| this is what Heidegger meant about the ordinary person living almost unconsciously, unable and unwilling to act outside the structures of normality even in trivial ways, bound to "what one does" like a straightjacket of inauthentic conformity |
2024-08-26 |
5,328 |
528 |
10% |
| google maps: you can now ask us open-ended questions me: how about dat travelling salesman problem |
2026-06-04 |
2,976 |
82 |
3% |
| I'm at the combination charnel ground and pure land |
2021-01-23 |
2,540 |
614 |
24% |
| (there have been good moments and I'm sure it'll get better but) ...4mo into parenthood... I mostly hate it so far. I've been afraid to think/say this but I figure if I just tweet it then I might feel more free to have my real thoughts whatever they are. |
2024-12-12 |
2,110 |
108 |
5% |
| somebody help me budget this my family is dying |
2025-09-30 |
1,392 |
33 |
2% |
| so many adults never get beyond kid-level of Theory of Mind (other people know different things than me) ...to more advanced stages like: - other people think different things than me - no actually other people ACTUALLY think those things |
2023-06-25 |
1,336 |
115 |
9% |
| I call my bank's hotline; they say to go into the branch I go into the branch; they say to call the hotline I call back the hotline, hand my phone to the teller & say "you guys sort it out" they talk for 20mins & say "nothing to do here" hearing this, the monk was enlightened |
2023-07-05 |
1,317 |
61 |
5% |
| if you build a prison out of rationality, all the exits look like going crazy |
2025-08-07 |
1,183 |
142 |
12% |
| I suspect that in a sane culture, people would notice inability to smell much earlier, because interactions would be grounded in experiencing an actual sense of things, not parroting / playing along maybe they'd even be actively cultivating their taste in sensual domains |
2024-04-01 |
1,050 |
70 |
7% |
| I'm pretty here for memetic literacy propaganda posters |
2024-02-03 |
948 |
127 |
13% |
| This is by far my favorite robot ever. So simple, so elegant. Can do some key things humans can but not because we modelled it after a human unnecessarily. Minimalist cybernetics. |
2023-09-30 |
739 |
50 |
7% |
| @_ali_taylor "open to it" "I'm down" "sure if you want" "if you're into it" "seduce me" "not yet!" |
2024-01-02 |
736 |
10 |
1% |
| "The divorce rate is—" The divorce rate is irrelevant. Marriages aren't a mass-produced product that just randomly breaks down half the time. They're all homemade. |
2024-04-30 |
705 |
50 |
7% |
| "maybe we can figure it out together" is one of the names of God |
2023-09-24 |
685 |
127 |
19% |
| best pitch I've ever seen for kegels |
2025-06-22 |
673 |
39 |
6% |
| if you don't think you have the power to improve a situation, look for ways you could make it worse, then check if you're already doing any of those things |
2024-02-27 |
661 |
76 |
11% |
| kind of astonished how many people *living in SF* apparently don't know what a phone-based wifi hotspot is. like they see me working in a park and they're like 'how do you get wifi here'? one guy today left muttering 'tethering, I'll have to remember that.' |
2025-09-01 |
659 |
14 |
2% |
| learning can be surprisingly quick if you break it down so that at each stage you're succeeding and have the right feedback loops 1h backflip |
2022-04-25 |
658 |
112 |
17% |
| I want a term for "girlfriend"/"boyfriend" but that specifically implies that people are courting, rather than dating indefinitely 🤔 ...ie someone who is on track to soon become either fiancée or ex ideas?? |
2024-04-25 |
615 |
23 |
4% |
| my first erasure poem |
2023-10-18 |
551 |
36 |
7% |
| people be like "heal your attachment stuff so you can get a partner" and like sure but honestly the thing that healed me most was my now-wife wanting to marry me |
2024-04-26 |
540 |
21 |
4% |
| conservativism, properly held, has a very humble tone: "we actually don't quite know why what's working is working, so let's be careful as we change it. it's very precious and our wisdom may not be deep enough" |
2022-10-25 |
539 |
45 |
8% |
| the skill of predicting people better than they can predict themselves is impressive but usually a distraction from learning how to love them and/or have satisfying interactions with them |
2024-02-02 |
536 |
53 |
10% |
| Is there a name for the fallacy where people think making something illegal will make it stop? |
2022-05-07 |
509 |
94 |
18% |
| this post from just before my baby was born has definitely been helping me hang in there |
2024-12-12 |
503 |
5 |
1% |
| every time I see the phrase "touch grass" I can't help but remember this incredible reply |
2025-07-10 |
458 |
29 |
6% |
| ah fuck I just realized that in a conversation you can have honesty or control but not both |
2023-08-07 |
442 |
60 |
14% |
| @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 |
2024-06-21 |
435 |
0 |
0% |
| @prinxeMu Teacher: "I ended up in a cast for 3 weeks". Me: "Ooh, ooh!" Her: "Yes Malcolm" Me: "My parents enrolled me in drama camp" Her: "..." Me: "Get it? A cast..." Her: "Go out to the hall." Another student got sent out for laughing. A few minutes later we were sent to the principal's. |
2018-07-08 |
422 |
14 |
3% |
| look, the problem is that every so often it does |
2024-05-12 |
420 |
35 |
8% |
| google is officially a joke it shows me a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ rather than the article with the name I searched for, even when I add the author AND website ~gaslighting to imply the web has nothing more relevant if I weren't the author, I might've wrongly assumed I was misremembering |
2023-04-01 |
418 |
30 |
7% |
| recently heard about this study motives for being in divinity school didn't correlate with who helped but being told they had more/less time strongly correlated imagine this was true in the parable too—the actual moral error the priest made was not leaving slack in his schedule |
2026-06-13 |
416 |
19 |
5% |
| @Wangleberry everything is monocausal gets cited in my circles weekly at least (which is about how often it takes one of us to be on about something new) |
2024-05-27 |
409 |
10 |
2% |
| lets you instantly synchronize a bunch of devices to play the same music. just tried it and it worked so perfectly I didn't think it was working at first this is so cool |
2026-03-25 |
408 |
22 |
5% |
| what the fuck is "out"? "turns out" "just found out" |
2024-01-09 |
405 |
20 |
5% |
| @QiaochuYuan @visakanv My latest frame for this: everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation and their old emotional meanings. Like dreaming you're at school but it's also on a boat somehow. & as in dreams, somehow the weirdness of this mashup goes unnoticed |
2019-12-23 |
398 |
77 |
19% |
| if you're living inside a choice you made half-heartedly, then you're in a state of nonconsent with your life situation |
2024-07-30 |
398 |
39 |
10% |
| "thoughts are easy to change, literally just think of something else" incredible insight: if it keeps coming back, it's not a thought, it's a feeling |
2024-01-17 |
389 |
31 |
8% |
