weird idea: a social network where all posts must start with "I seem to think" or "I feel" or "I noticed" or "I wonder" or something like that. cultivate a vibe of I-statements (not actually a good idea so far but interesting to think about)
September 2023
it's interesting how "I think" is sort of an assertion but "I seem to think" is an observation
wait 54% dream of "feeling happy in life"? or 54% think that "feeling happy in life" is the collective/convergent answer to the question "what is the American Dream?"
@jasoncrawford yeah people have trouble relaxing their assumptions
@MichelleAkin also "nah I'm good" one nice thing about this is it also means that questions like "do you have our loyalty card?" don't come back with a "do you want to get it?" after your "no"
@MichelleAkin "nah I'm good" vibes "I decline your offer" as opposed to "I reject your request"
@algekalipso still vibing on the thing I just tweeted seconds before I returned to scrolling
Retweeted @stephlepp
"Are you pro-life or pro-choice?" is not a good question. We can't in any meaningful sense be anti-life or anti-choice. Per…
@Jeanvaljean689 great example of how paradigm-transforming science in particular is not done by doing more experiments but by thinking from a totally different angle
Retweeted @MattPirkowski
There exist few processes more natural than terraforming the environment such that it’s more favorable to the macro-meta…
@MattPirkowski yeah I find myself looking at city skylines and making sure I can perceive the sense in which they're utterly natural, as natural as the trees
@MattPirkowski at the same time, there are ways things can be designed and manufactured that have an unwholesome quality to them, and I think people are accurately being disgusted by their sense of this and angry that cities & economies offer few alternatives
@__drewface depends it's one that by its nature destroys its environment and dies off completely, which makes it not a very successful one (inb4 "humans do this"—maybe. we're still around for now tho, whereas cancer gets to restart only because other life thrives)
tell me your website is auto-generated bs masquerading as relevant information without telling me...
@mimi10v3 yeah part of the issue imo is reifying cults as a sort of binary thing as opposed to recognizing that the most awesome groups have things in common with the worst cults, but THEY ARE DIFFERENT, and talking about dynamics rather than "is this a cult?"
what's this a metaphor for?
@the_wilderless I don't per se wanna be in one of these in the abstract, but the idea of being in one with you is pretty great!
@UntilTrees small shift of adding coherence empathy fixes that: "when I have sex, part of me activates who has a very important job that involves disconnecting my body" and the overall "you" is actually kind of helpless in relation to this UNLESS you can find a way to collab w the part!
fascinating thinking-out-loud thread here on the nature of agency, choice, power, trauma, victim, control
Replying to @BenRatkaj
@BenRatkaj "thank you" implies separation & transaction: "you did me a favor" now, if you're having a kind of sex where you want to imply that, go for it, but otherwise probably weird (unless said playfully/jokingly or whatever)
@onlyfootnotes I briefly thought that the prompt was supposed to be about the topic of the essay, and was confused. but in answer to what you were actually asking, totally this guy. still blowing my mind and rippling out through my worldview vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cu…
Replying to @VinceFHorn
@VinceFHorn or consider politely raising a fuss about it until either it gets changed or you get removed (story about that in this blog post) malcolmocean.com/2023/08/whose-…
@jordanwaparker @MJPiercello haha I came here to make sure that somebody had referenced McGilchrist's work in the replies (rabbit hole for those unfamiliar 👇)
@__drewface yeah, the original premise with @RoamResearch was that it was going to be like this cellular computing, but allow for structures other than 2D grids... and graph-type queries, and so on @Conaw is this still in the pipeline or...?
@br___ian uhhh mentally include in your world everyone who would respect you crying, and exclude everyone who would judge you for it sort of "those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter" some people may be inspired or touched, even
Retweeted @pee_zombie
seems most of my maturation as of late has taken the form of relinquishing the death grip with which my younger self clung…
@rmbalt this is quality art
@jessicamalonso huh interesting! very PCT-compatible 1. attend to perception 2. attend to reference level 3. attend to the gap and how to close it
Retweeted @jessicamalonso
This "yes, ..., and..., so..." structure seems worth exploring for inner child + inner adult communication
@maxim_eorr @RichDecibels it seems to me like whatever your intentions were, your behavior was the sort of thing that would encourage side-taking and fundamentalism and potentially even make it harder to slow down and sense the truth together
@__drewface @RoamResearch @Conaw yeah, there was also the alphasheets project back in the day, which was a spreadsheet that could also run haskell or js code they hadn't moved to other mediums, but they way they handled distributing functions across regions was way more powerful than excel/gsheets
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF yeah, that makes sense. helpful datapoint. I have a gestalt sense of these dynamics ping-pong and create themselves fractally... still struggling to articulate it tho.
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF ahhh, like any social group has waves, but they only crash if there isn't enough slack nice
@meekaale amazing
@nobu_hibiki yeah, it's about not thinking that you don't have any blindspots just because you can't see your own blindspots and you have enough power to ignore anyone who tries to point them out to you or that's one way to put it, anyway
@nobu_hibiki if you want to read more of my thinking about the intricacies and nuances of this stuff and the importance of basic symmetry (vs one person as more an authority than others) you might check out this letter I wrote: malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-l…
@Clogish haha yeah, like many things this can also spread culturally
huh! on bsky or some other custom-algo platform you could actually write a filter or something that would render only a timeline of tweets that start with certain phrases! wouldn't have to be new platform
Replying to @s_r_constantin
@s_r_constantin mmmm there's something here tho as written it's vulnerable to bots that just join all spaces and ban everybody (and less extreme things) could have "anyone who was in a Space first can ban later joiners" but that still allows bots that ban newcomers til they're banned
Retweeted @mormo_music
X I think X I seem to think X It's not outside the realm of possibility that I think X
@giray_arat part of the issue is most people now have many incommensurate superegos this is a blessing and a curse curse because it's crazymaking blessing because it helps loosen the hold of any given one malcolmocean.com/2023/07/supere…
@giray_arat step 1: breathe and relax fully for a moment step 2: tell any superego who says you aren't allowed to do so to wait outside step 3: breathe and relax fully for a moment
@nobuhojimichaan yeah, it was poorly phrased. I was rushing off to a call or dinner or something. thanks what I mean is "we need to not treat the standard of how much people get traumatized by weird experiments as zero". the question of how much is okay is... hard. and an empirical one.
@nobuhojimichaan another angle on it is something like... there are lots of worthwhile learning environments that people want to go to, that may be traumatizing as part of the learning process, and if we tried to make these not exist it would just result in witchhunts and more secrecy
@nobuhojimichaan and by "traumatizing as part of the learning process" I don't even mean like "incidentally, as a side effect" in 2023, as of my knowledge, the only methods anybody knows for teaching certain skills are inherently a bit traumatic some are much better/worse tho!
@nobuhojimichaan can we improve on that status quo? I sure hope so! but one of the places improvements come from is people leaving those contexts having gained the new skills and a desire to share them, and ALSO having gained determination not to get others tangled up the way they got tangled
Retweeted @tanx_sinx
Crazy how much there is. Like in general
@nobuhojimichaan yeah, it's very easy for it all to turn into side-taking and no matter our role, we can all help keep that from happening even in the language to describe those roles... eg "accused" enacts a whole legal metaphor. contrast with "person someone else seems to think is dangerous"
@AndrewCutler13 ah interesting yeah probably at least some of that shame there's basically no remaining preconquest contexts studyable (or if they are they're so well-hidden that you couldn't find them except maybe with a long mission that involved befriending lots of outer circle locals)
Replying to @monjerade
@monjerade @nobuhojimichaan that metaphor isn't far off! tho you could flip it and say that the person entering is choosing to do a challenge trial for a vaccine or whatever the question of what agency to ascribe to who in these situations is very weird!
@monjerade @nobuhojimichaan often the people "in charge" have a completely different view in the first place, which doesn't see non-ideal harms that it would be good to mitigate. the harms are in their blindspot, otherwise they would have done something about them since they're legit caring and kind
@monjerade @nobuhojimichaan but meanwhile the people stepping in often have very little idea what to expect from what they're stepping into, and since they haven't already undergone whatever the transformation is about, they don't even necessarily know what it is
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF @nobu_hibiki not sure what you mean here at all also certain flat groups (startups) can totally outcompete hierarchies (slow big bureaucratic companies) but maybe you mean something more specific that does hold?
@youngprotean mmm! yeah and I think it basically is the tone of some cultures on here for sure
@__drewface @RoamResearch @Conaw hmm yeah I know the founders, could try to ping them to get them to opensource the code. I think they just went under
@slimepriestess @HephaistosF @nobuhojimichaan I thought sneer club was a lot older than that? and also I find it hard to square such an intent with choosing the name "sneer club"
@slimepriestess @nobu_hibiki if I understand you correctly (very not sure I do) then yeah this is a big issue and in some sense is most of the puzzle of trust-dancing / the meta-protocol "if you can trust yourself when all doubt you; yet make allowance for their doubting too"
@nobuhojimichaan yeah, so much no-true-scotsman binary energy going around here
Retweeted @MattPirkowski
Actions require belief structures concerning the value of their probable consequences. To the extent others share our m…
@MattPirkowski > Actions require belief structures concerning the value of their probable consequences. not just the value of their probable consequences, but the meanings of those actions and their consequences
@MattPirkowski > The meme of "neutral public spaces" is itself such a model, always in tension with other memetic frames. ah yeah, suggests a focus on pluralistic public spaces instead of neutral spaces
@Duderichy @user_saila but the computer is right there, presumably with a hub plugged into it that then goes under the desk?
