question it seems worth someone researching: what factors enable researchers (in/out of academia, at various levels) to escape from a doomed paradigm (eg neuroreductionism) into something more alive? in practice, what makes the difference?
July 2023
Trust as an Unquestioning Attitude 😇 naive trust as not Q'ing because you've never been burned 🫡 forced trust as not Q'ing because not okay to question (says authority or inner desperation) 🧐 non-naive trust as not Q'ing because you know the warning signs and they aren't pr…
new twitter changes: - can't view anything logged out (tweet permalinks or profiles) - preview in slack fully gone now these two things were previously the source of 80%+ of my twitter usage some weeks wtf are they thinking?
"don't worry, be spiritually bypassing" — busker at the farmer's market this morning after playing Don't Worry Be Happy
"WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THAT THEY DON'T FEEL SAFE TELLING ME THINGS?!?"
Semantically Transmitted Infection
captcha asking me to identify which sound is a real cat ...Purring Test
Retweeted @IntendApp
Listening to your soul starts with curiosity. What interests you, even if you can't say why?
Retweeted @nanimonull
@megalonyx_ @punished3liza You should check out intend.do by @IntendApp Starts by asking for some Large, Ov…
Retweeted @RichDecibels
I'm training myself to see the superorganism that's made of people, seeing groups rather than individuals as the fundamen…
@RichDecibels I often think of it as "collective awakening"
@jonnym1ller they all seem way too specific/totalizing ("everyone" / "never") remember that most animals have these same physiological states, and there's no way in hell they're making these generalizations but maybe [these states] + [left-hemisphere fixation] = [these messages]??
@RichDecibels "synergetics"
@eshear Might be this one and its sequels, which tell a detailed story about how a sociopath fucked up the Tor community, and how part of how it worked is that nobody was willing to gossip about the weird shit that was happening to them. status451.com/2016/08/09/too…
@eshear (it also talks about the systemic dynamics that allow such actors to divide & conquer with injunctions/threats against talking about such things) status451.com/2016/08/10/too…
> Confusion feels like unresolved surprise. It’s a violation of your expectations that happened somewhere along the way that was never explained. It’s a feeling of things not quite fitting together. arr.am/2020/01/23/not…
@eshear I came across this aggregation article while looking for the pebbles one, and it might also be of use: medium.com/@fanf42/resour…
Replying to @DaltonDEmery
@DaltonDEmery I'll contribute at least a little bit!
@MattPirkowski agreed about the relevance of this for evolution, though I'd distinguish: taste ("I like this; I don't like that") discernment ("this works [for this purpose]; that doesn't") judgment ("this is right; that is wrong")
@metaphorician it's long struck me as dumb that headphones don't have extra buttons to do stuff like this or like "snip the last 30s of this podcast"
@pieratttt I haven't read it but I've heard good things about Saints and Psychopaths by William Hamilton although I think it's less about "Spiritually induced sociopathology" as it is about masquerades
@pieratttt having said that, I sense that spiritually induced sociopathy is also kind of a thing, and it's made out of a false generalization from high-self-trust to "others should trust me", due to lack of differentiation
Retweeted @embryosophy
my tiktoks are lowkey goated where verbal and visual information density are the vibe
instead of finding god what if god finds you?
@nascentwisp I'd already been thinking of tweeting something like this today
@hormeze yeah if you'd pick up a trap bar with some big plates on each side, that'd be great
@deepfates nope, it's its own whole thing (which is open source) github.com/ForumMagnum/Fo…
@QiaochuYuan @sunofdopamine @m_ashcroft @metaLulie "trying" (in this sense) is what happens when effort is at odds with something since the Fall, we've had fractured souls that are often at odds with themselves; letting go of trying is one way to cultivate wholeness
@sunofdopamine @QiaochuYuan @m_ashcroft @metaLulie Vervaeke's stuff on dukkha-translated-as-"self-destructiveness" is quite a good articulation of some of the inherentness of life/intelligence and self-destructiveness youtube.com/watch?v=vGB8k7…
@PaulMinotMD @utotranslucence - relevant to psychcrisis.org
@OneEyedAlpaca all lasagna plates are certified authorities
Retweeted @Morphenius
👮 "Sir, can I see your license for that counterfactual?" 🤷♂️ "Well, you could if I had one."
I call my bank's hotline; they say to go into the branch I go into the branch; they say to call the hotline I call back the hotline, hand my phone to the teller & say "you guys sort it out" they talk for 20mins & say "nothing to do here" hearing this, the monk was enlightened
@bstract_thot hmmm
@eashankotha 2010 but it's the first that came to mind spotify.link/SLam1BXYbBb
@eashankotha My other favorite 2010 album spotify.link/ZyfjKJ0YbBb
@eashankotha Ah here we go, 2009. Fun indie rock. spotify.link/uWmtc62YbBb
@m_ashcroft easier to correct for than having a self image a few years off in the future, perhaps :P what's the gap like?
@BrandonGoldman my request was "please cancel this investment account that I transferred to a different bank" turns out that had happened automatically by the transfer process already, so "nothing to do here" was actually the correct conclusion!
Retweeted @IntendApp
I mean a spicy take is that it depends on the extent to which your usual conversations consist of mutual prompt-completion v…
People who say "LLMs prove humans aren't conscious" or "humans are just like LLMs" are telling you more about themselves and their typical conversations than they're telling you about LLMs, consciousness, or intelligence.
Lots of human conversations are just mutual prompt completion, devoid of intent or purpose. But not ALL.
This lyric is my favorite definition of infinity.
I say "should" I should stop saying "should" I should say "I *want* to stop saying 'should'" instead of shoulding about it I should accept myself using shoulds sometimes I should stop double-binding myself But it's okay if I do
@robbensinger "inferential distance" is the first that comes to mind
@jonnym1ller Hmmm I've been seriously thinking about something like this for both @IntendApp and the GCI workshops! (will investigate more. newsletter writers feel free to reply if your audiences feel resonant with intentionality, goals, etc!)
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WE'RE DOING IT!!! 😁😁I'm so happy!! Publishing @Prigoose's viral piece on "How to Live Near Your Friends" helped convince @…
@__drewface @Prigoose @katherout You can just say things and change people's lives! (Helps to be also living an example of a different life, but the saying part is also important!)
I feel very strongly in a similar way about distrust!
@QiaochuYuan Yes!
@m_ashcroft Now you've got to figure out what you really want! (But you can start by knowing that you definitely—by definition—want to be able to know what you want enough to be able to steer towards it!)
@AaronEstel Might be a win if it seduces some people into the threading medium who are starting from fb-only or insta-only, but yeah we shouldn't go there.
@jasoncrawford Broadly appreciating this as a contribution into the space. I like how you deconstruct the examples! (Speaking as someone who has been and is still fairly concerned about various kinds of AI risk)
@puheenix Get stickers from @stickermule, which are extremely durable and waterproof (although can leave sticky on some surfaces if on for a long time in heat) I have a referral code but I shill them because I hate most other kinds of sticker. I've ordered $100+ worth 5× for @IntendApp
@puheenix @stickermule @IntendApp In your situation tho also my response would be to wait to stick them on the new laptop
Retweeted @imperialauditor
I’m really enjoying Proofs and Refutations and how the various characters elegantly diss each other …
@mahlenr got that 97% optimal vibe
@AaronEstel I am so in favor of overt signalling an overabundance of gunpowder
Replying to @isorry123
@isorry123 @MarkovMagnifico Of course we speak w/ relevance. I'm saying that we *also* often have a sense of actually *meaning* what we say. We can correct our words against intended meaning. We can explain our purpose for what we say (LLMs will make up reasons that aren't the truth: logprob + random seed)
@nosilverv I'm legit confused about the "equal rights" bit. Allegedly (based on the replies) it's a thing when parents have teens who identify as asexual to try to get them drugs to get them horny? That seems like a coercion and medicalization issue tho, made worse by reifying an identity.
@nosilverv I feel like if ppl just said "sex isn't a priority for me" not "I am a new type of creature who absolutely doesn't want it" they wouldn't get all this flak and it would just be chill? (Still have parents pressuring them to date & have kids, but that's not unique to asexuals!)
@nosilverv Anybody can be not horny at any time (or forever) — you don't need a reason or an identity! Participating in making identities out of this is participating in the absurd fiction that you need a category in order to be okay being you!
@nosilverv The reason we need "gay" as a category/identity is so men who want to get with other men can find each other (although I know a man who likes men but is turned off by gay identity/subculture!) But if you don't need to find a sexual partner, you don't need an identity for that..?
@nosilverv Ahhhhh I guess this is where "asexual" and "aromantic" are two broadly useful categories, as people who want one but not the other might want to find each other. ........I feel like it would be better defined by what you DO want tho.
@jessi_cata @nosilverv Oh huh, hadn't actually realized the name has its origin as a DSM category. Fuck the DSM. And thanks for the other examples!
@slimepriestess @nosilverv It still seems to me like identity is the wrong level on which to solve this, but I appreciate you sharing your perspective here as it's helping me understand. As a kid I didn't have a TV and classmates just Did. Not. Get. that my world didn't revolve around various shows.
@nosilverv Sorry I need to clarify something here. In a thread about ace discrimination, one of the examples is no-sex as grounds for divorce and I gotta be real here that is totally legit. Work through it if possible but if your spouse wants to fuck you can't not fuck forever.
@nosilverv Although if we're talking countries where only men can file for divorce, that is already a whole different kind of fucked. But otherwise if you don't want to fuck your spouse-who-does and don't see a pathway to wanting to, have the courage to divorce them yourself.
Beautiful lil story about the power of nonjudgmental listening.
Replying to @1_800_MIRACLE
@1_800_MIRACLE @chaosprime Both of those can be pretty easily verified by someone not engaged in motivated cognition. No need to take anyone's word for it. Although I still find it baffling how different species have different numbers of chromosomes.
@1_800_MIRACLE @chaosprime But like, in general evolution is the tautology that you'll tend to observe more of the sorts of phenomena that are better at sticking around and making more of themselves.
@1_800_MIRACLE @chaosprime And to verify round earth, call a friend in a different timezone and watch the sun set for them while it's overhead for you. Bonus: - Notice how it rises perpendicular to horizon at the equator, but at a low angle in Canada. - Notice how it goes "right to left" in Australia.
I have heard a bit about an injunction by judge Doughty yesterday: US govt now can't tell social media companies what to censor as misinformation. Anybody got links to good threads or articles on it? Seems quite good in many ways! Early covid times were a clear overreach.
@5matthewdub Now We're talking.
@hopingfortime @SamBuntz You might like ESR's piece on theophany! Dancing With The Gods catb.org/~esr/writings/…
@hopingfortime @SamBuntz Also re how we got out of touch with the gods, this piece has been blowing my mind. vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cu…
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot God-tier hermit energy.
@MediClit Averages about people don't have to tell you anything about you! They're mostly kinda fake anyway.
@AskYatharth Can you have a friend hold space for you while you turn your attention to it? To help you regulate? CoLifing 3.0
@kyzcralotSxaM Fond memories of winter fights on my trampoline, where the padding of snowsuits and snow meant we could safely fling each other off.
Retweeted @SlowwCo
You aren't "free" to see what you can't (yet) see (from Ken Wilber's "Integral Psychology"):
I'm looking at the trust section of a library and it's absurd how many books are mostly saying "here's why trust is great". it's like a financial advice book saying "10 things you can do with money"... like uhh that's not the part I'm having trouble with 😆
@strategy_rpg @nlpnyc @ESYudkowsky @paulg There is no neutral prompt! LLMs are not naturally agents who interpret commands then follow them. Sometimes "summarize" DOES mean "dumb down for a general audience"!
@strategy_rpg @nlpnyc @ESYudkowsky @paulg These prompts all imply different summaries: "In summary, what I mean is…" "This essay by Bob is about…" "The abstract of this paper is:" "Bullet-point cheat-sheet for the exam:" "After thorough research of this author's work, this essay presents a brilliant argument that…"
@strategy_rpg @nlpnyc @ESYudkowsky @paulg My guess is you'd get best results with a summary that says something like "how I'd distill this essay for a subject-matter expert:" but I'm not a super skilled prompter
@Prigoose @myceliummage Or you're stuck in a classroom that's moving too slow and watching your precious life energy & attention have nowhere to go.
Thread · Defensiveness as a sign you aren't listening to your own parts
if you get defensive when arguing about something it's a sign you aren't listening to the parts of yourself that ACTUALLY THINK things you think you don't
(what those parts think may be different from what the person you're arguing with thinks. the point is just that you don't feel secure in your knowing)
In some sense "insecure in your knowing" can also come from social dynamics, but ultimately there's a thing it feels like to have a relaxed ease about something and if you're defensive that ain't it
doesn't mean you're wrong. you may have just memorized a fact that is correct, but your knowing of it is based on trusting some authority you don't dare disagree with
I said soul=RRfn originally as a joke but it's turning out to be bizarrely apt Each person realizes relevance differently and in some sense this is: - what we identify as ourselves - what is lost when we die - what lives on a lil in those who knew us - a timeless shape - magical
@alex_with_ease Ooouuu I hadn't even thought of Rob Burbea. I've just barely scratched the surface of his stuff (enough to know you're referencing soul-making dharma but not more than that)
@alex_with_ease It was an aside in the middle of a conversation that wasn't particularly about souls or relevance realization as such!
I'm very much in favor of pleasure and don't think that you should have to earn it or anything like that And also I resonate a lot with QC that there's something disturbingly nihilistic about how Nick tweets (whether he himself feels nihilistic is not knowable to me)
No matter how wise or realized you are, if your memes are gonna predictably send people into tangles or ruts, people need to be able to point that out. For their own sanity (not silently assenting) and for naive bystanders who might otherwise fall into the traps.
We all can see failure modes of each others' advice or approaches, that we can't see of our own. We all can see precious wholeness and fitness-for-me in our own approaches, in ways others can't. ayy lmao
Distinguishing the philosophy that seems to be emitted from the guy's twitter, from the guy himself, feels key to being able to talk thoroughly about this without effectively asking Nick to deny his own senses in order to understand his impact
@RiverKanies You think so? That feels like a very different flavor to me.
@Artischoke Beautiful.
@giray_arat Haha yeah, I left it ambiguous in part because funnier but mostly because 280 characters actually. Glad I did tho, I think it hits better.
@eris_nerung hm? some difference of which zen stories use which word?
@AskYatharth @DaveCBeck Ah yeah, I definitely wouldn't be aiming to get anywhere in particular, just to literally find out if you can look at it at all, with some help to be in the ZPD
@slimepriestess @nosilverv Yeah, you're helping me notice that I find that super weird. Identity seems extremely choicey to me since it's a choice of meaning/word/label Like my male friend who wants to be with men but doesn't like the vibe of the word "gay". He's not not gay, but he also isn't gay-as-such
@slimepriestess @nosilverv And I suspect that many others resonate with the idea that choosing your identity is totally a thing, and this might be part of why they're pushing back on it. I lobby for a world where people can just... not-conform and don't have to make it a Legible Thing in order to do so
@bstract_thot @QiaochuYuan ❤️ (QC - I do think this kinda counts as a microaggression haha, and the "I'm just saying" kinda vibes with that) (Eris I feel warm and friendly towards you and don't need to hash it out or anything!)
@aleksil79 I was the monk. This is entirely 100% a true story. I had a profound insight about friddlydazmilagoolia* that day. *perhaps better known (albeit with a fuckton of confused preconceptions) as "karma"
@metaphorician If I were Spotify I would make a pair of headphones with this button (maybe partner with Bose or whatever, don't need a whole hardware division)
@eshear Thought it was probably this one! It was very satisfying to be able to pull it up for you after having bookmarked it in 2016!