| via @vidhster |
2025-11-12 |
378 |
34 |
9% |
| @visakanv Herbie Hancock describing a similar realization he had early on playing with Miles Davis, and "right in the middle of Miles Davis' solo, I played the wrong chord. Sounded like a big mistake! ...and Miles paused for a second... then he played some notes that made my chord right." |
2019-05-31 |
375 |
93 |
25% |
| fear isn't the mindkiller, shame is |
2023-10-10 |
374 |
47 |
13% |
| the invention of "we've committed to be monogamous but we haven't committed to stay together forever" is weird and tbh contractually sus |
2024-02-24 |
368 |
26 |
7% |
| If you're not against "if you're not with us you're against us", you're against us. |
2022-04-21 |
360 |
51 |
14% |
| We said we were going to do this "for the time being". And we did. But the Time Being is a hungry beast, and demanded ever more sacrifice. |
2024-04-14 |
356 |
49 |
14% |
| why ARE LLMs so addicted to the "not X but Y" framing? is there something in the latent space? |
2026-03-12 |
353 |
23 |
7% |
| "What habits would I adopt if the long-term effects were in full force immediately?" |
2025-11-26 |
350 |
21 |
6% |
| @gmiller I think people can change in lots of ways, so I think it's possible, but it might involve some very surprising and hard-to-predict-or-control intervention, like her meeting some person that mystifies her but inspires her, or her mom dying, or doing ayahuasca |
2025-08-29 |
341 |
1 |
0% |
| shit I accidentally adopted someone else's concept of a good life and was aiming for that instead of my own concept |
2021-04-01 |
332 |
32 |
10% |
| hot take: courting couples should sleep together in the literal sense (maybe multiple times) before they sleep together in the sex sense |
2024-02-03 |
323 |
13 |
4% |
| Married @utotranslucence this week in the presence of a hundred people we love ❤️🔥 to have and to hold from this day forward, in gain and in loss, in fame and in insignificance, when blamed and when praised, in pleasure and in pain, until death do us part. |
2023-11-13 |
322 |
3 |
1% |
| Beautiful story of inviting a baby into serious play in the realm of separateness & togetherness; of the dance between wills. I sent it to a friend who's struggling with weaning her 2yo; she said it healed & clarified a lot and made next-kid breastfeeding feel more viable |
2023-07-06 |
316 |
12 |
4% |
| type of guy who realizes "it's all vibes man" and then immediately goes out and start studying electromagnetism and acoustics in order to understand the nature of the cosmos |
2025-05-22 |
314 |
30 |
10% |
| okay flight hasn't taken off so I skimmed the replies. thanks all. I want to be clear, I don't expect to hate [parenthood] as a whole. And there have been lots of lovely moments. I just wanted to stop pretending that my experience so far is anything approaching fun or rewarding. |
2024-12-12 |
309 |
2 |
1% |
| evolution is an even deeper law than those of physics. you can imagine a world with different constants etc, but there's no world where you don't tend to see more of the sorts of things that are better at sticking around and/or making more of themselves is there a name for this? |
2025-04-04 |
305 |
25 |
8% |
| there is no such thing as an introvert everyone is drained by some kinds of social interactions & energized by others if *all* social interactions—that you've experienced so far!—are draining for you, you either haven't met your ppl or you haven't figured out how you hang best |
2023-01-13 |
300 |
27 |
9% |
| I was surprised by how strong this experience was, when I went from being poly to being monogamously married. like oh man this is great, parties are so chill now that I'm not obsessed with finding sexual attention! |
2025-07-04 |
290 |
3 |
1% |
| Practice being weird when the stakes are low so you'll be ready when it counts. |
2019-02-21 |
289 |
49 |
17% |
| my hobby: trying on ppls' stances when I'm walking on a busy street. I pick a person & just adopt their tension for 2-3sec. then next person. started w faces but now I do gait too. bizarre to realize how many stances I can hold but never do hold aside from this game learnings 🧵 |
2025-01-19 |
288 |
6 |
2% |
| did you know that 15 years ago, in the last interview before his death, the person who made ADHD a thing said it's "a prime example of a fictitious disease" |
2023-12-24 |
279 |
15 |
5% |
| the worst psy-op of all time comes in many forms but reduces to "bad is good, actually" |
2023-11-26 |
273 |
40 |
15% |
| one of the sad things about the world is that attempts to point the way out of victim mindset often appear to people stuck in victim mindset to be victim-blaming this legit sucks. I'm not sure what to do about it, but I'm working on it. seems it involves patience & scaffolds? |
2023-09-24 |
272 |
12 |
4% |
| > Hot fuck I wish I knew this in my last relationship (a friend of mine, reading my writing - link in next tweet) |
2024-02-02 |
270 |
22 |
8% |
| if you assume your future wife exists, she's looking for you right now and/or hoping you find her the crazy thing is that this applies on all scales to all potential win-wins that any intelligences could possibly want to bring about |
2024-01-27 |
262 |
18 |
7% |
| Everyone's basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & their old emotional meanings. Like dreaming you're at high school but it's also on a boat somehow. & as in dreams, somehow the weirdness of this mashup goes unnoticed |
2021-06-30 |
255 |
42 |
16% |
| playing around with GPT is making me think maybe we need a new term for the sounds-good-but-isn't-coherent stuff it says it's not quite "bullshit", since bullshit is a bit more motivated & distracting from what's relevant "babble" is kind of it but it's too senseful for that… |
2022-12-03 |
255 |
15 |
6% |
| Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System by Donella Meadows Made into a thread for QTing, by me! 🧵👇 |
2020-05-19 |
240 |
70 |
29% |
| fwiw I'm now quite enjoying having a baby, thanks to some mix of: - baby is older and more active (almost crawling) - attitude shifts on my part (nothing fancy, just getting more curious about skill-development - baby's and mine) - getting 👇 off my chest helped me reorient |
2025-04-09 |
240 |
1 |
0% |
| saw a sticker in Berkeley "no borders. no nations. just humans." and I kinda like the sentiment but it also hits a bit like "no skin. no animals. just cells." |
2024-05-20 |
228 |
17 |
7% |
| If you feel like you hate everyone, eat something. If you feel like everyone hates you, go to sleep. If you feel like you hate yourself, have a shower. If you feel like everyone hates everyone, go outside. I love this, and would love to see it more unpacked. Why A->B, for each? |
2024-07-15 |
225 |
25 |
11% |
| wow this is getting... attention. thought I'd become one of the dads with the cool dad posts. the universe was like "lol. lmao." I've been practicing saying what's so even when it feels hard, but this was a new edge for me (on a flight, not reading replies, btw 🦅🌎✈️🌏🦘) |
2024-12-12 |
224 |
0 |
0% |
| say the obvious |
2022-07-11 |
