@eshear fell in love so hard
January 2023
Retweeted @tusaisluila
Memetics: how herpes stigma emerged not from a marketing conspiracy but from journalists interviewing the people with the most intense version of something and publishing the scariest stuff. ift.tt/P3EbFUx
Retweeted @pythonrocksnake
More things should be like this. Successor civilizations will thank us.
excellent short thread on NPCs (as a metaphor for living people) (for people who don't know video games I guess, NPC = "non-player character", ie characters you can interact with but they just recite scripts for their role as shopkeeper or whatever) twitter.com/HephaistosF/st…
Realized tonight that my defensiveness earlier today was partially an attempt to justify myself so as to keep people from getting a particular kind of story about me as irresponsible... ...a story that, on reflection... the defensive energy totally *reinforces* 😑🤦♀️
Retweeted @utotranslucence
to take responsibility for a failure is to agree with the explanation of the situation that says that you personally c…
Thread · Blame as a fight over explanations, and empowering alternatives · 1 of 11 tweets
@utotranslucence yesss—with one small change: "an explanation", not "the explanation" multiple explanations are always possible and often the only one someone has available in which they could have prevented, is one that implies they're an idiot or something else they rightly refuse to accept
@davidmanheim @MatjazLeonardis Yeah I remember a twitter convo about cultures & drugs but I'm not aware of a book. Feels like something @eigenrobot might remember or have been involved in.
Thread · Blame as a fight over explanations, and empowering alternatives · 9 of 11 tweets
@utotranslucence thus if someone seems to be refusing to take responsibility, a good strategy is to come up with explanations that both empower them with a move they could make and ALSO are acceptable to them on other levels
@utotranslucence the blame game is essentially a game of fighting over explanations, one where where one person could & should have prevented, the other where the other. in most situations, BOTH can be empowered by an explanation that simultaneously highlights moves available from each position
@utotranslucence thus what keeps the blame game going is largely the failure to devise such a both/and explanation which afaict is partially just a lack of practice at doing so, but also blocked by an assumption or fear that it doesn't exist & thus in self-preservation one must fight to not lose
@utotranslucence part of why people reject explanations is because they don't want to be blamed but also part of why they reject explanations is that the explanations don't incorporate all of the subtle sensibleness of everything they DID do and it must have made sense:
@utotranslucence actually, wait. those are the same thing. blame, as I understand it, is a type of explanation that doesn't incorporate the sense that what someone did made, and says they should have done something different,
@utotranslucence which is profoundly different from what you're talking about: an empowering explanation that highlights a degree of freedom they hadn't noticed while also respecting that they genuinely didn't notice it or that they had some other consideration that made it seem unworkable
@utotranslucence the empowerment ofc is in some potential future similar situation. the past is as it is and in some sense truly couldn't have gone any differently and is only real when it is in contact with the one to whom this time actually made sense = juxtaposition, in the coherence sense
@utotranslucence in a funny way, peoples' defensiveness against explanations that are missing the sensibleness of their actions... are SO close to being glorious gospel of wisdom but since they tend to counter-blame (ie deny *others* perspectives/sensibility), they fail
@utotranslucence instead, what's needed, afaict, is something like this process 👇
@utotranslucence that's probably true and even there it might take some nudging. one variation on step 2 involves listening to & affirming their perspective while still being clear it's *their* perspective and that you're seeing things differently
@utotranslucence whether it's helpful to indicate while listening that you have a different perspective probably depends on both parties it could be a distraction or get in the way of the person really feeling affirmed - has a kind of "yes but" quality or could help them feel you're not hiding
@utotranslucence oh and also, if someone seems to be thoroughly heard but they're not getting proactively curious about your perspective, you can just try saying "I'd like to share my own perspective, if/when you're ready"! and see what happens
Thread · Blame as a fight over explanations, and empowering alternatives · 1 of 11 tweets
@utotranslucence start by affirming the sensibility of your own perspective, to yourself I did this today once I realized I was being defensive. when I did, I noticed things came up to say, but I held my tongue and just kept hearing myself thoroughly until I felt curious (took a few minutes)
I accidentally a whole thread as replies. it's good. some very fresh thoughts about blame & responsibility
and some people think there's nothing left to invent
Even if this were a joke (which I don't think it is!) it's the outcome I want and I'm glad Elon is pointing at it.
TIL you can do arithmetic with book titles
@NLRG_it @reconfigurthing he's countersignalling ;)
@visakanv "it seems to me" is incredibly powerful responsible communications tech
@georgejrjrjr @nosilverv yeah Girard is the guy to dig into for learning more about scapegoating not sure best intro but this thread touches on it
huh, I had "mirror neurons" tagged as debunked awhile ago or something but a quick google yields that they seem to have some legitimacy the gist (I'd sorta forgotten tbh) is that certain neurons fire both when doing a particular thing X or when watching someone else do X
so far they've only been found in certain monkeys & primates, humans, and songbirds researchers speculate they're present in dogs, dolphins, and elephants too, but they haven't been found (chatgpt claims they have, but I can't find any papers on it)
relevant to my interests in perspective-taking and makes me think of this thread about how humans perhaps hunt via taking the perspective of their prey twitter.com/ChasingMyself/…
caveat promptor ChatGPT continues to answer factual questions with confabulated bullshit. it's a fun improv partner sometimes, but completely untrustworthy as a source about reality.
@niftycorp I really like how jazz musician & composer Jacob Collier once replied to a question of "what's your favourite chord?" with "let's see... my favourite chord, today, would probably be D7sus9add11" (I don't remember exactly what it was) didn't reject the Q, but reframed it
caveat promptor
@strangestloop this sorta-thread by me has a partial answer to this puzzle, suggesting basically that there's truth to both and the challenge is to find an explanation of the whole system that incorporates both truths
@RichDecibels I went to summarize these stages in my notes and I called the 4th one "flow"
Retweeted @caitlynslashai
@Malcolm_Ocean if your frame is that something is a problem until x is changed, you have a problem until x is changed
@CarnunMP Yessssss exciting. You might be ripe for the @CompliceGoals app or the Goal-Crafting Intensives—they're both great for people stepping into the unknown or increased self-directedness. @p_millerd's gonna be at the GCI this saturday! complice.co/event/gci?tw=f…
@rmbalt I can tell the difference between when I'm just markov chaining (as I've sometimes called it) and when I actually have something to say can you?
@tasshinfogleman the obstacle is the way
@strangestloop I'm a bit nomaddy atm so "home" is unclear, but I spent 8/12 of last year away from my permanent address (also *visited* home in the hometown sense for longer than I had in a decade) Provinces: BC, NS, ON States: TX, WA, CO, UT, CA Countries: 🇨🇦(home)🇺🇸🇵🇹🏴🏴🇩🇪🇮🇩🇸🇬🇦🇺
@natural_hazard I just get really overtly excited about books until other people pick them up. often I've (near) finished the book before they start, but not always no need to be perfectly sync'd as long as it feels fresh so you can both excitedly nerd out
@commandodev for cardio... my first thought was sex but probably more helpfully, dancing (great way to explore what movements feel good, while getting energy up enough to work the heart) start alone at home for calibration, but you could maybe go out to ecstatic dance
@fourfoldvision huh, this vibes a bit with Basic Trust from Facets of Unity, a book I read a bit from @Morphenius' copy
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ great ownership of interpretation there with "to me the word conjures"
haven't finished this article yet but it's so far a great intro to René Girard and suggests some interesting implications about role models, double-binds, conflict, blame. feels like something up @visakanv's alley alexdanco.com/2020/11/03/ele…
@georgejrjrjr @nosilverv ah this article (which I found while searching for intro threads) seems quite good & accessible so far
@georgejrjrjr @nosilverv also apparently you've been asking questions to which "read Girard" is the answer for over 2y now 😂
@__drewface @ricvolpe I hereby challenge the 3 of us to collaborate on running an @interintellect_ salon where we get a bunch of our scene signed up for Polywork polywork.com
@__drewface @ricvolpe @interintellect_ they have a browser extension that puts someone's collaboration possibilities onto their twitter profile! exactly the thing we're looking for chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…
@__drewface @strangestloop it's partially more reply game and partially more like... working with the garage door up. like what are you currently working on with TN NYC? tweet about it. think out loud. joke about some kind of help that you could use even if you don't NEED it (yet)
@diviacaroline huh this seems related to a story I heard about someone (Gregory Bateson?) training a dolphin to invent new tricks, which is ofc hard to reward for... and supposedly they had to do a lot of reinforcing/encouraging the dolphin for just participating, but eventually it worked
@CurziRose good articulation of a particular downward spiral! (fwiw, this is technically still positive (ie reinforcing) feedback loop, just in a negative (ie shitty) direction... "negative feedback loops" refer, confusingly, to moving towards something, because it's closing a gap)
I am jubilee'ing myself a bunch this new years ✅ open tabs (mostly twitter) ✅ the three.do reminder app 🔳 emails (absurd backlog, is a mess) 🔳 &+ feels so good to let go of the past and reorient to the future
@forgingtowards Someone deleted some tweets early on in the chain, so now that tweet doesn't show the actual standup meeting improv. Link to one of the later tweets, mostly for my future reference:
Retweeted @relic_radiation
noticing a lot of confusion around what’s a “developmental need” versus a “want.” my own working definition: needs ar…
@TylerAlterman I have sometimes felt like the solution might be to introduce some of these friends to each other, so you can hang out with each of them vicariously through each other. I've rarely managed this, but it might work for some of the more remote people.
@TylerAlterman On a totally different level, there's a precious tragedy here, and anyone who has experienced this challenge probably has some grieving to do regarding the reality that the buffet of possible friends has more options than we can possibly fit into our "one wild and precious life".
