@gptbrooke often "trust" is shorthand for what I call "meta-trust", ie “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…
April 2022
@gptbrooke understanding the generators of something / what it's made of / what it's capable of I don't need to test it even once, let alone a dozen times, to know that I'm capable of walking down a street in Berlin. I've never been to Berlin but I know my walking skill generalizes.
@gptbrooke for interpersonal stuff, this involves seeing why the person did what they did, thereby having a sense of how they'd act in similar & different situations their explanation must feel consistent tho—"this checks out [with what I know of them & the world]"
more of this on the tl plz
if you can find a way to experience something other than likes, RTs, and follower counts as the winning metric, you can have different incentives ofc, the platform could help you measure these mobile.twitter.com/liminal_warmth…
I had a dream that I had like 4 layers of pants/underlayers on and hadn't been naked for days 😧
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
"tell the truth" has acquired nuances for me the longer i keep trying to do it. there are things you can't say on twitter…
very cool paper on how researchers using the same data to answer the same question reach different results based on tiny methodology decisions. I'm impressed at the uhh meta-methodology here! (like finding a suitable data+question) (via @meditationstuff) osf.io/preprints/meta…
@sashintweets not particularly, I don't think comfy enough that I'd managed to wear them somehow
Retweeted @visakanv
the stuff you joke about (even ironically or whatever) has a way of shaping your reality so be careful and deliberate with th…
@visakanv they forget to add "wrong answers only" which is how you do rhetorical questions on twitter
@visakanv yo this is king shit new pfp so good I scrolled down your page to see if you'd tweeted about it so I could tell you that idk how long you want to keep it but it feels really right feels like you stepping into being the guy with this tattoo
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
The time has come Following animated and lively discussion with my board, I'd like to announce a global rebrand of "The Al…
@djmicrobeads @leobabauta had a variant he called Zen To Done that's designed to be learned gradually rather than having to overhaul everything all at once as GTD does could be a place to start zenhabits.net/zen-to-done-zt…
@djmicrobeads best intro to GTD is my critique of GTD 🙃 malcolmocean.com/2020/12/compli…
@mechanical_monk I've been pretty good at vibing with everybody since high school (although before that I was aloof nerd kid). I have many friends with whom I express lots of affection, physically & "I love you" etc. They currently skew more male, though at times it's been the other way I think.
@mechanical_monk I don't doubt that OP is experiencing something real but there are absolutely ways of being and pockets of culture where something completely different is possible.
hugging will continue until relaxation improves
Replying to @jayanthkumarak
@jayanthkumarak oh yeah this is clearly a joke, which is why I'm so happy, because I think edit buttons would be bad
Replying to @AConanTroutman
@KyleStratis not valid given RTs/QTs too easy for someone to have apparently endorsed something that is now completely different, and most people won't check the edit history
@visakanv @mechanical_monk love you too visa 💪❤️🔥
@visakanv @QiaochuYuan even if they don't notice, they'll still experience the negative space of it from how everyone else responds
joke about the outcomes you want ift.tt/tMWUxLo
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Feeds: An Anthropological Report on a Powerful Online Social Technology tasshin.com/blog/feeds-an-…
Retweeted @devonzuegel
collaborations where you can just call them up without warning and start the conversation with "I had a thought…" 🥰
@noampomsky my favorite preface to a movie is simply a "you'll like it" from someone who knows my taste well enough ideally I don't even want to know the name or genre of the film, let alone a description or trailer or the cast or anything like that
@huggingpuppy yeah I mean there's various metaphors one can use for it; I mostly see it as structurally increasing the chance they notice it, though for some people it literally shows up as a notification like a text message would (not me, I have that all shut off)
@embryosophy @m_ashcroft now I use this search instead of notifications; it shows only tweets, but both QTs and replies, whereas mentions still doesn't show QTs afaik so you have to scroll past likes & follows tiny.cc/maltwt
@mattgoldenberg well right that's kind of the question depends on the person/situation/etc (this is a riff on Schnarch's "Hugging 'til Relaxed" technique)
Retweeted @this_is_silvia
there's a middle step between making a choice and not making a choice, which is testing a choice you basically make t…
striking how weather that feels chilly in a sweater on the way to the gym feels comfy in a tank top on the way back metabolism
@carmenleelau One of the first tweets using the phrase "feral free agent" has this energy. I had pulled it up earlier today:
Retweeted @Jeanvaljean689
You must act as if you already know how to do the thing that you are trying to do; And then you just do it, being prep…
Replying to @Virtual1nstinct
@Virtual1nstinct Probably due to no land value tax
Retweeted @visakanv
24. consider obeying the inscrutable exhortations of your soul
@Human__Age @nickcammarata yeah, extrinsic motivation is fake
@SarahAMcManus @embryosophy @meansinfinity by the genius who brought you the "walkie talkie"
@brother_klaus @embryosophy @SarahAMcManus @meansinfinity we did in Nova Scotia where I grew up! ....checks out 😅 definitely a maritime thing according to google search trends: trends.google.com/trends/explore…
@m_ashcroft @embryosophy for people who want to get their twitter user id for this, this site will do it for you (easy to google but if I can lower the activation energy for multiple people, that's better than letting everyone google) tweeterid.com
@visakanv @QiaochuYuan continuing the mid-show metaphor, they'll know they're missing earlier context when the rest of the audience laughs at a joke they didn't get the set-up for 🧐 likewise, new people will see people relating to visa-of-crown-avi-and-pepe-silvia-header (and everything else)
@jonnym1ller @p_millerd yes, but also,,, here's my very ambitious, questionably-legible/explainable mature life purpose articulation:
getting more into walking be confused go for a walk 🚶♀️ come back feeling clearer be unsure what to do go for a walk 🚶 come back feeling motivated be scattered go for a walk 🚶♂️ come back feeling centered
the 2nd & 3rd items here could dramatically benefit from having a button on my phone that can remote-control my computer to make it show some particular single focus when I come back to it rather than blasting me with whatever bullshit I had open before might hack Tabs Outliner
@Roamfu @meekaale @uberstuber @Jeanvaljean689 @m_ashcroft what were the ancient greeks calling it?
Retweeted @metakuna
I'm constantly amazed by how many new good jokes there are
Link to that podcast about good conversation with @EyalShay2 (Had trouble searching it since I didn't remember the name of the show, just his handle) twitter.com/Deep_Dive_Pod/…
@reconfigurthing Shared train of thought rather than one person hogging or people taking turns. Fluid collective track of relevance. Capacity for both high-involvement (rapid interrupts) and high-considerateness (long pauses) when appropriate. Podcast elaborating: twitter.com/Deep_Dive_Pod/…
@jambarree I guess as long as I leave Complice open to the now page before walking, it would somewhat be focusable remotely...
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Walmart is testing self-checkouts only stores. Welcome to the age of technology. Canada should prepare with #BasicIncome. W…
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͏͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏…
Retweeted @florianederer
Encouraging the designation of a team leader dramatically raises the probability that groups escape from an escape room.…
@RomeoStevens76 @AskYatharth @antar_app is made for this, kinda (would be cool to have an out loud version though. Could hack something together in Twilio in an afternoon; lmk if you wanna try that!)
Retweeted @_StevenFan
your sacrifice of optionality pleases the gods
feeling like this would appeal to the self-love peeps @nickcammarata @sashachapin et al
@smallkewlhuman @kenyoudigme @digitalkam @__valexo yeah this is a good example of a classic trust-dancing failure mode where someone conflates "I can't trust you" with "you're untrustworthy" (or "you shouldn't trust yourself") and these are simply Not The Same. video discussing this (I also have writing!) youtube.com/watch?v=f9JuKz…
Retweeted @smallkewlhuman
@kenyoudigme @digitalkam @__valexo holy shiiit this is exactly it! especially when that someone views themselves as goo…
thinking about this but re multi-person agents
multi-person agency is ofc vital to how the top 500k can manage to do something overall-coherent, rather than just undoing each others' progress
> “You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.” —Zig Ziglar don't take it too literally but there's a deep truth here
@colluraj James! I've heard your name a bunch of times, very very tangentially (and maybe one of the things I heard was that you'd expressed that you kept hearing my name? or maybe that was someone else) anyway, welcome :D
Retweeted @carmenleelau
Glimpsing into a new way of being is a distinct process from making that into your natural way of expression
Retweeted @aladyonfire_
I also talk about how building boundaries around my deepest self turned out to be the key to setting her free https://t.c…
@aladyonfire_ oooh fuckyeah, this is good I've been talking a bit about "self-other boundary refactoring" lately, which definitely feels like what you were up to. different meaning of "boundary"... or is it?! various tweets on the topic: twitter.com/search?q=from%…
finally taking a proper day off again for the first time in awhile, including closing all my tabs have been in a pretty spacious mode but over the last week I let the tabs proliferate, leaving me scattered Tabs Outliner helps me save eg shopping projs
Thread · You can't make new old friends · 1 of 6 tweets
"friendship is like wine"
That which is unique, breaks. Commodities break too, but are easily replaced. When you break a chair, you buy another. We know well how to make one thousand chairs. They sit in boxes, ready for two-day shipping. But when the unique breaks, we might mend. simonsarris.substack.com/p/that-which-i…
Thread · You can't make new old friends · 1 of 6 tweets
friendships are unique
@jachaseyoung cities are actually remarkably optimized relative to the space-filling fractals involved, just like lungs are (see Geoffrey West's book Scale for more on this) but aside from stuff like that, uh, ha.
Retweeted @wholebodyprayer
I contain your multitudes, i ate them, every one
ICYMI
@MasterTimBlais yaaaaaaas
I kept trying and failing to find a tweet+thread from @QiaochuYuan that says something like "anytime someone says anything it's because they're aware it could be false" "opposite", "negation"? hook me up ppl
why is "midnight" so much closer to evening than morning? why am I often "still up at midnight", and rarely "already up at midnight"?
I can't recall having had any dreams about being on a video call with someone, which is frankly just surprising at this point
@MattiasInSpace @QiaochuYuan tyty! 🙏 ahh I should have searched "false", not "opposite", but "shadow statement" had me anchored on the idea of opposition
@NeilThanedar maybe! last night I had a dream where I was reading a slack channel—a feed, like this one: (the events they were describing had about dream-level sensibility, which is hilarious)
@RichardMCNgo @mattgoldenberg maybe because we're not around to turn it on but it raises a question of what would happen if I set my hue lights to turn on before sunrise (which I do sometimes in the winter, but that'd be like 6am now) midnight fake-sunrise would require going to sleep when light out tho
@metaphorician Complice basically works this way it has an adjustable "day start time" that defaults to 5am, not midnight, for when the day rolls over blog.complice.co/post/145832019…
@_emilyoram any updates? :D
@DreadCanary @pragueyerrr yeah I've been following Vasalgel for like a decade and it's kinda nuts how little progress it's made would be a good use for spare billionaire dollars probably (also I thought it lasted more like 5-10 years)
@MasterTimBlais lol no idea, my top ever tweet is this extremely niche tweet although I guess the buddhist nerds following me RT'd it far enough that it reached escape velocity into people RT'ing it just because the graphic is funny
@visakanv in a process of self-transformation, documenting his steps so that others can climb out on the same ladder cares a lot about people and relationships but is also very focused on individual agency as a leverage point
@ricvolpe I'm in a pretty chilly & rainy place, and it seems fine I made a point of going for a walk at least once a day when I lived in a snowy wintery place definitely not as easy though, and more activation energy means fewer spontaneous 5-10min walks
@huggingpuppy I've been feeling into this and my sense is that you might do well to explore not doing-your-age in a certain sense focus on what you're creating, and what's possible there there's a kind of self-consciousness to the age thing I think idk, mentorship is good but also peership
@huggingpuppy and also a better way to do the mentorship thing would be to help with others' projects, rather than soliciting help yourself, at this phase see what you can get involved in or contribute to without even asking anybody first show up, pitch in
@huggingpuppy and then also ofc do actually build out your own projects of various kinds even if they don't turn into everything directly, they still build up your sense of being able to do things I've made a few apps I never shipped
@huggingpuppy yeah, you can go back and learn about each others' pasts, look at each others' photo albums, etc it's not the same but it is definitely part of deepening
@AskYatharth @RomeoStevens76 @antar_app I've explored having Complice call you to tell you your intentions in the morning (I have a prototype of this!) getting a call hits different than deciding to open your phone to look at something also if you call a number and it asks even one simple Q—v diff from voice notes
@colluraj ah yes! I remember that dinner fondly was wondering if anyone had a photo of it
Retweeted @temujin9
BRB, soul is being inscrutable in its exhortations again.
Replying to @blckchnndrstndr
@blckchnndrstndr woah, very cool
Replying to @Virtual1nstinct
lots of people have said artificial light but few have explained why that produces an asymmetry: (can hack this with eg hue lights to wake up before dawn... but still, wake up before midnight? would require going to sleep when light out!) twitter.com/AdamBjorndahl/…
if something feels off, slow the fuck down if people tell you not to slow the fuck down, tell them to shut the fuck up if they won't shut the fuck up, get the fuck out
Thread · Jason Mraz's 'I Won't Give Up' as a shadow statement · 13 of 14 tweets
I just found out Jason Mraz's song I Won't Give Up, a favorite of mine for a decade, was almost certainly written about Tristan Prettyman, who he suddenly broke up with while they were engaged. Sounds surprising, but we might ask... why did he need to write that song?
One writes a song called I Won't Give Up when one is faced with the seriously possibility of, well, *giving up*. Now, all relationships have their challenging moments, but some have a lot more precariousness than others.
I'm about to talk about other people's relationships, and I want to note that even though these people have wikipedia pages, I feel in some sense I'm relating to them as fellow singer-songwriters, writers about love & relationship, & journeyers of the human spirit. Not celebs.
Turns out Tristan's album Cedar+Gold is almost entirely about the breakup with Mraz. Glass Jar in particular reflects on their engagement. I think they were both in denial about the fragility of their relationship. The wind doesn't just shift. Something must have felt off.
But this excerpt (from the same song!) aptly calls Mraz out—his whole 2012 album doesn't acknowledge the breakup of mid-2011 whatsoever.