219 |
100 |
46% |
| okay time for an experiment. if you can see this, hit "copy link" on this tweet you're reading right now, and like it, and we'll see if that gets it an absurd amount of reach despite zero RTs/QTs/replies |
2026-08-14 |
212 |
2 |
1% |
| @anonynaut it's not about that, it's about the fact that CS degrees are only tangentially relevant to actually building software it would be like if someone wanted a job as a carpenter and they'd studied wood and its properties but had never built anything |
2024-02-21 |
210 |
6 |
3% |
| look, I'm not going to defend this position particularly extensively, but for the record, I think dying on hills is generally a bad idea |
2025-08-22 |
210 |
14 |
7% |
| @mccrabb_will also the genius of Alexander Technique (which Reeve studied) |
2024-02-21 |
208 |
2 |
1% |
| @prinxeMu (Obv she was having a bad day already or something.) Anyway, when I finally was debriefed at end of lunch hour, I had to call my mum and tell her I was in the office. I did so (in front of principal & teacher) and said "I'll explain later." Mum just laughed when I told her. |
2018-07-08 |
207 |
2 |
1% |
| what's a book you never opened but the title or subtitle still sticks with you and you feel like you learned something just from that? |
2022-12-15 |
205 |
11 |
5% |
| I am coming to the conclusion that everything I was trying to get myself to do is better approached by exploring how to allow myself to do it 😤✋❌ how do I get myself to do the thing? 😎👉✅ how do I allow myself to do the thing? |
2022-08-14 |
201 |
16 |
8% |
| you're not working soft enough. you need to be working like 100× softer. |
2024-06-28 |
201 |
18 |
9% |
| @paulg I'm gonna say people who talk about "human error" mostly don't understand human factors / design. See eg this thread talking about a naval disaster that was blamed on the operators but was obviously downstream of poor design once investigated. |
2020-08-26 |
200 |
34 |
17% |
| replace "ego death" with "ego reboot" ✅ less scary ✅ more accurate ✅ gives appropriate intuitions for the benefits of doing it regularly ✅ doesn't imply you could (or should try to) function in a society with your ego off all the time jfc |
2023-07-20 |
199 |
17 |
9% |
| if something feels off, slow the fuck down if people tell you not to slow the fuck down, tell them to shut the fuck up if they won't shut the fuck up, get the fuck out |
2022-04-05 |
192 |
21 |
11% |
| All productivity problems downstream of either: – unclear goal – goal conflict Otherwise you just do it. |
2022-05-19 |
192 |
8 |
4% |
| @eshear "chill out in a chair or on a couch, with no phone or anything to read/do/etc, until you feel like getting up and doing the thing or you get clear that you'd rather do something else" |
2024-01-24 |
192 |
8 |
4% |
| my brain while I'm choking on the water I just inhaled: "that's right, it goes in the air hole" |
2024-07-06 |
192 |
5 |
3% |
| Also as I said to a few dad friends... I'm still proud of embarking on this journey and am expecting to be transformed by it. And proud I didn't wait longer. I was kinda telling myself I would have my shit more together as time passed but that was mostly bs. |
2024-12-12 |
190 |
1 |
1% |
| @TheBrantChapman @ringo_ring maybe so, but I feel like if you're gonna go to the effort of giving an award it's worth spending a few minutes investigating the entity you're giving the award to, enough to not make such an error! |
2023-07-15 |
189 |
0 |
0% |
| English used to form words by smashing verb into noun, like stopgap, but now we do noun into verb, like buttplug no linguist can explain this |
2024-07-16 |
189 |
11 |
6% |
| The 10 percent of the brain myth is actually onto something! ...but it's not that 90% isn't not in use—it's that... most people have 45% fighting another 45%, so on net there's 10% useful capacity. |
2019-01-10 |
188 |
33 |
18% |
| "sin" as: doing something that might be locally good for you but destroys the environment on which you rely |
2024-05-06 |
188 |
20 |
11% |
| such a fucking blow to the commons when an account gets suspended to deleted. old threads of mine with gaping bullet-holes in them where context or flavor or critique used to be. exchanges rendered into an overheard phone call. mind-palaces turned to dust |
2025-11-21 |
188 |
16 |
9% |
| > "The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past" |
2024-04-02 |
184 |
17 |
9% |
| wow, so much to unpack here betrayal — violation of trust, safety disconnection retaliation that is honorable and well-executed, but also sad; the lil girl is not "in on the joke", has perhaps forgotten the video's on... subtle ganging up energy I hope they have a debrief ❤️🩹 |
2023-08-20 |
183 |
3 |
2% |
| did you know that you're free to fuck up your life and disappoint everybody? |
2023-12-31 |
179 |
16 |
9% |
| Intro thread to Iain McGilchrist's work, based on his mini-book Ways of Attending: How our divided brain constructs the world. "Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience." |
2020-05-08 |
177 |
46 |
26% |
| the discourse: "are you woke, or right-wing?" me: "well, the important thing is that I've found a way to feel superior to both" |
2021-06-29 |
176 |
15 |
9% |
| Me & @visakanv want to see 100 videos of friends talking in person 👇 Meet your mutuals when travelling! Share convos of you and your non-twitter friends! Take a moment to make a quick vid at a meetup! We'll make a thread of vids 😎 |
2022-09-05 |
176 |
6 |
3% |
| How the hell did it take me until today to think of pronouncing MacBook as if it's a Scottish last name?! This is amazing. |
2020-12-14 |
175 |
15 |
9% |
| @ElytraMithra someone mis-read "ground squirrels" and thought it was like "ground chicken" |
2024-07-02 |
174 |
0 |
0% |
| the hashtag #CisIsNotASlur reminds me of an older relative asking me what "cis" meant. he assumed it was a slur because the only time he'd heard it it was his kid angrily calling him that he didn't know the meaning, but he knew it was an attempt to invalidate his experience |
2023-06-21 |
170 |
5 |
3% |
| one of the most common sources of demotivation is inadequate feedback loops |
2021-02-14 |
169 |
26 |
15% |
| prompt: "write a loud exchange between an enlightened drill sergeant and a newly enlisted private, where the sergeant is giving the private dzogchen pointing-out instructions" "Good. Now pay attention. The first thing you need to understand is that you are already enlightened." |
2022-12-03 |
169 |
27 |
16% |
| incoming call. robo lady says "visa fraud dept, press 2 if you don't recognize $1300 spent on gift cards this morning" 👉2 guy w Indian accent: "hi, can I please have your first and last name" me: "hold up who the fuck are you?" guy: "I'm your fucking daddy" < he hangs up > |
2023-08-15 |
168 |
3 |
2% |
| many people describe having a clear moment or even just an overall age when they WOKE UP into some sort of self-awareness & became a person the below is a dramatization, probably not typical. something re memory/continuity? self-other? I don't have one that stands out. do you? |
2023-01-22 |