@_brentbaum Breathing Place by Vibrasphere youtu.be/LP6X0jTl78k
@_brentbaum Our Dark Garden by BT (none of his other tracks are remotely this soothing, though many are awesome) youtu.be/wykKACGkGeA
@_brentbaum This track prompted me to make a new playlist called Peace. I forget how it goes but I'm sure it counts. youtube.com/watch?v=YDCrv3…
@RichDecibels hook a brotha up
@nosilverv I thiiiiink I know what you mean here. For me it's dead easy to commit to never playing a particular video game again once it passes a threshold of "fuck that", but committing to DOING something routinely/reflexily is hard enough for a month, let alone forever.
Retweeted @nosilverv
Intuition that attempting to more or less directly controlling output works much better for NEGATIVE goals (avoid Y) than po…
@nosilverv Someday I will synthesize the point you're making here, with this blog post (that generally says "don't do avoid") malcolmocean.com/2022/02/toward…
@nosilverv Would love to hear some more examples from you, as well, for either type.
@visakanv also, different spaces have different meta-norms, ie ways of relating to norms and the maintenance of norms broadly these include
@visakanv also we are constantly co-creating our norms, and some norms are loose and can be changed by someone proposing something different even once eg I recently set off an abundance vibes chain of 4 "I'll pay for dinner today"s (vs settling up via venmo)
me 6min ago: I'll look into the review-dismiss bug. me just now: Okay I fixed it! Thanks for the bug report. Was about to go to bed but figured it'd be good & quick to fix it rather than leaving it for many more hours. These are among my favorite experiences of customer support
@cube_flipper yeah! a bunch of us have been working on a more contagious form of nonduality, like basically entire cultures that support moving towards liminality & synchrony, that don't collapse on contact with dualism me & @Morphenius talk about it here: youtube.com/watch?v=NeN34r…
new 🤯 just dropped: Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress instead of a stressor/stimulus → stress/response model, this has a more cybernetic model which posits unsafety as a default that gets inhibited WHEN safety is sensed. flips the burden of proof! ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
got the article from @utotranslucence, who found it in this article about how magnesium is required to metabolize stress and how we probably all want to supplement magnesium since our lives are stressful (vicious cycle can occur bc low magnesium→stress) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Looks like the Goal-Crafting Intensives for this weekend are gonna sell out 💪🤩 (I'm hoping to free up some more spots for the first one by confirming a couple more coaches — we'll see!) Join us for a life-planning adventure: ift.tt/l8z7e3s
Goal-Crafting Foundations: Dreaming Big @peternlimberg invited me to come on The Stoa to share some of what we explore in our workshops, and I thought I'd invite people into ideating dreams they might want to turn into goals! Jan 9 @ 5pm EST: zoom.us/meeting/regist…
@meekaale yeah this part really struck me too suggests perhaps that meeting one's neighbors may be more important than people think, insofar as every walk you take will start by walking past those houses
@meekaale also maybe suggests that in a eutopian city, apartment complexes would have like... friendly public-facing identities somehow? or they'd be little scenes, with meaningful interfaces available to strangers
@jonnym1ller one thing they point out is that literally being stronger or in better physical health makes you less baseline stressed because you're more safe in general ventral vagal capacity probably plays a similar role
@5matthewdub ahh interesting, yeah. are you seeing any particular implications when you hold these two side-by-side? to me it seems like plausibly in some cases the trauma flows and then that actually disturbs the environmental safety, which then buries the trauma a layer deeper
@meekaale ooooh yeah. I'd love to see a tweet remixing Rosa & GUTS
Thread · Making a dream list to expand what feels possible
have you ever made a list of a bunch of ambitious potential-goals you might want to pursue? if not, I highly recommend it the process increases couldness on a vast scale
a dream is like a goal in almost every way, except you're not actually doing anything to move towards it Dream = recognizable desired state in the future
the 1st time I did a dreaming exercise was 11 years ago, & it was really mind-expanding. I considered a wide range of things, including some that would take decades & lots of luck, and some that were physically impossible it was exhilarating to think I could pursue any of them
some that I crossed out at the time, I've since come back to! "learn to backflip" (took 30min) "make passive income" (took months) "be completely self-employed" (took years) "be featured on Hacker News" (happened kinda opportunistically) "travel around the world" (last year!)
it was also really clarifying to realize that despite having some amount of identity as an inventor, I didn't actually care that much about getting a patent. (I also, hilariously, apparently thought at the time that having a patent might make me money)
each one I crossed off, at the first phase or after considering it a bit more, liberated a bit of energy. great practice saying "no"—even just internally
for the Goal-Crafting Intensives, this Dream List exercise is one of the first ones we recommend everyone do ideally before the workshop to have a chance to sleep on it, but we have a "no homework" policy so you can do it during as well
it's a great place to start because it invites you to set goals beyond the horizon of your current concerns ie you're not just clarifying the ends towards which you're already working (tho that can also be worthwhile)
I'm going to be doing a live event next week where we go through this exercise, on The Stoa would love to see you there!
and if you want to come to the GCI workshop itself, to choose from your dreams & craft them into goals, there are sessions this weekend (nearly sold out!) and more the following weekend so you could hit the stoa session as prep for the main workshop! complice.co/event/gci?tw=m…
@BecomingCritter @Scrygl this post is also pointing at karma in the "karmic tangles" sense, finding the self-evident truth there lesswrong.com/posts/xEHy9oiv…
Retweeted @tomcritchlow
So much of goal setting and future planning is just your today self trying to command and control your future self. Trus…
@KaseyKlimes do you end up helping people process their trauma while doing this facilitation? 😮 could be cool to include juxtaposition: invite people to recall past experiences of frustrated collaboration, & bring whatever generalizations from that in contact with the new experiences
@tomcritchlow Yeah, the best way to think about goal-setting imo is about liberating your future self to pursue things wisely. This "trust yourself" vibe is why for our goal workshops we don't focus on metrics/deadlines but on your ability to recognize what you want:
@tomcritchlow We've had some major upgrades in our thinking since we first designed the workshop, so there are probably still some places in the exercises that use more of a forcing frame, which could be even more allowing
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
new experiment: scroll the TL and completely let go after every tweet, then choose whether to read another (context: )…
Thread · A flexible every-2-3-days workout commitment · 6 of 7 tweets
new plan: 📆 work out every 2-3 days, without fail 🏋️♀️ gym with barbells if there's one convenient, otherwise bodyweight (I've found ways to load enough using pistol squats & handstand pushups) 🧘♀️ if I'm too sick/something to do a strength workout, do 20+ mins of yoga and log that
context: after excellent success with working out regularly Oct 2021 - May 2022, and seeing real gains in my abilities and physique (super motivating), I fell off the wagon when I went travelling and it was hard to find gyms and I was sick or jetlagged a bunch
2-3 days is a satisfying cadence for me, because there's a sense in which on the 2 day I am like "today could be workout day... but doesn't have to be..." but then on day 3 it's like, "okay for real no excuses today" gives both flexibility & clarity
if I were in a situation where I had a recurring weekly schedule I might prefer to pick which days in advance, like MWF or TThSa or something ....but I really really don't at this phase in my life, so the flexible version seems better
this is a bit like the principle "don't miss two days in a row" critter.blog/2022/03/18/nev…
I'm excited to do some version of this indefinitely, but ofc shit happens so I guess maybe the final piece of the plan: 🤔 if I ever let that 3rd day pass with no workout, I'll append to this thread with a reflection on what happened, and instantiate a new intention going forward
@PeterXPark what does your ideal sustainable schedule look like?
@ifonlyalabama Mmmm. Can you say more about how? I'd love to have more examples than my own. Feel free to DM it to me if you'd rather I share it anonymously at some later point.
I'm intrigued by this approach to movement training based on studying slow-mo vids of the "most durable athletes", ie athletes who performed at high levels for a long time with no injuries thoughts? (tagging @movebettersam @hasgotmoves) goatamovement.com
@fortelabs @tariquesha1 @vgr @vgr already mentioned this but since his account is locked I'll tag it as well: Questions Are Not Just For Asking was indeed on ribbonfarm but was by me! ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/10/que…
@fortelabs I loved your Throughput of Learning post, & I'm curious both: 1. to what extent, 6y later, have you headed towards this hypothetical 50th post, vs some other direction? 2. what might you try to say if you tried to write another such bold advance post now?
Replying to @Mylistofhorny
@TheWeGroot @eshear arguably people dunking on those whose politics they disagree with are still focusing on what they want to see more of, but like... more on the level of "I want to see more political fighting"
@visakanv the implications of emotional coherence for creating a new cultural platform* *that is [non-coercive / Game~B / collaborative / conscious / post-postconquest] main stub I accidentally drafted in Oct as part of Ontario letter, but I'd probably rephrase at lot for standalone
tfw you tweet a question or prompt and you'd like to offer your own answer but you don't want to put it in the first tweet, because you want the first tweet to just be the prompt but you don't want to put it in a second tweet, because you don't want to make it a thread
@visakanv thanks for the prompt—helpful. what's yours?
@CoolPineapple18 @Shenalyo Mmmm, great point. If I were to try to restate "simple vs complex goals" it might be something like "is the behavior already well-defined, or is it something that's open-ended?" I was thinking about this "whether to talk about" thing myself when I tweeted
Replying to @BenRatkaj
@BenRatkaj some phone plans don't have voicemail. I think it's possible to not set your voicemail up... maybe it's possible to deactivate your voicemail. I'd say call your phone provider
if someone helps you out, don't burden them by asking them to find a way for you to make it up to them (this has happened to me) pay that shit forward if there isn't an obvious way to pay it back
Replying to @gas_bitch
@gas_bitch agh I imagine you feel really powerless <3
Replying to @caelanhuntress
@caelanhuntress 10× greater financial abundance via @CompliceGoals, a smol human under my care, and a book on my Non-Naive Trust Dance framework published oh and some music released, some divergent viewpoints synthesized (I'm just summarizing my list of goals from the complice app lol)
Have you intended a theme for 2023?
