mood
May 2022
@_brentbaum ooooh, exciting
Retweeted @lschwaben
Replying to @movebettersam
@movebetterproj @Knipps @visakanv I am really bad at getting around to doing stuff later but these further replies finally brought this back to my attention and I've tried the single leg stance! 🌟🤸♀️🎉 Don't have a lacrosse ball or foam roller atm but maybe eventually I'll smash.
Replying to @michaelhoney
@michaelhoney @relic_radiation Agreed. First may be more practical even tho second evokes something neat. Maybe you don't need the "theoretical" part? What is applied QPhys anyway?
Retweeted @SurenVynn
The background becomes the foreground which then becomes the background again after dancing for a bit.
@embryosophy truly ungovernable
Retweeted @blankbreaks
͏͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏…
Retweeted @imperialauditor
i might do this actually no more timeline each day pick a favourite poster and immerse myself in their tweets
there's no right way to do twitter timeline sucks today? pick a person and go hang out on their page
@SurenVynn oooooh trippy curious if you can put words to what your powers are
@Trent_STEMpunk a favorite for sure, along with: 🫣😳😍 "you exist"
@edelwax @AnneSelke I thoroughly want all of these vibes + also
Replying to @impartialpim
@impartialpim This is really cool.
Fascinating article by @impartialpim about some potential effects of thinking you have more money than you do. I know the feeling of watching my vibe shift from stuff like that. impartialpim.substack.com/p/i-mistakenly…
Retweeted @elonmusk
Since I’ve been asked a lot: Buy stock in several companies that make products & services that *you* believe in. Only sell…
I bought a bunch of TWTR the last year or so.
Canada: if you need a passport within the next 25 days, please make an appointment on this site the site: next available appointment is in 37 days 🤔🤔🤔
@magicianbrain @_StevenFan all good dude
@eshear I mean we can start designing it now! I'm looking forward to reading Balaji's book The Network State amazon.com/dp/B09VPKZR3G
this image & quote feel so close to the heart of what drives me ❤️🔥 I'd love to hear: - what comes alive for you when you read it? - what's a quotation that feels close to the heart of what drives you?
Replying to @mmasnick
@mmasnick partway down this thread the author (who used to run reddit) points out how there are tons of egregious examples in both directions. I found it sobering
@Trent_STEMpunk damn, was writing and forgot what music I'd put on and found myself thinking it was @jongomm! good shit.
Replying to @Johnicholas
@Johnicholas do you have a sense of what drives or inspires you? maybe we can crowdsource some quotations!
Replying to @Johnicholas
@Johnicholas (also there are lots of great old white men, no shame in appreciating them!)
Retweeted @rdouglasjohnson
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy…
Retweeted @ScootFoundation
holy shit someone actually made a good playground
Retweeted @quotidiania
We're still really really far from an workable, accurate, and in-integrity take on feelings The gap is especially obviou…
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
one of my all-time favorite things to hear in a conversation is “i’ve never told anyone this before” - it’s an honor to be…
@visakanv @diviacaroline @ctbeiser @alt_visa Likewise. I don't use any native apps, just web.
What Visa said 👇 (but about my tweets)
@visakanv Talk about ayy lmao and show off the painting
Retweeted @wholebodyprayer
How are we going today with trying to become people who dont try
@wholebodyprayer really good actually woke up with no alarm climbed out the window laid naked in the sun a bit did a lil yoga hopped in the pool read from a paper book (Loch Kelly!) did a workout but now apparently I'm conflicted about what to do next 😂 time to shower I think 🚿
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
twitter shouldn't have deletion but it should have "disendorsement" or similar - tweet gets grayed out, "i no longer stand…
Ooh this seems like a good idea.
Replying to @toomuchincosmos
@toomuchincosmos paging @utotranslucence
Retweeted @aphercotropist
We dont use "truth" much in everyday speech. The most common I've seen is very similar to agreement "that's true". But…
I don't even have a clue what half of these things are. Except for PEN15. I know what PEN15 is.
click here to view/edit your topics (unless they make this link not work for some reason) twitter.com/settings/conte…
oh wait these are all just suggested topics. none of them have actually been added and yet I've totally seen it display stuff about topics it thinks I care about. wtf.
@natural_hazard "is there free will?"
@devonzuegel @antonhowes relevant to a project @BlackForestBoi is working on
Retweeted @devonzuegel
brilliant example of financial innovation unlocking value creation! what projects today could use Guarantee Funds to rais…
@protoneutype I assumed it was sarcastic / someone saying the opposite of what they think
@RhysLindmark Thiel Fellowship (assuming that's still running) @beondeck
Retweeted @metaLulie
everyone should write about their self-love journey the more stories about self-love/self-acceptance/self-compassion we ha…
This is a great idea I've been doing something similar! making tagged transcripts of my podcast episodes and putting them on my roamblog for later remixing: roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
@lisatomic5 there's "this convo was good" and then there's "this convo was so good that I feel excited about the idea of being stuck with this person for 10h somewhere" which people often think about when thinking about romance, but I have this with most of my close friends
@lisatomic5 or there's something about the way the two of us vibe with the rest of the scene, that makes me think there's an interesting synergy possible
@p_millerd @bk_moore @ContentRemix @snipd_app I'd like to see more tools for remixing podcast clips etc, which I guess Snipd is (that's what I thought ContentRemix might be, based on the name)
great articulation of moral mazes
@virgo0namission Tempted to say this, but also I learned a lot of really important stuff from the key big times I failed to do this, and I don't know how else I would have learned those things. I guess if those scenes could have slowed, that might've been best.
@gptbrooke Fine if dating pool shrinks as long as those who want you want you more! You only need one hit! (Or a handful, if going for poly)
@tasshinfogleman spontaneous calls are my jam
@Trent_STEMpunk I hired @uthmanzi to do it and it's been totally worth it even as I've barely used the transcripts yet. Just knowing they're there & tagged is awesome.
@tasshinfogleman supply chains pre-marital sex reggae backflips 4-day workweeks tickling cancer alliteration climate (in the sense of your personal experience of how different temperatures & humidities affect you) furniture swimming blue paper books velcro operating systems breasts pomodoros dogs
@tasshinfogleman it was fun to generate! I was deliberately trying to be as diverse as possible (in a loose sense)
@Conaw @myceliummage @boop yeah I like the energy but in practice it's gonna involve a lot more untangling than smashing
@RomeoStevens76 how does the stair help?
@_brentbaum mmmmmmmmmm beautiful
@the_wilderless @RomeoStevens76 nice, yeah the wobbleboard affords a bit of this too
@RomeoStevens76 gotcha, good stuff. will try it out!
Retweeted @visakanv
this is true for everything for most people, I believe. I grew up non-musical, “tone deaf”, couldn’t clap in time, and now I…
@Ry_Nomad @visakanv exactly vividly demonstrated:
@m_ashcroft oh wow yeah your face does look particularly comfy here
Retweeted @JakeOrthwein
@m_ashcroft ✨I spent 10 years thinking that form was other than emptiness and emptiness was other than form. I was wrong…
if you're in a state of conflictedness, self-negation, self-coercion in relation to a lot of what you're already doing it's much easier to take on new situations, obligations, relationships, that have the same quality because you're used to it; it feels normal
calvinball championships
Retweeted @kasratweets
thinking about rephrasing every single “lmk if ur interested” to “are you interested?” so I can be more comfortable asking…
@kasratweets I like this tho also I think there's value to sort of leaving it open-ended if it's the sort of thing that just might emerge sometime but doesn't need to emerge anytime soon like how I tell my friends they can spontaneously call me if they want
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
when you've held a grudge in the past, when you've been unwilling to forgive someone, what's been important to you abo…
Retweeted @imperialauditor
what's your favourite example of a critique of intellectual work - that led to the original author changing their posi…
Replying to @toomuchincosmos
@toomuchincosmos yeah money doesn't do any good just sitting there in an account it's one of the reasons I have trouble saving 😅
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
crying is like peeing but out your eyes. it only feels bad if you stop before you’re actually finished
@wholebodyprayer 😅 I mean I usually compose wake-up sounds out of songs I like
@this_is_silvia yesssssssss we shall
yo @nickredmark, how does @NicksPledge work?
At request of @visakanv, a video of me explaining the gist of the "school boat" concept, aka "dream mashups"! youtu.be/vyMexLN0A28
@visakanv at your service! found the perfect backdrop for it youtu.be/vyMexLN0A28
@nickredmark @NicksPledge sweet I didn't see the criteria anywhere... is it largely implicit? interesting layers of incentives
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 16/100 short presentation visa says this is one of the most important concepts I've coined
if these guys are so good at SEO, why do they need to cold-email me in order to get business...? 🧐🧐🧐
@utotranslucence wow paradoxically, it gets me in touch with a sense of perfection
@utotranslucence also channelling urges reminds me of this, which has seriously stuck with me since Visa tweeted it
this is a cool thread with a bunch of tangentially related projects
"Billy! Don't play with your words! Just put them in your mouth, chew, and swallow."
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
the fact that psychology majors don’t have a reputation as being particularly charismatic or good at relationships or even…
@justanowlet @wholebodyprayer I regularly invent new words to express what I want to express, and the important thing is just that people understand me. doesn't matter if anyone has used the word before!
Retweeted @natural_hazard
this is deeply true, inspecting the common knee-jerk responses/dismissals to this idea sheds light on how deeply socie…
Seems about right, though with a pragmatic caveat that doing things for no *apparent* reasons may cause others to trust you less. But you are ultimately fully free to decide to take that cost or not, and you don't fundamentally have to justify that either!
@natural_hazard Some subtle PCT-ish thing... The variable they're controlling is different... on the wrong level, held too tightly? Idk.
Writing is done from a perspective. Most teamwork is not NEARLY as hard as having a shared collective perspective and resolving all of the tiny frame differences that show up. Most other teamwork allows for straightforward-ish division of labor and recombining parts into wholes.
@astupple Unlocking the Emotional Brain is one. idk what the division of labor was like but it had 3 authors. But maybe each wrote a couple chapters and they all contributed to editing. lesswrong.com/posts/i9xyZBS3…
@astupple A few other examples: @HFreinacht is the penname of two authors working together, who speak with one voice and personify the character of Hanzi quite vividly. amazon.ca/Listening-Soci…
@astupple @HFreinacht Then there's The Guru Papers and The Passionate Mind Revisited by Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad, a husband & wife team. They note in the latter that they write as a singular authorial voice to keep things intimate or something like that.
Retweeted @astupple
If teamwork so central to success, why are there essentially zero influential books written by a team of authors?
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
Do you have friends who live elsewhere and you want to coordinate travel plans with them? Ofc you fucking do this is twi…
@RichDecibels stoked for this
Retweeted @nat_sharpe_
what if you don’t know what you need because it’s free and nobody tried selling it to you?
@jruderman @SilverVVulpes @jessicamalonso 😆 wow took me a sec
Beautiful thread. Deep resonance here. I've definitely erred on the side of not marketing enough. Looking forward to building more funnels that feel good the whole way.
Retweeted @BecomingCritter
What do you really care about that most people don’t?
@BecomingCritter color temperature of lights metaphor quality being able to be naked interfaces that can be used without looking
they say people never change but that's bullshit they do youtu.be/7yAql9h2bsA
Retweeted @uthmanzi
An opinion I'm coming to have, that seems wrong on the surface is: "At any point in time, you are doing what you want. Even…
I have a lot of beef with astrology due to some traumatic incidents, and I appreciate this particular take from an astrologer that acknowledges that the mappings onto the actual stars are irrelevant. I wish people would stop pretending they're more than name inspiration though. twitter.com/taalumot/statu…
@nickcammarata We've gotta get a group factorio map going sometime
@wholebodyprayer @BenAldern we were talking about this the other day
@JLBornstein one of my friends on facebook asked about the context of the quote—he couldn't track down which book it was from, or what other source do you have a sense of where to dive more into these sorts of thoughts by Chardin?
@jimrandomh Don't think I'm fooled. Not even sure what that'd mean. I have the impression people get results from astrology in the same way they do from tarot; it helps them tap intuitions or whatever. Whether those results are particularly good is another whole question. I've seen bad.