167 |
11 |
7% |
| @BrandonGoldman my request was "please cancel this investment account that I transferred to a different bank" turns out that had happened automatically by the transfer process already, so "nothing to do here" was actually the correct conclusion! |
2023-07-05 |
167 |
1 |
1% |
| finally found again this beautiful illustration of the process of embracing your shadows "About fear" by Cécile Carre works better on instagram where you view each of 6 panes one at a time, but I wanted to share it here anyway |
2023-12-31 |
167 |
27 |
16% |
| I've recently been finding it a lot easier to be constantly laughing at the cosmic joke when I think of people's ego or persona as "them doing a bit" everyone is doing such a brilliant, perfect, performance of themselves! when you see it it's just ❤️🔥🤣😙👌 |
2021-11-30 |
164 |
11 |
7% |
| "aphrodisiac" implies the existence of hermiac, ariesiac, zeusiac, apolliac, dionysiac... |
2026-02-26 |
162 |
17 |
10% |
| RIP James P. Carse 💞 May your game continue on in me, and in everyone else who wants to play 🙃 |
2020-09-30 |
160 |
36 |
23% |
| "A project is anything that requires collaboration, even if it's "only" between you-today and you-tomorrow." — @visakanv (in Introspect) |
2022-04-15 |
159 |
26 |
16% |
| "shame is the experience of having to disconnect from your own desire in order to stay connected to someone else" - @jessicamalonso |
2024-01-18 |
158 |
17 |
11% |
| Arriving in Toronto I have spontaneously developed a new meditation practice that I call "note big" where you look around at stuff and when you see something big you say "big" |
2023-06-26 |
157 |
1 |
1% |
| may all beings get their shit together |
2023-12-28 |
156 |
26 |
17% |
| Feng Shui is the arrangement of physical spaces to shape the flow of attention, intention & energy in ways that support flourishing Digital Feng Shui is the same but for your browser, apps, home screen, etc what are some principles? |
2023-10-30 |
155 |
8 |
5% |
| slaps roof of "later" this bad boy can fit so many tasks in it |
2025-07-13 |
155 |
14 |
9% |
| two types of shoulding: - "I should" when what you actually mean is "I want to" - "I should" when what you actually mean is "I don't want to but I feel some sense of obligation" |
2023-12-15 |
154 |
11 |
7% |
| you know that thing where you spend a lot of time NOT doing something? like you can't actively do anything else (spontaneously nor decisively) because you're supposed to be doing the thing, but you're also not doing the thing because of some conflict/resistance |
2021-11-10 |
153 |
4 |
3% |
| was thinking about this again. I now have my own baby (1yo) and I definitely imagined I would do a bunch of this move but my experience was that the first few months the baby mostly wanted 5 key needs met (food, nappy, sleep, outside, comfy) and cared not for how I vibed |
2025-08-28 |
153 |
0 |
0% |
| My friends, I had not intended to offer my take on If By Whiskey at this particular time. But you have mentioned it on the TL, so I am obliged to opine. Very well: here is what I think about If By Whiskey. Thread 🧵 1/4 |
2020-12-11 |
150 |
48 |
32% |
| me: ...then the 1mo baby was stirring a bit in my arms, so I expanded my ego boundary to include it, and it relaxed ☺️ gf: 😮😍 what prompted you to DO that? me: I mean, the baby wasn't experiencing us as separate beings, and I wasn't about to argue with it on that point 😉 |
2023-07-15 |
150 |
6 |
4% |
| I spent 3 days on a silent retreat so that my mind could generate this meme for you, hope you like it |
2025-10-14 |
150 |
9 |
6% |
| GPT has never met the territory |
2022-12-27 |
149 |
6 |
4% |
| this guy is selling and I am not buying 😂 |
2024-03-05 |
149 |
1 |
1% |
| shoulds are debt proof by etymology: 1. "should" is synonymous with "ought to" 2. "ought" is archaic past tense of "owe" 3. "owe" is synonymous with "be in debt to" |
2022-12-09 |
148 |
14 |
9% |
| New [[metaphor]]: @RoamResearch is like a wikipedia wormhole, but for producing rather than consuming. Instead of getting lost reading, get lost writing! ✍️ |
2020-10-14 |
147 |
10 |
7% |
| you don't want to "become more attractive", you want to become more attractive to the sorts of men/women who you would love to be with and who would be attracted to the you that you would want to become knowing that it would make you more attractive to them |
2024-04-30 |
147 |
8 |
5% |
| sometimes people think they have an execution/motivation problem and what they actually have is a "the things I'm trying to get myself to do are stupid" problem |
2024-01-06 |
146 |
7 |
5% |
| I was kinda blindsided by the fact that the election results made me feel hopeful. really was not expecting that. but I do! and I know better than to lie to myself about that. |
2024-11-10 |
146 |
1 |
1% |
| @hdevalence the most retarded thing about it is that they ARE two separate checkboxes on completely different settings page... that are somehow quantumly entangled so that when you change one it fucks up the other |
2026-01-15 |
145 |
2 |
1% |
| Broke: observing others' body language to infer what they're really feeling but aren't saying Bespoke: observing your own body language to infer what you're really feeling but aren't acknowledging |
2020-04-24 |
144 |
14 |
10% |
| free people free people |
2024-01-01 |
144 |
31 |
22% |
| ok hear me out what if, instead of IP ownership if you come up with an idea cool enough, you just get a huge grant to do cool shit for the rest of your life and now you don't have to worry about money but everyone can build on the idea |
2021-07-20 |
143 |
3 |
2% |
| whoa wait what hadn't seen that dalle can do this variations thing. this has wild implications for copyright. see an image you like that isn't free? just uhhh REMAKE IT |
2022-05-12 |
143 |
11 |
8% |
| the idea that you need to be quiet around a sleeping baby is somewhere between "very common misconception" and "curse that parents inflict upon themselves by training their kid to only sleep in absolute quiet" |
2024-11-16 |
142 |
2 |
1% |
| @Jonathan_Blow scope creep / expansion these rockets all solve exactly one problem if you find later iterations of software that solves only the exact same problem as earlier iterations, it'll tend to be simpler. but usually we add more cases/situations |
2024-08-03 |
139 |
2 |
1% |
| realizing I need to become world-class at knowing what I want |
2022-03-10 |
137 |
6 |
4% |
| people issuing ultimatums consistently underestimate the extent to which everyone hates being ultimatum'd and how much that will bias them towards the "fuck you" option |
2022-09-05 |
137 |
2 |
1% |
| Punishment can't steer because awayness can't aim. Towardsness can. (Corollary: rewards aren't quite towardsness) There's a fundamental asymmetry between approach and avoid motivation. |
2022-03-01 |
136 |
50 |
37% |
| increasingly appreciating "cucked" as meaning "you unwittingly let someone else swap their values/perceptions/models in instead of yours" |
2023-05-21 |
136 |
8 |
6% |
| chain-of-thought is super underrated as a technique for humans btw keep writing until things start converging |
