one tiny joy I experience living in the bay area is taking the Dublin-Pleasanton train from SF when heading to Berkeley, just so I can wait on the open-air platform of West Oakland instead of waiting underground in the city
June 2024
@heynibras I don't know what I'd do! I have very little idea! but I'm also not telling them what they should stop doing. (which is not to say that I think what they're doing is good! killing innocent people is bad!)
what was up with that mean non-binary reindeer? never understood that part "Olive the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names... they never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games"
I hate so much how this site (who I am not naming) approaches things constant paywalls or dark pattern things that look like a paywall, bugging me even though I DID subscribe, and when I click on a new feature just to check it out, I have to fill out a thing
Other meditators: Gotta quiet my inner critic! Who let this asshole in here? 😩 Me meditating: Man my mind keeps saying such positive stuff about me! What a nice guy! 😊
me: I think in order for this convo to work, I need to grok your entire worldview, which I don't understand 🤔 them: ahh, so you admit I'm right! me: no, I just don't think you're (in this moment) capable of adopting my worldview. but that's ok!
Retweeted @utotranslucence
hi twitter @Malcolm_Ocean and I are growing a baby Ocean incoming August
How many Oceans are there in the world? soon gonna be one more 😉👋🌊
@viscid mine is often figuring stuff out, not per se positive "planning mind" etc
@eshear I don't have an answer, but I love the question! eg like, do up&down have more direct-oppositiness than charm/strange? what can be said about how the pairs have different relationships? can we make sense of them in terms of 3 different types of romance?
@eshear @ElytraMithra I'd love to hear your take on these other lil particles and how they feel meaningful to you! (I haven't struggled with this I've just never looked)
@Nina_Compact I think I got this idea from somewhere else but I forget where
@utotranslucence focused my energy on what I wanted to see more of (family) and uhh wow this is really working
@mbateman I had a job making widgets once and I had spare attention while assembling the pieces, which I had to count, so I decided to play around with counting in different bases tried 2,3,4,5,6,12,16, & had special words to ensure each sound meant exactly one quantity (eg 10₂ = "two")
is there a twitter dads chat? I gather there's a twitter moms chat. (sometimes feels like momhood starts at pregnancy & dadhood starts later?)
get rect
@viemccoy haha "we-space" refers to lots of things that still have differentiation/"I-ness" the particular exercise where you stop using "I, me, my, mine" is from @lethalbeef, @AnneSelke, & others. not sure if it's wise to use it for a complex discussion! goldencobra.org/pdf/2018/Kong%…
@cptnjamescook yup!
@lisamahapatra @visionhealer amazing
@meaningfulideas yeah I've been talking and singing to her plenty I can get my voice closer to her than her mum can!
@chasews what are some thoughts you have on dadhood? that seems like the place to start in terms of becoming slightly less strangers
Replying to @IkkyusDen
@IkkyusDen decent chance the people who make it part of their identity are more likely to be deluded... but we really have no idea how many people have gotten major something out of them and aren't (yet?) public about it
Replying to @realgeordierose
@realgeordierose @BardofSuns @IkkyusDen this paper makes a pretty good case that what we observe is in some sense our interface with reality
@realgeordierose @BardofSuns @IkkyusDen in other words, reality and our perceptual apparatus cannot be fully separated (not that they aren't obviously in some basic sense different), which means that a tool for altering perceptual apparatus can reveal useful things about reality x.com/realgeordieros…
Replying to @realgeordierose
I recently talked to someone who said that the fact that men have to pretend not to be attracted to 16 year olds otherwise get labelled as a sexual deviant results in absurd repression (puberty ends ~15-17! this is separate from whether it's socially/ethically wise to act on such, for reasons aside from arbitrary age cut-off dates) (to be clear, I'm not saying I agree per se here or that I have any particular proposals, nor do I know what his proposals were, but I do think laws around this are probably a bit crude and this makes society stupider than it needs to be and worse at dealing with various kinds of threats)
Retweeted @the_wilderless
I can't unsee: commies'll yell at capitalism for heartless, stupid, evil effects, & capitalists'll screech about commun…
@WhettenBrian @the_wilderless left hemisphere specifically as described by Iain McGilchrist
@visakanv yeah keeping books around feels like trailheads to potential conversations. changes the space to know that these ideas are within reach in a physical way sure I could "look it up" but it's a different affordance.
@visakanv (by conversations I mean conversations with the authors)
@visakanv also sometimes the title itself can change someone's life
"information diet" implies the existence of - information grocery store & farmer's market - information fridge & pantry - information cooking
there are lots of selves, but no One True Self, but some Less True Selves
@taharveyconsult that's one of the more true selves, probably? being the universe talking is more coherent than being a fragment of someone's mind talking, is more coherent than being a toaster and a breadknife talking
life recognize life
neotenuous
@shajedulkarim_ epic. have you kept in touch since?
been thinking more about faith & hope lately, and I'm curious how you'd distinguish them not just two definitions, but imagine I can't tell the difference. how do they relate? sort of vaguely imagining religious answers but anything's welcome!
