post author has ethics 100% backwards the whole point of talking about ethics *at all* as opposed to just *how to be awesome* is precisely about how kindly you relate to the other, the not-yourself (and I would say your capacity to create win-wins, not altruistic sacrifice)
January 2024
@WKCosmo well well well, if it isn't the worst psy-op of all time, peering its ugly head again
if your concept of what's good to do involves negating or ignoring your own drives & desires, you are making a very fundamental confusion. those are the very place from which goodness comes from—the question is how to create win-wins between people
visions are for sharing
@OrphicCapital pssst! priming researchers! maybe your studies replicated somewhere other than your own lab
Retweeted @nosilverv
Enlightenment is a joke. Not even a ha-ha joke but a bad taste joke. You spend your whole life searching for your glasses…
@neuranne If you want to try a structure, I highly recommend Conversation Café Simple powerful social tech for teasing out each person's perspective and going deep. conversationcafe.org
free people free people
@visakanv @charliedbecker Charlie, your reply inspired this:
Replying to @alexishelping
@alexislearning LFG!
@TylerAlterman Realized last night hanging out with a friend's ~15mo that kids just have no idea what's realistic. And rightly so, for humans. What was realistic decades/centuries/Millenia ago isn't now, & vv!
Super wholesome vibes on the TL for the new year. (2024 is also a nice wholesome number)
@QiaochuYuan @danielbrottman Tagging @juliangough who has been think a bunch about evolving universes
@QiaochuYuan @danielbrottman Hmmmmm yeah this is neat From my current vantage point, I kinda had to end up here. Like when I look at the past I can consider counterfactual branch points but apparently this universe is the one where I end up precisely... here.
@browserdotsys Instructions unclear, my men now have rubber bands on them.
@MasterTimBlais @QiaochuYuan sick harmonies one note on the uke I was like "accident?" but then you did it again and well repetition legitimizes so bam
@RichDecibels Makes sense to me!
Retweeted @relic_radiation
two different frames for ambition: “I want to make the world a better place” versus “I want to share my gifts with th…
@relic_radiation Mmm this feels related to what I was getting at here. (I'm close to concluding that "help more people" is also a lil confused — sharing gifts feels better!)
happy new year! 🎆❤️🔥
happy new year! 🎆❤️🔥 we watched countless different fireworks displays from atop Corona Heights in SF. there were fireworks going off in at least 30 places we could see... maybe 100!? some all the way across the Bay!
the way that ways without waying
@CoughsOnWombats bahahahahaha yup
@mounica_v8 the upward spiral is pretty good! youtube.com/watch?v=Ub4_kr…
@pieratttt mmmm I like that!
@meekaale > altruism becomes at once socially necessary and yet apparently impossible and, if and when it occurs, inexplicable bahahahaha yesss so good
baller quote, untangling the idea of egoism as man's nature
@pragueyerrr @visakanv happy birthday! I got you this: 🫐 something about how you talked about flirting, back in like 2021, loosened something up for me. not so much a specific thing you said but just a vibe around it as a skill, or something like that
@paulg Red Mars has the first colony ship beginning in 2026, which I'm sure at one point has been Elon's plan although it doesn't seem viable now
Replying to @fun_vampire0
@fun_vampire0 @TylerAlterman yeah, probably evil even if it was mostly supposed to add noise to drown out existing evil, well... > Evil is never intended as evil. Indeed, the contradiction inherent in all evil is that it originates in the desire to eliminate evil.
@jondotbo where did I keep going in circles or having the same insights repeatedly with no apparent recognition of having had the insight before?
Retweeted @jondotbo
I gave gpt4 access to my weekly reviews from the past year What might be some good prompts to get insights out of them?
might make a tool for doing this inside intend.do...
@aleksil79 pretty good n u?
@_ali_taylor "open to it" "I'm down" "sure if you want" "if you're into it" "seduce me" "not yet!"
Retweeted @yishan
The world needs to produce something on the order of 3-4 orders of magnitude more carbon credits (i.e. sequester this many tonn…
@visakanv @nosilverv eg this response to the ick of the flirtbots
@uncatherio the what that whats at what?
@sean3naes yep it's super confused not recommended enlightened selfishness is da wei
Retweeted @PrinceVogel
Announcing a new movement - effective adversity
@AskYatharth turns out driving aggressively doesn't actually save much time (according to some study I don't now recall. might have just been a single test... I think they had an urban route, pro stunt driver try to get there as fast as possible, other guy never changing lanes. 55mins vs 1h)
@onlyfootnotes what pisses me the fuck off is when things are clickable that change view but they're not links at all, so cmd-click or whatever doesn't work on them
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ the group of people who have read this tweet
The mouse He destroyed his copyright Yes YES The mouse is out
@ChristoSilvia @Aella_Girl yeah I also want to know this
@PrinceVogel tell me about pseudo-positive sum political board games
Retweeted @nat_sharpe_
right before you die your life will flash before your eyes in an explosive sensory experience that often lasts for over 80…
@DanChedMan @nat_sharpe_ he literally said it can last for over 80 years twitter.com/nat_sharpe_/st…
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ heh, nice
Retweeted @heynibras
a practice i’m bringing into 2024 is the simple ‘transition sit’: whenever i wrap up an activity, i notice the impulse to i…
@heynibras exactly what I needed, thanks. I've been aiming to do this but it's been hard to operationalize the "between things, pause" and this might help 2+ mins sounds like a lot when the things are small, but right now I'm usually not hitting even 2s, so...
@heynibras how do you figure out where one activity ends and another begins? that's another one of my challenges like I want to do micro-pauses between sending one tweet and going and reading another, but obviously I'm not gonna make each of those 2-5mins
@BreatheLesss @the_aiju are you saying it's the same in all the other ways though it feels to me like it has a different nature. concretely: getting out of buddhist hell in this sense doesn't require following a particular doctrine, obeying, or even per se "being moral"
@the_aiju and it makes sense that they won't! there is wisdom they don't know how to keep if they leave wisdom that includes full empathy for those who are in there and full respect for those choosing not to leave and all this makes this in-some-sense-simple choice not so simple
Thread · Buddhist hell, victim mindset, and choosing clarity over peace · 2 of 7 tweets
this, and also (see next tweet in thread) (keywords: buddhist hell, naraka)
@smolderingwurm @the_aiju more precisely, it is POSSIBLE, although difficult, to get out while staying in touch with the clarity of all you can see while in there so there often seems to be a choice between peace & clarity and for some people, they'd rather suffer with the clarity than be free and forget
Thread · Buddhist hell, victim mindset, and choosing clarity over peace · 1 of 7 tweets
and clarity is valuable. I don't resent those who choose it over peace, when I have enough of my own clarity to allow them their path. I have learned much from listening to the wisdom in fixated entitled rants about injustice
Thread · New Year's Eve as a celebration of chronos time
new years eve, as currently practiced, is among other things a celebration of chronos time and coordination via standards I watched from a hilltop as hundreds of people set off fireworks at the same moment. a collective presence experience: NOW.
⏰ chronos time is named after one of the greek time gods, and refers to linear predictible fungible clock-time 🍂 kairos time is flexible, fluid, seasonal time: mythic time, where moments are eternities and synchronicities are abundant
chronos can feel kind of stifling if you see it as controlling and constricting you but I noticed NYE that it's also possible to see it as sort of a scaffold, that you can fall out of (into mythic time) and then come back to when you want it
@_arvind has a toolkit on ritual design, which emphasizes the need to step out of clock-time, calendar-time, schedule-time... in order to create the space for transformation hard to deeply transform when "okay I've got a bit over an hour til my 2pm appt" ritualdesign.net
Thread · Buddhist hell, victim mindset, and choosing clarity over peace · 4 of 7 tweets
here's an earlier thread exploring some stuff around this (which partly results in questioning whether "victim mindset" is a good frame. but whatever is being referred to is in any case closely related to buddhist hell / naraka)
oh also the way that "original spin" shows up in relation to buddhist hell is essentially victim blaming the idea that because (in some sense) the person COULD just walk out, that they therefore SHOULD do so and are to blame for their suffering and others' 2nd-hand suffering
put a different way, the confusion shows up as the idea that someone should leave hell for any reason other than "I don't want to be here and I don't have to stay"
(one of the brilliant fools that this thread's wisdom came from 👇)
"guys we can't have a Community if you keep acting like we don't have a Community!"
rabbitholier than thou
Retweeted @aleksil79
@HephaistosF fafo will continue until wisdom improves
@Dopamean4 nice.
@janerikstrasser well i'll be
@eshear @utotranslucence relevant to your undergrad - curious how the different facets of that line up with this
Retweeted @PrinceVogel
I do not want liberals to feel bad, I do not want conservatives to feel bad, nor straight people nor trans or white or bla…
@normonics seems like he's talking about having roots based on being somewhere you have past context in ignoring that creating roots for the future might come from going somewhere now that you can see still being in 30-50 years
@GRITCULT photos on a dating site probably give lots of cues in how they present themselves that may not be present in simply the morphology of the person's face
Retweeted @RomeoStevens76
Brainstorming some hyperobjects with @Malcolm_Ocean Spiritual insights Moral Theories "Virtues" Community What ritual…
@RomeoStevens76 @aleksil79 @Conaw this seems like something that'd interest you reminded me of our conversation years ago also about different distances of perspectives parallaxing
in which Jesus dunks on swearing oaths > Simply let your "Yes" be "Yes," and your "No," "No"; anything beyond this comes from the evil one
"being understood" is always pragmatic: well enough for some purpose ∴ books & tweets are better seen as mutual inspiration, not transmission. you get SOMETHING, & it works for you or not, but is it the same? w/e, you share no purpose with the writer
@MichelleAkin dunking and arguing is in some sense also inspiration!
@visakanv @jessicamalonso later in sermon on the mount is this very meta-protocol one / collaboration-across-differences one kinda my vibe
huh, "author" has a different etymological origin from "authentic"! the latter is about "self", the former: "producing" (I was going to say unrelated but actually the spelling was altered at one point so arguably some horizontal meme transfer going on here)
@Morphenius this "meme drives" idea is defs relevant to Original Spin
both in how original spin spreads in the first place, and in how we're designing a viral unspinner meme
@emptyrivers @visakanv username checks out, Mr @EmptyRivers
even further off the top right of the chart is "found a country or city"
the main things I've (co-)hosted! post yours 🚀
We got threaders We got quoters Poll-writers and voters We got lurkers We got poasters We got... IRL hosters And reply game is the highest form of art Hmm mm mmmm mmmm mmm, I love this part
@RichDecibels poast hoasting maps! @RichDecibels @gptbrooke @jasoncbenn @Prigoose @__drewface @TylerAlterman @danielgolliher @conaw @utotranslucence @this_is_silvia @myceliummage (photopea.com is a free online old-photoshop clone that works well)
@MatjazLeonardis yeah I've been running a workshop called the "Goal-Crafting Intensive" for 5+ years and we started noticing this and loosening things current working title of new workshop is "Beyond Goals"
can I stick my sense of humor in your country?
tips for managing to have deep work while: 1. living in a big exciting city (SF) 2. not having a dayjob or other scheduled work time ? I find it's really hard to not just get constantly pulled into meeting up with people and going to events! what do?