Replying to @Johnicholas
@Johnicholas @uthmanzi it's whole-person desire but it's not very well-organized desire. in some cases it's literally a linear combination of two parameters that results in a shitty compromise that's way worse than either single option or it's an oscillation see this thread:
@uthmanzi @meditationstuff this feels related to "handledness" and "you are always doing your best"
Retweeted @sebpaquet
Alignment doesn't require agreement, but shared voice does
Retweeted @wholebodyprayer
I think i can learn everything i need to know about conversation from Raga - always be spontaneous, but within what is…
@wholebodyprayer hey @visakanv this probably wants to be in your wooten thread somewhere
@dismaien yessssss you might also dig this one (demo track, 2/3 complete) which is even more directly connected to the superorganism concept:
@metaLulie I think people get pretty weird when someone says "no" or changes their mind without saying why. This is pretty normative: facebook's Events feature offers these RSVP options: "Yes", "Maybe", "Can't Go" there's no "no" without an implied "it's not you" reason
@RichDecibels mmmm beautiful
@_exoconnor ❤️🔥🫂🥰💥👁️
Replying to @Johnicholas
@Johnicholas @uthmanzi yeah I think that's also legit. the "whatever I'm doing, I want" is a useful frame but it's far from the only one
Replying to @oncewasjess
@oncewasjess something feels right about that yeah thinking about leverage points and wondering to what extent the answer is reducing positive feedback loop gain or having more negative feedback...
Retweeted @visakanv
one simplified model of thinking about twitter – and you can dispute how to interpret this but I think it’s useful anyway – i…
@nickcammarata Makes me think of both @meditationstuff & @conaw for wildly different reasons.
Beautiful story about learning at a young age to say "I don't know"
I have wondered about this many times, but the hard part isn't the static mechanics its just measuring or estimating the weight distribution along the length of your body. twitter.com/eurydicelives/…
@himbodhisattva I mean cube-square laws suggest not. Would be if they all had the same cross-section, but torso gets much more mass per unit area than arms because thicker.
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ ayy lmao 🌀⛵🐉
@gptbrooke Probably basically same as now, plus on fancy occasions this velvet tie-dye coat.
@nickcammarata 4 but only because it's bedtime. I guess 3 would have been good for that too. Otherwise would have picked 1.
@s0ulDirect0r There is no stage 5 society yet but that's one way of pointing at what I'm working on! And ofc even in it, kids would still start at stage 1.
Replying to @ElodesM
@ElodesM Some good stuff related to this in Passionate Marriage
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
no one benefits from me not fully appreciating and enjoying what I have
@gptbrooke Kinda yes. Mostly it matters that it's accurate, otherwise they like something not-me and they're just calling it me.
@s0ulDirect0r hey there
@RichDecibels the "marriage is dumb" to "marriage is so cool" pipeline
@nickcammarata @julien had a startup called @breather for this (could also nap or work or meeting or whatever). Rent chill rooms by the hour.
@chaosprime idk if mmmbop was ever cool but I still listen to it
@carmenleelau Turns out you can do this the rest of the day too! (Tho I find it often easiest in the morning before I've been bombarded by shit)
@kelly_ques people being able to think together 10-100× as the current state of the art
@MishaValdman @xphilosopher Yes. I, like the author of this post, and liberal, progressive, and conservative. All at once, with no compromise. everythingstudies.com/2018/12/06/i-l…
Retweeted @TrungTPhan
@adrusi Look into Kegan or Kohlberg's work on moral development. People go through stages
@dhomochameleon Idk what kind of alternative you're looking for but you can get pills of theobromine or theacrine Sleep is also an option for not feeling exhausted (if you're getting lots of hours in bed but not feeling rested, maybe you have apnea)
Replying to @AltYatharth
@AltYatharth Loving your energy here. This is an exciting version of Yatharth
@AskYatharth Recent found this and it's funny, catchy, and has deliciously rich texture on the vocals. youtu.be/e07I7io1myI
@AskYatharth This riff I had stuck in my head now and then, for YEARS, before I finally found it in a Candy Dulfer funk concert. This is my fav version so far. youtu.be/1JtspomiXos
@AskYatharth This guy fucks. youtu.be/C3n20hsls8E
@chaosprime They have an orchestral version now youtu.be/uGeps1YNmZY
@CausabonT Yeah the real question is whether there's too much overhang/fragility. We've knocked some of the lower rungs of the ladder out too, which is scary.
@sashintweets yeah, procedural vs propositional knowledge reorganizing your control system hierarchy to do new stuff, not just adding data at one point
Is there a name for the fallacy where people think making something illegal will make it stop?
@DRMacIver *you can only punish people for getting *caught* doing them
@_holyweather cope
@frideswyth Stuff sticking out means banging my shin
Replying to @grantadever
@grantadever Along one dimension, maybe Next To You by Dirty Loops
Retweeted @nickcammarata
when your inner voice produces judgmental thoughts does it say I or you eg would it say "I am dumb" or "you are dumb"
Retweeted @visakanv
I remain earnestly committed to encouraging my fellow idiot dumbasses through their ham-fisted, clunky, inelegant, costly, ja…
Retweeted @kenakennedy
Hey twitter is there a word to describe the experience of meeting someone IRL for the first time after building a full rel…
@michalkorzonek Grateful for all of the old friendships I have—very alive for me as I've visited a bunch of them in the last few weeks!
@kenakennedy "nice to shake your hand" "nice to make contact" (if eg greeting with a hug)
This would make a funny joke tweet but it actually has a good business idea generator in the thread—basically "find a growing community (eg via Reddit) and build something they want"
@BenjiPortheault @OortCloudAtlas @LochKelly1 Both amazing books!
I love the public conversation here
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance @DRMacIver oof. also land value tax when
wow I hate all these words but this object is cool and I would probably buy it if it was for sale in person without these descriptors twitter.com/TLEPaz/status/…
Retweeted @RichDecibels
🤯 if this is the only blockchain project that succeeds, all the hype & bullshit will have been worth it
@RichDecibels We're going to see an increasing number of projects to which that description applies! Still figuring out what this thing is.
Interesting to see the arguments between people who think this is drivers' fault vs people who understand human factors and the role of design. (And the principle that if many users have the same issue, it's definitely a design problem)
share a song below that's associated with a very particular moment or month of your life, and something about the association
Bodies by The Knocks & MUNA always takes me back to spring of last year when I moved in with @LordChisholm in Vancouver for a few months, which is associated with deep fondness & ease as I was learning to catch my breath at that time listened to it daily youtube.com/watch?v=HVJAvs…
Replying to @teleosistem
Retweeted @utotranslucence
If you've experienced psychiatric crises and are now thriving, respond to this survey: forms.gle/giAnTDgkn3gDNx… Or DM…
@epistitious also a good Q
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance @DRMacIver @eigenrobot unnecessary, jeez 😛😂 I'm not a georgist—I only bring up land value tax when it's relevant tho it's often relevant but even then only sometimes
@visakanv @andreajmedaris @chaosprime o shit, this is also epic
@AskYatharth @SkepticalAlpaca yup yup, there's no "way to have communicated correctly", there's just what works or not
@gptbrooke sure I'm down
@gptbrooke wait do you mean in the hypothetical where I'm ruler, or just like, anyway?
@visakanv @nicktorba @mattgoldenberg there's definitely elements of that for me with Complice when I imagine promoting it more, I think about all the things I don't like about the app, or the onboarding in particular, or whatever. this despite many rave reviews
don't-finish 100 things
Gonna do the double visa: 100×100. I've got my 100 vids challenge active atm but every now and then I get the urge to start another and turns I just could. ✅ 100 blog posts ✅ 100 what if it were good tho's 100 podcast appearances 100 introductions 100 neologisms Other ideas?
Retweeted @GlitchesRoux
memetic mental health reminder: just because someone can intuit one thing about you, doesn't mean they know everything ab…
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ I grew up without a TV (but with a computer) and it was so awesome and I am so sad there isn't such a clear delineation anymore.
@vgr Failing to do so is often an instance of this:
@neats29 This tweet feels like half the answer (the other half is that some people think psychedelics kind of open you up towards demons, and this thread is partially about not getting demon problems)
Replying to @peakexperiments
@peakexperiments exactly, it's not that the drivers couldn't do something different, it's that that is completely and utterly useless as a leverage point
Retweeted @thewiseturtle
In a healthy living economy (eg. my body) we have: Centrally regulated infrastructure, standardizing the processes of i…
@Duderichy I went to boarding school for 9-12 and it was the first time I had peers (and people who cared about excellence) maybe there's a cheaper way that could have been achieved, but I'm not sure what it would have been
@dan_abramov Venkat has a thread on this:
I feel a kinship with the Queen of England who wears all sorts of weird-ass symbolic brooches to suit what she wants to convey on the occasion
this... was your father's spreadsheet
Retweeted @utotranslucence
Artists—how do you deal with finishing work when it’s based on experiences you’re emotionally done with? When you wa…
@utotranslucence I'm also interested in this question! I've recorded songs that were no longer alive, but it would be weird to finish writing one.
maybe ACT is functionally an operationalization of PCT
self-validation is one of the most important moves to be able to make: "what I'm seeing/thinking makes some kind of sense"
I guess complice.co was in some sense very much designed for situations in which following the inscrutable urges of your soul is more important than meeting external expectations
@smithymusictwit @tasshinfogleman @jongold @DnlJW_shington Tasshin - this is the metta song I mentioned just now cc @QiaochuYuan @nuanceexists @BusyGoose
Replying to @literallywho88
@literallywho88 @DRMacIver @makoConstruct I was slightly too pithy in my original statement, perhaps. I'm not talking about 100% stoppage, necessarily. Just like, speakeasies & rumrunners thrived under prohibition, abortions still happen when illegal, and so on. Not to mention eg pirating.
@CalebDixonSmith yeah, establishing norms etc is an important role, for sure
@Br0k3nLord also this
@lukebutler @Rainmaker1973 oooooh yeah, very much so
a chat platform where you can only send DALL-E-generated images back & forth, no text or other media
like you type the prompt, and get a result, and iterate on it until you like it, then hit send (maybe a YOLO option that sends the first one without iteration) probably too slow atm, but neat to think about
@AskYatharth *exactly*
so proud of the heap of stale spaghetti on my floor
Retweeted @Jeanvaljean689
Everybody knows things, that are at the edge of other people's experience Imagine if we could all just... Help each ot…
@Jeanvaljean689 yes,
@patrissimo @BlackForestBoi @MalcolmOcean @ricvolpe Fyeah! Would love to have a convo with you to explore what you're imagining and make sure what we have in mind would satisfy your use-case.
theory, n. 1. a collection of gods 2. the occupation of godhood 3. the place where godhood is practiced (etymology: theo + -ry)
Retweeted @Jeanvaljean689
"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us" Excellent thread on a vital and delicate topic "…
~> This is perhaps the only principle that I know: that it is best to move in the direction of balance. That direction is constantly changing and it requires faith, awareness, and compassion to sense what effort to make in each moment. — Ken McLeod unfetteredmind.org/when-energy-ru…
Retweeted @orpheaskk
yeah living in the present is cool but have you ever made grand, life-affirming, ostensibly out-of-reach plans & seen them s…
Replying to @self_beware
@self_beware @QiaochuYuan Whoa, huh.
just found this old photo of me. so good.
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
rereading my favorite thing @RomeoStevens76 has ever written, "(mis)Translating the Buddha" "This is a good example of ho…
@QiaochuYuan @m_ashcroft afaikt yes tanha is precisely collapsed awareness thread about this & hemispheres:
@njventurino @visakanv @Ben_Reinhardt I am doing something related to this though pretty indirectly/abstractly what do you have in mind?
Retweeted @selentelechia
poll time do you reread books?
post Proof of Eyes twitter.com/nat_sharpe_/st…
working on a story where everyone is the protagonist
"should" is the passive voice of choice/will
For those talking about stories where all of the main characters are protagonists, that's not quite it EVERYBODY Everybody is the main character.
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
it's wild to me that people will live their lives guided by their reading of a *translation* of a document without ever en…
@RichDecibels Yup
@p_millerd @alt_visa I'm starting a "make 100 introductions" thingy, and it's occurring to me that I recently introduced two people who've known each other for 9 years but have never quite sync'd up, and I got one of them to See the other in a new way. That feels like another thing to do 100 of.
@p_millerd @alt_visa Gonna call that a "syntroduction" for now, which I guess means +1 to my "coin 100 neologisms" ~maximum synergy~
Retweeted @AskYatharth
real white pill is black pills don't have to be black pills black pills are more about a way of relating to the truth tha…
@sashintweets @CompliceGoals has rooms free as guest so that it's not a huge ask (in terms of money or account set up) to invite ppl to join a room Otherwise: paid sub—keeps us focusing on improving the app for people who like it, not talking to people who think it should be something else.