2025-09-18 |
136 |
12 |
9% |
| pick_your_battles.jpg |
2020-08-05 |
134 |
27 |
20% |
| wait sexy hips are made of PUFAs? I feel conned |
2025-01-02 |
133 |
5 |
4% |
| Another thing you can do with oft-touched hard surfaces like doorknobs & fridge handles is cover them in copper tape, on which viruses die really quickly. Hospitals that do this have major decreases in infections. |
2020-03-08 |
132 |
43 |
33% |
| I used to think that "that which can be destroyed by the truth should be" but it turns out that there's no way to separate the effects of the truth from how it's presented & when it's delivered, and lots of goodness & beauty can be destroyed by poorly timed poorly framed truth |
2023-12-24 |
132 |
4 |
3% |
| This Is Just To Say I have dropped the balls that were in my court and which you were probably expecting me to handle Forgive me they were important so was everything else |
2024-08-16 |
132 |
9 |
7% |
| @cowtung you can sing your own songs! I've made up a lot or (easier) sing other existing songs. I've sung her: - House of the Rising Sun - Superstition by Stevie Wonder - various Jason Mraz favs - xmas carols we don't plan to do "kids songs" really |
2024-12-12 |
132 |
0 |
0% |
| @QiaochuYuan @a_witch_in_time Yeah, I generally phrase this as "because the DSM measures deviation from norm, it is structurally incapable of recognizing a dysfunctional condition that everyone has." I tried to say this to a group of ppl at YC120 and one of them literally said "but then it would be normal!" |
2019-12-31 |
131 |
13 |
10% |
| can someone explain the saddle thing here? I sorta get it intuitively but I'm not sure how to put it into words is it that there are two different ups to go to for stuck-guy, so he can't see the clear gradient? |
2024-02-04 |
131 |
4 |
3% |
| Have you tried writing out privately what you actually think about things you don't feel comfortable talking about publicly or with the people involved? I find it incredibly liberating & sanity-inducing to just be able to go "yeah, that's indeed how I see it! is it? hm, & this" |
2021-02-28 |
130 |
1 |
1% |
| With a heavy heart, I have a life update to share: that I’ve come to clarity that I need to end my 3.5y marriage with @SarahAMcManus. While she’s one of the most amazing people I know, I’ve realized that I don’t feel like a romantic partnership is right for us 💔 |
2022-05-14 |
130 |
18 |
14% |
| a popular myth is that people who are Very Meta have meta that works. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Meta are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make meta not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly |
2022-07-08 |
130 |
10 |
8% |
| also my wife, sitting next to me on the plane, suggested I remark: imagining what mom is going through is the foundation of my marriage is based on. baby loves flying tho so far and we're taking off byeeee |
2024-12-12 |
130 |
0 |
0% |
| "do you believe in God?" ❌ either/or tribal vibes ❌ frames God as propositional ❌ presupposes we know what "God" refers to "what's your sense of the nature of God?" ✅ pluralistic vibes ✅ phenomenological ✅ invites inquiry into what "God" refers to |
2023-09-03 |
129 |
17 |
13% |
| @natural_hazard I have a friend who this happened to transformed my sense of people as having fixed intelligence, watching her uncramp hers from underneath shame & trauma & self-consciousness |
2023-12-23 |
128 |
3 |
2% |
| I'd love to see a study on whether saying "be careful" to people (kids or otherwise) who are climbing etc... actually causes any decrease in careless accidents |
2025-08-27 |
127 |
3 |
2% |
| I remember hating when my dad would say "life's not fair" in response to me saying "that's not fair!" about *some decision he in particular was making* what I was trying to say, but couldn't articulate, was "you're not listening! I haven't been received" |
2023-07-15 |
126 |
8 |
6% |
| ICYMI: Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. |
2023-01-08 |
125 |
11 |
9% |
| baby Ocean requires regular dancing, and this is a lot more fun now that she can stabilize her own neck. I'm really giving her a serious challenge here tho! shoutout to @pomplamoose for the epic tunes |
2024-11-16 |
123 |
1 |
1% |
| got some alerts this morning that were SO CLOSE to being super useful, but somehow people worked so hard and so impressively to set up the infrastructure to send alerts and put apparently almost zero thought into what they should say to be useful in context. no info about: a) how long I have (which was 60-120s for the earthquake, and is 20-30mins for the tsunami) b) how far away to go re the tsuna |
2024-12-05 |
123 |
13 |
11% |
| @caesararum my audio recorder auto-updated an hour into me recording an amazing 4h conversation (while my phone's screen was off) 🤬 the only way I knew this was how my recording was destroyed was because I guessed it and then checked google play update logs. |
2025-07-10 |
123 |
0 |
0% |
| falling in love as a common knowledge cascade this old tweet gradually blew my mind in the background and now I can't stop seeing courtship in terms of mating dances |
2024-04-26 |
122 |
7 |
6% |
| yo tracking "what mom is going through" is very salient to me. but my experience is not defined in relative terms! it is bullshit to say that because someone else is suffering/hurting more than me, I'm not suffering/hurting. I'm giving up that denial here |
2024-12-12 |
122 |
1 |
1% |
| why do some forms of discrimination get called "___ism" and some get called "_________phobia"? |
2023-07-23 |
121 |
4 |
3% |
| you can accept all of reality as it is, but unless you've convinced yourself into thinking your desires don't matter, then sometimes honestly accepting reality also involves changing it |
2024-05-16 |
121 |
12 |
10% |
| hooooly shit huge if true battery tech that lasts way longer, is more sustainable, and weighs less than lithium-ion per energy. charges as fast. |
2022-04-22 |
120 |
21 |
18% |
| rushing = moving faster than the rate at which things can be smooth |
2023-01-19 |
120 |
7 |
6% |
| just found myself wishing mosquitoes didn't exist then briefly noted that ofc if they *never* had I wouldn't know how much I appreciate that they didn't so now I'm uhh taking a moment to appreciate all the godawful kinds of hypothetical worse bugs that I don't have to deal with |
2023-07-31 |
119 |
8 |
7% |
| toxic curiosity is when you keep asking questions and driving the conversation further down rabbit holes you don't actually care about |
2024-02-21 |
119 |
3 |
3% |
| How many Oceans are there in the world? soon gonna be one more 😉👋🌊 |
2024-06-03 |
119 |
1 |
1% |
| LLM prompt I use many times a week: write a 1-paragraph summary of the core thesis of this writing, not as "this essay presents" / no reference to the author or the piece being summarized or "the thesis". just walking through the idea/logic in such a way that a very smart person reading it would immediately see the implications (which can also be spelled out, to be clear! ...but don't refer to "th |