Retweeted @meansinfinity
Making the jump from “I’m right, you’re wrong” to “what’s it like to live in the reality you’re coming from where you’re…
@sociaIrate @whyparamvir depends on your translation of the bible original bible was in hebrew/aramaic/greek, so up to you what english words you want in your bible
@slimepriestess @HephaistosF @nobuhojimichaan posts on the subreddit from mid-2015 maybe it took off later? (I am not opinionated about this, or clear on what it would imply, just curious so googling things. honestly I may have been thinking of rationalwiki when I said "I thought it was older" 😅) google.com/search?q=reddi…
@TylerAlterman learning how to die into the moment
@AndrewCutler13 huh. well I guess if some other force is keeping people away then that would also work I guess the number of people who would be super curious to visit such societies is actually not that large haha
@AndrewCutler13 reading about them... culturally it seems like they're indeed pre-something seems also possible they've found some sort of antibody which allows them to maintain simple collectivity while in some ongoing economic contact with outsiders? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%…
@AndrewCutler13 I can see how your interest would be in their lack of grammatical recursion
Retweeted @nobuhojimichaan
perhaps it's worth outlining some #safety takeaways so far ' ' plz discern claims of enlightenment and the abili…
@mykola lots of communities take a bunch in one dimension while giving a lot in another dimension and if you're starved on dimension 2, then this community is an incredible beautiful resource! ...that is also potentially gonna mess you up sooner or later
@mykola but also take/give sort of implies some sort of exchange or something like that. and sure, lots of cults exploit materially or whatever the main thing *I* look for re toxicity is the extent to which people have to suppress knowing/saying things that are obvious to them
@mykola yeah, being able to acknowledge the tradeoffs people are making and bring them into the light is huge if you can fully do that, and everyone involved can have equanimity about continuing to be together or not, that's an extremely green flag 🟩
@nobuhojimichaan great list! I have my meta-cultiness principle. interpreting peoples' pain or distrust or expressions thereof as "accusation" is a sign of defensiveness
@mykola yeah exactly. and part of why I try to push against the idea of an "is this a cult or not?" binary, is that if you look at any group—a family, a company, a school, a friend group, whatever—it's going to have more or less of this quality of being able to welcome everything
@AndrewCutler13 wow, fascinating. "snake cult dropouts" so good
Replying to @s_r_constantin
@s_r_constantin @shlevy it's more specific than that at some point I'll write up my theory of co-epistemic status tags vital to have different abilities to put knowing and co-knowing in and out of the frame
@s_r_constantin @shlevy but yeah, "it seems to me" can be v powerful for stating your generalizations full force while not implying they should be agreeable or obvious to others let me write this piece I couldn't have otherwise (almost each paragraph starts w "it seems to me") malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-l…
"this is what's in my head, but i don't claim you should copy it" twitter.com/s_r_constantin…
this is a good Descriptivist Epistemology phrase
Replying to @s_r_constantin
@s_r_constantin @shlevy nice, great phrase. copying stuff often unwise
@s_r_constantin @shlevy relatedly, you could say that "it seems to me" is a way of acknowledging that you AREN'T in conscious control of your mind and you shouldn't pretend that you are
video from a few months ago of me & @ungatedcreative & @SarahAMcManus jamming about evolving the Goal-Crafting Intensive workshops into something next-level GCI team has started working on such moves now! youtu.be/Za3sPnzsS1o
pillowtalk.mp4 youtu.be/vMxiVUvw_4k
Replying to @s_r_constantin
@s_r_constantin @shlevy more clearly: you're not in conscious control of how reality shows up to you how things seem you can make choices within the world as it seems to you, & sometimes even choose to have experiences that transform the very seeming itself but you can't choose for blue to seem red
@s_r_constantin @shlevy I phrased it the way I did I think because I was riffing on this: > responsibility for whether/how one uses one’s mind and the results of that use which is not how I'd normally phrase it
"the interaction of the body with the mind of which in some respects is the entire reason for which the brain evolved" this @tferriss line is very trippy if you parse "THE mind" as bigmind/cosmos ift.tt/Ak6dmqE
@FluidityAudio (update for people coming across this thread—this convo happened and you can watch it here!)
@slatestarcodex it's actually pretty good anyway I think "rule of coups" & "coup against you" makes up for the lack of coups-troops rhyme
@rmbalt huh. seems to me the strength of the ~moral obligation sorta corresponds to the extent to which you feel you share a community fuck a married friend? yikes fuck a married tinder match? eaagh fuck a married person while on holiday? eh fuck a married fellow member of humanity? hmm
@rmbalt and I think this is part of where the intuition with the sex worker comes from—the transactional quality negates even what shared sense of community might come from living in the same neighborhood
@rmbalt oh I also apparently treat monogamous marriage and less-committed monogamous relationships somewhat differently. I guess kids also a factor. way more moral obligation not to wreck a family by fucking one of the parents, than to not get a bf/gf to break up or have a drama
@VincentXVespa @BecomingCritter dyk you can change your handle? it's right there in settings
@simon_ohler @the_wilderless @positive_loop people keep saying this ^ but I fucking hate it. Circling is a scaffold that gives people a taste for a kind of magical group experience Circling is ALSO an experience you can have where you collectively find that magic with zero scaffold ...but it's the first thing first.
@the_wilderless Fuck Circling is a good alternate name for I Can't Believe It's Not Circling
@simon_ohler @the_wilderless @positive_loop and I get annoyed when people respond to "let's do Circling except unhinged" with "well that's just Circling". if you call it "Circling", people will tend to correct their own and each others' behavior towards some concept of what Circling is, and this is good—for learning!
Thread · Not Circling: dropping the container while keeping the practice · 2 of 7 tweets
people being like "but Circling where you do what you want is just Circling" smh
even if you're a pro who feels very liberated to do what you want during a circle, if you conceive of yourself as "doing Circling" then that is totally gonna give you a bunch of assumptions about the situation that will constrain your noticings & behavior
Thread · Coining a short verb for throwing out the baby with the bathwater · 1 of 11 tweets
"decautionary principle" "postcautionary principle" hmm twitter.com/chaosprime/sta…
@sun_girlxo part of the issue might have been that people found her statement not just privileged but inconceivable to the point of parody two replies:
really lovely simple explanations for phenomena!
there is exactly one item listed in that thread that I think is 99.9(99?)% eternalist bullshit / rationalization / fake / grift and worth treating as such, not rescuing or encouraging and the explanation given for it is weak / could be used to justify a bunch of other bullshit
@aleksil79 @Cantide1 @chaosprime "atone" literally comes from "at one" (I sometimes make up etymologies but this isn't such a time!) = unseparating
@danielbrottman honestly the "no spirituality" part feels like it might be short for "no wishy washy woo vibes, no floaty & vaguely hypnotic lady's voice implying a bunch of vague metaphysics she doesn't really understand" ......tbh now I'm kinda sold on this (even tho I love "spiritual yoga")
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF @chipmonkmonk @s_r_constantin (yeah—as context for @chipmonkmonk here, you might understand Heph's deal better if you read this thread; it's noncentral to this exchange but still overall relevant) twitter.com/HephaistosF/st…
@slimepriestess @aleksil79 @HephaistosF @nobuhojimichaan what would justice consist of? how would you know if you had it?
@rmbalt oh I don't think they should, per se (I voted yes/yes fwiw, tho generally I object to "moral obligation" altogether because it is generally an instrument of coercion and avoidance)
but I do think that in the framing of this piece it umm... implies distance. if you redid the poll with: - "sex worker who is roommates with best friend of partner of client" - "stranger visiting from another country" you might find that people's responses are v different!
@rmbalt there's also a difference between whether the sex worker solicits the interaction or whether the client does, I think and I guess same with the visiting stranger. intent of making drama, coveting someone else's partner is super bad. but maybe the person is looking for a way out
@rmbalt ...but it's still bad juju. if someone's looking for a way out, better to honestly talk with them about it and hold a boundary around acting on it while they haven't reconciled their existing commitment
@shlevy @s_r_constantin it seems to me we're coming from totally different angles @shlevy seems to be using "seems" as a sort of "at first glance, but very suspect" I'm using it in almost the opposite way, to introduce spacious subjectivity into what would otherwise be unquestioned truth/reality
@slimepriestess @aleksil79 @HephaistosF @nobuhojimichaan hmm. I think Aleksi's thought here is that there is a kind of fragmentation you're currently experiencing that you might be able to at-one a way in which the pain and injustice in the world is getting introjected into you and causing extra pain and injustice internally?
@slimepriestess @aleksil79 @HephaistosF @nobuhojimichaan and that you could maybe care for the world's injustices more wholesomely by creating more wholesomeness internally and in your self-cosmos relation, and that the move he suggested could be one way to do it
@slimepriestess @aleksil79 @HephaistosF @nobuhojimichaan as far as I've seen, there's a dualistic "it's all my fault" [not yours or anyone else's] which makes self into scapegoat I wouldn't recommend that and I don't think Aleksi would either
there's also a nondual "it's all my fault" where it's all my fault because I am also everything, and so in apologizing to the universe, I am simultaneously the universe apologizing to me and this can be deeply healing
super wholesome reflection from the learning-to-read guy on being a content creator who gets to just be himself as what he's offering the world twitter.com/oliverspeaks1/…
context if you missed the thing that went viral recently: twitter.com/colorfullstory…
@slimepriestess @aleksil79 @HephaistosF @nobuhojimichaan oh, a miscom: I was not attempting to say that you *were* making the self the scapegoat. I was trying to point at what I thought you might have been interpreting Aleksi's instructions as saying (which you rightly rejected!) in order to contrast it with the nondual interpretation
@aleksil79 @slimepriestess @HephaistosF @nobuhojimichaan mmm, like a kind of "it's okay that I don't know how" energy yeah, I clearly need a bunch of this. I'm gonna try your thing
healthy happy relaxed old man :: the avatar of unfolding desire
Thread · The unnamed god of coordination, opposite of Moloch · 1 of 5 tweets
I've been thinking about this more and I feel like I can point at the shape kinda concisely now tho. Moloch says "if you don't do it, someone else will!" Who says "if this [collaboration, partnership, We] isn't working out, find/create one that does!"
@sun_girlxo nobody is an average person the "average person" is a myth and does not exist sure, if you take any particular trait, you can find someone close to the average but nobody is average on all traits
@sun_girlxo based on this, I speculate that part of the dissing of an average person is more like "dissing the idea that being average/normal is good" a fairly popular idea, especially ~100ya but it's a pox, for boringness reasons (and darker girardian reasons)
first podcast interview in awhile (w @dkazand) "Undomesticated Productivity, Goal Crafting and Intentionality-maxxing" this was a blast, lots of syntheses and new-edge thoughts probably the first really good podcast focused on stuff related to @IntendApp (link next tweet)
here's the link: themetagame.substack.com/p/22-malcolm-o…
@PrinceVogel @RomeoStevens76 Heist stories also tend to leave out a lot of the plan though, because otherwise it's too anticlimatic to watch the plan go according to plan after you've already watched the plan get planned.
@visakanv a friend edited & shared 👇 & I totally see why she cut out the entire california form validator anecdote since it's less relevant to her, but to me it's the heart of the piece: the part where I say "THIS. this sensation is my soul. now let's generalize"
in Vervaeke's 4P cognition, each kind of knowing is associated with a particular kind of memory 🔢 propositional knowing — semantic memory 🏀 procedural knowing — procedural memory 👁️ perspectival knowing — episodic memory 🤠 participatory knowing — sense of self
such a great demonstration of how episodic memory* is distinct from semantic memory** *sense of who I am, what has happened to me, my perspective, my situation **what is a mom? a dad? a sister? a dog? batman? (and apparently valence around those)
this is me riffing on @vervaeke_john's 4P cognition sort of unclear to me if his sense of self is online here his "I love big dogs" (vs even "big dogs are great") suggests maybe? curious John for your take if you see this.