That album (Love Is A Four-Letter Word) is one of my all-time favorites, and has a lot of beautiful stuff on it. it's got I Won't Give Up but no Listen To Yourself If Something Feels Off or If It's Almost A Fit It's Not A Fit or The Courage to Leave
btw, the brain famously doesn't really understand negation trying to avoid something often results in steering straight into it "(i won't) GIVE UP" 😂
Now, even if you had a song called "We're Gonna Make It" or "I'm So Committed To You" (ie not making the "don't hit the tree" error) it would still have that shadow statement quality—why does it feel so important to say?
I have heard but not verified that Mraz didn't intend to release I Won't Give Up, but did so after this video of a live performance of it went viral (this performance would have been after the breakup) youtube.com/watch?v=_KId5R…
Mraz, interviewed when the album came out, said this about it, which... sure. One way to tell the narrative. > regardless of what happens in this relationship, I don’t have to give up on loving this person, or loving myself
Although I guess indeed in the bridge he does say "and in the end, you're still my friend", which does imply... something? About a breakup? Maybe? 🧐 But idk, the message of the song still feels like one of staying together, not of recognizing the need to move on.
Anyway, over the next few years Tristan got married, had a kid, then a divorce, & wrote a fascinating blog post about that: tristanprettyman.com/blog/detail/lo…
She concludes: > maybe somewhere, someone will read this and feel a little less alone, a little less scared, or a bit more brave to speak up for what their heart is telling them. It's easier to talk about what's working than what's not working. I'm working on this myself.
@QiaochuYuan thanks @MattiasInSpace for finding it! fwiw this is the thread I wanted it for:
> Is not rewarding someone the same as punishing them? i.e. can not giving someone a job really count as punishing them? > The answer is: Individually no, but collectively yes. ift.tt/PObAewU
you are your future self's younger self
@RomeoStevens76 Yes, absolutely. And sufficiently general that we can also share it with uhh other peoples' younger selves who are still young. Also
Retweeted @paraga
I’m excited to share that we’re appointing @elonmusk to our board! Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became c…
Retweeted @olivertraldi
great moment for any forum when a shitposter becomes a mod twitter.com/paraga/status/…
@elonmusk an errata/disavow/recant feature that lets you cross out a tweet and say "sorry I got this number wrong" or "I realized this is actually bad advice" so that you don't have to destroy history in order to stop something from spreading that you don't stand by
Retweeted @wongmjane
If Twitter is gonna implement the edit button, can they at least keep the edit history around and make it obvious when the T…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@elonmusk an errata/disavow/recant feature that lets you cross out a tweet and say "sorry I got this number wrong" or "I…
Replying to @OliverCarefull
@lukeprog this is cool text-generation but the reasoning feels a bit contrived in a certain sense "this is about the speed of a commercial airplane" (implies decent chance it's faster or slower) but then "the answer is yes" twitter.com/random_eddie/s…
@lukeprog literally the question is almost too easy by being too specific. like if it had asked "is Jennifer probably travelling more than 2 miles per hour relative to the earth?" where would the AI's reasoning have started?
@actualhog recorded #2 today going kinda slow but we'll get there thanks again for encouraging me to do this!
Thread · Evaluating additions to SMART goals: present, identity, positive, expansive
some interesting additions to SMART goals from @mcrittenden Present tense – not future tense Identity focused – who you are, not what you do Positive – never set a goal that a dead person can do better than you Expansive – leave room for growth critter.blog/2022/03/30/sma…
Some elements overlap with the CSI Approach that we use in our GCI workshops: eg positive = approach
Present tense I'm not 100% sure about this! It seems good for visualizing the target—you want to visualize *being* there—but might amplify pre-success failure by implying you should already be there.
Identity-focused Also not sure how I feel about this. You need to make sure your goal doesn't conflict with your existing identity, but any change should maybe be more abstract & done up-front directly rather than be the goal itself. eg using this:
Positive Totally on board here. I wrote a whole blog post about this recently. I like "never set a goal a dead person can do better"—you need to focus on your living system and how it's embodying the goal, live. malcolmocean.com/2022/02/toward…
Expansive Yeah this one's also good: not just a single target but a whole desirable region. Spacious.
Fwiw, here's the definition of goal that the @CompliceGoals app & the workshops use, which is also quite spacious:
@sososociety um what? haha
@hanbzu @m_ashcroft I literally think @m_ashcroft's Expanding Awareness course is probably one of the better resources out there, though it's uhh not exactly clickbaity. Something like "pay attention to context & uniqueness". I have some tweets about this over here:
@gptbrooke @huggingpuppy @meditationstuff yup, I agree. gave more space for gaps in expectations & knowing you were young when I first met you made you intriguing and novel you're still the youngest person I'm in any sort of regular interaction with! there's an intrinsic interestingness there, but better in background
@gptbrooke @huggingpuppy @meditationstuff I'm also glad that I brought this up just now and that you asked about it, because yeah, it does feel like something that's changed, not a general maxim!
@gptbrooke @huggingpuppy @meditationstuff and very contextual/subtle etc
@CountJ0ecool @huggingpuppy related to apprenticeship is appreciating magic when you see it > seek out the magicians, and find the magic autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/bec…
@huggingpuppy what do you mean?
Retweeted @DRMacIver
Today's newsletter brought to you by David being very salty about society. drmaciver.substack.com/p/education-by…
@Jeanvaljean689 if for some reason you want the original messy thread that evolved into the recent blog post, it's here:
@huggingpuppy @strangestloop @gptbrooke @robjpalmer @MasterTimBlais @s0ulDirect0r @thom_ivy_1 @russlramos @_ktsugi_ @Alphiloscorp maybe but in some sense I have no idea this is not the sort of thing I commit my future self to
@Human__Age @mattroll_ I have sometimes
It's literally impossible to "just trust <me> on this". It's possible to *act as if* you trust someone (whatever you think that implies, which they might spell out explicitly or not). It's also possible to compartmentalize away the parts that don't trust whatever the thing is.
hey look it's @LordChisholm in tiktok form twitter.com/nwilliams030/s…
@huggingpuppy ah! yeah, that's actually easier than you'd think my mockup designs *were* made by screwing around with Inspect Element etc which you could definitely automate! although wait actually that'd be then slightly hard to generate an image from 😅 ...would have to screenshot I guess
@sososociety ooooh yeah that's such a great example or a street scammer, for that matter
"assume" is an interesting word it sort of means "act as if something is true" which can be a fun thing to do! as long as you don't get confused you can't choose to believe or trust, but you might be able to choose to *act as if* you do
now, sometimes that might not actually be safe! physically: wrongly assuming a neighborhood is safe might get you mugged emotionally: wrongly assuming something is safe to talk about might result in you getting shamed and adding some new layer to hide it twitter.com/Pork_Chop_Hair…
you might also *know* that it's not safe to assume something, & therefore will tend to refuse it might be safe for someone else to assume X, but not safe for you to assume X, for whatever reason (demographic or situational, or about some other assumption/pattern you have)
in some ways all of my goals I have written out in complice represent different facets of my vision for the future (my future, our future)
TIL that if a google doc is publicly viewable but not publicly commentable, viewers can't see any of the comments! (that makes sense when I think about it but I'd definitely assumed the comments were visible to anyone who could see the doc!)
Thread · Erik Olin Wright and seeing the utopias already present · 1 of 9 tweets
Source for the second quote: this article hbr.org/2018/11/the-en…
Retweeted @amirhhz
"Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation." This poem is taunting and encouraging in a beautiful…
Thread · Seeing everyone's persona as 'doing a bit' · 1 of 4 tweets
somehow relevant maybe the whole universe is doing a bit
@michaelsayman MultiQuoteTweet! I already did the designs for you and wrote up the rationale. It's a natural continuation of most of Twitter's features having been pioneered by user behavior (hashtags, @-mentions, RTs, etc) malcolmocean.com/2021/11/twitte…
Retweeted @nat_sharpe_
Reality isn’t material. That’s an idea. Reality isn’t spiritual. That’s an idea. Reality is *SLAPS LEG* —Alan Watts
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ @aphercotropist, I think this will resonate for you (if not, I'm curious how!)
@visakanv wanting to link this one to its original source, maybe in part because that source is actually on twitter:
how the hell did I not notice til now that the Daft Punk track Too Long is over ten minutes
you can't just you gotta somehow in the meantime
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
if your reaction to shorter AI timelines is to panic and freak out instead of taking more risks and chasing after your dre…
@gfodor @nickcammarata @mesolude @QiaochuYuan
Replying to @AConanTroutman
@KyleStratis @Jeanvaljean689 I call it a #twiptych and avoid this problem altogether
@Re4medOptimist I... think this is simple enough to not need a flowchart. Unless you mean you think it would be funny. But I think it hits better as just 3 statements.
@khemaridh @sheilalina @CompliceGoals Hey Khe—probably a good place to start is the Complice Philosophy page. Resonates with your stuff on doing high-leverage stuff rather than inbox zero. Then maybe let's have a conversation & jam about different philosophies & workflows! complice.co/philosophy
@neutrinosalt have you tried writing a letter to your future self of 1-2 years out? I find it can be really powerful come to think of it, probably a good time for me to do that!
@natural_hazard yup yup yup people don't understand how learning works (despite in some sense being quite good at it by nature, being humans) drmaciver.substack.com/p/education-by…
@aladyonfire_ yup, I have a special style+page for this which works beautifully although sometimes I forget to use it 😅
@aladyonfire_ I also don't have the twitter app on my phone, just a big [SENT TWEET] button
@aladyonfire_ @QiaochuYuan ofc!
just watch me just watch me scroll past a reply missing my point and not bother to engage that's right
15 juicy minutes of me & @jgreenhall jamming about exaptation, a vital phenomenon where evolution repurposes old things in powerful new ways, and the latent potential of a mindset shift that allows people to do the same. youtu.be/Ub4_krqEW4U
@jgreenhall The analogy to Moloch at the start is tighter than you might imagine—both are eternal game-theoretic structures that emerge under certain conditions and are kind of unstoppable (in those conditions). But Moloch is a downward spiral—we're talking about an upward spiral pattern!
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 12/100 - conversation talking about one of the most beautiful things I have ever perceived, that I am working to make real in the world
Retweeted @JimmyRis
@gplewis “just” is the hardest worker there is
@JimmyRis @gplewis I've got some drafts about this roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
@nickcammarata wowwwwww curious what you'd get for either part of my bio! "Surprisingly wise for how foolish I am, & vice versa." or 👁️ Systems designer 🤸 Feral free agent 🎶 Singer-songwriter
this is why GPT-3 seems realistic better conversations are possible and computers don't know how to do them yet
(most humans also don't know how to do them yet)
@nickredmark @jgreenhall nah, the rest of it is more personal stuff, but since we had a bit on a topic of general interest I figured I'd pull it out and share it with the world there's nothing on-topic missing if you want to learn more about exaptation... could check out Reinventing the Sacred!
Thread · How Kegan's developmental stages spread through the rationalist scene · 2 of 7 tweets
@gworley3 @jessi_cata @xuenay @Meaningness @nosilverv @think_and_cause @deevbrain I got it spring 2014 from a guy I met up with while visiting my sister in Montreal, who had worked with Kegan. Then it turned out the library I lived in at the time had most of his books already. Aug 2014 I shared it with Ethan & we presented it at the CFAR reunion that year.
@gworley3 @jessi_cata @xuenay @Meaningness @nosilverv @think_and_cause @deevbrain CFAR explored using Subject-Object Interviews as a measure for an experimental workshop in 2016 (the "Yin Workshop") which Ethan co-ran with @Morphenius, although afaik they didn't have training in conducting or scoring them. I did 1 or 2 SOIs for friends around that time.
@gideonwald @Meaningness @nosilverv @jessi_cata idk which part of twitter you're calling "this part of twitter" but my part of twitter is very metasystematic! all of the interesting rationalists are interested in metasystematicity at this point, whether they call it that or not
@TeronTheDragon @Meaningness @nosilverv @jessi_cata I think The Master and his Emissary is very good; it has its own limitations but easily a third of what people are trying to point at with S1/S2 is actually about the brain hemispheres, if properly understood. book: amzn.to/37o7Tf0 tweets:
@TeronTheDragon @Meaningness @nosilverv @jessi_cata and I guess since this is a Kegan thread I should link to my "Kegan + brain hemispheres" thread 😂
Thread · How Kegan's developmental stages spread through the rationalist scene · 4 of 7 tweets
@gworley3 @jessi_cata @xuenay @Meaningness @nosilverv @think_and_cause @deevbrain @Morphenius My guess is that the folk understanding came in part from people not reading the books but just having conversations about it? Plus all sorts of power dynamics around ppl claiming (or appearing to claim) to be at different stages, & others claiming it was types, not development.
@gworley3 @jessi_cata @xuenay @Meaningness @nosilverv @think_and_cause @deevbrain @Morphenius The former Kegan colleague thought based on my ability to follow what he was saying & stretch his perspective that I might be higher stage than him (>4) but I think he was misled by my having a very advanced ~"cultural code", to use Hanzi's terminology 😅 medium.com/age-of-awarene…
@gworley3 @jessi_cata @xuenay @Meaningness @nosilverv @think_and_cause @deevbrain @Morphenius Part of the mess though is that Kegan's framework measures "lowest level you can be triggered to" which imo is 2 for almost anyone if they're panicked enough (ppl usually aren't). I was probably having a few 5ish thoughts at the time, but my emotional core was doing 2-3-4 stuff.
@gworley3 @jessi_cata @xuenay @Meaningness @nosilverv @think_and_cause @deevbrain @Morphenius Interesting contrast with MHC stage which iirc measures "highest level at which you've ever had an original thought". It also has a metasystematic stage.