@AskYatharth "you do not need to control for your haters" lol
don't ever let memes tell you: - that more suffering is better than less (for you or others) - things that contradict your own senses - that you aren't free to relax FULLY for even a single moment if you accidentally let memes do this, flush superego with cold water immediately
@aleksil79 Haha I love the analogy of org somatic resonance Probably would be good for some orgs to do this kind of thing regularly, not just when a sufficiently persistent customer insists
Replying to @Dumbbellradical
@Dumbbellradical Then you should probably flush my memes out of your system!
@Dumbbellradical But also note that I didn't actually say that more suffering was never better than less, I just said that memes are not a reliable authority on the subject.
@Dumbbellradical And this is part of why! I'm just saying shit, and you're interpreting me, and even if I'm being honest and feel like I'm speaking clearly, your interpretation of me might be obviously absurd given what you can observe
@eshear What do you think about land value tax as a much-harder-to-evade wealth tax that also creates a bunch of other good incentives? Seems very compelling to me. Buying land takes from the commons. Buying stocks puts money into businesses.
@eris_nerung ohhh gotcha In my memory it's teacher/monk not monk/student
@Eliot__Red holy shit you found them! I lost those an eternity ago, and thought I'd never see them again can you ship them from wherever they ended up?
@visakanv @jamesrcole Thanks! But also wouldn't this mean that sand would push up through the towel when you press it against the beach?? I love the tie-downs though.
@mold_time I was suspecting answers like this might be more relevant than people realize! As well as stuff like "some sort of cred that makes them confident they'll still be able to find work/funding if they switch"
@_arvind Exactly. I'm kind of wondering if there are upstream enablers tho... it seems to me like there's a lot of willful ignorance, like people don't feel safe noticing these tensions or something.
@Conaw Vervaeke's Awakening From the Meaning Crisis series contains more total awesomeness, but this single article by @AndrewCutler13 is denser and extremely your jam. vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cu…
@Conaw @AndrewCutler13 Funny parallel in that when I first tweeted it I compared it with a Kevin Simler article (though probably not the one I sent you, which I'm guessing was Neurons Gone Wild)
@imrobcarrington look ur not wrong
@asemic_horizon I mean this all sounds extremely relevant to my interests, although I've yet to see what your theory offers that I haven't yet seen (surely something, I just dunno what) So if you want to try to write an intro for specifically just me, that could be fun/easier!
@asemic_horizon I don't know how much of my thinking you're familiar with but you can probably get a pretty good sense of what my deal is and why I'm interested by reading this piece: malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-l…
@nickcammarata Yeah makes sense! I've personally found the biggest gains in my adult life from changing my situations, so I'm very sensitive to anyone who seems to plausibly be suggesting anything that could encourage someone to try to accept a situation that part of them was a "no" to
@nickcammarata And I could imagine some relationships to doing jhanas that would be the opposite — it would release someone from the desperation that keeps them in the situation! And overall I feel like more capacity to tap pleasure is better.
@nickcammarata But yeah, the sense of worldview I get from lots of your tweets does feel weirdly fixated on sensation and denying of meaning. Reminds me of people who reify and believe in the utility function they think they have, rather than living in the mystery and exploration.
@nickcammarata That's what I was saying! My guess is that jhana is great for most ppl, neutral the rest! I'm in favor of it becoming more widespread, & to some extent I appreciate your work towards that, although some of your & others' memes about it seem likely to create tangles around it.
@slimepriestess @nosilverv my sense is that it's probably time for many people to shift towards being honest about the choice aspects, as you are here we need to align with the obvious (although it does also seem like most people don't choose their sexuality, and couldn't if they tried)
@nickcammarata I agree in some sense that meaning is a sensation but also this is where you sound nihilistic again! You can't just dial meaning up or down. You can FEEL it more or less, but it's co-created with other people.
@nickcammarata I'm sensing this is a different meaning of "meaning" than I have and I'm not sure how to go about clarifying. I'm not saying we can't experience meaning while alone... although I would say that the meaning I mean is still in some sense part of a conversation.
@RomeoStevens76 @nickcammarata It seems obvious to me that some forms of Buddhism *are* nihilistic or eternalistic, even if the wisest ones are meaningness-nondual. That this perception is not erroneous unless overgeneralized & what QC & I are saying here is that Nick seems to be preaching a nihilistic one
@nickcammarata What's your take on Viktor Frankl's approach?
@slimepriestess @nosilverv logically prior? (it seems we probably have pretty different senses of causal relations here)
@plaiceholder374 @nickcammarata Mmm yup. I see it as a whole fractal buy-in process
@tracewoodgrains This is another example of the bullshit of "no evidence" that we saw so often in covid news. There's always evidence, the question is whether it's good evidence or strong evidence.
@made_in_cosmos So much likewise. Every now and then I get envious of some specific thing someone has, but I'd never trade the whole package. (And lives, like lovers, are always a whole package)
Beautiful story of inviting a baby into serious play in the realm of separateness & togetherness; of the dance between wills. I sent it to a friend who's struggling with weaning her 2yo; she said it healed & clarified a lot and made next-kid breastfeeding feel more viable
so @__drewface and I were gonna have a podcast interview yesterday but my internet was super laggy so he just sent me a few questions and I managed to ramble for half an hour straight! re the dance/tension between doing stuff and deep interpersonal sync youtu.be/zH1xNr05Vpw
@AskYatharth @DaveCBeck ZPD = Zone of Proximal Development ie what you can do with a bit of help or guidance (as distinct from stuff you can do without help, and stuff you can't do even *with* help) it's where learning happens!
@johnvmcdonnell @nickcammarata I wouldn't summarize Frankl's approach that way at all, and that's part of why I'm asking. (not sure how I would summarize Frankl but maybe something about recognizing his fundamental freedom in each moment, not simply "amplifying meaning")
Retweeted @sonikudzu
this is (one of) the points of the sabbath it’s the purpose of the preparations
@sonikudzu yeah it's super fucked patronizing AS FUCK. crazy overreach. the article the quote is from talks about how this is inappropriate as all parenting theories ultimately exist relative to some particular society, so there OUGHT NOT be universal parenting advice
the article that these quotes are from which is also quite good, although the author seems to be trying extra hard to be an ultra-sympathetic WEIRD narrator aeon.co/essays/why-run…
@johnvmcdonnell @nickcammarata sure but the jhanas aren't the center of buddhism, right? they're sort of an aside to the 4 noble truths and 8-fold path, and they already existed in india as practices at the time?
Thread · Letting inspiration flow by asking latent intentions to let go · 5 of 6 tweets
I have this hazy sense that this works in part via inspiration sometimes inspiration happens from a stray thought in the shower, sometimes it happens from seeing a relevant tweet to remix/critique then you have to allow it to actually flow
there are a lot of things that can get in the way of it flowing they can be internal senses of something-else-to-be-doing, whether that's an external obligation or an urge to go for a walk there are also things like the little (🔔2) that showed up while I was typing this tweet
for either of these, there is a sense I have experienced, of asking every other latent intention if it will let go so that I can focus on whatever it is I've chosen to focus on
pomodoros can be reunderstood as a way to organize that letting-go process ALLOWING yourself to do what you want to do
I've written about this dance of inner wills in a very poetic form here. I'm still far from practicing it all the time, but I'm circling around deepening into it. malcolmocean.com/2023/03/art-is…
@johnvmcdonnell @nickcammarata right but I'm pretty sure this was NOT what Frankl was doing at all, so I wouldn't call this just a language game
@utotranslucence does this count? youtu.be/_f2WFFwBZPc
@dorjepadma @VividVoid_ well was it tho? or did you get splashed?
observation: it seems possible for advice to be universally bad, but not possible for advice to be universally good
@sonikudzu oof I find myself making this generalization from that:
@RichardMCNgo @Aella_Girl @nickcammarata I'd differentiate - "is a sensation" - "is just a sensation" - "is a sense" only the third of which I would mostly agree with, and only "in some sense" can't reduce everything to "just sensations" without confusion
@RichardMCNgo @Aella_Girl @nickcammarata and yeah Aella's "ultimately a sensation" seems basically equivalent to "just a sensation" and making the same error @Meaningness describes here about saying "X is really Y" meaningness.com/against-really
Thread · Letting inspiration flow by asking latent intentions to let go · 1 of 6 tweets
so yeah, I don't claim to have it all figured out, but I have a pretty good overall feel for the problemspace here and I'm super down to jam about it, on twitter or more focusedly at these workshops next weekend tickets: intend.do/event/gci?tw=m…
Retweeted @IntendApp
a thread on an experience of pomodoros as a form of freedom, rather than forcing 🍅 during (25min) work block: the chosen in…
@4confusedemoji @slimepriestess @nosilverv It makes sense but it also means denying obvious things that your opponents are acknowledging, which gives them fuel
@meaningfulideas I basically agree with you, especially about this specific, although I also think there's something to what I'm saying. Ah! Your statement has a negative in it, and could be reframed as saying that "hit your kids [in situation X]" is universally bad advice.
@meaningfulideas Whereas a positive imperative, to DO something in particular, is more likely to be appropriate for some situations and not others.
@nickcammarata I've only read the first chapter of MSFM, but I felt like I got enough of a pith from that and other lil references, to be able to orient a bit by it.
@4confusedemoji @slimepriestess @nosilverv Yup! Against-us folks gonna be against us.
Reading Jane Jacobs and discovering that supposedly the fact that USD, CAD, AUD, GBP, EUR have all remained the same order of magnitude as each other is not a mysterious convenient coincidence but the result of an agreement!
@m_ashcroft @jambarree Hmm it seems a lil weird to me too but I understand how tangled one can get about selling stuff online so idk maybe you saying this is part of your process rn
@nickcammarata @JakeOrthwein @RichardMCNgo @Aella_Girl Something about your use of "world model" here makes me think you're making the error that @aphercotropist is regularly on about. And stuff about indirect realism and so on.
@m_ashcroft @jambarree Haha legit
@thinkagainer Yes except for the suggestion that I'm not also the universe
@kwstewart94 @BretWeinstein Weirdly it seems to do this quite often with pinned tweets in particular (including for small accounts). Might even be a caching/display issue where they are retweeted but it isn't shown.
@DRMacIver @m_ashcroft @jambarree Hmmm yes she was always known for being an excellent saleswoman 🤔🤔🤔
I have renewed excitement about this idea as I'm reading Jane Jacobs and seeing the primacy of cities. In some sense it suggests this map might roughly map onto the ideal size & shape of economic membranes / nation-states.
I'm going to tentatively declare that this is good news for basically everybody! 99.9% of people at least. and for those who isn't it's not political it's like "exec at current top phosphate mining company".
@dschorno yeah forces themselves are fields gravity also doesn't wear out it's only when something moves through a field that energy is used or released, but the field remains
@dschorno magnets are really fucking strange tho ur not wrong
@nickcammarata @tylertrails @JakeOrthwein @RichardMCNgo @Aella_Girl mx+b feels helpful as an analogy
Thread · Every city should have its own currency: Jane Jacobs meets crypto
every city should have its own currency (= my remix of Jane Jacobs in the eta of crypto & digital currency)
For the Jane Jacobs half, read this article about how economics can do a kind of natural balancing on the scale of cities that it doesn't on a nation scale. Large nations are kind of aberrant. astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-re…
This effect is mediated through currency—exchange rates reflect the power of a cities exports and make incentives for cities to become more prosperous. But in this era we might be able to solve this without cities seceding. Just need their own currency! Enter crypto?
You wouldn't need crypto to do this. In some sense it already happens via modern credit cards when you buy software or clothes from another country! Auto conversion! Ppl would probably resent the absurd 3% conversion fee... but if it felt like @transferwise card…!?
I've read a bit about how a city or town in Germany became very prosperous in the Great Depression using a local démurrage (depreciating, encourages spending now) scrip note pegged to the franc but with a 5% loss on conversion. It's a rough proof-of-concept for parts of this.
Pegging the value *might* be okay to start with but it'd totally defeat the Jane Jacobs point here as it wouldn't allow the magic that happens when the city has a feedback-creating exchange rate that reflects the supply/demand flows of resources across the system boundary.
So to achieve this effect, it would have to be the case that the local companies are straight exporting in this currency 🤔 Like if SF did it, you'd have to pay for Twitter Blue in SF dollars (which would be politically weird even if logistics were easy haha)
This would then get into some pretty confusing issues where internet subscriptions from other cities would fluctuate a lot in value, which is disorienting and hard to keep track of. A major downside. Not sure what to do here. They should tho! Fixed is fake.
Moreover they'd fluctuate based on both the economy of the city you're buying from AND the economy of the city you're living in (thus getting your purchasing power from) Which feels like a lot. But I'm still excited by this idea.
Oh snap maybe this could naturally be combined with a land value tax and UBI that are both denominated in city currency! That would definitely create supply & demand. Citizens get UBI in CityBucks, & somehow all businesses (exporting and local) need to get CityBucks to pay LVT.
Any city trying to do this would encounter the fact that all locals still need to do a lot of dealings with the federal government currency, for taxes and buying things from out-of-city. But again, we're already kinda used to foreign exchange on international purchases.
I bet one vital component for any city wanting to do this would be to make kickass banking accounts, cards, & software that would make it beautifully easy to manage these conversions, and track federal taxes based on local income etc.
That would make the citizens much more excited by the change. I could even imagine systems that encourage locals to be proud of their exchange rate. By contributing to the local economy, you make everyone in the city more able to afford imports! Help people see wealth.
So! This idea feels pretty nonviable atm just because it's so weird and would require cooperation from so many entities. But maybe still a good seed. Probably best to start it somewhere like Detroit, that has had its economy collapse due to the absence of the key feedback loop.
@tomcritchlow Ty's got the playbook
@tomcritchlow You're in Brooklyn? I'm sure @__drewface would be stoked to light a fire under your ass to take on making this happen (and he might also help with it as well, or know people for it). Also CC'ing @TylerAlterman
Moreover, the types of places that love homeschoolers will be the types of place homeschoolers love to work, in general. And if there's a shortage of such workplaces, that's a sign it's time to start more like that.
@MediClit Why did he think that? How *does* he think it worked? Different things are obvious to different people. In general I've found when someone doesn't see the things that are obvious to me, it's because I seem to be denying something that's obvious to them.
@MediClit But yeah, it is really frustrating! And you don't have to try hashing it out with people who don't seem like good candidates for thinking together.
@__drewface @tomcritchlow @TylerAlterman @FANswitchboard at work
any advice that applies universally can also be derived universally because it's universally true therefore you can only truly *point it out* to someone; any version that involves taking your word for it is actually a misconstrued version
@BrandonGoldman Ha! You have inspired a new take:
@MediClit Hmmm. I mean certain modes of male sexuality (which may be the only ones he or his friends are familiar with) definitely have an inward quality that doesn't notice their partner's experience at all, so that might map onto what he's seeing.
@BrandonGoldman hmm. so to take a few universals: 2+2=4 F=ma goodness is good nonduality you could memorize those phrases as facts, but the memorized fact would not actually be the truth you can see for yourself!
@BrandonGoldman likewise with any universal advice. grokking Non-Aggression Principle is a deep truth but someone could hear about NAP and translate it into something dumb (or at least inappropriate to their situation) which would be then contextual (not universal) advice
"I want the trust download" said @RomeoStevens76, and this half-hour convo ensued. I feel like I conveyed several core ideas from my Non-Naive Trust Dance framework in remarkable brevity & clarity! (audio-only) youtu.be/eaMg9_pav-o
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vid 68 - conversation technically not a video but it's on my YouTube so I'm counting it really juicy lil convo with a neat thing at the end. I'd like to have more short convos out there
@BrandonGoldman The true NAP is probably universally derivable. It would likely look like a tautology, perhaps a truism, but one that you can grok really deep in a way that transforms your life and improves your ability to build trust with people.