Replying to @charlove
@charlove @visakanv @DarbraDawn yeah, it's not about what's more important— they're completely different kinds of memory!
Drop a picture of you that could be an album cover
@PatrikarSanket @visakanv nah the quote totally does embed still when you have an image attached. it's really cool actually.
@learning_sprite probably legally unwise for me to say
possibly the best twiptych of all time twitter.com/DaltonDEmery/s…
@uberstuber yeahhhhhhhh malcolmocean.com/2021/11/thinki…
Retweeted @the_wilderless
In many cases, a cult is a functional apparatus for holding a psychotic break (usually the leader’s) in suspended anima…
@the_wilderless @utotranslucence relevant to the intersection of our interests
@the_wilderless @mage_ofaquarius @aleksil79 yeah, interestingly it seems like if someone manages to break their frame from shared reality in a way that is *healthy* ("no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society") ...then having a structure around them who also see the new possibility is vital
solution there, it seems to me, is to create an unhackable icebox
@the_wilderless @mage_ofaquarius @aleksil79 but also still risky if those around them don't have their own verified personal gnosis of the healthy other-reality because then they'll tend to adopt not just the new possibility but also the leader's hangups and blindspots wholesale (resulting in culty dynamics)
Replying to @phillip_trudeau
@phillip_trudeau @natural_hazard nah, normalcy-normativity is much older than that
naive conformism is dangerous
Replying to @HangedArcana
@HangedArcana thanks! I thought so too but I didn't think that long about it — curious why you think so
Replying to @HangedArcana
@HangedArcana @shakaz_ + knowing where you fit
@RichDecibels @VividVoid_ yeah it's a great point that's why my focus is not on some bs about "becoming trustworthy" but on en-courage-ing people to honor their own distrust
@RichDecibels @VividVoid_ and mantras like this
@RichDecibels @VividVoid_ and then yeah, also just talking more openly about specific kinds of dysfunctions, to help people learn to recognize them one that is quite potent for describing *some* kinds of dynamics is Issendai's "Sick Systems" twitter.com/selentelechia/…
@RichDecibels @VividVoid_ here's an attempt by me to point at a kind of issue that shows up on a different level of abstraction
@bookofflesh @the_wilderless yeah kids are so new to everything that they don't need things that stand out as novel to adults in order to have a novel time they don't have the context to appreciate the contrast
@the_wilderless kids don't need exotic places, they need: a) meaningful anchors to mark the passage of time (holidays in the "christmas and halloween" sense, not in the "days off" sense etc) b) special contexts where they get alternate experiences of selfing (different friends, more autonomy)
@the_wilderless conclusion: recurring annual visit to an unusual convergent context where you see folks (cousins or friends) again & again for me that was a summer church camp where I got to roam around acres at age 3, & talk til late with crushes at 14 regional burns etc also ideal for this
@heynibras make guided meditations
@primalpoly SYDE 332: Earth Systems and Society by Paul Fieguth (course has had a few names) broke my worldview open by talking about - nonlinear system dynamics (eg hysteresis) - nongaussian statistics (eg power laws) - too-big systems (eg ocean energy) textbook: amzn.to/3La5MMO
good reply game: "yes and" advanced reply game: "yes but" god-tier reply game: "no butt"
guy was thwarted but in such an absurd way (looney toons umbrella even) that probably his day was probably brightened way more than if he'd successfully ogled a curvy butt!
"do you believe in God?" ❌ either/or tribal vibes ❌ frames God as propositional ❌ presupposes we know what "God" refers to "what's your sense of the nature of God?" ✅ pluralistic vibes ✅ phenomenological ✅ invites inquiry into what "God" refers to
"do you believe in God?" is not the interesting question.
@Aella_Girl I've had sincere in-person conversations with some rationalists about God, who are still definitely not prepared to talk to most other rationalists about the topic given anticipation of censure "do you believe in God?" is not the interesting question.
Replying to @eam0
@eam0 sort of although in most contexts this will still presuppose much as known and held in common about the referent "God" I almost had the better Q as "what's you relationship with God?" tho, which is sorta what you're getting at
@giray_arat the risk?
@mechanical_monk there's a joke about a visitor to Ireland asked if they're Catholic or Protestant, and to avoid controversy they say "I don't believe in God" to which the Irishman replies "sure but which God don't you believe in?" aaaaand apparently this is law now?
Replying to @treegreenery
@treegreenery nope, why?
Retweeted @dkazand
Great Metagame chat with @Malcolm_Ocean on intentionality-maxxing and a how *goal allowing* is superior to goal setting. Link…
@giray_arat wait this is a whole genre? how does it usually end?
@Shadow_Rebbe mmmm yeah that sounds right I still think that even for people with less agency, having floating around in their head the phrase "if something feels off, slow the fuck down" might be a helpful hint in some moments, or might initiate some good convos with the outsider friends
@sVeritasium based
@this_is_silvia @connerdelights @the_wilderless feels to me like the bottle locates the scene in physical reality in a way that makes the ethereal nature of the rest of the art more evocative
@this_is_silvia this page of Unflattening inspired me super hard
@heynibras soundcloud, youtube could make a podcast or sign up to be one of the people who makes guided meditations for Insight Timer
Simulacra Levels Summary for quoting purposes Examples: Level 1:“There’s a pandemic headed our way from China.” Level 2: “I want you to act as if you think there might be a pandemic on our way from China” (while hoping to still be interpreted by the listener as meaning…
@eshear re-reading your thread, I'm struck by the word "credible" maybe team-inferences-and-implications vs team-credible-claims
@eshear @nosilverv haha yeah my first thought seeing this thread was "oooh I've gotta tag Emmett!" which prompted this:
@packyM the people don't understand that haters are fans too guy making it doesn't even particularly care, he just (correctly) figured this would get more attention and engagement at this phase
@onlyfootnotes hey check it out @AndrewCutler13 you're in print (@getPrinternet) (also @utotranslucence Printernet seems very much the sort of thing you're looking for)
my to-do list @IntendApp has a magic power which is that if you don't do something it kinda forgets about it after a few days
want to hop off twitter and focus on something in particular? join me in this coworking room: intend.do/room/feral
okay now this is some AI I can get behind
trying a new email footer: Too many stale tasks? Start fresh each day with intend.do
previously it was Make consistent progress towards your goals every day: intend.do
my positioning vibe has changed a fair bit (away from "progress" and "goals") over the past few years more "intentionality"
the "stale tasks / start fresh" language doesn't point at all the app does, but it's a pretty good hook I think for one of the kinds of situations that people get in where @IntendApp is a good fit for them, so it seems like it fits well in this situation
reframing
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have you tried taking the problem off your to-do list?
below, post stories (yours or others) of someone untangling their coercive/awayness motivation and learning self-love-based/towardsness motivation short or long, threads or essays (doesn't have to be framed in that language at all! if you're not sure it fits, just share anyway)
are you more of a... showerthought, or a growerthought?
corollary: practice being normal when it suits you, so you don't get subject to nonconformism
epic thread recommended read to anyone parenting or reparenting
@shakaz_ github support ai I started opening a ticket saying "can you cancel my last payment" and it was like "resolve this rn with virtual assistant?" and 30s later it was done. fucking stellar
@giray_arat whenever I post these I'm always in the room at that time! and usually for at least a few hours after will probably be in the room around the same time tomorrow too. I cowork at least few times most weeks
@asemic_horizon > believe in systems-not-goals I have a rant for that! 😄
@asemic_horizon (I'm fine with not calling them "goals" tho! I'm actually alpha-testing a thing in the app rn for calling the main big colored objects something other than goals. I'm testing "devotions" and I love it)
Retweeted @mbateman
> You’re born alone and you die alone You’re born into the arms of people who love you with the intensity of a thousand suns…
@MattPirkowski ahhhhh good point. hmm, tiny koan there, nice
Retweeted @gpl_writes
is selfing really a word? asking for a blog Narrator: my Substack is called “selfing in progress”
@AbstractRevery "this whole alt is maybe about it" I love that this is such a thing around here!
@AskYatharth, @jessicamalonso, @sashachapin, @ungatedlife ,@tasshinfogleman, @uberstuber... I feel like yall might have contributions, or other people to tag (put them on the tweet quoted here, not on the tweet whose words you're reading now)
Retweeted @reasonisfun
Each of these everyday words have two *exactly opposite* meanings: - problems - should, right/wrong - power - rational/re…
@mbateman people are like "there's no god therefore this is an uncaring universe" but like
@visakanv I could probably name dozens (will, if you want) but the first that came to mind was I still haven't watched Everything Is a Remix but I feel like I've learned a ton from watching you embody your own personal remix of the whole idea
@dschorno it's the conservative virtue
@the_wilderless justification is a sign of motivated reasoning
@this_is_silvia ahh lovely, you did a self-portrait of @Morphenius
Retweeted @strangestloop
i think about this video every time someone talks about yearning on here
Retweeted @JakeOrthwein
“Heart and mind” is a duality to be held and seen through, not adjudicated in favor of heart. In sincerely thinky, philo…
@aneeshm @RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @samswoora BAP types?
@aneeshm @RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @samswoora wow, really solid & clear structural/evolutionary model here, thanks Aneesh 🙏
Retweeted @IntendApp
have you yearned? have you yearned this year? have you yearned today? or are you only craving? twitter.com/ryanoconnell79…
you can be okay without satisfying all your cravings you can be okay without being okay with not satisfying all your cravings you can be okay without being okay with not being okay with not satisfying all your cravings but also satisfying cravings can be great
@aneeshm @ben_r_hoffman @RomeoStevens76 @samswoora huh, I realize I have a question here—except these last few tweets, you've mostly been describing the original engine that allowed Islam to take off and stabilize but my sense is that those original mechanisms are much weaker now. what do the current attractors look like?
@aneeshm @ben_r_hoffman @RomeoStevens76 @samswoora and also what's at the intersection of your perspective here and the stuff around how western-educated Muslims or immigrants can sometimes become MORE engaged with the systematic implications of their memeplex?