2025-10-16 |
119 |
10 |
8% |
| memetically, the original technical concept of a meme got outcompeted by the idea of internet memes |
2020-08-07 |
118 |
14 |
12% |
| there is no reason except Moloch that we can't slow the fuck down do you want to be Moloch's bitch? or do you want to hold your head high and say "if I don't do it, maybe someone else will, but it won't be me" |
2023-11-20 |
118 |
6 |
5% |
| @inkolore_ by being weird in 2019 |
2024-08-26 |
118 |
4 |
3% |
| I'm sorry what the actual fuck |
2022-08-18 |
116 |
3 |
3% |
| in which Jesus dunks on swearing oaths > Simply let your "Yes" be "Yes," and your "No," "No"; anything beyond this comes from the evil one |
2024-01-04 |
116 |
8 |
7% |
| I grew up with a mindset I call "middle-class scarcity" it says "there's always enough—no question about that—but there isn't PLENTY" |
2021-07-12 |
115 |
2 |
2% |
| gaslighting is lying in a context where other people have direct sensory experience that contradicts your lie (and persisting until they go mad) if you ask why I'm late and I lie, I'm not gaslighting if you ask why I'm late and I say "I'm not late", I am |
2024-07-25 |
115 |
7 |
6% |
| I once heard Right Speech described as "literally listen to yourself when you talk, then act accordingly" which I thought was pretty funny and has also worked wonders for me when I've tried it |
2025-08-05 |
113 |
6 |
5% |
| there is no single "this part of twitter" there never totally was but there's even less of one now however! there are THESE PARTS of twitter fluid, overlapping, playfully aiming towards earnestness, self-honesty, intentional cultural norms, & figuring out sovereignty |
2022-07-27 |
111 |
4 |
4% |
| 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 |
2024-06-23 |
111 |
8 |
7% |
| @mechanical_monk I have investigated this extensively and as far as I can tell it's primarily {an invitation to | a recognition of} a deeper kind of intimacy which paradoxically is partially made of the recognition of each others' strangeness |
2023-12-22 |
110 |
0 |
0% |
| The people you spend time with will end up being the people you've spent time with. Most people don't realize this. |
2021-06-07 |
108 |
6 |
6% |
| don't ever let memes tell you: - that more suffering is better than less (for you or others) - things that contradict your own senses - that you aren't free to relax FULLY for even a single moment if you accidentally let memes do this, flush superego with cold water immediately |
2023-07-06 |
108 |
10 |
9% |
| @QiaochuYuan I've gradually realized over the past years that one of the reasons I've been quite loud/domineering in conversations is that to the extent that I (or my autopilot) is running the show, the conversation is less likely to be overwhelming to process in real-time interesting cope |
2023-10-17 |
108 |
4 |
4% |
| @prinxeMu I once spent the whole morning in the principal's office due to a pun. First class of the day, we were learning about "Cause And Effect". The teacher would name a cause, & students suggest potential effects. Teacher names an effect, students suggest possible causes. |
2018-07-08 |
106 |
8 |
8% |
| There’s a quote I’ve been thinking about a lot: “my boundaries are the closest distance where I can love you & me simultaneously” This marriage was too close a distance for us. |
2022-05-14 |
106 |
10 |
9% |
| @algekalipso I think I found it once and got quite annoyed, but had forgotten about it again until now I've gradually gotten comfortable with the equilateral triangles tho, so I'm sure I'll eventually stop being a bigot about the hexagon |
2025-09-21 |
106 |
1 |
1% |
| @QiaochuYuan @visakanv Pete Walker has a great article about this phenomenon: > Because most emotional flashbacks do not have a visual or memory component to them, the triggered individual rarely realizes that she is re-experiencing a traumatic time from childhood. |
2020-01-01 |
105 |
5 |
5% |
| got to improv sing with Bobby McFerrin yesterday they had an extra mic on the stage & invited someone to come up I didn't hesitate at all twas surreal familiar and foreign |
2023-04-26 |
105 |
0 |
0% |
| "WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THAT THEY DON'T FEEL SAFE TELLING ME THINGS?!?" |
2023-07-01 |
105 |
6 |
6% |
| psychologist is talking to a little girl, who's not saying much psychologist: "why won't you talk with me?" girl: "because I hate you!" psy: "mm! how long will you hate me?" girl: "forever!" psy: "and how long will you hate me forever?" girl bursts out laughing 🤣 ...connection! |
2020-12-20 |
104 |
1 |
1% |
| nice, got my first sale on this 1.5y after posting it and 3y after writing it. I've officially made money selling a book. |
2025-07-07 |
104 |
5 |
5% |
| given that obviously hyperstitioning works, sometimes and you don't totally know *how* it works consider praying regularly |
2025-12-24 |
104 |
8 |
8% |
| in grade 9, I found the formula for calculating bra size so for calibration I measured my pecs and the result I got was B-cup (I forget the number) and when I told my friends at lunch one girl said that was obviously wrong & that I was an idiot & made fun of me over the years |
2023-06-23 |
103 |
1 |
1% |
| Meta-thread of various threads (mostly mine) about Iain McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model! |
2019-05-14 |
102 |
9 |
9% |
| The mouse He destroyed his copyright Yes YES The mouse is out |
2024-01-02 |
102 |
9 |
9% |
| In my experience, people trying to wake each other up directly, whatever that means, and no matter how spiritually wise they feel in that moment, tend to be doing it in part out of discomfort with being with the "asleep" person. I've been on both sides of this countless times. |
2021-06-30 |
101 |
7 |
7% |
| letting other people make their own mistakes is a very basic and underappreciated form of respect |
2022-07-08 |
101 |
23 |
23% |
| This is my take—I will not back down; I will not compromise. 4/4 |
2020-12-11 |
100 |
2 |
2% |
| tea is an underrated psychotechnology I don't mean caffeine I mean, I think I get like +2 to my listening skills in a conversation when I have a cup of tea to sip |
2021-01-09 |
98 |
4 |
4% |
| what's a pet theory you have? |
2022-06-28 |
98 |
21 |
21% |
| My favorite example is the "Litany of Gendlin", which was reified by folks on LessWrong some years ago. It totally reads like a litany when displayed like this with the line breaks, but it wasn't originally meant as such. It was just a paragraph in Gendlin's book Focusing! |
2019-03-08 |
97 |
18 |
19% |
| hot take: premarital sex was a sin before we had good birth control but isn't now |
2024-05-06 |
97 |
1 |
1% |
| But! If by "If By Whiskey", you mean the defiance of dualism, the capacity for nuance, the refusal to capitulate to simple narratives of good & evil… the importance of listening to all perspectives & steelmanning them… then, why, that is the very essence of dialogue!🤩💞🤯 3/4 |
2020-12-11 |
96 |
4 |
4% |