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF exactly! I can see why it would be confusing to make that a prominent option, but it would be cool to have it available somewhere in the composer for power-users and then ALL users would benefit from power-users being able to do that
@DRMacIver there's a difference between offering help and someone literally saying "please let me know how I can make it up to you" or something like that (I can't find the example, it's buried in my DMs and I just tried )
@KaseyKlimes nice! you might like How The Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work by Robert Kegan, for some structures for crafting shared agreements and so on (my work in general is in creating cultures that are more self-aware, so it dovetails with yours here)
@KaseyKlimes also @HiNaryan I have some sense you may want to be tracking what Kasey's up to in terms of bringing collaboration into orgs
@kcorazo hmmmmm well, one of the things that @TadHargrave points at in his Marketing For Hippies work is that you want the style of your marketing to reflect the ethos of the thing you're marketing like they should share a philosophy/paradigm/stance towards the world
@CoachKyleZ haha I mean I think there are ways to have your mind override your body in ways that are unhealthy. gotta have the communication go both ways tell me more about GOATA stuff
@rozcounelis suggests a simple solution:
Good communication, free communication, within or between people, is always therapeutic.
from this short piece by Carl Rogers Communication: Its Blocking and Its Facilitation drive.google.com/file/d/1jS1hQn…
@SurenVynn @gptbrooke me & @this_is_silvia in portugal
@KaseyKlimes Yup! > Good communication, free communication, within or between people, is always therapeutic.
@oreghall @dvassallo oh there are lots that sort of hypothetically could exist, but in practice cannot actually be constructed because nobody has the power to get all the parts in the right place at once
@oreghall @dvassallo like how there are stable or dynamically stable Conway's Game Of Life structures that won't emerge from any other preconditions and you can't make them if you can only modify say 5 cells per timestep
@ricvolpe @__drewface @interintellect_ yeah I don't expect to find any within their existing network, but I figure if we get a bunch of our people signed up maybe some meaningful critical mass will emerge
@vestiphile haha I love this energy, what's the context?
@b_e_e_p_r @RichDecibels okay so funny story about this—I had the lick from Strasbourg / St. Denis stuck in my head off and on for YEARS, but had no way to look it up, I just knew it from some mix. then I finally heard it somewhere in this Candy Dulfer concert and was like 🤯😍🤩 youtube.com/watch?v=v9d45c…
@b_e_e_p_r @RichDecibels but... I'm not actually THAT into the Candy Dulfer version. And I don't like the original Roy Hargrove version at all. Pretty into Yohan Kim's, but I still don't think it's the version that I got stuck in my head years ago
@tasshinfogleman @thinkagainer I totally fucking have seen it but I don't remember where (ahh cool you guys found it)
@maxim_eorr @RichDecibels dece, thanks
@__drewface @ricvolpe @interintellect_ great. next week way better for me too, or maybe even more like 2nd half of Jan
@magronblaks @anielsen108 @JustChap metarational ofc metarationality.com
The Power of Now + The Power of Habit − The Now Habit = The Power of... of Power!
@CurziRose @mesolude yeah, they refer to the multiplier sign of the feedback loop +/− egs of positive feedback loops (+➡️+, or −➡️−) virus spread poor get poorer egs of negative feedback loops (−➡️+, or −➡️+) hungrier I get, more I seek out food you turn music down, I turn it up
@CurziRose @mesolude you can also have both at play at once eg greenhouse gas emissions cause a positive feedback loop due to melting ice caps (this is bad) but they also (hopefully) cause humans to be like "wait this is bad we should lower emissions" and do things in order to do so
Brave New World − Brave New Work = World Without Work (which, I guessed correctly, is already the title of a book!) amzn.to/3X5ebVu
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry − Spectrum of Ecstasy = After the Laundry, My Clothes Faded
Science is Culture − Science & Sanity = Culture is Insane
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
A tiny meditation invitation, if you'll pause here for a moment. Think of some of the people you know, here or elsewher…
@__drewface @strangestloop if you're always begging for help, that's no good... kinda victimy but if you're clearly still working on stuff, and you're providing surface area for people to plug in their energy with yours, that's a win-win waiting to happen. that's an *offer*
@__drewface @strangestloop reminds me of these threads of mine from a couple years ago
@__drewface @strangestloop which I turned into this blog post if you'd rather read them there: malcolmocean.com/2020/11/meta-t…
@visakanv @nat_sharpe_ uhhhh I mean, seems to me that nat did great ownership of interpretation there 😅 😉
@RichDecibels I collect developmental axes / dimensions of growth roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
@makingstitch you might like my lil site whatifitweregoodtho.com or this thread:
@tasshinfogleman nice.
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF @utotranslucence anyone who wants that can keep playing the blame game if they don't see any better alternatives
@DavidCrandall_W this is a real research question for me and I'm making serious progress! see this pseudothread:
what do you do as part of a yearly review? I'm interested in hearing about both the obvious and obscure, the public and the private
Replying to @s_r_constantin
@s_r_constantin @utotranslucence mmmm, yeah! just basic affirming of the parts at play is so powerful (also to be clear, I did actually ask for a few minutes to go inward mid-convo here! like I didn't somehow do this while continuing to talk)
@codexeditor wdym, groovy is still groovy
Replying to @vals_pals_
@valor_zhang I recommend taking on a challenge to get rejected N days in a row (could do 100 but 30 might suffice) I did this in 2012 with a deck of cards called Rejection Therapy that had things like "ask to buy something that's not for sale", "ask to cut to the front of the queue"
@valor_zhang when you make rejection into the WIN condition, it completely changes the game. there is no failure anymore
@not_a_hot_girl @goblinodds both mobile web has tabs, which is a superior experience than the app in many ways
@not_a_hot_girl @goblinodds but also twitter on your phone at all is a bit of an antipattern because it makes it easier to consume/scroll and harder to create/tweet so I generally stay logged out, and use an ifttt widget to sometimes just send tweets from my phone
@benpence @ladymcscope nothing in particular! I'm just going along :)
@CarnunMP @CompliceGoals @p_millerd @reasonisfun honestly that makes a fair bit of sense! if you're wanting to explore your own approaches, maybe best to not come to GCI this season (we'll run more later this year) I'm down to talk at some point, tho maybe a bit busy in the next week or two (before GCI) follow up later Jan :)
@BecomingCritter hmm what happens at 2y threshold that doesn't happen with 1? or maybe it's more about having the segments sorta... overlap more
@embryosophy @EthanReeder nice, that sounds awesome
@natural_hazard @cashewroasted @loopholekid yeah I need to gather more examples too tbh (is part of why I haven't written this up as a blog post) but I talk about one simple one in this video youtu.be/yPpTGbNSCr4
@markbao @startuployalist @visakanv welcome back dude!
@robbensinger @b_subercaseaux @Corey_Yanofsky @xlr8harder @reasonisfun thanks for tagging, this was interesting to read. not sure how to comment; lots of frame differences here intriguing idea that embodied people would adjust easier but I think people dramatically underestimate how many things we'd need to get right & how fucked it'll be til then
@robbensinger @b_subercaseaux @Corey_Yanofsky @xlr8harder @reasonisfun I also think that describing a person as an algorithm is really wrong, at least connotationally but ultimately probably denotationally as well related:
@robbensinger @b_subercaseaux @Corey_Yanofsky @xlr8harder @reasonisfun I do kind of identify myself and others on the basis of how they do relevance realization, which seems to be a sort of unique personal fingerprint on an information-processing level but it's necessarily inherently evolutionary, not algorithmic, and ofc embodied/enactive/e/e
@caitlynslashai if you want a full framework for doing a yearly review + 5h of guidance, you might want to come to the GCI workshops I run! we still have some tickets left for sessions this weekend & next complice.co/event/gci?tw=y…
Replying to @ungatedlife
@ungatedcreative wait what? I'm rarely encountering this and I have 2.5× as many followers. are you getting RTs into scenes full of assholes? block the people doing those RTs maybe
@Bandos_1000 @valor_zhang @JiaJiang oh interesting! & neat that Jason Comely sold the rights to the card game to Jia. kinda makes sense I met with Jason back in 2012 and did a little work towards building a mobile app for it—something I continue to think would be a great idea
@lemonaut1 wishing you success!
@strangestloop idk quite what the event would be but I would love to watch Socrates in action. maybe whatever symposium Plato's Symposium was most based on
@nibrasibn I'd begin with their motivation and work backwards. what are they excited to do and what's in their way? if they don't even know what's out there, explore possibilities with them to see what piques interest
vaguely feels to me like the difference between being criticized and being critiqued is that critique starts from an understanding of the intent and value-so-far of the thing being critiqued, whereas criticism starts criticizing before it actually gets to that.
it's possible to get something useful out of criticism, it just requires being able to hold your own sense of your intent and the value so far, and to not lose it in the face of: - suggestions irrelevant to your intent - wanting to say "that's not what I meant" - etc
@kcorazo wow, epic are you open to sharing some examples of what has emerged over the years?
other common distinctions: - relationship: friend vs enemy - intent: constructive vs antagonistic (friends sometimes antagonize) this new "understanding" distinction helps me explain what's going on for me when a friend thinks they're helping but it feels like criticism to me
@RomeoStevens76 you mean just the phrase "the now habit", or a hypothetical book with that title, or the existing book with that title by Niel Fiore (great book)
@colluraj @PeterXPark left and right seem pretty fucked these days but I've been enjoying being a Liberal Progressive Conservative (this blog post points at each of those meaning something quite specific and admirable) everythingstudies.com/2018/12/06/i-l…
still haven't figured out what you're doing for your New Years reorientation, your yearly review, or uhh... your life? still some tickets left to our online choose-your-own-adventure workshop where you'll have 5 hours dedicated to looking at it! complice.co/event/gci?tw=m…
if you first want to read some threads about the workshop, the content, and more, we've got the meta-thread you're looking for:
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
this workshop is sorta run by Complice, but also very much a separate thing, and isn't going to try to sell you on the a…
@PeterXPark yeah this membrane puzzle is one of the main ones I've been looking at for the past few years I'd love to jam about this whole puzzle with you sometime soon!