> a good definition of a "radical" is a person who believes some common things are very bad. twitter.com/s_r_constantin…
Thread · How Kegan's developmental stages spread through the rationalist scene · 1 of 7 tweets
@gworley3 @jessi_cata @xuenay @Meaningness @nosilverv @think_and_cause @deevbrain @Morphenius Separating out MHC from culture code (symbols) seems to somewhat solve the problem with Kegan where a bunch of cultural & emotional stuff is mixed in with raw cognitive development—they're intertwingled, but not the same! Hanzi's The Listening Society has a decent take on this.
stupid HVAC being a bitch again Auto Heat even tho [set temp] < [actual temp] 🙄 set mode to Dry: fan turned off set mode back to Auto: now it's Auto Cool 🤷♀️ I guess I just needed to bother it into noticing it's hot enough already? wtf
in auto mode, it always outputs hot or cold air; it's never content to say "temperature is about right, let's not fuck with it". more oscillations more better! meanwhile, turning off the fan altogether is dangerous because the house is so well-insulated you'll get CO₂ poisoning
@gworley3 @jessi_cata @xuenay @Meaningness @nosilverv @think_and_cause @deevbrain @Morphenius still haven't been seduced into cook greuter but keep trying and you'll get me sooner or later
Thread · A minimalist Twitter setup for tweeting without the timeline · 1 of 7 tweets
I realized I wasn't using this page enough because it was long to type. I thought of making a text-expandy thing for it but then instead... I now have a hotkey so that when I press super+t it automatically opens this page! ctrl+t for new tab super+t for new tweet
huh, a youtube video I posted recently had one like, and now it has zero likes did someone like it near the start, then go "ah, meh" by the end? 🤔🤔🤔 the likes and dislikes don't cancel out on youtube, right? am not optimizing metrics, just wanna understand
"what if slack were good tho?" 🤔 I have an old rant about that: roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo… @towhans read it & built a prototype 🤩 This is us jamming & talking about how to integrate it with @RoamResearch at this phase or down the road. #roamcult youtu.be/fk0gvFSB1Pw
Retweeted @liekovarpio
Frustrating to realise you're coming to the same conclusion about something as you have before but just forgot about it or…
me in 2018 reading a journal entry from 2017: damn I should read my old journals more me in 2022 reading a journal entry from 2018: damn I should read my old journals more
reminds me of @QiaochuYuan's "love is where we belong"
@nickcammarata ahhhhh I definitely unconsciously assumed you'd been putting people's bios verbatim into dall-e, which seemed like utter magic but now I'm seeing you're doing the creative work of conceiving of a way to visualize the bio then commissioning dall-e to illustrate your idea
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 13/100 - converation with screenshare part of my role in this wild world is to inspire other people to make things, and encourage them to keep going
Retweeted @frideswyth
Does your aphantasic dark visual field have three dimensions?
@Meaningness @deevbrain @gworley3 @jessi_cata @xuenay @nosilverv @think_and_cause @Morphenius I'm interested in how it all plugs together, and why it continues to feel important to you despite in some sense having ended 30 years ago. Is there more fruit to pick there, people just stopped? Or...
Retweeted @ChuckTingle
what makes timelines thrive is CREATION and you are part of this. your way makes ripples of creation whether you are writi…
@RomeoStevens76 something something adhd something rejection-sensitive dysphoria something something
@acidshill how many did you manage to shed?
@anikrisn @meditationstuff I've heard Nirvana (I think) translated as something more like freedom or liberation, which could be "freedom from suffering" but could also be "freedom to ____" tho "suffering" can also be translated as just "overwhelm"
@RichDecibels @embryosophy @visakanv @liminal_warmth @MasterTimBlais @myceliummage this is how we win
Retweeted @visakanv
one of my recurring talking points to anybody who's willing to listen: any small group of people loosely-but-truly aligned…
I co-sign all of this except the insinuation that Twitter's constraints make it impossible to have intelligent discussion. lesswrong.com/posts/mERNQwDN…
Retweeted @aphercotropist
Generally, we only use "that seems to be an egg carton" or "that appears to be an egg carton" instead of "that *is* an…
@briandavidhall thanks! it's definitely been kinda on & off, but so far I've done 13 in a few months so I think my overall timing prediction remains accurate
@EashanKotha totally journalling on airplanes is the best
@acidshill I tried commissioning something to solve this btw, and someone built a prototype but it was never quite usable.
hey @huggingpuppy you were looking for projects this could be something to work on, either from scratch or building on @_stevenxie's work
@CountJ0ecool @huggingpuppy @_stevenxie @_StevenFan yeah rule engine is the way to go methinks freezing a number is way too brittle, and you obviously want certain folks to be able to follow you
Thread · A running collection of delightful animal clips · 1 of 35 tweets
haaaaaa what
Retweeted @CXGonzalez
68) reality being fractal and shaped ultimately by evolutionary pressures across every scale means it's likely that our bra…
huh, I seem to have some sort of schema that's like "if I don't think someone understood me, I need to repeat what I said louder and clearer" / "if someone's not listening to me, I need to get their attention" ...this pattern doesn't seem to ask *why* they didn't understand.
@CXGonzalez @exGenesis I found myself feeling like this recent convo I had resonates with what yall are saying here in interesting ways: youtube.com/watch?v=Ub4_kr…
from my current main perspective, it's pretty obvious that most of the time when people aren't following, it's due to some sort of block/resistance/tension/unsafety that may be about me, or may have very little to do with me and talking more at it doesn't help at all
but this old perspective apparently doesn't see that yet so I'm inviting it into awareness to dialogue with the rest of me & reality
DALL-E + GPT: tarot readings with bespoke situated illustrations of each of the cards that is drawn
@carmenleelau a few prompts I'd love to see! (feel free to remix/reword ofc) "a wizard of fractal rainbow light" "a group of humans forming a collaborative ecstatic superorganism"
@wretched_worm iow
I wish google calendar had a single toggle button for showing/hiding the half-dozen of my friends'/housemates' shared cals I like to have visible I feel overwhelmed til I realize very few events I'm seeing are actually mine. But I don't want to lose my situational awareness.
a very common dream mashup bodymind doesn't realize you're not still in school
@BecomingCritter @Lithros @dancinghorse16
Replying to @juan_cambeiro
@juan_cambeiro there's sort of a motte & bailey of EA, in my perspective obviously do the most good, don't do suboptimal things but metrics inevitably lead to goodharting instead: expand your awareness to include everything you care about (incl the numbers) THEN do what feels right
@juan_cambeiro additionally EA cultures (more & less) contain various self-reproducing memes that induce panic & trauma in people and cause them to doubt themselves, which means that they're inevitably leaving part of their own wisdom out of the equation to which I say
@sullyj3 @RichDecibels @juan_cambeiro insofar as I still count as an EA (debatable) I am also thinking about this in great depth & I think your work is really important Rich any work like this is making a bet that various extreme risks don't fuck us up in the next year or two, but that's a bet some of us should make
I'm writing a letter to my future self (using futureme.org) and pronouns are so fucked. It's workable to say "I feel xyz" & "I hope you are feeling abc" but then I go to say something about a month ago, or a month from now, and !?!? "I did"? "you did"? "we did?"
@IaimforGOAT not sure I quite follow... and "my" here still refers to the self-in-time who wrote the thing?
Retweeted @_StevenFan
This hits, reminds me of the best of Tycho and Jon Hopkins. Real energy booster. twitter.com/human__age/sta…
@SeanMombo trust people because you trust yourself to deal with challenges that arise, not because you don't expect challenges
Retweeted @michaelsayman
What’s your favorite Twitter account? I just started as a product lead at Twitter, looking for input from lots of sourc…
@visakanv @introspectVV context: (I assume)
@visakanv @introspectVV yesssssssssss epistolary writing
@IaimforGOAT ohhhh, yeah no that makes sense
@aphercotropist @softminus oooh yeah, that's a great analogy! I've added this to the blog post
@chenoehart @rsnous does this have an analogy outside of architecture school? seems like it might but I'm not sure I grasp it something about feedback loops
Retweeted @wholebodyprayer
@VividVoid_ My contrarian take having studied illustration for 4 years is that the AI stuff isnt art, but that the vas…
@michaelsayman I couldn't possibly name a single most-favorite, but go follow @QiaochuYuan who I feel represents the whole range of what I like to see on twitter: sincerely trying to figure things out, playful, reflective, encouraging.
@jonathandubin @michaelsayman @visakanv checks out:
@andy_matuschak this is such a thing maybe could block traffic all domains except the ones figma uses, at a system config or even router level? hmm
Replying to @sheherenow_
@jemgold_ @nateliason coconut milk
@alex_here_now intellectual & philosophical movement in 17th-18th centuries, also known as the age of reason
Retweeted @mattgoldenberg
Yo anyone good at doing boring things like taxes and forms in a non-coercive way? I want to interview you.
@m_ashcroft curious what you'd add to this! I've never quite had the knack for ordered playlists, just collections
@pragueyerrr @embryosophy @visakanv I must know who ur bf is so I can send him this regularly
@michaelsayman I'm interested in this and would be happy to give feedback on a draft!
@chenoehart @rsnous mmmmm
Are you working on a project with other ppl in the scene here? Have you encountered trust-building challenges, feedback tangles, conflicts? 💪❤️🔥 I'd love to hear about them (below or in DMs) and share what I know about how trust-dancing works (in the form of tweets or on a call)
Replying to @ClioDen
@ClioDen @eigenrobot @michaelsayman @selentelechia if you haven't married your favorite twitter account are you even playing
pretty consistently, the only couple days I've put "gym" on my intentions list at the start of the day, I haven't actually gone I don't think I'm resisting... it's almost more like if I don't have it on the list then I'm dialoguing with my body how it fits in the day (...!)
I *have* gone to the gym every 2-3 days for most of the last few months, except a hiatus (travelling for xmas then gyms were closed bc covid) and finally making progress, which is motivating!
Retweeted @aladyonfire_
hello, today i wrote about the idea that you have to learn how to lose other people’s games in order to win the only game…
@zaymonantonio I mean in my case it's a pretty literal list, that I'm often pretty good at doing the stuff on it (screenshot of complice.co)
@zaymonantonio yeah, I've experienced this before, but my rship with the gym atm is very much the opposite I'm not saying "I should go to the gym today", but I am tracking that it's been 2-3 days, then being in touch with my desire to gym every 2-3 days, then it emerges at an unknown time
My favorite scene from 1Q84 is one where the narrator is taking a piss and thinking about something. Something so paradoxically compelling about the quotidianness of it. twitter.com/Aaron__Burch/s…
@QiaochuYuan I agree the smiling one is better, but you're onto something with the first one for sure
@EnzikaOfAsh cc @SarahAMcManus @LordChisholm @mary_bajorek @ReidGower @rasoolr
@the_wilderless ......true. that book is wild. I think my brain stored everything except the pissing scene under "a dream or something" rather than an actual story, it was so bizarre
@zaymonantonio I don't think my body quite craves workouts yet, though I do feel good after them. so it's more just a sense of the passage of days
@visakanv @introspectVV how dis goin?
> If you’re in your 20s, don’t get overly swayed by the “magic of compounding interest.” It’s only magical if you make basically the same amount for the rest of your life. nateliason.com/blog/career-sa…
Getting into @visakanv's Introspect, reading Overview of Act I, & having a sense of something like "okay, so he's got a map of a journey… how do I locate myself on that map? am I already far along it?" I feel like am, on some dimensions …is this thing fractal?
Retweeted @p_millerd
People try to intellectualize creative stuff when they start. “What platform should I use?” “Domain?” “How do I get readers…
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
really weird to think about the ways in which american culture is engaged in a conspiracy to pretend that beauty has nothi…
@0x56 @QiaochuYuan guessing that this is sort of a memetic tribes thing and the one is a reaction to the other like QC is pushing back against something that's pushing back against the swath you describe but see also "everyone is beautiful and no one is horny" bloodknife.com/everyone-beaut…
Retweeted @_brentbaum
it's time to double down. this corner of twitter is special I want to invest in projects and individuals in our community…
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
I have a talking point that I want to bang on about more in different ways that is "you can only respond to what you notic…
@_brentbaum @the_wilderless I don't have a concrete project to propose yet but I love your energy here and I thought you'd appreciate this thread if you haven't already seen it:
@_brentbaum 1516 / 13 574 / 15 696 / 5 689 / 7 467 / 4 510 / 12 648 / 14 630 / 11 388 / 4 469 / 17 706 / 9 74 / 0 4146 / 12 (a tweet from 2020 that got bumped again recently) 244 / 2 378 / 6 more than 3, in part because I got curious
@davidfactorial huh, neat! important not to assume that this kind of trust corresponds to any *other* kind of trust but aside from that it seems like a fun game
periodic reminder to download all of your tweets in case something happens to twitter or your account link for convenience: twitter.com/settings/downl…
@visakanv complice.co is still a sole proprietorship, not a corporation! (Canada doesn't have LLCs, or it would probably be one of those) (although this year our revenue target means that it'll be worth incorporating for tax reasons 💪)
Replying to @AnnaFalby
@AnnaFalby as for finding, I lucked in once but otherwise not sure I'll encourage you to trust your own sense of your own learning process, and not let your mentor rush you:
Retweeted @temujin9
TPOT's having "we could buy X communally" ideas lately. I'm having a hard time articulating why that seems like a poor idea,…
@_brentbaum @the_wilderless that thread's the tip of the iceberg—lmk when you're ready and I'll start feeding you the deeper layers (which are mostly unpublished at this point)
@_brentbaum I think somewhat unique to me, relative to other accounts my size. I've had no big hit tweets essentially, because I never tweet anything more than 100 people can follow 😅
@_brentbaum according to @TwemexApp, my most-liked tweets have 94, 107, 115, 134, 157, 165 likes (aside from this meme that got a bunch of momentum because it's a meme—my super niche caption being just enough to get it off the ground in our circles)
Replying to @nathanwaters
@nathanwaters @speakerjohnash @cognazor this has implications for birth defects, no? although maybe within 10-20 years screening tech will be adequate to prevent that? hmmmmm
the amount of shit that comes back to self-validation is fucking wild
Retweeted @this_is_silvia
long vulnerable spacious conversations with friends are my new favorite form of journaling
Replying to @m_altcroft
@m_altcroft @alt_visa I've started not checking notifs at all and just using my tiny.cc/maltwt search
@AskYatharth Ahhhhhh it makes me happy too
@the_wilderless idk but I have had to learn that one many times
Thread · Two kinds of dancing: trance submission vs conversational movement · 12 of 14 tweets
whoa @Aella_Girl put words to a thing I've been feeling aware of for years and haven't quite been able to name: there are 2 totally different kinds of dancing I feel like I could have literally written this blog post. Every word matches my experience. knowingless.com/2018/09/07/dan…
when I hear trance music, I'm like: there's nothing there! it's all the same! gotta admit, I've been pretty judgmental of this, treating it as just bad rather than good-in-its-own-way. I once got into the trance, randomly (sober!) idk why it happened! it was decent.
