it) metamoderna.org/another-kind-o…
hmmm chess grandmaster from russia has a take on the situation hmmm
Thread · The absence of long-haired men in panels and media · 1 of 8 tweets
Just made a connection between this thread and this emoji tweet. Long-haired men are underrepresented!
@kinrany Nice. The article does have some corollaries! (I find it hard to keep my posts to one thing—I always have to outline the implications) I removed the part on [[reward is just the temporary relief of punishment]], but there's a draft here: intertwingled.blog/#/app/malcolmo…
you can know you no longer have a blindspot that you used to have, but you can't know that you don't have any blindspots.
@tr_babb "positive" & "negative" get really confusing but moving towards something *is* kind of dampening. it's a closing of a gap between what is and what'd be better and then positive feedback loops are a different beast altogether
> Half of completed to-do items were done within a day of writing them down. wired.com/story/to-do-ap…
Retweeted @AdeleDeweyLopez
@Malcolm_Ocean @meditationstuff i think this is a better version of the point i was reaching toward here! https://t.co…
2nd video of me & @ungatedcreative talking about Complice's marketing and how to approach it in a way that makes people feel good, this time with some counterpoint from @daemonhugger youtube.com/watch?v=pXVG0u…
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 11/100 - conversation with screenshare me & Rob & Daemonic rework elements of the complice.co landing page & marketing strategy
MFAADD "might fuck around and—driven development"
@edsaperia @Morphenius although...
@QiaochuYuan yeah, if not, then I'd say: see if you can find a way to respect the lack of (self-)trust. that can sometimes open things up examples here: malcolmocean.com/2021/08/intern…
Retweeted @RichDecibels
@Malcolm_Ocean just because someone invented the concept of neutrality doesn't make it meaningful
@RichDecibels based
@augustiner_h yeah legit, that makes sense and matches my sense of things I put out what I did as my best attempt at making it fit, but it's clearly surprising to everyone and therefore clearly a break from the past simply on those grounds
@sashintweets @_StevenFan full cross-compatible with twitter would actually involve importing people's replies on twitter as well, so it would actually function in part as a twitter *client*, not just a separate platform I seriously think this might be the right way to transition
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
today i remind myself that the Internet culture I inhabit — every tweet, every opinion, every strongly held belief — is hel…
new utopia just dropped metarationality.com/meta-rational-…
@AdeleDeweyLopez @meditationstuff yes! this sounds spot on punishment can make an okay deterrent for very broad clear things, in some situations... but aside from that it's kind of a mess sucking/blowing a fluid does seem like the same thing, yeah!
Retweeted @RomeoStevens76
This is what you look like when you're convinced you've discovered the correct level of abstraction to defect on. https…
@SeanMombo idk if I'm a good role model on js matters, but I do this all the time
I try to log into my phone account site username is my phone number in order to log in, they need to text me a 2FA code and ask me to confirm my phone number which I have literally already just entered as my username smfh 🤦♀️
@sashintweets @_StevenFan yeah exactly
Replying to @ElodesM
@ElodesM find a way to publish it could transform someone's life to be seen in this way
Retweeted @JeffLadish
One thing that scares me about AGI is that I expect "apparent alignment" to be much much easier than "actual alignment". Pe…
Retweeted @RogueChieftan
I’m still stuck on this idea: investing in more sleep for climate justice. If everyone in the United States was encourag…
@this_is_silvia first there is a tree then there is no tree then there is a tree
very cool article explaining why land value tax can't be passed onto consumers but instead it directly makes rentseeking less profitable with great simple diagrams ift.tt/NyZK5aA
Retweeted @DarbraDawn
Not only do I not know what nondualism is, I don’t even know what duality we’re talking about
@MJPiercello Whether a solution is in fact a clear win-win seems challenging to get everyone on the same page about, but otherwise yeah. Though maybe we've just been bad at developing real omniwins. pol.is has some relevant tech for that
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
imagine if the future people in WALL-E had spent so many generations looking at screens that they lost the ability to tune…
Am apparently now the type of guy who a) goes to the hotel gym on an unexpected layover and b) laments that it has no barbell. I'll figure something out though 💪🤸♀️
Retweeted @mattgoldenberg
I think I may have cracked the code to extremely quick and yet incredibly stable identity change.
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
if i see a girl and think “i hope someone fucks you so good it opens up your shoulders and releases all that tension in yo…
Going out for dinner in Austin (w @utotranslucence @LordChisholm @SarahAMcManus) any mutuals wanna join us?
Retweeted @chercher_ai
most of my students want humans to go extinct because they've confused colonialism with humanity
@chercher_ai Might get some good stuff from sharing Robert Gilman's Foundation Stones series talking about the transition from Empire Era to Planetary Era
Retweeted @zetalyrae
The fact we can't name new ideologies without prefixing their names with “neo” or “post” suggests the age of ideologies has…
@aidan_perreault maybe this only happens once or twice and then one stops checking or at least stops expecting nice to have the option to walk or run indoors in -8°C calgary, but the rest of the gear was pretty meh well no, pullup bar okay & the dumbbells were adequate for overhead press
@shahidnowshad Yup! Now in Austin :D
@deevbrain oof. many such cases
@QiaochuYuan yeah I fukn hate this air canada turboprop plane yesterday had no screens and it was a relief
eyeroll to disbelieve 🙄
Retweeted @Meaningness
🆕 What would it be like to work in a meta-rational organization, in which everyone thought and acted meta-rationally? You…
@visakanv Do 100 tedious tasks
she's got a ticket to vibe
Retweeted @AtVibecamp
"I will be in love, I will be right here in love, So when you are also in love, I will be in love with you."
Retweeted @wholebodyprayer
“Pay attention to how ppl make you feel” vs “pay attention to the ways in which you react to people by tuning in to th…
@this_is_silvia @AtVibecamp Yeah! We did a choral arrangement—will post a recording soon!
@bungoman Yo
@m_ashcroft Thread everywhere
When my hair is tangled, there are no knots *added* to my hair. The knots are the hair, tangled up. When people are tangled, there is no bad in addition to the good. The bad is the good, tangled up.
Retweeted @relic_radiation
repost-as-beacon ☀️ if you saw me looking like this at vibecamp and didn’t know who I was, hello! this is my cozy cor…
Retweeted @wholebodyprayer
They made us ask PERMISSION to go the TOILET and this is the kind of thing that has shaped our minds
Replying to @this_is_silvia
@ollyrobot Capillary size maybe, since it's similar among all sizes of mammals from mice to whales, given how the constraints of surface area and space-filling work
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
@nickcammarata Mhm! When lines from a song pop into my head, I tend to try it on as a message from my right hemisphere…
Retweeted @HipCityReg
Needed: Creative Director of the United States Needed: An Apple Pivot Needed: Mars Needed: Nuclear Attached: A Prayer F…
"so it's Back to the Land 2: Electric Boogaloo—and the electric part is important!" 💡 — @JimmyRis (talking with me, @SarahAMcManus, @LordChisholm)
Retweeted @JimmyRis
I am pretty amazing.