Retweeted @zhukeepa
I've been hosting retreats with respected AI alignment thinkers in which we've “come out of the closet” to each other about h…
delta of unintegrated relevance
the ineffable is bffable
Newcomb's problem but two-boxing is contempt, the thousand dollars is the satisfaction of smugness, and the million dollars is the chance to truly learn from the other person's perspective
people don't get to tell you that you're not allowed to be upset about what you're upset about. they, of course, also get to be upset about you being upset
@rfinz b-f-f-able
@forthrighter totally. though there's probably a similar deeper level to go with this that's still individuated but also feels the inseparability more
remembering that time when someone complimented me on how I articulated something and I almost said "thank you" but then I was like "honestly I've never articulated it that way before so I think we have to give both of us credit here"
@uncatherio I knew this from high school forget the ratio (which I would have learned in celsius) but in F it's at least like 30x, maybe more like 60x?
Retweeted @nickcammarata
people think of meditation like mental exercise, but it's the other way around. lifting is more about psychology—muscles…
Replying to @IkkyusDen
@IkkyusDen if you want to do a bootleg not-actually-a-real-PhD I would be down to supervise you on it. credentials: I have had original thoughts on both McGilchrist & memetics, neither of which is at all a particularly academically owned area of inquiry.
@IkkyusDen I don't have funding to offer though unfortunately. that would be cool though! maybe in a year or three.
Replying to @zestular
@zestular because altruism as a moral framework is quite precisely cucked
oh my god yes
the good parts of twitter are basically this nonstop
Retweeted @eshear
I have come to the conclusion that people think way way way harder than I do about the social signaling meaning of liking stuff…
@fortelabs as an ex-poly person now happily monogamous with someone else who used to be poly, I'm highly in favour of allowing polyamorous culture to loosen your assumptions about relationships so you can take your monogamy as object without actually becoming poly
@fortelabs my wife and I have reflected that we both would have found it hard to be monogamous with someone who hadn't been poly, because there would have just been so many unquestioned assumptions
Retweeted @utotranslucence
I've long wanted something like mandatory user testing/redteaming for government forms and regulations. If a beloved…
shame is the experience of not trusting yourself to learn from an experience
@mvongutt ah nice yeah
Retweeted @eshear
If Twitter was actually serious about allowing engagement w/out displaying identity: pseudonymous threads. The poster can mark…
@visakanv I found the getting-shown-liked-tweets kind of annoying because I was like "that's what RTs are for!" although I guess the stacking of multiple people liking it is a different signal but yeah I don't see the point of hiding Likes
@eshear to be well-organized into larger-but-still-partial-wholes that will take care of us well and be able to be cared for by us (whether families, companies, cities, countries)
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia they grow up so fast 🥺
...in which participants compete for the title of Miss Anthrope 2024...
Replying to @realpotofgreed
@realpotofgreed this tweet basically contains my thoughts on it. kids=people + this: if the impacts of someone else's mistakes are felt by you, not them, then you need to either communicate that to them or gtfo
@visakanv "Photo credit: Tony Hawk" "yeah I had Tony Hawk as photographer at my wedding"
Retweeted @this_is_silvia
making art that you like (vs "what the audience will like") is like putting on your oxygen mask first
@this_is_silvia am splurt
if you're interested in my mating dance course (Non-Naive Trust Dancing in the context of romance/courtship) I'm doing more sessions in July! "how to not let the force of romantic attraction trick you into gaslighting yourself" Learn more & sign up here: mating.nonnaivetrust.dance
Replying to @TylerAlterman
@TylerAlterman @__drewface @Prigoose I went to send you this cool landscape photo I saved but I misclicked and shared this book excerpt first so now you get both (neither is particular to your situation, but both are nice! 💔🫂)
Retweeted @this_is_silvia
gm
it's dangerous to message people who are responsive to messages because then you get more messages this is why I make sure not to be responsive to messages
my pregnant wife: I still can't quite fathom that I'm growing a PERSON. like an animal, yes. a mammal, for sure. but a person? me: no I think that's right actually! you're making a human animal that together we'll love & socialize into being a person
this is a delightful way to make the point that has always been so salient to me about Pascal's Wager (and many other things) which is that there's a missing piece (information-theoretically) about the nature of the god that must be believed in to make the wager
"show hidden" changed to "show probable spam" which I initially appreciated as it seemed like it would make me less likely to click it but I clicked it anyway, because FAFO and not only is it not spam, it's from a PAID VERIFIED ACCOUNT I HAVE 80 MUTUALS WITH @forthrighter
@eshear what about times when it's creating an allegiance within that group? same phenom or a cousin? eg unifying catholics & protestants in the 80s to create a religious voting bloc eg the invention of hispanic identity eg the invention of "whiteness"
"hispanic" as a term is politically incorrect we should use his/herpanic, or theirpanic
@eshear re the origins of "hispanic" as an identity in the USA
@eshear re the unification of catholics & protestants (which I guess was from the 60s to the 80s, not so much during the 80s) meaningness.com/political-left…
@eshear re the invention of whiteness... I don't actually know that much about the original history, but here's a thread about how it's a confused ontology and other questions are better answered other ways
@BellaRudd1 @eshear @fulligin hmmm the reformation of LBT-no-T in opposition to LGBT+ prompts me to wonder to what extent the original LGBT+ was an uneasy or unnatural union in the first place although once again, there's a Q of to what extent that was an attack from the outside or something else
you don't need to surrender you only need to recognize in exquisite detail exactly what you do and do not have control of
(tbh, you don't need to do that either, but I generally find it works better and hurts less)
also be cautious of memes that tell you what surrender looks like
right? and it was a good low-effort shitpost!