I'm in the process of moving to San Francisco —a city I've spent many many months in over the last 11 years (just counted: >900 days!)— and when I used to visit here I would kinda just be in social butterfly mode while here, and get deep work done back in Waterloo. but now...
this btw is a parody of I Love This Bar by Toby Keith I don't particularly like the original I mostly know the remix that shows up 16mins into this epic country+EDM mix: soundcloud.com/user-697920353…
@DecisiveTeam_ maybe this is super obvious (maybe I've mentioned it already?) but it seems like pol.is is a pretty good way to parallelize discussing tradeoffs! maybe it could be a good step 1—generating inputs that then go into decisive.team as step 2
@WatsonLadd how specifically would you recommend operationalizing this? I don't want something that feels fake, for many reasons
@enzikaofash *Agapically **Grown ***Infant nice
@diviacaroline huhhhh say more about that difference? I think I know what you mean, like when I'm in a very overtly externally-busy context and then suddenly I get a few spare hours or whatever, it's like "oh man I have a chance to DO STUFF, LFG!"
@WatsonLadd That's exactly what I mean by fake. Why is this time and not that time blocked out on a calendar? If an exciting event is then happening at this time, I may legit want to do that instead!
Hmmm I guess one approach would be to something like... budget deep work time in 1h, 2h, 4h, 8h blocks, and try to have say 8h of each of them every week and then I can move them around but I commit to making them happen At Some Point each week.
@WatsonLadd ahh your messages did prompt this thought tho, so thanks
every person's perspective is like a hyperobject to any other person's perspective
exactly 2y ago today I wrote down my twitter following count and it was half what it is now (4190 vs 8380) not a bad doubling speed. at this rate I'll have the whole population of earth in 40 years (leaving aside population increase)
@Conaw @QiaochuYuan @Timber_22 @RomeoStevens76 told me this week that I was the one who nudged him onto twitter as well (tho I can't take so much credit ofc for there being a twitter scene worth joining) I had multiple posts quoting him back when he wasn't haha.
actually yeah it was just around 2100 two years before that! (Jan 2020) and it was on the order of 1050 when I started taking twitter seriously, which was about two years earlier still
insofar as some memes are cancerous, reproducing without regard for the wholesomeness of their hosts, what is the equivalent of glucose metabolism & fasting?
@harmonylion1 @ideamarket_io can I get a one-sentence teaser on "weaponized innocence"? it makes sense as a description of xianity at a high level!
@Conaw @harmonylion1 — good pitch for @ideamarket_io or equivalent!
@david_perell repetition legitimizes
Retweeted @Conaw
The meme is very true, and represents the Epistemic reformation we’re in midst of right now Many still make the move of trustin…
decentralized trust-scaling is one of the big unsolved problems of our time I've been focused a bunch on the interpersonal/psychological/spiritual dynamics of it but I guess I could spend some time ideating technical solutions as well, and build 'em if I like 'em
random out-takes from DALL-E
@DAtD_life my hunch is that what it needs more than some generic overall reputation currency is something more like fluid democracy, where you can delegate your vote in a given domain to someone else you trust, who delegates it further, until it reaches someone with an object-level opinion
one initial thought
@ChrisChipMonk possible, but... I was here for 4mo straight early last year, and am in my 4th month of being in the city on this stretch now too... so it may take a bit longer, idk
@RichDecibels more rightwards than upwards (pretty keen on getting coliving stuff of some kind going) but also in the z-dimension, of increased synergy/flow/intimacy/epicness among a group of 20-for-a-week or 5-for-a-day I have lots more skill to gain there
pick my brain? you probably didn't pick it very well, since you don't even know my brain twitter.com/RichDecibels/s…
Replying to @RichDecibels
@RichDecibels yeah, it's the sort of thing that's actually appropriate between close friends who know each other quite well, but a terrible cold opener although idk how often friends use that phrase. definitely some tho.
Retweeted @RichDecibels
@MichelleAkin a short introduction to psychofauna, riffing on some ideas from neoplatonic Christianity: imagine that eve…
@RichDecibels @MichelleAkin blessed post feels like new canon tbh. highest density pointer at these ideas I've seen
Thread · Getting DALL-E and Midjourney to render unusual metaphorical images · 3 of 5 tweets
what am I doing wrong here? this feels really simple but I have tried a lot of prompts and DALL-E does.not.get.it.
relatedly, I tried many things to get DALL-E to make a magazine collage and it doesn't get the art style At All.
midjourney much better at collages but also having trouble with the "one this, one that"
@adambinks_ yeah for awhile I wasn't specifying left & right but that wasn't working either
@lorenpmc @adambinks_ amazing. clearly a guy standing on a cloud is an angel, I mean that makes sense.
Thread · Getting DALL-E and Midjourney to render unusual metaphorical images · 1 of 5 tweets
this ("eye to eye") plus "pile of speech bubbles" (which breaks the usual sense of speech bubbles being above & outside people) seems to help (it still only works sometimes)
pushed button to stop traffic, started crossing cop car at front is kinda on the crosswalk, starts inching forward me: ?? it turns a few blue flashing lights on and makes a left turn right in front of me. I wonder if it was a real urgency...
@lorenpmc wdym?
Thread · Getting DALL-E and Midjourney to render unusual metaphorical images · 1 of 5 tweets
ohoho this is super helpful. maybe. I'm honestly not totally certain that the response you're getting is actually the prompt being used and not a confabulation. would love if others could weigh in if they're confident
@DAtD_life it's not actually votes, it's something more like "who do I want to hear from about X? well, I trust that Bob knows more about X than me and thinks about it in a good way, so who does he trust?"
@DAtD_life it's like the maxim "the way to find drugs/trouble/party by asking your sketchiest friend who their sketchiest friend is"
@viscid hmmmmm this is a good point. science is, in a sense, decentralized we could use some equivalent of peer-reviewed journals that aren't so fucky tho
@rahshank yeah ultimately the only root way to deal with memetic attack is by helping people root in gnosis / their sense of "I can tell for myself" so they aren't vulnerable to it which is why I've been focusing on that, not tech stuff malcolmocean.com/2023/11/i-can-…
@ESYudkowsky @eshear QC didn't say "that the future outcomes are ~infinitely good or infinitely bad", he said "that doing a thing is". and that's maybe important here? the argument cites the future outcomes, sure, but the sense created in many people is "I MUST DO X" not "this matters a lot"
@ESYudkowsky @eshear you might argue that you've never attempted to convince people that DOING certain things is so important... even though yes the whole lightcone is what's at stake and you might be in some sense right (you seem to have a strong sense of unclarity yourself)
@ESYudkowsky @eshear but my sense is that at least some part of some of the leaders involved, probably including shadow stuff on your part, HAS been pushing buttons of like "this is good to do, this is bad to do", with panicked energy that's hiding under logical argument
@ESYudkowsky @eshear broadly related, although I'm not sure specifically how it applies
you would be a worse creature if you could get yourself to do things you think are stupid
sometimes people think they have an execution/motivation problem and what they actually have is a "the things I'm trying to get myself to do are stupid" problem
@0xsunil what about it? highly recommended
@aleksil79 I mean how stupid is the "else" option? it's all relative
@MatthijsCox @SarahAMcManus some remixes of your remix
@diviacaroline uhhhh yeah it made a bit more sense in context (it was an out loud utterance at the Beyond Goals Intensive today) maybe it needs an "always" this was part of the context:
I don't use twitter on mobile but if I did I would use tech like this
Replying to @vogtbot
@vogtbot @dhh he might mean "seeing Apple-from-the-Steve-Jobs-days turn into Apple-as-it-has-been-the-last-decade"
Thread · Beta-testing coaching for fundamental freedom and frame dialogue · 2 of 4 tweets
Want to help me test some new psychotechnologies that I'm developing? Mental moves for developing more fundamental freedom, self-trust, & capacity to do frame dialogue with yourself & others. I'm opening up some discounted coaching slots (link in next tweet) for beta-testers of:
45min test session for $33 (usually I use a sliding scale $80-$190/h, so this is about half off my low end!) savvycal.com/MalcolmOcean/h…
@dthorson anyone interested in this might love this classic about fractal agency in the brain/mind meltingasphalt.com/neurons-gone-w…
@bonnittaroy @schlaf @dthorson so what is "actually the case" then?
@bonnittaroy @schlaf @dthorson curious what you make of my post "Partswork doesn’t require reifying or naming parts" malcolmocean.com/2023/02/partsw…
@bonnittaroy @schlaf @dthorson would you say that any time you talk about anything you reify it? if so, are you suggesting we not talk about anything, or suggesting we reify different things? and if so, which things?
@bonnittaroy @schlaf @dthorson and if not "any time you talk about anything you reify it", then is there a way to talk about parts without reifying them?
oh no, @kevinsimler your images in the post (not just the preview) are broken... looks like they're trying to go to an IP address not a domain when I actually go to that URL it works fine, but something is wonky http://35.161.88.15/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/two_headed_snake-600x397.jpg
@kevinsimler I used a plugin called Better Search Replace on my wordpress site recently to change a ton of links; could be helpful here!
you can just sell things
yo @nat_sharpe_ I just realized that one kind of doing is selling
(seems highly possible to me that it's actually a historical aberration that between ages 1-5 we close off our sense of self and retreat it into one physical body) twitter.com/IkkyusDen/stat…
@IkkyusDen I'm curious to hear about your crew cycles! I was talking with @HiNaryan the other day about wanting to play around with crewing more
Replying to @IkkyusDen
@IkkyusDen mmm true tho I think for most people a large quantity of the shame that arises from a present day mistake is basically unrelated shame about natural "mistakes" we made when were kids and the self-love is in part forgiving those mistakes
seeing a tweet I find abhorrent, nearly the exact opposite of my core cosmology and wanting to figure out how to express what is good, rather than responding/dunking/critiquing.... it's so tempting to try to attack the thing I don't like, but I've learned that doesn't work
looks like my blog's newsletter signup has been broken for an undetermined period of time (at least 6 months) fixed now! if you want to get my essays in your inbox, now is a particularly good time to sign up: malcolmocean.com/newsletter/
@vlct0rs_tw1tter yeah, that's a very legit reason to respond in-context!
