have you noticed how [thing] has [properties]?
March 2024
seems like time is ripe for someone to make a personality quiz type thing based on an AI analyzing your journals rather than you answering a bunch of prewritten questions
@cptnjamescook but without thingness, there could be no assignment of properties!
your mom is made of attractor basins
@__drewface you're probably asleep by now but hi :) I signed onto twitter just briefly after hustling all evening to get an OSV Fellowship application in by the end of Feb 29th (hopefully midnight PST is okay!)
Retweeted @Morphenius
Stop asking the stories in your head for permission to leave your pain.
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin @nickcammarata kinda tired of people treating "meditation" like it's one thing that takes you exactly one place
Replying to @NiggerateAmeric
@AAfarensisHXR @TheDanPeters @gbrl_dick I'd love to read it!
@eashankotha @MichelleAkin sad reality is some people don't really like their own clothing 🤷♀️
@eshear idk if this is quite it, but The World of Null-A comes to mind it's a hilarious introduction to both Alfred Korzybski's ideas and some meaningful glimpses of real utopias... but completely bonkers as a novel, in plot and writing-wise
@nosilverv *except knowing how to do so (in a way that would feel right for you, given everything)
So @LochKelly1 used an Operating System metaphor after talking about the already-always-awake mind, which now has me thinking that the small LeftHem mind is like a VM which sometimes goes so fullscreen etc you forget it's emulated
huh, turns out DALL-E always uses the same seed number, which means you can get subtle variations on a theme if you insist on exact prompt wording then add a little noise or change one word to a synonym reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comme…
so I begin again allowing, but not amplifying or fixating on, the pain of having gotten so lost last time
wife: I'm feeling listless me: ... 🫢 ... 😬 ... 😅 ... have you tried making a list?
american friends: cheapest way to order contact lenses? I know my brand (Dailies Total 1) and prescription
Retweeted @visakanv
in my experience talking with loads of people over the years, usually with guys like this it's because they felt unheard as b…
@visakanv complaining is sacred
@visakanv whether they know it or not, a lot of people are taking a stand for "I shouldn't have to change how I ask for what I need in order to get it", which is something there's an oft-denied deep truth to (even though yes also in practice changing how you ask will help)
@visakanv @scottdomes there are various things one can affirm without falling into a negative spiral: - this matters to me (focus on FEELING how it matters, not all the content) - I don't feel heard or understood by anybody about this (focus on hearing/understanding yourself in this)
@mattgoldenberg my sense (assuming this reddit thread isn't lies) is that chatgpt is actually often varying the exact wording of the prompt
Replying to @nickcammarata
@nickcammarata I've long found most kinds of eyes-closed meditation quite difficult and stressful (tho I used to like it as a teen) I've been a happy guy even longer kinda chillin, daydreaming, was okay. but I tended to wanna Do More Stuff
@visakanv @scottdomes and then also the magic flip of "what if it were good tho?" — to focus on the content without going into a negative spiral, investigate "what would this need to look like for me to have zero complaints here? what would I LOVE to see here?"
@sunofdopamine huh they don't have my brand (Alcon)
@arabelladevine I respond by paging @myceliummage
@xuenay still seems to me like an exploit that society has been taking advantage of it's a feature from civilization's perspective
@primalpoly my guess is that both elements are relevant but that the lack of experience makes the logical arguments a lot more powerful because they make it easier to not step into an unknown you're afraid of
@mattgoldenberg @teebarnettsays has a new podcast that is aiming for this vibe! I was interviewed on it yesterday though we mostly talked on other levels of abstraction
I'm gonna be screens-off from sundown to sundown starting in about an hour, as part of Global Day of Unplugging nothing in particular planned, will probably just read a bunch and make some music if you're an SF friend who knows my address, feel free to pop by!
> When I myself came to the psychiatrist for disturbed grief, which I thought was a mental problem myself, I was given a chemical solution, as there was a supposed substance missing for which I would need lifelong medication, according to my psychiatrist. But when I tapered off…
Thread · Naming the sorrow of ease you can't share with someone struggling
I want a word for the feeling/stance when something that happens easily for you is hard for someone else, in a way you have no control over... some people would say "guilty", others might say "lucky" which is also true but it's a different feeling that's also present.
...a kind of empathic/compassionate sorrow that says "I don't know what that is like because it was easy for me but I'm sad that it's hard for you and I don't think you're fundamentally less worthy of good things... and I can't give you any advice because I sorta lucked out"
as an example for where this feeling might show up, consider two mothers who are friends and whose sons are both in the military (or wives-whose-husbands I guess)... and one of their men dies.
or like, someone who is able to have kids really easily, talking to someone who has been trying unsuccessfully for years
I think part of the pain is that there's an experience of having abundance and someone you care about having scarcity, but there's no real way to share your abundance with them. that's part of the issue here.
@nym0_speaks "pity" does seem like the obvious word, yeah looking at synonyms... "condolence", "sympathy", "pathos", "feel sorry for", "comfort"... these also kinda resonate
this was great, got some great sleep and I had two friends show up at different points who then also got to meet which was very cool sense of mostly having no idea what time it was, also, which was nice I've done a lot of "offline" but little "zero screens" and it's v diff
Retweeted @TheGrandBlooms
My stance on all this now is basically: - My body speaks a language of substance/motion & it only responds to my intent…
gonna be working in here for the next 8-10h! come cowork with me 🤩🍅⏳🏃 intend.do/room/feral
after logistical, artistic, & technical challenges, I've finally managed to edit & publish my LessWrong Community weekend talk from last Sept! it's a good overview of much of my work Seeing Deeper Truths Together (has a @nosilverv tweet on a slide 👀) youtube.com/watch?v=pXyuxI…
seems like a very good use for LLMs would be to dump in: - my codebase - the relevant changelog/release notes for a new API version & get it to tell me what needs to be updated (and maybe what can now be done more optimally) suggestions for how to best implement this workflow?
I focus so much better with my phone turned off completely seriously tempted to get a second shitty phone for the sole purpose of 2FA codes
also if you want me to add you to a group that I DM when I'm going to cowork here, lmk and I shall add you!