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
every statement a person makes about themselves, their lives, the nature of reality etc. has a shadow statement. in order…
waking up naturally early is good (🌄 Seattle) convo is good (👁️ @Morphenius re NNTD<->Karpman) music is good (🎷 Leo P - Leopolitan) I am grooving 🎶
also I'm not talking about a written work of fiction 😅 I'm talking about the enacted story of humanity in this reality as it plays out you are part of everybody
@njventurino @visakanv @Ben_Reinhardt ah cool. I'd be down to jam with you on how to design an app differently in order to facilitate that. seems v tough as a business tho. I'm mostly working on it as part of seeking group flow in teams, not with any technical stuff.
@codybrown @otherinternet__ hey @visakanv this article has some interesting things to say about "publics"
@codybrown @otherinternet__ @jasoncbenn this article is very relevant to neighborhoodsf.com cc @patriciamou_ @adimelamed_0 @thesfcommons
some interesting interplay between these 3 articles public goods are contextual the relationship between blockchain & public is complex otherinter.net/research/posit…
we've forgotten how to make beautiful unique things we've forgotten how to have a world where things are worth repairing simonsarris.substack.com/p/that-which-i…
blockchains never forget so instead of erasing problems one must forgive them: repair to move on ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/25/blo…
Retweeted @GRITCULT
Over the next decade. Search engines are going to completely change from the last decade. The internet is a cybernetic organi…
@rajlearns @alexeyguzey yeah, probably a collapsed-awareness / left-hemisphere thing
Replying to @vanessamason
@vanessamason @utotranslucence relevant to your work
@tasshinfogleman raunchy
you're the much to my chagrin
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having my mind blown by this rn. if i suppress my sense of my own gender when talking to a woman then i'm not located in g…
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
not to be all As A Former Math Grad Student but most people’s attempts to apply “logic” don’t really deserve the name in t…
Retweeted @Morphenius
We need a "Defense Against the Dark Arts" for memes. Like, a REALLY GOOD one. Not just "Believe THESE memes instead of THO…
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance @utotranslucence Likewise pretty much. If I try to love others and I have to sacrifice loving myself to do so, it's fucked. Put on your own oxygen mask first! (Then love others!)
Replying to @toomuchincosmos
@toomuchincosmos What are the constraints on this? And what do you want?
I oscillate between these; am in a major swing towards the first atm.
@gptbrooke Fwiw my sense from my reading is that there's something going on neurochemically where nicotine punches above its weight class on addiction/habit formation, so harder to unlearn. meta-level dopamine multiplier, not just "makes pain/problem go away too easily" like opioids etc
@TylerAlterman I'm a bit like this. I think I successfully sandbox a fair bit of it at the interface level tho rather than taking it in too deep
Gonna be travelling this summer (Portugal, Bali, &+?) and I'm wondering if people have advice for finding barbells while nomading Anytime Fitness has gyms in lots of countries... other chains?
@MagusGenji @growing_daniel Sounds right. I wandered into Miso Horny when I heard what turned out to be Tycho's A Walk playing really loudly in the distance and got seduced towards it. Stayed for the workshop on nonverbal consent that involved pretending to be animals playing.
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Chatting with @camwiese today about his New World's Fair (which hopes to paint an optimistic, definite vision of the fu…
@DanielleFong This is terrifying and lovely at the same time.
Retweeted @SlowwCo
🤯 David Bohm (Thought as a System):
Sometimes squatting hundreds of pounds is easier if I'm like "I'm literally just standing up. I've done this a hundred thousand times." minds are wack
huh I have a theory what's going on here it shifts the PCT ontum from somehow fixating on the weight to focusing on the movement and the movement is the thing that needs to happen. the weight is involved but not the thing to focus on
@frideswyth yeah it's the whole thing but the whole thing can be more whole than it is now
Retweeted @RonenV
“Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of a…
Retweeted @augurydefier
IT IS DONE THE COLLABORATIVE VIBECAMP TAROT DECK IS COMPLETE YOU CAN BUY IT AND EVERYTHING LINKS BELOW, RTS APPRECIATED
@DanielleFong not sure exactly the prompt to use but I want to see dalle give us a beautiful person who is 200 years old
@himbodhisattva idk but I can't stand movies where people are unrealistically incapable of adapting to social scenes it's more awkward than it has to be and it makes me very uncomfortable not because I imagine being them exactly (because I wouldn't be fucking up so hard) but more a helplessness
@DanielleFong for very tangential reasons, this has me want to see if dalle can make an image like this: prompt something like "5 copies of the same person in a room. one is playing a guitar. one is reading a book. one is using a laptop. one is standing on a ball. one is getting dressed."
@RonenV for most of history memeplexes were keeping memes from evolving too fast... this is part of what's shifting tho replication speed & evolution speed are different
@mateoyoyo yeah I mean I think good form has to be happening on autopilot for this to work
Replying to @1alexhemingway
@1alexhemingway totally we need to see more movement towards land value tax here fixes the incentives by making holding land no longer really profitable at all astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-re…
Retweeted @softminus
intermodal containers for bicycles,,,
the weather was nice on the @MVCoho ferry and the beats were sick so I just had to dance and I wanted to share it with you thanks @DirtyLoops & @corywong for these moments of ecstatic flow 🙏🕺 youtu.be/ol-b4jYyIxA
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 17/100 improvisational dancing had only heard this song a couple times at the point when I did this dance — adapting on the fly to complex rhythms is my jam
great post by @Morphenius that's very relevant to NNTD it gestures at aspects of why I think moloch isn't as intractable as it seems lesswrong.com/posts/dPifaJGR…
@dtedesco1 I used to think this but I've done several different bodyweight routines over the years and none of them had a notable impact at all, where barbells have made a huge difference in a couple months Might be enough to keep my form for a few months tho ig
@visakanv long game bro
@QiaochuYuan @Immortalinquiry @everytstudies has a post related to this: everythingstudies.com/2021/12/20/tha…
for some reason I've been waking up really early without an alarm the last 5 days. feels really good soon I'll need to learn how to go to bed with enough time to get adequate sleep before I wake up
stoked for this event in half an hour — looks like there's 2 slots left
@smithymusictwit @abhayance @nvpkp haha nice yeah, can also use a video of hiking in the woods, or something like that. there's lots of those
@nomanautomata trippy to imagine doing that without having the story being in 2nd person
@DanielleFong yeah! I wonder if there's a better way to specify the different copies... instead of repeating "one", maybe more like "5 copies of the same person in a room. copy 1 is playing a guitar. copy 2 is reading a book. copy 3 is using a laptop. [...etc]"
@DanielleFong oh actually, given my understanding of how this works (eg you can get way better results by specifying what camera took a photo) maybe you actually want to say something like "a photoshopped image depicting..."
Retweeted @neutrinosalt
just want to shoutout to @Malcolm_Ocean and his team(if he has one) for their work on Complice 🥲
@DanielleFong yeah keeps ending up with multiple guitars wonder if we could... hm. name the person Jane or something, then say "Jane 1", "Jane 2"... and maybe we could even have them dressed differently then
brilliant suggestion from @JamesMayfield_ for learning how to say "no" once you have a sense of how to listen to yourself, get an ally to practice with, who when you say "no" will respond with "thank you for trusting me with your no" so you can learn that's a possible response
@JamesMayfield_ not that you'll *always* get such a receptive response to your no, but even getting that *once* can disprove a belief that people will never respect your no helps bring more detail to what was previously an overgeneralization
@DanielleFong hey hey, even more progress! this is cool neat that in this mode it doesn't make them all dressed the same it's fun/interesting to be iterating on this without direct access to dalle
Retweeted @thunknotes
The problem with folders.
@tasshinfogleman maybe Jason Mraz... would ask him about the meanings/stories of some of his songs, share my own experience as a songwriter. sing a bit!
@Justin96636 @DragonBallZNews @dragonballz @GokuDragonBallZ @A13016043965 @FriedReWqupmiap @DB_official_jp @cartoonjap @SoyGokuMeme @FFgaiNGgoku @QiaochuYuan
@ricvolpe ha, nice. I still get that feeling sometimes, but less intensely than I think I did in 2019
anyone have tips for syncing the audio & video perfectly for videos like this? I can use the waveforms if I'm playing the music on a speaker, but that doesn't work with headphones
@gptbrook Loving the trippy effect from the window reflection
Retweeted @TylerAlterman
mfs confused about why we adults have problems identifying what we want…when everyone spent their first ~18yrs being tau…
@powerbottomdad1 \o/
So @tasshinfogleman was suggesting I do 100 uncomfortable things as one of my "do 100 "do 100 things"" but I'm not sure where to look for uncomfortable things since eg I was totally at ease dancing shirtless on this ferry yesterday
@ThanksThoth I mean almost all state/country maps are like this. The lines dividing places were originally quite arbitrary in many cases, particularly in north america, but a century or two later each side is very different.
Retweeted @TylerAlterman
Meditation prompt I’m playing w: walk around as if you’ve just been dropped in a VR simulation Admire the dynamic range…
Replying to @jeremybornstein
@jeremybornstein @tasshinfogleman hahaha nice
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ in order for it to be *for you* I feel I'd want to have a more specific sense of what you want one thing I could also do is sing harmonies on top of another song
@neats29 could also go private for just 12-24h now and then to kill the growth of a semi-viral tweet, then come back
@hyponymous @tasshinfogleman I'm thinking about how Tasshin liked that he could propose weird stuff to @nat_sharpe_ and expect Nat to say yes because of the "do uncomfortable things" challenge and maybe the challenge I need in that vein is to say no to things—consciously, whether explicitly
@hyponymous @tasshinfogleman @nat_sharpe_ (re "explicitly"—in some cases it might just be an opportunity I found that I'm considering, in which case saying no might just mean closing an open tab... or a message from a random person about a possibility, in which case saying no might just mean not replying or something)
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Retweeted @paul__is__here
Embodiment means first-person-ness
@paul__is__here @Morphenius this relates to our recent convo
@paul__is__here feels to me like this connects something about "embodiment" with "situatedness" which is a term I sometimes use for ~stuff in this sphere~
@this_is_silvia @MVCoho @DirtyLoops @corywong I ONLY KINDA DID MYSELF! I haven't filmed myself dancing much, and I was also surprised & impressed when I watched this—particularly the slo-mo isolation/body-roll at 0:30
@relic_radiation @MVCoho @DirtyLoops @corywong I'm not sure how I learned it! umm let's see. one thing I practiced in particular was a kind of shuffle-related footwork, and then I've just played around with it & remixed it this misses hip stuff and ankle stuff, but it's a starting point:
@TylerAlterman @metaLulie yeah, it's not so much to pretend it's VR, it's to be as impressed as you would be if it *were* VR
Replying to @ponekarl
@ponekarl next: let's have a call!
@zaymonantonio @MVCoho @DirtyLoops @corywong "free" very much captures the feel of it
trying to decide whether this vid counts for my 100 vids project. the first 17 have all been on youtube, but this one made more sense as a twitter media reply... I think I was originally imagining I'd have twitter vids as part of it... hm. no right/wrong answers.
@IaimforGOAT huh interesting it's not really what I want tho. 3 links, but not 3 tweets, and part of the point of my concept is that you *should* be able to see more than one at once
@zaymonantonio @MVCoho @DirtyLoops @corywong mmmm yeah, it just flows as part of everything
@aleksil79 @metaphorician yeah this is what I aim for too the important part is to be able to recurse arbitrarily meta when necessary but in the moment, just vibe
new why-can't-we-all-just-get-along theory just dropped
Retweeted @paul__is__here
To conflict theory and mistake theory let me add a third, **confusion theory**: we just have different ontological stac…
so original sin is dualism right?
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ singing out of tune is hard but here's a fav kids song of mine that definitely has at least one note bad
Replying to @eurydicelives
@eurydicelives > Genesis 2 narrates that God places the man in a garden with trees of whose fruits he may eat, but forbids him to eat from "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
@Aella_Girl learning with a big real project is a great idea you'll later cringe when you look at the first code you wrote, but that's fine agreed that motivation is the most important thing ...might as well make it as intrinsic as possible!
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gonna make synergy cool again
whoa wait what hadn't seen that dalle can do this variations thing. this has wild implications for copyright. see an image you like that isn't free? just uhhh REMAKE IT
@ajrobert true but it's a lot harder to prove or track down I'm not talking about high-profile cases, just like, illustrations and stock photos and stuff
@fuscowrites Complice might be a fit for this! definitely is all about showing you your whole life at a glance so you can orient to what's meaningful complice.co
@made_in_cosmos Yeah likewise, very weird
there's now a video of me dancing to this track!
just looked at my youtube stats, and the world has spent 31 hours watching me rant about why microwaves need knobs. that's... kinda wild.