Maybe 2 things here tho? I feel like most trance dancers *are* submitting to the music, & they're not doing anything interesting because the music isn't (tho it may feel good) This is different from eg breakdancing, where the beats are minimalist & the dancers do moves on top
I feel sorta vindicated by this tweet (someone who used to like Type 1 dancing talking about how they don't find it compelling anymore) which seems to prove my point about Type 1 being lesser. which is not to say you shouldn't enjoy it if you do
regarding flow states, Csikszentmihalyi makes the case that flow is when difficulty & skill are well-matched so I am confused about how people are getting into flow states doing the same thing over and over. dramatically narrowed awareness? 🤔🤔🤔 plz explain
Type 2 music is my JAM. It feels conversational and interesting. I like it best when it's right on the edge of my ability to notice patterns & anticipate what's coming next, although complex music I know well has the different puzzle of expressing every little detail.
Here's an example of a song from my Dancy playlist. it's hard for me *not* to dance, when a song like this comes on. I've just gotta move! But I also dance to anything complex, including Bebop once, which got me a stern scolding from the guy playing it. youtube.com/watch?v=O5ds72…
But also it doesn't have to be crazy & wild. I have had beautiful & ecstatic dances to minimalist songs like this, where I'm pouring every ounce of my attention into manifesting each syllable into the right tiny movements. youtube.com/watch?v=safO91…
Yeah, this is interesting. One obvious factor is that the trance stuff makes more sense on certain drugs, and I'm usually dancing sober. Ecstatic Dance, which I love (eg 5 Rhythms) is also conventionally sober.
I'd also be curious to experience a context that helps people learn how to enjoy doing Type 1 dancing to Type 1 music! (sober) Mostly I've just been annoyed that scenes aren't playing something I want to dance to, and nobody has offered an on-ramp into the trance state! 👯
I've been dancing expressively & interpretively since I was a wee tot, so idk what it's like to not know how—or feel comfortable, which is half of it. But I do feel like I could show people! Start small: pick one body part & one musical element to express, & try it out 🦵
I think it's important to respect that people enjoy what they enjoy and ALSO to respect that people don't enjoy what they don't enjoy And someone might be able to *learn* how to enjoy something else, but that doesn't happen automatically—it does need an on-ramp.
@dismaien @Aella_Girl I wrote a whole thread about your article because it resonated so much
@visakanv @introspectVV got it, no peeking
@Dandy_Roddick I don't meditate I mean I kinda do but not in any focused way
@MasterTimBlais be your true self, attune to others and respond in whatever way feels like it'll create a workable & satisfying interface you don't have to be not-you you just have to be you-in-context-&-relation which you already are, so you might as well git gud at it
Thread · Two kinds of dancing: trance submission vs conversational movement · 1 of 14 tweets
For the record, ecstatic dance to me feels like somewhere beautifully in between these two types, in a sense. It can be incredibly expressive, and also incredibly trancy. However, the music always develops. It's not the same beat for hours, but a wave that builds & crashes.
have you ever imagined being the founding fathers of the USA? what do you think the world was like from their vantage points? ("points", plural, because they had different perspectives & argued extensively about how to set things up!)
@AskYatharth waking up in the morning, like "what's on today? oh yeah, editing the bill of rights for the constitution of the new country we're working on"
@wholebodyprayer a friend of mine talks about this as the "like/want" distinction "I'd like X" vs "I want X" he says this is connected to psychology research, eg this paper, but I have not investigated that thoroughly scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2380/
@tasshinfogleman introspect
@CoughsOnWombats I mean maybe I Am A Rock by Simon and Garfunkel, although that song *definitely* has "methinks thou dost protest too much" energy lol
@strangestloop Jason Mraz has been one for a long time, although more moderatedly after this recent realization
@strangestloop my uncle, when I was a kid a few friends who are older than me tho with whom I also have some peership I admire some things about visionaries like Musk & Jobs, although I'm pretty clear where my desired lifestyle diverges from them @DougTataryn as embodiment of male tenderness
Retweeted @visakanv
my big broscience medical conspiracy theory is that tonnes of things are downstream of stress (which have ton tonnes of upstr…
@anglerfish01 @PoemsWeBurned @QiaochuYuan @visakanv pretty good jumping off point for exploring eustress youtube.com/watch?v=RcGyVT…
@AskYatharth I have half a dozen chrome profiles I use mostly to manage different twitter accounts don't trust the app with that shit
was walking around with the sun on my skin and thought I'd record something to share with the world it's a lot easier to have space in conversation to choose whether or not to say something if you've already honored it within yourself youtu.be/0bOy-3omSS0
recorded a video riffing on this: youtu.be/0bOy-3omSS0
"elaborate on a recent tweet" seems like a good prompt for recording a video
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 14/100 thinking out loud while walking
@CoughsOnWombats yup related thread:
if you are annoyed at how twitter is spastic when you have tabs open as one profile then you change profiles (even losing drafts when it can) I recommend using multiple browser profiles for this instead
Retweeted @anothercohen
Old money twitter is all of these random, blue check accounts that have 100k+ followers but get no engagement, likely pum…
@michael_nielsen “If you don't have time to meditate for an hour everyday, you should meditate for two hours.” — Zen proverb
fun fact: if you're wearing all colors of the rainbow except one, then that other color goes perfectly with your outfit
@CurziRose glad you're sharing your joy with us 🙏 that is its own art; its own intimate world ❤️🔥
@as_per_ushe yes and no sometimes you get to a certain vantage point and you're like "holy shit this is obvious—do you see this too?" which probably happened for them about this stuff
Retweeted @CurziRose
j) People I barely know can heal me just by behaving/reacting differently from people I knew in the past
@khemaridh @sheilalina @CompliceGoals Curious what you think of it when you've had the chance to dig in—no rush though, I'm around 😊
@Morphenius I have accounts for @CompliceGoals (& @compluvi) and then also a locked alt that only people I know can follow and then a few other accounts
@paulg yeah, I really feel like there could be a better way for streaming services to differentiate, by actually having the best experience for people to listen & organize their music
Retweeted @ricvolpe
Someone was advocating for an approach at Twitter (inc) the other day and the evidence they used was a @visakanv 's tweet I…
@ricvolpe "hero" may not even be the right metaphor/narrative often implies a kind of big threat or something maybe we need stories of a shared journey or stories of becoming something together or new stories—what if there were a whole bunch of archetypes *in* knowledge-work?
@ricvolpe eg this article talks about "zombie initiatives", which is a classic kind of structure that shows up in technical or creative projects tomkerwin.substack.com/p/how-to-do-di…
Malcolm starter pack
Retweeted @RichDecibels
I'm heading towards a future where every kid has 30 aunts & uncles
@nosilverv I like telling people I beat runescape and ofc if they know the game they're like "what do you mean you beat it, it just kinda goes on forever?" and then I say "I used to have a runescape addiction, but then I beat it"
Retweeted @visakanv
I get away with being “lazier” than ~80% of my peers because I also think longer-term. To be a bit flippant and silly-obnoxio…
Replying to @hornydiscogirl
@hornydiscogirl uhhh well then I'm not sure what to tell you how do you use it?
@m_ashcroft one of the issues is we don't have a word for {thinking+feeling}
@m_ashcroft I think "reactions" is probably itself confused in that it sort of implies a behaviorist stimulus-response model. "SR" is also a cumbersome phrase, and not in a way that's likely to be useful. I have an old draft somewhere suggesting we use "sem" as the verb for this
@utotranslucence I feel extremely seen 🥰
@vgr @fortelabs @p_millerd @m_ashcroft I took it in spring 2017 and I'm pretty sure I remember @chenoehart there had a big impact on me, both the experience of vibe of the course itself (zoom presentation + loud textchat) and writing+editing the post for ribbonfarm that I did
Good sign that twitter is starting to identify as a place where people's lives are transformed, not just as "what's happening now" business.twitter.com/en/blog/build-…
why not update the twitter.com homepage though too? I'm not joking. tired: "Happening now" wired: "Meet your future [cofounder, boss, customer, spouse, best friend]"
@jessejanderson I built an app to solve my own ADHDish tendency to lose touch with my intentions. It plugs you into your long-term goals each day, and keeps your intentions in front of you, without letting them get stale. complice.co
@jessejanderson there's even a new tab page browser extension that puts your next action right in front of you whenever you hit ctrl+T chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…
@PeterW__ I feel like complice.co solves it for me I don't know if I have ADHD or poor prospective memory, but it seems like a thing worth trying if you haven't yet!
@carmenleelau !!!!! I love it so much! particularly the 1st and 2nd ones @tasshinfogleman this seems like your jam too
I came up with some dall-e prompts and it's so beautiful!
@wholebodyprayer woah, weird I'm not seeing any other tweets by me or our peeps under `like/want distinction` tho
@wholebodyprayer not seeing it under `want lack` either
if ur conception of flirting only includes sex-flirting ur ngmi twitter.com/selentelechia/…
Huh. I've got an 11-year active blog, that has had 10 consecutive yearly review posts on it 💪 I didn't realize I'd hit 10 when I wrote my latest one. Wow. Decent way to share the story of my adult life, both from the content of the posts and the vibe of the guy writing them 😉
@TylerAlterman This is a cool project and I'm glad you're doing it. I definitely had some half-formed thoughts about it at some point but I have no idea where I put them (groupchat somewhere? a google doc? roam notes?)
@wholebodyprayer @visakanv yeah imo good conversations involve getting a shared train of thought going twitter is weird for this, because the branchiness means that there's sorta no such thing as an interruption and trains of thought can actually go 2 ways at once
Thread · "Sem": a neologism to replace think and feel
Sem: a tentative proposal for a verb to replace "think" & "feel" and help avoid mind-body dualism in daily utterances. "I sem that X" = "I think/feel that X" "I'm semming" = "I'm thinking/feeling"
I got started semming about this awhile back by wondering about the potential relationship, etymologically or morphologically, between: - "seems" - "semantic" seems they have unrelated roots—so close though!
I've long wanted a word that could be used like "thinking" or "feeling" but had connotations more of meaning-making instead. "It seems to me" is close but doesn't lend itself to replacing "I think ____" "suppose", "reckon", "figure", "interpret", "construe" ...? too many steps
Korzybski proposed "semantic reactions" (which he abbreviates "s.r.") which is exactly the thing I'm looking for—as I recall, it may have been what inspired the search—except WAY too cumbersome. "I'm having a semantic reaction that ____" 🧐
Might need to coin a new word to intertwingle thinking & feeling: what about "sem"? I sem that might work actually! sem, v. to have a semantic reaction sem, v.transitive to have a semantic reaction in relation to (but you can also just sem of it as think+feel) #neologizing
I'm valuing having "sem" defined by reference to "semantic reaction" although of course a formal definition—especially of a neologism—is unlikely to capture the in-practice-meaning of a word.
Yet I also sem that if Korzybski had been developing general semantics not in the 30s but *after* cybernetics & systems theory emerged in the 60s, then he would have used a term other than "reaction", which feels sort of behaviorist—stimulus & response.
I'm thus inclined to suggest "semantic interaction" as a replacement for "semantic reaction", which will probably go without contest as almost nobody was using "semantic reaction" in the first place. So then: sem, v. to have a semantic interaction
according to this site, Korzybski actually found himself later regretting his own use of the term "semantic" (people took it too narrowly—just linguistic, not about meaning-making) stevenlewis.info/gs/sr.htm
I've noticed while drafting this: "think" & "feel" get phrased slightly differently! > you can also just sem of it as think+feel (clearly replacing "think of it") > you can also just sem it as think+feel (more like replacing "feel it") it's much more intimate without the "of"!
I'm semming about how we typically ask: "how do you feel?" vs "what do you think?" Feels to me like either could be used with "sem", and they'd carry different meanings: "how do you sem?" → process, withness "what do you sem?" → content, aboutness
The presence of these two meanings invites the awareness that we can't be semming *about* something, without semming about it *in a particular way*. There's no what without a how. Everything is in relation. This is what Korzybski was pointing at w/ "semantic reaction"
A related sem I've had is about the difference between believing & perceiving. If our opinions differ, maybe one of us is wrong. If our perspectives differ, well, we're probably looking from different angles.
For another exploration into queering thinking & feeling, check out this emoji concept I've mocked up. Could use someone to actually take it through the proposal stage—I have a ton on the go and haven't yet found time to write it up, but I'd love to help.
@m_ashcroft aaaaaaaaaaand I went and published it
@khemaridh @sheilalina @CompliceGoals Perfect, let's connect then—I'm travelling the next few weeks so not really scheduling calls much til May anyway.
at some point I'll do a thread collecting all of the words I have invented but for now you can search `from:malcolm_ocean neologizing` and get many of them feel free to post others below if I've somehow forgotten some twitter.com/search?q=from%…
@StupendousGrav1 already rejected earlier today
@reasonisfun I decided to try out "sem" as a new verb for this:
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1. personally if I'm in a circle and someone points out that I'm doing something that's getting in the way of group cohe…
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@Malcolm_Ocean illustration of a group of humans forming a collaborative ecstatic superorganism
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Einstein: you can't solve a problem with the same thinking that created it too many web3 projects: let's solve spiritu…
@fifthworldzach original quote said "same level of thinking" I think, which makes it even more apt for this having said that, web3 overall does invite new thinking-level possibilities, even if most projects are completely missing them and reinventing the status quo
@altsanabo @tasshinfogleman @carmenleelau yeah! unfortunately I'll never look like the one on the right, not because I won't grow old (defs plan to) but because I can't grow a beard like that
@EyalShay2 words don't change how people sem when there's an opponent process pushing it back in the same direction, as with pc stuff but I sem the time is ripe for this signifier and it can't be found because it needs to be a comfy 1-syl word and the existing ones have other meanings
@EyalShay2 that's what prompted me to publish this today
@becomingbabyman yeah totally and I sem there's value to *also* having the words "think" and "feel" for when we mean something more specific!