@visakanv visa you need any encouragement these days? whatcha working on anyway? (open to other bids for encouragement tho you may need to include a sample of your work since it matters I think that it's an actual "I want to see that completed" not just generic "go for it!")
linguists, year 2541: the exact origin of the Great 2020s Vowel Shift is unknown... studies are inconclusive me and my friends after watching one dumb vid: "waterMALONE!" 🍉🤩
still sad about XMPP ngl
huh, seems plausible to me that these system dynamics might change dramatically with a 1-2m sea level rise (maybe this is already known to be the case or not the case, idk)
Retweeted @RomeoStevens76
Some people have attempted to systematically categorize optical illusions. This is tricky, since the way we process vis…
huh, I don't get this, from the description, but it sounds neat. can someone explain? @viemccoy maybe?
@kaseyklimes community notes kinda does #3...
if I were to do a lil series of interviews of married couples about how they navigated their courtship / mating dance to get confident that their issues weren't dealbreakers... would you be interested in that? (also lmk if you'd like to be interviewed!)
@visakanv huh I thought that this meme originated from our scene but it looks like there's older references than this
@RichDecibels there's lots of use for cheap lightweight carabiners. I recently bought 6 on purpose and have already had great results the actual blackpill is that people are dumb enough to try using them for climbing even when that's clearly unrealistic, unless there's a sign saying not to
3 days later still sad
@richmondie @utotranslucence yeah it has its appeals meaningness.com/choiceless-mode
drake_dating_mating_dance.png
@yoltartar yeah dating as such is information-theoretically insufficient
@Ruesavatar when I was a kid my uncle used to swing me feet a-sliding on the linoleum while singing that song! (like he'd swing me past on his left, on his right, and between his legs) is that like... a thing? people do with kids? or were you just singing it?
@archerships got eaten by closed-platform chats for capitalistic reasons it's the email of chats—federated, anyone can make their own interface for it, etc
huh okay weird take but someone's LIST OF LIKES should absolutely be private but if you're viewing a given tweet you should be able to see who liked it! the interface matters, when it comes to privacy
@kaidi_wu @histofarch @ProfLaFrance people can respond differently even so! this does seem like something worth measuring, if only because people think it matters and makes a difference, and so if it actually doesn't then that would be a useful result!
@TylerAlterman upvote for your participation in the good vibes & posting about it & downvote for any self-righteous morality says that either of those is somehow wrong.
@TylerAlterman (which, btw, I would not call Liberalism, which means something that's somewhere between irrelevant to this and actively vibing the way you are) everythingstudies.com/2018/12/06/i-l…
@Morphenius this relates to what you're on about this week (and in general) twitter.com/Holy_Caligula/…
@RichDecibels just surrender to the unfolding of everything and trust your intuition no, not like that!!
Retweeted @RichDecibels
ohhhhhh! if you learned early on “when I flow thru life intuitively I frequently get sanctioned, humiliated or ostracised…
@made_in_cosmos @__drewface @RichDecibels
just got a peek at this epic "too close" / "too far" diagram by @JoshBillings "The Goldilocks Guide to Sustainable Relationships"
not all things money can't buy are better than things money can buy
@s0ulDirect0r @strangestloop !! ppl I know? I lived in Ontario most of my 20s! (eg @HiNaryan, @DanielTabakman... also @IvanVendrov is there this month!)
Retweeted @IvanVendrov
"market as Father, government as Mother" explains way too much about politics
@bashu_thanks I still get the "something on clipboard" sensation but it feels chiller now that I have a clipboard manager such that if I forget about it then the DATA isn't lost (only the INTENTION to do something with it) pasteapp.io
@sparr0 @ChrisOfTheFens @tebuevd @fulligin @patio11 sometimes but not consistently in general if you have a critique you probably want to click through to see the context first
@sparr0 imo that's a totally reasonable way to create a copy of a small plain javascript object it's a bit slower than other methods but depending on object size it can still be 100k+ ops/sec, so if you're only every few minutes then it's hardly a problem
@svigalae I have gradually become less of this guy one of the ways it happened was listening to recordings of some conversations where I wasn't there, and noticing all sorts of neat things happening that I wasn't used to (but also sometimes yall slowpokes are legit boring af 😜)
@svigalae can also do it via fishbowling, like being present live for the conversation but in an explicit "not talking under any circumstances" (or sometimes "unless specifically asked"). the explicit rule makes it way easier, for me at least, compared to trying to restrain myself!