@MowgliPark what do you mean? 😉 I consider raising people's standards for interface design a very good use of time
achievement unlocked: successfully didn't blurt out something that would have been a mess if I blurted it out 💪
@perrymetzger @alicemazzy oh totally, but you didn't used to be able to do it near-instantly
@gptbrooke @qephatziel biblically accurate uhh something
@_exoconnor @MVCoho @DirtyLoops @corywong ah yeah I learned to do the wave with my arms years ago and pretty immediately realized that it wants to integrate with body rolls
@AskYatharth @paul__is__here whoa, this is a cool chain
@relic_radiation checks out
@relic_radiation @MVCoho @DirtyLoops @corywong yay! share a video of yourself learning 💃 yeah this is my first time wearing them. got them at phillewisart.com store in Boulder, CO stoked to have tights that also flare, since even tho my calves are 🔥 I don't feel quite at home with tapered pant-legs
@relic_radiation @MVCoho @DirtyLoops @corywong I don't like this music at all and have never explicitly practiced this kind of dancing, but this is the kind of thing I was talking about as an inspiration (I've spent all of like 10 minutes watching it or something) youtube.com/watch?v=NikFyU…
@relic_radiation @MVCoho @DirtyLoops @corywong oh here's a more recent and higher-res video, that I have apparently watched before has a lot of filler tho (the title is lies tho lol, the vid was posted in sept 2017) youtu.be/o5QdOa9mNx4?t=…
Retweeted @gooddogthedog
Adam & eve originally sinned in search of becoming like god When Jesus comes on the scene, a new twist is added: there…
Replying to @eurydicelives
@eurydicelives ooooh yeah thas good
cool thread on what it says it's about ...which I will repeat for future mes who might want to search for this: christianity & (self) consciousness (& adam, eve, eden, snake, fruit, devil, etc)
I pay for savvycal rather than using calendly for free in part because this UI is awful these time blocks are completely shapeless, meaningless. no way to see bunches, gaps, or multiple days at once
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot If you get it as an adult, sure. being born in America is hardly an accomplishment, even accounting for the relatively high infant mortality rate compared to other developed nations
@0xhzsa @jodissy @AnneSelke @wholebodyprayer @startingfromnix @noampomsky @valor_zhang @visakanv @DougTataryn uses "connected & cared for" as the opposite of "alone" in BioEmotive, which feels right
@QiaochuYuan I just spent most of the last 2mo doing almost nothing but some such much-needed reflection, and I have no idea how anyone with a full-time job would have managed to navigate such a situation sanely. Maybe they just wouldn't've.
Replying to @lunasorcery
@lunasorcery I'm leaving tech to come back to you
Huh, this kinda gives everyone a built-in locked friends-only alt. Arguably another instance of Twitter codifying existing user behavior (like RTs, @-mentions, etc). This is good! I wonder how they'll handle reply visibility. twitter.com/Safety/status/…
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot I've heard "babies sometimes stop breathing while asleep and if you're cosleeping you'll notice and jostle them into breathing again but if they're in a crib they might just die"
@empathy2000 Haha nice
@tomcritchlow Nice! Appreciating the perspective on many levels. I've been thinking about the relationship between ideas and execution, with teams & decision-making, and this is relevant.
Ahh I was logged into twitter on my phone while travelling and I'm back home for the next few weeks and need to log the fuck out right now jfc.
oh hey this is cool, @jayclouse has a thing you can join that'll track your progress towards tweeting every day for 100 days great way to start putting more out there cc @visakanv tweet100.com
I laid/sat weirdly on a fuf & now my upper back & neck is all stiff like when someone "puts out their back" except weird since that's conventionally a lower-back thing wondering what to do for it unlike w lower back out, standing & walking feels good, so maybe a bunch of that
Hmm, experimentally: if you have my number (or equivalent) and feel like a phone call, go ahead & ring me (I'm going for a walk)
(update: I am back home now. nobody called me. had a nice solo walk. will probably try this again sometime!)
@visakanv hey visa there are probably actually close to 100 of these, a year later really memed this into existence
@jayclouse @visakanv Yeah! Have you seen @visakanv's "do 100 things" thing?
@visakanv actually maybe not 100 finished yet. 100 started for sure but at any rate more that are finished than there were a year ago get people to submit what they've done
took 3 walks today (2 shirtless in the sun) and I sem it dramatically increased my capacity to do everything else I did
Replying to @movebettersam
@movebetterproj @missrachelreads the thoracic extension looks like what I was doing when it suddenly ~spasmed and went stiff 😬 not inclined to do more of that
Replying to @movebettersam
@movebetterproj huh interesting, I was laying on a ball much like this earlier in the day (I don't have a lacrosse ball atm so it was a glass contact juggling ball, but it worked okay) which I hadn't done before
@amtrpa @Morphenius ah, so it's not that "sin" intrinsically means "miss the mark" in an etymological sense, but that in the context of the bible, it was used to translate a word that meant that ....what were the words in aramaic & hebrew tho? and what connotations did "hamartia" have at the time?
@wholebodyprayer @tasshinfogleman I think I've done this before!
@wholebodyprayer @uberstuber @tasshinfogleman hmmm either this would be a party where everyone is dressed this way, which wouldn't make me uncomfortable, it would just be a mood (I would have to somehow acquire a suit tho) or I would be the only one, in which case I'd stand out again and that would be funny
@tasshinfogleman to all the replies being like "wear a suit"... I know it's not on-brand for me atm but I did spend 4 years at a boarding school and am comfortable (as comfy as anyone can be, physically) wearing a suit or uniform (last photo is a troll—fake tie tshirt)
@made_in_cosmos my mom found me halfway up the shelves of the fridge as a kid and she was like WHAT and I was like "I wanted some milk" as if that should have been obvious
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
the most dangerous word in the phrase "believe the science" is "the"
meta-rationality this choice matters but the level on which it matters is contextual not about a global optimum
it's mostly better today (about 12h later) which is good still get weird pain/tightness on the left of my neck if I try to look all the way to the left, but aside from that it's still a little stiff but well within normal parameters
tired: smart appliances wired: wise appliances "check out my new wise toaster! it just toasts my toast" toaster: 🧘
@wholebodyprayer @QiaochuYuan yeah also this ^
Thread · We don't have time to rush · 1 of 4 tweets
Retweeted @visakanv
Yo you know that thing you started a while ago and made a bit of progress on but then sorta abandoned? Do me a favor and go b…
@_holyweather I feel very satisfied with how simple my Malcolm Ocean logograph is (can be easily drawn by hand) yet basically unique afaik
Thread · Ending a 3.5-year marriage and what I learned from it
With a heavy heart, I have a life update to share: that I’ve come to clarity that I need to end my 3.5y marriage with @SarahAMcManus. While she’s one of the most amazing people I know, I’ve realized that I don’t feel like a romantic partnership is right for us 💔
This took a lot of soul-searching & clarifying, because on so many levels we were more of a match than I’d known possible. I had to tease apart many dimensions of our marriage: - purpose-oriented partnership - spiritual/cosmic bond - romantic dyadship - coparenting possibilities
It’s the hardest decision I’ve made in my life, but when I finally recognized the embodied sense of incompatibility I’d been denying/fighting, & realized it wasn’t going to change... I knew it wouldn’t get any easier if I waited, & I didn’t want to get even deeper in (eg kids!)
I feel awful that Sarah uprooted her life to be with me & made a huge bet on our relationship that’s now falling apart. I strive to be someone people can wisely bet on. At the same time, I’m proud of myself for having the courage to do it now rather than in a few years w/ a kid.
We tried really hard to make things work, in the face of internal & external challenges. Numerous friends have told us that our dedication & creativity has inspired them. Through being married, I’ve come to appreciate the catalytic power of the shift from “whether” to “how”.
As my sense of the meaning of marriage deepened & evolved, I also found the limits of that power—it requires a shared felt sense of the “what” for which there’s a “how”. Sarah & I share a sense of humor, and have a ton of resonance on big picture levels: purpose, principles, etc.
In trying to focus on the big picture stuff, I’d been shushing part of myself that was trying to say… it’s hard to put into words but something like “this is not how a romantic life partnership is supposed to feel, for me”.
It wasn’t a conventional romantic life partnership, even for an open marriage. During our engagement convo, S said ~"this doesn't preclude either of us having as close a bond with others", which was about both non-monogamy & about larger-scale purpose-based bonds.
I wanted so much to be close with Sarah that I bet on us changing or some larger whole emerging in which the feeling of incompleteness would now feel complete, but this attitude was fundamentally non-accepting of each of us, and of reality.
There’s a quote I’ve been thinking about a lot: “my boundaries are the closest distance where I can love you & me simultaneously” This marriage was too close a distance for us.
Scaling samesided relationships is a puzzle we’re still deeply interested in. I still think it’s possible, though at this point I’ve been thoroughly humbled by the incredible challenge it is to do with even 2 people.
I love Sarah tremendously—I wouldn’t be here otherwise. I’m looking forward to seeing what she does in her life and can speak highly of her as someone willing to go the distance in a committed relationship and get to the bottom of the tangliest of misunderstandings. 🙏
Retweeted @RichDecibels
@christ_zen @cecile_mcm @sokindling @mgolteez @thewindupbird4 @mary_bajorek @dreamyweather @photon_garden I think I find…
@PeterJAngel @__drewface yeah, some studies discussed in Geoffrey West's book Scale (I forget the original sources) suggest that cities grow to a threshold of ~20-30min commute Scale is very much about this whole phenomenon btw—nonlinear scaling effects of city growth
I RT'd this but didn't actually do it yet. Gonna pick up an old draft called "introduction to first principles of trust-building and communication"... ...re-reading... editing some sections... ...progress! Post yours below (on some level of abstraction)
@bonesofshu Glad to hear it! Yes, that's part of why I share what's going on for me. I've talked to a lot of friends over the last couple months who are going through or have gone through similar things, and we learn from each other.
@camron have read 1 & 3 I forget exactly where this thought came from this week tho
@camron I have a lot of threads about TMAHE
@joaolmateus yeah I sometimes include podcasts or essay series, in part for this reason
here's me scheduling on someone else's savvycal—purple blocks are my own calendar. makes it immediately obvious that the best time to book is thursday 9am
@iopred it integrates with gcal... I think gcal supports creating booking calendars as of just recently? but idk, lots of subtle nice things about savvycal that I like
@nolemonnomelon multiply your event horizons to construct the multidimensional event manifold
cool article by @nbashaw on ideas for commoditizing the algorithm—makes perfect sense every.to/divinations/el…
Retweeted @goblinodds
u guys did u know in ur free time u can do literally wahtever u want
Thread · Recursive koans about rules, decisions, and meta-negotiation · 1 of 15 tweets
how do we reconcile? how do we reconcile that we can't seem to reconcile? how do I reconcile that you can't seem to reconcile that we can't seem to reconcile?
@SurenVynn 🙏 I'm glad. I hadn't thought much about it until it was right in front of me, but being the sort of person I am, I then thought about it A LOT. And some of that thinking was confused (as it always is) but I feel like I've also gotten useful insight in the process
@SurenVynn it's a deeply fascinating and important topic
Retweeted @nbashaw
tired: the intellectual dark web wired: the emotional light web
@Morphenius it's so vivid right?
@sarahdc @nbashaw here's a portal:
@nickredmark 🙏🫂 glad you're finding clarity and disentangling effectively slow is definitely the way to go
Retweeted @ComedicBizman
End every work day with: - clean desk - notebook & pen open outlining the schemes for tomorrow - laptop loaded up with…
Thread · Meta-thread of threads on McGilchrist's brain hemispheres · 1 of 38 tweets
I'm probably one of the main people this thread says it's subtweet-critiquing, but I figured it worth including this in the meta-thread anyway because @aphercotropist has good thoughts and it's worth having dissenting voices not just hype.
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I completely knocked it out of the park on friday: I did like 43 things—some spontaneous, some that I'd planned to do—and I thought it'd be worth sharing some of the elements that went into that, in a little video! youtube.com/watch?v=oYU1OF…
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 18/100 vlog-ish - thinking out loud while walking kind of "productivity tips" but aiming for exposition & reflection rather than advice
I'm realizing that now that complice.co has an hourglass timer mode that has arbitrary-sized time blocks... if I get to the end of a pomodoro and realize I've been distracted for the last 10mins, I can make a 25min sandpile instead and then set it to "60% focused"
@m_ashcroft @cpt_gigglypants so spiky 🤩
@IgorBrigadir that would be like comments on a friends-only facebook post I guess would be interesting if replies could further restrict themselves to only the 150 close people of the replier (probably not good, but interesting)
I seem to have been concluding that this video doesn't count, in part because I also made another twitter reply video the same day that was even more random / less something to write home about I still don't feel exactly like the videos have to be on youtube, but... something.