@vlct0rs_tw1tter and sometimes it's good to provide off-ramps or dissent, when someone is suggesting there's only one "way things are"
@TutorVals humans have a long evolutionary history of being superorganisms, as this beautiful post highlights from many angles including our relationship to music/singing, dance, hakas, battle, throwing, and burying our dead meltingasphalt.com/music-in-human…
@TutorVals to your point tho, it seems likely to me that in another sense ancient humans actually didn't have a clear recursive/self-referential sense of self at all (in the same way that a bear doesn't) the sense of self was quite plausibly a memetic invention: vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cu…
@TutorVals relatedly, human reproduction/evolution happened at the person/couple level, but also at the tribe level, where tribes that forgot how to make fire or coordinate in other ways absolutely got outcompeted by those that were capable of such things
@TutorVals group selection is often irrelevant/fake/preposterous, but if there are good units of groups that do coordinate seriously, then it makes sense to investigate it
@_TechyBen a bootstrap of what? what is mind?
@evergrowthadam anger is cheap but pays back in tainted currency nurturing the upward spiral takes energy but pays back (and forward) in something much more wholesome clearly a better investment if you can see clearly and have the resources to spare
@evergrowthadam and I think it becomes easier over time for me now it's maybe sometimes still impulsive to do an angrier response, but inhibiting that takes presence more than it takes effort
Thread · Beta-testing coaching for fundamental freedom and frame dialogue · 1 of 4 tweets
(if you want to book a more open-ended session, my links for that are here, with various suggestions of what my magic is good for)
@JP_Hustle1776 @RealMattCouch Yeah this just showed up in community notes: > This video has been digitally altered to change the appearance of President Joe Biden during a speech on January 6th, 2023. > The original footage can be found here starting at 3:34. youtube.com/live/9e4VcMk8_…
@MasterTimBlais @RebeccaMadison_ @SereneDesiree poignant and apt and underappreciated + screams is a bad metaphor here evolution itself is not freaking out it's simply that if you are confused about what you are, you will have a bad time and you may be able to change what you are, but you may be confused about that too
@p_millerd yeah this is a great phrase
.@charliedbecker, my dude, you can't just write an essay with this brilliant pith and then not have a tweet that simply reads: "do the weirdest thing that feels right"
the essay with that title, for others' reference I haven't even read most of it but this oneliner is already something I can tell I want to chew on for days charliebecker.substack.com/p/do-the-weird…
this is also a perfect case for "aphorisms with nuance attached" as @visakanv put it (but also hasn't made a standalone thread beginning with simply that phrase) you could have a thread following that banger tweet
@visakanv like yeah to some extent you need to write more about it, but also the phrase itself is pretty powerful and you need to give people the ability to amplify it on its own
Replying to @visakanv
@visakanv you do feel like one person who has more pulse than most on the way in which our current era is like the advent of the printing press on a SOCIAL level, not just a tech level
@DecisiveTeam_ maybe not an API problem so much as a "getting people excited to use it" problem you could copy-paste the statements from pol.is to decisive.team if you were motivated enough
huh, looks like "jihad" translated into german is "kampf"
me n who
I just read this very weird article that has given me a bunch of food for thought re memetics and cultural evolution, and a bit of indigestion it's about islam & america & magic & rights, and how dead texts can outplay living ones 🤨 anarchonomicon.com/p/teach-a-man-…
@Morphenius not the same thing at all but I came to your timeline to link this to you because it's relevant to *gestures around* and it's not NOT about memetic history of war
@DrJamesCooke @VinceFHorn a heart pumps blood first into large vessels, then smaller ones, then capillaries
@DrJamesCooke @VinceFHorn the base of a pile of sand is wider than the top
@aboveitall_b @gooddogthedog @reconfigurthing the first few episodes of John Vervaeke's Awakening From the Meaning Crisis touch on the Israelites inventing progress too either ep1 or ep3, I forget. playlist is here. it's good stuff. youtube.com/watch?v=ncd6q9…
Retweeted @Morphenius
This essay is one of the most personally transformative things I've ever read. It's literally the source of why I often fra…
@startuployalist ooooh, example?
@visakanv book that is precisely this vibe along a particular axis amzn.to/48FKr7p
not having a plan can often work great foolishness is failing to make a plan when you need one
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania yep
@Duderichy I do not push the button
Thread · Refusing forced-choice hypotheticals · 2 of 4 tweets
you’ve found someone you believe to be your soulmate after 20 years of marriage would you rather find out 1) they’re going to die of a painful slow degenerative disease over the next 5 years requiring constant care 2) find out they’ve been cheating all along
life doesn't hand you pre-written options. 🌌🏔️ when you're choosing, it hands you a mix of vast uncertain open-endedness 👐😮 and when you're receiving what has happened, it hands you one option
@Duderichy there I fixed it
Thread · Refusing forced-choice hypotheticals · 1 of 4 tweets
I would personally pick the "write your own option" box, and I would like to find out after 20 years of marriage that my wife has a mutation that makes her and some of our kids immune to cancer, and that can be used to solve cancer for the rest of humanity 👍👍👍
@StupendousGrav1 incredible both-and, as long as the new soulmate doesn't also die
Thread · Refusing forced-choice hypotheticals · 1 of 4 tweets
also you are not under any circumstances required to express hypothetical preferences (or even have them) (you are free to, but you don't have to)
@StupendousGrav1 (still super fucked tho)
this is true, and: you are very unlikely to ever encounter a true prisoner's dilemma in your life (and if you do, the game-theoretically optimal thing to do may actually be to plot to screw over the prison guard)
as a teen, I came across Bahá'í Faith, & their idea of progressive revelation made so much sense to me that I got stoked to convert (until I saw no alcohol or premarital sex 😂) at any rate, in retrospect a clear early sign of me being into cultural evolution / development!
this feels like almost exactly what I read half a lifetime ago presumably it made sense to me due to a combination of the sense of progressive revelation plus I could tell for myself that it was moving towards more wholeness (not uhh clear if you look at Islam (vs Christianity))
Thread · How hormonal birth control changed the human sexes · 3 of 7 tweets
few realize this, but the human species has different sexes, biologically, than it did before hormonal birth control and we're still at the very early stages of adapting to the impacts of that
the word "woman" existed 100 years ago, but the creature it referred to at that time basically doesn't exist now (in developed countries) merely the *option* to unilaterally take birth control already makes women now different from women before
I use "biologically" in the first tweet because I'm trying to tap a certain intuition; it's technically false but it might as well be true, because human biology doesn't exist separate from human memetics
@StupendousGrav1 yeah, though ideally it's universal-pluralism like still lots of space for different cultures to have incompatible pantheons of small-g gods while collaborating on the highest levels and mutually recognizing the largest God
@visakanv I have also always been the same mf
it was really satisfying to post this to the internet and get 4 sales within a few hours just like "wow, yep, I can sell things"
(which is of course what prompted this)
Thread · How hormonal birth control changed the human sexes · 3 of 7 tweets
ah right. it's true. "genetically" would have been false, but "biologically" is true sorta like epigenetics, but not quite epimemetics either twitter.com/HephaistosF/st…
how genders will then reorganize around the change in sexes, is an open question there are currently a lot of memetic wars around this but there was never a right answer. there were just the answers that certain cultures used. (ones who got it wrong enough didn't reproduce)
the formerly-stable old gender answers clearly don't apply to the current sex reality meanwhile, a lot of the new answers are figuratively throwing out literal babies with the bathwater they rightly find stagnant & musty
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF yeah, socially, locally, there were "right answers" I rewrote that tweet a bit but a lot of what I was trying to highlight was that unlike other questions that have a universal answer, this had many different answers in different contexts
@sarah_cone I think it's a mix of people not reading this poll (perhaps in part because they already voted on the earlier one that was the same but with only options 1 & 2) and uhhhh people not actually realizing what "write your own option means"
Replying to @nogodbutarceus
@nogodbutarceus what is this meme again?
if you can't, that is ok too
in retrospect I shouldn't have been surprised to find nihilism among the people saying "nihil supernum"
me, looking up: "wow, this book just got real. how your void-staring going?" @utotranslucence: "...I've been... avoiding it"
@utotranslucence the funny part was seeing her watching the pun come out of her own mouth with a mix of horror and delight
me: "are you sure you're not having a flashback to a time when you *were* powerless as a kid though?" @utotranslucence: "ooh! ask me something only someone in a flashback would know!"
Replying to @vivekt17
@vivekt17 I'm here for sincere reflection on edgy topics
Retweeted @utotranslucence
I think this thing has been starting to happen to me the last couple of months and -ow- are the growing pains painful.…
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF nah it's okay. my tweet is intended to take people over a lil hump of not having realized it's a possibility, into trying it some people reading (you, for instance) already know it'll likely go badly I didn't say "it'll go well", just "it's an option"
social punishment is not of a fundamentally different type than consequences that come from the world (eg trying to climb something and falling off)
both social punishment and physical consequences can be treated as a natural part of the learning process, or as something you should have averted in the first place up to you
yes, social punishment often comes with a specific message saying literally "you should have averted this in the first place" that doesn't make it true!
often people get so used to this "you should have already known better" message that they then project it onto rocks & trees & weather, and feel shame that gets in the way of their learning this is a human pathology; deep superego confusion; other species don't do this
as a useful case study, consider how most cats are pretty good at blamelessly negotiating such that they don't do things they don't want to by default, they nope out 🐈 if that doesn't work, they claw til the problem leaves them alone 😾 but then they chill out again 😸
@HephaistosF "you can just climb trees" ^ for some people, that'll also turn out to be dangerous advice if followed. many of those people will already know who they are, and thus won't follow the advice. or they'll know they need to seek more clarity.