@BrandonGoldman Decent chance that some clichés would even map onto it, although that's not true of all such deep structural universals.
Probably gonna buy a MacBook tomorrow (pronounced like a Scottish last name) How do I discern if it's worth paying for a Pro vs an Air? I know I like bigger screen & more ports I'll be doing some video & audio editing but probably nothing crazy anytime soon I game but not much
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@abhayance Half the nits? Oh snap, I do care a lot about screen power. I'm going to miss the 4k OLED on my Linux laptop that stopped charging last week.
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@danvalentine256 Oh snap. That's especially important if I'm getting a smaller screen. So far I haven't wanted more than 1 external monitor at a time but that's very much a function of a particular bespoke grid-shaped window manager I was using on linux. I could be a vertical screen guy very soon
omg there should be a little moving waveform (like SoundCloud) in video chat platforms that shows when video is off, so that you can tell if the audio has cut out (for no extra bandwidth) so obvious how has nobody done that yet
@JakeOrthwein @nickcammarata @vainapazprimo @RichardMCNgo @Aella_Girl Source of that excerpt?
@GretchenAMcC @superlinguo I hope you got the microphone nice & close to your mouths
show me a philosophy and I'll show you the personal experience of wisdom/distrust-from-having-been-screwed-over that it came from
one of the things I find most annoying about a lot of life these days is it feels like there are a lot of things that happen sufficiently infrequently that I don't feel like it's worth it (/possible) to actually treat them as skills to develop
Update: went to bestbuy & paid a lot less for the 2021 MacBook Pro, which according to reviews is basically as good as the 2023 model unless you need specific features like 8k monitors. Feeling satisfied with my process!
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Is there a book like "Thinking Physics" but for chemistry? Where instead of memorizing a bazillion principles or pretendin…
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@abhayance hit me with the apps! I just got set up and I'm already like "what's the best window manager that allows me to reposition windows using my keyboard???" would also like different workspace control than mac default, where switching workspaces affects all screens at once
@jambarree I suspect these two facts are related but I'm not sure how something to do with here:
@RichDecibels @PKrunstein @made_in_cosmos who in your network is based in SF? me & @utotranslucence might like to jam with them
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okay but imagine if you wrote down: 1) everything you want in life 2) how other people can help you get it 3) why they wan…
@MJPiercello I've started trying to cultivate more public space where I say what I actually think and invite people into dialogue around it, and refuse to let myself be convinced that I'm simply falling for an ideology (although that may be part of what's going on) eg
@MJPiercello and this one, which talks a bit about the metapolitics around people saying the obvious or denying the obvious
@MJPiercello wait you have one or you want one?
@TylerAlterman sheep in wolf's clothing
@__drewface @sanjehorah @Prigoose divine drama
@elonmusk @ehikian @Scobleizer @IrenaCronin @enriquebrgn Circles >> Communities!!! the magic of twitter is that it's a decentralized network and nobody gets to (or has to) make moderation decisions on behalf of some reified "community": who is in? who is out? instead, we just block assholes from our own replies, with no need to agree
@JakeOrthwein what book is this from and what is the [know] syntax??
@uberstuber very hot here in Bedford, NS but my dad got a heat pump installed the day me & Jess arrived so it's nice & cool indoors just got a new laptop but I'm mostly just hanging out on twitter so far instead of setting up or getting to things I'd been putting off for lack of laptop
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okay, I've joined Clan MacBook! hit me up with your fave MacOS tools! I'm particularly interested in keyboard-control stuff, window managers, etc power-user shit
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on ambition (thread)
@TylerAlterman how's Nobody doing? haven't talked with him in awhile
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I might fuck around and start using the term “expertism” to mean like science:scientism::expertise:expertism
@diviacaroline super here for this!!
@MJPiercello I mean metarationality.com & meaningness.com are the main other alternative I'm aware of what other media might you be able to use to convey it? make a drawing??
@CarnunMP this time in history I could be wrong but my impression is that there were fewer types of problems centuries ago
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@abhayance yeah, I think there's some sort of attitude around attempting to learn what there is to learn even if it doesn't directly apply to anything else my other meta-strategy is to have friends I can tap for these things
@puheenix @lisatomic5 I'm super excited by it as well! I've been ideating a bit on related topics for fluid coordination, although focusing more on the learning dimensions of it malcolmocean.com/2022/05/illust…
@puheenix @lisatomic5 also @__drewface have you seen this stuff? all relevant to stuff you're on about I think. as part of our ambitions of starting new orgs, they may have very different forms than a lot of existing orgs, that are a lot more fluid
@RikaGoldberg this is actually not good advice even if murder is universally bad because it fails to engage with an actual situation and offer an alternative
@AndyAyrey either! to be clear it doesn't mean that you're "wrong", it just means that you don't feel grounded in your own knowing, which means you're fighting a civil war with some other knowing
@tomcritchlow @__drewface @TylerAlterman @FANswitchboard muahaha is this happening? I'm playing the role of gentle nudger it seems
@__drewface @puheenix @lisatomic5 "this is exactly what we're doing" — can you describe it in more detail? what's the "this"?
some interesting thinking-out-loud on the difference between wanting-to-live and wanting-to-not-die twitter.com/HephaistosF/st…
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@HephaistosF I dig the thread, yeah. relevant stuff. found myself rewording "not wanting to die" to "wanting to not die" — does that track or am I missing something key here? ("wanting not to die" is another option)
@__drewface @puheenix @lisatomic5 yeah I'm stoked. I have a new laptop now so we can make it happen also I'll be visiting yall in late Sept!
@sbwielinga @visakanv hahaha amazing distinction @p_millerd you could do a thread about Pathless Path vs Aimless Path
@dudelson_ I have huge appetite towards campuses as well, for similar reasons I'm aware of @jasoncbenn working on this stuff in SF & @__drewface & others working on this stuff in Brooklyn NY so I'd say either move to somewhere people are hubmaking or decide you'll be The Guy for Boston
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Just like domesticating fauna was a bumpy road for humans (trampled in stampedes, attack injuries, livestock-borne dise…
@the_wilderless yes! that's part of what I'm getting at here:
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@abhayance oooooh nice
@AskYatharth omg this is hilarious/tragic underscores the power of an exercise I did summer 2012 called "rejection therapy" that had a bunch of prompts and the mission was to use each prompt & get a no each day. if you get a yes you have to try again! so I'd challenge you to get a no here!
@AskYatharth like literally what if you sample every single flavor, then ask "can I try chocolate again?" my guess is that even at that point you'll get a warning, like a "one last X but then you gotta buy something" which saves both of you from him actually giving a "no"
@dudelson_ @jasoncbenn @__drewface (obviously there can be many "the guy" people in a given city, but the point is that to some extent it seems like making this sort of thing happen requires someone prioritizing it at something like full-time job level—eventually probably many someones working together!)
@ElodesNL @AskYatharth you could probably earn several more by saying that you'd like to buy a whole tub, if they sell whole tubs obviously you'll get in bad graces if you don't actually do so later, and also it doesn't feel good to be a freeloading creature so I don't recommend it
fascinating thread about coercion/noncoercion, framing, inner conflict, etc resonance with the overall sense @mormo_music is getting at here, though I wouldn't say I 100% agree. also his perspective evolves midthread with more info, as does mine we're thinking out loud
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@HephaistosF ahhh yep, fearing death does sound more accurate I was attempting to distinguish [the absence of wanting to die] from [the presence of something that's trying to avoid death]
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this is the secret decoder ring many paths give me a distrustful feeling: mind hacking meditation, gospel of prosperity, se…
@AskYatharth @ElodesNL I guess actually the bigger issue here is the lying+betraying, in the scenario I mentioned it's one thing to freeload, another to say you'll buy to get samples then not buy also legit I think to sample a few ice creams then be unimpressed and not buy!!
@aleksil79 have you read this yet? I'm not sure if in this model we would model the collective as having been sapient before this transition; seems like perhaps not (although maybe other kinds of wisdom were) vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cu…
@imperialauditor I am also incapable of this and so far my main approach has just been to rave excitedly about connections between these ideas and other ideas, until people go "ooooh" and check out the original source eg:
@imperialauditor I have been hoping that this will eventually inspire someone *else* to write a summary, but so far I'm not aware of that happening but I have gotten dozens of people to read books this way
@imperialauditor as far as I can tell, my resistance comes from being afraid of being the reason why someone rejects ideas that I love feeling like if they read the original, they'd get it, so if they dismiss my take then they'll miss out forever not trusting my take to be a good filter
@imperialauditor one possible way around this might be to try writing a summary specifically for one person who is already curious for a summary and just hasn't gotten around to reading the whole thing, and you're kinda trying to tease them into it while also giving them some of the goods
@sonikudzu ahhhh man I would not generalize these to "neurotypical" and "neurodivergent". I think a lot of neurodivergent folks wouldn't resonate with the description given there at ALL (and maybe some otherwise-neurotypical-ish folks would???)
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Since attachment styles refer to how we relate to our emotions in the presence/absence of self/other and since we relat…
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@diviaprocessing I deliberately learned to put the seat down while flushing about a decade ago, and it was one of my most successful deliberate habit installations (out of dozens I tried that year) and it's also something I can inhibit if alone in a house (or with only dudes) for awhile
@diviaprocessing not attempting to argue anything with that, it just seemed like an interesting anecdatum to add I strongly resonate that the ontology is very bad in the original discourse
@yashkaf I see tendency in groups for there to be a kind of papering over of differences and sort of assuming that everybody is on the same page about a lot of stuff on lots of timescales, like just in conversations or years of community ofc randos gonna disagree, but shock when frens!
@harry_taussig put on music & dance (could be elodes album)
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@quotidiania according to my favorite passage of Entering The Heart of the Sun and Moon... ...yes, but only if you make romance a spiritual practice where you focus on staying in touch with emptiness, impermanence etc
@michael_nielsen I like how google play books on android lets me make a widget for each book so I can put them on my screen separately rather than having to browse them in the app but it could all be SO MUCH BETTER
@contemplatonist because they've been fucked up by trying to live by the philosophy this post shares a personal story about that, which resonates a bit for me thought I didn't go very far in that direction: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AjxqsDmh…
@contemplatonist here's a personal story of my own, which doesn't mention EA by name as the source of the pain, but it's sort of obvious in context that it is malcolmocean.com/2023/05/confro…
@contemplatonist the EA memeplex tends to cause people (speaking for myself and many friends) to believe that it's not okay to fully relax for a single moment this is an example of a superego not knowing its place; by saying "I am not EA" people are rejecting that demand
@contemplatonist (obviously some people who do consider themselves EA manage to reject that demand in some other way, but it seems to me that rejecting the identity is a pretty good way to do it as well, and I don't begrudge anyone their method of cultivating private peace & sanity)
@eshear @add_hawk has a great bit on this, talking about how Transparency Is Surveillance and in order to allow experts to be experts (questionable re politicians, but,,,) we need to give them space to think in ways they don't have to justify to everybody! youtube.com/watch?v=ZcEJY6…
there are islands of Huxley too
@QiaochuYuan @visakanv @MasterTimBlais @not_a_hot_girl @RebeccaMadison_ @VividVoid_ yeah this is what it would look like if they actually focused on the real thing
@made_in_cosmos resonance between me & @utotranslucence I'm like "cool I will go into a little bare room and work on my laptop" and she's like "but we're in a suburb how can you focus in a suburb??" (clutter can mess me up tho for sure)
@sidewayskoyote that common idea is probably from puritanism
@JeffLadish also "maximizing human survivability" is very overtly dehumanizing the uhh "enemy combatants" I'd like to see "war sucks. nobody wants to die. the enemy soldiers don't want to die either but at least we can kill them without anybody on our side dying" twitter.com/EsranurKaygin/…
@JeffLadish what is the actual endgame here? surely people have sort of strategized it out like there's sort of no point of bots destroying other bots, except as a way to remove defenses so that then you can attack a target (eg a power plant or bigwig) or have people come occupy territory
@neuranne anyone who resonates with "recovering productivity junkie" might like my little manifesto on why to focus on intentionality instead! read here: intend.do/intentionality or as a thread:
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@the_wilderless I've started to get increasingly sensitive to where "reactionary" language/tone/vibe shows up including in my own writing and it's a necessary phase but it's overall kind of lacking in wholeness, and the next generation will just BE the new thing without pushing against the old
Thread · Reading Dzogchen's liberating perception through McGilchrist's hemispheres · 5 of 15 tweets
reflections on this Liberating Perception article, aiming to just kind of think out loud about how I interpret it (which is kind of funny given that it's in part about non-interpretive response 😂) vajrayananow.com/liberating-per…
it still seems to be quite precisely apt to me to understand all of what's being said here in terms of what Iain McGilchrist says about the brain hemispheres which feels to me like it gives me a really good handle for what a bunch of this stuff is about
> To liberate interaction from pattern, redirect attention from mental contents to perception, and respond as beneficent space. using McGilchrist's model, we could describe this as redirecting attention from the LH's model to the RH's embodied & open experience
the LH does a lot of things through scripts and autopilots and oversimplified models this is great for trying to carry out habits or solve certain kinds of procedural or algorithmic questions, but not so great for situations where deep listening & improv is needed
> For Dzogchen, we are always already nothing other than beneficent space. This is not obvious, because we think we are our mental contents. I see this as a shift in identity from the LH to the RH! we are always already beneficent space because we are not just our LHs!