@paul_griffiths @visakanv hmm… "promote" etymologically comes from something like "push forward" and while the original tweet's words say "don't read JP & AR", it does seem like the existence of the tweet has pushed JP & AR into our collective awareness today, when otherwise they could have been ignored
proposal that "lens control" is a way better term for the thing we've been calling "frame control"
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth whoa weird. I wonder what ancestor of mine got stabbed in the cheek?
@panchromaticity why?
@panchromaticity or what about it?
@irishdrug1511 those particular ones are from an artist called Phil Lewis - I got them at his in-person storefront/workshop in Boulder, CO, but he also sells them online here: phillewisart.com
@irishdrug1511 the company that makes those bell-bottom tights is visionlabart.com
Thread · Locking my account after the separation thread went wide · 2 of 4 tweets
getting some jerks dunking on the separation thread so I'm locking my account for a day or two until people forget about it it really doesn't make sense out of context; people read me as thinking I'm a public figure who needs to make an announcement to everybody
nah guys, this is just where mine & S's friends are sorry there isn't an easy way to put a lock on the living room door (although temporarily there is, and it's what I'm doing right now)
Retweeted @MorissaSchwartz
A friendly reminder 😁
Thread · Locking my account after the separation thread went wide · 1 of 4 tweets
like it would have been convenient, this week, if our social scene were on fb instead, where the post coulda have just been made friends-of-friends only or whatever but even twitter's new circles feature doesn't manage to achieve that all in all I'm glad twitter's twitter tho
lunar eclipse rn on the horizon if you're in pacific time like me about to go up to the roof to see if I can see it past all the clouds
nope
Thread · Locking my account after the separation thread went wide · 1 of 4 tweets
also in retrospect it kinda feels like the obvious thing to do would actually have been to lock the account before any assholes got to it, maybe even at the moment I first posted the thing would have missed a couple inspired strangers, but again, announcement was for friends
@visakanv curious how this looks now
@RichDecibels @solarpunk_girl @visakanv if you're worried about feeling dumb if nobody goes for it just do it playfully (but still boldly)
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
collecting songs for a Complice playlist themes: doing meaningful things, aliveness, having an amazing day, goals, know…
@EashanKotha @etiennefd truly 😙👌
Retweeted @smallkewlhuman
everything is somatic omg... EVERYTHING IS SOMATIC!
@CompliceGoals first one I thought of—such uplifting energy trying to jailbreak someone out of the grind by asking "what do you love?" youtube.com/watch?v=cW7yK0…
@CompliceGoals energy of freedom, letting go of what feels heavy wonder, adventure youtube.com/watch?v=fo2XLH…
@empathy2000 @CompliceGoals mmmmmm yeah wonder, vividness weird track will add it to a new Wonder playlist
@visakanv What if there's never a right time?
@visakanv great. very curious how this sort of thing evolves
@acidshill feels like a similar sort of confusion as this one paulgraham.com/gap.html
noticed I was lifting weights today using a kind of not-enough "proving myself" energy and I was like "that seems... non-ideal" and then moments later I was lifting for the pure pleasure of it and it was ecstatic change is sometimes weirdly close
@FPallopides Putting the biter back in arbiter
@AskYatharth yesssss do your thing
how well can can DALL·E handle making a kaleidoscope image?
@Fredosphere especially impressive given that it's not even from 2022
@nibrasibn singing with friends 🎶 both choral / sheet music / rehearsed & total improve freestyle jam
@visakanv @djmicrobeads @nibrasibn @CompliceGoals we're hanging out in here now—new pomodoro starting in 5 minutes
we really need "this tweet/thread is only visible to followers", which would limit QT-dunking dramatically it sounds weird, since anyone can just follow, but it's actually perfect, since in practice they won't
@skyyygazer I'm pretty sure that with the right prompt it would know what you were talking about, the question is whether it would manage perfect symmetry
Replying to @Johnicholas
@Johnicholas huh? I don't follow it wouldn't make anything impossible, it would just mean that people not following you wouldn't find those tweets in their feed, and if someone *did* QT it, it would look like it was from a locked account, which would add enough friction to stop spread
sleeves → no sleeves
@carmenleelau @DanielleFong @nickcammarata any of yall wanna try this?
@seconds_0 @movebetterproj 💪😉 (just added this to my list of "things people have said about me" on my about page) malcolmocean.com/about/
@kunlesalt yeah, good Qs I don't think I was layering anything on top just being with the raw sensations and experiencing them as very pleasurable pure intensity can be profoundly enlivening
Replying to @Johnicholas
@Johnicholas ahhhhh, yeah it's something I've only encountered in a few cases, but it sucks, and once something escapes the context in which it makes sense, lots of people seeing it are like "wtf" and then they dunk too
@KatyFBrand Chapter 3 of this book ("Trauma and Gender") describes in fascinating (though disturbing) detail how these schools systematically traumatize boys and how that leads to later abuses. traumaandnonviolence.com
@AmitDeshwar nice! totally gets the symmetry
@christineist 5. malcolm's "transcending regrets" (riffs on the jazz metaphor but goes deeper maybe) malcolmocean.com/2017/11/transc…
Retweeted @nvpkp
they way I read this is that nobody hands you an invitation to your future. if you're not looking, years can slip by, nothing ch…
part of what makes twitter twitter is there's no comments section
idk if this response is sincere or joking, but no, it's not about "without any consequences", it's about being able to write *into a context* rather than have what you've read be seen by people who will predictably (understandably!) misinterpret it
@marinusklasen yup retailmenot.com is a great source of such coupons
@panchromaticity true but there still kind of doesn't need to be like it's not a reified part of the app
...unrelatedly, except in the sense in which everything is ultimately quite closely related...
this tweet/thread is badly-made sushi (@visakanv's analogy for tweets being bite-sized) the thought extends off the end it needs to be refactored to be one thought per tweet, somehow to be a fit for this medium
@DRMacIver it's actually not, since you have to manually pick the people in the Circle
"We will have to account to God for all the good things our eyes beheld but which we refused to enjoy." — 3rd century rabbi Arika, as paraphrased by David Schnarch
Retweeted @visakanv
frui diem
@altsanabo @AltCalliope yeah this is the right track I think—there's not a single right answer, follow your appetite tho there are some people like myself & @visakanv who are kind of intentionally orienting to the meta of the how we play this game, which is in some ways always relevant
@MilanGriffes yeah, having an experience of being on the same side / same team
@BoredMallu I guess I think this is basically also good? QT-dunking on something you can't reply to just amplifies a message you hate, even if you're trying to critique it. this is usually foolish on the part of the dunker
Retweeted @IgorBrigadir
@visakanv Visa Quote Tweet Firehose twitter.com/search?q=quote…
@thepericulum @visakanv I have this absurd one with a grid of 12 buttons on the side that I'm not even using all of yet but I can't live without "close tab" and "screenshot area" on my mouse anymore
@visakanv this could actually be a really healing experience depending on how you do it really allowing yourself to inhabit the fear in a safe context
@BoredMallu mmm. okay yeah I think I see your point—it does provide more space for people to just lie or make up shit without anyone being able to clearly point anywhere about it this is an issue private facebook groups encounter I'm sure tradeoffs, clearly
money is confusing it's so useful yet so useless so meaningful yet so meaningless
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
one of the first things you learn when you start writing mathematical proofs is the principle of explosion: from a single…
"differentiation is implied in the possibility of negotiation" — @joyurge
go ahead & guess (if we haven't met in person)
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia omg I am so curious what/where this photo was 😆
Retweeted @khemaridh
"If you're constantly checking something, you ain't rich." A coach recently made this quip about our over scheduled lives.…
All productivity problems downstream of either: – unclear goal – goal conflict Otherwise you just do it.
such a great call with @khemaridh just now we're gonna upload it soon huge resonance between my complice.co/philosophy and his "10k work" concept and other principles radreads.co/10k-work/
Replying to @TheHummingVoid
@TheHummingVoid yeah people keep replying with stuff like this when I say things like this... ...but I suspect ultimately executive function issues boil down to goal conflict with really low-level unconscious goals dysfunction isn't magical, it's a homeostatic system too
@Human__Age very precisely I pulled this tweet verbatim out of this longer one when @khemaridh said he'd found this section of it very sticky and mindblowing
@altsanabo ah yeah my take is that if the goal were 100% clear and the path 100% unconflicted, and you lacked necessary training, you would effortlessly seek the best training available, so you would have no more problem than "I'm doing my best and I'm not there yet" which is just life
@pee_zombie yuppppp basically if you can't focus on something you clearly want... it's probably because part of your attachment system believes focusing/adventure is existentially threatening, which is (very deep) goal conflict
I'm gonna be off twitter today for the most part since I have a lot of little tasks to take care of, but I'll be hanging out in this coworking room @visakanv initiated a couple days ago if you want to do pomodoros with me: complice.co/room/vv-friends
@visakanv (maybe visa will join us if he's still up and/or when he gets up)
@DRMacIver ahh true I guess maybe "akrasia problems" would be more accurate than "productivity problems" like "if you seem to not be doing the obviously best thing under the circumstances"
new table of contents just dropped Resonance by Hartmut Rosa lots of McGilchristy stuff in there
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance haha yo for real
what if instead of "here we go again 🙄" you were able to perceive a familiar dysfunction as someone courageously hoping that you'll be able to find a different way out of the dynamic this time?
@aladyonfire_ yeah this is probably one of the most powerful reframes I've ever found but it does actually take skill to perceive it differently—it's not a simple verbal reframe
I'm working in this room atm, come do pomos with me 😀 (one started just now!) complice.co/room/general
Thread · Variations on the zone of proximal development · 3 of 6 tweets
autonomous zone of proximal development
erogenous zone of proximal development
demilitarized zone of proximal development
@CXGonzalez most addiction involves a fight between an authoritarian part saying the addiction is bad and a rebellious part driving the addiction they need each other to justify themselves see this chapter of The Guru Papers, which has a beautiful lens on this: docs.google.com/document/d/1HK…
Retweeted @prerationalist
I just learned to ski earlier this year (just before covid) when skiing, YOU WILL GO DOWNHILL. there is NO WAY TO GO U…
One of my all-time favorite articles, now with this image that makes it juicier to share. neuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com/2020/01/mistra…
@RomeoStevens76 want to add this image (maybe with display:none) to the blog post so that it'll show up automatically as a preview image when people go to share it? (I shared you on a google doc where you can grab your own screenshot as a png, since this one is a jpg now)
(not sure exactly how that works for blogger but it should be pretty doable—I'm down to do it myself if you give me access to your blog, since it matters to me that this post have a good preview image)
Thread · Variations on the zone of proximal development · 2 of 6 tweets
comfort zone of proximal development
@nickredmark I was only at MAPLE for a 1-week BioEmotive retreat, never a resident and never doing more than 1h of meditation a day.
@EnzikaOfAsh @DRMacIver ooooh yeah that is a great point!
@RyanHVaughn what do you mean?
the folks guessing in cm did best (@Krazov, @neats29) I'm 180cm = 5'11"
@AdmiralOPG yeah but this was just a quote stretched across 4 tweets
@DrStrib @evilJBP @selentelechia I have no idea why this content is in my mentions but I'm here for it
@RomeoStevens76 ahhh, fair! I mean I guess we could make a version that's less colorful, or somehow-differently colorful
@RomeoStevens76 or just do as I did for my latest post and get DALL-E to make you an image that feels relevant then put some text on it malcolmocean.com/2022/05/100x-v…
@RomeoStevens76 I'm a huge fan of getting good share images for important posts, because it increases their virality without loss of clarity, which is just obviously net good for the world
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@RomeoStevens76 I'm a huge fan of getting good share images for important posts, because it increases their virality wit…
@RomeoStevens76 and in this case those opening paragraphs are already super punchy and valuable on their own, even if the person never reads your attempts at actually translating even just loosening someone thinking they know what's going on with "desire" and "suffering" is a huge win
@strangestloop feeds: chatting doesn't feel like work I've experimented with having a feed channel that has just me in it, and it works in ways that journalling in roam or whatever don't (pros & cons ofc)
@empathy2000 hmmm it does say > A great notebook for people who love to read Joan Didion's books
@empathy2000 incidentally I searched amazon for "perceptual control theory" a few months ago and this notebook came up, and the number of weird niche topics they have notebooks for is HILARIOUS must be print on demand, otherwise too many unsold copies to profit anyway I had to get it obv
@empathy2000 but the cover is legit misleading! and any worthy notebook sale should say whether it's blank or lined (or grid, etc)
@AdmiralOPG yeah, that at least maintains the kind of atomicness of the tweet sometimes you have more words than will fit in the tweet body, and that's okay
@RyanHVaughn so you would suggest people be... not people?