@we_tarted @RichDecibels at a certain point I stop calling it a blackpill and start just calling it the darwin awards ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Lester01039813 @WatsonLadd @RichDecibels hm sure but I wouldn't use one that looked like that for climbing UNLESS I knew where it came from (versus the reverse)
Thread · "Cucked" as unwittingly hosting someone else's values · 1 of 4 tweets
this is in a deep sense what "cucked" means; my naming of it here is not a change or an assertion, but an observation of the essence of the word
"so yeah, let's meet at noon tomorrow... well I guess technically today, since it's after midnig—" WHY ARE YOU LETTING A CLOCK CUCK YOU
@cowtung @zestular not weird at all! I'm just calling attention to the intuition behind the meaning in the first place! which anyone can access
@diegocaleiro @zestular say more? (about altruism or sex or some other kind of cucking)
@AnneSelke @EthanReeder @viemccoy @lethalbeef @EthanReeder or @viemccoy, wanna share updates? (we played as a group of 5 (+baby), with a dramatically simplified entrance process because it seems among my people it's actually awkward to drop "I" without dropping everything else at the same time)
@rmbalt hahaha fuck yes
one of my favorite meditations is to consider each percept arising (including thoughts, bodily sensations.,) and go "that makes sense" to each one
@viscid @Vorvayne yeah, in fact
most of the responses I got to this were about things Israel should have done differently years ago basically saying that Netanyahu undermined Palestine and supported Hamas
eg this article timesofisrael.com/for-years-neta…
insofar as this is true (it seems plausible/likely but I'm not saying I've verified it) it gives me the sense that discourse focused on "stop palestinian genocide" is basically missing the point? but ofc it's more dramatic than slow viable visions, supported over past decades
people who are happily married: what was a thing that you thought at some point during courtship might be a dealbreaker, and what was the process like of realizing that on net you did want to be together?
@idiosyncretic decided to just solicit this:
you won't negotiate the way I want to negotiate I won't negotiate the way you want to negotiate how do we negotiate a new way to negotiate?
I've barely looked into this situation (which is why I'm not telling anyone to do anything about it) but it seems to me like it has very strong "you go first" vibes, with both sides saying "the other side won't negotiate!"
over here being public about not knowing what's going on
normalizing civil disobedience
normalizing normalizing
@LordChisholm I think these want to be combined into one tweet: I'm not interested in what you think "should be normalized". Normalize it yourself you coward. do/be it like it's the most normal thing in the world
Replying to @realpotofgreed
@realpotofgreed makes sense! how did it play out?
@MugaSofer Hamas at least identifies as an existential threat to Israel, as far as I can tell? I saw a video of one the leaders of Hamas saying that their mission was to obliterate Israel and repeat the sorts of Oct7 things. (unless it was fake? but no community note that I recall)
@snowboardcouple @idiosyncretic @unfoldtrips epic what's the 🟫?
Retweeted @tracewoodgrains
Reflecting on this from the other side: I am gay, but I have never been drawn to the "queer community" this user sketc…
Thread · The "bad is good, actually" psy-op and its religious roots · 1 of 14 tweets
> too often in queer culture I get the sense of people wanting to tear it all down, to deny any distinction between good and bad, to forestall any examination of whether a choice is worth making so long as it transgresses
well well well, if it isn't our old friend the worst psy-op of all time
Replying to @PrinceManayBora
@PrinceManayBora @__drewface gonna drop without explanation that a friend of mine thinks that if you convert the 2nd law of entropy from the causal to the telic realm, you get the equally inviolable law "friendship must happen organically" (as must romance)
@__drewface my take is that the skill of making relationships work is an underappreciated one, but that it's hard to actually do it wholeheartedly when you didn't commit wholeheartedly your dream is a funny case of that, but it happens in less bizarre ways in reality
@__drewface and one of the ways it happens that people have the belief that they should be able to make (any) relationship work, and they let that dominate their sense of whether they actually WANT to make this relationship work, on balance, given everything
@__drewface (it can happen other ways too, eg just via not being willing to tolerate the discomfort of rejecting someone, whether because it'll make them sad or because you feel like you're not supposed to have the preference you have)
@__drewface this is very much the exact puzzle I'm tackling with people in my online course—giving people the courage and clarity to be wholehearted about their commitment mating.nonnaivetrust.dance/?tw=dream
huh, just noticed that evolution made dying adaptive organisms can self-repair. why not do so forever? well, something will probably eat you eventually—especially if you are never changing and it is. but if your pattern survives via a reproductive life cycle, variation is free
Replying to @realpotofgreed
@realpotofgreed what are the secret bad effects? I don't stop doing things just because people I've never met tell me they're bad without explaining why/how
more of this vibe:
Retweeted @slimepriestess
i'm gonna explain this a bit. there is a "secret language" spoken by children and animals that uses the whole body as a…
Young lady, if you don't stop listening to your own experience and honoring the stillness in your heart... you're gonna be grounded.
what book or article or video has most helped you get/stay oriented towards doing real things that matter (on any scale)? solving real problems, vs going through the motions or falling into traps with other incentives
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
heidegger talked about how hammers can be 🔨 an extension of your will, if they're working 🪨 an obstacle to your will, if…
@CoolPineapple18 came across this awhile later... how is a thermostat tricksy? I like what you're getting at here!