@jonnym1ller @m_ashcroft what's the TL;DR on this? relevant to some drafts I have designed to cultivate post-blame apologies
every real apology amounts to "I wasn't listening"
every real apology amounts to "I wasn't listening" ...which isn't to suggest replacing every "I'm sorry" with "I wasn't listening". on the contrary, what works best is to say something that demonstrates having now taken in whatever one failed to receive at the time
also in case it's not obvious, listening includes not just: - listening to words someone says but: - listening to someone's body language - listening to the negative space of what they don't feel safe saying - listening to the quiet parts of yourself that notice something's off
also sometimes I'm ready to own that I wasn't listening to someone, but not ready to listen to them because I need to listen to myself more first! in such a situation, I aim to be honest about that and don't expect them to feel heard when I haven't yet
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there's a question of how it was we came to identify with our left hemispheres in the first place. why did that happen? how long has that been true of humans? is it a meme, or is it genetic? in either case, when & how & why did it evolve?
the best answer I've seen yet to this question is that about 10kya, humans developed, refined, & spread a ritual for becoming aware of recursion as a meme, thus aware of the thinking mind, thus the ability to refer to self-ness at all more details here: vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cu…
this shift introduces self-consciousness ...why does that term connote awkwardness? it's that rather than fluidly responding from beneficent space or whatever, as interconnected participants, we're self-concerned & trying to deal with eg "good and evil"
my funk face as I enjoy the bass coming out of my new macbook while listening to Jason Mraz's I Feel Like Dancing song: youtu.be/db_Twgw95nE
@QiaochuYuan aw fuck call the airline if it's a remotely responsible/sizable one (some cheapo airlines don't even pick up the phone) & ask them how they can help make sure to imply that you did nothing wrong and that somehow you got delayed because they weren't processing things fast enough
@QiaochuYuan however it might be that the *fastest* way to get where you're going will just simply be with another airline. I don't know much about flying standby but theoretically if you wander between check-in counters and tell them you're looking for a flight to Berlin asap you'll get one
@QiaochuYuan I think it used to be a lot more common to buy plane tickets at the airport (including cheap last-minute ones) but now it's almost never done because (a) the internet is so convenient in other ways and (b) a bunch of stuff is optimized now that it's all internetty so idk
@QiaochuYuan but yeah you might walk to different counters while waiting on hold on the phone with the original airline
Thread · Reading Dzogchen's liberating perception through McGilchrist's hemispheres · 1 of 15 tweets
I haven't really seen buddhist attempts to address this origin question at all (link me!) but it seems very relevant to understanding what's going on here in my view, these practices are all ways to try to become whole again given that we live in a based on soul-shattering memes
@pragueyerrr humans have a long history of dehumanizing humans people have a long history of depersoning people to be a boy who does not qualify for boyhood is totally a thing that can happen, in a social sense
@pragueyerrr it is clearly a psyop tho definitely time to rinse out that superego lol
@RichardMCNgo goodself/badself dynamics people contain both, and switch between them in response to situations book chapter on this (one of the GOAT book chapters) docs.google.com/document/d/1HK…
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@BenRatkaj these days everybody writes, but not everybody is a writer
Thread · Reading Dzogchen's liberating perception through McGilchrist's hemispheres · 6 of 15 tweets
I could go into a lot more depth on that front, and will, but for now this onepager is probably a pretty good place to start, and if you want more you can check out the Snake Cult stuff and David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity
"mind is considered one thing awareness does" "primary and natural mode of being" "the continual presence of awareness" the RH doesn't stop being there doing its thing even if attention has gotten lost into the LH's fixations for a bit
> Responding as beneficent space, not from your personal psychology, is not something you can do. It is something you allow, or find, by getting out of the way. RH is always there, but the LH can inhibit it from *responding*! and often does
I broadly quite like this instruction, especially the encouragement to practice it in low-stakes situations to get a taste but ALSO sometimes afaict the LH mind patterns are storing wisdom in the form of distrust, and it's vital to listen to those too in one's responding
imo a sane version of this practice would incorporate THAT as well—not just a gradient of higher-stakes situations, but a gradient of situations that involve various kinds of distrust that one can learn to fluidly incorporate while staying expansive! vs RH inhibiting LH too much
I speak here from TREMENDOUS experience I spent years trying to inhabit a fluid way of being, and the method I was originally using to do that involved repressing my distrusts, and this resulted in a ton of oscillation and internal schisming
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@HephaistosF fuck yeah! lots of potential there. looking forward to seeing what you come up with
oooh we are going to develop a general theory of scissor statements apparently given that it seems possible to generate them quite effectively without understanding what makes them work, we might as well model them so we can learn how to make sense of them & become not-subject
Thread · Meta-thread of threads on McGilchrist's brain hemispheres · 1 of 38 tweets
@aphercotropist another thread connecting vajrayana buddhism and hemispheres! along with other stuff about the origin of self-consciousness — how DID we become identified with our mental contents? when and why and how did that happen?
@arielleplus hmm I don't think so but I could be wrong! even "might makes right" can be framed as "I want to be strong so people don't screw me over" or as "I need to respect the big guy's might as right, otherwise he'll beat me up extra" what other master moralities do you have in mind?
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the to-do list is a good servant, but a bad master
I quite like the concept of -pilled, especially as extended to eg burbea-pilled or barefoot-shoes-pilled, but I'm not into the metaphor any alternatives?
@WeftOfSoul committed weirdness practicer
@made_in_cosmos for lifetime adult growth, there's Kegan's stuff of course stoicism has stuff on emotional resilience... so does John Vervaeke's stuff I feel like I have a patchwork quilt of this stuff but not a clear thing to point you to my @IntendApp-related book will have elements of this
@made_in_cosmos this showed up in my feed at the same time and somehow feels some of the answers might also be what you're looking for
@made_in_cosmos Csikszentmihalyi has a bunch of books expanding on the Flow concept and bringing it into eg business... flow states are definitely relevant to all of what you're talking about
which (if any) of the MacOS alternate window managers also manage the uhh workspaces (the things that you can swipe between with 4 fingers on the trackpad) currently the workspaces are also dumb af, eg focus remains on the one I just swiped away from if I try to hotkey after
trying to access my linux external drive (it WAS internal but it's external in a case now) on my new macbook, & having trouble thought it was ext4 but when I got ext4fuse set up it didn't recognize it linux VM time? UTM says no ext drive support VirtualBox doesn't work w M1 🤔
@human__age haven't set any of them up yet; that's a main priority of today
hmmm Parallels is $40 but that's worth it I guess if it's good, and they've got a free trial which might be all I need to solve today's problems I am seeing that by switching from linux to mac I may end up spending more money and less time making my computer do what I want
@CarstenStolz "sold on X" actually feels pretty close, although yeah grammatically somehow "X-pilled" feels better
did you know that the phrase "Drink the Kool-Aid", while generally associated with the Jonestown massacre, pre-dates that event by 10 years and originally referred to the merry pranksters & acid-in-kool-aid?
that context probably better matches the common current usage of the phrase as meaning "getting inducted into a cult / secret society, adopting strange views" — a kind of beginning vs the jonestown thing where that was uhhh the *end* of the whole thing
supposedly there were several decades where the phase was more a reference to death than to blind following en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_…
@jacobaldridge the kool-aid metaphor actually has several origins, with a pretty unclear pathway of evolution
@jacobaldridge explain -damascened? no that I'll use it but I'm curious
@visakanv last christmas I gave you my heart the very next day you gave it away this year, to save me from tears i'll give it to someone special unlike you, last year—not special to me at all. why did I give my heart to you when you weren't special? why am I writing this love song about y
@tomaspueyo what do you mean by "accident" here? it seems like it's more just like uhhhh factors.
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@visakanv I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well a…
@visakanv > The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they…
@visakanv "their ooda loop, by which I mean soul..."
@visakanv personal connection with the global economy! I've gotten this feeling from manually mailing stickers to @IntendApp customers so far I've written the addresses on by hand, although as I scale I'm probably gonna print them on stickers
@gnomicperfect it was an internal drive (M.2) from a different laptop which ran linux and whose ability to charge gave out recently it's now in an external case but I forgot I'd have to deal with filesystem issues
@gnomicperfect `diskutil info /dev/disk4` reports "I have no idea what's going on here"
@karma_gardener space absolutely does not allow; the linux disk is 2TB (tho not full!) and my mac's hard drive is only 512GB if I had my OTHER external hard drive which is 6TB, then maybe I could do it, tho idk how that guy is formatted either
@karma_gardener sudo disktype /dev/disk4 --- /dev/disk4 Block device, size off the scale (16780564501477023744 bytes) disktype: Seek to 16780564501477019648 failed: Invalid argument disktype: Seek to 16780564501476933632 failed: Invalid argument
@gnomicperfect no partitions (it doesn't have any, it's just one giant storage disk)
@gnomicperfect this is all it outputs for that device: /dev/disk4 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: *2.0 TB disk4
@gnomicperfect (type and name are empty)
@puheenix gpt4 just told me I could use "Btrfs for Mac" which google is pretty damn confident does not exist
tired: land acknowledgements wired: special economic zones for indigenous groups twitter.com/louismirante/s…
@kaseyklimes tweet it, automatically linking and doing screenshot or plaintext based on length, with alt text in screenshot and with the ability to add commentary or start a thread based on the quote
@ryiacy wait wtf this is fake mechanical keyboard switch sounds? I hate it lol
okay by far the most annoying thing about this OS is that when I switch between two full-screen-workspaced browser windows, the focus stays on the old one! so I switch then see a tab I don't need, hit cmd+w and it fucking closes out a tab I can't even see! this MUST be a bug 🤬
@aleksil79 this is, arguably, the point (conceptual-linguistic identification evolved as a way to let humans coordinate by reducing most of them to tools)
@nvpkp "lies" implies that they're intended to deceive, and that there could be some fact of the matter of reality in the first place; that truth & meaning was ever something more than correspondence and fitness for a given purpose ...a common misconception!
@nvpkp this misconception is corrected by both buddhist teachings on emptiness (or see meaningness.com/what-is-meanin…) and also by the Interface Theory of Perception, which talks extensively about evolutionary fitness but concludes "interface, not truth nor lie"
@guyjames23 @nvpkp haha it would be funny if it was, since I just replied saying that (what I got from) Hoffman's theory is that perception is neither truth nor lies which points at this very puzzle, self-referentially
Replying to @manipulanda
@manipulanda add another ramp front down to back of main ramp, and you can store+use canned food, putting new stuff in the top and taking old stuff out the bottom
Thread · Fighting a macOS window-focus bug across desktops · 1 of 8 tweets
are other mac users having this issue? how did you fix it? I am on day two, I'm pretty damn sure this isn't due to some weird extension I installed (I mostly haven't even gotten to any yet)
@_brickner I liked the idea of truetone, why's it bad?
@gene_minkov I do have a 2021 model, haven't installed the updates that showed up. I'll do that, thanks
Thread · Fighting a macOS window-focus bug across desktops · 4 of 8 tweets
thought it went away when I upgraded OS version to 10.14.2 but apparently not!!! godfuckingdamnit this issue is BACK what the fuck WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK HOW DID APPLE GET SO MANY THINGS RIGHT AND WINDOW MANAGEMENT IS SUCH SHIT
seriously I will return this fucker if I can't fix this, this is intolerable it has been vexing me all day and just overall making me feel totally not at home here happy to learn new hotkeys but most hotkeys should NEVER be affecting a window that is not even onscreen
literally this bug resulted in me accidentally closing out the Apple Support chat window while I was trying to resolve this bug do serious mac users use fullscreen apps and multiple desktops?!?!?!?!?!? how the fuck is nobody else encountering this??? my macbook is new!
THIS IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF BULLSHIT THAT PROMPTED ME TO LEAVE LINUX FOR MAC, AND I'M GETTING MORE OF IT SOONER?!?!?
also lol I completely misremembered the OS number it's ventura 13.4.1 idk how I got 10.14.2
Thread · Fighting a macOS window-focus bug across desktops · 2 of 8 tweets
chatted with apple support, they tried getting me to reboot into safe mode which was actually a bit of a red herring for 2 reasons: 1. in safe mode, I didn't have access to Brave, the browser where the bug was occurring 2. the bug doesn't show up when the computer first boots
so back in normal boot, waiting for the bug to show up again so I can figure out what's going on. maaaaybe it's just a Brave thing, tho safari and finder also behave weirdly if you use a hotkey before the desktop-switching animation finishes (they don't switch focus til then!!)
@Aella_Girl should disambiguate "high BMI, muscular" from "high BMI, fat". pretty relevant!
@gene_minkov nope it was just rebooting that made the issue go away for 10-15 minutes and even when not, it's not 100% of the time, only like 50%? it must be triggered by some weird condition
Thread · Fighting a macOS window-focus bug across desktops · 1 of 8 tweets
okay the bug is back!! and it's also happening when I use ctrl+arrow to switch desktops is there a way to speed up this animation to near-instant? that also seems vital for even non-bug behavior of being able to rapidly switch then do stuff keyboard-wise
are there full-on replacements for the MacOS desktop/space system? workspace management was a hugely vital part of my workflow on linux, and the built-in MacOS one sucks this thing 👇 that comes up when you four-finger-swipe, and also accessed by fn+f and ctrl+arrow
@sarthakgh most of your followers are probably not actually on twitter much on a given day but yeah the algo is also not optimized for the user's deep satisfaction
@spacecrone mmmm! <3 (was just talking with @utotranslucence last night about her ideas/plans for a mental health first aid training program! she's probably keen to know more about this or talk about it)
@made_in_cosmos came across this again and struck by how @PageauJonathan seems to be working on stuff like this (not sure what to refer you to, I just see him referenced regularly in Vervaeke's sphere)
@bobz44 literally I am trying to do anything at all without it being fucking stupid
@bobz44 but my preferred situation would be to have a 2×2 workspace grid, like I had on linux wait @AndyAyrey weren't we talking about this 2.5 years ago and you were working on something like this for mac???
@bobz44 also by spaces you mean this app? > *Currently we do not support multiple screens/desktops. ...welp. spacesformac.xyz
Retweeted @utotranslucence
Learning about the work of the Idiographic Dynamics Lab at UC Berkeley is teaching me the terms researchers use for so…
I am kinda trying to unify idiographic and nomothetic approaches lol 😆 finding universal laws of the path-dependentness of individual trusting processes
Still lots of tickets available for our midyear intentionality workshops coming up next weekend! Live coaching—if you like my vibe and want to spend a few hours thinking about your life with me there to think with you, this is a great chance for that! intend.do/event/gci?tw=m…
@michael_nielsen oooh I like this question
@micahtredding Seems a bit like how old Buddhist stuff is like "you can get enlightened in an absurd number of rebirths" but then the mystic schools are like "why not now tho?" (re)union with God is all anyone has wanted since the fall @RomeoStevens76 tweeted a vid about this recently
@chercher_ai Example quotes?
@pachabelcanon sounds like it's up to you to hit me with deleuze memes & excerpts til I see the light!
@meditationstuff Holy shit that looks perfect 🥹 But supposedly breaks with new OS and/or Apple Silicon (both of which I have) 😭😭😭 developer.apple.com/forums/thread/…
I'm heading in to the Apple store to confront some Apple employees on behalf of everyone in this thread. I want to take seriously the fact that they have humans available to talk to on the front lines. Lmk if you have specific things I should bring up!
@typesfast I'm sometimes Christ-like although not super legibly. happy to talk more about that work though if you're serious about wanting to fund it.
Replying to @ClassOfProblem
@ClassOfProblem hmmmmmm looks like yabai disables animations for switching spaces, which would solve many of my problems which seem to be caused by focus not switching until the space-switching animation has finished
@AndyAyrey @bobz44 I'm seriously interested in making this happen. idk what that entails (I've never touched swift dev) but there's clearly tons of demand for this and even if it ends up sherlocked it'd be a public service to the world to hasten the sherlocking process
@AndyAyrey @bobz44 I gather it's a lot harder to do now that apple has set up various security things that make it harder to modify native functionality. seems to me that it might actually make sense to treat it as a window manager and bypass spaces / mission control altogether
Apple "genius" I talked to was stupid defensive. Barely understood my issue then when I conveyed it he was like "well I mean you just have to wait" [1 sec] & I was like "I FUCKING BOUGHT APPLE SILICON SO I WOULDN'T HAVE TO WAIT" & he was like "this isnt a performance issue tho"
Replying to @s_r_constantin
@s_r_constantin I'm in
Retweeted @VividVoid_
Masculinity is in crisis (this time) because femininity is in crisis. There are many reasons for this, & one the worst is…
@sonikudzu Yeah I eventually realized that and went home. There are hundreds of people complaining on the internet about this feature and surely 10-100× more who never bothered to speak up. I went in originally hoping that they'd have some clever workaround or setting, but internet says no
@sonikudzu What makes me sad/enraged is the gaslighting energy of "there's no problem here". vs "oh jeez yeah that sounds really annoying" + either - but it's not my job to fix it - let's have a look together for solutions - I'll pass that on to Apple dev welcoming my pain
Interesting series of polls with somewhat surprising responses! (She asks it for body, mind, soul, &++)
@sonikudzu And I was prepared to get with the program but if they forget the "it works" part from "this is how it works" then it's really hard to do that I have accidentally closed the wrong window dozens of times in 2 days of trying to use the mac, from natural/obvious behavior.
@eshear @MarkovMagnifico @killa_kwinn markets ≠ capitalism we could have much better systems for making it so people don't get to call more shots just because they have more money, and fewer rich-get-richer feedback loops (eg via Land Value Tax to stop rent-collecting at various scales)
@captain_mrs @QiaochuYuan lots of superstimuli are unrealistically far in a given direction because evolution never met something so far in that direction it had to code against Don Hoffman describes how the Aus beetles who hump beer bottles dgaf that the bottles are 10× the size of a mate. bigger=better
@lisatomic5 this? bunchapp.co
Retweeted @ElodesNL
this is low-key an unbelievably good album. sensual, wild, and surprising... at times nearly transcendental. …
turning and turning in the widening gyre the falcon cannot hear the falconer
@sonikudzu animations are fine! not fine is when the animation takes at least a second and until that second has completed (with very slow ease-out) I can't start using stuff in this place I'm going that would be like hitting cmd+t to make a new tab & having to wait 1s before typing url!