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craving promises that when you satisfy it, THEN, you'll be okay/good/satisfied yearning makes no such promises. if anything…
Retweeted @the_wilderless
It can be harmful to hear insights from a developmental balance you haven’t gone through, Cuz you’ll likely either a)…
@ogdenparfit here are other similarly-shaped paintbrushes with different colours (I call them un-double-binders) twitter.com/search?q=from%…
@spearofsolomon @JakeOrthwein maybe just literally the heart, which seems to be a source of personality and memories as well, if these organ transplant accounts have any validity midwesterndoctor.com/p/do-organs-ha…
share an insight you haven't integrated for me umm... I had a really profound experience of the nature of doing & nondoing back in March, since which I've maybe spent... about an hour here & there re-inhabiting it (wrote it up here tho 😅 malcolmocean.com/2023/03/art-is…)
@the_wilderless solutions? my first thoughts: - more 1-on-1 and closed-group stuff - more illegible articulations - more clever pointing around existing cliches
just came across this old tweet I wrote and I'm really satisfied by the balance it strikes this, but also that
huh, I've sometimes wondered about whether it makes sense to model myself as having ADHD, but my experience is often basically the opposite of this. everything feels like it'll be super easy, until I get started twitter.com/PiquantParvenu…
Thread · Looking for readers for a book on intentionality and freedom
I'm writing a book about intentionality, unconflicted purposeful action, freedom, etc working title Nothing Is Behind I realized it would help my writing process a lot if I had some clear specific people I'm writing it for! could that be you? reply & lmk
in some ways it can be thought of as an extended and deepened version of this blog post: malcolmocean.com/2023/03/art-is…
it will also resonate with this older post of mine malcolmocean.com/2017/11/transc…
and in some ways it'll also be me explicating my model of intentionality and talking about workflows, navigating choices, distractions, focus, energy management, etc
so yeah, if you're like "oh man I want to read that" then let me know maybe even leave a reply describing questions you have or your situation into which you want to hear my perspective, or "I'm really confused about the tension between X & Y"
maybe I'll even talk to some people 1-on-1 to workshop metaphors & explanations! I'm intending the book to be very much about my own experience (trying to write it 100% in 1st person) but it would still be valuable to see others' views
deadlifts = what if standing up was hard tho?
Retweeted @relaxing_ivan
that I can get chatgpt to explain meaningness to me in london slang fills my heart with joy 💗
Retweeted @melissajenna
yesterday my 13 year old was being harsh and impatient with me, and to my own surprise i started crying. embarrassed and…
@IaimforGOAT the not-this void or a different void? (see this excellent meditation vid for a beautifully gentle guide into the former)
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@deepfates its ya boi
@robotson @deepfates @utotranslucence idk if you'll love or hate this
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There's been over 6,000 votes in our digital deliberation around AI governance. It's really a wonderful thing to see a…
@_edgeoflight_ oooooof this is what I wrote once I learned from that mistake (and many others) as an attempt to point at a general heuristic for telling the difference. biggest meta-red-flag is not being able to slow down
Retweeted @mdc_martinus
Massachusetts, Act of 1888: ‘Every public building and every schoolhouse shall be ventilated in such a proper manner th…
@aleksil79 @HephaistosF @slimepriestess one aspect of it, from my angle
@slimepriestess @HephaistosF maybe in practice that looks like "Team: 1. show people who have more power how things could be more awesome via win-wins than via power-over/coercion 2. help people who have less power get more slack / better BATNAs" (similar to what Heph says about Kingdom of Heaven below)
Replying to @grantbels
@grantbels @EthanReeder ur not wrong tho. I was about to recommend some groups in the bay on the assumption Ethan was still there haha
@EthanReeder @grantbels > like people be practicing and not dissolving themselves amongst a continuous community of loved ones with respect for all beings in nature yeah, hard in chaos of bay. some people working on it tho in general, me included
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF @_edgeoflight_ if you can't get the fuck out, slow the fuck down anyway
@HephaistosF @_edgeoflight_ (maybe that looks the same to you as the "lie the fuck down and lose" option but afaict the difference is crucial)
@DanielleFong slack sort of has this
@DanielleFong but yeah the fact that this basic stuff is missing is part of the huge overhang in how awesome thing could be so much copying, so many random new features like stickers, so little innovating on the fundamental primitives of the tech
@robotson @deepfates you did a great job
@robotson @deepfates I feel like you might like this track: youtube.com/watch?v=0ImRyP…
ICYMI: people are still having sex youtube.com/watch?v=0ImRyP…
TIL that remembering happens in the present
a lot of what the brain does is inhibit the rest of the brain ift.tt/8rsCASI
hmmm, something seems right about this. would be hard to get bipartisan support from it atm ofc, which is ironic given that it's literally the definition of something that would benefit all reps
4.5yrs later, having just been to an Alexander Technique training in London by Peter Nobes: his style of AT is by far the most direct way (that I've found) to do the LH->RH shift hilariously simple & infuriatingly unmethodifiable: opening in-a-new-way-every-time to not-knowing
(here's @m_ashcroft ofc, pointing this out years ago—the connection was just as obvious to him, though he encountered them in the other order) expandingawareness.org/blog/unleashin…
and this quote— "Alexander Technique is the skill of being able to continually let go of what you thought it was." —is supremely apt.
@TerrifyingWords @luckysean the nature of what it means to "own" something is not as obvious as it seems, and when it comes to owning one of the finite parcels of the natural world, and having the government protect your right to own it—for almost nothing... what's the trade?
@TerrifyingWords @luckysean like it makes sense to me that people are paid for providing value to the world. I want people to get paid for building houses, and maintaining them, and creating and stewarding the business that do these things but what value is provided to the world by "owning" the asset?
@TerrifyingWords @luckysean if you're curious to know more about this, you might be interested in understanding georgism & land value tax astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-re…
@luckysean the landlord has been living off the fact that once you own land the government protects your right to own it, for a fee of almost nothing in some sense this landowner is actually living off government subsidies (but also this makes rents go too high)
Replying to @grantbels
@grantbels hmmm this feels a bit unhinged (not you, but the description itself) my sense is that memory has a kind of coherence that "cheesy visualization" fails to capture. and you can't fake the "that actually happened" thoughts any more than you can fake what you actually see (somewhat)
PSA: deodorant is for masking your smell in order to be a civil participant with strangers in an urban environment, not for attracting mates the smell you want for attracting mates is *your* smell (and if it smells bad to *you*, fix your diet or microbiome or stress or whatever)
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot also
heidegger talked about how hammers can be 🔨 an extension of your will, if they're working 🪨 an obstacle to your will, if they're not but it seems phones & laptops have a third mode: 👀 subversion of your will, via notifications and shifting affordance landscapes
@imperialauditor good article, though it's missing the part where part of what causes people to get into these attractors is not just that they're drawn to simple explanations but that the simpler versions of true theories ("vaccines work" without "and can harm") miss info, making them sus
@imperialauditor ie this dynamic: ("ontologies" would probably be better as "worldviews")
@eshear there was also that viral video of a school-age girl who was asking some legit questions about math, and the midwits were dissing her but the mathematicians were like "yeah it's really weird we're honestly not sure but here are the best answers we have so far"
don't forget to sign off twitter once you find what you came for
@visakanv @introspectVV thanks, this is what I needed
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 69 - nice lil reenactment of a tiny moment that actually happened
realized this week in a convo w @DRMacIver that: - the pandemic is over - covid is not over which is confusing because it used to be that those phrases were both short for "the covid pandemic"; but now that it's in endemic mode, they aren't
@DanielleFong mmmm rallying for battle is kind of easier, because there's a clearer self-other boundary. tho huh... wartime measures sometimes require austerity... but it's clearly temporary, rather than misanthropic degrowth vibes.
@CoolPineapple18 oooh hmmmm what's in the other quadrant?
@DanielleFong yep. degrowth is equivalent to the voluntary human extinction movement: "anyone smart & conscientious will have no kids so humans go extinct" —bruh you don't understand evolution & attractors. you're literally begging for the earth to be inherited by people you see as evil idiots
so tempted to install noise-activated spikes on the road, whenever I hear deliberately-obnoxious motorcyclists go by (supposedly France has decibelmeters+cameras+fines)
deep appreciation to Critch here for encouraging people to feel outrage AND curiosity at the same time, in relation to viewpoints that may seem obviously morally absurd but that people do actually seem to hold
@AndrewCritchCA appreciating your advanced Theory of Mind here 🙏
Retweeted @ellerhymes
ChatGPT hangs out with Siri and Alexa in the server break room
hmmm, interesting dinner party format (with some reflections on dealing with polarization) ift.tt/59RvZEJ
you don't have to resolve conflicts in a relationship right away, but don't escalate commitments while there's still a major unresolved issue from current/past levels of commitment (sort that out first; if you fail, back out)
Retweeted @utotranslucence
normies aren’t boring; you just haven’t passed their trust tests enough to talk with them about what really matters to…
I have been most of these guys
@delia_burgess @jendziura @BrandonLBradfor he writes books as if they're (pop) science, but he's said in interviews that he's just interested in the narrative and doesn't care if the science checks out you don't have to care about science to be a legit nonfiction writer, but don't pretend
incredible
wait so now QTs are buried under "view post engagements"?? 😑 I mean at least they're the first thing that show there, so it's not all bad
@utotranslucence yeah that seems maybe implicit but the question of how to do it is left unanswered
@IvanVendrov what do you have in mind?
@singularitttt it's here and it's not
Retweeted @ESYudkowsky
In today's strange new world, it's vital to know how to instruct imaginary doctors to give you straight answers! Here's m…
@webdevMason whoa, huh I could imagine that part of this is that chat-based AI intimacy is closer to chat-based human intimacy than physical AI intimacy is to physical human intimacy you can 100% match the interface with the former but not the later
@benpence @GabriellaG439 classic
open tabs are like working memory and if you leave a bunch open when you go to bed it makes it hard to dream properly and wake up with a fresh take (thought inspired by @arcinternet)
@visakanv mmmm yeah this is why @IntendApp doesn't even try to be this it's sort of like "given that you can't have this, how can you have purposeful focused action anyway?"
wait what the fuck there's no "view post engagements" on other accounts' posts?!? what the actual fuck? this breaks QT-backlinking! which was a transformational upgrade. who do I tag at X to fix this?