@HephaistosF also for some people they CAN'T, physically, climb a tree, safely or otherwise I have the sense we could zoom out effectively and get on the same page about something here, and I'd be interested in trying
@QiaochuYuan nice. what do you think?
just had a great convo with @__drewface exploring how to respond in a situation where a child has thrown a ball and broken a lamp, to support the kid's learning process and not distract them with blame best intro so far to Original Spin youtu.be/Xne9hvE6hTA
featuring one of my all-time favorite tweets: twitter.com/darcyjae/statu…
part of the context that got us there:
Thread · Beta-testing coaching for fundamental freedom and frame dialogue · 1 of 4 tweets
just did 1st session of these, exploring fundamental freedom & full-fractal buy-in was a nice pair—there's a kind of natural segue because one source of unfreedom is conflict with yourself, so in order to be free to do things you need to learn how to self-negotiate / win-win
@visakanv @Divya_Mohan02 @neilhimself I remember at some point nudging you to do it and you said iirc something like "I want to develop my own ideas more first" or something but having just finished it myself, I gotta say, it leaves a TON of terrain uncovered; I don't think it'll prime you too much at all
Retweeted @sheherenow_
food tastes better when they are cooked with love for friends & family clothes feel better to wear when they're sewn with…
Replying to @sheherenow_
@sheherenow_ intend.do is! a few years ago, when I asked myself "what do I want to be the underlying message permeating the app?" this is what came to mind:
I originally came up with this as an answer to the question "how do I want people to feel when they use Intend?" it has now also been tweeted from the Intend account directly:
@sheherenow_ to some extent, I have built it for friends & family, also, which is part of why it has that feeling but also that's just the spirit with which I want to make things, especially things that are as intimate as a system for orienting to what matters most to you in life
Replying to @sheherenow_
@sheherenow_ you might also dig this article about making an app literally just for friends & family, not for a large group of people: robinsloan.com/notes/home-coo…
I'm at about 86/100 vids from the challenge I started 2y ago got a bit janked up counting via not having a good UI to tweet & keep track... and since verification, regularly editing display name to adjust count is maybe weird
new video, talking with someone who's been using intend.do for a bit over a month, about his experience with the system and how it works differently than other systems 2:00 before intend: fragmented backlogs 4:26 how has using intend changed your routine/daily…
haven't reviewed this in-depth myself but I generally like FFTF and this seems like an opportunity to vote towards better privacy protection on non-bank payment systems fightforthefuture.org/actions/protec…
what the fuck is "out"? "turns out" "just found out"
Thread · Wanting a paid human prompt-engineering service for images · 3 of 4 tweets
I want a service where I can describe an image I want, to a human, and then they figure out how to prompt-engineer well enough to get me two images that match my description fully, which they then send to me (prompt too). Is this a thing? Ideally 1-4h turnaround. Paid ofc ($20?)
When I can get the AI to literally give me what I ask for, it's great, but often it takes me an hour or two of iterating to even just get that. This isn't stylistic stuff; I'm trying to illustrate unusual metaphorical scenes and it keeps falling into tropes.
here's an example (quoted tweet) the downside of the service I'm asking for above is that in this case, in the end I iterated to THIS image, that is much BETTER than anything that could match this desc... which mightn't've happened w more prompting skill!
had a dream I was at some party & I got assigned some sort of glitter fairy role whose job was to secretly glitterize everybody without getting cau— wait. fck me, clearly the woman who assigned me was the actual fairy
if you meet the buddha on the road, break his heart
nice descriptive claim you've got there, would be a shame if someone interpreted it as a normative claim...
tweets that can't be misinterpreted just literally can't go viral
@utotranslucence relatedly (click thru for alternative)
@tasshinfogleman then the question is "what's the bottleneck on getting married?"
wow I am having so much fun and learning so much from these calls
one thing I'm learning is that one key for conveying mental moves is to refine the prompt used to elicit a relevant situation for the person eg fundamental freedom works better with a conflict between a "have to & don't feel like it" than an "I want to but I'm afraid"
@mattgoldenberg 🤣 😙👌
@mvongutt didn't miss the chance at all! tho that would make a funny single tweet
@QiaochuYuan yeah fair although arguably people have wildly different interpretations of what the secret was that was revealed! was it a secret about love? about tenderness? about forehead kisses in particular? about the difference between men & women?
@BlindMansion @forthrighter sometimes they do end up facilitating increased clarity, for those with eyes to see
the punchline is that there is no tweet that can't be misinterpreted
brand/desiderata recommendations for CO² monitors?
does writing longing songs about an ex actually help anything? I guess it helps resonate with the feeling of longing, but it also feels to me like it reifies it in a way that could keep it stuck
@sinak mmm goes hard we already have a dyson fan that measures the other stuff tho, so we just need CO₂
"Canny" would be a pretty good name for a startup making AI voice customer support that feels and sounds totally realistic
I'm a researcher studying cultures, like this one.
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
i’ve found a lot of power in saying the simple phrase “i know” to myself.
HUH. "getting" someone to do thing is about drumming up motivation where it doesn't already exist but for yourself, you already have some motivation so it's as stupid as trying to pay yourself from your wallet to your bank account even if it works, it's not for the same reason
@evergrowthadam no, some of them are synergistic with their hosts, and you can tell that the meme is good for you as a very simple example if someone shows you a better way to wash out a stain, you're like "great thanks!" and might show friends or even a funny joke you genuinely appreciate
@evergrowthadam if you want a long and amazing essay about the difference between cancerous and wholesome memes, I highly recommend this piece
my guesses for what the equivalent of glucose metabolism is: - shoulds / "have tos" / justification - panic/anxiety/dysregulation and so fasting involves both physically resting and also doing things for no reason, because you feel like it
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
insofar as some memes are cancerous, reproducing without regard for the wholesomeness of their hosts, what is the equiva…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
part of the magic of being unable to edit twitter threads is that they HAVE to always only be a snapshot of how you were…
@visakanv mmm yeah totally buying a coffee creates a whole story & context for thinking about it it's not about the compensation per se
@GeorgeKao can you post a link to the book? is it preorderable?
@slimepriestess how does achievement map to flight?
Retweeted @monicalimco
All four people are right in their own way and why shouldn't they be?
@AuthorOnTheSide thanks, you're helping me see the obvious: that this manual I wrote (originally as a google doc for friends/colleagues, only much later turned into some sort of book) needs a different title than the original one I gave it malcolmocean.gumroad.com/l/how-we-get-t…
@thisisneer I parsed this at first as "raise prices til people hate you" but then I realized there's a reasonable more subtle thing you mean
Replying to @DGozli
@DGozli oooooh I'd love to hear about a few of your favorite moments from this vid, as part of getting excited to watch it
I love double entendre book titles, that take a common phrase and give it a new meaning eg Mother Nature, below or All The Rage, a buddhist book about embracing anger or Controlling People, a Perceptual Control Theory book got others?
oooh Out of Weakness by Andrew Bard Schmookler is another
@paul_cal nice, yes, exactly! it's a subtle art!
@Blogsbloke THE Encounters DEVIL in Forensic YOU Psychiatry KNOW "Forensic You" sounds like the name of something weird. an indie band?
@evergrowthadam yeah. my best attempt at "what is top down that isn't should" is something like "leadership" basically saying "here's a proposed course of action! any objections?" it's not justifying or trying to override, but it's shifting out of soupy unclarity into "this or what?"
eg is there a reason to not get a random $20 one off amazon?
@Bsunter uhhh no it isn't, what are you talking about? [citation needed]
@KMNDR_ @p_millerd yeah I mean it seems like it was supposed to be sent around internally but not "released" but then someone at WebMD shared it?
@ewanbirney @NateSilver538 I think what Nate is trying to point out is that you'd need a private survey in order to be confident that the opinions being published and cited aren't hugely biased by what's considered misinformation (and grounds for firing or account deletion) in a hostile media environment
@QiaochuYuan I just tried watching the scene on its own and couldn't manage more than a minute of it what the actual fuck I want that minute back
@TylerAlterman also creates more dynasty opportunities for those who can resist the pull of buying shit
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia @sidewayskoyote @eigenrobot yeah these two are also by far my favs in the end I kinda like that they got left out of Jeff Buckley's and the Shrek soundtrack version, because it makes them all the more special
@selentelechia @sidewayskoyote @eigenrobot btw if yall two (@selentelechia & @eigenrobot) haven't seen the bio-film of Leonard Cohen (which weaves in Hallelujah as a background theme) it's worth watching! that song was on like his second album but didn't get noticed for decades
@antediluvn > One colorful way to describe the pattern is that once I have forbidden an option and ceased to entertain it, I no longer viscerally feel the pressures which caused me to forbid the option to begin with.
Retweeted @antediluvn
Brief reflections on the frame of "fundamental freedom" following an experimental psychotechnology session with @Malcolm_Oc…
"once I have forbidden an option and ceased to entertain it, I no longer viscerally feel the pressures which caused me to forbid the option to begin with" — @antediluvn, in this summary of a session we did on Fundamental Freedom appromoximate.com/posts/fundamen…
@antediluvn dude this is great, makes me want to do more sessions with you to find out what you'd write about them
@sidewayskoyote @eigenrobot I mean I could imagine a piece existing that I would love the way I love Hallelujah and it would also feel less stuck so if you write such a thing lmk! here's my best attempt so far: soundcloud.com/malcolmocean/i…
Replying to @avartan
@avartan goes incredibly hard
@QiaochuYuan ....all of these things may be true and I still don't wanna watch that shit 🙈
@airkatakana @alignment_lab yeah somewhat but much less so but that's in part because winning at a sport is a direct competition with a clear arena and clear rules for winning whereas being a popular musician requires skill plus navigating trends etc eg T-Pain can sing
@_Donny_Dude @antediluvn no, you no longer feel the pressures that kept you from doing it like if you just say "oh I couldn't possibly quit my job" then you might sorta feel enticed by the idea of freedom, while out of touch with the actual fears & uncertainties related to quitting
Retweeted @visakanv
i believe in my heart of hearts that i could do this with writing essays. i could write an essay a day easily, i've done a ve…
@visakanv how's this going man? hit us up with a brave essay
@heynibras love to see it. I'm working on some stuff in this space (more "freedom" & "self-attunement" than "happiness" but definitely an end to psychological suffering) and I'm excited at the idea that this wild universe might throw us into a collaboration
I like the idea of the Rat Park studies and used to cite it a bunch but then I heard it didn't replicate. but unlike other weird shit that didn't replicate, it's pretty intuitive and now I'm like ??? so, earnest nerd friends who research stuff lots, what's your take?