Retweeted @bleachedthroat
existence is fundamentally playful. it's less like a journey, and more like a piece of music or a dance.
Replying to @AdamPOlsen
@AdamPOlsen @marialavis @bcndp I'd like to see more people talking about Land Value Tax as a way to realign the incentives around land to encourage development and make rentseeking & speculation no longer profitable. Good summary of the idea: astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-re…
singing at vibecamp was so good
@tallsnail skinned my thumb on something at the very start and had someone's knee bump my calf muscle while dancing
@Jeanvaljean689 I once was running full tilt across a street, leaned too far forward, and couldn't right myself... So I gave in, tucked & rolled right back to vertical, kept on running and felt like a complete badass.
Retweeted @acesounderglass
Every time people say "it's bad to automate X because people will lose their jobs", I ask if X is intrinsically fun to…
@sashintweets There were campfire vibes of random songs But my joy came from: - a bunch of improv jamming, including freestyle rapping and lyrical improv - a choir rehearsal where we learned harmonies for songs @utotranslucence & I had written 😍🥰
@ElodesNL @QiaochuYuan you're a lovely grandson elodes
Retweeted @andy_matuschak
Augmenting Human Intellect is prescient in so many ways that it's helpful as an exercise to examine predictions which s…
free 100 styles
@EnzikaOfAsh @maybegray @gptbrooke @LordChisholm @SarahAMcManus ❤️❤️ Yeah the 3 of us have been talking about hosting various sorts of things in BC (in our case we'd default to on the island probably) Had been thinking on a smaller sort of scale, but this would also be cool! (And/or we'd come to yours!)
@maybegray @EnzikaOfAsh @gptbrooke @LordChisholm @SarahAMcManus
I will be in bed I will be right here in bed So when you are also in bed I will be in bed with you 🛌
@KasraKaley @ricvolpe multiQT could be used for CYOA stories
@reconfigurthing @KasraKaley I saw an interesting talk at TEDxUWaterloo about someone's journey with his stutter (I was in the audience and talked with the guy after, he's cool) youtu.be/CQrZgsPsiRA
realizing I need to become world-class at knowing what I want
@PstafarianPrice Yes.
Retweeted @AskYatharth
sometimes relationship partners add capacity to your life, sometimes they take away
@the_wilderless Depends on a bunch of factors. Sometimes it's possible to point out some major factor everyone else is ignoring that's obvious once you see it but is in the field's blindspot. Without that or equiv tho, kinda sus.
me: "counterfactuals are hard, man" @Morphenius: "as opposed to what?"
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth @DRMacIver @chrisgardenuk @ChanaMessinger @jackinlondon @AskYatharth @mattgoldenberg @Meaningness But he's already actually metarats, just as Deutsch has critrats
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ @SarahAMcManus @MasterTimBlais I feel like there should be an account with this as its avi
Retweeted @michael_nielsen
My basic model of Twitter is that you get more of whatever you reward - what you "like" and reply to. So I try to onl…
Retweeted @jessicamalonso
There’s a sort of thinking that goes “people are not doing enough X, so we need to teach them to X” which doesn’t stop…
installed twitter on my phone while in Austin so I could have notifs for DMs, but time to uninstall it again way saner to not have the feed here
Retweeted @dreamshrineorg
Has anyone ever come across a board game designed to continue forever? (until the players decide to take a break) If no…
@dreamshrineorg @makoConstruct I mean I kinda feel like D&D is this cc @deevbrain
Retweeted @utotranslucence
Integrity, as in the ability to withstand the pressure to be what you’re not
Retweeted @utotranslucence
Eros is a force I am perhaps irrationally loyal to. To even transmute into words its power, its quality, its tragedy…
Thread · A song about love as a place you enter together · 1 of 4 tweets
> "If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love." — Ram Dass I wrote a song inspired by ^, & @tpotvibecamp sang it 🎶 soundcloud.com/malcolmocean/i…
@AtVibecamp here's a recording we made! soundcloud.com/malcolmocean/i…
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
every time i’ve ever said “trauma” on twitter i should’ve said “heartbreak”
Retweeted @relic_radiation
aiight I'm doing it! excited to spread my domain knowledge of the diff bw swedish & esalen & neuromuscular & craniosac…
@QiaochuYuan we had jedi duels the teachers brought me and another chief instigator in to tell us it was bad and we should stop and we successfully convinced them the fighting was 100% safe since (unlike sticks) the lightsabers are invisible so there was no chance of any harm
@QiaochuYuan they managed to shut down buttslappers though, the guys-against-girls freeze-tag game where the only valid tag region was the butt that was probably the most brilliant idea+execution I'd had up til that point of my life
@metaLulie lighting is unusual and it's very much not full-body but here's one that's dangerously sexy
Thread · A song about love as a place you enter together · 1 of 4 tweets
@tpotvibecamp Lyrics can be found at the soundcloud link! If you're interested in the sheet music for the harmonies, it can be found in this gdrive folder (all parts (shown below) & individual parts) drive.google.com/drive/folders/…
@sashintweets however i want
@MattiasInSpace I went for brunch on monday with a Milan and a Milan, pronounced differently 😑
amazing thread of angry appreciation
Retweeted @interintellect_
New podcast episode just dropped! ✨ On Individual Agency and Creating Responsible Humans ✨ With @made_in_cosmos and…
@anthilemoon you might appreciate this playful-yet-sincere take on one of the most famous neuromyths:
@goblinodds @caesararum yup, twas me!