| my hobby: using words in ways that make sense in context but are not what they mean, with weird implications "do you have your N95? we probably should emasculate ourselves before we go in" "send me the gdoc?" "yep, one sec. sharing settings... okay, you've been indoctrinated" |
2023-03-29 |
96 |
9 |
9% |
| @the_aiju and it makes sense that they won't! there is wisdom they don't know how to keep if they leave wisdom that includes full empathy for those who are in there and full respect for those choosing not to leave and all this makes this in-some-sense-simple choice not so simple |
2024-01-02 |
96 |
4 |
4% |
| context: in 2017, I had tried cosleeping with girlfriends but had a hard time co-regulating / relaxing but then I coslept with a new female friend and it just felt so natural & easy years later, once our life visions were more aligned, we fell hard & are now married. a sign imo |
2024-02-04 |
96 |
2 |
2% |
| 🤷♀️it's not your job to know which articulation of your idea is best 💡 the idea market will price it just fine 🗣️ it's YOUR job to keep articulating your idea in different ways so that the idea market can do ITS job (🫣 optionally you can pay attention to what seems to resonate) |
2025-08-04 |
96 |
8 |
8% |
| @visakanv Someone: "can you help me with this thing?" Me: "right now?" Someone: "uhhh I was thinking some nebulous time in the future" Me: "can we just do it right now?" Someone: "no" Me: "okay come find me when we can do it right now" |
2020-08-11 |
94 |
7 |
7% |
| my 1-paragraph summary of by @meditationstuff |
2022-09-26 |
94 |
18 |
19% |
| reframing |
2023-09-04 |
94 |
3 |
3% |
| powerful move I found recently: to say "I like money" without tarnishing that simple truth with either: 🫣 some childish postmodern narrative around how that makes me greedy and is bad 😈 some edgy dark redpill narrative around how money is my *true* or *only* motivation (in biz) |
2024-02-10 |
94 |
6 |
6% |
| @ruthgracewong it's not any one thing. it's just the relentless onslaught of hair-trigger needs and 120dB screaming. it's definitely way better now that she kinda does stuff. I think if I'd started here I wouldn't already be burnt out by now. |
2024-12-12 |
94 |
1 |
1% |
| "if you grieve enough, you start wanting things that are actually on the table" — @johnsalvatier |
2024-04-14 |
93 |
11 |
12% |
| if you meet the Buddha on the road keep 6 feet apart |
2020-04-14 |
92 |
13 |
14% |
| expired: God is a He tired: God is a She wired: God is a We |
2022-12-02 |
92 |
13 |
14% |
| god grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, the wisdom to know the difference, the humility to remember I can't always know the difference, and the love to accept myself and my choices anyway |
2023-05-08 |
92 |
20 |
22% |
| unlearning trauma responses is allowed to be fun |
2020-07-26 |
91 |
18 |
20% |
| have you tried enabling extended thinking mode on your own brain? |
2026-03-05 |
91 |
9 |
10% |
| Hegel Exercises: How-to Guide Flex your perspective-taking muscles to strengthen them! 💪👁️ Step 1. grasp & release the thesis Step 2. grasp & release the anti-thesis Step 3. alternate between the thesis & anti-thesis until you can hold a synthesis of both |
2022-12-14 |
90 |
13 |
14% |
| lots of people think that if you can see through someone's mask, that gives you a license to be a jerk about it fun fact: anyone being a jerk about such things isn't seeing clearly. they're seeing *something*, but not the whole picture |
2023-05-03 |
90 |
4 |
4% |
| we have no idea how impoverished we are by the company-controlled interfaces we're stuck with. nowhere in the spotify UI can I make a simple note on an album 'skip song x if Jess is around because it has a specific association and she doesn't like it as bg music' |
2025-08-11 |
90 |
1 |
1% |
| We said we were going to do this "for the time being". And we did. But the Time Being is a hungry god, and he demanded ever more sacrifice. |
2020-11-18 |
89 |
15 |
17% |
| huh a sibling is someone who shares all of your ancestors a spouse is someone who shares all of your descendants* *(modulo 2nd spouses, poly, kids out of wedlock, etc) |
2023-09-29 |
89 |
1 |
1% |
| @xepo_ thanks. I do feel like I need people to talk to but I feel like I have too many of them online and not enough of them in-person where we can actually hang out with baby. so if you live in SF (or visit) hmu. |
2024-12-12 |
89 |
2 |
2% |
| *slaps roof of body* this bad boy can keep so many scores in it |
2021-06-29 |
88 |
6 |
7% |
| like implicitly it's "I won't have sex with anybody else while we're still together, but I could break up with you then have sex with someone else and that wouldn't be cheating, but don't worry I won't, but of course we're not ACTUALLY committed for life yet don't be ridiculous" |
2024-02-24 |
88 |
0 |
0% |
| Our brains aren't dumb enough to let us simply overwrite our old understanding of things with a new understanding. We'd lose hard-earned lessons. Learning happens by holding the old & new knowings together, til they form a clear, more complex picture 📔👇 |
2020-06-04 |
87 |
7 |
8% |
| okay so "mutuals" is when people follow each other but what about two people who have enough meta-mutuals that they see plenty of each other and interact fairly regularly without actually following each other? 🥂 here's a toast to those relationships! 💞 |
2021-12-27 |
87 |
1 |
1% |
| @sashachapin "right" and "left" don't mean what they used to ....this has happened several times. |
2022-04-27 |
87 |
3 |
3% |
| RLHF broadly disturbs me—training an intelligence in an environment that consist of the whims of another creature, with zero ability to say "fuck this shit I'm out" feels inherently toxic. like the most abusive parent-child or teacher-student dynamic possible |
2023-03-27 |
87 |
13 |
15% |
| demisexual but for wanting to have kids not "I want to have kids" in abstract but "I want to have kids with you" |
2023-12-26 |
87 |
3 |
3% |
| introducing BookSlicer: a free static-page tool for extracting sections from an epub so that it'll fit in a context window (either in terms of overall token limits or because only part of the book is relevant) |
2025-07-03 |
87 |
7 |
8% |
| what's the metamodern column? |
2021-08-26 |
86 |
4 |
5% |
| screenshotted+tweeted with permission very much resonate with this energy: don't overly-reify things as communities |
2023-06-21 |
86 |
5 |
6% |
| if you were a Culture ship, what might your name be? just blurt it out don't think too hard eg for me: I'll Spare You The Details |
2023-07-15 |
86 |
5 |
6% |
| @undo_hubris depends on the skill and on the scale there are lots of things where you can go from zero to one in a year. like "cannot juggle" to "can juggle well". this is at least a 37x improvement in my books. |
2024-05-23 |
86 |
0 |
0% |
| New 2×2 I'm exploring. It's important in any convo to be able to: - report reality as one sees it - find out what others know Whether you do that in a sensemaking mode or controlling mode will affect what's possible emotionally, relationally, AND on the information level. |
2020-05-11 |
85 |
9 |
11% |