@visakanv fuck, this is brave fucken me up a bit
Retweeted @RomeoStevens76
We spend a ton of time on screens but we can't observe each others' Internet behaviors and there's something weird abou…
@danallison @weirdomoots sup @weirdomoots! gonna run a bunch more of these calls 👇 📌 more important (/ requires more agency) thing is to finish writing my I Can Tell For Myself series, maybe make some other moves related to blogging/podcasting etc
Retweeted @eshear
Interpersonal trust as a protocol, by our very own @Malcolm_Ocean malcolmocean.com/2021/09/non-na…
@eshear people who dig this (article or thread) might dig this article about "the meta-protocol", which is what we necessarily fall back on when a given protocol breaks down in various ways malcolmocean.com/2021/11/meta-p…
some scholars say that music predates language, but if anything language was the predator and music the prey
Retweeted @eshear
A friend asked me if I knew of anything written on abstraction and protocols in society. I realized actually yeah, I absolutely…
high time for me to do more podcast interviews 🎙️ tag a podcast you think I'd make a good guest on 🙉
is anyone building an AI that'll harmonize with live singing? I know there are various tools, but I feel like there are more complex possibilities maybe, especially for iterating on potential chords etc
how's your 2024 going so far?
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF oh fuck yeah
Replying to @BruceStarlove
@LavitzStarlove @utotranslucence she just exclaimed excitedly across the room to me that someone made @Genius pages for us (idk if you know that she and I are married!)
Replying to @rpborkowski
@rpborkowski Fuck yeah! Lmk if you want to read some tips I've been writing for navigating the falling-in-love process sanely!
@jonathandubin @jonnym1ller podcast.curioushumans.com/episodes/the-a…
@DanielTabakman could be a good place to promote doing more of these sessions!
@vlct0rs_tw1tter @wendell_britt both are very up my alley!
@SP1NS1R @m_ashcroft fyeah! fun to have it be a slightly less cold point of contact 😊
@m_ashcroft @Delikwu hi @Delikwu! @m_ashcroft, wanna say more about the good convo you're imagining here?
Thread · Wanting a paid human prompt-engineering service for images · 1 of 4 tweets
perhaps, but I figure... A) some people are good enough that they could get it in 1-2 tries (which I can sometimes!) in which case it's $20 for <5 minutes' work! B) someone learning would enjoy getting paid a bit while they learn
@hormeze @jenalden if you haven't seen them improvise the whole track live in the first place, it's a sight to behold. the "Extended" version is actually the original, live version (I am kind of assuming you haven't because it seems to me like the obvious thing to link!) youtube.com/watch?v=hC8CH0…
@jenalden by one of the actors from Hamilton (whole album is great; this is the sexiest song on it) youtube.com/watch?v=EYRXCa…
@jenalden won't be sexy to everybody but is to me it repeats a particular word over & over, relevantly youtube.com/watch?v=nnSyu4…
@jenalden I feel like "sexy playlist" connotes two different things to me, one of which is like a sensual stroke of someone's curves, & the other of which is more of a pounding energy curious if there's one or the other you're going for? (the 2 I linked embody this distinction somewhat)
@jenalden Working on it! 😍
.@bedrockcomputer encouraged me to tweet about what I don't like about MacOS as a reason I'm excited for their system mostly that window management / spaces stuff is completely bonkers but maybe more relevantly, the "Recent Files" is unpredictable to the point of useless
oh man I got really excited for a sec because I misread that tweet and thought it was contrasting "I was betrayed" with "I was wronged" which would have been a really subtle nuance but instead it's probably just both betrayed & wronged and this point is mid
is there an extension which lets me remote-control my computer browser from my phone? like suppose I want to close out a bunch of stuff or hide it or whatever
it continues to feel so liberating to have let go of the idea of thinking of myself or anybody as white
I feel more whole, simple, like a person, less other, less oriented towards "race". and, as I noted last year, less implicitly racist.
whenever there's a race dropdown, I select other, or check no boxes if there's no other box. recently it was "list up to 3 racial/ethnic groups you feel are appropriate to your heritage". I put "Scottish" & "Canadian" (I forget which order)
I don't identify as white anymore. it was never a particularly salient feature, but I felt pressure to adopt it... ...and I think it's *good* to stop identifying as "default race". but bad to identify with a fake race invented for the purpose of racism
it seems to me that "races" altogether are fake, although some are much faker than others and white is the fakest (except for bipoc which is the negative space category "not white")
@GRITCULT I'm more down for it when the buckets correspond to personality types or hogwarts houses 😜 but even still, let people play outside the buckets too
"white pride" is racist because conceiving of anybody as white is racist
@AskYatharth gerrymandered all to shit
@AskYatharth yep yep, those things are real but it's a bad proxy! those questions can be their own things, and should be
@AskYatharth I agree but I think the concept is toxic and we should destroy it and use it only in scare-quotes or in phrases that don't say "white person" but instead acknowledge who is doing the assigning of whiteness eg I would say "I can pass as white if someone is using that category"
@AskYatharth I'm not sure I understand here. race originated as being about genes & origin, and many (most?) people think it still is at least somewhat. when I go to this page I see a picture of increased recognition of its socially constructed, arbitrary nature en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(hum…
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot @AskYatharth some folks who thought they made the rules ruled on this 3 distinct times, in 1928, 1939, and 1942, and uhhh for better or for worse they were with @AskYatharth on this one
Thread · Dropping whiteness as an identity in favour of actual heritage · 5 of 6 tweets
if you're feeling like there's no way to avoid being racist while being white then you're right, because whiteness is an inherently racist concept but that's okay because you don't have to keep identifying as white! you can be Scottish-Canadian, like me, or German-American
don't let people assign whiteness to you that's a racist thing to do (whether or not they also assign whiteness to themselves)
there's a reason that racism is an -ism and not a -phobia it was central to whole ways of organizing society! laws were explicitly designed with whiteness in mind, and whiteness was made for those laws
the heritage of whiteness as a concept isn't anything to be proud of—it's made of racism, as much as having a specific culture—and that's why "white pride" is racist
but "white" people can be proud of their other heritage! I love my Canadian heritage (literally drinking maple syrup) and Scottish heritage (dancing at Robbie Burns suppers) and Scottish-Canadian vibes (wearing a kilt in cold weather)
it's a huge mistake that we keep trying to deconstruct social racism with the same concepts we used to deconstruct legal racism eg "privilege" used to refer to something explicitly enshrined in law!!
Replying to @willmatheson
@willmatheson @SaysEwe there's more genetic variation within "races" than between them (and same for phenotypes in the sense of short/tall, male/female, etc etc) what makes these ones identifiable is only that you can look and point at people, not that they're the best clusters
Replying to @willmatheson
@willmatheson @SaysEwe cultural factors are at least as much generated by geography & bioregion effects, and nearby cultural influences as they are by blood many cultural innovations were only invented once or twice, and otherwise spread
@Altimor if you haven't yet checked out David Deutsch's work, it's a must-read on memetic evolution & attractors. great complement to Henrich start w The Evolution of Culture essay 👇 (finally published!) then check out The Beginning of Infinity if you want more
@willmatheson @SaysEwe blood affects culture, but if culture were reducible to blood it wouldn't be culture. so not "generated by". culture affects blood too! Henrich's The Secret Of Our Success has a bunch of case studies of this on the scale of the whole species
Thread · Dropping whiteness as an identity in favour of actual heritage · 1 of 6 tweets
if someone wants to know if you're white, or doubts that you can ditch the concept, tell them you'll answer a real question, like: 1) do you need sunscreen? (only rarely, for my tan skin) 2) do you want a hairbrush? (hell no, for my Celtic curls) 3) where are your ancestors from?
@visakanv sure but "know them" like "savoir" or like "connaître"? or in the euphemistic sense?
offensive as shit when UIs don't own that they might be wrong this should read either 1. "Our security systems have tagged this as spam. If it's not spam, prove by..." 2. "This person won't accept friend requests from people they don't know, according to hidden criteria."
@mulholo @visakanv likewise I think this could be improved to more precisely pump the intuition maybe the mountain-climbing thing, or maybe in exchange for pebble in shoe the whole time you get a nice view
@gertieok @visakanv clearly you found the highest ice cream probability shape
@TylerAlterman @NathanpmYoung all of this (additionally, it may not be obvious how much sanity or happiness or whatever people give up by leaving villages, even if it's economically reasonable/necessary)
@Meaningness @uncatherio @literalbanana I have a thread about an adjacent phenomenon in relation to "therapy" and "therapists":
@Meaningness I parsed "MPU" as "memetic processing unit" as in something like "human who is unwittingly participating in culture/memetics" which was pretty amusing
inspired by this tweet, have you got an examples of people you usually disagree with but you totally agree with them about one thing they said?
Thread · Song lyrics about love that learns and alters · 1 of 7 tweets
In some sense I love everyone, but not every love is the same As the quest I am called to, hearing the sound of your name Two become one become many, seeds become trees And I'm bound to love you forever, a tether that frees ♫
Thread · Getting married, and how a wedding reweaves social fabric · 1 of 5 tweets
@utotranslucence wrote a new verse of IWBIL for the occasion (wrote most of it on @m_ashcroft's balcony late one night when I was staying at his place in London in Sept)
often when I am away from my computer I find clarity about what to do next... clarity that does not survive first contact with all of the shit that's open on my computer
Replying to @ak_xcix
@_akxcix nah it's just that
@UnforcedAG that seemed likely to be one answer but I imagine it's a lil tedious and there's no way to hide the tabs without even seeing them again in the first place, right?
Replying to @TicaSloth
@TicaSloth I have commissioned artists! but lately I've been feeling less flexible on both things, as you note
Replying to @IkkyusDen
@IkkyusDen @AskYatharth the entire rest of the thread is about this
Retweeted @relic_radiation
the map is made of abstractions the territory is made of sensations
raise your hand if when you see things like this you also try to retune your perceptual system to see through the illusion I managed this one in 10-15s, which makes it fairly tough. I'll put my approach as a reply. curious to hear others!
I was able to see the eyes as the same color by making these perceptual moves, layered in roughly this order: 🖼️ seeing it as one image (not two) 🖥️ flattening it on my screen (vs seeing it as having light/shadow) 🩶 focusing on perceiving all eyes as "grey" (not white/black)
I just used the phrase "Inside Jokes" in a conversation with @vincent_yc_li then jumped up exclaiming "wait! I've gotta go make a tweet!"
@baibhavbista is there a way to have my computer always show a blank screen when I unlock it?
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
dreaming of a distributed, interconnected world of online communities and courses that help foster the next stages of colle…
@baibhavbista muaha I have figured out a way to make Keyboard Maestro do sort of what I want: Trigger: unlock Action: jump to an empty space on which there's only one application (currently testing it w roam, might choose intend.do or something even more minimalist)
muahaha I still don't have a way to pre-choose what will show up each individual time but I've found a simple hack to make it so it's at least NOT twitter
@baibhavbista right but why is my computer my enemy??? surely we can do better than this!
new EA cause
what will your role be at the distributed, interconnected world of online communities and courses that help foster the next stages of collective human development?