@utotranslucence @eurydicelives @AshtearLucca @evelynharlow_ @SeanMombo @SarahAMcManus @MasterTimBlais the quality isn't great but I threw on an audio recording of our jam session and I'd be up for pulling out the songs and share them if everyone's down with that! I relistened to it on the plane ride home and it was a lot of fun 🙃
feeling profoundly humbled maybe time to pray
so annoying that everything is true
Retweeted @natural_hazard
"this is a safe space for X" bruh, you can't just DECLARE a space to be safe. *maybe* it's safe for X, *maybe* it's no…
@mattgoldenberg @sashintweets @_StevenFan I think they've been shifting this a bit, although properly shifting it (clearly correct imo) requires moving away from ad revenue as a main source theverge.com/2020/8/12/2136…
my mom's a freaking genius 🍠
@MowgliPark I did! Well, the bubbles were a surprise to me but I had the delight of popping one as I sang the word "gone". Here's the song we sang:
@rjgoodin @yashkaf yeah! that's my experience I think of my network as the people who are curious, engaging, earnest other people may show up to events like vibecamp but they're not my people
Retweeted @_StevenFan
Could we just slow everything down for a second
@AshtearLucca improv singing at vibecamp
@natural_hazard yeah! and even if a group feels safe in some way together, that doesn't mean a newcomer should feel safe in the same way, for several reasons! both because they can't tell and because they may in fact not be (due to eg self-fulfilling projection)
@EcstaticFemme @EndeavoringIvy @Nearcyan @Aella_Girl @augurydefier @tpotvibecamp @gptbrooke @JeffLadish @dismaien
@klumsynumen many descriptions I've liked... here's one from earlier today:
Retweeted @nicktorba
twitter feels the most like a game when i get on a hot streak of finding cool connections between different tweets, threads,…
@klumsynumen also this twitter.com/NonMurkyConsqn…
@klumsynumen also this:
@klumsynumen which has a link to this, which has 43 replies:
I wasn't born to be torn but I found that I'm gonna be
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ people have hardware to handle this afaict, though sometimes we don't use it and sometimes even when the hardware is engaged it's running a bunch of neurotic defenses it's possible to learn a different way to organize things (even in situations that aren't totally safe)
Retweeted @christineist
thankful to those who are unabashedly weird on this app because it gives the rest permission to be themselves
@QiaochuYuan @mathfax @hekatonsure whereever you'll be, I'll be there with you (fuck its probably love again)
@dreamshrineorg yesss infinite game vibes
Retweeted @NightValeRadio
Let's just be friends. Let's merely intertwine our lives, serving as support and fellow celebrant through the ups and d…
turns out this is a thing! this video has like a dozen weird toppings you can put on it: instagram.com/tv/CZ8sz-4hjW4…
@wendell_britt idk when I'll be roleplaying but sure
Retweeted @jburnmurdoch
NEW: for the first time in the pandemic, a Covid infection now carries less mortality risk than a flu infection in Englan…
Retweeted @vgr
Hypothesis: real transaction costs are skyrocketing in illegible ways and will stay high for decades, and we’re headed to opposite…
Resonates a bit with the model in Behavior: The Control of Perception, that focuses on a neural equivalent of circuits rather than on individual neurons ift.tt/wCB9DsM
Retweeted @ben_r_hoffman
@m_ashcroft @relic_radiation Another way of saying this: when we rush, our image of ourselves completes the action faste…
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ Yup yup, exactly. This is the thing I'm aiming to increase, refine, & scale.
@klumsynumen Hm idk! A lot of using Twitter feels very associative, loose, gestalt to me.
@sashintweets @mattgoldenberg @_StevenFan I've thought about it. Had one idea for monetizing the API itself (platform like app store) but that might be messy. Ultimately letting users pay seems like a big win and fairly straightforward. @packyM has ideas here: notboring.co/p/if-i-ruled-t…
@QiaochuYuan Bahaha I haven't.
@thetracebrady still figuring it out involves a lot of surrender
if you've been thinking of tracking something (books read, beers tasted, anything) don't let not having started already keep you from starting now
Retweeted @gilmgilmgilm
If Nelly tells you "it's getting hot in here", it's not your job as a journalist to take off all your clothes, it's your…
Retweeted @CountJ0ecool
there are some experiences in this universe that are for you alone cherish them learn to identify them they will speak to…
@nickcammarata @sashachapin Foot to face, maybe.
@s0ulDirect0r Yesss
@pmarca thought you meant Bo Burnham who is also definitely relevant in these times youtube.com/watch?v=k1Bnee…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
How it started; how it's going featuring @gptbrooke (one example I'm using for why MultiQTs need to exist and what th…
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
ironically i'm now gonna quote someone else: keith johnstone said a similar thing in impro about artists censoring their c…
@Plinz @Evolving_Ego @lexfridman it is becoming harder and harder to make sense of what one knows
Retweeted @moonboi_
@TurboRational can't not be
@jonathandubin @gptbrooke might be worth trying! I did an internship at twitter in 2013 but I'm not really connected to anybody there now
Retweeted @CarstenStolz
@Malcolm_Ocean on aligning actions and intentions: "Its largely about recognizing the ways in which what we're doing actu…
Retweeted @utotranslucence
There is nothing more breathtaking than watching those I love face their own dilemmas with as much integrity as they c…
are there any known covid cases from vibecamp? kinda feels to me like if we pulled off vibecamp with no covid, the pandemic is just clearly over in some meaningful sense
@Aella_Girl Lots of parts but let's go with calves
Replying to @NLRG_
@NLRG_ @parafactual except the ones coming in internationally, who all had to get a negative covid test to cross the border
@TylerAlterman Kamal Ravikant had a book "love yourself like your life depends on it" in which he talked about just saying "I love you" to himself in the mirror for hours, when he could barely do anything else he rewrote it and it lost the juice tho so you'd have to track down the original
Replying to @rkroeger13
@rkroeger13 huh, how would you describe "scarcity work ethic"
Replying to @BenRatkaj
@BenRatkey ok
the town I live in probably has the tiniest dogs per capita
@hubermanlab @CapitalDailyVic @uvic huh someone told me about this but I had the impression it was this evening and when I tried to find more details just now... looks like it's already happened! curious if the talk was recorded anywhere, tho I was mostly hoping to meet likeminded folks there
reminds me of the paradox of relevance: in order to have a theory of anything you need to first have screened off what is irrelevant, but if you try to do that with relevance, you've already made a bunch of assumptions to the very Q you're trying to answer astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-are-we-…
relevant paper on relevance realization and this paradox: contrastiveconvergence.net/~timothylillic…
@BlackForestBoi Paul Fieguth who taught Earth Systems & Society, the only Systems Design Engineering course that actually seriously engaged with anything related to systems thinking or complexity (okay fine we had control systems classes, but didn't see the implications of cybernetics)
Retweeted @FourFourths
Been thinking about this.
@SarahAMcManus @gptbrooke Sarah she said "wrong answers only", come on
@christineist I adopted "gal" as "♀️guy" years ago and nobody has stopped me
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@christineist I adopted "gal" as "♀️guy" years ago and nobody has stopped me
@diviacaroline Yeah, and this is already compromised by having timezones in the first place, the east and west edges of which have substantial distortion from solar noon.
What's a thread of mine you'd like to see polished into a blog post? Gotta schedule a showtime tonight! (for a partial index of my threads, see here)
@TurboRational @TylerAlterman yeah I noticed the cover art got a lot less epic too
Replying to @BenRatkaj
@BenRatkey "distinct" has a few different elements: - the interface with the musician - how it makes sounds - the sounds it makes let's do one of each!