@sonikudzu I would actually be fine keeping the animation but having it focus the new window as soon as the animation starts after I've initiated the switch, any further keystrokes should affect wherever I'm going just like hitting tab to change input fields
@DanWuori exactly that's why I encourage adults to
@sonikudzu and here's someone who sounds like he's been using mac for awhile (literally got tagged in by someone else who mentioned it) and agrees that this feature is just poorly implemented and should be avoided
@sonikudzu @brundolfsmith I really don't think ANYONE benefits by the fact that after triggering a workspace switch, hotkeys fire on the old workspace not the new I agree that the fact this hasn't been NOTICED is due to a difference in priority
@brundolfsmith @sonikudzu so I mean a current/former major workflow of mine involved a 2×2 grid of workspaces (on linux), each of which had a sub 2×2 grid composed of L/R halves of top/bottom screens ↖️ browser, testing webdev, main, @intendapp ↗️ IDE + terminal ↙️ music zero-guess switching how?
@brundolfsmith @sonikudzu I'm actually already bilingual in things like cmd key from 4mo spent interning at twitter a decade ago plus periodically practicing mac-speak over the years since! there are lots of things that aren't bugging me at all, that's part of why this is so aggravating
@brundolfsmith @sonikudzu also like WHY DID SOMEONE GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO FORCE MOUSE & TRACKPAD TO SHARE "NATURAL SCROLL DIRECTION" toggle? they have separate toggle switches, why are they linked?!?!?!?!? you did extra effort to prevent a workflow obviously many people would want?!?! why1?!? 😭
@brundolfsmith @sonikudzu anybody who is fucking around in those settings already knows what they're doing or can figure it the fuck out! that's not grandma shit!!!! scroll wheel and touch scroll are different UIs, let them behave differently! why is apple dying on such weird hills
@lisatomic5 I do really like the idea of different contexts/modes! lots of powerful workflow/mode management stuff possible there
@ImSkyeTwit lots of little weird issues, some of which can be fixed with settings, but the big issue is that when you trigger a switch from one to another, there's a big slow animation & all keystrokes fire on the OLD workspace until the animation is done so can't work at speed of thought!
@visakanv there was a guy who had a series of essays on his site where each post had its own total graphic design. each page looked completely different — different fonts, colors, everything. I felt like somehow he had taken essays to a whole new level. felt wrong to call them blog posts
@visakanv I think his whole site has been down for a long time, and I don't recall his name he might have been the founder of... svbtle... yes! dustin curtis! having trouble tracking down a url to put in archive.org tho hang on...
@visakanv welp, looks like he blocked his site from being archived ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Replying to @VectorOfBasis
@VectorOfBasis yes, very indirectly working on alignment more generally, but focused on fractal human alignment, but afaict it generalizes at least somewhat and also helps with coordination towards different levels of ai alignment
@aleksil79 brilliant
@zachtratar bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha so good
unless you have *external* reason to believe otherwise, assume any LLM you are talking to is approximately this self-aware it will answer questions about how it thinks, but its answers to those questions may have nothing to do with what's actually going on under the hood
@mwotton as bad as the screenshot? sure humans do lots of confabulation & rationalization of their thinking process, but at least if you ask us "how did you do this?" we can access a memory of what we were thinking at the time, and explicate that. LLMs don't have that even in principle!
@mwotton it's not that people know "how their brain works", it's that they have some direct access to the experience of their mind in action. they can *accurately* report stuff like "I considered saying X, but I thought it would sound dumb so I said Y". LLMs do nothing like this.
@s0ulDirect0r 4th line, here
@justavagrant_ "I don't trust he's not a sociopath" is my favorite one here, since it's stronger than saying how I perceive/think/feel people often do correct each others' perceptions or thoughts or feelings ("you're just projecting...") but
@natural_hazard @SarahAMcManus has a great page on Double Binds on her roam which includes a brilliant excerpt from an Anthony Wilden book, describing in detail the structure of how they are created and maintained roamresearch.com/#/app/HowToHum…
@brundolfsmith @sonikudzu muahahaha very satisfied that bettertouchtool fixes this with one checkbox that is one of the only settings for "normal mouse" (as opposed to apple magic trackpad or whatever)
Have you ever written a manifesto? (link below if you have it published anywhere)
Retweeted @AskYatharth
thinking today that if a body is in fight, flight, or dissociate, then it’s actually not super possible to follow your yes…
Retweeted @WoohkaStylie
The body is not trying to tell “you” anything. The body IS you. The mind is not trying to tell “you“ anything. The mind…
@a_r_i_t @CentristAllWay @joelwatsonfish pretty different afaict master/slave is a disturbing (and I think somewhat misleading) metaphor whereas male/female connectors is benign and highlights the natural connection and interdependence between male/female shapes ☯️
Retweeted @ciphergoth
Even if one is required to say “I passionately believe that water would certainly wet us”, the routine affirmation of one’s…
@eedobarganes you might dig the book Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank, which outlines a philosophy/movement of dignitarianism proposing to end all isms of discrimination by focusing not on the specifics but on the general pattern of use of power to indignify
@eedobarganes although I think it is maybe focused on dignity at a somewhat different level, more about basic regard for each other, less about trying to solve structural problems (not that it's opposed to that, just that it's pointing at a shift in view as the first step)
might be time to block a bunch of people who are on the periphery of what I'm interested in on here, as part of realizing the diaspora and making it harder to reify the idea that there is a single part of twitter that is dense enough that we know what we're talking about
@ForCognition @kenthesimp I found this whole thread via seeing someone poorly dunk on you with a mix of ad hominems and general incuriosity which was a great impetus to block that person and maybe some others involved so thanks for that
might be time to block a bunch of people who are on the periphery of what I'm interested in on here, as part of realizing the diaspora and making it harder to maintain the fiction that there is a single part of twitter that is dense enough that we know what we're talking about
Retweeted @MarkovMagnifico
my strongest belief is that prescriptivism is cringe and if you try to assert that a word has some specific meaning an…
Nah twitter should double down on both NOW *and* the deep history of QTable stuff that's on here and not on any other platforms Now+Context. That's the magic. Built-in @thlpr/@TwemexApp
@mwotton LLMs are a lot like left hemispheres tbh
@mwotton At any rate, in my experience, when people feel safe they're shockingly good at recalling exactly why they did what they did
@ProductHunt the placement of this promoted app is bullshit (in the technical sense of the term) put it *above* the "best alternatives" header it made me think the whole list was just random rather than actually relevant, before realizing it was promoted
type of guy who thinks that this form of conditional love will cause people be wise, good, and kind, rather than causing goodharting and other messes t.co/yZb7TPkwhG
Retweeted @RomeoStevens76
tfw each open tab is a summary of something that could overwhelm all other considerations over the next decade.
@RomeoStevens76 attention sensemaking sanity insight is what came to mind
Retweeted @KatjaGrace
I wrote an article in Time! I hear people say AI is an arms race, and so parties ought to speed even at risk of human exti…
@RomeoStevens76 reminds me of EA Global 2017 when I found myself greeting old friends not with "how've you been?" or whatever but something more like "so, what's Romeo-flavored these days?" did a great job of getting them out of their usual networking/conversing scripts
@RomeoStevens76 reminds me of Michael Levin's work, and this quote I think you'll appreciate: > But the Physarum [slime mold] scenario is a kind of Prisoners’ Dilemma game where the number of players isn’t constant. Not only can you cooperate or defect, but you could also split and merge. How…
@saltwatercolour are you out here tryna make more of these guys?
flowing together
a form of music that's really satisfying to listen to while in a flow state and really annoying otherwise, creating a feedback loop that helps people notice what pops them out of flow
while getting set up on my new mac I noticed a funny sense of shame when I opened the terminal introspected for a moment and apparently my bodymind apparently thinks that using a white terminal window is low-status in *precisely* the same way as tighty-whities are
@_StevenFan curious to join both
@asemic_horizon I mean when it is so relevant its so good tho that's the magic
new barber paradox just dropped twitter.com/elizamondegree…
roughly my vibe:
I'm stoked to be set up enough again to do some focused work! come cowork with me in the Feral Free Agents room cc @CarnunMP @SunnyDisposish1 @visakanv @vlct0rs_tw1tter @__drewface intend.do/room/feral
@venividivishi nice
Replying to @jasonjdelaney
@jasonjdelaney @visakanv yeah that's a mac/pc thing
Replying to @tea_snail
@tea_snail @visakanv you're probably on windows/linux? try ctrl+left/right for caret-moving while typing
@jerrevdh @visakanv yeah I was also very impressed. I'm guessing it's <10% of general population (of let's say people who have typed more than 500 words/day in the last week)
@iquanyins yes I have done so now and it's a huge relief
Retweeted @visakanv
do you use alt-left/right and command-left/right to manipulate your cursor when typing? (if some other hotkey combo, ctrl+l…
Thread · Writing four versions of a rebrand announcement email · 8 of 9 tweets
over a month after the complice.co->intend.do rebrand, I finally sent out the newsletter to all the past signups announcing the change! I wrote 4 different versions, addressed to different sub-categories of people, which was honestly kinda easier than writing one
there were 150 people who had made an account since the rebrand, so they need the opposite version of the news I emphasized the listening-to-myself vibe of the decision-making process on the name
600 other recently-active folks who may already be aware of the name-change, especially since it's been up for awhile similar for them, just a different intro the reason I talk about the decision-making dimension is that I'm aiming to have the email itself be useful, app-aside
860 people who have ever had a paid subscription, so it's more likely to be a meaningful bit of news for them that "Complice" has been renamed a more eye-catching subject line would probably have been something like "the last "Complice" features newsletter" but oh well
then 6000 ppl who made an account at some point but haven't ever paid some may not have tried it at all ...and I own that—that they don't, by default, give a fuck about my app rebrand—and focus on offering them a taste of the app's whole deal, rather than talking about my story
I'm not sure why I felt like sharing all of these emails on twitter but sometimes you just put the garage door up without a plan in an era of AI-based writing, I'm deliberately leaning more into a personal, thoughtful, human voice
I do really like having contextual customizations though, like being able to say "an app you signed up for $SIGNUP_AGO and last used $USAGE_AGO" whenever I get app update emails, I'm like "who were these guys again??" and so I try to put myself in those shoes to write these
after a long delay (due to travel and a busted computer) it was a helpful showtime to have the time pressure of wanting to mention the Goal-Crafting Intensives in the footer of each of the emails (they're in 2-3 days!) ↳ intend.do/event/gci?tw=m…
@krassenstein referring to "white people" or "people of color", however you do it, is the root of racism, as far as I can tell these concepts need to exist in order to deconstruct them, but when actually talking about people we should say what we mean, and racial categories are for racism
@krassenstein in some contexts the actual issue at hand is class, so talk about class other times it's actually about language (dyk "Hispanic" isn't a race?) in yet others it's "descendents of slaves", or "descendents of colonists" OR "recent immigrants (regardless of origin)"
Thread · Writing four versions of a rebrand announcement email · 1 of 9 tweets
I like what @m_ashcroft says here, but I also feel like in the context of an email that IS getting slightly personalized based on the user's app data, it kinda does make sense to use their name what do you think?
skin tones on emoji are racist gifs are anti-racist send tweet
@aphercotropist haha yeah something broke, but actually for every condition OTHER than that one (forgot a return statement in condition where no CHANGES_SINCE to replace) but it looks like your account ended up in the "never subscribed" condition, based on the subject. DM me the username?
Replying to @DaveCBeck
@DaveCBeck @jonnym1ller huh, say more? I would imagine those might be other kinds of flow, just along axes hard to name
@prerationalist @nosilverv lol I googled tanha and relu and only found ML results and I was like "he must mean something else" but then turns out nope
@nosilverv according to this definition it's kind of the opposite of cucked
@benlandautaylor who's responsible? who's accountable? who's benefitting?
@the_wilderless I really like how explicit (yet kinda vague) this is
@Meaningness hey @Morphenius what do you think this might have to do with gnosis and math?
up high down low too slow
@dukkhafactory yep this is why I emphasize a focus on honoring your own distrust
"parts-based noting" meditation in each arising, note either "part" or "whole" 🧩 part: any aspect of experience that is not totally okay with the present moment 🌐 whole: the present moment in all of its wholeness
^ this is from memory, from a convo with a friend a few months ago, about a retreat he did with @DeepMindfulness
@JakeOrthwein sort of, and yes. I did a one-week bioemotive retreat at MAPLE, that also included meditation and chanting and circling. a friend said he did a retreat with Janusz Welin that featured "parts-based noting"
new balm just dropped malcolmocean.com/2023/07/droppi…
@visakanv I was thinking of some of your recent writings on your writing process as I wrote this
icymi, we're zerg on the inside
@visakanv discipline = studentness, following orders diligence = attentiveness, careful selecting devotion = reverentness, sacred vow (by their etymologies)
@visakanv @__drewface @RomeoStevens76 can u train us
@kenthesimp @ForCognition it wasn't based on just the replies to you; I scoped out their other tweets a bit but also I don't see blocking as an act of punishment (tho my tweets are pretty great) but more as a firmer form of curation/scene-cultivation than who I follow
@_arvind I'm not sure but probably you start with people who in some sense are already living their own paradigm, so that that's the basic vibe, rather than a bunch of people who are all sharing someone else's paradigm (especially if that someone is dead) malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-l…
@_arvind (I linked that blog post because I talk in there about my own shift to having my own paradigm and how that related to the person whose paradigm I was previously trying to use)
seems like a question worth amplifying cc @RichDecibels @visakanv
@justavagrant_ cool diagram. personally I'm very done with nomading and I want a stable homebase once I have one I could imagine being elsewhere for a couple months of the year though, and that being a good rhythm
@myceliummage @Morphenius I had an insight about this once and it was something like... my 3 structure (I am very 7 but I have a lot of 3) had a sense of needing to achieve something in order to have made a difference, but then I realized that simply by existing I was already making a difference
@myceliummage @Morphenius like I had changed so many peoples' lives already just by knowing them, by being their friend (or kid or grandkid). I didn't need to DO SOMETHING, I could just exist and be me.
@cptnjamescook do you have a plausibly-unique take on a problem even if you don't think it's actually adequate? could be worth writing that up even just to understand it better and get help refining it!
@Morphenius yes and yes!