@Jeanvaljean689 @visakanv nailed it
Thread · Misattributed quotes as cover versions, and "attribution art" · 1 of 6 tweets
incredible entry (substantially better in context)
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance @lisatomic5 @nptacek @dystopiabreaker holy shit man, one of the biggest things that gets in the way of peoples' capacity to learn is fear of making mistakes give that school an F the way to deal with "poorly handled threat report" is with a gentle/friendly "btw school, here's how to handle something scary"
@lisatomic5 he might appreciate this story from when I was 12 similar energy, of the teacher freaking out about feeling made fun of (as far as I can tell—I never really found out what it was really about, but I think she was just salty that she didn't get the joke)
@moonboi_ suggests to me that if you ever find yourself thinking that a relationship (maybe romantic or otherwise) is in a bad state, it'd be worth going and looking at the ACTUAL last correspondence, just to see
@weirdomoots lolwut, why was this against the content policy. looks like maybe the word "embodiment" since it did fine when I took that out? I tried getting it to say what the full prompt it used was and I didn't see anything scandalous
@_awbery_ wow, exciting! sounds lovely ❤️🔥 mine... kinda turbulent yet still at the same time, maybe like a fish thrashing in a bucket? it's gonna be a year of big changes, for sure
@AskYatharth I think "dark-skinned" mostly suffices here? how relevant is the hair to police stuff, really? I guess Visa would get targeted less with his wavy locks tho, hm. but also like, the police aren't categorizing based on someone's identity, they're categorizing based on how they look
@AbstractRevery @slimepriestess
@slimepriestess well shit, huh. relevant.
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
i fucking love it when i can see thoughts circulating between people on here like yes hahaha we're one big giant brain let…
@QiaochuYuan yessss LFG!~!
Thread · Twitter as a collective consciousness · 6 of 7 tweets
thread collecting tweets about twitter as a collective consciousness or the sense in which mind is happening here
this tweet is what prompted me to make this thread rn, tho I've been thinking about this for 5-6 years > i fucking love it when i can see thoughts circulating between people on here like yes hahaha we're one big giant brain let's fucking go
> they don't tell you when you sign up for the internet that you're learning to notice, harmonize with, and participate constructively in a self-organizing, emergent collective consciousness at the very edge of humanity's shared capabilities
and of course from @jack: > I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness.
that sentence was itself a reference (whether he remembered directly) of a phrase he used 7 years earlier, in a pre-threads tweetstorm in which he delights in users inventing the tweetstorm (& hashtags, @-mentions) thread here: x.com/search?q=from%…
> The desire paths will assemble a mindcity paved with the best individual thoughts (this thread talks a bunch about twitter as an especially-potent medium for thought-remixing) (salient/ironic to note here that they broke full-quoted-tweet-preview)
@QiaochuYuan thanks, your tweet inspired me to make this:
@QiaochuYuan sometimes when I RT stuff I feel like this neuron "relevant to what?" "relevant to me"
applies beyond music youtube.com/shorts/lutOQnl…
@QiaochuYuan huh, I want to make a 4th one that has a more like curious "huh" face that's like "what am I sensing that tells me I'm a failure? why do I think I know that? what does that even mean?"
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
congratulations, you've placed two layers of indirection between yourself and an experience you're having ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ this i…
@visakanv yeah, just last night I saw Jess on the bed on her phone, and sometimes she and I check in with each other about whether we're doing what we want to be doing and this time I asked her "are you having fun?" instead of some other question that'd sound more productivity-oriented
@juliangough Lots is still possible here, though there have been some backwards movements (notably not-previewing the full quote tweets). I'm disgusted by the X rebrand and refuse to capitulate. Twitter belongs to its users, even moreso than other platforms, imo, and that was a violation.
I had a hundred twitter shares in 2022, and voted in favor of the buyout, because I felt like he had a pulse and could pull it away from advertiser-mode. Unimpressed that I now pay (happy to!) and still see ads, unimpressed by sharing ad revenue, but overall still optimistic.
offensive to human dignity that there's no way to say "block this song" on Spotify or YT Music ie "never play this song, even if I put on the album it's from"
"logical or emotional outbursts" is an amazing phrase. delightful to see those two lumped together
one of the striking things about this is that you can see both the earth's spinning and simultaneously the earth's movement through space
@historyinmemes and also, surely, visual artifacts in the foreground that also look like snow??
Retweeted @visakanv
instantaneous, international container shipping of human thought
@visakanv what's the mindcity?
I've been doing this daily purification practice as part of a theurgy course I'm doing, and when I visualize "bad stuff" being pushed out of my body I end up seeing not snakes & insects but ads & spam & grippy moralistic memes. truly the threats these days are the psychofauna.
@s0ulDirect0r it vibed for me with @visakanv as well
@s0ulDirect0r this one is obviously me
@s0ulDirect0r (whether or not @tasshinfogleman meant it that way)
(icymi re psychofauna; term coined by @visakanv as a contraction of "psychic megafauna", explained well by @RichDecibels here)
oh also corporate logos, images of packaging, etc
I used to think that "that which can be destroyed by the truth should be" and I still kinda think that but like not all at once some of it is a vital scaffold that we need to keep a lil longer while we build more truth-robust structures
@Aella_Girl usually is for me too tbh, but it's been interesting to play with it but also it's not per se a meditation, it's part of a theurgical practice obvs depends on what one means by meditation (some sufficiently loose categories would include it)
@__drewface reminds me of Alfred Korzybski trying to replace "think" and "feel" with "have a semantic reaction" but this was too cumbersome so I tried to shorten it to "sem". didn't catch on much even in my own notes/thoughts/sems
Retweeted @Gena_I_Gorlin
To build an amazing life, you need these joint competencies: 1) doing hard, unpleasant things 2) refusing to do hard,…
@patio11 this thread by @vgr talks a bit about how capitalist work is real work about how non money-in-money-out investing involves engaging with the actual question of what's worth building and how we might go about making that happen
@patio11 @vgr it is a truth universally acknowledged, that an investor in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a brain
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“We invested in you because we believed in you. We still do. A sense of honor compels me to say that we no longer believe this…
Thread · Three different Gods worshipped as the Father
if you're wondering how people got the image of the Christian God as a bearded guy in the sky when that's not part of the bible anywhere, the answer is a facepalm: 🌩️ it's Jupiter! (djous-pater, literally "sky-father", Roman version of Zeus)
I went to a Catholic mass for xmas eve, out of curiosity, and I felt like I could tell they were worshipping at least 3 distinct Gods—all as the Father; I don't mean the trinity. Roughly: - Yahweh - Jupiter - the actual singular largest agentic shape / force underneath it all
it was really weird and unpleasant, tbh, to watch this elaborate dance to pretend these are all the same thing to the point of pretending there aren't even different things being made-same a kind of spiritual vertigo
if I had a transcript of the service I could try to annotate where I felt like each distinct entity was being referenced, but it might be hard, it was in the shapes being evoked by the moment, not per se the words
@Fooljeff beautiful
@jmes was feeling sheepish til I checked, but it's not there at all on desktop also I found it on android, then used it on this song, then added the album to queue, and LO the fucking song is in my fucking queue. same if I hit "play" on the album. so WTF is "hide" supposed to mean??
got @ChromiumDev to build on my mac but it's absurdly slow to run, like it regularly just won't register hotkeys or keypresses, and closing a tab with cmd+w isn't instant not an encouraging start to my plots to invent an alternative to web browsers
since we sold out the January seats for the Beyond Goals Intensives, we've set up new sessions for February! come and check out our new content & exercises, as well as get hours of live coaching from a variety of perspectives, on whatever's got you stuck intend.do/event/bgi?tw=M…
thread on how we evolved the course from the previous "Goal-Crafting Intensives" to reflect well, going beyond goals devotional productivity, all that kind of stuff
@patio11 @mbateman @tylercowen so insofar as "sub rosa" means "secret", is it just that it's a secret that it's happening on here? because presumably in a different sense it's totally public
@__drewface "Most People" by @visakanv is close (if we're being precise, "most people" is very different from "the average person" but most people making such comments aren't being very precise) visakanv.com/blog/most-peop…
@__drewface The End Of Average by Todd Rose is a great book on the subject; there may be a summary out there somewhere that could function as a canonical essay
Retweeted @the_wilderless
Solving McGilchrist's Big Problem innerwilds.blog/p/solving-mcgi…
@the_wilderless retweeting this without reading, just based on 1. how important it is for literally anybody to be attempting to solve this problem 2. a general sense you're a good guy for the job
@j_elliot_art @SarahAMcManus vibes
@JamieCombs the meta-framework of knowingly having no meta-framework here are some of the words I've put to it malcolmocean.com/2021/11/meta-p…
@visakanv > and you can't meaningfully disagree without agreeing on what you're disagreeing on dealing with a bit of a mess like this right now in a personal life situation, where I'm like "we are in a conflict where one of the issues is that we don't even agree what conflict we're in"
the nature of insight is you can't control it if you could control it, you'd already understand it
schism/acc megablock.xyz
@Ravi_21M @algekalipso how'd it go? (I just happened to come across this tweet a year later)
I don't know who needs to hear this but if you feel stuck in a situation that you kinda hate because you're afraid it's the best you can do, then... ...probably it's not. and if you leave and find out that it actually was, then you may find you can hate your next situation less.
in other words, the feeling that you're worried you might be settling is what settling feels like. it's about what seems possible, not about what "is" possible.
@MJPiercello @_arvind @visakanv @RichDecibels can we make a live demo of using LoRC, on youtube or something? and kinda map out which step we're on at a given time? what would it take to make that happen?