@Sciencezannah I literally tweeted this so that someone would remind me of the term "Escher sentence" 😂 I'd seen it awhile back and tried to come up with one of my own but I failed until I generated this lovely one today
@BenRatkey interface with the musician: umm... sometimes while sitting in a conversation I like tensing my muscles in my butt & legs to rhythms... could get a simple device (maybe even simpler than EMG!) to convert that into a percussion controller ideally could go on top of pants
@BenRatkey how it makes sounds: this one has honestly been explored quite exhaustively, and everything is a remix I think someone could make a single device that would let people ape @AndrewHuang & sample enviro sounds and instantly turn them into a tone for a midi keyboard (or butt-EMG!)
Replying to @rkroeger13
@rkroeger13 mmm, like, working because you want the results of the work you're doing, not because of a nebulous feeling that it would be bad if you didn't (for social or internal reasons) reminds me of my latest blog post: malcolmocean.com/2022/02/toward…
@myceliummage @tpotvibecamp yeah! I've been working on that song for about 2y just finalized the harmonies the friday of vibecamp and rushed to kinkos to print the sheet music before heading to the camp I keep forgetting to mention that my songs are mine 😅 I mostly don't do covers so I forget to clarify!
@BenRatkey @andrewhuang the sounds it makes: hard to separate this from the how, on reflection. but umm let's see. instruments have natural physical harmonics (below is a guitar) — what about an instrument/tone with unnatural harmonics? it would probably sound bad, but could be interesting!
@BenRatkey @MasterTimBlais this seems like something you'd find interesting maybe!
Retweeted @relic_radiation
Wow. In many cultures, expressing gratitude is an insult. Here’s 1 example. And, “repaying all debts” is too - it’s a…
Retweeted @sonyasupposedly
I'm about to stream some singing practice (link incoming shortly) and I will start with the Vibecamp song you are hig…
Thread · Aerial photos from SFO to Vancouver Island
Canadian flies over the Bay on a clear day (taken a week ago; had an SFO layover on the way back to Vancouver Island from vibecamp)
the view of the peninsula from over oakland
lake merritt
sunset over columbia river (OR/WA)
olympia archipelago
victoria (home!) just under the wing foreground is washington & san juan islands (usa)
tsawwassen ferry terminal & container shipping jetties stick out ↖️ from BC mainland point roberts (left) is isolated piece of USA and has no lights
the highways south of vancouver have a mix of warm white & cool white lights, and in general the lights make the highways look fuzzy
@sonyasupposedly Mmmm ♥️ I went and freestyled some harmonies here, which is the first time I've explored harmonies with the verses! (mostly tried hitting the prewritten harmonies on the choruses, with mixed success, in part due to it being a different key) drive.google.com/file/d/1iW6wgU…
@MasterTimBlais @BenRatkey ah interesting! yeah I guess our sense of "note" is sort of intuited from our sense of the harmonics we're used to yeah the butt squeezing thing was probably what made me think of you:
@myceliummage @tpotvibecamp mostly no—a lot of it is unreleased at this point plus some very old stuff on youtube and this 2012 album on bandcamp: maleidoscope.bandcamp.com/album/the-mind…
@myceliummage @tpotvibecamp here's a demo of another song I've been working on for the last few years:
@QiaochuYuan @slimedaughter I came across my notes on this, which fortunately saved the now-deleted thread on this unroll site and one thing I noted was that no matter the material scene there's still value in untangling schemas that basically say "I am as powerless as a child" twunroll.com/article/115928…
@lilaexpt psychedelic pop? curious what that is makes me think of Something For Your M.I.N.D escapetheinter.net
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Face plant 🌱 until you face flourish 🌺
Thread · Why overcorrecting beats chronic undercorrection · 1 of 5 tweets
reflecting on this a little more, the point is that insofar as you make an error, your future moves may need to cancel out the error in addition to adding whatever original progress would have been needed so you need to make errors in multiple directions, in some sense
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I keep thinking I’ll retire this eventually but every day people remind me how important, radical and underrated this is http…
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The International Bateson Institute and Bateson Idea Group will be hosting a whole year of free sessions on Bateson's semi…
@captain_mrs Wandavision did it okay just because it was so weird
unrequited beef
"that's what I do. I contribute to non-shitshows" - me just now
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I've been not working for 18 months and "work" just seems totally insane to me now. I-n-s-a-n-e. (I want to do stuff: creat…
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the road to hell is paved in a highly non convex high dimensional surface with many saddle points and few local minima
@RomeoStevens76 @acesounderglass Romeo do I recall you saying that you couldn't put as much potassium in mealsquares as you wanted because you couldn't figure out a way to keep the flavor balanced?
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@micsolana Law school trains you to be sensitive to 2nd and 3rd order effects by connecting things that seem vastly di…
had a dream we were playing a giant game of some mashup of Factorio and Team Fortress 2
Replying to @BenRatkaj
@BenRatkey 😚👌
@Austen yup "by Tyler Durden power, the leader's blindspots become the group's blindspots" thread:
Thread · How a leader's blindspots become the group's blindspots · 1 of 8 tweets
for me heartbreak and nostalgia have a similar flavor there's a quality of tenderness & preciousness & "we were so naive"
Getting everyone to pretend to be lions is its own we-roared.
thinking about how a common agreement of authentic relating containers is something like "own your own experience" and imagining phrasing it as "self-own" or something
The old understandings are loosening and the new understandings are on the loose.
@reconfigurthing Einstein famously struggled with some of the implications of quantum mechanics ("God does not play dice" etc)
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7 dangerous lessons taught in schools:
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Are you being oppressed because you're telling a harsh truth nobody wants to hear or because you're telling a decontextual…
what is the (L+ratio) thing?
my hobby: replacing "break your heart" with "wake your heart" in song lyrics
The goal in [highly skilled, non-naive good faith comms] is not agreement—that would be naive—the goal is simply to preserve the possibility of communication itself. ift.tt/bFM6JOd
TIL there are no skunks on Vancouver Island ...that smell must have been something else then, something that's plentiful in BC...
@this_is_silvia not commissioned but I grabbed it from your palette experiment iirc
@this_is_silvia yesssssssssss
first they ignore you then they laugh at you then they make out with you then you win
vibe versa
so appreciative of Twitter's aggressive login-walls on mobile they're trying to get me to engage more, but instead it helps me disengage!