@_awbery_ @Ultraspeaking @TylerAlterman @frideswyth @coladaclan @FluidityAudio @SarahAMcManus @Shadow_Rebbe you're suggesting the people you've tagged all go do ultraspeaking at once? otherwise, not sure I follow
@becomingbabyman and re superset, I can imagine there are elements of semming not adequately covered by thinking+feeling, quite!
@lavenderhaloxyz @carmenleelau @tasshinfogleman you might dig this then (working title "the Superorganism Song"—a song I wrote, not AI-generated)
@Krazov yup, very relevant this is why UBI would be so game-changing—gives everybody a way better BATNA
@becomingbabyman can sem about your perceptions can perceive your sems
@AnneSelke Toke:
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🖼️ Dall-E game ideas🧵 #1 Dream Journal Voice-record your dream when you wake up. Text to speech + auto pick out strong ima…
woke up at 6am with a full bladder and just went to the bathroom immediately rather than laying in bed going in and out of sleep & getting increasingly uncomfortable for hours 💪💪
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There are some poems that, in the blink of a line break, transport you to another world, which turns out to be the your…
@ricvolpe it's good shit
@Dandy_Roddick Absolutely. Few understand this. I'm still learning it myself.
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@movebetterproj @Knipps @visakanv yo no joke first time I theragun'd my calf it was a holy experience I was like "welp, take me God"
Thread · Meta-thread of threads on McGilchrist's brain hemispheres · 1 of 38 tweets
thread on secure attachment as key for right hemisphere development
@QiaochuYuan @KoshuaJellyfish oh shit yeah this is cool added it to my hemispheres meta-thread
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whoa this one is impressively photorealistic none of them look like paintings (even the graffiti one feels like a photo of real graffiti)
@BecomingCritter @nickcammarata pretty sure that wasn't the actual prompt he used (correct me if I'm wrong)
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from one of my favorite strips of one of my favorite comics, @FalseKnees
@Dandy_Roddick relatedly
@uthmanzi I think he meant to say "Most people who say they love me are lying" he doesn't know shit about the rest of us (I have a few other critiques of that generalization too tho)
cascadia when
this draft continues to feel quite good/clear to me may make it into a blog post soon would love to get more critique on it, or questions!
"A project is anything that requires collaboration, even if it's "only" between you-today and you-tomorrow." — @visakanv (in Introspect)
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People on LinkedIn apparently actually act on the “congratulate X for n year work anniversary” prompt by sending the recommended c…
@visakanv for more context/elaboration:
@visakanv Yeah it's one of those beautiful moments where someone distills the essence of a concept, in a way that deepens the obvious colloquial meaning, rather than a sort of prescriptivist attempt to say what a commonly-used word *should* mean.
@visakanv @m_ashcroft @briandavidhall somebody: me in particular: hi @briandavidhall, want to share thoughts on complice.co? brian:
@EnzikaOfAsh @AgnesCallard yesssssssss
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mfs be talking about how they want more precise language when they really want higher trust relationships
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if GPT-3 can do the homework you assign your students then the homework you assign your students is fake notice what you…
@JakeOrthwein I thought of this re online courses. Weave their videos into my TL plz
@diviacaroline This seems like @mary_bajorek's sort of game!
my older sister taught me the alphabet in our attic
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth Write it for the people who want to read it! Those who aren't into it can ignore it. Well, some of them can. Those who don't know how to ignore what they aren't into can be blocked.
I haven't read the post yet but I'm also excited about pol.is So this QT is also gonna function as a reminder for future me to read it twitter.com/sirodoht/statu…
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There has to be a word like "incel" but for people who are involuntarily ascetic Like you didn't take a vow or anything,…
@SeanMombo Just put the music on the profile, imo
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In my experience, great process almost never produces great outcomes. It can create acceptable or predictable outcomes, but no…
@_exoconnor Those look like the ones I brought 4 pairs of to vibecamp! But maybe slightly different?
@andy_matuschak @Altimor @vgr has a 2×2 about this in a thread somewhere...
lukewarm take: I don't like mixed nuts. I find the flavors kinda cancel each other out. I sometimes eat almonds and cashews at the same time, but I alternate bites.
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Easily convinced 84% of all life’s struggles can be traced to letting go when it’s time to hold on and holding on when i…
Someone go comment the tweet(s) from @QiaochuYuan (+ @made_in_cosmos?) about how when people have takes like this they're actually grossly overgeneralizing from like one guy in the first place t.co/ld5oty3f22
@QiaochuYuan @made_in_cosmos In some sense she's probably saying "I hate [/can't trust] my experience of myself in relation to {men in the context of romantic relationships}" which legit is different around gay men!
@orpheaskk Even when I'm listening to a podcast or on a call I am often interested in the terrain, and I can explore it more freely than when I'm walking with a friend!
@orpheaskk I think for me it's less about needing stimulation and more about a sense of scarcity around time, leading to multitasking. Never mind that walking without a podcast can be extremely productive, just less legibly.
@huggingpuppy @parafactual yeah maybe start a bit more adjacent. could also get into reading books together (SciFi?) & talking about the implications of those
@asemakula It means a change in thinking and perceiving that generates upward-spiral self-reinforcing change on all of those fronts at once.
me: it's really nice out today in Seattle @mary_bajorek: I haven't left the hotel since day one of #EasterSwing 😅 @LordChisholm: sometimes you travel but you don't travel, you know? me: well, you kinda travel on the dancefloor Mary: I travelled the world on the dancefloor! 🤩💃
maybe the real friends were the aphorisms we snowcloned along the way
tfw you dance with someone on a favorite song of theirs and the dance is 😙👌
Question & Answer #twiptych at the top of my timeline today Ft @RichDecibels & @embryosophy
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa I'd be curious to hear the song!
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I love the coinages of phrases “enjoyer”, “respecter”, “disrespecter” – I think these are truly great words. I am a phrase-co…
@khemaridh The PCT books (Making Sense of Behavior or Behavior: The Control of Perception) Deep model of how motivation works on all levels of abstraction down to muscle actuation. All productivity problems downstream of either: – unclear goal – goal conflict Otherwise you just do it.
@nosilverv If you don't know what to do precisely enough to act, then obviously the thing to do is to find a way to get that precision. Full-stop. Or conclude that you don't know how and it's not worth figuring out how, and give up the goal.
@QiaochuYuan long olive & coconut companies
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Nice evo psych theory bro, she let me hit because I honored the divine transcendent that's inherent to her humanity
@natural_hazard two lenses on the same thing
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the blank wall in my section of the office needs some diplomas & i'm bored. what degrees should i give myself? initial tho…
@BellaRudd1 Postdoc in Intertwingularity Studies
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The love of a mother embraces our Being, unconditionally; the love of a father elevates our potential and sees our Becom…
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1. Nerds (people for whom curiosity is a dominant drive) are rare to begin with. Let’s say 5-10% 2. Friendly nerds and ambit…
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I wish we had a society where everyone was expected and incentivized to make at least ONE new discovery / new invention in…
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa @__drewface @Prigoose Yup. And it's a pretty balanced name—accessible but also depthable
@daemonhugger Some of my best tweets emerged in the replyzone
@tasshinfogleman I'm a playful, attuned dancer who is comfortable with big movements at the limits of my skill or small perfections of familiar moves
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Thoughts should be executed as soon as possible. Thoughts that aren't turned into action just fester, filling the mind with…
@MattiasInSpace @QiaochuYuan @made_in_cosmos That's the one!
@finnitejest > people get mad about generalities when they’re actually heartbroken about specifics
@MattiasInSpace @QiaochuYuan @made_in_cosmos Ah yeah and this one! cc @jessicamalonso
@Jeanvaljean689 The power of showtimes!
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@Kirsten3531 if every joke you make was clearly worth making, you're not making enough jokes
@FPallopides also has a different landscape in terms of like... smartest hacker takes all, but best pirates can still only be in one place at once, so there's space for a lot of them
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Education is very early stage. If you compare education to medicine, education is at best post-Galenic medieval. Like, some g…
@uthmanzi @nosilverv you can't satisfy the parts on the level that they have the conflict, but they're generated by something more abstract and if you keep going up, eventually the answer becomes clear & things don't feel conflicted (doesn't mean either original goal met)
@uthmanzi @nosilverv it is possible (tho WAY rarer than ppl assume) to be in a situation where you don't have time to go up a level& you have to just pick however! in that case, you actually DO know what to do! and if "choose" is clear & "which" is so unclear, flip a coin
@uthmanzi @nosilverv re "way rarer than people assume":
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A hymn for harmony & regenerosity - an upward spiral of hope.
@Morphenius @Human__Age and also if it does feel like that, that's a good sign that you have done a goodharted version of the thing, not the thing read this post and swap "coercive mindset" and "collaborative mindset" in for "confused stances" and "the complete stance" malcolmocean.com/2021/11/mindse…
@visakanv @bwinterrose oooh yeah! I mean for now I'd probably just point it at this thread, but that would be fun:
@JPMalkin "regenerosity"—nice.
another case study: this sweater plus my purple bags
@MugaSofer @QiaochuYuan Yes but those have adequate feedback loops for whether you've actually achieved the skill. Being able to play scales or multiply numbers isn't bullshittable! These analyses are out of touch with whether they actually help anyone make sense of things.
@AskYatharth @natural_hazard 👋
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@thisisntsilvia @gptbrook U da real MVP
@pmarca No joke. Tried transferring money between my wealthsimple accounts and when I asked support they were like "oh yeah to do that you open the Android app and..." I never use the Android app. Hadn't occurred to me it would have additional features.
Replying to @alt_visa
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Twitter bot that finds everyone who "me and who"ed the same tweet and automatically puts them in a gc
@acidshill Oh hey, me too this month ish too That number always boggles me (Tho I've been here for over a decade)
@chaosprime nothing can be done yet nobody is doing nothing trust nobody nobody's perfect
@NateSilver538 Averages are likely not a good way to think about this, especially since increased spread on airplanes means increased spread between areas with different densities and variants. But also there are 100 lil things that make a marginal, not major, difference, individually.
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alright idk wtf is going on with taymor lorenzo but just cause the enemy harasses you this doesn't justify you harassing th…
@daniel_eth im sry 😔
@visakanv It takes logistical freedom to be able to show up at random hours. It takes that *plus* psychological freedom to actually in fact do so. Most people who work from home or whatever are still not nearly whimsical enough.
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"The pupils of people with aphantasia did not respond when asked to imagine dark and light objects, while those without aphan…
@visakanv I feel that often when I'm out walking with nowhere to be! Altho I sorta live in a retirement town atm (temporarily) so there are a lot of people out on aimless strolls compared to a big city. I'm the only one dancing shirtless tho 😉
@demystifysci @nickcammarata Events exist in a sense The Fall of Atlantis doesn't exist in the way the Fall of Rome does.
@nickcammarata Not sure what you mean by exist but insofar as "qualia" was coined to point at something, it seems that that something exists insofar as we don't have a better explanation. Do you think it's like phlogiston?
You may have heard that fairness is difficult to optimize for. That's really just the tip of the iceberg. Fairness is an incoherent concept altogether and cannot be optimized for at all, let alone poorly.
Everything is a remix. ...except things that are just copy-pasted. (Although these are slightly remixes too, since nothing exists outside its context) t.co/iYcQI2QcHR
@m_ashcroft Linux when
@rmpars I'll take one if you've still got some
Be the discourse you wish to see in the world
"are you with {one side of drama}, or {other side of drama}?" "the important thing is I've found a way to feel superior to both"
kids be learning, but not necessarily what you're trying to teach them
Update on my attempt to learn the advanced grammatical conjugation known as "habitual be": I spontaneously uttered this 👇 in a conversation today! Without pre-reflectively composing it! People be learning!
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There’s a law in Kuwait that work is canceled when the weather is too hot to endure. Why isn’t there a law that cance…
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Middle-aged South African immigrant with frequent legal entanglements working two jobs in transportation and manufacturing…
@visakanv I haven't quite gotten into as much hosting as I intend, but I do hub directly & indirectly. I was hanging out today with 4 people, all pairings of whom had met each other because of me on some level or another (and one had met me through my blog). Extreme for me but not wild.
@visakanv I did have a birthday party recently in a city I moved to 6mo prior, and a guy who grew up in the city was like "how did you meet all these cool people so quickly?" And I guess there's barnraisings and stuff. Okay fine I qualify 😅😆 Had me worried for a sec 🙃
What kind of life do you want to live? I love working but I love it in part because I'm so free to not do it whenever I don't feel like it. But some people want a daily rhythm with expectations! The important thing is to know thyself.
@meekaale Oooh this reminds me of that Sarah Perry @ribbonfarm post on patterns and order-preserving transformations Thought I wouldn't bother finding it until I realized the above description would be an adequate search query. ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/06/dee…
@WildBillWellman @remixeverything Habitual Be is dope and I decided awhile ago to learn it, and now I find myself expressing things like:
@ch402 Another great case study of @everytstudies' concept of the signal and the corrective. "NNs understand, but..." "NNs don't understand, except..." everythingstudies.com/2017/12/19/the…
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imo internet anonymity is good+important and reporters should have an extremely high bar for reporting the real name behind…
@guyjames23 yikes 😅 I'm curious to hear more, if you want to share!
@AskYatharth I had an embodied subtle missing yesterday for someone I danced with to half a dozen songs and talked deeply with for a few hours. Mostly has dissipated after a day, but still striking.