Do you regularly use the keyboard to submit multiline textfields? ⌨️ By regularly I mean "enough that you'll notice and be at least somewhat annoyed by an app if it doesn't let you"
@syn_tacks I'm not disagreeing with you there! (although other things facilitated by physical principles of earth do have wills, such as me)
@syn_tacks I think you parsed me as saying "evolution (as an agent) chose to make dying adaptive" and what I was actually saying was "evolution (as shorthand for the above tautology) had the result of organisms finding lifecycle approaches with dynamic stability, vs indefinite repair"
@james_barton @lxurocks James is making a good point here the genes don't WANT to die, ceteris paribus but there are tradeoffs, and optimizing for living forever is (apparently!) just a thing almost never worth optimizing for, in biohistory so far
@Jess_Chad totally—that's the benefit of sexual reproduction over asexual but asexual reproduction is also subject to what I'm talking about here
Replying to @MikeBenchCapon
@MikeBenchCapon dirt has fewer germs than a subway most of the germs we get come from other people and can't last very long outside other hosts
@sunofdopamine me too. (12/12 for future reference)
@sunofdopamine surprised there isn't more "yes, will find whatever"
@aleksil79 @jd_pressman @AndrewCutler13 @Morphenius just re-read this without remembering having read it back in April. very trippy. I've been meaning to read Blindsight for awhile.
I think the thing I'm tripping out about is more salient now that I've jammed way more with @Morphenius on stuff about the mind's "identity function" and how it is way more sane and stable to actually point that outside the mind, eg to [this organism talking]
what shit are you on about right now? twitter.com/eigenrobot/sta…
I'm a little more scattered than usual these days: - surrender vs going against life's grain - relatedly, the puzzle of locating God - mating dances / falling sanely in love - what is Real / knowing what problem you're solving
@aleksil79 it's a fun idea but when I imagine building it it's "draw the rest of the fucking owl" where the circles are the LLM and the rest of the fucking owl is full on recursive relevance realization / general intelligence
@umbersorrow possible they've been cucked by pedorthists into thinking they're supposed to wear shoes all the time for foot health reasons (this can be true temporarily but if your professional tells you your feet are broken get a new one)
unironically this looks like it could be fun in part because of the variation and because of the fact that you can quit and do something else
this is tripping me out vibes with stuff @Morphenius and I have been on about, on stuff about the mind's "identity function" and how it is way more sane and stable to actually point your "I" outside the mind, eg to this organism talking
@quietretriever always has been 😉
@farawaylaughtr @vivekt17 there's a cluster of people who actually fuck you up while warning you that they'll fuck you up and warning you that you won't believe their warnings but in this case yeah especially with the movie bit at the end he's probably indeed a chill jokester
@nosilverv a friend recently noticed that when I started using a back massager hook*, she had an urge to ask if she could try it and she felt more able to actually voice that rather than suppress it because of modelling turn-taking for her toddler *from other friend's house we were at
@embryosophy HOW. what if they don't pass my trust tests?
@mattgoldenberg nice. what's the one tweet version?
Replying to @rakishromantic
@rakishromantic @acidshill yeah "actress to play hot woman" was the clearest counterexample I found altho lol in shakespeare's time they just had men play everyone
Retweeted @metaLulie
‘making decisions’ doesn’t make sense you look and see what is the decision you’ve already made. it only happens in hindsi…
@_deepfates are there any leftists who like anything?
Retweeted @AlecStapp
“The world is a museum of passion projects.”
@nosilverv skill issue?
@TylerAlterman "not trying to pry" buddy look just say you're prying but you're fine being told off
I don't want to hit the spacebar twice after a period but there is something nice about longer spaces there. what about a font with a ". " ligature that made the space longer...? 🤔
I've always been a bit confused by "build more low-income housing". Is the plan to make some fraction of housing be cheap via price capping? Won't that have the usual economic issues and cause demand to continue to outstrip supply forever and ever? And people won't move because it'll be too hard to find a new place? Is the plan to make the houses ugly as fuck so that they will cost less than the pretty houses nearby? That won't really work; people will rent a closet for $1000/mo in SF sometimes.
@eshear also people won't play with you
@feral_eyes your tweet reminds me of @jd_pressman
I'll chime in on the lineage convo with the comment that I would love to have a lineage to learn from if I actually trusted them but the main work I'm doing seems very new and if any existing lineage had it actually figured out we'd be in a different place by now.