@RomeoStevens76 probably simplest thing to do would be to overlay the text that I quoted, but just in black (and not bolded) over a very subtle gradient background or something like.... this:
Cool articulation from @maggied on why it's worth it to copy-paste her tasks as complice.co intentions: 📆 specifically focused on today 🎯 colorized towards goals 🐝 integrates with @bmndr 🤔 highlights staleness & prompts reflection maggiedelano.com/garden/daily-r…
Behaviorism, having started with the concept of "reward", ends up manhandling it into weird places, like "intrinsic reward" Clicker training is super powerful, but we need a better concept, which I think might be simply "that worked!" youtu.be/0_xFwUAF6GA
@Aella_Girl curious what you mean by this
@strangestloop this video isn't directly responding to you but it's very relevant! youtu.be/0_xFwUAF6GA
Thread · Learning a backflip fast with staged feedback loops · 1 of 4 tweets
@DRMacIver recorded a video laying out my sketch of a theory of PCT+behaviorism cc @iopred youtu.be/0_xFwUAF6GA
shoutout to @diviacaroline for the convo in which I grokked there was something important to behaviorism that PCT didn't quite capture, inspiring this thought still tons of work to do here to actually build a meta-theory that captures all elements of both (+predictive coding!)
I'll join the crew of people reporting an excellent IFS session with @nowtheo. Instead of a thread tho here's a video in which I talk about what I was able to unpack & honor. (Also has some NNTD-relevant elements: respecting ppl's learning processes) youtube.com/watch?v=2cT8Lw…
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 2 of 77 tweets
vid 19/100 reflection on therapeutic work turns out often people don't know how to do stuff that seems like obvious stuff everyone should they ACTUALLY don't know! and they need a learning context in which to learn it
vid 20/100 short presentation laying out my sketch of a theory of how to unify PCT & behaviorism, which I guess is mostly is just one insight about how to reframe "reward" so it fits in PCT terms
I'm a fifth of the way through my 100 videos project! Satisfying to watch this come together. I've ended up recording a lot of them outside, for some reason. I guess the lighting is good. What else would you like to hear me talk about? Vids so far:
@Aella_Girl yeah apology/forgiveness is pretty low on my taxonomy of reconciliation better than nothing, but not actually that great
Thread · Learning a backflip fast with staged feedback loops · 1 of 4 tweets
@DRMacIver @iopred also idk why I thought it was a 1h backflip it was a 1-day backflip still very impressive (tweet erratum button when)
@Human__Age Yeah, predictive processing is isomorphic to PCT, but also started with a frame ("minimize surprise") that gets confusing when trying to explain behavior, because you end up with eg "the organism predicts it will stand up, so it stands up"—not natural like "it wants to stand up"
@Human__Age Scott has a great article mapping the two and pointing out that PCT is a more intuitive frame: slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/20/tra…
@JonnyMHenderson Nice! I've done a couple but it doesn't quite feel like something I "know how to do". They're hard but not as hard as they seem. I got lots of practice with the basic motion on a trampoline 🙃
good explanation for why pointing at people is rude, that's not just historical social custom (tho there may be that as well) it objectifies them, since it's an I-it thing
Retweeted @guenavivre
Are you aware that twitter is terraforming your mind?
@RomeoStevens76 I just plugged "the buddha getting completely misunderstood" into midjourney and this is what I got he looks PISSSSED
@diviacaroline ah interesting right, which doesn't track here at all really do you think it's rude for the same reason tho?
still one of my best tweets although for me the craziness under postmodern norms is no longer rendering (it used to be unicode glitches but now it just shows [X] boxes) which is somehow weirdly apropos, like the norms changed without changing 😅
I went and used this dall·e graphic + quote for a new blog post, where I imagine being 10-15 years into the future and articulate what my life's work may have evolved into by that point 🤯 malcolmocean.com/2022/05/100x-v…
@nickredmark finding this hard to engage with for 2 reasons, one of which is that you tagged a lot of people I don't want to generate a ton of stuff in people's mentions (hence replying to 2nd tweet) and the other is I'm not really sure what you particularly mean with your prompt
@RobertHaisfield cool! I'd enjoy jamming with you about it sometime if you want! I think what I say in the vid applies here too: this line of thinking gets confused by the connotations of the word "reward". probably clear on a neurological level, but still rife for metaphor slippage
@RobertHaisfield reward has a strong sense of "someone gives you a prize as compensation for something" which is appropriate in the VERY UNNATURAL context of a skinner box or other neuroscience lab study context and 99.9% irrelevant to the ordinary or evolutionary learning context of an organism
friend: I wish I had something more useful to say than variations on "that sounds tough". I hope you don't think I'm not interested! me: well, what's interesting or salient to you about my situation? friend: <what he was noticing> ...and lo—it was even useful! #replygame
@amirism_ aside from a few rare things like lifting weights, willpower is mostly only involved in trying to fight yourself hence sleepiness when looking at todo list—some part of you doesn't want to, and is saying "no"
Replying to @aaron_etc
@aaron_etc ueitsiweiuqcr
Retweeted @BlackForestBoi
Started the work on the Travel Map today. Done with the mockups and already well into development. Join us if you wan…
@Krazov @neats29 yeah, 5'11" = 5 feet, 11 inches ~= 5.9 feet
@huggingpuppy @aaron_etc bahaha yeah that is kind of the thing
omg kids rolling down a tiny grassy hill so good 😍
fuck I love rotary organ in rock/pop/singer-songwriter tracks
reus ex machina
@Krazov @neats29 happy to translate, as a Canadian who grew up using cm in school but measuring his height in feet & inches
"shared travel map for your friends" me & @ricvolpe & @BlackForestBoi spent today laying the foundations for this barn, and our progress was: - a name (SpaceTime) - a funky landing page 👇 - about half the MVP coded reply below if you want to use this or help build it!
Intended to hop on a short call with @huggingpuppy to share some thoughts about meta-norms & how to create safety to change norms... ...& ended up having a long convo where we put some of that into practice & explored meta-communication about our dynamic! youtu.be/SLUQEU6NipU
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 21/100 conversation started with theory, ended up turning into practice!
@NicksPledge do I have to keep track of all of the reward tweets and add them up? feels like something you could easily have in a spreadsheet somewhere already
I've been practicing perspective-taking for my meta-rationality training and now I have a lot of perspectives & I'm not sure what to do with them. So if you're missing a perspective, I may have it! Uhh if you want it back, lmk the make, model, & serial number.
@acidshill I thought of this thread
they're looking for me 😳
(via @this_is_silvia; idk if she took the photo or found it online)
@vgr Sounds like a lot of work
@jonathandubin What happened to yours?
Interesting thoughts from @DRMacIver on trust. Some divergence from my own (including different use of the term "meta-trust") but great food for thought. I'll probably return to it again and digest it. ift.tt/1Ytv2Ua
Retweeted @selentelechia
11. "tradeoffs are all fair game according to my priorities" --paraphrase of @uncatherio
so weird 10y+ ago I set up a bank account & credit card with "PC Financial" in 2017 they split off the bank account to a new brand "Simplii" 🤷♀️ 5y later, Simplii is offering me a credit card & PC Financial is offering me a bank account
Thread · Two kinds of dancing: trance submission vs conversational movement · 1 of 14 tweets
Oh and have a video of me doing very Type 2 dancing to a very Type 2 song that I've barely heard before. I think of this as "listening with my whole body". youtube.com/watch?v=ol-b4j…
@Morphenius The Fall of Doc Future with the caveat/warning that the 3rd book is not yet finished docfuture.tumblr.com/post/823635512…
This sentence isn't false.
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
trying out this exciting sexy new life hack where when someone asks me to make a decision, instead of feeling like i have…
I've found that in most cases it's possible to be honest & open with people without being too vulnerable eg having a tough time & a stranger or acquaintance asks how I'm doing: "kinda rough. I don't really want to go into it, but life is a lot sometimes, you know?"
like I don't need to tell them any specifics about what's going on for me if I don't want to (if they probe aggressively, gtfo) but I can still let them know, on *some* level of abstraction, the valence or even flavor of my experience, and connect with them on that level
@QiaochuYuan inspired me to tweet this related thought I've had for awhile
@rape_wh1stle @piva_jonas @QiaochuYuan maybe a difference here between A pressuring B to make a decision, vs A & B orienting together towards some external factor which causes them both to see that there's a timely situation that needs responding to but then it's just real urgency, not *rushing*
@acidshill this has been researched somewhat see "double empathy problem" or "double empathy gap" autism.org.uk/advice-and-gui…
@FredRKozlowski @natural_hazard @elonmusk feel free to share examples here of things you'd like to MultiQT:
@ricvolpe I'll trade you one of my perspectives for one of your values
@michael_nielsen Shipping costs would be prohibitive unfortunately
@DanielTabakman I've been working on constructing *that* perspective myself for awhile
@AskYatharth haha yeah which is actually in precisely NOT "the same way" in a different sense!
@AskYatharth I've got a video where I talk about this! youtube.com/watch?v=xECcdH…
@Morphenius @NicksPledge @learning20201 @tasshinfogleman @GwendolynHuot @AnneSelke @enlundm @jaycousins @softminus @nickredmark Yeah likewise I find this experiment intriguing and thought-provoking even though I also think it's maybe kinda confused :P
@RomeoStevens76 @paulg @tlbtlbtlb @moultano aka relevance realization super cool paper on this: ipsi.utoronto.ca/sdis/Relevance…
Thread · Why Twitter should support multiple quote tweets · 1 of 6 tweets
choose your own adventure stories are another use-case! (slightly less necessary here, but would tighten things up)
Retweeted @AdamSJermyn
What a world we live in, where it’s easier to use military transport to fly a good in than to… ask the FDA to legalize it.…
@AskYatharth I find it very disorganized tbh I hate formulas like these and the thread continues to lack a clear understanding of the relation of the things while making them sound simple and non-overlapping the individual elements are good tho
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
don’t let your plans get in the way of your work
I write some of my own music with this in mind
this song is a great example of one that I wrote to deepen my experience of certain dimensions of love and to invite others to do so as well soundcloud.com/malcolmocean/i…
I keep checking twitter & other feeds/notifications today as if I want to be told what to do.
...but either they don't have much to say (sorta true) or I'm not that interested in what they're saying
I think I'm gonna sit for a bit and feel into what now. Maybe outside. It's nice out!
@ricvolpe a perspective I took last evening: at low tide the beaches here have these little things that look like tiny sarlacs (one in the middle towards the top, a smaller one just left of middle) they contract if you poke em no idea what they are
@ricvolpe if you want one of my more life-relevant perspectives, this is a very powerful one:
@SlimePriestess this mostly doesn't help me but I appreciate you giving it a shot! (I also don't feel like type 2 dancing focuses on specific moves per se. I'm mostly not "doing moves" while dancing; meanwhile you're saying there are type 1 moves to learn?)
Enjoying reading Synergetics again (by N Arthur Coulter, not the book by the same name published around the same time, by Bucky, which is more about geometry and less about human development)
fascinating to watch a writer who is in many ways quite rationalistic emphasize the limitations of only tracking the "mind band" of experience
very coherence compatible
vibes a lot with @meditationstuff's meditationbook.page
blowing my mind is the absence of "meta" in this book it was written in 1976, & seems "meta" didn't become popular re self-reference or as a standalone word til Hofstadter's GEB in 1979 He's like "this act apparently has no name" 50y later everyone calls it "going meta"
@rasoolr "googlefu" is a term people use but it seems to be more about talent than about effort "querycasting" feels sorta right. has both a magic spell vibe and a metalworking vibe!
boost the signal you wish to see in the world twitter.com/VinceFHorn/sta…
@briandavidhall only implies that's unfair if you have an additional belief like "the person with the most money should be the greatest person on earth" which seems pretty sus to me as an actual belief
sometimes flowers like it rough youtube.com/watch?v=Wxn2CL…
@QiaochuYuan hey @Morphenius this relates to the thing you were saying about the role of the internet in accelerating cultural evolution
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
everything that a mainstream ideology lies about / refuses to see / keeps in its shadow is a weapon that it hands to any f…
this is fucking brilliant 💠☯️
(making one of these seems like topnotch perspective-taking / steelmanning practice) also the meta-productivity compass:
@SarahAMcManus sometimes it just doesn't work the first time and does the 2nd time... that's my guess as to what happened here
yo lazyweb, is there an e-ink reader that syncs with google play books? I want my comments/highlights/etc to be both on that and on my android
"eBay's member's are intensely loyal and spend an average of 130 minutes a month on the site—double that of any other Web site" haaaaaaaaaaaa. 1999 ur so funny
Retweeted @blankbreaks
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@Krazov @neats29 wait according to my driver's license I am actually 178cm so maybe @neats29 was right 🤔🤔 probably depends on whether I'm in clark kent mode or superman mode
@derekvan oh no, full-on android sounds like... a recipe for distraction I guess you can avoid installing apps on it tho
@DanielTabakman Yes to sometime, dunno when! I'm in a very transitionary mode atm so not scheduling much. Feel free to ping me if you see me online and see if I want to hop on a spontaneous call.