@visakanv where is your tweet from years ago about how twitter should uplevel their game by allowing us to see the QTs on a tweet? I tried searching "top-level citizen" and "quote-tweets" and a few other things but didn't find it
Retweeted @this_is_silvia
i usually don't engage in discourse and god knows i might regret posting this but my hot take is that artists using arg…
@visakanv yeah but in addition to being a bunch more steps, it doesn't afford the discoverability and also used to break with differences between twitter.com/whatever and mobile.twitter.com/whatever and now there's also x.com/whatever as a third variant. they won't all match
@visakanv link to original tweet itself: a screenshot of that very tweet, as an addition to the end of that thread: twitter.com/visakanv/statu…
@iamthemightyoak @this_is_silvia insofar as you can now get art made in the style of certain artists without paying those artists, something there has sort of been stolen, although ofc forgers etc always were a thing but I suspect the intuition is coming from the economic competition
Retweeted @gordonbrander
The more there is to invent with, the greater will be the number of inventions. (William Ogburn, 1922) Technology is co…
@visakanv I would be so curious to know whether this was intentional or just oversight like did a bunch of people made a bunch of decisions and not realize that they severed connections that are vital to the collective consciousness on here?
me: okay it's 5 minutes to walk there, and it'll take me 5 minutes to get ready to go out the door, so that means I need to stop what I'm doing.... 5 minutes before it starts. got it.
just had a dream in which bizarre out-of-context things were happening, where I was in a completely different place (my hometown 🇨🇦) than I am in (London 🇬🇧) but I had to make a $ transfer and was acutely aware of my present balances and that I was expecting a deposit any hour
Retweeted @blankbreaks
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Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF I mean this whole video is satire, so yeah and I was like "yeah I will take the piss here"
@webdevMason agreed that it's a surprise! tho given the experiences many of us had already had 10 years ago of connecting deeply via chat-only, it seems like we could have anticipated it if we'd considered it better
@IvanVendrov hmmmmmm yeah something I like here although part of the magic of twitter is you don't necessarily know what you're looking for until you find it!
@visakanv @introspectVV yeah and sometimes I just need to be reminded to do more introspection
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF @imperialauditor I don't think this is intelligence in some sort of fixed sense, at least in many cases ~everybody knows alcohol is fun but can also hurt/kill you someone with 70IQ can get "no pain no gain" re gym but vaccines were framed as 100% safe, meaning harms *contradict* those claims
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF @luckysean 🌍🧑🚀🔫👩🚀
@HephaistosF @luckysean but like they already do. currently we're just pretending that they don't, and then underpaying them for protecting the land they HAVE conquered
@howlsegg "see angel wings"? ♥️
@visakanv @julianrdcosta ooooh fuckyeah, this lets me see quotes on others' tweets even tho there's no link to it (still doesn't let me know there ARE quotes but at least the viewing interface is dece)
Retweeted @selentelechia
currently driving a Nissan versa (Mom's rental) and it's the best newer car I've driven wrt integrating modern features…
Retweeted @IntendApp
if you ask "for what?" the yearning will not have an answer, for the yearning does not answer to you
Replying to @oncewasjess
@jay_viddy hmu!
@erikphoel it sounds like the sort of thing @Conaw would be into
@DefenderOfBasic @HephaistosF @imperialauditor yeah a lot of public health stuff during covid was fixated on controlling people (including via lying to them if necessary) rather than on informing people and the consequences of this have been pretty bad
@DefenderOfBasic @HephaistosF @imperialauditor err "during the pandemic", not "during covid"
@RomeoStevens76 finally watched this and it's great. huge overlap with what I'm investigating on many front. I'd be into having a recorded convo with you about it that could be a kind of sequel to this one, since I'm sure things have evolved for you in the last 3y malcolmocean.com/2021/11/meta-p…
@RomeoStevens76 relatedly,
Thread · The unnamed god of coordination, opposite of Moloch · 1 of 5 tweets
also here's @RomeoStevens76's take, drawn out by @aneeshm. it highlights useful system dynamics about how in a sense the largest supercooperation cluster must be larger than the largest superdefection cluster since the latter can't coordinate as well youtube.com/watch?v=X6MYsK…
@jay_viddy oooh I dig it
@RichDecibels @embryosophy google images only had results when it included the word "pool"
@RichDecibels @embryosophy teams on shoulders, you try to knock each other over
@dschorno you can add "/quotes" to the end of the url and see it (but yeah this is kinda dumb and hopefully won't stay this way)
@mimi10v3 I'm nervous about whether I'll figure out how to make more money with my business by the time me & my partner want to have kids
I was the only person on the platform to catch a Northern Line train back into London, and when I pressed the button, the door didn't open, then the train pulled away. Wtf??? Do I wait another half hour then try again? Did I not press the button right???
@gptbrooke Yeah this is very core to my philosophy
@gptbrooke To-do lists sneak into places you don't ask them to
@gptbrooke This is a lot of what intend.do is about too
@chasews Here's a whole thread on Jubilee
@chasews Really well articulated. This is exactly opposite the direction I want to go with @IntendApp. It's about being more you.
Retweeted @chasews
In my eyes the eventual destination of this path of thinking is “I want a machine to be me so I don’t have to.” The friction…
@tobiobeck @visakanv @modellifluous @IaimforGOAT @giray_arat @AndrewCurran_ The fact that they're not discoverable though is still huge. Like it needs to occur to you to click that button on a given tweet, rather than seeing that it has a lot of quotes already
@mimi10v3 @IntendApp — helps people get in touch with what matters to them and stay in touch with it on a day-to-day basis. Planning but also freshness. intend.do
@visakanv @mimi10v3 Yeah it's a good Q... There's not currently a direct way to do it. I could imagine a company getting thousands of dollars of value from having me spend a few hours ranting about how their designs are bad and offering my "good tho" version. I guess I could offer that explicitly!
Apparently that was the last train. Anybody got a Bolt referral code? Seems it's cheaper than Uber
@WoohkaStylie @AbstractRevery Yeah I'm not working on the mything stuff much but overall I think we're in the same ballpark. If you DM me with some questions I can maybe point you to some other people to follow in this vein (Too busy getting home right now to sort that out)
Wait nvm I can't make a Bolt account because I can't receive texts while roaming
Anyway, I have net lost some money and spent more time than I'd planned enjoying the quiet of the rural station. But I'm on my way back now and all is copacetic.
@slimepriestess Interesting question but it feels sort of Calvinist the way it's framed... or at least it feels like it might hook people's Calvinism
Retweeted @eshear
Counterpoint: By refusing to allow his work to be adapted for a new era as newspaper comics pages stopped being printed, Calvin…
@DellAnnaLuca @utotranslucence - feels like this vibes with some of what you've been on about lately
@deepfates someone posted another one in the replies of the reddit post
@chasews @IntendApp yeah I renamed it earlier this year
@tobiobeck @DrCamRx hm, that sounds like a decent approach, yeah!
@deepfates whoa this is now very much a whole thing over on reddit.com/r/StableDiffus…
@eshear @HiFromMichaelV also I think placebo includes 5h straight of therapy which almost nobody ever gets in practice (not from mainstream therapy anyway). the "1h/week" model of therapy might be optimal for insurance and lunch breaks but not for deep change
I sent this selfie to @utotranslucence & she pointed out that it'd make a great dating site pic (if I weren't already hers 😍🥰) figured I'd share it as inspiration—it vibes "I've got a good thing going, wanna join?" you: [tired after a long day] me: "I just cooked dinner"
@JamieRumbelow @underthenettle take opposing political views and explain why they're both inadequate. repeat.
@GarrettPetersen I assume you know that it's all made by larger brands but "better" in at least one measurable way? and they take the deal because a lot of their cost is usually advertising and they're happy to make and sell more for less with zero ad cost
Retweeted @GarrettPetersen
Every time someone asks a question, you should pretend they also asked, "and is this the question I would be asking if…
Replying to @cvaldary
@cvaldary hear hear! (somehow this feels related: I've found I can relate to a lot of discourse around privilege and so on a lot more sanely now that I've let go of the idea that I have to think of myself as "white")
convo between me & @RomeoStevens76 about supercooperation, the communication meta-protocol, governance, and logically deriving the existence & nature of god youtu.be/WkU3kN8Dh1w
@RomeoStevens76 bam! very satisfying
"ooptionality" is my word for when I oopsidentally overpack my suitcase because I'm trying to plan for way too many possibilities and underappreciating the cost of having an overweight suitcase
huh. action activation actuation actualization all act + ion, but with different stuff in the middle
Thread · The felt-senses of looking at a false equation
phenomenologically, please describe what felt-senses you experience when you consider this: 28+32=50
for me the first sensation "28+32=50" gives is that the left side doesn't fit. it's bursting, it's overflowing, there's an extra 10 that wants to fall out or pop out or get split in two so it can send 5 to the other side. very visceral experience of imbalanced quantity
if I focus on the "=", it wants to become a ">". if I focus on 50, it feels too small. maybe it want to become a 60, which I feel like could be done by stretching it or sticking 10 more on
let's try another one. how does it feel to look at this? 7×7=50
for me, "7×7=50" feels... there's a kind of gaping hole, a missing 1 on the left... or a weird extra 1 on the right that wants to fall off and also a kind of ticklish sense of wrongness factor-wise... the 7-ness of the left side is such a non-fit for the 5&10-ness of the right
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF I'd say so. depending on the culture of the factory things might work better if the kid's role as safety inspector isn't well-known tho maybe but I bet there are lots of factories that would be glad to have someone looking out—safety is a pretty good thing to rally people around
@Oakely_Dokely @SWENGDAD some friends of friends I met a few years ago were a married couple in their 30s, both working at Trader Joe's and pretty happy about it.
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia amazing.
@WillBamberg mmm good point, it's very different from if it were 28+33=50 or 28+33=60
@GarrettPetersen yeah so your preferences are Objectively Correct™️
Retweeted @DirectrixGazer
@selentelechia Pictured: the act of retweeting
@DirectrixGazer @selentelechia this is maybe my favorite gif this year and the caption is 😙👌
@bashu_thanks @Aella_Girl @br___ian part of what helps is to realize that there's no simple binary of goodness or badness we contain multitudes, and a lot of goodwill gets tangled up and causes pain; people who are safe in one context aren't in another don't focus on ranking; the fact you care is the seed
Replying to @OldMoonPublish
@OldMoonPublish if you want a very trippy read about potential reasons for the centrality of snake cults, check out this essay: vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cu…
short thread with a beautiful story would make a great lil comic/illustration twitter.com/HephaistosF/st…
ngl the HSBC ads are a tiny delight every time I fly (they have these on the ramps to the planes, in Canada and it seems also the UK)
Get back into routine
am I doing fire kasina right?
@fluxe_e hahaha yesss, just so "buddy"
@__drewface the Alexander Technique folks suggest that a lot of this is performative although it seems to me that some of it is authentic, like the "natural movement of the body while thinking such a thought". whereas some is more layery fake trying-to-appear-to-be-thinking @m_ashcroft?