@sunofdopamine also possible I guess that people who don't aren't answering because they're like "idek what that means" should have had "rarely / idk / what?" as first answer
excerpt from @AndrewCutler13's short, inconclusive, but interesting post on AI Doom, talking about Penrose's interpretation that Gödel means we aren't Turing machines vectorsofmind.com/p/the-doomsday…
huh. learning about Penrose's theories... if brains do quantum stuff, this suggests that non-computationality exists at a very low-level and is available to the left hemisphere as well... which seems to me plausible for how it implements something that is in some sense computational but in another sense is rapidly solving various other frame-problem-like-things at many scales constantly in order to do so (given that it isn't working with full-on bits) (originally written as a message to @Morphenius after reading @AndrewCutler13's post on AI doom. may also be of interest to @JakeOrthwein for obvious reasons)
20min vid on Penrose's theory (which I haven't watched yet, just read a few summaries) youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik…
Replying to @ostensiblynil
@ostensiblynil hm, am I missing something here then? I'm aware, broadly speaking, of the phenomenon of people misattributing things to quantum whatever when that's not at all relevant but I had the impression that there's a reason why quantum computing is a different thing
I'm not offhand aware of an app that uses shift-enter for submit although I'm sure there is one shift-enter is more commonly used for "newline in a multiline context where enter is send" (eg in fb comments or all 14 of 14 chat/DM/LLM apps I just tested)
weirdly, google sheets (likely copying excel) uses - shift+enter for "submit cell edits and go to the cell above" - ctrl+enter, cmd+enter, or many other variations for newline in cell - tab for "submit edits and go right" I know it's weird because it trips me up when I expect shift+enter to give me newline like it does in so many other places interestingly these are all considered so basic that none of them are in the official list of shortcuts
blows my mind that I was an adult before I really realized that the sun rises and sets in different places at different times of the year, especially since I used to watch it almost every night in high school (also because there's no other way to have the days get longer)
@___Atin___ @Kir_Lev let me know if you actually find an app that works that way! I'm not aware of any.
@Kir_Lev ah, what did you think I asked?
@meditationstuff my sense is like... in many situations, especially between friends, there's excess bandwidth beyond what's needed to easily convey the "information content"* so the spare bandwidth goes to play and fun *(which is a bs reductionist way of understanding actual dialogue anyway)
Thread · Dennett on language joining brains, and cognition at all scales
“Comparing our brains with bird brains or dolphin brains is almost beside the point, because our brains are in effect joined together into a single cognitive system that dwarfs all others. They are joined by an innovation that has invaded our brain & no others: language.”—Dennett
however, I will note that while other species brains are not joined by language & memetics, they are way more joined and inseparable than most people realize. cognition is happening at all scales
"cognition" itself comes from "to know together"
also here's a link to the post I got that quote from. it's a pretty interesting newsletter on the forbidden website: PLAY MAKES US HUMAN: Letters about the Roles of Play in Human Evolution, Child Development, Culture, and Daily Living
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
Do you regularly use the keyboard to submit multiline textfields? ⌨️ By regularly I mean "enough that you'll notice and…
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF interesting! my impression is that they didn't ever have the recursive operator though? based on talking to a syntactician linguist about this. unless we've somehow lost this since
update. this keyboard maestro macro works great. I don't even notice it
how the fuck am I today years old and just realizing that "eyes" has the word "yes" in it I feel sick. how is this possible
@tyromper resonates with the "don't give kids extra problems" approach. the kid is making a problem for others... instead of accommodating that infinitely, conveying the problem back to him (in a direct non-escalatory way) lets him see the natural consequences
@tyromper I like the specificity of how you responded here. I think a lot of people might have assumed that your "you won't get sympathy" would have meant a harsher response here but it's almost like, you'll get empathy and warmth but no pity or coddling or whatever
I like this and its details. my parents tried to give me "natural consequences" but they mostly just were punishments but named "consequences" (and maybe slightly more relevant than other parents') but here there's something about how the basic physical reality shines through
@TylerAlterman I'm grappling with something like this a bit right now too my sense is that it has something to do with superegoic injection attacks and that you become sort of useless as other people's puppet and also useless as a puppet of your own mind (sorta the same) but still functional
@RomeoStevens76 @TylerAlterman mostly unrelated but I recently watched this delightful short film featuring a narrator voiceover youtube.com/watch?v=cWs4WA…
@lisatomic5 yeah I've increasingly been realizing the unavoidability of solving for distribution
I think part of what's going on here is that they resent the idea that he's making $37k for what appears to be 5 seconds of work. there's a kind of failure to understand business and instead thinking people should get paid based on time and forehead-furrowing. this is hard tho!
man I said that before I even noticed the technique he has where he lets go of the spinning buckets then touches them again to keep them spinning
freshly copped cop-porn
also idk this is kinda related youtube.com/shorts/bz8tDuV…
marinated = soaked in marinade opinionated = soaked in opinionade
@catehall huh, what's passé about explanations?