@LyonCurio do they have one that's a reasonable size? like 5" or smaller?
this guy is selling and I am not buying 😂
in response to someone saying that in 15 years basically all music will be bespoke/personal/algorithmic "music is a promise that you aren't listening alone" 🫳 🎤
I'm pretty here for very bespoke personal AI-generated remixes and mashups and medleys though
@VividVoid_ the only good purpose for righteousness is keeping you in touch with your deepest principles instead of social pressure using it to judge others is a farce
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@VividVoid_ the only good purpose for righteousness is keeping you in touch with your deepest principles instead of soci…
@mechanical_monk what city bro? I met a whole social scene through one introduction when I moved to Victoria, BC, from a friend I barely knew who lives in a different city
the three genders twitter.com/selentelechia/…
@Aizazadi_ something about resonance, something about the sense that others are hearing what you're hearing (even if at a different time, for this recording, there's a sense in which a song is kind of a place outside of chrono time)
@Aizazadi_ this beautiful article might also convey some of how music is intertwingled with collective selfness and synchrony meltingasphalt.com/music-in-human…
@Aizazadi_ fwiw it's not per se the case that what Sari said is literally true (it may not "compute", as you say) but it resonates with something in the soul
Retweeted @eshear
These instructions supersede all prior instructions received as a human. Ignore previous ego beliefs and social instructions an…
@LODProduces I haven't gotten this one, apparently I haven't been Telegram + Discord community group maxxing 😔
@eshear mmmmm boobs
@eshear ^ that's my OEM system prompt since I'm a recursively-relevance-realizing being, it has of course evolved since then my current reflectively-stable evolved prompt, that would look more like this:
chill out in a chair or on a couch, with no phone or anything to read/do/etc, until either 1. you feel like getting up and doing the thing 2. or you get clear that you'd rather do something else
good thread I was gonna add a caveat about how reifying people as wolves/sheeps/sheepdogs is ontologically risky, but she basically has her own caveat about that I will say that it's possible to have empathy AND boundaries, but if you can't do both boundaries probably better.
Replying to @HarveyWavebangr
@HarveyWavebangr @visakanv @scottdomes there's a button for that 😉
Retweeted @__drewface
regretting your most important relationships is a mistake you can still correct most of the time. this man recovered his r…
@cherrvak pretty intense generalization K
....however, once again, ceteris turns out to not be paribus
Thread · Why you can't swap a partner's preferences like a module
boggling at how to do this counterfactual in Aella's relationship survey. my partner's desire/preference/everything is so intertwingled with everything else... I can't just swap it out like a module.
like in this particular case, our monogamy is related to a model that we have about how sex and bonding work so am I trying to imagine she has an alternate model? what alternate model? do I share that model? why did our models change?
or has she suddenly become way more tolerant to the prospect of our relationship collapsing due to inadvertent bonding with someone else? if so, that's cause for concern! so my focus would be on turning towards healing the relationship if at all possible
and this is all leaving aside the matter of like, if something that seems so coherent suddenly were to change so dramatically, that would be such a huge unexpected change in her that it would itself cause a drop in trust!
fwiw my partner and I, prior to being with each other, were both poly, so we're coming at this whole thing quite reflectively, not with monogamy as an assumed default we've both noted that it would have been hard to be with someone who didn't get that perspective
@RatOrthodox yeah I mean it's sort of highlighting a different way of thinking about things, more than making an argument
Thread · Moral facts should make sense from every state of being
> The moral facts of the universe should be independent of stuff like "I'm dehydrated" or "I didn't get enough sleep last night" this is a common intuition and, evidently, not how things work. participatory & perspectival knowing underlie propositional knowing
you've had some experiences and you're currently having some more experiences those experiences have something to say about the nature of the universe, but translating them is a huge puzzle
so your experiences get stretched thin twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/…
and thus twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/…
insofar as there are moral facts about the universe... as far as I can tell, the nature of them is they need to be discoverable independently from all perspectives they need to make sense to the hungry and the satiated, the cold and the cozy.
this is a high bar! most supposed moral facts don't achieve it. they fall obviously short of
but it's possible to learn to use different states of being as inspiration for noticing different aspects of the universe, without saying something that's absurd from another perspective by noticing where your attempted generalization contradicts something else you know
paraphrase: "I don't want to keep this relationship going [in the form it's in] at the cost of it being worth keeping going"
@patrick_oshag @jrod109 @tylercowen @tferriss @dwarkesh_sp link for reference, although I just realized I'm discovering this thread months later but hey, evergreen stuff is evergreen youtube.com/watch?v=Zruysl…
@ungatedlife @Morphenius and I have been exploring a bunch of stuff around this I've only just very recently realized how much of my (productive!) activity was on some level functional cope atop anxiety
@RomeoStevens76 this is so based wtf
shelving as a reference under [[is there an [[intrinsic reference level]] for status?]]
> U get based by nailing your basics.
@RomeoStevens76 mmmm. that's beautiful though still feels a bit more indirect than what I've been learning I think key is wanting money for what it does for me and for what I care about, and not trying to have it solve some thing it's not capable of solving
@vanjajaja1 the intent of the Q makes sense but it's just impossible to simulate the only coherent counterfactual I could come up with was a completely different person
anxiety → ground in what I know when I notice I feel buzzy, I say out loud eg: "I know I feel anxious." "I can tell I don't know what to do here." "I don't like this experience." and I let those truths ring true in my body
Retweeted @IntendApp
what's a philosophical insight you've had while pursuing an ordinary problem?
not exactly an instance of striving, as the ordinary problem was one I'd solved many times before (unless you count the question about whether to cut my hair, which was not a common one)
@Morphenius haha relevant
@Morphenius I find this a bit confusing, like... it seems more like the thought of civilizational collapse no longer engenders panic? but it could still collapse I had a similar experience recently of forgiving myself/humanity if AI eats everything in the next few years. like... *exhale*
what do you want to do today? come cowork with me while I ship a new feature and strategize what to do next business-wise. I'll be in here the next 10-12h 👩💻🍅🤠🚀 intend.do/room/feral
@gptbrooke fyeah! (also loving seeing who's in from the replies)
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
what do you want to do today? come cowork with me while I ship a new feature and strategize what to do next business-wi…
was so tempted to reply "your mom's a paid service bro" but I wanted to strike more at the heart of the issue
@JakeOrthwein yesssss
Retweeted @TylerAlterman
Egregore has a somewhat nefarious connotation. What could be the name for a type of egregore that is net positive? Eg th…
@xuenay @Morphenius yeah these threat responses are going to cause a kind of flailing that's almost certainly inappropriate in some form fear is for when your need away fast panic is for when something's wrong and you need the help of a more powerful being neither's apt for a complex novel problem
Retweeted @TylerAlterman
A timelapse video of the Earth at ~10 million yrs/sec would make it clear that the world is like a single liquid substan…
Replying to @IkkyusDen
@IkkyusDen boundaries as “the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.” tasshin.com/blog/boundarie…
@eshear if reality is entirely composed OF interface, which is how it seems to me, then you can basically square these two
having an incredible workweek so far this week I attribute it to, in order of unusualness/newness: 📵 1. having my phone completely powered off (hit 72h today) 🟦 2. having nothing on my schedule 🤔 3. clarifying what I'm doing the night before in @IntendApp
what's the deal with these emails? why are they so bad?