Replying to @eurydicelives
@eurydicelives both of those kinda suck, for something big (eg a marriage) ideally my friends encourage me to slow down and think it through, and they make sure I actually feel free to choose the other option and am not just barrelling forward because I feel too committed already
I've sometimes said that slippers are like a portable carpet that goes wherever your feet go. These bad boys are like a portable MOVING SIDEWALK 🤯 youtu.be/qe4CHWulnDs
Retweeted @HeidiPriebe1
There isn’t an extrovert on earth who walks away from social interactions they had to be fake, dishonest or inauthentic w…
if the "optimal" strategy doesn't work, it's not very optimal
ICYMI: Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
@nathan_k good work dude bit by bit, we're learning to steer
Retweeted @gnopercept
what kind of pupils do you think the biblical angels have?
@edsaperia yeah this stuff is such an annoying tension
@embryosophy what part of your body feels the most alive?
@colingrowlancer @DanielTabakman It can help you connect with people in bodyspace too!
Replying to @MWStory
@MWStory partially it's straight up different people some people are trapped in outrage spirals, some are plugged into the collective consciousness in a way that feels delightful and nourishing
@MWStory and then also to some extent there's a mixture of both dynamics happening for most people like I was about to nap a few minutes ago but then came on twitter instead, and have been in a slight space of tension about it even though I've had a few good exchanges sticky stuff
just ate peppered cukes and then had a sneeze so big my ego had a petit mort
"I feel like 'I'm suddenly actually really curious' should be your catchphrase" — @utotranslucence
if you hide what you want from the world, the world will hide what you want from you
keep your mind blown
a lil motivation meditation invitation: what's something you'd like to be different in a year? what does it look like now? what do you want it to look like at the start of 2024? hold both in awareness until you feel like doing something about it
this is happening in like 5 mins I'm very stoked
@khemaridh Listening deeply
@fiddlemath that is indeed the puzzle also sometimes a mindfuck is preferred over a mindblow
@fiddlemath John Vervaeke's stuff on flow as an insight cascade seems very relevant here though (first few episodes of Awakening From The Meaning Crisis) youtube.com/watch?v=aF9HeX…
@curious_be_ support others' aliveness so long as it is compatible with your aliveness and everyone else's
@GSto fuck 🤣
@RomeoStevens76 huh, I don't really see it but maybe I'm too indexed on failed versions of GTD I know the deep wisdom of it is about single-tasking and avoiding having excess open loops but in practice it seems to often break down into neurotically wrangling tasks rather than doing stuff
imagine that some minutes from now you're in a flow state doing something worthwhile what would need to happen to lay the groundwork for that? can you do that right now?
some examples of things you might do to open space for flow - choose what to focus on next - close out other stuff (tabs, phone stuff) - say "ttyl" to people you're chatting with - clear your mind by writing down things to attend to later
@RomeoStevens76 this inspired this:
@visakanv being misunderstood particularly people who don't grok your deal and confuse you for a grifter people who don't play long games particularly people who say they do QT-dunkers particularly those who are annoyed that something is getting attention pedestalizer-parasocializers
the original tweet I was QTing, since that account is now locked, said something like: "everybody is fucking up in ways that are impossible for them to see but really obvious to everyone else"
oh lol I actually quoted it (or half of it) in the 2nd tweet in my thread. oh well, worth having for the paraphrase
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa hate to break it to you but you have enough social capital that there are already probably dynamics like this around you but money is worse because it's more fungible, eg nobody woulda begged qc to send them some of his mother's love if she hadn't given it to him in dollars
@rmbalt @alt_visa @liminal_warmth galaxy brain take right here
@daemonhugger brighter colors
@etiennefd re climate, there are a few factors: I'd be irritable and sleepy and useless if I had to live somewhere that was regularly above 25°C with no AC cold winters → intellectuals guy who made Singapore a developed nation focused on AC as a leverage point for productivity etc
@nosilverv I have a thread on how apple fucked up emoji forever by violating unicode guidelines and making white emoji
@stephlepp I think people often have more inner conflicts about personal stuff than professional stuff and as long as the thing you "want" is actually something only part of you wants, change will be very difficult
@micahtredding automating bill payments is one of the classics setting up systems to be focused when you want to be focused is another key eg blog.complice.co/post/121559734…
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ @Morphenius and I have been talking about this for awhile and as far as we can tell there's a sense in which collective consciousness experiences itself in first person from each individual's perspective simultaneously???
@the_wilderless definitely interested I've gone through a couple waves but very smol amplitude
@AbstractFairy thread that talks about this phenomenon, including how the very nature of communication makes it hard to say anything original since you somehow need to say it within a frame that will work for the listener, and in that frame your idea makes no sense
@Joshua50054538 okay, imagine that some minutes from now you are definitely NOT in a flow state doing something worthwhile what might you do now to make it hard to get into a flow state? can you uhhh stop doing any of that?
@AbstractFairy @_inju you might also really dig this article: Nothing Is Behind malcolmocean.com/2019/01/nothin…
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
The Value of Recording and Sharing Conversations tasshin.com/blog/recording…
Retweeted @CarnunMP
Until reading this I think I would have put ~the same point as: "You need to put your own mask on, first." Which _kinda_ cap…
the below tweet is a quote originally from Howard Thurman btw but I thought it would be fun to remix it as "ICYMI" I'll invite you to pick a quote you love that's sufficiently well-known that others might've seen it... tweet it with just ICYMI (no attrib) then QT it below
So @RichDecibels just said this about one of my tweets, and afaict he's basically right! But maybe you have another contender for malcolmest tweet! Submit it below (now or if I tweet something even malcolmer in the future)
@RichDecibels ...........I think you're just right about that, actually.
@RichDecibels another contender might be my If By If By Whiskey "speech"
you don't have to feel bad you don't have to feel bad about feeling bad you don't have to feel bad about feeling bad about feeling bad but it's okay if you do
@jackinlondon ultimately you're spending your time the way you are for some reasons that motivate you you might just find you're not getting good bang for your buck there! also you only need to feel as bad as you feel; you don't need to feel *extra* bad twitter.com/darcyjae/statu…
@jackinlondon but it's okay if you do
@caitlynslashai nice
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF @realtimeai @reasonisfun here's 30 pages by someone from the twitter scene (@FioraAeterna, acct now gone) titled "undoing the pain" a guide to being free for those of us who never learned how or for those of us who are and want to be able to share but don’t know how drive.google.com/file/d/17FUfq4…
@embryosophy so glad I asked
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF And it's part of why I keep in touch with you—because I want that for you and I want the process of figuring out how to make it happen.
@__drewface @ricvolpe @interintellect_ We are pioneering a next-gen to-do list right here.
@PeterXPark I think Robert W. Fuller anticipated it well in his book where he points out that the actual issue is ever denying anybody dignity for any reason, and that the particular axes of abuses are important to track but inexhaustible.
@visakanv "rank" here, to be clear, refers to social rank, which when rankism is present results in pecking order and self-reinforcing power structures but relevant experience is something that needs to be tracked and differences in wealth or strength are inevitable
@PeterXPark whereas wokeism is currently attempting to perform a kind of rank flip, and then using what power it has to indignify people who have too much "privilege" which is just recapitulating the same dynamics
@PeterXPark yeah, that also results in the group not aiming properly towards culture B but instead ending up pointed towards <weighty person's concept of culture B>, which is ultimately a form of A reasserting itself I talk about this failure mode in depth here: malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-l…
@lazymaplekoi whatcha thinking about it?
@kcorazo a "muse breakup"??? plz tweet about this
@PeterXPark you might dig Nir Eyal's Minimum Enjoyable Action approach here, which is similar focuses on having the minimum be something that easily opens into more, like "put my running shoes on and go outside" not just "run in place for 1min" nirandfar.com/your-new-years…
@visakanv another good articulation of this: (click through for context and commentary on a link with Gell-Mann Amnesia)
@cxgonzalez why do you want to do that?
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
new 🤯 just dropped: Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress instead of a stressor/stimulus → stress/response model, this…
I'm probably gonna keep pointing at this until it gets into our collective memeplex here
Thread · There is no default meme, so no default human behavior · 1 of 4 tweets
it's hard to talk about what's normal or natural for humans, given that our behavior is memetically created and there is no default meme
@RichDecibels oh, huh!! didn't know that about FS I assume you mean "norm" in the sense of common, not in the sense of some more primitive default
Thread · Words that are definitely words but my browser dictionary rejects · 1 of 219 tweets
"memetically" is a word
@tasshinfogleman yeah in this case my suggestion would be to just spend a few minutes writing out what is obvious from your current vantage point that won't be obvious to you in a year retrospectively
@Orgone1 huh, neat
information theory is the whole of personal development; the rest is commentary
@fortelabs oooh, nice I have just remixed one thing you might mean here, with a thought I've already had:
practice noticing weird effects when the stakes are low so you'll be ready when it counts
Replying to @ungatedlife
@ungatedcreative block block block
@ungatedcreative or give one warning + invitation to engage constructively, then block if that's rejected
@cashewroasted ah yeah, especially because different people are probably actually each projecting some *different* authority onto you definitely curious to hear more of your thoughts on it!
@maxim_eorr @RichDecibels absolutely
@vestiphile golf lists? awesome, lmk if you want a longer trial to get a proper chance to check it ou
@CoachKyleZ right, and based on looking at videos from pro athletes. what's the easiest way to get started with it, if I want a taster? I could talk about some of my situation if that would help
@ifonlyalabama legit!
@tasshinfogleman I overshot to 6973 and had to boot 4 followers
6969 followers, tell me an unusual sex-related story that happened to you or someone you know
Thread · There is no default meme, so no default human behavior · 1 of 4 tweets
maybe what I actually mean here is that there's no default human behavior
GUTS ELI5 1/3 - in order to stay alive, animals (including humans) need to react to threats - to react quickly, their body needs to be in a threat-prepared state (stress) - but being stressed for too long damages the body - yet humans often end up stressed all the time. why?