@_arvind @visakanv @RichDecibels oh cool I now know you substantially better than I did 6mo ago! probably still start planning this for Q2 of this year soon
@slimepriestess haha yeah the two solutions are: 1. in the common space, a three-prong microusb/usbC/lightning cable 2. in a box in the cupboard, a variable-voltage charger with a dozen adapter ends
@AraucariaArauc1 @Aella_Girl they're a must-have for a car and a living-room imo, so that any friend can charge their phone or kindle or headphones
@JimmyRis hmmm bay area... properties.zoomprospector.com/california/com…
Thread · Why definitions of life keep including companies and cities · 7 of 8 tweets
having trouble finding an adequate definition for "life" that doesn't include companies and cities and I feel like this is sort of obvious when considered, but then we go back to acting like it's not true I don't know what the implications are of this
obviously, I'm a living thing. I'm also made of a bunch of living things. and in some sense, but not 100%, I can't live without them nor them without me but {me, the guy walking down the street outside} is not a living thing. it lacks the wholeness / center.
companies and cities definitely have a center but they also have components that aren't living, like money and buildings and furniture and roads and so on but if you zoom in enough, my body also has nonliving elements 🤔
my guess is there ARE key diffs between companies/cities and uhhh bio life, and this is part of why the slippage occurs eg you, like most people, have probably committed a crime (jaywalking, speeding, copyright-bs). but you're not "a criminal" in the ordinarily-connotated sense!
likewise, "life" connotes a bunch of things, including: - capacity for experience, suffering (moral patience?) - needs to breathe & eat & shit - evolved, has a genome - it is wrong to end it - ....probably more
this thread brought to you in part by Geoffrey West's book Scale, and Lewis Thomas's book Lives of a Cell (thanks @visakanv) here's an earlier thread on an intertwingled topic:
is twitter alive? are other websites?
@4confusedemoji good shit, yes
Replying to @mari_lasilva
@mari_lasilva familiar with the word "autopoietic" and the name Varela but aside from that no! go on :)
@MatjazLeonardis "end up in" I would simply not stop doing something random til I ended up somewhere better
"thoughts are easy to change, literally just think of something else" incredible insight: if it keeps coming back, it's not a thought, it's a feeling
@acidshill for me this is because music permeates me in a way that visual art rarely does visual art is over there and I'm over here with music, it's happening with and to and in and of and around and with me
why to people think it's good to have separate business and residential zoning? why would it be bad if people could turn any building into a storefront, an office, or a home?
just randomly occurred to me that you could have a book called something like "Off The Charts: what medical data can't measure" and that would satisfy the double meaning book title thing I was tweeting about the other day
@paul_cal it's close
just came up with a hypothetical new one "Off The Charts" 2,3,6,7,8 in this screenshot actually match this hidden-meaning/double-meaning vibe; the others don't 8 is the best imo
@EmilMieilica @eshear property taxes are beyond fucked but I'm not gonna rant about that because I gave up giving unsolicited georgism awhile back when I realized it was unhealthy for me (and because I don't want @eigenrobot to block me)
who's hosting illegicon 2024?
@MatjazLeonardis wait you think that 99% of people are in the happiest possible situation they could realistically find given any reasonable amount of moves? or are we using "randomly" differently? in practice nobody is capable of making a properly random move even if they try; always steering
@MatjazLeonardis @jonnybhoy219 is anybody suggesting people swap lives with others at random? I'm talking about single concrete changes: - move out of that city/block/apartment you hate - break up with your gf/bf - stop picking up calls from that annoying acquaintance - shut down your business - quit your job
@MatjazLeonardis they weren't random but they were made with less info than you have now you thought you'd like this job/relationship/city/hobby but it turns out you don't! if you don't reconsider those sometimes, you are DEFINITELY not living a well-optimized life
"shame is the experience of having to disconnect from your own desire in order to stay connected to someone else" - @jessicamalonso
back yoself before you attack yoself
"we are only safe to others, when we feel safe regardless of what aspects of our worldview are challenged by those around us (including those with charisma etc)" — @nobuhojimichaan
@AskYatharth hmmmm I found when I visited the Bay a bunch in 2014-2016 I kept getting this feeling of "adrift", which was related to a sense of nobody knowing where I was or if I was okay I don't feel that anymore, partly because I'm with Jess, partially because of BeReal & gmaps loc sharing
rationality is the study of getting ratio'd
@utotranslucence the illegicon that can be named is not the true illegicon 😉
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
this will only make sense if you see that i'm playing multiple mutually-supportive safe-to-run fun-to-play games in pa…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
people (meditators, rationalists, ...) sometimes treat their non-deliberate thoughts as almost like litter on a sidewalk…
@MatjazLeonardis this image is relevant I think, to the sense of a random move being likely to lead somewhere good or not
but the replacement isn't random. it can't possibly be. famously, people tend to date someone who has the opposite traits of the ones that annoyed/frustrated/disappointed them about their previous partner which is a sign of learning. not necessarily net-better, but non-random
@MatjazLeonardis @jonnybhoy219 pretty much everybody I know has had a series of better and better relationships as they got a better sense of who they are, what they like, how to love, how to listen to their own process on the way in rather than steamrolling certain objections/concerns
@MatjazLeonardis @jonnybhoy219 related
Thread · Arc browser's broken hotkeys and incoherent metaphors
was already sick of @ArcInternet browser and planning to switch and the final straw was when I hit cmd+w a few times to close out all the open tabs in a given space... and when it ran out of tabs in that space it closed the entire browser
now arguably this is just code they left in because that's the behavior of an empty browser *window* in other browsers, but there's also no such thing as an empty browser window, there's only a window with one tab close last tab, lose window
but Arc's whole deal is that it doesn't work that way. there's no new tab page, but it sometimes enters a mode where there's no tab at all so I think somebody actively added this behavior
so this behavior of cmd+w shows some mix of: - a lack of attention to the meaning of the metaphors they are trying to employ - a blatant disregard for not overloading hotkeys to do different things in different-but-similar situations, when other hotkeys already exist for that
I already knew they had that disrespect for serious hotkey users, bc they fucking overloaded cmd+z to "undo" closing a tab IFF there was nothing to cmd+z on the page itself. but there's ALREADY cmd-shift-t to unclose!!! let me hit cmd+z however many times I want inside the page
likewise, in today's situation, there's already a hotkey on mac (by default cmd+q but I changed it to cmd+shift+w because I don't like to quit that easily) for closing the whole window!!!! if I wanted to close the fucking window I would fucking use the close-window hotkey!
this is the hotkey equivalent of if your toaster, if you ran it without any toast in it, would unplug itself it's the hotkey equivalent of going to a restaurant, ordering "burger with no tomato and extra onions" and they come back "no onions so we gave you extra tomato"
I wonder if there's a fool somewhere at @browsercompany who thinks that hotkeys should always do something in all situations, and is going around adding fallback behaviors for situations where the default behavior isn't relevant
these guys are the first people I've seen seriously innovating on a new browser in 15 years, kinda ever. glad to see experiments! but they have no coherent idea of what they're doing, as far as I can tell. no principles, no new central metaphor!
they were like "these are your SPACES. you can think of a space as like a ROOM" 🤨 bruh then why didn't you call it a "room"? answer: because it's not. it really doesn't act like a room. the metaphor doesn't hold up. it's incoherent.
anyway, I am getting tempted to try to build a replacement for browsers myself, which is kind of terrifying tbh as it's such a large project I've been chewing on it for awhile but am gradually accepting that nobody else is gonna do it for me
and watching The Browser Company of NY make a beautiful, functional, well-marketed, incoherent mess ...is definitely making that more obvious!
thesis: when websites were passive, having browsers be a neutral tool that let you view them was appropriate. but now that many websites are out-to-get-you, we need a human-web-interface that actively takes your side and protects your attention & intention
now trying out @Stack_HQ's browser, reading their philosophy these two highlighted sentences are in complete conflict imo. the whole point of having different contexts is their separateness & distance: not how *instantly* you can switch between them!!
if I made a browser or browser-replacement, whatever equivalent of spaces it had would maybe offer some ability to easily *send* something to the other space to deal with later but actually switches spaces would take... 5 minutes? that seems about right
what about a mode where switching browser environments would require literally going for a walk? convert home office into work office by walking around the block. why not? that'd be a REAL embodied home-vs-work environment metaphor!!
@onlyfootnotes Paste — MacOS clipboard manager that has previews, app-based colors, search, history, delete, bookmarks, paste-stack comes in handy in many ways, and is powerful yet unopinionated so that you can develop your own workflows with it!
@hey_madni cursor.so / @cursor_ai is a fork of vscode with built-in AI tools that are better than copilot
Retweeted @IntendApp
Heather recorded this spontaneous testimonial about Intend and the Beyond Goals Intensives it's a bit all-over-the-place bu…
@tasshinfogleman mmmm I've been finding it works better to ummm turn the intuitive stillness of my body heart to hold the conscious thinking mind, and then it can drop away or be held or whatever it needs 💗 if I start by dropping thought I get an anxious void in its place before I can orient 🫨
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@tasshinfogleman mmmm I've been finding it works better to ummm turn the intuitive stillness of my body heart to hold th…
vibes with this quote from the coherence therapy folks
> You won’t fully grasp this methodology until you grasp the nimble, active genius of the psyche not only in constructing personal reality, but also in purposefully manifesting any one of its myriad possible states to carry out any of its myriad possible purposes. The client’s…
Retweeted @nowtheo
sentence completion exercises can be really useful for uncovering unwholesome superego voices
@brianjoseff yeah Arc is super incoherent.
@brianjoseff I've been gradually wondering if I'm gonna have to take on reinventing our interfaces with the web myself (here are some of my thoughts on it)
Retweeted @visakanv
2. here is my quick-sketch summary of @Malcolm_Ocean's 2021 dream boat mashup post reddit.com/r/IngroupTwitt… …
@QiaochuYuan yeah unfortunately we don't seem to have a good legal concept for "this might be bad in some ways, don't do it lightly, but we're not gonna give you extra problems for doing it"
abortion also
@relic_radiation ah man I had some really beautiful diagrams of systems attractors for SYDE 332 but I don't appear to have them scanned anywhere. thought I did.... but maybe I intended to buy the textbook that my prof was working on later that year
marriage is a sex cult send tweet
shaktpot
@visakanv @QiaochuYuan I guess also a death cult
@visakanv wow I've never seen "pressed" before
@visakanv sounds like some people are better at focusing their time and energy on what they want to see more of in memory than in real-time
Retweeted @prbmotion
365 days of southern california tides from 2023. Check out a bit about how I made it in the quoted tweet …
@charliedbecker still feeling into it. I've been a goals guy for over a decade, but I definitely need some sort of reboot. not sure what the replacement would be. main thing is just wanting to really slow down and listen
@Bananaplanet2 @AngusTurner9 @QiaochuYuan lottery for tax exemption?
@eshear help them feel both free to do the thing and free to not do the thing (/do something else) and feel into which option they want more
@eshear pomodoro technique is a classic but still in some ways underrated: clarify what you're gonna do, clarify that you're gonna do that & nothing else (even something "productive") for the next 25 minutes—"do nothing" is an option tho! then start the timer.