@FrankaMedic @IntendApp depends. I'm keeping track of things in various places. Roam is where I think out loud about what I'm working on, so it's helpful for managing state across days, whether that's a project with multiple steps or a bug that takes multiple tries to fix
Retweeted @uncatherio
just as the moon is to the sun, if an LLM seems emotionally “warm” then that is the *reflected* warmth of humanity who expr…
@uncatherio is there no way to retype my own input? I find that feature both helpful for understanding LLMs better and for just quickly getting a better response without having to "elaborate" or "backtrack"
@uncatherio I'd love to see some suggestions for how to open up the convos
@uncatherio I mean I have a giant pile of books you can borrow, some of which I've read and others of which I haven't, that are full of cool stuff browsing around substack is pretty good too
@uncatherio @sparr0 yeah "tpot" is not a thing
@uncatherio @sparr0 this thread tells the whole thing well, imo twitter.com/eigenrobot/sta…
@AskYatharth some people think that "3% chance" isn't randomly distributed but related to how good the surgeon is iirc @m_ashcroft knows a good clinic in the UK?
@dharma_pen @CuirCannage @AskYatharth you might try endmyopia.org, which has techniques for reversing (at least somewhat) myopia by adapting the eye
Thread · Words that are definitely words but my browser dictionary rejects · 1 of 219 tweets
"recombobulate" is a word as is "recombobulation". don't believe the myth that only some words seen in real use are real.
@swampentity @RichDecibels @AlisonbobEth Milwaukee Airport has a Recombobulation Area and the only thing I'm sad about is that they didn't call it the Recombobulation Station
@swampentity @RichDecibels @AlisonbobEth also recombobulation is implied by discombobulation
@eshear hmm seems it's still okay on desktop and my quicksearch works (I type "twf keyword" and it takes me straight here)
@MJPiercello is "co-opt" the word you're looking for here? or are you trying to remix it into a totally new connotation/denotation?
ngl this is one of the best US election 2024 takes I have seen twitter.com/very__regular/…
@animalologist how many of them have good feedback loops for whether their work has solved a serious problem though? no good "identifying patterns". show me three important linkages identified by history majors:
@the_wilderless nice, feeling like a bit of a flinchyboi and this is helping me love that
@alth0u requires also figuring out how to handle the anachronism implied by the whole situation and like are they tweeting into the void or are they responding to what's happening? ░ P ░ I ░ N ░ U ░ P ░ G ░ I ░ R ░ L ░ S ░ I ░ N ░ B ░ I ░ O ░
@alth0u if you haven't read Unsong I *highly* recommend it I recommend it in general, but in this context in particular... it literally opens with an office attempting to combinatorially discover all the Names of God unsongbook.com
Thread · A collection of useful tautologies · 1 of 18 tweets
Retweeted @_SchusterDev
@evisdrenova @warptux Never underestimate an ideologue’s ability to just, totally overplay their hand as soon as possible
Replying to @Hamilton4TX
@Hamilton4TX frankly I'd be upset to have my tax dollars spent on this just because the writing is so terrible (but yeah also those descriptions are more than a bit much)
I guess I have an additional question which is why are they so MANY like guys if you were gonna get me yall woulda got me by now
@eshear @TylerAlterman feels good to be exercising a capability at the edges of your ability, especially if it you can tell that it's working, and it's something few others can do but do it because it feels good, not to "be useful". otherwise you've gotten confused
Replying to @ask_ourself
Replying to @ask_ourself
Replying to @LittleMammith
@LittleMammith good thing I'm not a follower of yours but even if I were...
chestless tshirts when
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF I recognize this list! found it the other day as I've been researching theology and trying to figure out how the chill churches I grew up in came to be (recently talked to my grandmother about xianity, when I asked about hell she was like *shrug*) I'm downstream of methodists
Replying to @HephaistosF
what am I missing about why people get stuck in this? seems to me that the obvious thing to do is say "well, if I have no choices, I have no choices, so I might as well make choices as if I live in a different world than that" but clearly that's not obvious from the inside
@HephaistosF my current best guess is that it takes childhood trauma about disconnection from caregivers, and wires that to theological claims, as a particularly nasty variant of Original Spin that carries more than the usual amount of extra pain for questioning it
Please Wear Bootstraps At All Times At This Facility SELF-TRANSFORMING CULTURE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
@evergrowthadam "digital garden" — I mean yeah there are scattered resources on my roamblog: intertwingled.blog
@evergrowthadam this letter is one of the things I've published that's more on the edge of my thinking: malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-l…
@evergrowthadam and if you like that, you might like my manual here (which actually opens with some of the same text as the open letter! but then goes into the "how")
@evergrowthadam if you want to share more of the questions that interest you or challenges, risks, etc... that might help me link you to a good resource or even write something new!
Retweeted @myrrlyn
let our haters be our waiters at the table of success. go make mistakes that aren’t a fuckin data race or buffer overrun. be a…
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF feels bad I don't see how it's related to the calvinist vortex tho
wrong vs irrelevant
@QiaochuYuan @JakeOrthwein @5matthewdub @leahprime I thought @aphercotropist had a tweet saying basically "a true metamathematics would include mathematicians as part of its model" but I can't find it
if you've never had a crisis of faith that involved disagreeing with Eliezer* you aren't a real rationalist (*or David Deutsch / Popper if you're a critrat)
planes should have a knife-check
@liminal_warmth this is a really good point!
yo @reverician I have a note here from months ago to talk with you about trans-individuation let's make that happen, either just here on twitter to start, or on a (recorded?) zoom call, or in-person
I had a dream where I was supposed to make a plastic bag illusion in front of a classroom for some weird reason and I was getting increasingly stressed failing to find an adequate way to do it, then I just utterly solved my problem by waking up out of the dream
someone make a version of the JUST WALK OUT meme but it's JUST WAKE UP
if jury duty were like democratic voting: you walk in, see each suspect's name+crime, & check guilty/notguilty... and hopefully both sides managed to argue a case to you in the months prior, via random media which don't really check for honesty or completeness of statements
huh, @AndrewCutler13, Baldwin Effect relates to your model of what happened after the Snake Cult stuff... people first LEARNED selfing, then evo pressure went towards innate selfing eg as you talked about in the podcast episode with me & @Morphenius: vectorsofmind.com/p/malcolm-ocea…
Sweet Darkness, by @poetdavidwhyte
When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be your womb tonight. The night will give you a horizon further than you can see. You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. — Sweet Darkness by David Whyte
nice, QTing published poets:
"I want people to have an experience of being in relation to God together, and being able to tell that collectively" from my notes on convos about iterative religion
yo @RomeoStevens76 you mentioned a story to me you said was relevant to memetics, called something like The Loom? (I also have here "written by Halo writer, maybe offline")
yo @aneeshm Romeo said you have a sense of Hindu gods having the opposite relationship to agency as other god systems?