GUTS ELI5 2/3 - we used to think that animals only go *into* a threat response if they detect a threat (whether the threat is real or just a shadow) - now we think they're always prepared for threats by default, *unless* they detect signs of it being safe to let their guard down
GUTS ELI5 3/3 - this means that to reduce stress we need to create & notice safety, not just get rid of threats - being injured or fat or old makes people slower to react, so it's stressful - as a kid, you get your sense of safety from seeing/hearing adults nearby feeling safe
@strangestloop boom, thanks for the prompt (had some help from @utotranslucence)
huh, "ELI5" seems comparatively easier for me than "summarize" even though it ends up achieving the latter
@airalosupport I got an eSIM for Australia and it seemed great but then I can't seem to place a voip call through messenger or whatsapp the internet works fine, the call even can *ring*, but it seems to fail to open a socket for the actual live voice comms. wtf?
Replying to @sheherenow_
@jemgold_ BASED if someone filmed that sort of thing I might start watching porn again 😂 what's the best set you have online that I could listen to?
Replying to @VinceFHorn
@VinceFHorn amazing... my concern would be more the driving danger than danger of people seeing, but yeah seems messy in several ways
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ how do I know the kids are yours? do they do stuff, like you? twitter.com/nat_sharpe_/st…
@bobz44 have you considered that perhaps you are truly divine?
@mherreshoff oooh yeah that seems right and it ummmmmmm it creates an obvious reason why some of the nuance might not be captured or whatever whereas a summary can be like "cut out the unimportant bits" and I'm like "ahhh I don't know which bits you might find important"
@AbstractFairy ooh nice
@strangestloop had a blast waking up at 2:40am to run a workshop that was not intended for the timezone I ended up being in when it was time to run it helped a bunch of people clarify their goals and systems and relationships with themselves
@fourfoldvision what translation was he reading? I tried approaching Rumi via a muslim translator once, not Coleman Barks, and found it pretty wack
@__drewface time for your network state
Retweeted @Morphenius
The Hard Problem of Consciousness, restated: If everything is made of 3rd-person objective stuff, how do you construct a 1…
@grantadever gonna pile-on here a lil: while you're at it, please please please give me the ability to only see "on this day" in my memories, and not some random-ass omelette I photographed from some random day in August 2014 that your algo has decided to call a "Featured Tuesday"
@visakanv u r literally asking for me to tap the sign. fine, I will tap the sign.
Retweeted @danallison
Over the years, I've become more and more viscerally aware of how visual perception only ever reflects our internal map of…
@visakanv to unpack my first thought when I read your original tweet was "you're dunking on this guy for dunking on tiktok" but on reflection maybe you were actually intending to make a point more like this one?
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ hmm okay I see proof you had sex at least once
sign in a noodle shop in Sydney Aus cc @bloobsandnoods
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
This poem by @dril is the metamodern version of whatever Invictus was the modern version of.
when was the term "newsfeed" coined?
"this is an old neighborhood. well, more of a tourist attraction pretending to be an old neighborhood" "it's a kayfaberhood"
Working on my yearly review here today, if you wanna come cowork: complice.co/room/review
RAAHHHH RAAHHHH RAAAAHHHHHHHH FUCK IT FEELS GOOD TO LET THE ANGER OUT
post-nut clarity la petite mort ego death
"So, what sorts of job-relevant skills do you have?" "I can plug the USB cable in the right way on the very first time, every time"
Retweeted @benskuhn
People sometimes ask me the hardest decision I've made as a manager. My hot take is that actually ~no particular call is too…
Thread · Voice messages need a word or two of context
voice messages are cool tech most people send w zero context tho, which misses low-hanging fruit for using them responsibly: - mention how time-sensitive - share logistical details (times, addresses) outside - giving at least 1 word of context (eg "idea", "Q", "funny story")
I enjoy voice messages but I may go hours or days without an obvious time to listen to them, so if someone sends me one that's like "hey, there's a <cool thing> happening tonight, lmk if I should hold ur spot" with zero context.... 😒🤬 instead, simply: "party tonight! <audio>"
if you want to send a high-urgency voice message with zero context, there's another technology that's better for that it's called a "phone call" 📞📞📞 then you get my reply immediately, or you find out I'm not available—immediately! it's a win-win.
if you can send a voice memo, you can also send a couple of words of context, since speech-to-text is widely available now so it's literally the same interface
it's worth sending context even if the thing is *not* urgent, because otherwise I can't necessarily trust that you're not the sort of person who would send me an urgent thing without tagging it as such, so I sort of have to open it to find out
ran into someone at a party who explained (better than I yet have!) how @CompliceGoals and Non-Naive Trust Dance are related: both are about contextual improvisation rather than following scripts
I would also beg this of you except that if begging were to work here it would probably be by you brute-forcing yourself into not brute-forcing yourself, which......
I have to say I like how Australian prices are listed tax included. Plus they phased out pennies a long time ago, so things aren't 9.99, they're just actually actually actually $10 almost makes me want to use cash again
I'm at an airport (@NadiAirport) and struck by how terribly tuned the loudspeakers are. Like, we could be all having an audible and pleasant experience of hearing these boarding calls and so on, and instead there's booming echoey bass and it's hard to tell what they're saying.
@JLyle back in north america now. tweeted that from the airport
@mahlenr this is Correct™
Replying to @edanogrady
@edanogrady boycott I have seen lots of places list integer prices tho
@m_ashcroft yeah I'm afraid my rare talents aren't gonna be useful much longer unfortunately
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
when was the term "newsfeed" coined?
@eshear @wintonARK yeah it seems like that's a different thing I was thinking of the correct answer as being 1980 because that's when newsfeeds came into existence as a major feature on usenet (not that unlike fb newsfeeds although not algorithmically curated) that's when it was first one word
We've sold out most of our GCIs this new year's, but there are still a few spots for Saturday if you're looking for a life-design adventure! We've also just scheduled some new sessions for February (linked from page below) ift.tt/w0vRfjY
I'm up on Corona Heights rn and I swear there are so many sirens in different parts of SF it sounds like the emergency vehicles are dogs setting each other off howling heard church bells too...? is there an occasion??
what's something that feels off about your life? what does it look like in this moment? what do you want it to look like at the start of 2024? meditate on the difference until you feel like doing something about it
quote from a participant at this event: > thank you for this really ridiculous list of things that I definitely would not have in front of me otherwise > I feel a little exploded atm, but hopefully I can take this and the other stuff and synthesize it
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
thinking about something @visakanv said about whole crowds of people we'd vibe with but don't know because they aren't o…
@PubliusMaximus7 @__drewface @LukasRosenstock lightning talks are short, timed talks, usually 3-5mins can be given with slides but often not sometimes people will prepare but often it's off-the-cuff sharing on something someone has been thinking about (or you might spend a couple minutes preparing)
@__drewface @LukasRosenstock lightning talks before or after dinner?
Retweeted @__drewface
Scenius' are also obsessed with unblocking each other's work! There are so many examples of this from my research. (unbloc…
Thread · There's no such thing as an introvert · 3 of 4 tweets
there is no such thing as an introvert everyone is drained by some kinds of social interactions & energized by others if *all* social interactions—that you've experienced so far!—are draining for you, you either haven't met your ppl or you haven't figured out how you hang best
I always thought I was an extrꜵvert but turns out I am also drained by some interactions my source for the tweet above tho comes more from talking to an autistic friend who was a loner as a kid but loved people once she met other neurodivergent folks and didn't have to mask
re "how you hang best" the same friend also realized that certain things (one was bright light, another might've been certain kinds of ambient noise) were causing tiredness, and since many social spaces have at least one of those... she thought it was the people tiring her!
@__drewface I've heard someone say something like... ah fuckit I'll just tweet it myself:
Retweeted @__drewface
results of this poll indicate that you should be hug-maxxing. you should be hugging your friends more and squeezing harder.…
@__drewface I think people probably associate it with win-lose, ie dominate, which outside of sports and sociopathic business contexts, isn't necessarily wise to be openly aiming for etymology seems to be ~"gain by striving/working", but with connotation of "be victorious / conquer", so hmm
ooooh, Bret Victor vibes not sure what the name is of the essay I'm thinking of (it has the car steering) but this one is somewhat relevant so I'm gonna link it: worrydream.com/LearnableProgr…
@__drewface gimme a sec... okay done, in low res I did it by extending my sense of family to everyone I'm related to, which is to say everyone—in other words, I thought of how every human who ever lived could be described as /my ((mother|father)'s)* kid/ was kinda painful, given war.
Thread · There's no such thing as an introvert · 1 of 4 tweets
speaking as a former extrꜵvert, what helped me was starting to notice whether I'm actually enjoying yourself or whether I'm kind of "making the most of" the convo and... sorta having fun but I don't care about what we're talking about. being interesting more than interested.
@Venmo your site does something really dumb if you try to sign up with a Canadian number (which you don't allow). this error claims there is no number, which is clearly false, which makes it seem like the site is broken just change to "we need your US mobile phone number"
@SeishinWrites ooof. ...or that. which is also a function of the person and the scene like you can learn to be willing to say things, but in some contexts that's not gonna go over very well
@panchromaticity ah yeah that one
@triteraflops ummm somewhere in between? both? I don't simply mean "have thoughts about", which could be done in a kind of mechanical or procedural way. I mean something that involves kind of holding something in awareness and seeing what arises.
Replying to @jennykatzmusic
@jennykatzmusic it's not that bad at portmanteaus!
@jennykatzmusic partially because it can do really high volume
@cxgonzalez the left hemisphere
@cxgonzalez (for those who haven't checked out McGilchrist's model already, there's a ton of non-obvious stuff in what's going on with the hemispheres 👇)
@stephlepp huh, I've been thinking about all of these things a lot lately—evolution of consciousness, choice, and goals. hadn't quite made that particular connection. one of the puzzles from my perspective is where the choosing even happens. what IS choosing?