@johnkuhn58 yeah many of these people could make a bunch of friends if they tried an experiment of replying to everything they read for even just a day or two, to get a feel for it
an amazing feature of the gym I go to is you can't get in after 9pm but you can stay til 10 once you're in gives the day a "now or never" moment for working out 💪 constraints are helpful! it'd be harder for me to consistently hit a 24/7 gym 😅
@lisatomic5 can sometimes reframe in terms of things people have their own experiences of and may be curious about "So you know how sometimes you see two people talking past each other, and..." then segue into niche neurological theory
@iopred that would be nice if I wanted my life to have a routine but lately I've been really enjoying the freeformness of it
Retweeted @khemaridh
Do you feel a strong urge to "capture" all new ideas? Do you believe ideas are finite or infinite?
Replying to @thisisntsilvia
@thisisntsilvia mood
Retweeted @p_millerd
A good test to know if you’re wired for self employment: cut your income in half but you control 90% of your days. Are you e…
Retweeted @the_wilderless
An under hyped upside of Twitter: If you use it right, it notably improves your instincts and reflexes for “is this ba…
@p_millerd I knew I wanted this really early. Was stoked to be making $12k/y (my threshold for very frugal living expenses at the time) when I graduated university, so I didn't have to get a job. Glad I'm making a bit more now, but it's still way less than a salary.
@SissiPhys Cool, I'd love to play
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance If you roll your own productivity tools, sometimes this can turn into a source of livelihood 😅 It's rare tho
@this_is_silvia word
@thepericulum @abhayance I mean me too haha
The opening track of this is a great example of minimalist music that I still find very danceable, since it's complex rather than just un-ts-un-ts. youtube.com/watch?v=AnBPbf…
@nickcammarata I just want to see more variety, frankly
the vow that can be spoken is not the true vow
@p_millerd @nicktorba my dad totally didn't understand my business for years he would say things like "so... maybe it's time to hire some employees?" and then I'd explain how I had software doing the work of dozens of people, and he eventually was like "huh... and it never calls in sick"
Replying to @WeeksAndDecades
@WeeksAndDecades @p_millerd nope. my budget at the time was $400/mo for rent, $400/mo for groceries, $200/mo for everything else I lived in a place that (at that time) had rather cheap rent, although it's gone up a bit since then
@WeeksAndDecades @p_millerd "a place" as in "a city"
talking with visa: "how to quit smoking—write a book on how to have a good life" resonates with Zig Ziglar's suggestion that everyone should write a book titled How You Can Get the Most Out of Your Life
Retweeted @made_in_cosmos
if you work a computer/sedentary job, you’d be probably better off if you replaced sitting meditation with moving your…
@mahdix yeah I just kinda scroll through it I like how it has no "mark unread" button because it means once I open it I just have to deal with searching for old ones is indeed tough though
epic convo with @khemaridh about goals vs orienting questions, GTD pros & pitfalls, &+ great intro to the Complice philosophy & workflow and a cool exploration of the edges of our thinking around living an intentional life & doing high-leverage work youtube.com/watch?v=SFCKU-…
@m_ashcroft @khemaridh @sheilalina @CompliceGoals a recorded call now exists! watch us jam for an hour :) youtube.com/watch?v=SFCKU-…
"I don't wannnaaaa" is a voice that shows up in me sometimes it's clearly young afaict, it's basically saying: — I don't see why this is necessary / best — I think if I ignore this it'll be fine which is probably an accurate assessment of a lot of what I was told to do as a kid!
there should be an oscar for "silliest scene acted with a straight face"
I'm doing this YouTube creator survey and they're asking "Does {YouTube; Twitter} give visibility to authoritative voices when people need news and information?" and I'm like "where's the yes-and-this-is-bad option?" 😅
also jfc this survey is THE LONGEST I am fucking OUT
me tensing up my shoulder: but I don't waaaanna do the survey me: lol u don't have to
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 2 of 77 tweets
vid 22/100 five second clip that I originally made to turn into a gif playful and evocative
vid 23/100 conversation not on my channel, but totally could be!
such utter horsecrap that - my personal YouTube watchings - my YouTube Music library - my public YouTube channel ...share the same "playlist" list. can't fucking organize my shit at all
@natural_hazard @hornydiscogirl I legit spent a rationalist party going up to people and asking "so, what conversation starters have you been using lately?" if you time it just when they open their mouth to say theirs you can get in their OODA loop very satisfyingly
last week I published a vision for the 2030s I also have an adjacent-possible vision—one that's already here if you squint and look closely! here's a graphic of it next tweet has a link to a post about it
I wrote this up 1.5y ago to share with @JKahlerMusic and I've since shared it directly with dozens of people... figured it was finally time to just post it to my blog! malcolmocean.com/2022/05/illust…
I have a vague feeling it's sometimes easier to get someone's attention on an exclusive-feeling google doc than a blog post. It's like "hey, wanna read this thing that I'm not sharing with just everyone?" (feel free to DM me now and then and ask if I have such writing)
plus inline comments are so much fun still waiting for @memexgarden to have a wordpress plugin so I can add inline comments to my blog!
@Pooljalg huh, I didn't know that. I figured you had to have separate emails/accounts for that I wonder if it copies playlists not just subscriptions
@panchromaticity I have a hundred. The issue is that the list of playlists is the same list across all the apps, so it's hard to keep track of the 3-6 lists I'd like to use for organizing the videos I'm posting, when they're buried amidst a hundred lists from my music library.
@panchromaticity meanwhile we should totally have tags at this point, not just linear playlists which I guess applies to curating my own uploaded videos too, not just curating my music library
funky song with a funky music video youtube.com/watch?v=KOOhPf…
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
Boundaries tasshin.com/blog/boundarie…
Retweeted @DRMacIver
In much the same way that you can't trust a yes unless a no is possible, you can't trust an answer unless an "I don't know"…
you can't choose to expect someone to do anything other than what you expect them to do but you can choose to let them do it, if you can trust yourself to take care of yourself no matter what happens
"trust as an unquestioning attitude" this concept from C. Thi Nguyen, which I got from @DRMacIver, is a helpful lens for integrating: — the NNTD concept of trust-as-truth, that you discover & explore but can't change directly — other lenses like "trust is a choice"
I came up with this as an articulation of the synthesis between these two concepts of trust:
here's Nguyen's paper, which I haven't read yet: marcsandersfoundation.org/wp-content/upl… and here's the article I got it from: drmaciver.substack.com/p/trust?s=r
mostly people don't allow others the freedom to actually make their own mistakes if we expect someone else to do something we don't like, we try to get all up in their gears to stop them this is disruptive to their learning process, and feels pretty fundamentally disrespectful
there's something important here about boundaries “the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.” a healthy boundary isn't about telling someone "don't do X", it's about creating enough space that they can do X without disturbing you tasshin.com/blog/boundarie…
@tasshinfogleman very convenient timing wove it into this:
I just relistened to this freestyle I did a few years ago and it touched me 💖 soundcloud.com/malcolmocean/t…
Replying to @thisisntsilvia
@thisisntsilvia I felt a bit underwhelmed too actually! Can see why you'd be scared to say it 🤣 I tried not to have any particular expectations, despite the hype, and I think I did okay at that
@uncatherio If you hit the menu on the tweet you can hit "Show fewer likes from Person" but it's very crude (and also stupid when that's what RT is supposed to be for)
@Aella_Girl Learning how to more consistently taste the sanest mindset I'm aware of Made a lil vid about it yesterday youtu.be/Tr4exOYqSLk
What's your relationship with caffeine?
@psybertron either you're happy about it or you're conflicted
I'm a bit of a shill for option 3: many people don't realize it's possible to use a few times a month and not get addicted at all! but it totally is. and if you're already well-rested, it can produce peak performance, not just average out low points
@visakanv I made a poll... not sure if these were the best options but I was curious
@DRMacIver this may be true! I've never been a regular caffeine user do former regular caffeine users get withdrawal symptoms or whatever if they do caffeine just one day? @Morphenius?
@BinarySmile personally since I'm not prone to anxiety I can do 300-400mg, although I usually do more like 200mg but mostly I'd just say to play around and experiment
@DRMacIver @Morphenius oh wow. I mean, I guess that's sort of in line with the charts in that thread... like it might still be worth it to have a breakthrough one day then rest the next, but sounds kinda shitty
"for 25 minutes, in the ways in which it's good to do so, will that you focus only on doing a particular task" (me translating the pomodoro technique into @meditationstuff)
@EashanKotha a couple times a month I take some caffeine pills and go ham on my work if I'm getting a drink I usually get decaf, unless a special lil occasion
@EashanKotha this clarity was made quite easy by being a biphasic sleeper, such that there is exactly two good times to take caffeine—seconds before or minutes after my nap otherwise it would mess up my sleep malcolmocean.com/2016/04/polyph…
@nvpkp Songs stuck in my head, indexed by date.
@nvpkp Minutes spent reading books each day. Encourages me to focus on starting and engaging with books, rather than having a mindset of trying to finish And I can always find an old book later even if I only read it for 10mins malcolmocean.com/bookreading
@yellow_dusk This is true of giving startups feedback too Gotta really see the person inside the block of marble
Thread · Copying strangers' facial expressions as a practice · 2 of 4 tweets
I get so much pleasure (and learn so much!) by looking at strangers' faces on the sidewalk and trying to copy their facial expressions patterns of muscle tension I never inhabit ordinarily evokes a whole stance
Interestingly with some people my intuition leads me to tensing my neck or pulling my tongue back in my mouth.... ...I have no idea how accurate my perceptions are here
🤣
@utotranslucence Made me think of this—the sense of "something I'm doing is working to head in a direction that matters"
This is why people are almost never demotivated while playing video games. The feedback loops are tight both in the "quick" sense and in the "the points are what matters, not just a meh proxy layer"
@maybegray am Canadian but heretic so I also do not understand I once lipsync'd Stompin Tom Connors for a competition in high-school tho
Retweeted @chargrysolle
Before you start your work today: Expand your visual field. Feel your feet. Take a deep breath, in and out. Enjoy the…
Replying to @eigenrobot
@RhysLindmark @BlackForestBoi is working on this
@RichDecibels @s0ulDirect0r profusely effervescently
@huggingpuppy haha yeah if I wanted to get better feedback on this I would start with trying it in a denser context than a city sidewalk like that would have been a cool thing to try at vibecamp, for instance
@huggingpuppy tho also some people don't necessarily know how to investigate this stuff very well like how do you know you have muscle tension in your neck if it's just what you're used to? many such cases
@huggingpuppy I got way better at reading face emotions from facilitating bioemotive, bc I got to guess what people were feeling based on their expressions & what they were saying... ...and instead of just being like "I don't think so" they would *try it on* and *we* would see if it resonated
@mikeyanderson report back! curious how you find it
Replying to @Johnicholas
@Johnicholas @meditationstuff haha what? I mean if you want to check out his stuff, it's meditationbook.page
Retweeted @natural_hazard
people use the word "thinking" to refer to dozens of unique mental processes and generally don't seem to notice or care…
new video, in which I muse about how the universe is an evolutionary process that is right now in the process of becoming conscious of itself as such synthesizing Friston, Deutsch, & Henrich, and convos with @LordChisholm, @Morphenius, @jgreenhall youtube.com/watch?v=uXfmn8…
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 24/100 musings, thinking out loud articulating something at the edge of my own perception, that I think is at the edge of humanity's perception
so satisfying to watch my N/100 vids # go up
Replying to @Johnicholas
@Johnicholas @meditationstuff ah i'm not entirely sure his stuff can be translated into ordinary productivity language but it wouldnt be wrong to say that this 👇 is such a translation (actually I guess this is more like a translation of @meditationstuff into @mark_manson, but still)
@ghostynewt @nvpkp yep sometimes from memory it would be nice if kindle (app) etc did it automatically, but ebook readers are shit for reasons I do not understand and will rectify once I have enough power
@Bitcoin_is_ @St_Rev @eigenrobot it was actually pretty good tho, compared to how bad it could have been
@ollyrobot @nvpkp THIS IS THE BEST KNOB WOW
@AlexTPet overdosing isn't the issue I'm an option 3 guy, and I take 200-400mg caffeine a few times a month, which is 1-4 cups of coffee depending on how caffeiney the coffee is or how big the cup—more than many people drink daily but I don't get dependence/withdrawal since not every day
@nvpkp yeah! it's cool to go back and look at the list... some of them evoke those periods of time really vividly
@juanlanteri yeah I was a bit preoccupied march-april but I'm back into it. hard to forget about it when it's right there in my name
Thread · Fallacies are jokes taken seriously
fun fact: you can replace "fallacy" with "joke" and it pretty much always works
what turns it into a fallacy is that the joke is taken seriously (by speaker, interlocutor, and/or audience) rather than chuckled at—"ha, good one!"