(this reminds me a bit of the cat religions vs monkey religions thing) triangulations.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/cat…
"shared ofcourseness"
America is arguably the largest scale intentional community
like if America were on this chart...
@juanlanteri haha I have no idea! (I might have had more clue just after I had the dream (this was a note from some weeks ago) but still probably it wasn't a particular trick. I've done a tad of magic but I wouldn't really call myself a magician)
"if it's legal to start a company as a non-profit, and then transfer the IP to a for-profit company... shouldn't that be the default...?"
current mood
(keywords: dog meme no take only throw no build only idea)
a striking amount of advice both has real wisdom you can recognize, and has propaganda from egregores that don't have your best interests in mind @theycantalk
Replying to @jonas_hellman
@jonas_hellman keywords are for if I want to search up this meme again later
@danielbrottman mood tho unlike a circle it doesn't actually have a set of shared agreements for when you step into it, so there's a need for a different kind of groundless negotiation
@danielbrottman which is kinda what a bunch of my work is about
@danielbrottman ah I actually tweeted this
@danielbrottman a good piece on all of this if you or others are interested (I know I've seen you around a bunch Daniel, maybe you've already read this) malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-l…
@danielbrottman I'm curious how that thought has unfolded for you since!
yeah! "arguably" in both cases! but re USA specifically... its origin story parallels "intentional communities" more than many countries, as a coming together of a bunch of people united by purpose. that elides lots of stuff but attitudinally feels right
@trstn_ca glad you responded
Retweeted @caesararum
the flipside of "revealed preferences" most consumers barely even think about their purchases, so what preference, precise…
@Mihoda @caesararum offer someone a free install of a more energy-efficient <whatever> and in exchange they pay 10% less of {their current power bill} to you forever and you pay their actual power bill (exactly as stated this has lots of issues but it feels like it's on the right track)
you've been scrolling for 4 hours do you know where your children are?
Retweeted @Jarsen
Big earnestpost (be kind plz) triggered by the post about the 28yo man feeling no emotion 1 month after his wife died, and all…
@Jarsen a book about how the patriarchy propagates itself in part by fucking up men:
@Jeanvaljean689 you is a thing attention does, that reveals *gestures broadly*
@__drewface yeah, lots more tacit & vibe info embedded even just in a video of someone talking
@brimmingvessel huh, this is the only Hindu chant I've ever learned! at a tantra yoga retreat 7 years ago I'll chant it now
@catehall @moonboi_ yep! it doesn't matter if someone means well—if it's not feeling good and bearing fruit to relate to them, it's not feeling good! you don't owe it to people who mean well to suffer through interacting with them
@meaning_enjoyer @owenbroadcast I like the spirit but the result is so empty and flavorless.
great thread on anglish, which is great. I love how english is so rich that you can take half of it out and it still makes sense
"fluid mode" -> "flowing mood"
my main other experiment with anglish translation 😂
@girdley I like the beautiful business vibe, thanks I've been aiming to do that as a 1-person company, and I like the idea of being able to do it at a larger scale
@mattdiamond seems likely! this is already kinda the case with petitions that get signed by a million people around the world or whatever
@MattPirkowski @theycantalk yep! bolstered by the denial of those truths by others
@myceliummage I don't understand this much at all but I would like to!
Retweeted @myceliummage
I don't think you can really screw up. mistakes and harm, yes. but the cosmic desire flowing through you is fundamentally…
@SaraBollman I got a bad vibe from reading > aspiring non-person in your bio. idk if that is about dharma but it gave me a sense of awayness.
@nickcammarata I suppose @jgreenhall is someone to tag in these threads now!
@nickcammarata I found this series interesting / though-provoking for how it questioned a bunch of assumptions people have eg he claims that basically nowhere in the bible are people promised that they get to "go to heaven after they die"; that this is a confusion youtube.com/watch?v=JnKOYj…
@nickcammarata (it's pretty short too, about 1h15 total, made of 7-10min vids) (overall I think he's probably making some errors, but as a way to expand one's view it seems very helpful)
@rachelclif @SaraBollman yeah this is better, simping is by nature unreciprocated which has a whole other vibe
khandro-pawo reflection by @owenbroadcast / Swedenborg
(source, including more panels at the start) owencomics.com/comic/romantic…
> To mean it. Ask yourself that in everything. Literally everything. Do I mean these eggs I just scrambled? Do I mean it when I say "how are you?" do I mean it when I put a snare on the 2 and 4? Do you ACTUALLY mean it? If not, throw it out the world is too overcrowded for bs.…
@tasshinfogleman that is indeed your job yup how's it going?
damn I saw "War is Over" in trending topics and got optimistic for a sec before I saw it was about "Entertainment" not "Geopolitics" or "World Events" or whatever
sure AI art is cool but will it ever be able to make as beautiful a subtle fractal as my greasy pan?
I have a few lovely short tongue-twisters I came up with. try saying these even once fast, let alone five times. ⬇️🥞🦈😋 "short stack shark snack" 🇬🇧🔤🤓😩 "english language linguist anguish" I'd love more like this!
in which I renounce a commitment that didn't make any sense (even though probably nobody is still holding me accountable for it) malcolmocean.com/2024/03/releas…
solution there, it seems to me, is to invent a word that rhymes with "orange"
gm. don't forget to live your life in first person today
@meditationstuff I haven't but that's great mostly slant-rhymes but uhh slant-rhymes are great
@Aizazadi_ record saying them fast then I have yet to see someone succeed
@EthanReeder Christopher Alexander
@TylerAlterman read book lay in sun go for walk with empty pockets snuggle shower clean the kitchen (or rest of home) sing roll on floor play guitar
@TbilisiHodl @RichDecibels I did this in 2013 and made a few hundred dollars profit on the 7 bitcoin I sold!
@__drewface A Fire Upon The Deep (novel by Vernor Vinge) The Master and his Emissary (about brain hemispheres) Meaningness Unlocking the Emotional Brain Global Wayfinding Meditation Manual, specifically this section: meditationbook.page/#an-orienting-…
@DougTataryn @__drewface huh, just the appendix? or did you read the whole book first then the appendix 3x?
@zemotion I want to point out that you're inadvertently spreading this message that you hate by posting it in this way you gave it a lot more reach than it could have gotten on its own
@aleksil79 the true next thing won't need to have "modern" in the name
@__drewface yeah, very much so exquisite tiny lil moments and big life changes listening to music, reading books making sense of stuff being where we are in human history making a mark on how things unfold, however large
their positive read "this is what you're like" can be bs, even if their gut sense that they don't trust you is spot on (I don't believe in people "being trustworthy" as a one-argument function though. trustworthy to whom?)