@stephlepp I'm curious what other parts of evolving our consciousness you might identify!
@stephlepp and like, if choosing doesn't happen in service of a goal at yet a higher level, on what basis is it choosing? how do you avoid infinite regress?
@strangestloop the universe has lots of things in it
@m_ashcroft give it a new name doesn't have to be Ashcroft Technique seriously consider just making up a new word how about awarkeness it's like awakeness and awareness, together! you can have that one for free, lmk if you need more help 🫡
@AbstractFairy they can be annoying depending on what you post, but they're ultimately generally quite high quality
@AbstractFairy like part of what made the Sequences great is that many posts were written responding to the critiques and confusions & misunderstandings found in the comments of yesterday's post
Replying to @DerringerPax
@DerringerPax @__drewface @thetracebrady @mary_bajorek @tasshinfogleman relevant to yalls interests idk yet how good or relevant the assessment is (linked below) but organizing people into superorganism based on vibes & skills or whatever seems like a win
Replying to @DerringerPax
@DerringerPax @__drewface you might like this vision doc of mine, which is very superorganism-flavored: malcolmocean.com/2022/05/100x-v…
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
1. Have clear goals 2. Identify & don’t tolerate the problems that stand in the way of your achieving them 3. Accurately…
people sometimes say that twitter's algos incentivize outrage porn or whatever, but they forget that likes and retweets aren't intrinsically worth anything if you have confused yourself into thinking that what you want is lots of engagement even if angry, then sure
@michael_nielsen seems like people often are confused about what they want, and this leads to incentive landscapes seeming like they point towards bad outcomes when in some sense they don't
@gmamoon888 who is your dentist and/or how did you find your dentist and/or does your dentist know other holistic dentists in other cities?
what's the difference between spiritual bypassing, spiritual materialism, and spiritual narcissism?
Thread · Words that are definitely words but my browser dictionary rejects · 1 of 219 tweets
"reductionism" is a word (very surprised by this one!)
@coyotespike huh, seems like you can sort of do this reductionism accidentally or intentionally like there are memes that tell you to do this for ~reasons~, or you could just fail to consider things on levels of abstraction other than the barest sensations you can find
@grantadever in what sense?
@AskYatharth I would sing.
@memerister just wanted to say I like your handle
@RomeoStevens76 helpful, thanks. I'm seeing people use "spiritual bypassing" to refer to some cluster that includes all of those, hence my Q! (me a minute ago: why is there only one reply? oh, Romeo just kinda nailed it immediately.)
@RomeoStevens76 wait, wouldn't the blindspot be *not* noticing? in any case, feels very related to ummm not Core Transformation but one of the other Andreas thingies. @xuenay or @mattgoldenberg knows what I'm talking about. buckets of self-concept
unless designated roles, always default to a strategy that works if everyone does it (if you have one) rather than one that will break down seems obvious but there are lots of subtle examples, eg two people waiting for the other to say "okay I'm ready to go"
I don't wake up that early but this is why I like starting on a project asap in the morning, before I've even fully woken up
overheard: "...this is a common problem with a lot of the original futurist organizations that were very successful in the 70s-80s... they had trouble adapting when the internet came along..."
@DanielTabakman @sensefulronin What do you mean, a mechanism? I feel like I'm broadly following your overall point
@embryosophy who the fucked named these categories? "rationalism & TPOT" is not a natural pairing at all in addition to the part where TPOT is not even a thing
@visakanv seems appropriate somehow that your hive.one is very evenly distributed (most people have a clear 1-3 people bigger than the rest, eg you in my case)
Retweeted @natural_hazard
@thinkagainer sometimes it helps me to take 10m to mentally "close loops" that started throughout the day that looks l…
more keywords for this virtual bargaining paper implicit negotiation invisible negotiation superorganisms game theory equilibrium attractor
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF yeah there could be sort of obvious roles, tho in practice it does seem like people do end up in traps due to symmetry "without explicit negotation" reminds me of this paper... whose name I can't remember. something about impl—ah yeah "virtual bargaining" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
interesting to notice while coaching at GCI that I seem to be relatively open-ended when it comes to what people do with their lives, but more opinionated about *how* they live their lives. I guess it's a strategy thing "I wanna learn spanish" ok cool "I wanna always be calm" 😬
like it does seem plausible that there are some things that people just want that others don't—definitely lots of people want to learn spanish, and they do, and they're glad they did—but other things where certain strategies are consistently counterproductive long-run (layering)
new EA cause area: build AI bots that can engage 1-on-1 with people to help them learn how to have a robust memetic immune system... ...before someone builds AI bots that can engage 1-on-1 with people in order to convince them to vote a particular way.
(comment source: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=343738…)
Thread · Two kinds of immune response and covid's immune escape
it sounds like there are like... at least two different types of immune response? "shoot on sight" - obliterates the the virus at low quantities before they can even grow "I know your deal" - recognizes larger pattern once they've grown a bunch; mitigates damage is this right? twitter.com/sailorrooscout…
(this line of inquiry based in part on that tweet but more from the gestalt of this whole latest @TheZvi covid article on XBB, which says "yep, it will spread more, no, P(doom|infected) has not increased") thezvi.substack.com/p/covid-1523-v…
like just trying to reason through... it seems like certain viruses (eg smallpox) get to like 100% immunity because they achieve the first thing in a way that the virus is incapable of mutating around but covid is a sneaky bastard who mutates like fuck, so that doesn't work here
therefore covid achieves immune escape, particularly from the "shoot on sight" by changing its name & hair and dressing up in a new outfit but once it starts to do its shenanigans, the body is much faster & better to be like "we know your deal, die"
so people don't get as sick, but they are still vectors for spreading this new variant of covid in particular, which other people are then more likely to catch in particular because they also don't have "shoot on sight" immunity still?
I assume one of these is like "antibodies" and one of them is like "T-cells" or something? I would like to summon a nerd to explain plz thx 🙏
have you tried letting yourself not deal with the problem but keeping it in awareness until you remember why you want to, and then you want to?
@VictorPontis @weparkweparty is there a postmortem on what happened with this movement? did it just peter out, or get shut down, or covid kinda made a bunch of this sort of thing happen anyway?
weirdest landing page I've ever seen (of landing pages not trying to be weird)
this is true for some other mindsets as well I have some tastes of something that is like the growth mindset of growth mindset that I sometimes call "learner mindset", and it's very cool and transforms how I pay attention & makes learning vectors way more obvious
Thread · Being the first follower: starting a dinner party series
So! Inspired by @prigoose & @__drewface running weekly dinner parties in NYC, I've just started running dinner parties in SF! I'm being "first follower" here—I want to inspire many more people to copy me copying them. 1st one to visit them in NYC then do so gets this lil flower:
context of the "first follower" phrase sometimes it takes someone else following someone else's lead for other people to even realize they are leading
the tweet that inspired me:
......amplified by this other tweet, since I have network state aspirations 😅
I've sort of run events before but all kind of half-assed, and I've found food & other details stressful to think about or offloaded it onto other friends. so I decided to start by just copying their playbook very closely. I can iterate once I've got some momentum 🌀
this tweet below was about as much as they'd said publicly about how they ran the events, but I messaged Priya and got a ton of other info from her
a bunch of stuff that she hadn't even thought to say emerged when I asked questions about things that were sort of obvious to her but were still non-obvious to me (eg "don't order the food to be ready at the start of the calendar event")
I collected & distilled @Prigoose's & @__drewface's approach to dinner parties onto my roamblog, so anyone can check it out and get a kind of starting template roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
so! this thread is my challenge to you, if you wish to accept it (I'm not expecting it'll make sense for everyone to accept it, for lots of reasons) start running your own series of dinner parties. check out my link. schedule one for next weekend & invite your friends!
and if you're in NYC soon, visiting from elsewhere, and you go by the Fractal Sunday Dinners and get inspired to run your own somewhere else, perhaps you'll gain possession of that lil paper flower... ...until YOU inspire someone else in turn! 🤩
here's a pic of chilling near the end of tonight. it was lovely! small, totally unstructured. we didn't do lightning talks or anything this time, just chilling, meeting each other, talking. some spontaneous poetry reading. an attendee shared her own decade of dinner party exp!
I feel like many motivation/intentionality/productivity systems (apps, workflows, etc) overemphasize dopamine (craving, hope, pursuit) & underemphasize serotonin (satisfaction, pride, abundance)
just had a fun convo with @_BrianReisman at the end of a @p_millerd event call, and got a bunch of cool ideas for building more celebration features into @CompliceGoals. at the risk of grossly oversimplifying (as one always does with neurotransmitters)
me: "ahh, so lovely how the X webapp hides archived chats altogether when not in use... it used to have an annoying blob for that at the top... they must have changed it." moments later: 👀 ...I changed it. I am my own hero.