@m_ashcroft @brianmwang @tasshinfogleman There's a bit in BC's Live In Vegas show where he asks if a lady in the front has any febreze in her purse after someone's solo, "because that was NASTY!" I don't remember where, but that's fine because you deserve to treat yourself to the whole concert. youtu.be/lQ0iqwatAl8
Looking forward to singing at @jacobcollier's concerts tonight in Denver! (in the audience, that is, unless he needs a backup beatboxer or something 😉)
seriously considering getting a MacBook so I can produce music without dealing with Linux driver bullshit I've concluded I want to get at least decent at producing, but it's hard to even get a flow going
Cool thread about the need to have both "that's true" and "I agree" as available moves, and to know when to use each. Seems related to something I've (so far) been calling "co-epistemic status"
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fun is a very basic human need, in my view, and i find it hard to trust anybody who claims or implies otherwise
Replying to @thisisntsilvia
@thisisntsilvia noice
I'm in Denver with @joyurge this weekend with potentially slightly fewer plans than anticipated. Anybody here I might want to meet? (you or someone you know) We could drive to Boulder too!
@nickredmark @Morphenius EEAAO vibez
@Morphenius Implies also the existence of - elsewho - elsewhat - elsewhy #neologizing
@deepfates @Tjdriii I call this "dancing up a store"
@himbodhisattva @qorprate @Tjdriii I have a chart for tracking my reading that encourages me to focus on starting and reading books, not finishing them, and it has been transformative. Template & explainer linked here: malcolmocean.com/bookreading
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@Tjdriii walk around shirtless to feel the sun on your skin (only legal to be totally topless as a woman in some jurisdictions unfortunately, and may be socially unworkable, but given how few men I see shirtless idk if that's really the limiting factor)
@Tjdriii Huh it looks like it's legal in most states. This site also lists some cities where people have tested it: (It claims Canada is all good but it actually depends on province afaik) crawlsf.com/where-you-can-…
@pmarca Socrates is a lot more threatening when he's a living contemporary who can ask you annoying questions that undercut your assumptions, than as a historical figure whose perspective our society has already integrated and built upon.
@AskYatharth @uncatherio had one which iirc worked pretty well!
Thread · The self-defeating logic of "if you're not with us, you're against us" · 1 of 4 tweets
If you're not against "if you're not with us you're against us", you're against us.
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you're only allowed to retweet smaller accounts. retweeting a bigger account has the same cringe energy as sharing a mem…
What about a version of Twitter where this is an actual constraint? Lots of design challenges there, plus it would turn into QTing, which would need to still be a thing... but it's neat to think about! See also platforms.fyi twitter.com/storebrandguy/…
@__drewface @visakanv yeah, we've both been betrayed a few times I would describe myself as almost having sought it out deliberately because I knew I was naive, although I couldn't have predicted how it would go
@freshperspected @tasshinfogleman :D it's what came to mind in the context of being at a partner dance event and sensing my capacity to have really satisfying social dances with people even while my skill at the dance was insufficient to get any points or anything at the lowest division of competition
@lucca_dev @fifthworldzach oof
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@khemaridh The PCT books (Making Sense of Behavior or Behavior: The Control of Perception) Deep model of how motivation…
@anielsen108 @nosilverv true especially true in chaotic systems, where you have to act before you really know what's going on (see cynefin framework)
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I PUT THE DOUBLE QUOTES IN YOU PIECE OF TRASH, I KNOW WHAT I SEARCHED FOR, I AM A HUMAN BEING AND YOU DO NOT KNOW BETTER THAN I D…
@tracyktownsend Huh, I heard someone describe it as surprisingly *not* nihilistic, so that's interesting! Haven't yet watched it myself though!
@piva_jonas I thought so at first, but afaict it's actually different
@DRMacIver I just do a Super Mario 64 triple jump with sound effects ofc: ya! Hoohoo! WA-HA!
@bonkydog @Terminal_Ligma @deepfates @visakanv Knipps has got you
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@s0ulDirect0r I think the secret is related to how we dont need a habit to kiss the people we love
@captain_mrs Hard BOTH.
in my notes just now I wrote "that's something to steelman and dovetail" looks like I'm using "dovetail" here to mean "figure out how it dovetails [fits in with everything else]"
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Okay fellow McGilchrist nerds, help me out here: What exactly is it that LH does that REQUIRES the RH be uninvolved in? W…
@pragueyerrr @MasterTimBlais I'm not afraid
@MasterTimBlais 3 giant TVs playing in the apartment across from my hotel Top one is Lion King 2 internet points for anyone who can figure out the other two
I hate it when substitute X's have different macronutrient profiles than the original. Turkey bacon with no fat Almond milk with 1g protein per cup (vs 8g in milk) Cereal with almond milk is not a meal the same way as with milk.
hooooly shit huge if true battery tech that lasts way longer, is more sustainable, and weighs less than lithium-ion per energy. charges as fast. ift.tt/KDZYg4z
the right combo of humility & earnestness allows for a particular beautiful stance towards life: "I am fucking up as best as I can"
@made_in_cosmos my parents
@hormeze you know how if your cereal isn't sweet enough, you wanna add more sugar to it, but then if you accidentally pour a ton in, it's TOO sweet... but *you know* how sweet it's supposed to be? turns out everything is like that! even knowing how much to squeeze your muscles to lift it
@made_in_cosmos Not particularly! One main salient feature is we didn't have a TV growing up, and lived on a large property in a small town where we could do lots of exploring. Also went to an intergenerational summer camp with even more freedom to roam around while very young.
@made_in_cosmos I would say they also tried to be pretty open & frank about things, like they instantiated a weekly outing (usually a hike in woods or beach) that was called EQFT: Enforced Quality Family Time. they knew it was important and wouldn't happen naturally, and kinda owned that
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Really annoying that the people I most hate are made of the same kind of stuff (qualia, hopes, fears, cravings) as the p…
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Imagine you’re doing your best to tell everyone what bothers you or what’s on your mind in general, and everyone around…
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin @JakeOrthwein @nickcammarata I find that some reframes can help. Complainy vibes are hard to relate with because they tend to draw you into a collapsed right/wrong frame, but you can avoid that without rejecting them--honor them as sacred.
@this_is_silvia @visakanv @nibrasibn as a kid I wanted to build a teleporter but all I've achieved so far is writing this song about it maleidoscope.bandcamp.com/track/teleport…
@this_is_silvia @visakanv @nibrasibn shit I just relistened to this and it's pretty good like, a clever song, and the production, while a little sloppy, has great textures and is a lot of fun gotta get back into recording music
@hormeze @SarahAMcManus it's a framework for understanding motivation & internal conflict at all levels of abstraction! so it also applies to whatever more sophisticated and/or enduring parts/strategies you have, that you'd use IFS on
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My attempt to ELI5 Perceptual Control Theory as if I was *actually* trying to explain it to a five year old!
@etiennefd I use "spatialize" for something like a proprioceptive sense.
@Morphenius Arguably it's the RH that needs to not be involved, not the LH that needs the RH not involved
@Aella_Girl Totally depends on the causality. It'd be validating to know I could seduce a supermodel, but if it were a paid gig idgaf. Etc. Would be funny if the story of how we didn't have sex while seeming to have is a hilarious in-joke I can allude to, but could also be very shitty.
@ricvolpe Would love that shit tho it could induce wanting to RT/QT it which might be distracting. Maybe one button to have it DM you the currently displayed tweet, so you could do that later.
@Human__Age @hormeze @SarahAMcManus MSOB is way more accessible (& shorter) but the deep technical stuff in BCP is super cool and it has exercises that produce trippy phenomenological effects. Start with last chapter of BCP tho to see implications re conflict & society
@gavanchan But if one does, the others won't be competitive anymore, so Moloch will probably be on our team here.
Replying to @Gent_Sausage
@Gent_Sausage @chaosprime If you hate that, you'll *loathe* this
Retweeted @Morphenius
Okay, I'm starting to take my PCT pill. h/t @Malcolm_Ocean I saw someone else here post a thread of their ongoing insights…
@Morphenius This is described in way more detail in the longer nerdier earlier book Behavior: The Control of Perception. He outlines a model of neural circuits. Still not totally complete but it gives an intuiton.
@Morphenius Ah yeah, lowest level is muscle actuation of individual cells or maybe clusters (output) and activation of individual sensory cells (input) such as rods, cones, nociceptors. All this in appendix and in BCP
@m_ashcroft @kenakennedy @commandodev @Serjhunt_ARK Here's my thread exploring the idea
@ejames_c I'll see if I can make it!
@ejames_c I've explored some links between NDM and trauma in this blog posts (ie trauma triggers are the NDM system misfiring) malcolmocean.com/2021/06/dream-…
Retweeted @made_in_cosmos
Husband once said that governments responded to the pandemic as if the virus was sitting in front of TV and deciding wh…
dictionary doesn't think "ongoingly" is a word smh it's such a good word!
going to see everything everywhere all at once and kinda frustrated that I need to do so at a particular place and time
@AskYatharth survivorship bias
I mean maybe it did but in parallel... I was not and am not a conservative in this sense, and found BLM kinda scary in its all-or-nothing motte-&-bailey vibes. I won't let my perspective on that be confused for racism, because it's not.
@alex_here_now I view it as people pushing back against feeling like something has gone too far. If they're demonized for such concerns, that's a sign things will eventually go too far, even if they haven't already.
@alex_here_now I'm hearing a lot of whispered discourse from many progressive and omnicompassionate friends who share these concerns. Some of whom are themselves trans! But it's hard to say publicly. I'm in favor of dignity for everyone and *also* being able to talk about this stuff.
Retweeted @Jeanvaljean689
You can love somebody and be angry at them at the same time In fact, if you've been resisting this it's entirely poss…
Retweeted @abhayance
The problem with conventional goals is that they turn other objectives into resources and strip-mine them. Sleep is the per…
@RayDalio If the sense it makes to them isn't obvious to you, you're missing something. That doesn't mean you're wrong—if the sense it makes to you isn't obvious to them, they're also missing something!
Replying to @oncewasjess
@oncewasjess the words must flow
@wholebodyprayer I sometimes get tension in muscles near my ear when someone walks by the door, and that has always seemed a bit sus
@AskYatharth Yeah, not recognizing that this stuff is a metaphor is pretty sloppy thinking. Even the notion of the brain *having* software that runs on its "hardware"—these may not be so separable in the brain as in a computer! Structural reorganization.
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
I need to write about this this was a core way I learned to all-at-once-in-a-single-moment drop the things I was unnecessa…
okay my director's cut would completely remove the hotdog hands embarassing that that was included (don't say anything spoilery in replies, including even indicating wtf I'm talking about)
@edsaperia Here's a playlist of tracks that made me spontaneously dance: music.youtube.com/playlist?list=…
@connerdelights @prerationalist the hotdog hands is impossible tho like, it's not an actual alternative 1. if shit diverged thousands of years ago, none of these people existed 2. neither would pianos as such 3. no amount of quantum bs could make those hands evolutionarily fit
@connerdelights @prerationalist maybe I'm missing something about the difference between imagined absurd worlds that were created by their imaginer imagining weird shit and actual parallel timelines? but it seemed to mostly be talking about the latter
Replying to @pli_cachete
@Tjdriii sure
@QiaochuYuan @a_witch_in_time @hormeze topnotch quoting from memory
@himbodhisattva @AskYatharth ehhhhhhhhhhhh "UTMs are equivalent" feels motte-&-bailey to me legit true & relevant in some sense, but not in the way that matters here when the rubber hits the road
@ejames_c would love to hear what you make of it!
@nicktorba > There's a particular argument I've made many times in person, about speed & scale on the social internet, but I'd never actually published it anywhere, so, earlier this week, I took a day to write it out… as a thread from a fictional social network — Robin Sloan newsletter '19
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
the problem, as I see it, with 'wisdom threads' of the form: "I read all of Tesla's annual reports; here's 7 things I lear…
Thread · Learning a backflip fast with staged feedback loops · 1 of 4 tweets
learning can be surprisingly quick if you break it down so that at each stage you're succeeding and have the right feedback loops 1h backflip
Replying to @AltYatharth
@AltYatharth dat smoulder I say go for it
Thread · Learning a backflip fast with staged feedback loops · 1 of 4 tweets
another similar example (similar skill, in fact!) using a special behaviorist training protocol called TAGteach (via @DRMacIver) I have some thoughts in the works about how to unify PCT & behaviorism, since the latter clearly WORKS even tho inside out youtube.com/watch?v=WH63ly…
Thread · Non-naive trust dance and the coordination problem
my work on NNTD ("non-naive trust dance") is on its way towards this when I got the core insight in mid-2020 I was like "oh, laying this out is gonna be my life's work, or at least my work for the next few years"
it's a framework for seeing how trust-building often breaks down and ends up being done half-assed, and how to do it in more stable & robust ways
here's an intro article malcolmocean.com/2021/09/non-na…
or if you prefer video, here's me talking about it and then some really top-notch Q&A/dialogue youtube.com/watch?v=JAxq96…
as for the "associated deep problem"... the surface level of the problem is the classic "solve human coordination" the deep level is best pointed at with a koan:
I have a collection of adjacent koans over here, easier to parse than the previous one, though not nearly as relevant or powerful:
@EpistemicHope also working on such a thing
@noampomsky yeah it's possible to make a community where people can share their "worst" thoughts (I've been in two) and have them welcomed and received and this serves *that* role of therapy better than a therapist but this is not most communities! and it's not straightforward to get there
@noampomsky meanwhile, there's at least one other role for a therapist, which is to strategically uncover emotional learnings/generalizations so they can be updated (a skill everyone should have some of, but some people (therapists & coaches) should master) context: lesswrong.com/posts/i9xyZBS3…
@noampomsky also also also a community or therapist that validates all of your thoughts is NOT a substitute for learning how to self-validate all of your thoughts can help bootstrap, but you get messes & blurtings when people feel the need to be received in order to feel valid
@this_is_silvia is this a painting on top of a photo or a painting of an actual gate? either is very cool
fuck I have no idea what this album was although I guess that's a good thing because it means there are many albums I've rocked out to many times!
Retweeted @VitalikButerin
@amasad @tszzl In a high dimensional optimization space, on average you should expect to see few points that are hard t…
@visakanv just read through the thread and trying to think if I have any new thoughts/questions/comments and nothing's clearly arising adhd'ily skipping over to your smartphone thread... I'd like to see you write more about what's unimaginable to most people that you can imagine!