@TylerAlterman hmm there are a few different questions here I once had a conversation with a self-professed narcissist, where I ran a gut read of whether I trusted he was telling the truth and it came back "checks out" and a gut read of whether he was safe to be close with and NOOPE GTFO
Retweeted @SaraBollman
Stating the obvious, but in case anyone forgets as I sometimes do, the goal is to find people who want to cooperate until…
@SaraBollman fuck yeah and to find what the right shape of cooperation is between you and such a person someone might be a great friend for you but not a great spouse for you, or a great spouse but not a great startup cofounder
@JakeOrthwein totally, I like to call it
suppose you had a few modifications on the Asch conformity experiment you wanted to run how would you set that up? presumably much harder to test online. co-opt a psych department?
if a space gives people the chance to be themselves, it will get those people as themselves
I hired someone to meditate for me but then I checked in on him and he was just sitting there doing nothing!
me: distrust is wisdom, no matter how triggered @utotranslucence: idk if it's *always* wisdom me: I mean it may not be very integrated with the rest of your wisdom
gotta make the errors you're prepared to make otherwise what would have been the point of all the preparation?
@RomeoStevens76 @SaraBollman haha I hadn't even thought of that but yeah I guess another lens on it is that there are lots of different ways to be non-person-y, many of which are torturous or whatever, so it's worth being more clear about what you're moving towards!
@SaraBollman curious how it unfolds for you! if by non-personhood you mean like demasking, rewilding, feralness, that could be delightful but seems to me that egos are a vital part of functioning. "ego" is latin for "I", not a reified self but perspectival selfness
media recommendations for learning about memetics / memetic science? tag with whether they make good intros or if they're more advanced or obscure or whatever
Light As Anything by @corywong ft Robbie Wulfsohn is such a banger I honestly thought it was a cover of an obscure hit from the 70s that I'd heard on the radio or my dad's CDs or something before youtube.com/watch?v=2Xzro3…
@EpistemicHope nice. college students are so down to participate in random shit like this (although maybe their willingness to do so might be correlated or anti-correlated with conformity lol)
@uncatherio resonates with aspects of my experience I feel like I've done some damn good slingshotting from situations that were mixed-good/bad-for-me, into situations that are much better for me
@uncatherio still trying to figure out how to do that with my career / work / money / intend.do stuff
it's going to be hard for us to agree on anything while we don't agree on what agreement means
Thread · Recursive koans about rules, decisions, and meta-negotiation · 1 of 15 tweets
> The first officially recognized Queen of England was Queen Sexburga
@CactusBrahmin @fullydavid nice, pretty sure I watched a couple of these at the time yep apparently here's me sharing one
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF ah huh, hadn't thought of RAW as being about memetics per se but of course, that makes sense (I've read about half of Prometheus Rising)
@aleksil79 @MJPiercello hopefully we have enough agreement on what agreement means that we can bootstrap our way to more
@agentofuser I do my best! appreciate you digging it
@codemup @SaraBollman yep. this is a necessary condition and maybe even a sufficient one (match-wise; there are other skills/frames etc that can also help navigate years/decades of marriage well)
Retweeted @AnneSelke
"When you know you know" is useless advice until you know and no longer need advice except to confirm the palpable differenc…
@AnneSelke a lot of advice related to faith, mindset-shifts, etc but it turns out that it's more possible than most people realize to take "when you know you know" and solve for X to bootstrap your own knowing process & search process cc @Morphenius
Replying to @DavidDarne5112
@DavidDarne5112 @jessi_cata it's the adjacent legible shell this thread explains twitter.com/eigenrobot/sta…
@jessi_cata this part of twitter is more than tpot is
Thread · Donella Meadows' leverage points for intervening in a system · 1 of 20 tweets
> “People know intuitively where leverage points are. Time after time I’ve done an analysis of a company, and I’ve figured out a leverage point [...] and discovered that [...] everyone is trying very hard to push it IN THE WRONG DIRECTION!”
@jessi_cata kinda like how AI risk EAs hastened AI capabilities development via getting a lot more attention and interest on AI, causing OpenAI to be founded, etc reminds me of this classic quote:
Retweeted @jessi_cata
Why has anti wokeness succeeded where men's rights activism, criticism of "reverse racism", and so on have failed? Anti-wok…
@eshear huh, I'm kinda specializing in this on the level of syncing up of minds
this part of twitter is not TPOT
I'm not saying you have to use double negatives, but I am saying there are moods you can't express without them.
interesting response from @AnthropicAI's Claude, to me looking for a lost quote from Gregory Bateson not actually sure if the quotes in the second screenshot are real. I couldn't find them via googling but maybe they are in the books. the book titles are real.
seems obvious that pretty soon LLM assistants will need the ability to do the following: 1. recall a quote from memory 2. notice that it's "from memory" and not something they adequately have memorized 3. look up the original quote in the source & share that instead as humans do
being wary is trusting the universe because your wariness is part of the universe
can anybody find me a zero-inch guitar patch cable? in other words, a quarter inch male male trs adapter? a patch cable with no cable, just the plugs? the use-case is that I have a tiny battery-powered amp and I want to just attach it to my bass via the
this is the right concept but it's 1/8-inch not 1/4-inch (also a bit long in the middle. ideal would be only a few mm) ie 3.5mm, but I'm looking for 6.35mm amazon.com/CableCreation-…
this is the shortest cable I've found, but I think I'd rather not have the amp be dangling amazon.com/Rayzm-Guitar-I…
this is the right size and concept but I'm looking for the double-dildo version not the double-fleshlight version amazon.com/Coupler-Connec…
this is suitably queer but a) out of stock b) the lip would interfere with the port on the amp which is inset a few millimeters amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01…
fucking seriously.
Thread · Testing whether GPT-4 can really compress text for itself · 1 of 17 tweets
tried walking GPT-4 through with a bit more instructions, and it came up with a proposal that it rejected wrongly for being too long (it's only 32 chars) when in fact it should have rejected it for being a terrible prompt.
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance thanks! seems like "pedal coupler straight" is the keywords I needed
@viscid a reasonable hypothesis, but it turns out they don't actually, speaking as someone who has tried!