> I certainly wasn’t sitting there at age 18 wondering “how will this move away from home affect my parents ability to spend time with the kids I will one day have?” mood. relevant to several things on my mind the last few years, personal & societal. botharetrue.substack.com/p/being-far-fr…
every conversation is constantly co-creating its own culture
every conversation is constantly co-creating its own culture, under constraints of context
epic idea for adding agreement mapping to twitter to create trust webs @conaw this is relevant to your interests @nosilverv & @exGenesis yall wanna build this? ideamarkets.substack.com/p/how-twitter-…
levels of co-awareness in a convo: 1. total autopilot confabulation 2. sincerely figuring things out but not aware of being in a conversation 3. culture that's aware of conversational dynamics but taking certain assumptions/norms for granted 4. aware of constant co-creation
me: oh man we have broth now! 🤩 Jess: yes, that happens every time we slow-cook 🤨 me: but... it happened THIS time! 🤩
@DRMacIver only sorta counts as knowledge but when I worked at a thrift store summer before uni I had to break down all the cardboard boxes that stuff got donated in and I discovered that there are dozens of ways (fold patterns + optional glue or staples) to construct a cardboard box
Retweeted @AskYatharth
what’s an different word for narcissism/narcissistic wounding that’s less charged?
rushing = moving faster than the rate at which things can be smooth
fascinating thread about the logic of colonization it's got more arrows pointing in more directions than you might expect twitter.com/LachlanMcNamee…
This is the way
5k words into writing my yearly review blog post and I'm only at late April 😳
listening to Sam Harris talk about why he removed the streaks feature from Waking Up ("you shouldn't be thinking about practicing every day. it's about practicing every moment") has me thinking about adding a mode to Complice where it just delights in total days, not streaks
the Complice streaks feature already has a few elements that keep it from being nearly as neurotic as other streak systems, as I describe in this thread:
yearly review blog posts are powerful for a different reason than yearly review journalling with journalling, you're trying to notice non-obvious things about your year with a blog post, you're trying to make sense of the obvious. just like distill wtf happened (& why).
I have a lot of internetional friends
you get what you give
is the reason for sudden layoffs because employee accounts have access to data that companies are worried would get leaked or something if there was a final n weeks? (this tweet is a lil misleading: they'd gotten emailed at midnight; many didn't notice)
I'm working in this pomodoro room if anyone wants to join me! 🔥 complice.co/room/general
me: "I am gonna let the music out" *unplugs headphones* @utotranslucence: "yes. YES. The music is out."
Retweeted @abhayance
Acceptance is never about accepting one thing over another. The mind's idea of acceptance is closer to resignation than it…
@deontologician right but I guess I would have naively assumed that they might keep people around for even a day or two longer to explain key aspects of their job to the people who remain
@VinceFHorn @InterbeingUs I'm very curious about multiplayer meditation! Can you say more about the aims & principles of what you're working on?
@RomeoStevens76 curious how this feels for you now, a year out
ICYMI: this "change in location" test is used to measure Theory of Mind in kids. iirc most kids fail it at age 4, and pass by age 7. the range might be tighter, but knowing the exact value isn't important since there are signs the science has holes. still interesting to consider
people say that once kids are 7 or so, they have theory of mind as far as I can tell, that's just the tip of the iceberg and most adults are nowhere near the depth of theory of mind possible (including me)
Thread · Moments of waking up into self-awareness and theory of mind
many people describe having a clear moment or even just an overall age when they WOKE UP into some sort of self-awareness & became a person the below is a dramatization, probably not typical. something re memory/continuity? self-other? I don't have one that stands out. do you?
it seems clear this is about developmental stages in a general sense, and maybe different people are actually referring to different shifts? because one was more salient? eg for one person it's about when they first decided that a memory was important; another theory of mind
in the comments on that video, some people are referring to the gained quality as sapience, sometimes translated as wisdom maybe it's meta-sapience though? ie the reason our they thought of calling our species "homo sapiens sapiens"
there's also a version of this same no-longer-on-autopilot thing that happens regularly throughout adulthood, and that accessing it regularly is part of the point of some spiritual practices. are people just referring to the first such version?
I reflected to my 11yo cousin that it was tough for me to experience his dad's parkinson's decline, though I was sure it just seemed normal for him up close and not knowing anything different he was like "huh, I hadn't ever thought what it would be like for someone else" 🤔⚙️🤯
but obv by age 11 he had standard "false belief" theory of mind—the kind tested with the change of location test was this just an unusual application of that? or new degree?
my guess is that theory of mind is a whole skill tree, with many unexplored paths
Replying to @TetraspaceWest
@TetraspaceWest oh sweet you can do polls in replies now? nice also maybe @Aella_Girl would be into running a poll on this. seems like very much her sort of thing
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF theory of theory of mind?
note to self: workflow for aligning video & audio when I record myself dancing 1. strip audio from both 2. take into audacity & line it up (ideally plan how to do that) 3. export something that matches original video length 4. combine audio & video (all using ffmpeg)
Broke my workout streak? GOOD An opportunity to practice getting back into it ...and to make art of my learning process. youtu.be/UbgtY398oUs
Thread · A flexible every-2-3-days workout commitment · 1 of 7 tweets
Let 3rd day pass with no workout. Part of the issue is I haven't had a clear go/no-go time to work out. So, new intention: I'm going to work out first thing after putting my contacts in on those mornings—default day 2, unless plans that morning prohibit.
One partial solution to the "my friends are all over the place" problem is for us to introduce our friends-in-the-same-city to each other.
fuck
adorable & inspiring video of a mom coaching her toddler thru bringing her coffee "did you panic? it's okay." kid didn't simply fail, he got overwhelmed & had to abort the task! "panic" is a good but nonobvious word for that, that most adults don't have tiktok.com/@rachelreneeee…
ICYMI: you can always get chronological timeline with this simple search query, which conveniently has been stored at this memorable url: realtwitter.com
2nd dinner party was a blast network state here we come
Retweeted @RichDecibels
reply a lot consider yourself invited into every conversation. if you want to make friends you have to visit other peopl…
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
Tickets now available for the February Goal-Crafting Intensives! 🚀 Come reorient to your life with structured coworking…
Thread · Writing an opinionated Complice philosophy page as marketing · 1 of 7 tweets
as you can now see from the preview image in the previous tweet, I got a lovely illustration commissioned from @this_is_silvia and I wrote this thread about our process of collaboration
very soon we'll have a AI artists that can also ask questions or to whom you could say "what other prompt would make it even more like #2?" (thought inspired by revisiting this "how I collaborated with an artist to illustrate a blog post")
Retweeted @meekaale
I’m pretty sure that within six months I will be a daily user of some kind of GPT-based executive function assistant like a m…
Neurosurgeon trips out looking at how old his brain is. > We accept that wrinkled skin comes with age but find it hard to accept that our inner selves, our brains, are subject to similar changes. lithub.com/dissolution-fo…
context youtu.be/6VZlWIW5ZdM
found this thing about "Coercive control motivation in relationships" haven't looked at it but might be interesting en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Motivatio…
15 Reasons Why Superlatives Are The Most Thing To Ever Happen To Humanity
just had someone attempt to buy something from me using a "certified cashier's check", which is a classic scam I feel like any texting app would benefit from a built-in system that detects phrases like that & displays a "warning: common scammer language. learn more" message.
Retweeted @utotranslucence
I read a book called Enactive Psychiatry by Sanneke de Haan which explained ‘what a mind is and what a mental disorder…
> You forget that the eco-mental system called Lake Erie is a part of your wider eco-mental system – and that if Lake Erie is driven insane, its insanity is incorporated in the larger system of your thought and experience. — Gregory Bateson
@utotranslucence parts of this thread remind me of this quote from Gregory Bateson basically the absurd notion that we can locate a "mental disorder" entirely in an individual's brain, without recognition that their mind involves much else
idea I came up with for acting out metacognition in a kind of psychodrama way
island bench
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa what if you stopped making effort to be nice? and just like, be'd as nice as you felt like being
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@visakanv @jonnym1ller @m_ashcroft @p_millerd is this... 🦋 ...expanding awareness?
PSA: It's Not Going To Lick Itself
2022 was quite a year for me. I have somehow attempted to condense it into a single stream of words. There are a lot of words. Writing it helped me make sense of things. Perhaps it will also illuminate something for you, about me or about life. malcolmocean.com/2023/01/2022-d…
Probably my favorite line from the review: > I now have the sense that the reason we were unable to successfully communicate was not due to lack of skill but due to being unwilling to face what would happen if communication were successful.
my 2022 review marks my 11th yearly review blog post in a row!
definitely feeling this this year
@__drewface @ricvolpe @interintellect_ there is a browser extension for Polywork: chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…
@__drewface @ricvolpe @interintellect_ also @EthanReeder Polywork is relevant to ethanreeder.com/incubator & @HiNaryan this is very relevant to the Emergent Strategy game we're prototyping
@__drewface @ricvolpe @interintellect_ @EthanReeder @HiNaryan hmm okay this is pretty cool with the extension. kinda BIG below the profile but I can roll some css code to shrink the buttons haha. and for now it'll be rare enough to see it
@RichDecibels "can be" sure but "is" is a bit much
@vestiphile how are things going with all of this? the golf lists or Complice? just curious how the system is evolving
@theresiatanzil @fortelabs NOT intellectually most of the information your bodymind handles is not what would be described as "intellectual" meditationbook.page is sort of an okay intro to what I mean (it's a great piece overall, just only meh as an intro to this in particular)
@fortelabs hmmm that way of framing it seems sort of dissociative &/ reductionistic but maybe you're using that frame to point at a mode of being that is learning-oriented—in which case I am a huge fuckyeah kind of like I talk about in the first 2mins of this: youtube.com/watch?v=Ub4_kr…
this thread is one of the stickier ones I've read in awhile. like I read it and then kept referring to it afterwards. very trippy. keywords: visual perception map territory emptiness centerlessness nondual subjective first 1st person perspective illusion calculist
Replying to @warrenmansell
@warrenmansell @transdiagnostic @iapct "non-inferior"... but better because more scalable?
@rmbalt beautiful
Replying to @chrisdancy
@chrisdancy wow, based
@JamCoyner "went on a crazy, international spiritual journey" what's a wild story from that journey?