@myceliummage I'm down
@myceliummage wait am I actually down? not sure. maybe if I can write my book(s) while I'm there also
reminds me of when I heard someone say, aghast, "and then he went and did it after I said I didn't know if it was a good idea!" and I was like... "if you thought it was a bad idea you could have said that" common but janky to sub in "I don't know if" for "I don't think that"
@myceliummage try tweeting it on its own and see what it does
"mind is held in common" — @myceliummage
@myceliummage here I'll help
@myceliummage @aphercotropist vibes
@strangestloop this one has definitely stuck with me twitter.com/chaosprime/sta…
@strangestloop (I discovered it a few weeks ago when I searched for tweets by people I follow containing "gnosis"; it hasn't stuck with me for 3+ years)
@strangestloop (so far; it probably will tho as it describes some experiences I've had and some major life changes I've made as a result, quite aptly)
Remixes upon remixes
@VividVoid_ @JDK415 I've heard you can create independently-originating nirvana using magnetic monopoles
@typesfast @pokerchessman ah yeah basically short for "problems that are caused not by competition, negotiation, or inherent logistical challenges, but by someone directly just trying to take our stuff or whatever"
the thought suddenly jumped into my head that maybe business would be easier if I hadn't chosen a field in which people are conflicted about whether they want a solution (to-do lists etc) like if I were just solving a problem people are straightforwardly glad to be rid of. hmm.
@not_not_feral @JeffLadish @felps_bra if asked, it would break each of these steps down into substeps, and subsubsteps, and answer the questions within them (accurately/wisely or not)
just had Claude AI write a final section to a very long essay draft (13k words), based on another blog post of mine that explains my NNTD framework and it's... not wrong. but it makes it all sound sort of trite & obvious rather than insightful. ugh. gotta SOUND INSIGHTFUL.
oh noooo 🤦♀️ I tried having Claude write the final section for my essay, more to gauge its ability than because I figured it'd help & when it typed "Humanity" as the first word in a line, it seems that triggered it to write an effusive reply to the assistant 😂😭 idk exactly…
"To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced." — James Baldwin
@nbashaw Breaking News: The Old Ideas Had Something To Them, And Are Still Somewhat Relevant and Useful
@ryanjhunter @johnvmcdonnell oooh I'm excited! I'm committing to a woman who's a walking kundalini awakening so I guess we're in good company
@johnvmcdonnell 🙏 can you describe the shape of the spiritual problem, as you experience it, that @IntendApp is solving for you?
I'm actually not so much talking about marketing here as churn. With simple tools, if it works and is affordable, you keep using it. With tools parts of you use to control yourself, you can love it month 1 then develop resistance by month 4.
🇬🇧 London ✈️ Berlin 🇩🇪
Retweeted @visakanv
💡 this is what is currently missing from my life
Replying to @DaltonDEmery
@DaltonDEmery Have you seen all of Vervaeke's stuff on this? If not you're in for a treat!
Great thread on relevance realization at work! twitter.com/DaltonDEmery/s…
@br___ian @FractalAuth Yeah you could leave a reply like this to any of my tweets and I'd be pretty stoked about that!! If you want a prompt, let's say uhhh.... this one:
@slimepriestess You might try looking closer, I think your schlurper might have malfunctioned
@liz_love_lace Still an interesting connection you noticed!
@unevenlyeven When what calculation matches?
@meenu_susanna Wait can you describe this in more detail? "1 jumped"?
@5matthewdub @RomeoStevens76 Hmmm somehow it feels like podcasting in many other domains has higher expectations, but maybe not. I would include Spotify in the higher expectations but that might be because I only listen to music on it which is mostly professionally mixed.
Some fascinating replies here. Add your own!
@utotranslucence Yeah, structural stuff
@cowtung 32 and 28: we totally add up to 50 @cowtung: dude, shut up
@RichDecibels I'll be in Berlin for a few days, then at LWCW for the weekend, immediately after which I fly back across the pond
@BecomingCritter At the risk of stating the obvious, sounds like she froze you
@deepfates @getnormality This would make a lot of sentences suck more, especially if we don't have a difference between singular and plural they. Instead we should use lojban's approach where there are 5 pronouns and they get assigned in the order people are mentioned in the conversation
@jmrphy Speak for yourself man. Not "every man". I like hearing others' burdens. And I've experienced it lightening for both of us. Commiserating is by definition miserable, but there are other forms of deep listening that can be very satisfying for everyone.
Retweeted @visakanv
i used to be the reply guy in other people's mentions, too, here's me simping for @Malcolm_Ocean. he didn't actually respond…
Replying to @DaltonDEmery
@DaltonDEmery Yeah I realized after I wrote that that that was a bit much
When I was a kid my dad said the only two words you could have two of in a row (with no punctuation?) in a grammatical sentence were "had" and "that". Apparently "that" does three!
@this_is_silvia With dark chocolate lipstick 💄
@robbensinger Give examples of the purely moral parts? Assuming I know what you're talking about... my intuition here is that these should converge into the extent that they don't our morals haven't reached their final form.
Retweeted @AbstractFairy
mutual attention (usually from parent to child) -> tracking parents attention + their object of attention (their pov of…
Replying to @alexishelping
@alexislearning I'm down. Hit me up with a song for the vibe of ecstatic delight at everyday existence.
Retweeted @lefttwick
imho the paradox of our times is the wealth gap between the rich and poor is grotesquely large but the tangible differences…
@parakeetnebula These days... ❤️🔥
Retweeted @imperialauditor
I'm not a fan of IIT (in my limited understanding and expertise) but I feel like we should reserve the phrase "pseudos…
@DougTataryn The resistance is cooperating with making sure you don't take an approach that wouldn't work for it.
that feeling when you hear a track you've heard dozens of times before and you suddenly hear a sound you'd never noticed for me just now it was the fuzzy bass notes right near the end of this youtube.com/watch?v=yxPWfo…
@visakanv go home lampposts you're drunk
Replying to @nuanceexists
@nuanceexists I'm willing to refer to "a twitter account" with it pronouns, maybe, but the idea of it'ing a person feels off yeah
@christineist omg I'm also a rock, nice to meet you!
Retweeted @abhayance
so important to experience a period in which nothing urgent is incomplete, in which you are not busy or behind, and haven’t…
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance whoa.... huh. to some extent I sorta feel like @IntendApp is trying to induce this state by default like, even if you have urgent things to maybe do, to still find a space of uncertainty-freedom
@abhayance @IntendApp this is making me think both of Alexander Technique / couldness (cc @m_ashcroft) as well as @vaughn_tan's work on uncertainty
Retweeted @erikphoel
Yesterday a letter from 100 scientists declared the popular theory of consciousness - Integrated Information Theory - is "ps…
@BishPlsOk @nuanceexists huh. I doubt that's how everyone who wants to use "it" feels. in particular a friend's sibling tried it pronouns iirc and seemed pretty chill about it. but can you say more about what you mean by this? I don't feel like I quite get it
@connerdelights also BT. another vivid memory of mine was the first time I listened to this track on some bose noise-cancelling headphones and heard the bass come in (this was before I had nice speakers; I had been playing it out of my phone or laptop) youtube.com/watch?v=wykKAC…
@deepfates @getnormality fuck, me too
true (but that one really needs punctuation, at least to make the use/mention distinction and separate the clauses)
@bertmuthalaly @visakanv yeah. meanwhile it was nothing personal—literally I just wasn't checking twitter at the time (the tweet he replied to was some automated system that tweeted out blog post excerpts every now and then) blog post comments would have gotten my attention at that time tho
@BishPlsOk @nuanceexists ahh, got it. feels like a downward spiral though, not something I'd want to participate in
@BishPlsOk @nuanceexists @slimepriestess what's your relationship to this whole thing, if you want to comment? (also how do you feel about "you" pronouns?) (also @nuanceexists let us know if you want us out of your mentions)
@jessi_cata I think it's sort of a descent from history where there was no distinction of family property, bank accounts aside
@jessi_cata it's relatively novel that the basic economic unit is seen as the individual, and I think the effects are still rippling out
@jessi_cata @eshear there's more to our values than whatever maximizes genetic evolutionary fitness in particular, they encode memetic evolutionary fitness as well probably stabler societies when people have some "family" that aren't blood relatives
@WatsonLadd ahh, fair point
baaahahaha I totally didn't get the 2015 reference when @visakanv asked me this Q in late 2022. Well. Fucking. Played.
@the_wilderless the self, like everything else, is an interface (I've yet to see something that disproves my hunch that the Interface Theory of Perception and "everything is empty" are basically synonymous)
@vlct0rs_tw1tter fear and disgust response to what exactly?
Replying to @benwr
@benwr my will will will what it wills (so will Will's)
@EthanReeder many say Circling is about this Vervaeke says Mētta is about this I say the meta-protocol is about this part of the puzzle is: what invariances replace the scripts? it seems clear that there are some
@EthanReeder it's one of the main things I'm on about
@EthanReeder a huge part of the challenge is having improvisational responses to others' familiar conditioned patterns
@EthanReeder different aspects of relevance
@natural_hazard @dog_envier Vervaeke talks a bit about some ancient greek model (Aristotelian maybe?) in some of the first episodes of his excellent AFTMC series iirc it also has 3 parts and they might map onto Freud's but maybe not
@visakanv something that might help is to have a plan of like, if you see a social-skills-related thing that you want to riff on, dump it in a pile that you can look at in October
@visakanv tons of great similar avatar-candidates in The Garden Of Earthly Delights by Bosch check out @boschbot for automatic lil fragments of it
@visakanv amazing. the unscriptedness is so refreshing, wow
what would happen if you listened more closely to yourself?
I have subdued the lamppost and now I play on it
@visakanv inclined to do a thread like this for @IntendApp. would you suggest doing it from this account or that one? this account definitely gets more eyeballs, so if I'm gonna pin it like you have yours, that'd be the obvious win thoughts? / how do you think about such Qs?