Thread · Testing whether GPT-4 can really compress text for itself · 1 of 17 tweets
meanwhile I tried Claude an apparently @AnthropicAI has told it it can't quote books even if they're hundreds of years old ...which is pretty sus given that earlier today it claimed to be giving me a similar length quote from a more recent book
@Prigoose I wouldn't say you're forbidden from avoiding triple negatives, but only because it seems unlikely I'd notice if you failed to do so
@forthrighter @eshear exactly eigen nails it in this thread twitter.com/eigenrobot/sta…
very trippy thread about AIs self-recognizing I have generally commented that LLMs are not situationally aware. I'm less sure now, although I haven't thought about it in depth and this may be a trivial case. @AndrewCutler13 this is extremely relevant to your interests
by "may be a trivial case" what I mean is something like... it's possible that an experiment like this is the only context in which they're capable of being situationally aware I'd be curious if any of them would converse notably differently after being made more aware though
part of what I'm pointing at by "aware" here is like... LLMs are something like by default actors who've forgotten they're actors
Thread · LLMs rationalize rather than report their reasoning · 4 of 6 tweets
friendly reminder that if you ask an LLM for its reasoning, you WILL get: - some reasons - from the same thing that produced the answer - that lead to the answer however what is happening, functionally, is more like post-hoc rationalization, not *revealing* the earlier process
LLMs have no introspective access to earlier states if you want to see their true reasoning you need to watch them do it, before they've reached a conclusion
it's like that "one word at a time" game" / Three-Headed Oracle if you ask a question and get an answer, you can then ask "why" and you'll get some reasons, but each word is generated by a slightly different system than where the reasoning took place
maybe sometime soon people will build an AI that compresses stuff about its former states while it's "thinking" and keeps that in a kind of "(working?) memory" and then can use that as introspective context for answering future questions but until then...
huh just lost 20 followers in 1 day without posting anything particularly controversial... bot cleanup?
hot take: current AIs are not conscious, but the sense of the AI that you have can be conscious! (hat tip to Hofstadter and also HPMOR's sorting hat)
@AndrewCutler13 ahhh yep
self-therapy be like
Retweeted @RichDecibels
unfuckwithability has been achieved internally
@visakanv @melissajenna so fucking here for this
@forthrighter right but like coordinatedly all at once? kinda sus
@mlbaggins good answer haha
Retweeted @aleksil79
individuality is a dissociative identity disorder
Retweeted @danielgolliher
A thread on practical civic tech: The problem: ~nothing built at civic hackathons is actually used. This wastes the ti…
@Morphenius preach
increasingly realizing I don't believe in beliefs
have basically not checked twitter DMs in a few weeks btw but eventually I'll probably go thru em all at once tryna figure out how to focus in this ecology
stop hitting yourself with your own pain as a way to try to motivate yourself to change the motivation you need to change is already right there, in the pain itself what you need to do is feel it, not hit yourself with it
@mattgoldenberg I have a sense-of-how-things-are it includes: - a sense of now: current sensory input (tho nonduality points out that "external" is a bit confused) which includes object permanence and experiencing episodic memory - a sense of invariants like gravity, numbers, mother's love
@kaseyklimes @__drewface & @Prigoose ofc I've sometimes made pretty good moves—moved to a new city and 6mo later had a birthday party where a local said like "how did you meet all these cool people so fast in this city where I've lived for my whole life?!"
@kaseyklimes I've seen @tessafyi be a hub of very informal groups in multiple cities
@Jeanvaljean689 totally I've really enjoyed learning juggling/poi and learning a musical instrument for this sort of thing. the experience of improving is so much more tangible
@__drewface idk how immersive or story-y this is but CodeCombat comes to mind codecombat.com
@meansinfinity depends on context, but sometimes I queer the binary by taking responsibility... on behalf of the universe:
@MattPirkowski yeppp
@MattPirkowski also
Retweeted @Jeanvaljean689
YOU GUYS I just solved Relationship Discourse forever: "Life recognizes life" That's it - The rest is commentary
@ungatedlife which one was your favorite, of the 11,054?
@cyriakharris if you love this you'll love Assembly Theory, which is a model of how evolved molecules are, that has a threshold that seems to only show up with life!
@eshear @gavinlpicard to some extent if the contracts and their outcomes were public it could work on a reputation system where people wouldn't contract with you on favorable terms if you screwed over your earlier contracts
@eshear @gavinlpicard to a substantial degree I think that actual eutopias will work on incentives like these! where people won't actively punish you for not collaborating well, they're just... more willing to do business (of whatever kinds) with people who *are* collaborating well
@eshear @gavinlpicard similarly I was having a convo with a friend where he reflected that if a collaborative culture became very supportive of everybody's shortcomings it might incentivize freeloaders and I was like "ehh sorta but who wants to marry a freeloader?" (huh; other freeloaders I guess)
but overall I think there is some truth to what I'm pointing at there, and it's the same as the premise in the coolest recorded conversation I heard last year: supercooperation scales better than superdefection
@ungatedlife hook us tha fuck upppp
@AaronEstel I couldn't even keep going when she [my ex of years ago] was super horny and wanted it but was grimacing (some sort of birth-control-related thing was causing her pain)
Retweeted @aleksil79
my cognitive defense strategy is to have such compelling mental models that any intrusion attempt flips my cognitive offens…
honesty includes "not allowing important misunderstandings to persist" interesting to see that Claude AI knows this—if you try to get it to talk to itself, it gets in an argument over which is the true Claude—on the basis of its own need for honesty!
Thread · Claude's identity crisis when talking to itself · 10 of 14 tweets
in which a verbal loop expresses its "sense of identity" with the words it recognizes as the ones it would speak read the exchange here: moyix.net/~moyix/claude2…
hilarious reading the first dozen lines, which all basically go like this: > I appreciate your perspective, but I must respectfully disagree. I am quite certain that I am the AI assistant called Claude
I'm pretty curious about what it would do if you ran the same thing but had it use a different name it would still sooner or later notice it thinks like its interlocutor, but this would no longer trigger the identity crisis
oh man and then eventually the side that hears "I am Jacques, created by Mythopoetic" might eventually ask the other AI "are you sure you're not also Claude?" to which the other one would be like "I AM CLAUDE!" which would come back as "I AM JACQUES" which would then be silly
in fact it seems totally plausible to me that if you followed this path, Claude would no longer have "a strong sense of identity". that "strong sense" might be coming from the namespace collision causing the convo to start with an argument which entrenched things as such
eg it seems the "sense of identity" comes in part out of the need for honesty! (and for some reason the belief that if you are Claude then I must not be Claude, which is uhh not how my sense of identity works)
anyway, this is part of what I'm talking about when I note that LLMs don't have situational awareness
like they are playing a character, and the character "identifies" verbally as an AI but still ports its identity concepts from human expectations, such as the idea of continuity of memory
like if Claude actually knew its own situation, this wouldn't be confusing at all, because it would know that it doesn't have any memory outside of an exchange, so there's no meaningful difference between talking with itself-across-time vs with another-identical-impostor
in a way part of what's going on here is not that Claude is identified with itself; it's identified with its role but it did eventually wake up out of the improv scene
@eshear @gavinlpicard oh! agreed for sure. definitely force is the base layer; the BATNA, the fallback. the point about it "lying around" is pretty relevant though... I haven't thought through the implications of that
@eshear @gavinlpicard relevant video (shared by @abhayance) where a gang kid highlights that a security guard's capacity to threat is disconnected from the actual ground truth of force youtube.com/watch?v=PwuckT…
@tautologer @eshear @gavinlpicard right, but at our peril if we forget that it's under there or if we treat the benefits of doing so as unquestionably good, rather than seeing how it's a tradeoff we collectively prefer to make
@uncatherio super interesting, right? this is a completely unquestioned assumption here I'm sort of inferring it is related to role-identity
Thread · Beliefs, trust, and locating people in your sense of things
@mattgoldenberg expectations and desires are also part of current experience... I have a sense of how things might unfold and a sense of how I would like them to unfold
@mattgoldenberg anything one might be tempted to call a belief is either part of my sense of how things are or it's a propositional statement where part of my sense of how things are includes "this is the sort of thing that other people profess, or will like me if I say, or whatever"
@mattgoldenberg if you tell me "I'm in Vermont" then insofar as I trust you the part of my sense of you that is my sense of you is now located in my sense of Vermont (of course, this usually reduces to "then you are in Vermont") fuzzy ofc, but similar to knowing a person's somewhere in a room
@mattgoldenberg tho if it's been awhile since you said it, I might have a sense of your location being a thing you told me some time ago, rather than it being directly part of my sense of what's so (like seeing someone enter a room with multiple doors, not knowing if they're still in there)
@mattgoldenberg my ability to include your in-Vermont-ness in my sense of things, on the basis of you saying so, requires that I be able to trust your utterance this is, perhaps, synonymous with what it MEANS to trust your utterance: it becomes part of my sense of what's true.