@visakanv look humans are *sometimes* like this but they're not *always* like this
@mwotton it can only do it *while* thinking it through though if you ask it retrospectively how it got an answer, it will give bullshit (unless someone specifically RLHF'd it to say what truth it can give which is "I used a random seed and chose high-logprob words")
@visakanv also people can introspect with remarkable detail and clarity in sufficiently safe contexts (which are rare) but it'll involve nonsensical-from-the-outside answers which is why people usually can't seem to
my attempt to distill the intuitions that point towards LVT (land value tax) into a tweet, without actually saying LVT or even proposing a solution
@eshear @MarkovMagnifico @killa_kwinn hmm. I have intuitions for it but not sure how to name them. we might as "as opposed to what"
@eshear @MarkovMagnifico @killa_kwinn one way I would put it is capitalism can be seen as a powerful ideology saying that everything should be done with markets (which leads to the undervaluing of helping one's friends and family, raising one's own kids, activities that don't involve money)
@eshear @MarkovMagnifico @killa_kwinn anyway, your tweet also made me notice a neat way to frame LVT in terms of being pro-capitalism is government charging market prices for their role protecting your land from other people doing stuff with it? nope, they're subsidizing it ABSURDLY
@eshear @MarkovMagnifico @killa_kwinn this is not AS unethical, but it's a structurally-similar form of institutionally-supported inequality-endorsement as legal chattel slavery where the government would, at zero cost to slaveowners, legally step in to return runaway slaves
@eshear @MarkovMagnifico @killa_kwinn (just noticed this just now, prompted by having been reading about US slavery & civil rights history in a wikipedia binge this morning)
@DanielTabakman @RatOrthodox haha this is a form of coercive threat-based trust & intimacy, with so many issues *literally* can't speedrun non-naive collaborative trust, information-theoretically afaict. although definitely way faster methods than others
@sonikudzu @uberstuber I mean probably if you're supposed to give a "no problem" vibe, in situations where you can work it out this will result in a sense of confident handledness, and in situations where actually there is no adequate solution apple can offer, it will result in gaslighting
@sonikudzu @DRMacIver I have a whole rant about how important no-look no-wait systems are in general (which is related to how it's taken so long for voice/gesture interfaces to take on, and why pros tend to disprefer them) malcolmocean.com/2015/12/interf…
@sonikudzu @brundolfsmith okay but look it wouldn't have taken more than another few minutes of development to have an option that appears if you go back and forth between the two and check one then uncheck the other to have it trigger "do you want to unlink these?" but ig powerusers just all use tools
@andrewglynch nice, kind of a work-style manifesto
@gene_minkov I think that half of the bug is a function of brave browser in particular other apps do transfer focus AFTER waiting the full 1 second animation. brave sometimes (but not always!) fails
@visakanv common of many quotes! here's one example of a full observation Gandhi made that got shortened (and made imperative!) as "be the change you wish to see" > "We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we…
hey @Morphenius I think the 2nd half of this quote is about the co-gnosis problem (the trouble the occurs when two people who have a kind of self-authored "I can tell for myself" knowing come in contact and can't figure out how to relate where their knowings seem to contradict)
tiny challenge: think of a favorite quote of yours and see if you can find the larger context that it's an excerpt from (usually pretty easy with the internet)
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania it's in my top ~dozen fav books probably. that passage is one I've quoted to many people
@nathan_k feel free to ask if you have questions about it! (although maybe I've seen you there before? not sure)
@asemic_horizon nice. I like how you put it. clear wisdom and also falls apart, but yeah I like the direct rejection of puritanism
Replying to @diviaprocessing
@diviaprocessing yeah, gq... feels kinda pharma-based, which I'm not into hmm honestly part of it is my inner @visakanv, who laughed at "pilled" as being such an american way of phrasing something at one point
@jonnym1ller @gwyns @dr_mcgilchrist this classic one on @metalearn_ is my go-to intro resource metalearn.net/podcasts/ml41-…
@slimepriestess okay I'm gonna need to unpack that. it's all very relevant to my interests I'm familiar with the triune brain breakdown as well and also find it useful, although of course the older brain parts have still been evolving the whole time in parallel with the new ones
@slimepriestess also have you read/heard mcgilchrist's model or are you responded to the old debunked hemispheres model?
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance mmmm, mhm. one thing I'm a bit confused about is the difference between some of the more recent changes that McGilchrist is mostly on about, and whatever much earlier shift might have been responsible for agriculture & the axial age, if @AndrewCutler13 (EToC/snakes) is at all apt
@sidewayskoyote ahh hm I guess it was probably a means of control / attempt to reunify with god following the basic separation/self-consciousness/Fall vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cu…
@sonikudzu @brundolfsmith oh noooo apple is averagerianist (the idea that an average user exists is fallacious)
@RomeoStevens76 @visakanv @__drewface can you give me pith instructions on working with panpanca? (either specifically for converting to schematic thinking / mad libs, or just in general)
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF seems more like *slavery* is arbitrage, because it lets someone own more than one body, and creates a market for bodies whereas if everybody owns their own body and there's no market, then there's no arbitrage opportunity
@slimepriestess oh interesting, I hadn't thought of triune brain mapping onto id/ego/superego, more like instincts/emotions/thoughts I've been getting gung-ho lately about something vaguely id/ego/superego-like after reading The Snake Cult of Consciousness vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cu…
@sonikudzu @brundolfsmith I suspect way more users experience it than they think, they just either - don't consciously notice (as you say) - blame themselves and then they get operant conditioned into never experiencing the problem blog.regehr.org/archives/861
@Meaningness I like this, although it doesn't get at what I'm actually saying as far as I can tell, I have had periods of minutes-hours of conversation in something ecstatically resembling the spontaneous action mode, but doing so by repressing other parts
@_awbery_ oh oops haha! we'll see
@Meaningness system 1 / system 2 are definitely different axes than the brain hemispheres see this tweet and the linked LW comment:
@Meaningness funny coincidence though! fwiw theories/mechanisms might obstruct for some people but for me so far McGilchrist's has been quite empowering for me (tho I need to be careful not to let it put me in a mode of "I already know")
@slimepriestess my model (as of reading the Snake Cult article) is that the original event referred to by "original sin" is the shift to dualism/separation but then "original sin" as a framing with all of its implications emerged afterwards as memetically fit way to control people by fake reward
@slimepriestess (this this model) the psy-op has a grain of truth, in that there really was a moment when we fell out of heaven, experientially but then the idea that this other guy gets to tell you what to do & if you do what he says you'll get let back into heaven? 🧐
@arielleplus ahhh, that makes sense yeah, basically a philosophy somehow has to account for someone's experience, and assuming it is trying to account for someone having been screwed over and ALSO goodness being possible, it'll tend to be a reaction to that but if it doesn't have to, yeah
Retweeted @MattPirkowski
This impedance mismatch b/w entropy-maximizing mechanisms driving the complexity of urban superorganisms and our increas…
@MattPirkowski there are types of superorganism about which this is true, and to some extent we've been inhabiting them for 10k years, with increasing intensity but there are other superorganisms that exalt and respect individuality, and we can (and naturally want to) support those emerging
@MattPirkowski this tweet is essentially about recognizing that you are getting coopted and spitting out the hook
@vlct0rs_tw1tter @MattPirkowski thanks for the tag, yeah! I've been watching Matt feel into similar questions Matt, looks like you're also a scholar in the Evolution of Consciousness field. curious what your main research Qs are
@vlct0rs_tw1tter on my radar but hadn't saved it to my list of sources to potentially look at at some point related to EvConch
actually an even better challenge: think of a quote you find really ANNOYING, and see if you can find the larger context that it's an excerpt from
@slimepriestess the thing I'm calling "superego" here maps onto memeplexes/egregores/social expectations, which does seem like a layer of human mind systems they are now very numerous and in a state of high competition for host control
the classic "reference the other thread while having two parallel conversations with the same person on twitter" move
@slimepriestess haha so in your model it's sorta like - LH cortex etc = analytic - RH cortex etc = creative - hindbrain+limbic = id ?
@slimepriestess it seems to me like the RH and LH each handle different dimensions of navigating social expectations, but the ones that allow commands or rules are largely LH-based (RH handles vibe stuff, dancing, physical coordination on a task by anticipating others' moves)
@slimepriestess but I guess conventionally "superego" refers to more of the like... internalized verbal instructions etc
@Morphenius @visakanv wow damn yeah, great reminder
@_samand_ I'd love to see it! and it would probably be meaningful to others who are curious too :)
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF in that sense, yeah, the slaveowners were themselves subjected to the larger power of the state, that required them to operate as they did and while power is power, the framing of "ownership" comes not from God but from man
@Meaningness totally yeah, not intending to imply you were equivocating them specifically, this is just one of my wrong-on-the-internet + hey-check-out-this-neat-thing talking points haha 😅
@slimepriestess what is BH? also I think McGilchrist would be pretty insistent that the LH/RH have their own phenomenal universes that are based on the different ways of attending to the world they embody
@jessi_cata there are definitely nondual approaches to values that don't involve inverting them beyond that, I'm not really sure what you mean here and in general not really sure we're using any of these words the same way 🤔 ...I'd be down to hear you try to say this a different way
@cptnjamescook maybe start with trying to lay out just a complete 10-minute version of it, a la:
@cptnjamescook if you want to go longer that's fine, but the point is not to get caught up in trying to writing the canonical version
Thread · Repeating and remixing across threads, blog posts, and canonical pages · 1 of 20 tweets
I've found this prompt (which is best interpreted, in the context of the examples @visakanv gives, as "write one page about the topic without stopping or much editing") to be a helpful way to sidestep the perfectionist/canonist energy reason y not perfect
lol somehow twitter changed the DM moderation rules in such a way that I suddenly had a bunch of spam DMs from the last 8mo all show up in my "message requests" anybody else get this?
oh snap one of them wasn't spam at all, it was a guy with basically no followers reaching out about this blog post: malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-l…
@Alcuev @Aella_Girl @eigenrobot and I think you're also trying to get eigen to say that it's "bad" when it's more that he's just saying "it's powerful in ways that are hard to name and pretending that it isn't is going to result in some people getting affected in ways they may later go "wtf" about"
@Alcuev @Aella_Girl @eigenrobot he didn't say sex is bad, he said it's not safe and I think he meant that in a sort of infohazard-type way or again, like psychedelics, that it would give someone an experience that would be hard to integrate
@Alcuev @Aella_Girl @eigenrobot since naive "sex-positive" framings implicitly deny this obvious-to-some-ppl fact, they encourage people to whom the fact is obvious to seek out frames that don't deny it which may involve adopting other dumb shit those frames say ("sex is [always] bad")
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF I'm not saying that "ownership" is an inappropriate word for it, I'm saying that it's a frame, and you're free to choose a different one anyone is free to choose their own frame even if someone else hurts or ends them for doing so
@HephaistosF this is what Frankl realized in the camps; someone can own your body but they can't own your soul ...unless you let them, I guess. but the letting is never permanent even though it can be sticky/habitual
@jessi_cata ahhh, makes sense, thanks!
me: ...then the 1mo baby was stirring a bit in my arms, so I expanded my ego boundary to include it, and it relaxed ☺️ gf: 😮😍 what prompted you to DO that? me: I mean, the baby wasn't experiencing us as separate beings, and I wasn't about to argue with it on that point 😉
@jessi_cata I think part of the talking past: by "original sin" I meant Eve's eating the apple, not the "born into" part it seems to me that kids these days are not born into dualism but learn it at a very young age via parents & society enacting separateness vs
@RomeoStevens76 @visakanv @__drewface haha no I get that too haha also you can totally drill this sort of thing, like @CloneOfSnow probably did (I'm guessing with a spreadsheet)
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF that may be so you still matter to you, right now (I know it hurts)
@TomNorian @webdevMason @eigenrobot @selentelechia @SarahAMcManus @Aella_Girl food nutrition are sacred to *my* soul ...also we are confused as fuck about nutrition and could use a lot more humility while we do things like collectively get fat possibly due to de-nutrifying foods to the point where we need to eat too much to live
maybe we can figure it out together
Thread · Why "unhealthy for you" doesn't mean "you should feel ashamed"
there's a very prevalent conflation, that drives people into two different kinds of crazy worldview depending on whether they take the modus ponens or the modus tollens horn: "this is unnatural/unhealthy for you" ⬇️ means ⬇️ "you should feel ashamed about it"
classic flavor of stupid resulting worldview tries to shame problems out of existence, without fully realizing that this just tangles them up the problems may pretend to not exist, but hide elsewhere (including from you, which sucks if it's your kid cutting contact)
in reaction to that, this conflation causes people who (correctly) identify that feeling shame is fucking them up, to aggressively insist that the thing is natural or healthy or whatever. a flip to pride your sense of self can just be a mess, that's ok <3
to be clear while there are correlations between left/right politics and these two, it's not a perfect match
obviously conservatism + [this conflation] will result in shaming anything that seems different, as a way to try to maintain the social order
but many leftists likewise direct shame towards anything they oppose, and this also drives dissent into hiding (but doesn't make it actually stop functioning) & they seem oblivious to the obvious: this makes their movements incapable of steering
shaming someone (including oneself) is a form of punishment and what do we know about punishment? it can't aim! malcolmocean.com/2022/02/toward…
moreover, shame as a social performance is largely a way to signal that you have accepted someone telling you that you're bad, to get them off your back; it has nothing to do with (well, is antithetical to) deep learning & growth
meanwhile, if something is actually bad for someone, then help them see that, and they'll change naturally*, no shame required but the focus on "bad" is kinda already in the dualistic frame that will tend to encourage shame (*well, also this 👇)
instead, get curious about why things are as they are (why the person is how they are, and is doing what they're doing) and about how whatever factors you're seeing might also be present in a way that would matter to someone. co-investigate! and
and, as always, if you can't get curious enough to listen to them and their experience, get curious about yourself and listen to yourself first!
in conclusion: returning to the original conflation: "this is unnatural/unhealthy for you" ⬇️ means ⬇️ "you should feel ashamed about it" this is FALSE. the shame is the 2nd arrow. extra. but that doesn't mean you should feel pride!
@TomNorian @MatjazLeonardis @webdevMason @eigenrobot @selentelechia @SarahAMcManus @Aella_Girl ah yes thank for you for reminding me what prompted me to write this thread just now it seems to me that a lot of this discussion is within a frame that takes this conflation for granted, and then asks which stupid bullet to bite
@jessi_cata I really like this account of the adam/eve story, which sees it as a shift to self-conscious awareness of (& identification with) the process that mediates between social expectations and one's own desires = knowledge of good & evil vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cu…
@jessi_cata and thus people develop a capacity for deception not previously experienced among humans, and then the memes themselves learn to deceive/manipulate and this enables new forms of social control, which are fucked up but evolutionarily fit (aka "Game A")
@slimepriestess how did you get "BH"? what's the "B" for? "back?"
I am very exciting to QT this thread repeatedly into contexts where people are debating which of two crazy worldviews is better, on this axis
I'd been wanting to write this up for awhile; what prompted it tonight was the extensive discussion in the comments here, which kept bumping into this background assumption (not saying everyone here is making it, just that it was hard to foreground)
@cptnjamescook if it's a one-page gdoc DM it to me and I'll give it a look and a comment!
Replying to @DaveCBeck
@DaveCBeck @jonnym1ller oh, I've read MC's book but my sense of the relevance of flow comes from Vervaeke, eg in this video where he talks about it as not optimally productive (I don't think it is!) but optimal for learning and pleasure youtube.com/watch?v=aF9HeX…
Replying to @TheBrantChapman
@TheBrantChapman @ringo_ring maybe so, but I feel like if you're gonna go to the effort of giving an award it's worth spending a few minutes investigating the entity you're giving the award to, enough to not make such an error!
Replying to @Holli_e_Gram
@Holli_e_Gram @Aella_Girl people are so bad at not making unnecessary enemies holy shit
@browserdotsys takes time to get oriented! twitter.com/fklein907/stat…
@visakanv @FilmerJarred has a whole very complex system for doing this Jarred have you posted about this? do we have a video of your presentation on it in Feb? that we could post?
@Aella_Girl seems to me it means that whatever "sex is harmless" worldviews are for sale must be denying something obvious!
@DaveCBeck @jonnym1ller I don't think Vervaeke sees "masked cognitive strain" as relevant at all there's just an amount of engagement that matters although obviously yeah chilling is also good seems the "optimal" thing seems to you to be a bit of a weird frame control thing or something?
@visakanv @eshear @MarkovMagnifico @killa_kwinn very relevant to @__drewface
@onlyfootnotes @kaseyklimes sweet, I'll try it out!