@eshear @jacobrintamaki I mean lower demand could come from a really bad plague, which would uhh not be good whereas higher supply would be v good
@mbateman most wealthy families are also subject to not wanting to seem too weird ah you get to that
hands down FKJ live at Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia for Cercle watch: youtu.be/sCNlt5nvSI8 @FKJmusic @CercleMusic
@Luminous_Air seems like the effort here is kind of the key like it would be too big a move for you, just for the interesting hangout / friend vibes and it would be too big a move for you, at this stage in how much you're romantically into him, that it would mess up your mating dance
@xuenay @ohabryka design upgrade idea for the ones at Lightcone
what if time were space tho
@maybegray was there a bad experience, and you tried to be polite about it and they said "screw you"?
in some sense literally all you have to do is surrender/let go but it turns out that understanding what the actual referent of "surrender/let go" is in that sentence is hard, and there are lots of adjacent moves that can mess you up
In other words, tweets are handkerchief drops
Retweeted @aphercotropist
Science is the new jealous monotheistic god, demanding that you believe in nothing but it this Science doesn't have mu…
Retweeted @VinceFHorn
I’ve come to the conclusion that “equanimity” is a 💩 poor translation of uppekha. Thich Nhat Hanh’s English translation is…
@FPallopides Feel the pain of it. Turn towards it. If I can't, then do what I need to in order to be able (maybe I need to feel something else first or deal with some sort of schema etc). Then bring the pain in contact with what my attention was doing when I did the thing originally.
Replying to @alexishelping
@alexislearning Not at all certain about this, but my impression is you can maintain gains with much less activity than it took to get them (unless you have like competitive bodybuilding level gains) Maybe you could get on board with gym once a week or something
Retweeted @colinmegill
I wish the press was 1/1,000,000th as interested in community notes as it was about yelling that something like it should…
@colinmegill This thread would be better if it mentioned the community notes API system in it directly! I literally only heard of it because a related tweet shown below the thread was your QT about it. Append the announcement to the end of the thread
@colinmegill And yeah, I think you could probably write a great post about this on whatever levels. Definitely send it to me and I'll signal boost!
Interesting thread!
@myceliummage @deepfates Now we just need the remixed version with the beats underneath!
Retweeted @UntilTrees
your last saved photo is your theology
@Jeanvaljean689 Ahhh it's very both, and not halfway in between.
Retweeted @alexeyguzey
i know i picked up the right physics textbook-- "liz, a former stident of mine ... was able to shut up an arrogant physic…
@alexeyguzey @Morphenius - relevant to our recent convos about gnosis & "I can tell for myself" vs "I'll take your word for it"
Retweeted @JeffLadish
I also signed this letter. And I continue to think that if we continue this pace of frontier AI development, we're likely t…
@default_friend Yeah, potentially interested, say more?
@AnneSelke Probably not the actual answer for you, but what comes to mind is Scale by Geoffrey West, which points at some really trippy stuff about superlinear scaling laws Maybe just check out this thread, and or the linked video
Retweeted @__drewface
hot take #2: your second soulmate is an ideal spouse. the first often involves flying too close to the sun and getting bur…
@Altimor Also I recall somebody suggesting that China is more likely to steal model weights from American companies then develop their own
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
The Bio-Emotive Framework: An Escape from the Hell of Unprocessed Emotions tasshin.com/blog/the-bio-e…
These are good thoughts/frames. Got others? I like "the fun thing about business is the feedback is made of money"
"maybe we can figure it out together" is one of the names of God
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
This is the best tweet on this site and I have no shame about boosting it again
Retweeted @uncatherio
women, when working with your anger — try out imagining the men of your tribe are here to protect you, allies, on your side…
@nosilverv I've found I can't sit for 2h without moving, physically. Wat do? Align spine better??? (I've had various other issues but if I could solve the physical comfort problem I'd be down to explore a much longer sit)
@hormeze Can you get a pic of someone else's soul by pressing the same button combo on them? ...just, y'know, theoretically.
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
selfishness is choosing your own needs over others self-sacrifice is choosing others’ needs over yourself love is a…
Retweeted @visakanv
collaboration is humanizing
had a dream that @RomeoStevens76 had made a diagram with a bunch of philosophies showing how their main inner practices mapped onto the way they projected on the world (for better and worse) I don't remember them tho!
@jessicamalonso @trstn_ca LFG!!!
@ungatedlife @zencephalon @uberstuber I have userstyles for this, which seem kinda like arc boosts? They're definitely sharable.
Retweeted @eigenrobot
you worry about talking to your child about sex i worry how i can convey to them in fullness that a lot of people just spen…
@hyperdiscogirl I enjoy my Jabra Active Elite 65t wireless earbuds, even though I'm also adamant that devices should have jacks for many other reasons. Unfortunately most newer true wireless earbuds have stupid capacitive touch buttons.
Retweeted @_StevenFan
Fucking mind-blowing, scans with my experience. Let yourself be maximally constrained by one parameter and let your design…
@charliedbecker Yeah I get something like this. Seems there are sort of a few aspects. Insofar as these are random intrusive thoughts, not actual disruptions to your goals, maybe you just need to be like "yep. future's gonna be fucking weird. I still want to BUILD tho!"
@charliedbecker Insofar as you feel like you're gonna be terribly unprepared for this future, and that feels disruptive, maybe you need to either try to incorporate it into your plans, even if it's just like "well I don't know what my teenage daughter will want but I want to be good at dialogue"
@charliedbecker The third tip I have is to pick goals that pay dividends. Ones that will still be totally worth it even if you abandon them or pivot in a few years, because of what you've learned or achieved on the way.
@charliedbecker Goals are what allow you to steer. They don't have to be super fixed.
there's a few different meanings of consciousness here and a bunch of socialization is about replacing one with the other
conjunction "fallacy" is about manifestation more concrete future scenarios are more magically potent
"one man's utopia is another man's dystopia" skill issue
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF What do you mean?
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF Ohhhh yeah, I felt you'd somehow misinterpreted me. Your response makes more sense now! I was intending to challenge the people thinking they've conceived of a utopia but it's actually a dystopia.
@HephaistosF Maybe I'm misusing the "skill issue" meme, idk. It was my first time trying it out.
to be clear I'm talking about envisioned utopias and people not having the skill to envision utopias-for-themselves that aren't dystopias-for-others (not saying that those experiencing someone else's inadequate utopia as a dystopia have a skill issue)
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF I mean I think I mostly experienced versions of it that felt like playful challenges to me when they referred to something I didn't know how to do "skill issue" parsed this way has growth mindset energy
@Rajeev161803 that's what Heph said too but most of the versions I've seen/noticed of the meme already felt more playful than that! like in this thread, giving people shit for claiming to have realized some lack of self
@visakanv @RomeoStevens76 ha! each of the items did have 3 things somehow, but no... visually they were just lists but there were like 15-20 examples. it was really cool
@caelanhuntress mmmmm fuck yeah!!
@_exactly1 you think God's done? seems like a boring universe
have a fixed mindset instead of a growth mindset? skill issue
@Rajeev161803 or like here's a use of it that's not exactly playful but it feels to me kind of anti-victim-mindset in a way that's maybe helpful for some people?
Thread · Pointing the way out of victim mindset without victim-blaming · 1 of 13 tweets
one of the sad things about the world is that attempts to point the way out of victim mindset often appear to people stuck in victim mindset to be victim-blaming this legit sucks. I'm not sure what to do about it, but I'm working on it. seems it involves patience & scaffolds?
Retweeted @the_wilderless
I think for a lot of people, there’s this huge emotional resonance in creating an event where you can Demand To Be Seen…
@HandNF @dogfanhan you might like this thread of mine about micro-terminology issues
@maiab @visakanv baahahahhaa I love this "as far as they know"
Retweeted @the_wilderless
Storytelling and evolution share the same underlying Reality-impulse Evolution is part of a narrative drive in Reality…
✨ combinatorial explosions ✨
@visakanv @m_ashcroft this stuff relates to Alexander Technique. not-knowing, acting, etc
many ways to frame things, with very different effects
@alinekaeri attempting to help people see where they could do something often results in them feeling shame about the fact that they aren't already doing it where the "where" is fully general, not just specific action-advice but any pointer towards agency
@mattgiammarino yeah I'm super confused about the mindset dimension of all of this it does seem like there's some shift that someone can only make for themselves (mindset) but also environments can totally nurture it or not, and pressuring someone else to make it is bs?? malcolmocean.com/2021/11/mindse…
@hotfountainpen @sonikudzu ooh can you unpack the "drives all blames into one" phrase? I've heard it a few times with different implied meanings, and I'm curious what your take is here
Thread · Pointing the way out of victim mindset without victim-blaming · 2 of 13 tweets
maybe there isn't a way to do it. maybe you just have to love people into literally not being victims anymore.
ohhhhh wait but maybe some people already have enough love somewhere else internally that they can bootstrap if someone shows them how to plug it in*, but others don't? fuck, hmm *decompartmentalizing, self-soothing, self-reparenting
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF I thought/hoped it would! these thoughts I'm thinking through right now are very much inspired/informed by months/years of taking your perspective. I'm generating these thoughts from my own core atm but I'm not going to pretend you didn't have them first twitter.com/HephaistosF/st…
Thread · Pointing the way out of victim mindset without victim-blaming · 3 of 13 tweets
but even if so, I feel like there's something... can I know from the outside whether this person is one of the people who has enough inner resources? & insofar as all this is weirdly fractal, which part of them am I talking to right now? does that part have enough self-love?
& are they asking for my advice or my love? are they asking for help plugging it in or my love? are they asking for pointing out instructions or my love? even if I don't offer unconditional love, I can at least give the dignity of not pretending I'm giving them what they ask for
mostly my strategy here lately has also been to have a stance of love that is unconditional in that I'll maintain it no matter what but I'm not guaranteeing a given closeness or relationship; on the contrary, this unconditionality means that I can't
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF I'm listening
Thread · Pointing the way out of victim mindset without victim-blaming · 1 of 13 tweets
and I'm not saying that my doing this is necessarily going to be adequate, or appreciated, or anything at all really what it is, is sustainable. it's what I can do, ongoingly, without resent or burnout.
@forthrighter @visakanv I think you'll want to read this thread for several reasons. library vibes, information architecture, etc
okay maybe time to stop tweeting and go back to hanging out with the people assembled here for the purpose of hanging out (apparently I'm a bit more of an introvert than I thought)
TFW you try to come up with a concrete example and the example is just another generalization
"tweeting is like praying. it reaches out so that the supercooperation cluster can reach back to you" — @alex_with_ease
@liminal_warmth Omg!!
@RichDecibels One realization I had about this was like... if you call one dimension of the relationship into question, it can kind of implicitly also call into question the idea that the other dimensions won't also get changed. If people are hoping for closed scripts, this is super scary.
@soundrotator Actively working on this one, thanks for the bullseye
@nickcammarata Artifices are natural
@yeetgenstein Altitude -> perspective Also the magic of flying at all is surreal if you let it be I get this too
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance Mmmm there is an @AskYatharth tweet/thread about this but I don't know how to find it
@NLRG_it What if limited but like.... less limited. More ability to claw back bonus pay from lawbreaking execs? (or uhh even prison but that's a whole other story)
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF Try a different roadrunner/prey. It seems just as plausible that it's that the specific roadrunner has some sort of invincibility, as that the coyote is uniquely hated.