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1. once upon a time i was at an authentic relating event where some of the women became upset at a man there - let's call…
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2. brent, the guy who ran the mini-cult i was in inside the rationalists, got kicked out of the rationality community, but…
Thread · Why trust doesn't converge and honoring your own distrust
I'll once again remind people that you can't trust who/what you can't trust I'll also note that it's generally stressful for people to realize that they have differences in their sense of trust—people want it to converge and there's really no reason to expect it to
in fact, there's reason to expect people's trust *not* to converge in practice: people are different around different people, and some people have psych defenses or vulnerabilities that others don't have
you may have some sense of a group of people as trustworthy, and that might be broadly accurate (for a typical member or for most situations) but that doesn't remotely mean you shouldn't listen to yourself if a voice in you says "uhh... this feels off"
self-trust is built by honoring one's distrust just because something feels off to you doesn't mean it's inherently bad it might be a false-positive reminder of some other bad situation that you in particular had (someone smells or looks like an abusive ex, idk)
you don't need to pass judgment in some sort of objective way in order to honor your own distrust and say "there's something that feels off to me about this" (ideally you also act on it, eg take space, and it can also be good to talk with people about it)
now, sometimes things add up and people do need to collectively decide to enforce some sort of boundary but you can't rely on group membership to keep you safe; you need to listen to yourself and inevitably you'll make mistakes and get hurt; this is how we become non-naive
here's a beautiful case study of how something being off for one person doesn't mean it's inherently bad
@AK_Hevonen @TwitterSupport @Twitter ahh, I just don't notice because I stay logged in on desktop
have you considered that you can combine: - run a custom command with a hotkey - IFTTT, zapier, etc ...so that you can set up hotkeys to control various other devices etc? I now have a hotkey for turning my hue lights off, for instance!
@EverInAscent bandlab.com basically has this, maybe without the voting system
@palmerish @Morphenius @RichDecibels
@RichDecibels I never really used it parasocially, more just like, tweet into the void or participate in the hashtag of an event I'm at then in 2017 I decided I was gonna talk to people (having been tweeting & reading but not replying much to the people I admired) see twitter.com/search?q=from:…
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tell me about your path from parasocial to social (from twitter as interactive TV to network of genuine friendships)
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I think I finally managed to use @Malcolm_Ocean's Non Naive Trust Dance framework to dig into a problem and it was very e…
@jackinlondon cool! curious if there are any moments or insights you want to share, or even just like, how you'd articulate what it was that you did that made a difference :)
@Morphenius @the_wilderless @Meaningness yeah I'm still working on making PCT canon but I'm doing pretty well so far💪 you can be ahead of the curve further re cybernetics, I might add, personally, Donella Meadows' Thinking In Systems. I turned one of the essays in there into a thread:
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Podcasts are linear in their current form. I’d like to see circular podcasts: record two people speaking (linear); releas…
me: "everything is a remix!" @SarahAMcManus: "...I'm not."
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Transclusion as a service: create a public link to/auto-updated view on/ anything (note snippets, emails, tasks, files)
this had me literally rolling on the floor laughing when Sarah said it and now I'm sad that more people aren't finding it as hilarious as I did
if you're missing the context, watch this short brilliant clip from Monty Python: youtube.com/watch?v=KHbzSi…
it's neat to click "snooze for one month" and see the date that will be and have a sense of what my life looks like one month out and see the rolling window that a month is it's like watching time pass in advance
@ElodesNL @DarbraDawn @evilJBP @interpretantion idk if you mean a specific post but here's my NNTD intro: malcolmocean.com/2021/09/non-na…
@ElodesNL @DarbraDawn @evilJBP @interpretantion more generally I broadly think that a lot of what is referred to as shit-testing is a sort of trust-test, and something that everybody is doing a lot of (usually not consciously) although there are multiple ways to respond workably to them, not just blowing them off
@AskYatharth I experimented last summer with recording integration videos, sometimes after coaching/therapy, other times just spontaneously when something was alive for me (also in one case recorded clips *of* therapy) then rewatch a day or two later like index cards but higher bandwidth
top-notch epistemic status (in the context of him saying Dzogchen is notoriously easy to misunderstand and notoriously easy to get away with misunderstanding)
@OshanJarow read Behavior: The Control of Perception by Bill Powers PCT is isomorphic to PP, and that book lays out a model of neural~circuits that allows building a perceptual hierarchy the fundamental unit isn't "symbol" per se; I call it "ontum"
Thread · Ontum: a single unit of ontology in perceptual control theory · 1 of 9 tweets
Wanting to add a small correction: one's ontology includes not just every individual ontum, but also any combination of other onta. (the power set, not the set, although arguably in some sense we're talking linear combinations not just "x & y")
re-reading The Possible Relationship, one of the other inspirations for my I Will Be In Love song (it's about a whole way of thinking about relationships; the section on "the space of love" is just one element) context.org/iclib/ic10/uvf…
Thread · A song about love as a place you enter together · 2 of 4 tweets
worth also giving credit to the UV Family for this article which also talks about the same perspective on love as a space that one can enter and "be in love" together
for what it's worth, the verses are all based on experiences and relationships from my own life, not really from those original sources. I kind of meant to draw on them more but it turned out that what I had to write about was more my own
I have a playlist "TenderTrance", which currently has just two songs. I don't like most trance, but every now and then a track just holds me and makes me want to cry. I'd love to know what else you'd add to it! track 1 = Ben Böhmer - Beyond Beliefs youtube.com/watch?v=aVTalm…
I'd known about this deadmau5 track for almost a decade, but it was the BB one above that prompted me to make the playlist, because it reminded me of pets1&2 and made me realize there's an underlying pattern here. track 2 = Pets 1&2 by deadmau5 youtube.com/watch?v=v61qet…
I would be so fucked without my friends. Thank you 🥹🥲
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Interesting! What's the game theory behind this? What's a move called that puts you at a disadvantage in one game (bodily…
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I did a Twitter AMA with my dad about community, communes and cults. He helped found a community of 20+ people that have b…
etymology
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now you can search for really important things in your DMs
just spent the last hour typing a timeline of a certain facet of my life over the span of a few years, from memory... at 50wpm (3000 words in 1h) I suspect this is possible in part because I have time-space synesthesia so I can just look at each month and know what happened
the music is groovy and her face is so good she's so clearly in a flow state, experiencing a ton of pleasure in every moment/note I've made similar faces sometimes playing music, like I totally know the feel (tho I'm sure it's way deeper for her!) youtube.com/watch?v=lpc1lE…
@russlramos bahaha yeah I watched this this morning. such fucking shenanigans
Thread · The marshmallow test as a case study in Moloch and self-trust · 5 of 6 tweets
the marshmallow test is the simplest case study on Moloch—can you not defect against different selves across time? (in the context of "if I don't do it, someone else will, and if they do and I don't, I lose" which is the molochian trap) (—paraphrasing @jgreenhall)
<insert necessary caveat re marshmallow test being complex in terms of what it's actually measuring, especially if applied statistically> hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/113360634…
but if we screen off The Desire To Pass Tests and look at situations that involve intrinsic structures of delayed gratification or something we might find that the marshmallow test measures something more like "self-trust" than like "will"
although ofc maybe the actual strategies kids use to succeed at it aren't self-trust-based even though I think that practicing such things would probably cause increased self-trust, at least narrowly, even if the strategy used is distraction
unless you end up generating opponent processes which mess you up later the advantage of the marshmallow test is that the reward and the cost are in the same units: marshmallow so the only tradeoff is time/selves, not some messier thing that can get out of balance
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riff unto others as you would have them riff unto you
what movies are good for people who like books because of their first-person behind-the-eyes nature? idk if literally movies with voiceover thoughts, but yeah, what comes to mind?