@nickcammarata @connerdelights @prerationalist maybe... but I think in the rocks scene they could arguably be communicating using the rest of the multiverse while in some sense being "there" and when the rocks are moving/changing that's no different than all of the other lady gaga costume changes
@visakanv @nickcammarata @connerdelights @prerationalist yeah exactly if you want it to be imaginary bullshit, fine but then don't make up some just-so shit about evolution, and then have the world turn out exactly the same modulo hotdog hands evolution is clearly not even HAPPENING in that universe
@visakanv @nickcammarata @connerdelights @prerationalist that is a very good summary of my feelings on the subject! I have added it to #songspiration in my roam which probably means nothing in particular will happen, but you never know!
@nickcammarata @visakanv @connerdelights @prerationalist dream I'm fine with but at that point we jump from an interpretation of "it branches when she made choices" to "she somehow arose in a situation in which she could absolutely not possibly have arisen" and I feel like this is just glossed over and pretended to not be the case
Retweeted @nickredmark
Wait wait wait. Just realized something. To fully internalize this is the antidote to learned helplessness. That "knowing"…
@QiaochuYuan @a_witch_in_time @hormeze oh! I should send you the 20k words I've written elaborating on that sentence this doc has as its seed the exact same moment when I had the thought that led to that sentence
@nickcammarata I think they could have conveyed something just as absurd without all of the things I found problematic about it
@prerationalist @connerdelights idk much about quantum bs but I think the probabilities basically actually go to zero for the number of coincidences you'd need to go many thousands of years then end up with the exact same people modulo hotdog hands
@visakanv that is kinda unimaginable I meant like, relevant to FAN tho I guess that is very very tangentially relevant to FAN
PSA sometimes if your tweet search returns no results just try it again (even immediately) and it'll often come back fine idk what's going there but wanted to let yall know
🌀⛵️🐉
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa you are a sweetie and a badass and these traits are inseparable in you
@aphercotropist @visakanv @nickcammarata @connerdelights @prerationalist on reflection I think the explanation given for it is most of my issue—which would still be there if they had said nothing about it... still would have implicitly not fit the other frames I did also find the thing itself weirdly gross & would be happy to just not look at it lol
@prerationalist @connerdelights so are there universes that *aren't* there? is there a universe just like ours but the moon is made of cheese? (to name a sort of simple counterfactual that would require untold numbers of atomic transformations) including the part where it wasn't made of cheese yesterday?
@visakanv ah, legit meta-team
In some sense, the thing you want might be completely out of model, and thus impossible to imagine, but insofar as something feels off, part of you is already holding an image of what it should feel like.
I own some TWTR. What happens to it with Elon's buyout thing?
Retweeted @dnlmc
@tszzl @GuilleAngeris @ks_kulk
@RomeoStevens76 instructions unclear; dick stuck in tesla
@mayfer cool I made a 20% return I was long TWTR and expecting to make even more over the coming years, but this is still not a bad event
Retweeted @iopred
seriously, if i'm in a dm with someone, i should be able to react with the retweet icon to a message then that gives the origi…
tell your friends to tweet their best thoughts and tell elon to make that be an affordance for everybody
@deepfates probably tru
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa huh, I resonate with this but I think I have a bit of resistance to it because of an old lifestyle blogger whose mission was "for everyone to be paid to exist" and I was like "uh bruh, everyone? that's a problem to solve with automation, not with blogging advice"
@alt_visa but yeah, *I* want to be paid to be myself, and I want everyone who wants to to also experience that (and I think stuff like basic income would also be good, etc)
@visakanv part of me thinks they should put *this* on the cigarette boxes, not the health warnings but it probably wouldn't work for most people
I use ampersand as a smaller-scale "and", fairly often. eg "&" is for single words "and" is for clauses or groups containing & So I'll write sentences like: "Two couples are coming over for dinner: Alice & Bob, and Cathy & Don." or "I have to shower & eat and then I'll be ready"
@m_ashcroft @shaboom or their total tweet count
@m_ashcroft true tho this same information could also potentially be used in the opposite way part of what's so cool is how flat twitter is if you have a good reply, people will tend to respond even if you're a nobody
@m_ashcroft I guess if you're failing to get good feedback tho, then you run into something like this drmaciver.substack.com/p/education-by…
huh, increasing number of my tweets getting 100+ likes I wonder to what extent it's a function of what I'm tweeting (definitely somewhat) vs a function of having more followers (I think only a little bit) I'd been kinda tryna stay small, but also hmm: twitter.com/sashachapin/st…
Retweeted @embryosophy
how are you, as a human being, not just dancing spontaneously all the time
@embryosophy probably being forced to sit still all day in school I danced a lot at home as a kid
Retweeted @hormeze
Absolutely cannot get over how amazing conversation is. Someone says something to you and within seconds you are improvisation…
@hormeze silly wisdom
@ericwright oooh cool! that feels continuous with how I'm using it, though much more precise also feels related to this exploration I did awhile back
@iopred totally. also I want to have the ability to properly make a thread out of a conversation so the same clear linkage chain as a one-person thread, but multiple people are contributing tweets to it
interesting take here that maybe best to use SSRIs only for 1-3 months, to relax priors kinda like a slower, lower-intensity psychedelic snav.substack.com/p/32022-the-te…
@embryosophy oh yeah I am indeed dancing a lot usually bobbing at least a lil bit when there's music but it's still not in every moment tho I can feel that it could be
Replying to @impartialpim
@impartialpim 💪🫂 baseline happy doesn't mean always happy!
Retweeted @jack
I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness.
👑 thread from @jack re @elonmusk aquiring twitter
@strangestloop impossible to answer in the general case—I'm a high-novelty guy but I also have a sense of what doesn't interest me and might just do something I enjoy instead of learning about something I've maxed out my interest in already
Thread · Brave browser upgrade wiped my crypto wallet · 3 of 7 tweets
upgraded @Brave browser, tried restoring wallet, it's empty wtf halp
@brave I can't even see how to open the old version of brave where my wallet might still exist
should I have selected "legacy" or whatever? I was using brave 1.27 before - that seemed fairly recent but I didn't look closely
@jackinlondon it only seems to import bookmarks and settings
Thread · Brave browser upgrade wiped my crypto wallet · 1 of 7 tweets
if installing a new version of brave can destroy my fucking wallet, yall should warn I didn't think to make a backup first (dumb on my part) but I didn't think new version of software would overwrite the config where that was stored (wasn't even sure old software'd be removed)
@embryosophy I actually don't think so, in an important sense like right now, as I type this, I can orient to my sitting & typing as a dance, and it has an AT-like expanding-awareness effect and makes it all feel flowier suddenly aware of my spine balancing
@embryosophy @deepfates I kinda get that and that's the level on which I agree with @deepfates my other critique still stands
@nicktorba exactly nonlinear can be a complex curve
@nicktorba 😂 makes sense tho it doesn't really look like a thread, but more of a completely unrelated collection of uhhh twigs
@SeishinWrites fyeah! I have no doubt you'll be gladly paying it forward the rest of your life
@Morphenius @brave I have been meaning to do something like this but haven't gotten around to it. Welp. It'll be super dumb if this is all just lost. Like, wtf, shouldn't it be still on my computer somewhere? Did the new install literally overwrite a file somewhere?
Thread · Brave browser upgrade wiped my crypto wallet · 1 of 7 tweets
yo @BraveSampson can you help me with this? why did installing a new version of brave nuke my wallet?
Retweeted @speakerjohnash
Can you imagine a video game where the game started with one scoring system but secretly the whole point of the game wa…
@BraveSampson Linux
@BraveSampson I installed using the instructions on the site `sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl` etc
@BraveSampson do you think reinstalling the old version might give me back access to the wallet so I could back it up? the new version is also glitching out one of my favorite extensions (tab snooze) so I'm kinda happy to downgrade
@deepfates lol I've only had one fire post by this metric, one decent, and the rest are all niche nice
@himbodhisattva @MasterTimBlais uhhhhhhh he didn't say "chosen at random from the set of possible statements about the world" "what is the probability" in some technical sense is unknowable / completely unspecified by the problem what to bet on depends on what sort of shenanigans you think he's up to
@the_wilderless 👑🫂🐉⛵️🌀 or 👑🫂💪💃❤️🔥 if you don't count my having been riffing on vv's ayy lmao meme recently
apparently part of me thinks "international" refers to "outside Canada and the US" I guess that sorta makes sense insofar as those are the two places I've ever lived, and along some dimensions have more internal variation than variation between them
@tasshinfogleman divine music soundcloud.com/user-976597043…
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
wow. can’t believe someone made a movie about the alternate timeline where my mom takes a medium dose of acid instead of me
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin "right" and "left" don't mean what they used to ....this has happened several times. meaningness.com/political-left…
Retweeted @RichDecibels
I'm surrounded by friendly earnest weird kind people on twitter if you want more of that sorta thing in your feeds, I ma…
Replying to @jennykatzmusic
Replying to @vals_pals_
@valor_zhang I have a video about self-validation, which seems to me like the root of self-trust—particularly validating your own distrust whenever it arises. youtube.com/watch?v=0bOy-3…
passed 100 subscribers on youtube I'm not particularly caring about subs, but since I've started towards making 100 videos I'm getting a few lead measures, lag measures here are the videos I've been making btw:
@TylerAlterman I've heard this from one person I know who has been on all sides of abusive dynamics
@TylerAlterman This book has some answers (and pretty disturbing depictions of abuses in british boarding schools)
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia @QiaochuYuan @VividVoid_ @orthonormalist I watched someone I knew become way smarter via untangling stuff (stuff that was partially a self-reinforcing problem of insecurity around her intelligence) and it changed my sense of what kind of transformation is possible
@OneEyedAlpaca Salva it's actually just short for Salvatier
life experiences are great collect them all
@AskYatharth I sometimes feel this too, and one of the things I remind myself is that the particular beauty of youth is contextual to youth. The sweetness of youth does transform, like grape juice into wine. Wine has its own depth and richness.
@MasterTimBlais Bobby McFerrin supposedly didn't listen to any music whatsoever for a few years while he developed his sound he wanted to find something unique I'd say it worked
have you tried asking your life's work how it feels about being your life's work?
Retweeted @bananamelter
Finished @m_ashcroft's alexander technique course and it kinda uncorked something for me? I feel like I've had a third ar…
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
this is the way people will argue that the word “just” is doing a lot of work here and yet when you figure out the move…
@n8clu @hackney_lance @sashachapin haha nice
@panchromaticity I initially read predating as in "being a predator of" and I was like "excuse me" but I think you mean "pre-dating" and yeah I was here putting the foundations in the ground in 2017 insofar as I'm on the fringes, I'm pretty okay with that
@panchromaticity I am still in the welcoming committee
@AskYatharth need to expand awareness to include the other things you want to do like remembering the later items in the buffet line when picking how much of the first thing to put on your plate what you actually want isn't "I don't have time" it's "it's not a priority"
people* could benefit from defaulting to not trying to give all of their reasons for things *me
"something feels off to me about this, and I'm not sure I can totally articulate why" maybe you have some words for why, but you might find when you say them out loud they already feel wrong to you or they might move the other person further from understanding you
"as little time and effort as you can" eventually your standards may become higher, and you'll have a different draw to solving the quality problems
Retweeted @visakanv
[boilerplate: as always, everything visakanv tweets should be interpreted as the perspective of a hyperlink noderunning chaos…
Thread · Brave browser upgrade wiped my crypto wallet · 2 of 7 tweets
@BraveSampson update: Sampson helped! with this advice: > try brave://settings/wallet and switching your default wallet to "Crypto Wallets (Deprecated)". Then visit brave://wallet/ again and let me know if you see something different I now have the old wallet UI with my ETH back
@BraveSampson I still dunno how to get it into the new wallet, but at least it's not just gone-forever
Retweeted @robert_zubrin
Elon Musk just gave $44 billion dollars to the former owners of Twitter that they can now use to end hunger, disease, po…
@JLBornstein great articulation do you know about this research on how it's possible to unlearn those lessons? (without forgetting them entirely!) lesswrong.com/posts/i9xyZBS3…
@JLBornstein I think of this as "tyler durden power"
@JLBornstein you probably have a bunch of old accounts you're following that haven't figured out how to play the new fun collective sensemaking game on twitter this list is a good place to start:
as @RonenV points out in the replies: > this is a good opportunity to re-assess your priors: in those images, which one is carefully trying to project an image of strength, and which one appears to be unafraid?
see also shadow statements:
called it! (from my alt because I didn't want to spoil the guess for other people)
visa had already joked about this outcome lol
evolution is the process by which there tend to be more of the sorts of things around that tend to stick around and/or make more of themselves
@AskYatharth @leaacta @visakanv yeah I like to say
@m_ashcroft it's good shit, I'm into it
@m_ashcroft feels like coming home and my friend is chilling on my porch good vibes
Retweeted @Plinz
@protofALk I believe in the ability of intelligent information processing agents to become fully lucid if you let them. Twitter…
@autredasein @Plinz @protofALk yeah, I feel this, although part of the challenge with decentralization is that you now have to contend with standards if you want to add support for new possibilities that require new datastructures (eg "retract tweet")
guys @JLBornstein is posting some good stuff and wants to have good conversations here say hi & follow him & jam with him, I think he'll be an excellent participant in our scene
@CarstenStolz nice
Retweeted @sirodoht
So, Pol.is is my latest favourite project. It’s a tool to discuss, to decide, to understand opinions of larg…
@jambarree article is good! mostly summarizes what pol.is is, which is worth knowing if you don't already it had one or two details I didn't know, about algorithms to allow statistical views of things, so not everybody is seeing the same suggestions etc, so it scales
technology can fuck up democracy but it can also facilitate it depends on how it's used pol.is is an amazing & simple solution nutcroft.com/blog/polis-is-…
@money_illusion youtube shorts are the fucking worst for that offensive that I can't turn them off altogether, given that I pay for youtube so I'm not even getting advertised to
have you tried defining something as a tautology?