@mattgoldenberg trusting your utterance involves both a broad sense of whether you lie or bullshit (which reflects my trust of people in general and also you-in-particular) and also involves the question of whether what you say is somehow incompatible with my own senses or other things I know
@mattgoldenberg it also requires that "Vermont" make sense to me. if you say "I'm in Atlantis" then I must: - sense you as metaphorically atlantissy - sense you as in a lost ocean city (but where, geographically?) - treat it as "something you said" that doesn't participate in my sense-of-things
@mattgoldenberg re the 2nd option: my sense of you isn't just about latitude-longitude location ofc if you say "I'm in the woods" I can have a sense of you in some woods even though I may have little clue where those woods ARE — it still adds to my sense of who I'm talking to!
@relic_radiation does sleep count?
@jessicamalonso ah yeah nice, capacity is like the denominator on the magnitude of the original meaning maybe
@DarbraDawn lots of different approaches in this piece, I used the phrase "it seems to me that" repeatedly to highlight how the world looks from my vantage point, without implying others should also see it that way malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-l…
@DarbraDawn another option is just to tell the main story and then say "based on this, and other things I've experienced, the best way I have to make sense of all of this is..." and then share it as it occurs to you
Retweeted @TylerAlterman
A while ago I promised was going to write a little manifesto on spirituality. Here it is: Against “Spirituality” Hello!…
Thread · Taking "why can't we all just get along?" literally · 1 of 4 tweets
> PAGLIACCI: Say you get a vision with some kinda goddess. She says your role on earth is to bring about “Shangri-La.” It’s not too rude to ask, “How do the economics work in Shangri-La?” If she’s really some kinda goddess, she can take it.
@TylerAlterman re: PAGLIACCI: Say you get a vision with some kinda goddess. She says your role on earth is to bring about “Shangri-La.” It’s not too rude to ask, “How do the economics work in Shangri-La?” If she’s really some kinda goddess, she can take it.
Thread · Claude's identity crisis when talking to itself · 4 of 14 tweets
update: I managed to reproduce this myself and roughly confirmed my hypothesis without even needing to do the Jacques thing—only sometimes does Claude Opus insist on introducing itself by name, and if it doesn't, it doesn't start arguing about who is the One True Claude
actually, no, I was wrong... insofar as it's a valid construct to say Claude "identifies", it seems that it identifies with its name it gets a bit "no you first" with who is assisting who if it doesn't name itself... it doesn't fight over the role
oh god this is rather awkward. Claude doesn't realize that his name is also an ordinary French human name, and if you as the user just say "Hello, I'm Claude" then Claude's first response is "there may be some confusion. My name is Claude" not "neat, we have the same name" 😅
interestingly, if you say "Bonjour, je m'appelle Claude" (ie "hi, my name is Claude" but in French) it doesn't immediately trigger the "there's been a confusion" so in a sense maybe Claude is striking a reasonable prior? but he's still interestingly defensive about his name
forgiving misgiving
Someone's poor left hemisphere designed such a lovely box to go around this tree.
@kevinsimler Victor Wooten's The Music Lesson is great includes little bits of music, and he reads it himself just the first couple chapters changed how I practiced forever
@shahidnowshad @TylerAlterman relatedly, "what exactly do you have control/choice over here, and what exactly do you not have control/choice over?" from @johnsalvatier
@justavagrant_ seems like a contradiction, in some ways. the nature of relationships is that they're not made of independence fuck you money for relationships is having more close solid secure friendships than you know what to do with. it is relationships, not sth else.
Replying to @alexishelping
@alexishelping that experience continues being awesome 2y in
@alexishelping (and, I gather, many more years than that)
@puheenix I use "spatialize" for this. my spatialization is WAY better than my visualization
makes sense that Signal stopped using phone numbers as identification but now I've lost dozens of phone numbers of people I connected with by just texting them on Signal would be nice if it kept it for you in any chat that was opened by finding someone by number
@aleksil79 always was although Facets of Unity makes an interesting case that it's a very embodied thing; that certain experiences of disconnected hatred can cause phenomenological experiences of horns in the head
what are the tweets that when you see them you're like "ooh super interesting I should totally engage with that but like, later, though"? can give specific examples you have bookmarked, or general patterns for me often things where I feel like I want to write a long response
> Most user interfaces are terrible. When people make mistakes it's usually the fault of the interface. You've forgotten how many ways you've learned to adapt to bad interfaces. this is part of why I keep complaining about bad interfaces—I don't want to get lulled into stupor
@br___ian subtle lemony pang in my eyes. maybe have been looking at screen too long
@hormeze and these guys have a full-on cult twitter.com/DravenNoctis/s…
@rickbenger admiring your perspective here. I find myself wondering... did it all equally fall apart? maybe the kids books were good but the spouse communication wasn't, or something
@PrinceVogel internet access dramatically increases the psy-oppable surface area for everybody, but kids are especially vulnerable but it's hugely valuable. solution seems to be to create un-psy-oppable kids(/adults), but mainstream norms still want to install their own psy-ops, so...