@guavault harem shake
@jambarree you could do it queue-style or stack-style I guess like you could have everyone except the main person keep their role once given or you could have a new person enter at the first order level and shift everyone else down
@IaimforGOAT No, but people keep mentioning it so it's on my radar
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF yeah, and that could be part of what the protagonist ends up reflecting on as well or reflecting on what they feel as they observe that (& obviously there's some minimum amount of interpersonal safety needed to do psychodrama in a way that doesn't make more tangles)
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF this article comes to mind as relevant not sure what it implies in your case lesswrong.com/posts/xEHy9oiv…
@jambarree yeah, either way
@kcorazo @meshachthomas @ieknot @ungatedcreative @uberstuber @francis_miller @Conaw @ashishbhateja @brunowinck @SarahAMcManus @callicrates_ oooh it occurs to me that you might appreciate this article on the importance of slack given how much you're into the slack inventory exercise lesswrong.com/posts/xEHy9oiv…
@Sahelanth huh, like first episodic memory but you clearly already had some propositional memory (eg Frankenstein)
@ZerothAxiom I wouldn't assume that just because the salient one is recent that you didn't also hit other developmental stages at relatively appropriate times & most of us aren't usually in the highest state/mode of consciousness/development we've experienced!
@averykimball what did that feel like?
@Orgone1 ahhh yeah so good
Retweeted @abhayance
@Malcolm_Ocean adult experience of this sort of panic is <instant rationalization for why i actually knew better but my know…
me reading about QD-OLED screens: damn, where can I buy some quantum dots?
Replying to @diviaprocessing
@diviaprocessing here's one datapoint: I made this video (14 minutes) youtu.be/paispraScb0 out of this thread (~20 tweets)
Replying to @diviaprocessing
@diviaprocessing my tweets are quite dense tho—most close to 280chars but aside from a few minutes of tangents I was approximately translating each into spoken pretty directly.
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance whoaaaaa, yup. I know exactly the feeling you're talking about. do you have a sense of what learning causes people to internalize that? presumably some sort of sense of "I should have known better"?
@jonnym1ller "THE purpose"—let me stop you right there 😉 whence the idea that life has a single purpose? +by "life" do you mean "this human life", "every human life", or "the ongoing ever-unfolding evolutionary everything?" idk about telos, but the everything does seem *inclined wakefully*
@kpaxle idk if this will help but one counterintuitive inspiration from tinnitus is to see if you can totally accept the twitching, like "yes, that twitching is exactly what my eye is supposed to be doing right now" sometimes the "this shouldn't be happening" is part of what keeps it
@DRMacIver yeah an important thing for eg USB cables is to have enough that when you're looking for one to eg take somewhere, you don't have to take one from a place that you'll want it later like one for each desk & backpack, PLUS spares
@nabeelqu I think the thing that almost always kicks in by age 7 is being able to imagine that if you observed the events someone else observed in a local sense, you'd have different beliefs about the world but there's a huge gap to imagining diff interpretations from diff lifetimes
@MattiasInSpace @AVentura777 I've just barely brushed against NVC... broadly the underlying principles are ones I resonate with a lot, although my actual approach to it is very different. I think NVC as a frame fails to adequately highlight the metaprotocol puzzle malcolmocean.com/2021/11/meta-p…
Replying to @AVentura777
@AVentura777 @MattiasInSpace I mean the metaprotocol puzzle is at the heart of failed communication imo, so failing to address it is a pretty big issue for an aspiring communication framework. But yes, some things are just intending to be protocols, and on that level NVC does a pretty good job at it.
@relic_radiation super into this cc @hasgotmoves
Retweeted @the_wilderless
“sacred” and “holy” ostensibly have the same meaning, But “sacred” is etymologically based in ideas of being “set apar…
reverse etymology dictionary when
@palmerish that's 5am pacific time haha. I'd do a couple hours later and try to put the pacific ocean more clearly in nighttime hours
postrational prostrational
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance proposal: we have a short call to jam on these topics, record it, & put it on youtube
@AskJibran @visakanv I totally remember the convo you're referring to, but I don't know where it is... I was saying something about how the best to-do list isn't a list it's just that you'll notice the opportunity to do the thing in exactly the moment when it's time to do it
2 meanings of first: "first, crack the eggs into the bowl. then, whisk the eggs" = "first in sequence" 👣🔢 but "first, do no harm", doesn't mean that after doing the "no harm" step, you can forget it and do harm it means "first, in each moment" 👁️☝️
"first, do no harm" is a maxim from medicine, not from mechanics, because doctors are dealing with a self-healing system
and there's a temptation to think that one knows how to solve the situation this is likely to result in layering, which introduces (iatrogenic) harm
this
I predicted this back when iOS first came out... maybe even slightly earlier watching where OS X was headed
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
look, the problem is that you can't just tell people to listen to their hearts or listen to their bodies or whatever. by d…
you don't have to listen to me you don't have to listen to me when I say you don't have to listen to me you don't have to listen to me when I say you don't have to listen to me when I say you don't have to listen to me but you are free to if you want
@markmarijnissen in other words, allow it to stop
@PlaneHarvester how'd it go?
@QiaochuYuan super well put. I feel like I'm trying to sort of untangle that double-bind with some of my stuff emphasizing respecting distrust, eg
@QiaochuYuan but maybe we can even get a little more on the nose with it
?
@sidewayskoyote wfw?
@RichDecibels yeah @benskuhn has a great article that made me give up most wireless things (I still use my true wireless earbuds, mostly with music & podcasts since there the delay doesn't matter & the experience is fucking awesome) benkuhn.net/wireless/
@RichDecibels re things changing fast, you might like my article "We All Live In EPCOT Now" > A person returning from a hard day’s work could very well come home to a kitchen with brand-new appliances in it. medium.com/@Malcolm_Ocean…
huh, not sure how to reconcile this excerpt linking monotheism to stasis... with @vervaeke_john's frame on the abrahamic god as the "god of the open future" (vs cyclical recurring events)
my "/100 vids" has been stuck at "53" for awhile, for weird reasons. it's not even accurate—I've released a few videos more, they just didn't get logged in my thread for whatever reason and that's been making it feel bad to make videos (so has having some that need editing)
I've been trying to sort of like, tweet them once and then thread them later, to idk, make them show up on the chrono timeline twice or whatever but at least for now I've just gotta clear the backlog so I can feel fresh again
this is v1 of a kind of guided meditation I want to make, about the power of witnessing yourself key idea: you want to take a photo of what you're seeing, to share it with someone. what if you actually shared it with yourself, *right now*? youtu.be/JaJMogEy0_I
you want to take a photo of what you're seeing, to share it with someone. what if you actually shared it with yourself, *right now*?
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 54 - musing, reflection, pointing out something not quite a guided meditation. idk if this thing I'm pointing out exists in standard dharma or is its own weird thing
@ladymcscope I mean I do have that power haha 😂 but feeling fresh doesn't actually make the laundry any more laundered
has anyone built a GPT rubber duck chatbot? 🦆 ...you could build one without GPT, tbh
some reflections on how cultures/religions/etc contain both timeless universal wisdom and also unique contextual (hi)stories it's ideal for the former to spread broadly, but trying to spread the latter is imperial/colonial youtu.be/hK8RlJ8Hmsg
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 2 of 77 tweets
vid 55 - reflection, ramble, presentation one of those "instead of monologuing at a dinner party, how about I monologue at the camera" moments
vid 56 - dance, exercise, & reflection you might find this motivational to listen to / watch if you're needing a habit pick me up
@MugaSofer @vervaeke_john yeah it's pretty unclear to me what the wisdom is in that view tbh it has a particular flavor of conformity, but not necessarily *more* than polytheistic societies had
Thread · Words that are definitely words but my browser dictionary rejects · 1 of 219 tweets
"rederived" is a word
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF seems to me that while there's grey area, there are some religious things (names at the extreme end) that could not be rederived if forgotten to the sands of time, and other religious things like {the power of prayer} or {the obviousness of the 3 characteristics} that could
> mechanical systems are in a living whole with their caretakers, not by themselves
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF sure, and those are probably all culturally linked by shared history
I'm one of the guys facing the shadows on the wall but just a few moments ago I turned around and was like "WAIT WTF" currently working up the courage to turn around again
@kcorazo @karintwood see also this thread:
@emdashii @the_wilderless oh man Scott made a whole poem out of this phrase (which I don't think eigen invented btw) astralcodexten.substack.com/p/its-bad-on-p…
@the_wilderless extraordinary
Replying to @AVentura777
@AVentura777 @MattiasInSpace *searches wikipedia* > Nonviolent Communication evolved from concepts used in person-centered therapy huh, indeed.
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF "it's too much"; sense of (sensory?) chaos/overwhelm/panic
Replying to @DaltonDEmery
@DaltonDEmery that's a mood
@thelawrenceyan "please disable" as if it would be voluntary and honour system
@smiling_for_fun what if one of my favorite kinds of feeling great is imagining feeling even better?
Replying to @mijustin
@mijustin this new monitor (cheapest good 4k) amzn.to/3Y8K8g3 hue dimmer switch for less phone @ night & silk pillowcase to keep my curls from getting frizzy
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF didn't get the reference, but I feel the vibe. (looking up the reference, seems it's this? not sure if it goes back further)
@QiaochuYuan show me love ♫
@RichDecibels huh I've always had tight calves (huge chonkers) but afaik was never inclined to walk on my toes my cousin got some sort of surgery for toe-walking a couple years ago tho huh
not the craziest idea
looking for a word that means "reward" but without the connotation of someone else giving it to you. a reason for doing something—not a justification but a… <good result> like "benefit" but less lame "fruit" is the best word I came up with in a few seconds of thinking about it
touch-typing is hot
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
"tradeoffs are all fair game according to my priorities" — paraphrase of @uncatherio
reading this example of the Gettier problem (ie when you have a "justified true belief" but your justification is irrelevant) and I'm like........ this is a problem only encountered by left hemispheres mapping verbal propositions onto world states it considers fungible 😂
whoa wait... I think this applies to the very notion of a "justified true belief" as a lens on knowledge itself like only if you're engaged in this particular left hemispheric reduction does it matter to have a consistent formal definition of "knowledge" in the first place
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
if you don't have time to do a weekly review... then you definitely don't have time to NOT do a weekly review aim to ha…
the tweet that I usually reference for this quote is from an account that's locked (seemingly temporarily) so I tweeted it from Complice! it's one of my fav quotes