@veetocorleone misinformation
Retweeted @andy_matuschak
My selfish take on Twitter: the Discourse could stand to care a lot less, on the margin, about “free speech” and “bias…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@visakanv Someone: "can you help me with this thing?" Me: "right now?" Someone: "uhhh I was thinking some nebulous time…
@Jeanvaljean689 eeee that's so amazing!
Retweeted @choosy_mom
ppl on here are always talking abt urban villages and rural homesteads when what they really want is to live in a college t…
I've been thinking for awhile about how I want to live on a campus
Retweeted @andy_matuschak
Another way to put this: if Twitter (as it exists today) is the town square, what might it mean to build a public libra…
@lukebutler I don't think any existing ones are what I want. Not an ordinary school or company campus, for sure.
Retweeted @wholebodyprayer
I see hardness of heart and obedience to authority as the two most dangerous human afflictions… and every single inter…
@QiaochuYuan used to be gals (in high school etc) but lately has been more guys
Retweeted @growing_daniel
You don’t need to build your Tesla or your Spacex. You need to build your Zip2, then work from there. …
I believe the earth is round because I had a video call with @nibrasibn while we were each walking around outside and I watched the sun set for her in Portugal while it was over my head on Vancouver Island. t.co/F8BCgHg8rX
@visakanv Yes, drafting them each out seems wise. You know you can come back to them, but it might free you to have something there.
I came up with a workout to train my acroyoga basing muscles: the weighted wobble pistol squat! youtu.be/ahyhYgowVfk
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 15/100 working out (start with no weights ofc!)
or as JC put it:
@p_millerd send it over and I'll see if I get a moment!
@zencephalon yeah I'm doing 3 sets of 5 each leg, with an unweighted warmup before (3 by 5 is what I usually do—I'm at a hotel gym that has no barbells so in order to get my squat on I'm doing this instead, tho I've done it before (just not weighted) as an auxiliary exercise)
@colluraj oooh yeah that seems boss I know various folks taking over apartment complexes by filling all the vacancies with their friends but most apartments don't have a lot of common space I've been renting the last 6mo in a cohousing building built by its residents, that does tho
@uberstuber I don't know but it's so fucking important
@joaolmateus @visakanv sure af wasn't gonna help you later lol I try not to open messages at all until I'm ready to deal with them twitter DMs are great for this—lack of "mark unread" means you can't snooze shit
@anesmithbeck here's the meta-thread xD
@anesmithbeck @elonmusk I think you're onto something with nuking Recommended Topics! we should in general just have WAY more fucking power to control the app and remove sections we dgaf about
@JLBornstein got a good intro to holons?
@visakanv @CarstenStolz guys we got a spoiler discipline respecter here
@p_millerd good stuff it feels slightly nebulous who it's written for though (/why) I could imagine it being a lot more potent if it seemed like the sort of thing that would jailbreak a substantial fraction of consultants to go do their own thing (even if not explicitly arguing that)
I made a post to r/thingsfittinginthings reddit.com/r/thingsfittin…
how do you usually debrief your day?
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance ohhhhhhhhhhhh that's the sub I was looking for I thought the other one looked weirdly small I guess I'll repost
@abhayance ahhh I got confused because I was thinking of the name of this tumblr, which inspired both of these subs …fittingperfectlyintothings.tumblr.com
ah wait, I was looking for a different subreddit just reposted it (I know reddit doesn't like that but I assume it's okay if it's you posting to a different sub? 🤷♀️) reddit.com/r/Perfectfit/c…
@discomfrtble @m_ashcroft the best conversations imx are the ones where ideas & cognitive stuff can also be brought in and deepen the aliveness rather than killing it
@m_ashcroft your 2×2 doesn't have "collapsed awareness + enhanced aliveness" ...is that possible? I find myself imagining someone in a flow state playing a video game and completely unaware of the physical world
Retweeted @utotranslucence
Is there anyone working on cheap, easy ways to ask ‘how effective is this therapy at fixing this problem in this setti…
Most important thread of the month, by far. I recommend reading it right now. I think that at the top level, optimizing twitter *for* high-quality conversation & attention-management (more possible without ad-model!) is better than trying to *avoid* various pitfalls.
Retweeted @webdevMason
I was listening to the beginning of a GK Chesterton book with @Conaw, and an interesting criticism made of a certain kind…
Retweeted @visakanv
@Malcolm_Ocean @joaolmateus wait i did it didn't i i quoted my thread back in the replies to the thread
@warm_computer Wow, this is so cool. Hi! Curious how things have evolved for you in the months since!
@CountJ0ecool I wrote a song about this realization. maleidoscope.bandcamp.com/track/shes-got…
@deevbrain @m_ashcroft Ha, amazing.
@warm_computer Fascinating. 10y ago I remember noting "I feel like I have reverse depression" because I'd get delighted by eg light in trees and it would spiral into feeling ecstatic bliss. Later learned the term "hyperthymic" = elevated mood. Also irritability tho? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthym…
@warm_computer Ha! I mean yeah, you sound in some sense very unconflicted. Although "dragging myself through piano practice" could seem a bit conflicted... What is your decision-making like?
@warm_computer Hmm! the bit about follow-through makes me wonder how you'd experience complice.co, the app I built to help people make progress towards their goals. You might be in a really good headspace for it—keeps your long-term careabouts in awareness, but you can improv!
@RhysLindmark @alxheller @thegrifft hey @BlackForestBoi this is relevant to one of the things you're working on
This is very cool. Parody/cover of Tom's Diner that has a different melody and lyrics (except the chorus) but the same "slice of life" vibe, just about a different life! youtube.com/watch?v=HNyIUa…
A lil challenge, if you want one: Consider someone whose art/music/writing/etc inspires you, find one of their inspirations, and check it out. Then post below for our edification!
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*both looking at a map of spain* me: the map is not the territory you: but how do you know that? me: *eats the map* ...…
@mengwong @QiaochuYuan loosely, it's harder to change business models when you're trying to impress shareholders quarterly there are other ways twitter could be profitable than ads tho packym.com/blog/if-i-rule…
@politicalmath it also confuses [self-identified partisanship] with [whatever the fuck people & parties believe in] if the collective sense of what "left" means has gotten more extreme, but literally nobody's beliefs had changed, that would imply fewer people identifying as "left"
damn I just doubled my reddit karma in a day it got 1000+ upvotes also amazing to see the range of comments. reddit is such a place
me reading first comment: 🤩 I know right?! it's so good I wish I knew where to get more like it me reading last comment: 😯 wow people really do have different aesthetics and they think their own is correct (I knew this but wow)
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa @AltMocean still keen to hire you btw though I haven't been in the headspace for it the last few months and now may still not be the time 🤔
@warm_computer it's entirely web actually! most people complain about the lack of native smartphone app, so you're actually ahead :P
@warm_computer yeah sometimes I can stick to something (eg a pomodoro) from the pleasure of aligning my current will with my previous will
Retweeted @Morphenius
The obviously useful version of "misinformation" is sth like "false yet persuasive info". …which makes it more obvious tha…
@discomfrtble @m_ashcroft @vervaeke_john yeah, this is what I'm working on too some useful elements: - putting things in the middle and sitting with the unknown - curating a shared train of thought - attending to the question of how much everybody is able to follow what's being said
Retweeted @RichDecibels
social dynamics on twitter feel more like a public square than private letters we're all here, you are only a few steps…
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@this_is_silvia I think there is not enough shadow integration art in the world
“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
@carmenleelau just put one of my favorite quotes on top of this DALL-E image
@carmenleelau we can do SO MUCH BETTER than quotes over sunsets & abstract shapes obvious application of DALL-E is a quote graphickifier
@visakanv fascinated by how obvious this seems in retrospect and yet it indeed seems like you're seeing it with a level of clarity you hadn't seen before
@visakanv I think you mean that's the chain of interaction that you want 1000 people to each replicate 1000× 😜 but yeah
@utotranslucence @visakanv awesome idea! then you (or someone!) can make another version of the thread that's a meta-thread where the best thread for the headline is QT'd there in the main thread (or in cases where there are lots, maybe a meta-meta-thread)
@visakanv yup yup and only some FANs will actually want to be switchboards (for scenes or cities) others want to be subject-matter experts, or mediators, or <many other roles to be discovered>
@aphercotropist yupp
Replying to @taalumot
@taalumot these were phenomenal
@iopred what's inspiring you most right now?
Retweeted @visakanv
if you anybody in any major city who is informally already performing a public service as a volunteer human switchboard opera…
Thread · Unfollowing to curate a feed toward what I want to see · 1 of 5 tweets
in an unfollowy kind of mood today wanting to curate towards something
@iopred re nature+ai, you might dig this:
@JLBornstein I have no context on Chardin aside from him being the sort of person who could utter this! curious what you know about him (I could also look him up but I like my knowledge relational)
Retweeted @ferrisjabr
The caterpillar of the fruit-piercing moth has evolved a unique defense against potential predators: it overwhelms them wit…
@etiennefd is it particularly reasonable with lead in particular? if so I'd be fascinated to know how they came up with that particular idea for input
this is cool tho also remember that starting relationships online has intrinsic downsides recommend if possible meeting in person before you start considering yourself partners or lovers
Thread · Unfollowing to curate a feed toward what I want to see · 4 of 5 tweets
what I want to see more of: - doing stuff - learning in public - global consciousness - meta, coordination - attention, awareness - 10y+ visions things that feel like clutter to me atm: - things I'd only care about via knowing the people - ingroup/tpot/tcot - blockchain minutiae
one thing that makes it feel slightly easier to unfollow people is having a list "used to follow" that I can put those people on. haven't used it for anything yet but if I find myself going "oh there was that guy... who..." then maybe it'll be nice / just for archival purposes
this unfollowing mode inspired in part by this question:
if you're someone I unfollowed, that doesn't mean I don't like you—keep doing you! focus *your* energy on what *you* want to see (well, I did unfollow a couple people I didn't like, but I already didn't like them back when I followed them so it doesn—don't change the subject!)
@brunowinck can if you want! I also signed up for a service awhile back that autogenerated me a list out of the people who follow *me*, although lists cap out at 5k I think so it's incomplete
@brunowinck but also don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good it's really not that much work to manually add someone to a list before unfollowing
in which DALL-E crashes into the tree
Retweeted @the_wilderless
inspired to run through this as a checklist for myself, cuz it (largely) aligns w what I wanna be seeing more of, So…
this continues to be so utterly huge if true that I don't even know how to think about the world @willwjack are we still on our way to this? what are the implications? what's the timeline like, if not the perennial 30y?
@the_wilderless as OP: there's definitely plenty of overlap in our work, and it all feeds the evolution of human consciousness
Retweeted @willwjack
What are your best methods for entering the “showerthoughts” mode of thinking in the middle of a busy day?
@willwjack taking a nap or going for a walk without my devices can be good and in general just like, closing all my tabs so that what I'm doing is generated from internally rather than reacting to what the internet is blasting me with
@utotranslucence @garybasin may have thoughts
@utotranslucence @visakanv, @this_is_silvia... feels related to the 100 things thing although I also feel like that advice is not quite what I'm looking for and may not be what Jess is looking for either I have songs I've written that I love and I want to release good versions, not just more
@JLBornstein hoooooly shit nice yes, this is my jam also reminds me of @utotranslucence's "metabolising god"
Replying to @evelynharlow_
@evelynharlow_ I accept
@coladaclan hit me
Do you have friends who live elsewhere and you want to coordinate travel plans with them? Ofc you fucking do this is twitter. Barnraising #3 is happening May 22, to build a system to help make that way easier. Signup: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Thread with more context:
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@MalcolmOcean, @ricvolpe and organise a 1-2 day barn raise event to get a project off the ground we'd like to see in th…
wtf is happening with recaptcha? they're training it on textures now???
@krzhang right and like, gravitational waves move at the same speed are they a different kind of quantum field vibration?
trippy figure-ground inversion on the universe I've felt into this stuff before but this feels like a new level of depth to it
@krzhang have you checked out Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle? it seems related to this somehow I just listened to this podcast yesterday and it seems resonant on some deep level re evolution at all universe scales
Replying to @evelynharlow_
when I want to learn a phoneme I don't have natively, I turn off my speech module temporarily and turn on my beatboxing module. it has way more degrees of freedom and basically no preconceived categories to slot things into so I can pay attention to the sound & mouth position
very cool thread re expanding vocal range by making sounds other than singy sounds (& other threads/tweets linked below) cc @joyurge, @utotranslucence, @rmpars twitter.com/jennykatzmusic…
don't let your concept of sounds get in the way of the sounds you can make beatbox novel phonemes
also digging this thread on the magic of singing, with some novel metaphors also talks about how to release doing/trying energy from your singing, in various ways
something very neat about this imagery not sure I agree with the "along with" premise exactly but yeah, finding your own voice that also blends is exactly the thing
when I think about human superorganisms, I very much think about maximizing integration & differentiation at the same time
Retweeted @_StevenFan
Make supercooperation such a norm that regular cooperation looks like defecting
@rmpars @joyurge @utotranslucence I vaguely feel like I heard about this years and checked it out and wasn't really into it but I may be thinking of something else. Will explore!
me & who twitter.com/lizzie4keeps/s…
@panchromaticity tru
@lauren07102 😙👌
@BlackForestBoi @Prigoose @rajlego @MalcolmOcean @ricvolpe oh true, yeah. could actually use it as a platform to schedule events, or could build in room bookings via qrono!
@_StevenFan @magicianbrain yeah I also kinda disagree with it but I thought it was thought-provoking so I RT'd I like the notion that our current standards for what counts as "cooperation" are profoundly inadequate
@nosilverv @TylerAlterman relevant to what you're working on
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ @vibegala fucking phenomenal
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if you believe in the future of crowd-sourced democracies, then let #vTaiwan feed your optimism. to their own citizens but a…
interesting oblique meaning of "settling" that came to me the other day: saying yes from scarcity while pretending to yourself you're feeling abundance
idk ff but something appeals to me about this mantra holding the past and the future twitter.com/Dragon8Blade/s…