@TylerAlterman people are trained to feel bad if others are considered better than them and dev stage people (particularly at certain stages) correctly identify that people feeling bad is bad but they incorrectly say "so this stage isn't better than that one"
@hrosspet @exgenesis here's a random tweet from an exchange at the time about this, back when we were still bootstrapping this part of twitter into existence
@exgenesis my sense is that there continue to be a small number of feature changes that twitter could make that would improve this, but they don't seem particularly motivated to unfortunately this has the potential to be such a place for conversation
@KirkegaardEmil oddly enough I actually feel like Mencius Moldbug had the right idea here: acknowledge that all information sources are biased, and let them be biased but force them to display their bias, then synthesize facts out of what they nonetheless agree on unqualified-reservations.org/2007/08/uberfa…
Retweeted @primalpoly
Let's not fool ourselves. If the US political system functioned well, we would have a choice in this election year between…
@BethkeErik @primalpoly yeah I read somewhere that singapore pays all of its members of parliament very high salaries, which both makes it a more prestigious position that attracts better candidates, and also makes it harder to bribe politicians because they're already financially better off
@visakanv these flipchart papers aren't cheap but a hundred dollars or two for a reboot of your brain might be totally worth it can cover all your walls with them, get those parts into the room rather than crammed in your cranium amazon.sg/Post-Sticky-Pr…
@RomeoStevens76 this showed up adjacent on the timeline. thought you might appreciate
Retweeted @RichDecibels
like writing a novel without the letter E, you discover new things by observing the world without using a deficit frame…
@RichDecibels @myceliummage vibes (yo mage can you tweet something that would be even more perfect for me to QT here? I searched from:you+negation and I didn't find anything I was totally stoked about)
just did a trippy experiment as part of understanding mind-vs-me power dynamics, where I intended to stand up in a minute then instructed my mind to do its best to stop that, then got to watch it trying to distract/engross me with my phone 🤳
and for my next trick, I will develop secure attachment between my left and right brain hemispheres!
update! now I notice that I get double spaces after period... but not after other punctuation like "!" and "?"
Thread · Recursive koans about rules, decisions, and meta-negotiation · 1 of 15 tweets
@annafordable possible tbh. and then there's the forces of various other nearby nations who* would prefer Israel gone *as a matter of foreign policy; their citizens are surely mixed in terms of what they think, but alas these countries are mostly not democracies anyway
@sokindling totally. the thing that I'm working on noticing (with @Morphenius's help) is that the distraction comes from some sort of program my mind is running that: 1) at some point I told it to run 2) I'm still giving it energy to run
update: today I was reading a random wikipedia article and I was like "uhh I think I want to do something else" but while trying to orient to that my mind kept reading it but then I was like "I can just turn my head away from the text" and did and holy shit I feel so mighty
I thought someone was blaming me but when I looked closer she didn't seem to be blaming me or anyone at all, just kinda flailing helplessly, which is like blame in its lack of ownership but unlike it it in other ways
@sympatheticopp always terrified of this, so it's relieving to hear you're still alive <3
first thought: weird that those lil sticky-outy bits don't fall off second thought: I guess despite this thing moving crazy fast, there's no wind or weather or anything to knock them off twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGu…
Retweeted @mauve_sky
there are some who are not susceptible to the sirens. they never make it to the sea.
@alexisgallagher @AmandaAskell
that was my thought too, listening to the tiny snippet of the debate I heard tonight where Trump was just saying that Biden was a terrible president and that the country was terrible and the "left" of course also says the country is terrible but America's magic is yet unfolding
in times like these, we turn to the poets youtube.com/watch?v=DU-RuR…
@eshear America's magic is yet unfolding "It's a song of deep intimacy and affirmation of the experiment of democracy in this country" youtube.com/watch?v=DU-RuR…
you're not working soft enough. you need to be working like 100× softer.
you can't do what you can't do. you can learn to do it, or you can discover that despite thinking you couldn't do it, you can. but if, on a given timescale, you can't do it, then you can't do it, and no amount of you or anyone else telling you to do it, can change that
wait did @X just try to make its search smart, thereby making it stupid? I'm trying to find @visakanv's "don't hit the tree" post
oh wait I always get the wrong keywords for this tweet. that doesn't change the fact that the search is showing irrelevant results (and isn't, for instance, being actually smart and fixing my hit->crash into!)
@robbensinger @jamespayor @KerryLVaughan @EpistemicHope @eshear @TolgaBilge_ if you try to move a mountain with an SUV, you just break the SUV or the rope you don't get the mountain moving in the other direction whereas it seems like some of MIRI's efforts may have backfired, in a "don't hit the tree" kind of way
seeking book/vid recommendations for one of the perspectives I'm trying to integrate right now. could summarize it as: - trust in life's curriculum - stop going against the grain of life - surrender without even knowing quite what you're surrendering to - God is trustable - faith
Your Internet Is On Aboriginal Land
(I am not in Australia)
@ObjectOfObjects supposedly you can do it by squeezing your arm while they bite you... probably possible to do the math based on that
@ObjectOfObjects intend.do runs on nodejs and a ton of the synchronization logic (which handles local storage (well, indexedDB) is done using the same file on FE & BE kinda like what you're talking about!
@ObjectOfObjects if I were building it from scratch now I might indeed do that from the getgo, but there's been a lot of refactoring and a lot of other stuff still on the backend
Retweeted @VesselOfSpirit
if you asked me what's the biggest problem in my life right now, i'd have a lot of trouble answering. but i guess if yo…
Thread · Refusing the hypothetical button · 1 of 4 tweets
hypothetically, if you put a gun to my head...