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People always ask me "where do I start?!" when it comes to shadow integration. And the answer is: with whatever is in…
there's a gaping whole in my heart
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@metaphorician @nickcammarata New EA cause area: putting placebo in the drinking water
Thread · The marshmallow test as a case study in Moloch and self-trust · 1 of 6 tweets
right yeah sorry it's not just The Desire To Pass Tests—the marshmallow test also measures trust in adults/etc, to some degree but yeah, low external trust scenarios make internal trust harder, perhaps!
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At @tpotvibecamp, I taught a choir a song I wrote! The song is called Set It Down and it’s a semi-secular gospel song…
@teleoflexuous yeah I am not making any claim about anything that correlates (spuriously or deeply) with someone "passing" the marshmallow test just noting that the basic structure of a situation like that has a molochian quality
somebody tweeted recently something like "eventually you realize that there's nobody else that has all the same memories of all the same songs & places as you, but you realize that you do" but I forget where the tweet is—anybody recall it?
@EyalShay2 bahaha yeah "nobody else has all the same memories of all the same tweets you do"
@Meaningness @drossbucket @_StevenFan I definitely never got the memo that straight men can't wear interesting clothes 😅
@Meaningness @drossbucket @_StevenFan baha okay fair, legit I am not quite 100% straight either but I am definitely approximately straight and how I dress feels very aligned with that quoting the musical Hair:
@Jeanvaljean689 oooooooooooh that actually is quite good tbh easy enough to make it into a gif I made a gif recently for this:
@lukebutler ooh yeah Being John Malkovich was great
hand-me-downs except from gym-bro to gym-bro as they get more buff
there was a time it seemed that time itself was free and would go on forever wanted to cling to it but now I see its fading is its greatest treasure
@nickredmark not just "meaningful" in the sort of human/emotional sense afaict the fading is in some sense necessary for perception altogether. every perception is in some fundamental sense perception of change
btw I didn't come up with those words they're from this beautiful song by JC but I wanted to share them just as them youtube.com/watch?v=gQiFyZ…
@AskYatharth ooooh that's super related tho it's not the one I was thinking of!
@spiral_virus yeah, you need deep love and then you also need to figure out how to organize it
@deepfates @VividVoid_ if yall have never seen these @alexgreycosm paintings from his series Progress of the Soul, check 'em out: alexgrey.com/art/collection… (more at the link; these are the ones that most closely relate to pregnancy and birth being "the most cosmic spiritual experience")
Thread · Why acting from your own perceptions isn't the same as selfishness · 1 of 6 tweets
@meekaale @QiaochuYuan re precisely what "neurotic" means:
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@meditationstuff @AbstractFairy @bigmastertroll "Punishing bad actors" is pretty confused. Sociopaths don't respond to p…
@parafactual @nickcammarata see also this slightly different metaphor (tangles vs layers) on on how bad & good are related:
Thread · Layering: a concept for understanding effortful behavior change
one of the most useful concepts I've discovered in the last few years is "Layering", via @meditationstuff this article is a decent intro, though I think there's space to write a ton more about this from different angles meditationstuff.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/dav…
a lot of behavior change ends up being layery, which means it takes a lot of energy, has costs/friction and is never as smooth as
layering is closely related to neurotic strategies:
layering is also closely related to the difference between "counteractive" and "transformational" change, in the coherence therapy frame:
I have a dozen or so tweets using the term, and it's kind of intuitive but it's worth actually getting introduced to it directly via the article I linked above my tweets mentioning "layering" twitter.com/search?q=from:…
this article by Mark also talks about layering meditationstuff.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/mak…
I think my introduction to it was actually this section of his meditation protocol "an orienting model; layers and tangles; from "parts" to people to groups" - "a brief layer/tangle model of mind" - "the blooming, buzzing confusion" technical, fun: meditationbook.page/#31
this newer rougher section of Mark's protocol also talks about it "renunciation quibbles and other things" meditationbook.page/#157a9
big if true I wonder about edge cases, like does it mess up skin microbiomes? hopefully the test with the hairless mice would catch that... ift.tt/5PFRXLM
just read writing of mine from 3y ago & I'm like "jeez I totally know what I was trying to say here and it all makes sense & is insightful in the context of the assumptions I was making at the time... ...but now that I'm not making those assumptions, it's completely bonkers" 🤦♀️
@xuenay it's largely the stuff I've been blogging about for the last 1.5 years the most direct pointer to it would be this one: malcolmocean.com/2021/11/mindse…
@xuenay but also if you search "obvious" in this post you'll find some reflections on how I used to think about things and how my thinking has shifted malcolmocean.com/2021/01/2020-f…
@xuenay or search "used to" in Dream Mashups malcolmocean.com/2021/06/dream-…
@xuenay or read the first subsection of this post: "A learning environment that’s not out of breath" malcolmocean.com/2021/12/2021-c…
overcorrecting is fine—usually necessary, in fact it just often means you'll have to overcorrect again in the other direction 🙃
@RichardMCNgo I played a game called "Rejection Therapy" a decade ago which had a deck of cards with prompts of things to try doing, with the aim of getting a "no" (if they said yes, you had to try again with someone else) I did one a day
@RichardMCNgo cards included: - ask to buy something that's not for sale - ask someone to sit down - ask for a discount buying something - ask someone out on a date - ask a stranger for change from a dollar - offer to pay for someone's order oh they're still for sale! rejectiontherapy.com/game/
@RichardMCNgo taking improv theatre lessons probably helps a lot in a pretty general way, though I haven't done it myself
@heybask you should put a "these are made up numbers" in the image itself, maybe even as a watermark overlaying the thing I would honestly suggest deleting it and remaking it to minimize people thinking it's data
@visakanv @ellegist @speterkins checks out
@ZaymonTheUnwise yeah my QT was attempting to summarize your article, not disagree with it!
watching this video of @weare2saxy and realizing that if I were there in person and saw/heard this I would end up following them around dancing 🤣🕺 youtube.com/watch?v=YoM2jY…
Court Square is also really good youtube.com/watch?v=GXPSQv…
my new phone (pixel 6) is too fucking big why are all the phones so fucking big I have big hands and I still can't fucking reach the top this is fucking bullshit
@Sassafrassalass hm?