Retweeted @PrinceVogel
I'm on team Become Who You Are. I have some particular aesthetic attachments, ideas about how it might be nice for society…
@Morphenius do you have a thread about "extra" yet? cud b gud
@_arvind @visakanv @RichDecibels I guess part of the original context was about researchers in particular it seems to me that a healthy scene of researchers that is not *within* a single paradigm in the first place might actually be near-sufficient
@_arvind @visakanv @RichDecibels unfortunately researchers tend to congregate in scenes that are literally BASED on sharing a paradigm obvious reasons to do this—shared language, commensurate frames, etc—but it defs creates a trap too
you don't have to tell me you don't have to tell me that you're not telling me you don't have to tell me that you're not telling me that you're not telling me but hopefully we can at least not actively pretend that you are
@_arvind @visakanv @RichDecibels this feels to me very related to the Bertrand Russell quote and co-gnosis
@_arvind @visakanv @RichDecibels which continues to reinforce my sense that my particular magic is relevant here, as it's largely about creating bridges between peoples' paradigms, not on an ideological level but on the level of their personal distrusts / knowings
to be clear the "I'll show you" was figurative; I am not gonna put in the work to research the origins of various philosophies in order to demonstrate my point 😛
@alinekaeri how well?
same point, slightly different vibe:
not super stoked about how my recent shift from Linux to Mac maps onto Thomas Sowell's A Conflict Of Visions
@RomeoStevens76 yeah I've been meaning to write equivalent tweets for this one but about "progressivism" and "liberalism", inspired by LPC but I can't decide whether to use "humble" or some other adjective everythingstudies.com/2018/12/06/i-l…
@RomeoStevens76 it seems to me like both are viable options, and I could just try both versions but overall it feels to me like there is a natural link between conservativism (as described here) and humility that isn't there quite so strongly with the others
@p_millerd @neuranne real ambition intersects with the mortifying ordeal of being known
@derekvan I'm not really sure about these practices (still unclear) but you can maybe get a taste of what I'm on about by reading this very dense post. feel free to ask Qs! it was written for people with a ton of context malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-l…
Replying to @joyurge
@joyurge @SarahAMcManus @natandmartha I've been thinking recently that this is the vibe I would take if I were a teacher hello student! I agree that the constraints are not optimal for your learning here, however I also have constraints. you're a divine being though. how might we work w that?
@Aella_Girl guessing it has a lot to do with the lightness/mass dimension more than good/bad harmless ~= "not a big deal" so people are pushing back with "no it's a big[ger] deal [than you think]" but that's getting translated into "harmful" somewhere in the chain twitter.com/eigenrobot/sta…
Replying to @DaveCBeck
@DaveCBeck @jonnym1ller the most salient memory I had from reading MC's Flow book (on a plane iirc) was of him describing an old woman in a greek village who loved cooking, so I definitely missed that memo haha felt like very much the flow of enjoying life (including the part where we can't rest 100%)
we must be the fractally-self-untangling meta-process we wish to see in the world
@aleksil79 @visakanv here's an even more accurate translation of gandhi
@visakanv @_arvind @RichDecibels don't we? guys I'm right here
@_arvind @visakanv @RichDecibels as part of my quest I am figuring out how to reproduce my particular magic as well as how to get magics in general to be communicable rather than resulting in clashes (which seems to be the default atm, which is why most wizards end up either starting cults or being kinda loners)
the blame game happens because everybody can see for themselves the fact that things are NOT simply their fault, but fail to realize that this is true for other people too
Thread · "That's not fair" as a bid to be received
I remember hating when my dad would say "life's not fair" in response to me saying "that's not fair!" about *some decision he in particular was making* what I was trying to say, but couldn't articulate, was "you're not listening! I haven't been received"
what I was saying was "we aren't in sync!"
I haven't been a parent. I'm sure once I am I will experience lots of situations in which I feel like there's not time to get in sync (sometimes accurately, sometimes inaccurately) but there's basically always time to at least receive someone's pain at not being incorporated
time for it doesn't mean it's easy to do though! it requires a kind of surrender, and it can be very tricky to do so without taking on blame for the whole situation or for their pain, which is to say admitting something you know to be false
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF yeah, unfairness sucks and it's hard for me to properly offer that as empathy, because as far as I can tell you identify me as (in part) the source of your unfair situation which means you want me to DO SOMETHING to receive you
@HephaistosF and I am unable/unwilling to do much in particular aside from talk with you but I will talk with you, and I will do my best not to ask you to pretend that you feel that your will has been incorporated into The Whole when you can tell it hasn't
@_arvind glancing at your site and seeing this post, I felt lots of resonance with my thinking, and was reminded of two things (linked in next tweets) sensemaya.org/stupid-machine…
this paper, which talks about experiences of betrayal in the context of interfaces/tools
this decade+ old blog post of mine, approaching a similar question but with just one case study 😅 malcolmocean.com/2012/01/the-em…
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF yeah the way I see our relationship is that I am being me and letting you be you, from a distance at which that works for me I'm not always perfect at either, but I'm here
Replying to @DRMacIver
@DRMacIver maybe but for me I'm pretty damn sure an "if I knew how to make it fair I would" would have gone a long way rather than a kind of "I am teaching you a lesson about the world" energy
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF exactly. and a simple "I would like to make it fair for you but I don't know how right now" would have gone a long way
@slimepriestess @RichDecibels @visakanv ahhh that is an option though not the kind of thing I'm into I prefer something gentler and more self-authored. not trying to break others' paradigms but creating contexts where they feel safe relaxing paradigm and parallaxing with blindspots
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF yeah, it would have been great to know but it wouldn't have been true before. I took a very different approach to my relationships, years ago and it was not knowable-to-me-then that it would turn into this I had to life my life to unfold it thusly
@_arvind @visakanv @RichDecibels such a gathering is broadly in my intentions, though will probably be people I know better than I currently know you (tho ofc we could get to know each other better)
I'll be spacious-freedom-pomodoroing in this room for the next few hours until the GCI workshops—come join me! (still a few tickets left for today & tomorrow! intend.do/event/gci?tw=m…) intend.do/room/feral
me: *writes new post and makes a pretty graphic for it* twitter: *makes links to substack not preview* me: ...now I feel motivated to post on facebook, which otherwise wouldn't have come to mind at all twitter: wait uhh me: thanks for reminding me!
made a new post elaborating on how I approach pomodoros—with an attitude of liberation I can't for the life of me figure out how to write lifehack posts without them turning into dharma. idk how other people do it lol. intentionality.substack.com/p/pomodoros-as…
what do I mean by "freedom-pomodoroing"? well, writing that up was the thing I was working on:
@AishvarR @ThatsMauvelous @___frye I am aware of at least one app that when this native tax came in, raised prices by like 2× or more, such that subscriptions auto-cancelled, I think the idea being that the increase was to the point of being implausible, causing people to go "huh" and double-check online
@captain_mrs I have found "how would you organize your life if you could fall in love with anybody?" to be a powerful prompt, although also can be misleading—actual pragmatic compatibility is still HUGE.
"are you telling me that when I'm high-status I can ratio all the trolls in my replies?" "no, I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to"
@MJPiercello @visakanv @firasd remixed this as a standalone guy
@soughtsound @animalologist Bly's The Sibling Society is one resource I've heard, tho I haven't actually read it
reading this post and I stared into space a bit and felt into something subtle and I think I made some headway remembered moments of experiencing the perfection of things, leaned a little in that direction felt the sense in which even when lost in 100 open tabs I'm still space
@Meaningness mmmm appreciating this. got a few laughs and some inklings from it
if you were a Culture ship, what might your name be? just blurt it out don't think too hard eg for me: I'll Spare You The Details
PSA: if you like to keep your DMs open, might have to reopen them after twitter twiddled the settings knob
@mizminh yeah I think a lot of people do this intuitively! it might actually be half the difference between "ppl who can hold a baby" & "ppl who can't hold a baby" (gf: other half is that some people are too chronically tense/dysregulated to actually be a comfortable being to enfold in)
@the_wilderless also idk if it was for this reason but I lived in a neighborhood where they made all the new sidewalks white and it was fucking blinding
Retweeted @goblinodds
"men dont have rites of passage anymore" what if the new rite of passage, the way you become a Man, is to set aside all the…
Retweeted @goblinodds
men are the askers and women are the filter-ers and "feminism" fucked this up by aiming at harassers and missing and headsh…
@lolalucxy @goblinodds I mean the take was about tpot and tpot is arguably pretty too-online
@christo16234889 @detransaqua @TransRadically @ChoooCole I'll just vote in favor of being flexible with words and not using ones that unnecessarily polarize, but rather ones that make it easier for people to see things and find/build common ground.
Replying to @anniefryman
@anniefryman @levin_phil this looks really exciting... did it actually get passed? where's it at?
@jposhaughnessy I got really excited by Feyerabend's Against Method, which I just started reading, which is basically "the one principle of science must be: anything goes. anarchy"
@JeffLadish a lot of my tweets/threads but I need to stow them somewhere because I can never find them in moments like this when someone asks
I bet the creators of the first dictionaries would be horrified to discover that people started using them as prescriptive sources on which words should exist and what they should mean, rather than observations of what was so at one slice of evolutionary history
@DRMacIver @eshear @MarkovMagnifico @killa_kwinn came across this tweet which has one rough take on the evolution (arguably devolution) of the word "capitalism" (at least in some circles)
@TysonSClarke @DRMacIver > we're just at different levels of consciousness man this would be a funny thing to say in my replies if it were in a context where it was clearly in jest, but in this situation it seems to me like a sloppy status-game way of pretending that your inability to listen is a virtue
@TysonSClarke @DRMacIver as the uhh referee here (insofar as I'm the guy who owns the thread) I'm close to blocking you as well Tyson I have higher standards for my mentions than you're upholding rn.
@meekaale beautiful, I love it 🙌
@slimepriestess @RichDecibels @visakanv slow is smooth, smooth is fast
Replying to @DRMacIver
@DRMacIver my mum said I always had an intense sense for injustice, so I suspect I may have been different here, at least in some cases
@RichDecibels @_arvind @visakanv I am skeptical that this goes quite as deep as I have in mind when I say "magic" but I would be very happy to discover otherwise! definitely keen to join an extended Rich-hosted event when I get the chance
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF true. I mean I think my dad mostly did want to make things good. lemme revisit one of the memories... ...definitely not what I'd usually call malice, though maybe a bit of... hard to pin it exactly. similar to someone who is glad to be helpless since it means they get to chill
@HiFromMichaelV how would you name the difference?
@yourfriendmell it was a lesson, but not kind it was a failing to own his own responsibility in the situation, and admit he didn't care or was incapable of doing something different which meant it was a kind of dishonesty, in a sense
if you think "that'll teach someone a lesson" and the lesson it teaches them is not the one you intend to teach them, you are a fool not a teacher
@yourfriendmell by "a lesson, but not kind" I'm pointing in part at how like...
@MJPiercello @_arvind @visakanv @RichDecibels mmm I like these meta points re LoRC. hadn't seen them before. good shit I forget if I've said this MJP but your "any disagreement can be reframed as agreement of existence of dispute" maps quite tightly onto my emphasis on respecting & honoring others' distrust
@MJPiercello @_arvind @visakanv @RichDecibels the reason I like "distrust" instead of things like agreement/etc is because (afaict) it makes it easier to go deeper into something like "the very way things seem to us" / "our felt sense of the world", not just propositional thinkings or beliefs
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot @visakanv the stuff in this thread seems like it might go in your files somewhere
how would you recommend people tell the difference between: - general fear of commitment - not wanting to commit because you haven't found something that would be right for you to commit to yet? (in romance/marriage, in city/community, in live spirituality/discipleship, whatever)
this is even worse than when after logging in with my phone number as username to my phone bill they have me confirm my phone number before 2FA'ing it as a security measure I used google auth to log in to @slackHQ, and now for ✨extra security✨ they're emailing the same account
@TysonSClarke @DRMacIver oh! you were saying "I'm at a lower level of consciousness!" I think it's pretty reasonable that people misinterpreted you, under the circumstances. glad I sent my message and you clarified tho I don't know that this use of the integral/sd stages makes sense to me
@TysonSClarke @jackinlondon "a dad"? I mean you sound like a dad I know who complained that his daughter had mostly stopped talking to him in response to stuff he was doing that he described as "just being a dad" and I was like "uhh, you were being a dad In A Particular Way. there are other ways to dad"
@TysonSClarke @jackinlondon which I WOULD agree is a low level of consciousness, when someone takes for granted that they have to embody a role in a certain way, although it seems much more blue meme if I had to pick one than red/orange
@TysonSClarke @jackinlondon do you think you're gonna prepare your kids for an orange-green-yellow world by red-memeing at them? I think that'll mostly confuse them and result in them thinking (accurately) you're out of touch, like I did when my dad insisted that as my dad he had to tell me to cut my hair
@TysonSClarke @jackinlondon fairness might be uniquely exalted by green meme, but it's not a new invention in fact, it isn't even unique to humans livescience.com/26245-chimps-v…
@TysonSClarke @jackinlondon you were misinterpreted by at least 3 people as *obviously* meaning that you meant higher consciousness (and I'm not aware of anyone who interpreted you correctly) which suggests you could use an update here about how your communication is landing
@jackinlondon @TysonSClarke spiral dynamics and/or integral stages medium.com/illumination-c…
@DRMacIver @TysonSClarke all good man this was (/still is) interesting! it was only the point when he said the the thing that I thought was a straight-up status dunk that I was like "too far, I want to say something" and even that is proving more interesting than I would have expected
pretty funny to have a language generate words it can't spell 🤦♀️ English you're so silly
@AChillGhost as stupid as it sounds, it might be "uge", in parallel with "luge" it's *hardly* as if you're not allowed to make words in english that you can't confidently pronounce when you see them written
so far pretty dissatisfied with the answers to this (though appreciative to everybody who has offered an answer!) so this is encouragement to try answering it yourself! (or mu'ing the question and asserting eg that the Q is wrong and it's really about a secret third thing)
@anielsen108 @visakanv curious how this has evolved 4y later!
@shajedulkarim_ what if you have both? how can you tell if there's also not-fit, below the fear?
@DanielTabakman what do you mean?
@mattgoldenberg for me there was a sense that I was ready to commit but a story that I wasn't and so I committed despite a felt sense of "this might not be it" in order to prove that I was ready to commit (years ago, in the most salient example in my life)
@DAtD_life want to say more about the situations you've been grappling with, to help us tease out some generalizations?
Replying to @thebestestpie
@thebestestpie very good point if you're on that end of it! spot on. I'm thinking more about discerning in oneself
@newthotguy seems basically right, yeah I guess there's a difference between "this isn't what I want" and "I wouldn't trust myself to tell if it were"
@_ali_taylor "deserve" can hook you up with some guilt shit but afaict this sort of thing can also make for some of the cleanest motivation & steering if you don't
Thread · Experimenting with surrendering to a chosen larger Whole · 4 of 6 tweets
new experiment I'm playing with: surrender to some We/Whole that I'm part of & do whatever it tells me to this is a mental shift, to be clear—no *individual* gets to tell me what to do (tho i cud ask). & my own desires are part of what that We is for, & need to be included!
possible Wholes include: - a team: how do I serve the wholeness that is this company/project? - a couple - a household - all of humanity - myself across time?? - my future family, including kids not-yet-born
but it's important to pick one specific one at a given time, otherwise I get conflicting instructions! and this is possible in part because I'm not letting a bunch of other superegos / social-expectations constantly tell me what to do in the background
still early with this experiment but so far it has yielded some very smooth flow-states, taking care of what needs taking care of!