@learning_sprite try queuing one album, then hitting play on another you'll get the first track of the newly played album THEN the rest of the first album THEN the rest of the other album
> be me > Coldplay's old Mylo Xyloto album in my head > open spotify on phone while heading to desk to work > hit play > set it to play from my computer > settling in to work > first track builds & crescendos on its way into 2nd track > album I was listening to yesterday plays 🤬
I hate spotify's queueing behavior SO MUCH. I have rage. it seems there's no way to destroy the queue except by manually doing so (or by listening through it! which makes it hard to reconstruct 👇)
meanwhile, the queue from however long ago will always come first, cutting an album in two WHO, when they hit play on an an album, wants to hear the first track, then arbitrary amounts of other shit, then the rest of the album?
@SpotifyCares? do you care? please fix this crazy queuing behavior and give us a separate "play next" vs "add to end of queue", and let albums just be part of the queue
also I hate that all the audio streaming services are completely incoherent and just offering generic bullshit why are none of you designing innovative interfaces!? there's so much potential here! here's my take:
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF sorta helps but why isn't someone building something where I can be the customer?
what's this for you? one of mine that's salient right now... when you're using some product (software, object.,) - do you have a sense that the experience & intention you're having right now was accounted for? - do you feel honored/loved by it?
Replying to @HephaistosF
@HephaistosF personally (this may not be true for you) I've been surprised to discover how much of the time the supposed consequences were either bluffs or not even something the other person had even said but merely something I'd projected on them
@s0ulDirect0r that book was the first one I picked up! it was good. his models/articulations of what he's doing seem sub-mediocre but he's clearly doing a thing in the space I'm talking about will check out the vids - will probably help me grok the vibe
@FrankaMedic mmm, say more? what's a tweet-sized version of what you got from it?
@FrankaMedic and/or what's an experience in your life that it helped you notice and navigate more clearly
@FunHavar I've read TBOI, and enjoyed it. if I squint I can see some parallels. what's your tweet-sized version of how TBOI is about surrender & faith?
@SP1NS1R ad interim = For The Time Being!
@DylanoA4 "ad interim" = "for the time being"
why are all mens 3/4 sleeve shirts baseball shirts? anybody have a good site recommendation for 3/4 sleeve shirts that are solid colors or more interesting patterns? (can be raglan cut as long as all same color. I have white & black of that already)
Retweeted @MattPirkowski
@Code_of_Kai Left hemispheric retconning is one hell of a drug...
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot I call it X when it does new stupid things and twitter when I'm referring to the ways in which it's still twitter
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot Obama has chimed in (for now) endorsing of Biden some commenters are replying saying the Biden administration basically is the Obama administration, which uhh I think we all kinda knew? like that's the only reason voting for Biden ever seemed good?
Retweeted @xenocosmography
Might be the first meta-preference cascade I've seen. Suddenly, everyone accepts it's a preference cascade, and that p…
the "restore autosave" UI on @WordPress is so hilariously bad. newer version shown on the left (unusual for left-to-right readers where right tends to be newer) and then in order to restore to the red version on the left, you push... 🥁🥁🥁 the green button on the right!
pretty obvious that this is because it's a repurposing of the "restore revision" feature, where the old one would be in the past, on the left the obvious way to fix this would be to just have the autosave be treated as newer/"future", and go on the right!
pretty interesting stuff right now if you search preference cascade on twitter here's a link to the results: x.com/search?q=prefe… (Top and Latest are both good, and pretty similar at the moment)
"they're [Dems] preparing to move him [Biden] to one side, but they're doing it with a special twist: they're baiting republicans into focusing on defeating Biden, when they know that's a false target" "...they're going to bait-&-switch their nominee in the summer" from March
although fwiw I got that video from this article which goes into detail about how it will actually be quite hard to succeed at replacing Biden, and that if someone were coordinatedly doing that, they'd've already gotten more credibility on someone else revolver.news/2024/03/the-le…
Replying to @noltes_pasfyn
apple gets this right in so many places but when they get it wrong they get it so wrong and then gaslight users insisting it's right anyway eg use a hotkey to switch spaces, and further keypresses fire on the old space until the animation has finished. that's not hotkey-style!
@chriswaterguy yeah I am trying to switch to Tidal. it's just a pain to port all the playlists and I'm annoyed I had to do it last year as well to switch from youtube music to spotify (there are tools, it only takes an hour or whatever)
and I'm sad that I'm not actually excited about Tidal, I'm only anti-pissed at it
Retweeted @CEBKCEBKCEBK
It’s remarkable that we call “admitting that one’s preferred candidate is objectively way old” a *preference cascade* whe…
forgot I wrote this banger thread back in Feb
what's the memetic equivalent of a prion?
some of yall have the word "I" and "myself" pointing at consistently different referents and it shows
@prodigygrimes ooh say more? I'd love a tweet-sized articulation of this idea
I like this response. any meme that has optimized for spreading isn't prion-like, more virus-like
bullshit subscriptions. whyyy. anyway, you can theoretically click all of them at once using this script (you may have to type "allow pasting" into the devtools) altho rate limits? document.querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]').forEach((checkbox) => checkbox["click"]())
@ddddddeon a one-liner script for unchecking them all. have only barely tested but it seems to work: document.querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]').forEach((checkbox) => checkbox["click"]())
oh wait no that does hit some sort of rate limit. absolutely offensive.
@codexeditor gorgeous, wow