@notegone ohhhh yeah that would help and the pixel 6 already has some bs sticking out the back so maybe it would even help the thing sit flat
@natural_hazard yeah, sounds like a good convo! interested in your thoughts. I think there's an app to be made there grain.co is one foray in that direction, optimized for zoom clips, but there's a lot of space for a {soundcloud+gdrive+gdocs+something}
@Sassafrassalass ah okay a phone that's just like: 🟥⬜️ 🟨🟧 🟪🟦 that would be fun to design actually
@huggingpuppy @jambarree I'm definitely down! got decent against the AI but haven't played much against people maybe let's add each other on steam or something
@meekaale @arlynculwick @disconcision @literalbanana @Meaningness @drossbucket oooooh hm! also makes me think of Vervaeke's concept of Relevance Realization but that might just be because twitter.com/eigenrobot/sta…
@anactofwill it's mostly the lack of availability of smaller phones I'm also slightly frustrated with myself for not actually checking quite how big it was. I knew my pixel4a was smaller than the nokia6.1 I had before it, but didn't realize the pixel6 is a whole inch larger than the nokia6.1
@makoConstruct sure, and (if there's nothing else trying to scroll) I can pull down the notifications bar from over an inch away from the top of the screen but these are layery solutions, compensating for a problem we don't need to have in the first place!
@_exoconnor @AskYatharth @snarayan yeaaaaah I think I'll be going this direction or just getting another pixel 4a, since amazon is still selling them (at a pretty hefty mark-up compared to the original price)
@MilanGriffes 5.4" 😍 (the iPhone 13 mini) I haven't quite come to terms with the idea of switching to an iPhone tho
@visakanv turns out 3rd one is actually a joke riffing on how many people are desperate in exactly this way
@Caro_Jeanmaire @carrickflynn damn, that's one hell of a pitch!
tried this and I started laughing and ended up falling over to laugh more thoroughly soo... success? I feel kinda rejuvenated!
@visakanv that actually worked okay for me just now
any recommendations for android (or weird os) phones with screens 6" or smaller? 5-5.5" would be awesome
@nwilliams030 yeah, but I was 18 so I couldn't do any of their programs
@nwilliams030 "hi welcome here take this card showing your personality profile come on in right this way we're so glad you're here" 😳 it was surprisingly compelling!
@nwilliams030 fortunately my band teacher was expecting my friend and I back at the line for In The Heights across the street so that made it easy to get away before the chloroform lesson: have a rope to the outside world if you go into a situation like this 🪢
@PstafarianPrice @nwilliams030 okay fine that was maybe a fake reason I was trying to use to get the cult guy to ease off, not an actual reason they would have cared about I don't remember the actual exchange we had very clearly
Thread · How many people can actually follow what you're saying · 2 of 4 tweets
how many people follow you on twitter? —not your official "Followers" count— how many people can actually follow all of what you're saying? for me it's like maybe 4 🤨
clarifying here: I meant in terms of having the context to understand you, not the time to read literally every tweet I'm interested in the 2nd thing too, tho I have no idea how many that would be since surely some of them are lurkery lurkers who show no sign of existing
@uberstuber I thought that too but so far 6k is fine/better maybe unusually true for me tho since I seem to be staying at the edge of my own thinking and nobody can follow it
@uberstuber which prompted this tweet:
I just tried this! it was cool — stretched my comfort zone a bit I'll say more in a few weeks; for now I don't want to spoiler it for people who want to try it.
@acidshill I was the only guy (among 20-25 people) in a belly-dancing class at uni never seen a male fire-fan spinner hooping also skews female afaict although firespinning in general seems pretty balanced
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By forcing us to try to learn things our bodymind didn’t care about, school taught many of us the lie that we’re bad lea…
@MrVenezia @AskYatharth yeah it's based on tibetan deity yoga I believe someone else making the connection:
@nickcammarata @QiaochuYuan @Aella_Girl still have 2 days left!
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RTing this specifically to get my followers to pick "date a dude yall choose" which i believe is the funniest option. don'…
@visakanv king shit
@QiaochuYuan we only need uhhh a thousand more votes! but also what about this plan:
@QiaochuYuan @Aella_Girl it's least interesting by many orders of magnitude (given that it has literally already occurred many times! see @aellagirl) 100 polls in 24h is also not that interesting as it's just sort of a condensed version of the usual. pollapalooza.
Thread · How many people can actually follow what you're saying · 2 of 4 tweets
coulda maybe been phrased more precisely, but I was experimenting with being looser so 🤷♀️ thinking less "is there anyone out there who also understands all N unrelated fields you tweet about?" more "who can parse your leading-edge thoughts?"
(although if you're bringing 2 fields together then yeah that is gonna need to be people who can make sense of that)
@QiaochuYuan but also I had a thought something like this
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I think people here underestimate how much the universe is yours to do what you want with it. Most people seeing this ar…
seeing Jack comment about twitter's trajectory makes me wonder if the CEO handover to @paraga succeeded at handing over Source as well genuine curiosity—this tweet is not evidence in any direction context on "Source": workwithsource.com
@paraga this snarky take also seems apt:
I am currently long $TWTR but might sell if I got good evidence that the Source transition had failed to happen
yo guys you know how we talk about who got who using twitter? here's who got elon onto twitter: @westcoastbill
context re twitter genealogy
[[you can just tell people things and change their lives]]
Thread · You can just tell people things and change their lives · 1 of 6 tweets
elon might not have gotten onto twitter if this guy hadn't said something
@v17us @innerstitial I want it to be small when I'm actually using it, so I can reach the whole screen
@brother_nin glad you linked it! I am seriously considering some shit like this. hey @ReidGower what phone did you get? how are you finding it?
tempting...
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth if the advice isn't causing you to act, it's because it's missing something no such thing as "good advice that I'm hearing but not taking" afaict some part of you legit thinks that starting your motor would be bad. can you find out why?
@QiaochuYuan wanted to find this thread again `from:qiaochuyuan take advice` failed but `from:malcolm_ocean qiaochuyuan unless` succeeded twitter search is such a trip
@paulg @typesfast @elonmusk I assume you're talking about specifically if Elon were behind it? Yeah, that'd be enough of a boost to get it over the adoption hurdle & get enough network effects going. Would have to get a handful of other things right too. Lots of room to improve over twitter tho!
@RomeoStevens76 hmmm I'm not finding it tho amazon has some other xperia N iii models N=1, N=5
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth ♥️♥️ yeah take your time :) (this is related to the Coherence Therapy stuff I've been gently pointing you at for awhile, which I continue to think it'll make a huge difference for you if/when you get it, but I don't want/need to rush you on it)
@makoConstruct some people might want this, but idgaf I am in favor of people who want this having the option to have it! but I don't have the option for small! & I remember complaining that my screen was too small, back when the 5.5" iPhone 6 Plus was advertised as "bigger than bigger"
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The magic of metaphor is the power of proportion a:b::c:d (as is to b as c is to d) (magic is to metaphor as power is…
@Morphenius @wholebodyprayer am also interested in this!