@HephaistosF (To be clear, I see your point, obviously the cartoonist can still fuck with the coyote, but this is my honest advice to your question and it does seem to have some translation to the real world)
Retweeted @ungatedlife
this is the revolution at the heart of non-coercive marketing. it seeks to create a world in which self-trust is the defau…
@CJetty26 @RichDecibels Yeah spill
Retweeted @coladaclan
I think it’s important to record that today I said, “I want to go home,” and promptly burst into tears. Reader, I was sit…
@br___ian Haven't noticed quantity in general but I have a lot more trouble being warm on cold mornings before breakfast (I regularly fast til noon)
Replying to @TetraspaceWest
@TetraspaceWest You might dig Preconquest Consciousness, which describes some observations of kids & teens in pre-Fall societies ranprieur.com/readings/preco…
@tramazonflora More generally
Retweeted @nvpkp
you know that saying? the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time to plant a tree is now? seems to me a…
Boring realization: some countries map fairly tightly onto ethnicities; others don't. Likewise to languages. twitter.com/AxisFade/statu…
@uncatherio Whomst among us
@samswoora Crying is ecstatic
@samswoora Crying is like taking a shit; if you don't do it often enough it's called constipation and you're on track for some problems
quite a cool lil polyrhythm demo. neat to hear the difference between 4on3 and 3on4, etc youtu.be/Lxs4cvSximc
@neats29 @dmcdougall @nancraig @sashachapin @ChadLloyd4 yeah I am accidentally still in Germany so this is definitely out
truth plays the long game
@dancingbyalake ah by boring I think I meant "will be obvious to others to the point of not even worth mentioning"
@PrinceVogel Incantation by Dave Weckl & Jay Oliver
@PrinceVogel also Our Dark Garden by BT
Replying to @cooldrugfact_s
@cooldrugfact_s @br___ian @super_dollworld and also leptin as a secondary signalling pathway we also have specific senses for lacking certain nutrients
@br___ian I guess arguably balance is measured by inner ear push...? and temperature is... a wavelength? hmmm
@br___ian what about the sense of having something on your clipboard that you haven't pasted yet?
Listening to a few girls cover Valerie and found myself thinking how few songs are written with men's names, and suddenly imagined someone singing the same melody but with "Steve" and just cracked up.
@tasshinfogleman yes! these are all very normal among my close friends! (cuddling/holding hands infrequent but easeful, and lots of physical affection that I wouldn't necessarily summarize with those words)
@AskYatharth former best friend once-best friend best-friend-at-the-time (if appropriate) incumbent best friend (if they're about to lose their place)
anybody else with specific predictions for what happens as a result of AI-text-gen? system dynamics stuff?
@schlagetown Ooooh yeah! What kind of format do you have in mind?
@embryosophy So much worse than cake
Keywords to find this later Gender sex rights ID legal vote
@uncatherio One of the things that makes our current discourse about systemic discrimination (racism, sexism) weird is that we don't realize the extent to which we live in the shadow of *legally enforced discrimination*.
@uncatherio When I was a kid/teen I thought that feminism was complete. In a sense I was right, in that the campaign for legal rights had not only overthrown discrimination laws but made new laws making discrimination illegal.
@uncatherio And it turned out that there were still feminists campaigning for new stuff now, but on reflection maybe the new stuff would have benefitted from not still calling itself "feminism". Let the original project have succeeded ✅ Make new projects for what's next. Maybe not tho idk
Retweeted @Jeanvaljean689
one way to help resist evil egregores, is just to be a fully individuated person
@FPallopides @_holyweather Yeah there's a countersignaling thing here where if you can get away with saying "Jalapenos" so it sounds more like Jalopy+Galapagos without it seeming like you don't know how to pronounce it, then that's kinda high-status.
Retweeted @MatthewWSiu
peek for context 👀
this ad in NYC subway station could be an @IntendApp promo baha
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin LFG
> Insight, then, may loosely be described as any 'seeing' that frees. — Rob Burbea
Retweeted @the_wilderless
Inhibitory meditative practices are great and all (calming, slowing down, being still, reducing) But excitatory medita…
@p_millerd Want to be focused? Before going to bed: - Put phone on airplane mode - Close chats & feeds on desktop - Pick what to start on first - Don't open chats/feeds until you [go for a walk] (pick some specific action)
Retweeted @br___ian
If your only goal today was making your day tomorrow really good, what kinds of stuff would your do?
Retweeted @MattPirkowski
A fascinating concept, especially in light of our contemporary memetic landscape and the likely existence of parasitic e…
Retweeted @itinerantfog
spontaneity isn’t a lack of self-control, it is the only self-control. it is not a lack of intentionality, it is the limi…
@univrsw3th4rt The fraction of people who deeply appreciate the poetic artistry of songwriting is a small fraction, but if you want to write meaningful lyrics, those are the people who matter, regardless of how many there are. Moving one person deeply is worth it.
Replying to @visakanv
@visakanv a lil book called Mind The Gap notes that in general living in a context with more inequality is unhealthy for the people on top, too (compared to having the same absolute wealth but less inequality) amzn.to/3RDpQLC
Retweeted @visakanv
you don't have to agree with me i don't have to make sense to you
Replying to @visakanv
@visakanv me, who just sub'd
Replying to @VinceFHorn
@VinceFHorn I feel like there's a both-and here a lot of states people are questing for are simply this, recognized but clearly there are other states that we aren't experiencing now, but could, which are awesome (which you could argue don't qualify as "spiritual" or "transcendent", but 🤷♀️)
@BecomingCritter fluid democracy that everyone should be able to delegate their vote on various matters to whoever they trust most, who also delegates it to whoever they trust most, until someone feels actually qualified to make the call themselves
@Nsousanis I saw an article a year or two ago that was something about how protons quarks etc are waaaaay weirder than we thought aha I found it! this is why one must tweet all interesting links
@ungatedlife > we’ll approach our writing not as a means of providing Answers, but as a way of inhabiting the Questions that matter to us you might dig this post (and the comic linked in it) ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/10/que…
@ungatedlife some resonances here with my own experiences of tension between wanting solo freedom and wanting people to work with glad you're finding something that feels like a fit!
huh a sibling is someone who shares all of your ancestors a spouse is someone who shares all of your descendants* *(modulo 2nd spouses, poly, kids out of wedlock, etc)
I want to make a little thing where someone can pay me $X and I'll record a lil song for them. what's a good platform for payments for bespoke online products?
@charliedbecker @visakanv feels a bit like my experience of how awesome having a lifestyle business is
@charliedbecker seems right tho I think sometimes you can also anticipate an arc. but the main time this happened to me it was totally unexpected, not the result of me attempting to answer the question
huh, if your parents only have one kid, they also share all of your descendants basically
Retweeted @hormeze
That laughter should be considered any less legitimate a form of release than weeping is an opinion that could only be produce…
@BrawerJacob "therapy" is a very ambiguous term some therapists are not doing anything more skilled than a kind empathetic friend would; but also many people talk about self-therapy, which can include journalling
app: what department do you work in? me: Decompartmentalization
@thinkagainer that was also me! (I've been thinking about family a bunch lately)
@captain_mrs ❤️💕 Appreciating your openness.
@liminal_warmth Factorio is... not this, but it kinda overlaps.
Retweeted @natural_hazard
ex: it's possible and i think common to in various moments experience a bad thing you are doing as bad and feel bad abo…
@natural_hazard Huh, what's the story here?
Retweeted @iavins
the complexity of building a new web browser from scratch
Apparently "GPT" is now being used as a suffix that means "AI". (It stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, and originally referred to specifically LLM-shaped tasks, which this is probably not or mostly not?)
@myceliummage Clowning. Make weird faces at them and see if you can get them to make weird faces back. Nonverbal communication.
Retweeted @captain_mrs
in my experience the most important thing in a relationship is growth mindset about the relationship itself - when you bot…
Interesting. Seems clear that there's a bunch of disconnection between federal and local situational awareness. Anybody have source on the "open border" law? (If their estimates are correct, >1% of people currently in the USA walked in with no visa or anything in the last ~2y)
Business opportunity for @FairiesPyjamas or a similar hippie clothes company
Replying to @milquepoast
@milquepoast It's largely decontextualization. Christmas is snow-coded for westerners because Britain, Northern Europe, maybe Canada & Northern US States. Even tho it's also desert-coded (Bethlehem etc). Both of these are totally disconnected from many people's actual Dec climate.
@strandbergbio Also I think saliva communicates stuff about what nutrients the baby needs, which changes the constitution of breastmilk.
@motherlibertas @dvorstone Yeah, may also result in something good emerging from folks who get disillusioned and then need to come to terms with how someone could both be so wise and so foolish.
Retweeted @itinerantfog
as a sneaky trick you can make everything your meditation object. whatever you notice is perfect, because ‘everything’ ha…
@hyperdiscogirl People feel bad and think that being punished would set things right. Extremely cucked morality.
Retweeted @ftlsid
so in practice, it's very difficult to have a long-term plan, and the strategy reduces to fuck around and find out* ** * while…
@mesolude you could somehow have like... someone else does the actual hosting of the event but you do most of the prep leading up to it?
Retweeted @St_Rev
There's an interesting, subtle process sneaking in here, where intelligence (despite being tabooed as an observable quantity) i…
@St_Rev There's also something that's connected to both, which is like... *potential* for friendship. Which dogs have more of than octopodes.
When we've been here ten thousand years Bright, shining as the sun We've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we first begun — — — The fourth verse of Amazing Grace is the most beautiful articulation of infinity I have ever encountered.
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa lilvisa/lilsharan I can't WAIT to hear your dadthoughts
@EthanReeder the guy was just doing a bit
@lishiyori Yeah this article is so trippy. One of my favs
@sun_girlxo Say the stuff that needs saying! It's up to you! You're our only hope!
This is by far my favorite robot ever. So simple, so elegant. Can do some key things humans can but not because we modelled it after a human unnecessarily. Minimalist cybernetics.
@tramazonflora ahh well-named. it's also adjacent to this trick:
@nutlope I would be quite pissed about this if you were deflating a term that actually has a more specific useful meaning, but in this particular situation it seems kinda meh but not actually problem-creating. in practice "GPT" is already just a random string of letters
accepting payments isn't that hard, I have various ways to do that. it's like, I want a lil sales page where you type a custom request then hit "buy". or just googleform+$. maybe gumroad works for this? I'd thought of it as more for non-bespoke products