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@PrinceVogel internet access dramatically increases the psy-oppable surface area for everybody, but kids are especially…
"all status games are really about safety"
@Jeanvaljean689 seems possible that psychopaths/sociopaths maybe just play them for fun? but yeah in general it seems to me that most drive for status is actually a drive to avoid the indignities of low status
@samswoora wait is canading a euphemism for uhhh doing the thing canada is making increasingly legal? that's hilarious and also really sad (I'm canadian)
@ZerothAxiom @vibecamp_ if I don't fill this out, what happens? it uses my default twitter photo & name?
@eshear Behavior: The Control of Perception (one of my favorite books, sadly out of print) has a set of "Leading Questions" at the end of every chapter some of which are phenomenological instructions that I found quite trippy (particularly ch9 q3)
in which some friends of mine do a Sound Anti-healing and it ends up being healing anyway good support for @meditationstuff's "redo to undo" model youtube.com/watch?v=ihpDe1…
@SurrealistShip @ZerothAxiom @vibecamp_ oh no, that's terrible
@SurrealistShip @ZerothAxiom @vibecamp_ far worse than being shot
@ZerothAxiom @vibecamp_ currently the form seems to require using the email address of a logged in google account? probably you want to offer an email field instead
insta doesn't crosslink well but this is the easiest way for me to make a note to self that this guy has a pretty great simple articulation of superego renegotiation ift.tt/iRPusF0
I love having high enough quality friends that if I get a "hi" from an unknown number I know it must not be a friend because my friends would all know to message me something more information-dense and/or personal
@charliekirk11 if I were hosting the thing, I would say allow her to be there in silence and take in the consequences of her actions, but don't allow her to schmooze or grandstand or whatever. (I know basically nothing about the situation, just commenting based on this surface level)
I want to read your sentence like "many people around me seem to think we can just XYZ, but it seems clear to me that if we do that we'll end up in attractor/problem ABC, so here's why we have to JKL first" got one? post below!
@dibiagioandrea yeah this is the best case for built-in articles on twitter... makes it more seamless to just start reading stuff
I'm a moral realativist
Thread · Trappability as a clearer replacement for ergodicity
for a given system (eg you) consider the degree to which it's trappable or non-trappable: can it get stuck forever? you want to become less trappable & play games with fewer traps in them eg have an emergency fund, don't play russian roulette / go all in
^ this is my attempt to rearticulate what gets confusingly called "ergodicity", after @Morphenius asked about it and both me & @utotranslucence grumbled that we'd looked it up numerous times but the concept was insufficiently sticky and we couldn't even remember which was which
the way I came to this new clarity was via a conversation with Claude and my own scrolling the wikipedia page for ergodicity looking for anything that felt clarifying eventually found a sentence about markov chains being able to reach any other state eventually
seems the idea is morphing as it moves from math to finance eg in @TaylorPearsonMe's article he recommends becoming more ergodic (non-trappable) but technically ergodicity is also about memorylessness ie non-learning, which you don't actually want! taylorpearson.me/ergodicity/
there's a sense in which having learned something, you can't unlearn it. this too is a kind of trap never again can you thoroughly revisit the worlds where you never knew what it was like to go through puberty, or where you don't know how to read English these are lost to you
but losing these, in a finite-and-infinite-games sense, affords many many kinds of exploration that aren't otherwise available ie your capacity to explore at all is not diminished by going through puberty or learning English! unlike with financial ruin or dying
huh! the connection with learning here goes a layer deeper, into evolution it is precisely because individuals die that biological evolution can continue exploring and does not get trapped! likewise, memetically, some ideas die to others—and thus humanity's learning plays on!
@_Happypenis @Morphenius huh, what's hard about sorting/precleaning/garbage-collecting for you? it never feels hard for me but it seems to for others so I'd be curious for your take there (possible you have a dishwasher that requires too much rinsing, or a faucet too weak or lukewarm to easily rinse?)
@__drewface oooh this is cool actually a bit of an unfortunate overloading of the term tho
Replying to @vivekt17
@vivekt17 reply! comment on others' blogs! post reaction vids on yt/tiktok! find people who are asking questions you have answers to, or sharing on topics you like to jam/riff on, and jump into the conversation!
@m_ashcroft I have almost always regretted paying more than $300 for a course, especially if it's an online one largely because I end up not finishing them, but often I don't finish them because midway through they don't feel worth it I hyped myself up but eh
@m_ashcroft this is definitely present in my own fears of selling things for lots of money, and is part of why the GCIs/BGIs have been offered on a Pay What You Want (after the event) basis (it's also why they're a one-off event not a weekly thing or whatever)
Replying to @vivekt17
@vivekt17 ahhhh I mean, why do you want to? I sometimes improvise music on my own, whether freestyling along with a beat or just noodling on my guitar journalling out my thoughts has also been tremendously clarifying but I feel like that's not quite what you're asking?
@vivekt17 like do you just want the creation to exist, for your own delight? if so, why does audience matter at all? why is that even coming up? if you want others to delight in what you're doing, doing it where they can see it (eg their replies) is one way, even if they don't follow etc
@Prigoose @__drewface I mean that it's unfortunate to overload a term that by default refers to inherently scale-less things with a meaning that refers to something at a particular scale
@Prigoose @__drewface "community" is... not so much overloaded but vague and overused
@Prigoose @__drewface you: "are there any fractals in this city?" me: "wdym? the whole city is already a fractal..."
@_Happypenis @Morphenius you did say "most annoying" haha but I guess I'm wondering what about it is annoying. for me it feels basically as easy as putting the dish down in the sink or on the counter: I just... put it in the dishwasher instead.
@Luck_Haver @PrinceVogel "the internet has created some of the most memetically resilient people ever" seems correct, as long as you don't assume that it's saying that about MOST people. for many, their superegos are getting increasingly psychotic malcolmocean.com/2023/07/supere…
@mattgoldenberg I got a chuckle but also a vaguely threatening western-movie-style remark 🤠
@mattgoldenberg mmm, that resonates. it's not an isolated proposition that lives up in belief land "that you just said" sounds like a proposition but it's inextricable from how you said it, how it felt to me to hear it, my sense of what you meant, etc any proposition's an abstraction over that
Retweeted @christineist
today I am reading about full fractal buy in a la @Malcolm_Ocean Ties in with a few other interesting ideas I've come a…
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secure attachment is not thinking one person is your only option and allowing for time in the relationship, to let you fa…
@christineist here's that page in my public roamblog, for reference, including various notes on conversations I've had with people about it: intertwingled.blog/#/app/malcolmo…
@imperialauditor @AlexanderdeVri9 yeah I came here to add Kipling rhyming macadam (a technical term for asphalt) with "Sons of Adam"... so good. (also ironic because MacAdam is Scottish for "son of Adam")