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@innerstitial yesss same.energy for sure
@makoConstruct if you're watching a cinematic video on your phone, YOU ARE ALREADY MAKING A MAJOR COMPROMISE ON SIZE. can be an okay compromise to make—I watch movies on airplanes sometimes but it's like optimizing a ukulele to be big & boomy—if you want that, ukulele is not for you!
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@slatestarcodex post on therapy books all promising to bring about revolutionary change but all therapies seeming about eq…
new twitter-power-search just dropped see interactions between {@username} & {people you follow} by using this search (you can leave out the from: bit if you don't follow @username) "username" -from:username filter:follows or modify at this link: twitter.com/search?q=%22X%…
mood. feels like a parallel to "if you're not paying, you're the product"
Replying to @taalumot
@taalumot mood
@RomeoStevens76 @davidfactorial *more* credence to this, yes but it's important not to assume that just because one state is more expansive that its knowledge/values are actually a superset of the smaller one this has burned me multiple times! lots of my writing is about this, eg malcolmocean.com/2021/06/dream-…
@RomeoStevens76 @davidfactorial or more directly, this one: malcolmocean.com/2021/11/mindse…
@hex_codex @meekaale also a mood, damn
@acesounderglass systems theory & cybernetics feels important although it had a lot of people involved... Bertanlanffy, Bateson, Mead, Weiner, von Neumann, to name a few and I guess control theory actually goes back to Maxwell's work with governors!
I wish you could see how many times a given amazon product had been purchased how many people are there out there who are like "yes, I need satin periodic table pillowcases, definitely"? (or, just as likely, buy them as a gift)
Retweeted @nat_sharpe_
Many people who ask for advice really want permission
epic meta-thread collecting various people's reflections on boundaries from this corner of twitter I'm struck with a curiosity of how it could be richer (although more work to create) if multiQT were a thing so that certain tweets could be juxtaposed
Retweeted @vgr
You’ve arrived when you decide you’ve arrived. It’s not about a life condition or an arrival checklist. It’s not an earned or awar…
ICYMI
QC mentioning DBZ has me thinking about how the most memorable thing from DBZ for me was definitely the fusion dances have long been fascinated with collective agency & human superorganisms I guess
@hekatonsure they're okay I like Something For Your M.I.N.D. / escapetheinter.net
@gptbrooke squozen (which is what you are if someone squeezes you)
@tasshinfogleman made this one up a few years ago
Retweeted @RomeoStevens76
Addiction isn't simple. If it were a simple problem you probably already would have dealt with it. Complex problems are…
@gptbrook 28 day summary includes both this current virality jump plus any extra attention you got as a result of vibecamp (including from people not there just hearing about it)
ahhh man I was looking for this awhile ago as an example of something but I couldn't find it uhh keywords for next time: machine learning neural net generated organic nature wheel chair optimize optimized optimization symmetry structural integrity strength weight density
Retweeted @Jeanvaljean689
oh man what if: liberating people from anxiety, depression, + other psychological suffering, and helping people to…
@m_svillar I once went to a club that was conjoined with iirc a pizza place that sold gatorade! (@dnalounge) best club ever. gatorade is exactly what I want to drink when I'm out dancing. booze just does not quench the same way.
@ricvolpe @gptbrooke yes tho also it was a delight that these were the first 2 tweets, adjacent on my timeline that day
Retweeted @PeterW__
I made a thing:
@gptbrook oh I just sorta meant the best word tweet, which I guess didn't really hit escape velocity I'm not actually sure! did recently see this one: twitter.com/search?q=from%…
@gptbrook over the last year, I've gotten 10-30k profile views per month (usually closer to 20k) and I have 1500 more followers than you although my account is older so I might have 1000 followers who literally have not been active on twitter since you made your account
@gptbrook you can also ummm look at the stats on the best word tweet and see how many interactions & profile views it got on its own
Retweeted @etiennefd
What are some cool or important examples of things that were "memed into existence"?
@etiennefd RTing, QTing, @-mentioning, threads ("tweetstorms"), hashtags, cashtags all of these twitter features are things that people started doing informally before twitter made them an actual feature (I'm working on memeing multiQT into existence) malcolmocean.com/2021/11/twitte…
@etiennefd way more common on twitter than any other platform I've seen, but yeah
Retweeted @Open1ndividual
i find i get a strong sense of this sometimes when I do MDMA push and push and try to fix all my stuff in order to be…
@paperlemonade @Twitter @Meaningness @_awbery_ looks like there's some support for OR already eg this search is what I now use instead of checking notifications: ("malcolm_ocean" OR quoted_user_id:49044207) -from:malcolm_ocean but it'd be nice if I didn't have to know my user_id for this
@PeterW__ noice! there's also quoted_user_id, eg twitter.com/search?q=quote…
holy shit the brazilian "real" was originally fake (from @etiennefd's "memed into existence" thread) npr.org/sections/money…
@etiennefd @PrinceVogel yes, good ht - meant to do it myself but was just trying to tweet this link so I could close it out before I got on a call & here's the thread for others' reference:
@tasshinfogleman this feels like maybe the same prayer:
@reconfigurthing fascinating short book called Mind The Gap talks about this, but also claims something more extreme: > Both rich and poor die younger in countries with the greatest inequalities in income. amazon.com/Mind-Darwinism…
@reconfigurthing ie that inequality itself is bad for everyone's health, even if the poor/weak/low have it worse it's part of why I suspect that what seems to be zero-sum status-seeking behavior may ultimately be dignity/security-seeking, & a society where *everyone* has dignity would be stable
Retweeted @mattroll_
What do you guys think about when you’re in the execution phase of a long term plan?
Replying to @mattroll_
@mattroll_ yeah, when in full execution mode, it's just about doing plausibly important stuff doesn't have to be The Most Important Thing, just has to *not* be Definitely Unnecessary Thing better to do 10 plausibly very important things than 1 most important thing
@mattroll_ then there's many little reflections spaced throughout (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly) during which I ask various Qs: - Did what I do today matter? - Are my actions moving the needle in the ways I intend? Any side-effects, wanted or unwanted? - What have I been ignoring?
@AbstractFairy whatever you want! if you have no stuck internal conflicts, what to do should be in some sense obvious (even if it's "consider plans for what to do" or "interview people about career paths or important unsolved problems")
@altsanabo @AbstractFairy @CompliceGoals haha yeah we've noticed that a lot of people are blocked on being able to do the goal-crafting stuff by internal conflicts on various levels of abstraction (about having goals at all, or about their specific goals/plans) we have some sketches for a workshop on internal conflicts
@m_ashcroft ooooooooooouuu