the straw man joke
the correlation/causation joke
the texas sharpshooter joke
the middle ground joke
the appeal to authority joke
the no true scotsman joke
the mind projection joke
the planning joke
the if-by-whiskey joke
@ricvolpe intertwingled evolution music
Replying to @locatoast
@locatoast doesn't map on, but here's a related model that I've found interesting to think about 3 different ladders for success, one of which is actually called "elite" indiepf.com/michael-o-chur…
this did occur btw, in case someone comes across 👆 that tweet while looking for this one 👇
so fascinated by the rapid politicking of the 5 preteens crammed into 4 seats in front of me on the bus are waffles lit? french toast is savory no it's eggy the taste of eggs… makes me puke you made me lose my game by wiggling! your hair is greasy yo
@huggingpuppy impressions: very fast-paced kinda pushy in some sense a lot of just trying stuff and seeing what happens negotiating in realtime what coolness is and who gets to say and how
@Morphenius definitely not one of my favorite ages! I've long felt like I never really knew how to relate to people between the ages of 4-14 or so (including when I was such an age)
@Morphenius glad someone appreciated it! @LordChisholm & I came up with this on a walk I think there's a sense in which it's a fun koan-ish way to point at the shift from rationalist to postrat
Retweeted @Morphenius
Yup. If the collective consciousness has a 1st person view, it'll be the one that's behind your eyes reading these words r…
@Morphenius @LordChisholm @jgreenhall Thanks! I figured it would be good to just have a reference out there pulling it all together, that we can point people at if they're like "what do you mean 'evolution becoming conscious'?"
Thread · Copying strangers' facial expressions as a practice · 2 of 4 tweets
did more of this at the bus stop again today continues to be such a fascinating experience today there was a guy who seemed actually relaxed! like when I went to steal his face, everything in my face just softened!
also this is a practice I've had intermittently in crowds for awhile—the 2nd verse of this song I wrote in 2013 is about it youtube.com/watch?v=VkJe3W…
@benbohmer wow, nice (also you're not this Ben Böhmer are you?) youtube.com/watch?v=RvRhUH…
@maybegray came across this and thought of you
Retweeted @__drewface
We're creating a couch-surfing network and manually onboarding anyone who wants in THIS Saturday at our place in NYC! You…
@nrg91720 @__drewface airbnb is for sharing your [whatever] with strangers, not for friends or friends-of-friends
@BLUNDERBUSSTED not *weirdest* but it's always struck me that Don Jon has a remarkably unorthodox & unpredictable overall plot arc in many ways
video is very trippy—so many figure ground inversions, like almost every moment and the song is a bop youtu.be/0fDJXmqdN-A
@RobertHaisfield "exploratory insight"—cool phrase! yeah I can't for the life of me bother to summarize things unless it's directly part of a synthesis that feels new/fresh
@RobertHaisfield and that video was sort of an extreme example of my vibe, thinking through something I feel like I only barely understand myself
Retweeted @RobertHaisfield
I really wish people would make youtube videos for their brilliant and informative threads. They don't have to be long…
@metamitya multiQT makes the comparison itself atomic imagine if you had to split up memes like this into 4 tweets with one image per thread. it wouldn't work *at all*. it wouldn't even occur to someone to make such a thing.
@Morphenius @LordChisholm @jgreenhall parallax ALL the perspectives! 👁️👁️👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️👁️👁️
@ghostynewt @nvpkp oh wow and that's in minutes? how do we get it all linked up? (I'm also using google books mostly now since it has better widgets on android, so idk if there's an option there or with the Boox reader which I might buy)
@benbohmer yo that would be funny if you then went and did do it in hot air balloons, and then when people are like "are you this Ben Böhmer?" you could be like "no I'm the other Ben Böhmer who did a DJ set from a hot air balloon"
@RobertHaisfield @ARossP yeah exactly, I simply would not make videos if I had to edit them with eg this one I had to splice a few pieces together since the rest of the convo was more private, but I wrote a script to do that based on a textfile that says 0:45 to 5:17 8:10 to 9:41 youtube.com/watch?v=Ub4_kr…
@darpyu following scripts
@RomeoStevens76 guessing there's a perceptual neglect possible where people don't help you learn to parse what you're seeing/hearing maybe less so than the others since a lot of this is done naturally by infants still, parents do a lot of guiding on this so it probably matters cc @Morphenius
@RobertHaisfield @ARossP oh like generating the timestamps to put in the descriptions so you get the little sections? yeah that was a cool innovation on youtube's part what do you mean about cutting out bits? can outsource timestamps to your viewers if they're down! I've sometimes seen such comments
Thread · Wanting a search engine that respects quotation marks
my kingdom for a search engine that respects quotation marks and is brave enough to tell me it can't fucking find anything with the exact quote
4 fails below in this case google actually *found the quote I was looking for* but it has been guilty of this, and probably started the trend tbh
oh wait actually maybe google is being fairly honorable about this I could have sworn I'd see it be an asshat on this front many times, but maybe someone fixed it? or maybe it's still an asshat sometimes pretty sure it changes words themselves sometimes
I'd switch to Brave search, and more recently started trying out You search, but maybe at this point I'm gonna go back to google, at least for searching anything interesting I noticed I was doing a lot of searching in incognito because I didn't want google to profile me
@himbodhisattva @wholebodyprayer yeah! always my thought here too I was inspired just now to start working on a rewrite but I lost steam so I'm just gonna share it in progress. feel free to contribute! docs.google.com/document/d/10c…
@RobertHaisfield @ARossP oh yeah, terrible I'm also annoyed in general that there aren't ways to add keyframes etc *during zoom calls* grain.co is better for that though
@Krazov oh I mean they do, but they don't know that I'm looking up spice girls lyrics
When theorists [use the noun ‘reification’ rather than the verb ‘to reify’], they treat the problem as a thing, and thereby, even as they warn against the dangers of ‘reification’, so they contribute to the problem. — Learn to Write Badly researchgate.net/publication/28…
Retweeted @DRMacIver
Also somewhat obliquely the essay reminds me of this comic, which every time I remember I make an audible "oof" noise and th…
musing about an internal fractal bodhisattva vow that no part of me is going to become enlightened until all of me is ready to be enlightened
I'm looking up passport holders, and they're all either plain-ish or have a copy of the cover of the nation's passport embossment there's a missed opportunity here to have the starfleet insignia or something instead
update: starfleet passport cover actually does exist, you just have to look somewhere other than amazon
amazon.co.uk has a hogwarts passport which is also pretty good
I'd personally want something a bit less branded so like the starfleet one but not associated with any particular franchise, just the vague notion that I have a passport issued by an interstellar organization so more like this, but also more official-seeming
@the_wilderless yeah legit I'm not actually sure quite what I'd want a passport holder for it's mostly fine in my pocket for a few hours in an airport but I'm worried about it getting bent?
@GRITCULT correct well, it has this at least
this is a new framing but not really a new thought for me
abundance is a mindset as much as it is a material condition (both are important)
Retweeted @keta_mean_
why are you not romanticizing the mundane things? why are you not cooking with ambience lighting & beverages? cleaning with…
May you have courage & clarity to know what you want May you safely forget about the world while lost in flow May you pick up a book at the right moment May you change a life for the better May you feel content after a long day May you experience a vibrant life on your terms
thinking of making a patreon, not particularly to get more money on any immediate timescale (tho I like money) ...but to create a context where people can directly support my work in the world and I can communicate with people who are into my work in that way 💞
I almost feel like everyone doing anything at all public-facing should just have a patreon
I'm in this coworking room finishing my weekly review then gonna figure out the vibecamp POAP then maybe working on some complice stuff come do pomos w me (next one starts in 2mins) complice.co/room/general
Retweeted @__drewface
this is off-brand for me, but: stripping children of their sovereignty turns them into weak, shallow husks. my generation…
@__drewface moar off-brand content plz u r free
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa sounds a lil like you're tryna convince yourself it's fine I'm inclined to do a lil coherence move here: some part of you thinks it's legit *not fine* what does that part know? what does it mean about you, or about the world, if you're misunderstood like this?
I'm beta-testing a feature for complice.co where all of the goal-colors are desaturated 60% and tbh I kinda like it. I mean I also like garish but there's something relaxing about this 😆 so uhh if you've avoided Complice because it's too colorful, hmu
@scumbelievable everybody's valid, no labels required
@Morphenius I took two today, having gotten up at 5:30am I didn't intend to get up quite so early but I got my worst-ever charley horse napped at 10am and 2pm reminds me of my old polyphasic days xD
any other youtubers know if it's possible to get youtube to stop asking you for each individual video if your stuff is made for kids? I'm not making anything for kids. maybe there should be a button that says "don't ask again for 3mo"
aha this exists excellent
Twitter and YouTube, in different ways, are such amazing mediums for articulating stuff at the edge of my understanding.
sometimes I forget that khordu khandro mangpo khor, which is wild since they've been right there the whole time
I felt like going for a walk so I went for a walk didn't put shoes on first so good you can too not just walks, but like think you might want to do a thing? you can just do it! youtu.be/eez4zI4SGUE
@meekaale Oh it'll happen
@trstn_ca the colorpicker already allowed picking pastel colors, but some of the color transformations (eg in the screenshot how there are many variations on the yellowish goal 4 color) would end up having them turn out pretty vivid
Retweeted @zeynep
Absolutely this, by @KelseyTuoc. Let’s stop telling people how to feel about the Monkeypox outbreak. Saying“no need to panic”…
@eula392 @m_ashcroft I think @RenshinLee had a model of burnout a few years ago
Retweeted @visakanv
sometimes people think their bottleneck is time but it’s actually the absence of a supportive context
couldn't play check your connection & try again
(an error message from my podcast app but it could also be an interpersonal comment when someone's trying to be playful but hasn't yet established enough trust/safety/connection with others)
@iopred @DRMacIver mmm, interesting yeah, hormones etc are definitely playing a role I think of @hubermanlab talking about how learning new affordances/behaviors requires an attitude of play, distinct from drilling something definitely in many cases stress isn't helping tho. contracts awareness
@the_wilderless whoa
@the_wilderless love this
is ancient Athens integral/SD orange? 🔶 something there I don't understand, that feels like a discontinuity in my model of cultural evolution
@garybasin I'd have a lot of fun with all the interface elements of building a better audio streaming app, as long as someone else wrangled the licensing.
@m_ashcroft I've thought about this too for GCI & Complice. Both prices haven't changed (5y & 9y respectively). Some of my costs have increased in that time, some have actually decreased. I think every year is probably the wrong frequency to do it just for inflation, but idfk
@Morphenius @himbodhisattva Good point, tho we *can* at least talk about the fact that there may be higher orders of awareness or understanding, which (I'm pretty sure) cells cannot!
come hang out with me while I pack up all of my stuff into a storage unit and a suitcase for imminent travelling the world this summer complice.co/room/general
@EyalShay2 not sure what the best intro is to the stages but basically spiral dynamics is a model of cultural development through human history, where each new value meme transcends & includes the previous thenextevolution.com/spiral-dynamic…
man packing is so hard in this tiny room with so little swap space
putting the theo back in theory
twas a cool feeling to realize I could just write command-line scripts in nodejs and call out to other utilities (eg ffmpeg) as needed for any heavy lifting
@markbao yeah it's all kinda coming together Portugal in July & Bali in August are the main two keystones atm
Replying to @kate_sills
@kate_sills @astridwilde1 haha yeah that was my first thought xD
Replying to @baleatoric
@baleatoric having a shared sense of *what a romantic partnership is/means* both in a baseline sense, and in a more aspirational sense
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
✨🤑 commitment contract synergy 🤑✨ Complice has "do Specific Thing today or pay $" (only for today/tomorrow) @bmndr has…
yo @dreev check this out I didn't realize it would be necessary but a user requested it and it's actually great can beemind setting a most important task for the day, with its own custom $ amount & deadline, which is like beeminding a daily "eat that frog", but more precise
what if there were a university that offered Degrees of Freedom
counterfactuals? I barely know 'er!