@eshear "chill out in a chair or on a couch, with no phone or anything to read/do/etc, until you feel like getting up and doing the thing or you get clear that you'd rather do something else"
Replying to @leashless
@leashless @acidiclemon2 undermining democratic norms (which he has also been doing since 2020, but differently) is a completely different class of "bad to have as leader" than "causes wars" hard to compare them. one is recoverable, as a democracy, the other, if you get enough of it, is not.
the power to destroy cannot do you any bit of good unless you can convert it into an increased power to create
@lillybilly299 part of what's weird is that with each additional kid you have the expected number of your genes that you've passed on approaches 100% but never quite reaches it 1 kid: 50% 2 kids: 75% (on avg) 3 kids: 87.5% (on avg) 4 kids: 93.75% (on avg) 5 kids: 96.875% (on avg)
@Raghnaid_Anna @lillybilly299 @Bob430410684345 yeah I got my grandparents on one side to do 23andme and I am straight up 26% my grandfather and 24% my grandmother 👍👍👍
@stephlepp as an utterance, no, but if it represents an insight they're having, and it's truly an insight to them, that enables them to have a different relationship with the world... then yes.
Retweeted @eshear
It might ruin the joke sometimes, but I would appreciate a version of trending on this app that featured the patient-zero tweet…
@eshear that would be so worth it! those who dgaf can ignore if there's a clear enough keyword and slow enough takeoff, I've sometimes been able to find it by searching using until:2024-01-23 and pulling back the date until it shows up
tag yourself (if Female make sure to specify which Female)
wait what in here is even controversial? (I'd question "HBD is correct" not because races are equal but because human averages are fake & so is race)
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania Yeah I was gonna say, compared to us elephants & deer etc *are* born knowing how to walk
I've been realizing that the point of birth is sort of arbitrary wrt an animal's development. Humans have "4th trimester" during which they're carried around helplessly. Infant's role not much different than in womb. Preemies born WAY early develop as normal if given a good env. twitter.com/quotidiania/st…
Retweeted @eshear
Base conversational moves on Twitter: - expand - contradict - reframe - nuance - connect-to-past - mock - request <other move>…
@eshear I was looking for a different tweet but found this one which is quite appropriate too
@s0ulDirect0r It's a sign you're confused about what world you're in... that you either haven't realized that kind (to you) people exist and/or you haven't figured out how to consistently tell which people they are so you can come to expect it and relax into it.
@s0ulDirect0r ie you're maybe having some sort of dream mashup experience here malcolmocean.com/2021/06/dream-…
Retweeted @VividVoid_
At Burning Man in 2018 I stood outside the porta potties with an unmarked bottle of lube, offering people a squirt as they…
@frideswyth VibeBlimp
@hormeze Fucking amazing scene thank you so much for inserting that into my mind's eye
@frideswyth My many 🏴 ancestors are hastening to point out that before 1800 there wasn't a 🇬🇧. Are we talking 🏴 or 🏴 or 🏴?
@s0ulDirect0r hot
I resent astrology for making me think the rest of woo was stupid
if you assume your future wife exists, she's looking for you right now and/or hoping you find her the crazy thing is that this applies on all scales to all potential win-wins that any intelligences could possibly want to bring about
@embryosophy yeah mind-reading is possible but it requires some mind-syncing first; demanding someone already know how to do it is a confusion (also the person has to be willing to be read by you)
@_exoconnor No totally I'm very with you. Naturally tons of selection goes into optimizing it per species. My point is... that the organism needs an adequate environment to grow but it doesn't have to be a womb. The womb doesn't build the being—it makes itself in the right circumstances.
@_exoconnor Or like, there's no single fundamental cut off between those two phases of development, and that's precisely why it can be selected on and thus yield very different patterns by species. (I agree the word "arbitrary" wasn't ideal. Got a better one?)
Retweeted @TylerAlterman
Recently saw townhouse in NYC & thought, “I hope one day I get to live in a home like that.” Turns out that...it's avail…
@tasshinfogleman learning to listen to the stillness of my heart learning how to turn towards whatever pain arises learning how to feel that underneath any buzzy anxiety is a grounded confident "I can tell I don't know what to do here. That's TRUE."
@eshear Makes sense, given we now live in an era of memes being the dominant evolutionary force in the world. (Most obviously maps to infodiet but also romance and spirituality)
Retweeted @eshear
We often think about hygiene in the context of physical contamination. But I've found it very productive to consider the concep…
@everytstudies We're only a few generations into women voting at all, and we're very early in the phase of people thinking of themselves as individuals first rather than families. (A direction which, btw, we are swinging too far in, afaict, tho the synthesis will be not-before-seen)
Bookmarking to try later (By QTing)
@visakanv I have considered mal.com a couple times but I already have enough issues with people misspelling my name and leaving out the 2nd L
@diviacaroline Huh, interesting that something like this wouldn't have already been somewhat selected for as a thing that would just change with age I wonder what else is like this
Replying to @Evolving_Ego
@Evolving_Ego In my case I have become more willing to say obviously true things, even if they're the sorts of things "only racists say" or whatever. Seems key to distinguish"politically incorrect" from "endorsing doctrines of discrimination"
@Evolving_Ego But also if someone isn't thinking for themselves, then when certain things become more obvious as they age, they may adopt a different worldview as a result, without that being actual paradigmatic progress on their part:
@strangestloop Make good sounds with face and strings (good for dance)
@Jeanvaljean689 Maybe tho also hermit archetype. When Bobby McFerrin decided to become a musician he deliberately avoided other music for a couple years in order to develop a distinct sound/voice, and it totally worked.
Retweeted @jessicamalonso
It’s nice that when one person rejects another that the Earth never joins in the rejecting by dropping the floor out fr…
@jessicamalonso "you can't fall out of the universe" as a mentor & friend of mine would say
They Love: subliminal messages but instead of "obey. consume." etc it says "enjoy. delight. have fun. love well"
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia yeah I feel like there's a version that would actually be good but idk how to construct it. in a sense, in the actual good version, the encouragement to enjoy and delight and have fun is embedded in the very wholesome & context-sensitive structure of the architecture etc
@selentelechia my post was inspired by this:
@QiaochuYuan @RomeoStevens76 I sign on this line
listening to this opening song from Mraz's new album and feeling resonance with @visakanv's "I have always been the same mf" "I'm the same as I was, when I was a kid—I always knew I would make it" youtube.com/watch?v=Vi_PTp…
I want more shots like this
@RichDecibels @RonanHarrington
@HamishDoodles @goblinodds I've been tweeting a lil about this as "offramps" but yeah there's a whole thing about how to creates ways to climb out of extreme memetic pits to more balanced places
@HamishDoodles @goblinodds and one piece is that people need some mix of: - new experiences that make new things obvious (hard when current memeplex prevents it) - new memeplex that acknowledges the things currently obvious to them AND some other things the extreme memeplex denies
@calimankaa how do you know?
Retweeted @profoundish
I'm still looking for so many of you, or you're right here and the timing isn't ripe. We will find each other, the time wi…
@profoundish what a mood
it's good for a family's top priority to be its own survival and thrival, whereas if a company makes that top priority then it gets goodharty and exploitative different kinds of superorganisms
@visakanv if you want me involved with such a ceremony (designing or participating) I'm super down I feel like many of us could use something like that. don't want to bog it down in social complexity tho!
Thread · Self-hatred is a contradiction and self-love is inevitable · 1 of 6 tweets
self-hatred is not possible. it's literally a contradiction. hatred requires two different entities, so is not properly self-referential (which is not to say some experience you're calling "self-hatred" isn't real—but labelling two different parts "me" doesn't make them the…
@Jeanvaljean689 Finite and Infinite Games is the first that came to mind, maybe because I just read this tweet:
@VividVoid_ Negation is sometimes useful but in this particular case it does feel a bit waluigi-ish, summoning inferiority to dismiss it I like your images and gns but have long found the phrase very distasteful
@qorprate @VividVoid_ I agree with this tho I also just like, don't want to see the word "inferior" that often
@Jeanvaljean689 Yeah knowledge isn't a thing malcolmocean.com/2023/12/on-kno…
Replying to @selentelechia
Oh man this kinda strikes at the heart of an illustration I wanted to make a couple years ago... something like two halves of a page fighting/negotiating over their boundary.
Retweeted @WoohkaStylie
Christians believe god created earth 10,000 years ago. I think this story - like the apple in the garden of Eden - is act…
@WoohkaStylie Really great take on this here vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cu…
a friend asked for resources on why the skill of “weaving beautiful narratives” is critical for solving coordination problems whatcha got? @visakanv have you written on this?
away-kening
all relationship problems are downstream of people choosing to stay in a relationship where they do not feel like enough or don't feel like their partner is enough please stop
@utotranslucence was this guy a few minutes ago (I wasn't worried she was thinking about other guys/gals, I was just saying sweet loving things and she was like "sorry babe I was just staring into the void" 😅)
@QiaochuYuan my attempt at a steelman, not knowing much about the jhanas and broadly sharing your concerns (based in part on watching weird vibes in jhanabros) is something like... "why shouldn't I stop inhibiting my body from experiencing exquisite delight in the phenomenal world?"
reminder that it's possible to be both very liberal & very conservative (I am) and to be wary of using them as shorthand for "left" and "right" which are ever-shifting opposing coalitions
what if you surrendered to your own "fuck no"?
there is literally one skill and that skill is making distinctions
....but I specifically requested the waluigi of that!
teach your kids about memetics before someone else does
a "frame" is a like a perspective... but reified & dead & hollow
okay so I'm not saying it's not evolutionarily fit, but there's a difference between "fit like a cheetah" and "fit like a sloth"
realization: I am never too much for anyone. they just may not notice when they've had enough
one of the hardest and most rewarding meta-skills is learning to listen for that to which I utterly do not know how to listen
blame is when someone thinks the universe should stop doing something without learning
@visakanv define a word? nah, speak the true name of the word
Wanna meet up in SF to spend 5h looking deeply at your life vision & lovingly untangling the challenges you're encountering on the way? We're teaming up with @thesfcommons to host an in-person meetup for our Beyond Goals Intensive (Feb 11th 10am-3pm). I'd love to see you there!
Here's a link to sign up for the event! There's also a session on Jan 10th but it doesn't have an in-person meetup. And the workshop itself is still online, so you can attend the Jan 11th session without being in the Bay Area. intend.do/event/bgi?tw=m…
if you want to learn more about the event, there's some info on the link itself or you can check out this meta-thread with a bunch of explorations of the magic of these 5h sessions
@eshear I'm a bit worried about the Qlipphoth ngl hollow shell vibes for sure