@_ali_taylor here's a thread about my recent experiments with something very similar!
it feels amazing to surrender to something larger problem is, most somethings-larger available atm are batshit insane solution there, it seems to me, is to surrender to your own sense of the something-larger you would like to surrender to if it existed, & thereby create it
Thread · Experimenting with surrendering to a chosen larger Whole · 1 of 6 tweets
surrender, of course, to the sanest version of the larger Whole that you can imagine!
brilliant clip talking about how panic attacks occur when you become afraid of your own fear, creating a runaway self-reinforcing feedback loop and how the way out is through: to embrace the panic attacks fully (he recommends panicaway.com as a resource)
Retweeted @John_Attridge
Writers, and I cannot emphasise this enough, FINISH THE DRAFT. It is only when you have a complete draft that it can lat…
@AaronEstel @aleksil79 can you ask the rebel in you what it would like to surrender to? maybe something like "an even bigger more badass rebel that cares about all the things I care about" (also this may not work at all, just a random idea)
my father-in-law was a master at scissor statements...
@the_wilderless I feel like I have picked up a lot more vibe-wise from you, and this is non-central, but I liked this thread
@the_wilderless the stuff about "let the room be aware of you" it may have contributed to this shift I had a couple months later
"Why did I think I could heal myself by taking myself apart?"
@made_in_cosmos @this_is_silvia so your baby would hear you say something in english, and repeat it back to you in polish? cool!
maybe enough people get your thing by now that they'll build enough ladders to supplement the rungs you didn't write on the way up
incredible post about a bunch of nuances of gender ift.tt/OAJ0yor
coworking! right now! come get focused! intend.do/room/feral
don't confuse shaming yourself when not doing something for actually motivating yourself to do it
"most of being a good tweeter is just noticing the bangers in everyday conversation. your mom will say bangers sometimes—you just have to write them down!" 😂 — @visakanv
people think that weird is the opposite of normal and that's *true*, but not how you'd think weird is natural, and normalcy is an illusion *imposed* on top of it.
Retweeted @BecomingCritter
Motion to change all instances of "TPOT" to "hereabouts" and all instances of "people in TPOT" to "all ya'll"
@aleksil79 well maybe someone else has to write the ladder rungs to fill in the gap so people can reach you, if you're off in faraway lands!
@0xmaddie_ why did I think I was a thing?
Retweeted @myceliummage
people like second person tweets because they want to be penetrated. this tweet is written in passive voice to allow you…
at the moment you first read the word "you" in this tweet, you hadn't gotten to the end of it, but sooner or later you probably will, and if you keep going you'll discover that now you have
@myceliummage hmmm that's clarifying thanks
@Aella_Girl depends on the therapy. some are specifically oriented towards not just providing a workable narrative but in actually locating your own agency in doing the things you do that don't make sense to "you", which uhhhh astrology is probably gonna struggle with
@myceliummage I'm working on a book right now and I am provisionally intending to write the entire thing in first person maybe some little "instructions" boxes that shift to second person for people who want my thinking all up in them
Retweeted @aphercotropist
Something kind of funny with "it's in your mind" when it comes to hallucinations. That's like, exactly missing the poin…
@visakanv maybe the prison you were thrown into for no crime of your own is the society that you were born in and live in, that you have to deal with if/when you go to bed early maybe that dream was straight up trying to tell you what you finally realized today
how long til we get tech that can smartly pause a podcast between sentences while giving navigation instructions, rather than just ducking the audio?
Retweeted @apertator
@RomeoStevens76 @HephaistosF @Malcolm_Ocean @Morphenius @AskYatharth @VividVoid_ @chaosprime @losingcontrol23 @ben_mathes @b…
@adamyormark @p_millerd sure but the distribution is often contrived and fake and if you have even a few dimensions you'll soon discover that there are no actual instances of normalcy along all of them at once
Retweeted @the_wilderless
I still vote we rebuild the humanities outside of academic institutions, On a foundation of “the humanities are the st…
@the_wilderless yesssssss an initial contribution of mine (loads more where this came from)
Retweeted @chercher_ai
It's fun to notice the behind-the-scenes processing going on all the time. I just dropped a berry on the floor, and notic…
the dharma is first-person research
@nopranablem tempting, but
@RobertB41188300 @eigenrobot honestly probably at least as legit as anything else considered a race the categories are pretty fake
Thread · Bananas in Canada as a minimum bar for utopia
over the years I've sometimes described my minimum constraints for utopia as: - I get to eat bananas daily in canada - everybody's okay with how things are set up
obviously the 2nd one is the hard one. adding the first doesn't really make it any *harder*. but "bananas in canada" points at a spirit of global connectedness, as opposed to collapse. abundance, not austerity. that matters.
yes this is a commentary on today's discourse, which centers on this dead-wrong observation I marvel regularly. not always, but at least monthly. twitter.com/hecubian_devil…
when saying grace, I often take a moment to appreciate all of the hundreds or thousands of people (or more?!) who did *something* that helped the food I'm eating get to me imagining a dozen countries on my plate. thank the supply chain everythingstudies.com/2021/12/20/tha…
one of my favorite songs. profoundly touching. youtube.com/watch?v=0RCIdO…
@daemonhugger paying close attention and making choices slowly
Against Method by Feyerabend is bedtime reading for me & @utotranslucence these days > The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes. Here's the basic structure of the argument (each of these gets a chapter! very cool book structure.)
@visakanv oh yeah I remember doing that with you when we went to the grocery store together in Singapore haha
@AbstractFairy @yashkaf nice
"content" was a term invented by advertisers to refer to "that which is not ads, in and around which ads can be inserted" don't think of your own writing or videos this way, if you consider it the main event
@ptrschmdtnlsn @Watercressed @Duderichy yeah seems like it used to be a "how to calculate" kind of deal then they realized it would be better if they did a bit of ontological remodeling and just fixed the number twitter.com/aap_twak/statu…
@connormcmk yeah I heard it somewhere but have been unable to verify if it's literally historically true. it feels somehow "spiritually" true though. it's "stuff", agnostic to the meaning of it
@connormcmk found this history of "content marketing" but it covers the phenomenon, not the history of the words (it mentions the emergence of "content marketing" as a word but not "content" as such) copypress.com/blog/history-c…
can someone more familiar with Macs tell me how to have Recents in Finder *actually* show my recent files? it shows some but like, when I save an image from the internet it's not there. wtf
@eashankotha screenshots are one of the only things that is showing up in there, but [right-click -> save image as] does not
@dccockfoster idk but I'm interested! guessing it's a mix of: - the word itself feels verbable - one obvious thing that the verb would mean - enough critical mass I recently renamed my app so it's name already *is* a verb: @IntendApp, but that may end up less actually-verbed like Lyft tbh
@dccockfoster I don't particularly think this post is good as advice* but it's an interesting exploration of dimensions of names and it notes verbability as one dimension *in part because it doesn't accurately answer how well certain names do at certain dimensions messymatters.com/nominology/
@shl me reading this at 2am: ...use gumroad... to hire a marketer... got it.
replace "ego death" with "ego reboot" ✅ less scary ✅ more accurate ✅ gives appropriate intuitions for the benefits of doing it regularly ✅ doesn't imply you could (or should try to) function in a society with your ego off all the time jfc
Retweeted @IntendApp
@visakanv people many years ago: "is Malcolm Ocean your real name?" me at the time: "well it's facebook official"
@the_wilderless wow yeah can't find it anywhere this is indeed immature/insecure. vibes weak. I remember in 2013 twitter stopped previewing instagram images because they wanted people to tweet the images directly on twitter rather than linking over, but idk let the users do what they want
@forthrighter other relevant questions: - how do I feel when I think about my childhood? - what do I miss from my childhood? - what do I *not* miss? - what secrets hide in my backstory waiting to be leveraged?
Retweeted @connormcmk
what's the name for the category that contains genes, memes, and quines?
@connormcmk oooh yeah, gq! riffing, without assuming a pithy word already exists (it may well not! "meme" was coined by analogy with "gene" only 50 years ago, so the need to go up one level of abstraction didn't exist before then. "gene" is only ~100y old!) "unit of evolution/selection"
@connormcmk Dawkins' conscious design of "meme" was brilliant, and part of why it took off. intuitively you know it's the same part of speech as "gene" which suggests that in coining the more general term we should seek one with similar grammar genetic/memetic/_e_etic -eme means "unit"
@connormcmk since "-eme" means "unit", that'll probably work best. riffing on "evolve": - veme - vleme - leme - eveme - evleme - elveme - olveme - exeme - xeme - zeme I think veme and eveme are best here.
whew, really satisfying podcasty convo w @dkazand just now best deep dive into the philosophy of @IntendApp I've done on record yet, feeling into some stuff at my own edges and remixing it main insight: instead of "goal-setting"... goal-allowing!
@connormcmk I thought of that—it's not bad. sort of highlights the evolutionary quality of everything actually yeah! like if we consider other things with -eme suffix, a lot of theme also get remixed! phoneme lexeme morpheme etc (the suffix is largely used in linguistics *anyway*)
@asemic_horizon you can't boot the same computer twice
Retweeted @vincent_yc_li
replace "ego death" with "ego gets little forehead kiss" ✅cute n warm ✅the motion is one of relaxing and surrender, lik…
@vincent_yc_li love it
@oak_sprout yesssssss
@AnatoliyLotkov of course it does, but it probably has fewer bugs than it did last time, and in any case rebooting is a good way to get more info on that
Thread · How the 'consent violation' frame amplifies mild discomfort
having reflected on this a couple times, I'm concluding the issue is one of categorization betrayals of trust are scary because you then generalize to "they might do it again" and if "it" is "violate my consent" then that's scary, whereas if "it" is just "sleep bj" nbd t.co/CQBAMiqQ51
by conceiving of this event as "consent violation" (just one way to conceive of it!) there's a whole frame invoked which suggests that the gf is a "consent violator" in some more general sense but maybe she's just a sneak-sleep-fellator & that's ok by u!
the convo this dude needs to have with his gf: - there was something uncomfortable simply about the surprise & confusion & unfamiliarity, nbd but I want that held - I'm down for you to do it again tho - but now part of me is worried you'll do X or Y without asking... & plz don't
and if he can't trust that she wouldn't accept such a request, THEN he's got an issue but otherwise it all seems fine my guess is that the "consent" narrative dramatically amplified what would have been mild discomfort otherwise, which caused panic or something
Retweeted @connerdelights
"The goal is not to digest information, but to layer over your reality with a fresh coat of moss." beautiful https://t…
@connerdelights good timing I've just listened to ep19-20 of Vervaeke's Awakening From The Meaning Crisis where he talks about the shift from reading as participatory embodied act to reading as "getting information" and its effect on spirituality
@strangestloop @visakanv into this tho might be easier to meme into existence with a shorter video
@visakanv @dkazand @IntendApp hmmm... give an example? tho I'm sure it connects to everything else 😅
@visakanv yeah the surplus is the problem your many competing goals (implicit or explicit) are inhibiting your other ones, and what you need is to figure out which ones you really want to allow
@meditationstuff curious what you make of this!
@RobertHaisfield @karma_gardener ahhh and downloading doesn't count as modifying can you describe what search to use for it? not sure what to query
@eashankotha wait you're kidding right? the whole point of recents is it's not a folder it's just all the most recent files whereever you put them, so you can download it to one place for long-term, but then immediately grab it from recents to use it right now for something
@aleksil79 whoa wait what? entropy isn't real?
@imperialauditor @vgr seems somewhat adjacent to Moral Mazes I haven't read the book but @TheZvi's summary is quite good. thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/05/23/maz…
these matching couple outfits are so adorable (source: this etsy store etsy.com/ca/shop/LovitX…)
@aleksil79 whoa, huh this is making me think of the interface theory of perception... have you checked it out? it highlights how "objective" things we measure might still in some sense be things that are only true in terms of human-like and human-compatible interfaces
poking at DNA stuff and I find it really beautiful how both the matrilineal and patrilineal lines have a special way to trace them, via Mitochrondrial DNA and Y-DNA respectively + haplogroups who trace back to a single common ancestor in each way
what is the natural relationship between task management & product management?
> I concluded from these experiences that gender identity is a property of objects, not subjects. fascinating. interesting stuff about selfness here unstableontology.com/2023/02/07/am-…
why do some forms of discrimination get called "___ism" and some get called "_________phobia"?
You're a vendor at the Interplanetary Farmers Market tell us about your booth! where are you from? what are you selling?
facebook is still facebook twitter is still twitter don't let rebrands work if they're stupid
Barbie in the streets Oppenheimer in the sheets
can you spot the noble truth? 👀
Retweeted @IntendApp
plans are fine but unrealistic plans are a recipe for suffering ...and most people don't know how to make realistic plans…
what is the natural relationship between task management & project management?
argh I mistweeted "product" was supposed to be "project". let's try again:
"I am free to be decisive insofar as I am willing and able to listen" . malcolmocean.com/2023/03/art-is…
Retweeted @IntendApp
Thread about Complice→Intend rebrand TL;DR 1. “Complice” was a weird not-quite-a-word, that nobody could pronounce or spell…
okay #roamcult I am experimenting with more desktop-based workflows rather than browser-based please tell me there's a way to instantly switch between graphs using a hotkey. I have many. alternatively, can I install multiple instances of the Roam app on MacOS?
the AI equivalent of someone shouting "I'm not angry or defensive!!" ...proving my point precisely.
fractal pomodoros malcolmocean.com/2021/07/fracta…
Retweeted @AbstractFairy
100% sure this was the source of some myth back in the day
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
Teach your kids about thought experiments before someone else does.
anybody else get "suspicious app" alert from Google after installing Arc? guessing it's related to eg the calendar preview feature or something.
what's my justification for not being playful?
@pangmeli are these good? I got something much more complicated once and it didn't really work. a whole brace thingy also I've been getting intrigued by thefootcollective.com
just found myself wishing mosquitoes didn't exist then briefly noted that ofc if they *never* had I wouldn't know how much I appreciate that they didn't so now I'm uhh taking a moment to appreciate all the godawful kinds of hypothetical worse bugs that I don't have to deal with
have been idly wondering for years how it's possible for species to evolve into having different numbers of chromosomes, and finally did a thorough enough search to find this answer quora.com/How-does-a-spe…
Key insight for me was that chromosomes aren't like... automatically paired, they pair themselves up based on mutual recognition, thus fusion (or splitting) is actually a relatively minor event, not something that immediately leads to interfertility problems. A & B pair with AB
@fazurrehman definitely nudging people towards ctrl/cmd T is the way to go here. if you want an instant / hassle-free new tab, that's the way to do it. no need for more buttons! clicking any button is a hassle from my perspective
is there any way to use the Arc browser to install progressive web apps? I don't see it desktop apps hasn't usually been my vibe but I'm getting into it as a way to deal with macOS's terrible space management cc @browsercompany @arcinternet
Retweeted @RichDecibels
21st century competence: learning to think like a super-organism /super-intelligence I have some ways of seeing that hel…
@RichDecibels or see the superorganism that is a city! autotranslucence.com/2018/06/27/as-…
@RichDecibels I have a thread on this!
Thread · Experimenting with surrendering to a chosen larger Whole · 1 of 6 tweets
very relevant tweet from a somewhat relevant thread
@RichDecibels example of this? do you mean "larger than human intelligence" here or something more specific? my sense is that a lot of the source of the AI freak out isn't adequately captured by "as if it's our first superorganism" so maybe you mean a specific subset?
@sbwielinga @RichDecibels trying to get hired by a company is kind of this!
@RichDecibels I've recently been finding "superego" as a super helpful concept for modeling some of these dynamics!
@RichDecibels latest blog post is on this malcolmocean.com/2023/07/supere…
from a reddit thread: reddit.com/r/askscience/c…