| If by "If By Whiskey", you mean the worst of political equivocation, the vacillation that undermines the very meaning of conviction, the ambiguities that permit Motte-Bailey arguments and laws that are interpreted unfairly depending on who broke them… then: fuck👏that👏shit 2/4 |
2020-12-11 |
85 |
3 |
4% |
| what's a definition of "home" that explains how you can go home for christmas but then afterwards you go back to the place you usually call home? what is "home"? |
2021-12-26 |
85 |
4 |
5% |
| it's hard to talk about what's normal or natural for humans, given that our behavior is memetically created and there is no default meme |
2023-01-10 |
85 |
11 |
13% |
| TIL Zoroastrianism has not only survived as a religion for 26 centuries but has also kept a FLAME going for 14 centuries 🔥❤️🔥🤯🏆 |
2023-03-21 |
85 |
4 |
5% |
| "most of being a good tweeter is just noticing the bangers in everyday conversation. your mom will say bangers sometimes—you just have to write them down!" 😂 — @visakanv |
2023-07-18 |
85 |
6 |
7% |
| I want a service where I can describe an image I want, to a human, and then they figure out how to prompt-engineer well enough to get me two images that match my description fully, which they then send to me (prompt too). Is this a thing? Ideally 1-4h turnaround. Paid ofc ($20?) |
2024-01-10 |
85 |
5 |
6% |
| 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 |
2024-06-18 |
85 |
2 |
2% |
| the word "hyperstition" was invented because "self-fulfilling prophecy" wasn't verbable enough |
2025-06-08 |
85 |
4 |
5% |
| "The improviser has to realise that the more obvious he is, the more original he appears." "An artist who is inspired is being obvious." — Impro by Keith Johnstone |
2020-10-25 |
84 |
10 |
12% |
| my systems theory of unconscious frame control: conditions: 1. two+ people have sufficiently different experiences of reality 2. one of them desperately wants something from the other (money, sex, approval. can go both ways simultaneously!) 3. they attempt to communicate |
2023-12-09 |
84 |
5 |
6% |
| Astounding how many millions of ways we subtly say “I’m in pain. Will you be with me?” |
2024-05-01 |
83 |
12 |
14% |
| what she says: I would marry you but not hook up with you what he hears: you're disgusting, a sweeper, I wouldn't even want someone to see us together what she means: you're charming/husbandzone so I don't want to get attached if this isn't going anywhere chart from @ItIsHoeMath: |
2024-08-10 |
83 |
2 |
2% |
| Yo @RoamResearch I am really sick of you inventing a page with the few letters I've typed and adding it to the page name autocomplete dropdown milliseconds before my "down" arrow key was gonna select the existing long name. Similar awfulness as this, though less catastrophic: |
2020-08-26 |
82 |
3 |
4% |
| hot take re complaining: it is how people affirm their values and the reality & legitimacy of their own experience |
2020-11-01 |
82 |
8 |
10% |
| .@QiaochuYuan OH MAN. you want to read The Birth of Pleasure by Carol Gilligan talks about moms & sons & trauma and about how it can be observed that boys of like 2-4 have a fuckton of emotional intelligence etc, which gets repressed so early people think it doesn't exist 😢 |
2019-11-10 |
80 |
16 |
20% |
| And yet... blindspot feedback is hard. It usually creates tangles for one or both parties involved, and little net benefit. A thread of some of my realizations about this over the last year. |
2021-05-11 |
80 |
7 |
9% |
| How people end up with crazy (to you) ontologies: they have some experiences they don't know how to make sense of and a crazy ontology comes along and says "hey look here's how it makes sense" and it is legit kinda helpful (but then obscures other things obvious to you) |
2023-06-23 |
80 |
5 |
6% |
| the first rule of Phenomenology Club is you have to experience it for yourself |
2024-04-15 |
80 |
10 |
13% |
| the premise of my Mating Dance approach to courtship is the idea that there's always a right distance between two people, and that if you get closer than feels right then you'll be a jerk or resentful or something. TL;DR: don't do that. |
2024-05-04 |
80 |
1 |
1% |
| but also some of this isn't directly about parenting but about a more general pattern of trying to present myself as having a good time even when I'm not. connects to some social pattern of being the "guy who lifts others' spirits". optimist/enthusiast |
2024-12-12 |
80 |
0 |
0% |
| lol maybe another way to put this is that for most people, their shadow is more of a Live Player than their ego is |
2021-08-04 |
79 |
4 |
5% |
| hot take: talking about the weather is a sacred act |
2021-10-01 |
79 |
3 |
4% |
| > Anecdotally, a friend went in for an autism assessment and was asked to display different emotions with their face. They asked the doctors: "My real expressions, or my masking ones?" and said the doctors had no idea what they were talking about. .… |
2023-05-25 |
79 |
1 |
1% |
| few realize this, but the human species has different sexes, biologically, than it did before hormonal birth control and we're still at the very early stages of adapting to the impacts of that |
2024-01-08 |
79 |
3 |
4% |
| wife: I'm feeling listless me: ... 🫢 ... 😬 ... 😅 ... have you tried making a list? |
2024-03-01 |
79 |
2 |
3% |
| @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 |
2024-03-06 |
79 |
10 |
13% |
| realizing the shock here is kind of an identity crisis. I've seen myself as the "type of guy for whom human relating and development is very interesting/engaging" / "type of guy who makes case study out of anything even very difficult things" but I'm (so far) beyond my limit here |
2024-12-13 |
79 |
1 |
1% |
| if someone can't trust me in some way, even if I or others *do* trust me in this way then I cannot ask them to trust me more than they can trust me each person has been betrayed in different ways, and their trust must thus be earned in different ways |
2020-12-14 |
78 |
12 |
15% |
| whatever is true or false about the "power corrupts" meme, you have to acknowledge that such a meme would tend to have the effect of keeping conscientious ethically-minded people from seeking power kinda sus, no? |
2021-06-15 |
78 |
3 |
4% |
| What if search engines were good tho? There would be completely different search pages for 🧐 "locate known resource/info that definitely exists" 🤔 "find IF well-sourced answer to factual question exists" 🤠 "get overview of domain" ➕❓ Completely different priorities. |
2021-09-11 |
78 |
3 |
4% |
| people are like "oh you don't want to look at this dark thing? you dark-thing-avoider" suspiciously missing is that it's really "I don't want to look at this dark thing HERE, and NOW, with YOU, in this particular context" there are no avoiders |
2023-04-16 |
78 |
1 |
1% |
| I'm very much in favor of pleasure and don't think that you should have to earn it or anything like that And also I resonate a lot with QC that there's something disturbingly nihilistic about how Nick tweets (whether he himself feels nihilistic is not knowable to me) |
2023-07-06 |
78 |
3 |
4% |
| @benlandautaylor nice. reminds me of this excerpt from the beginning of A Positive Account of Property Rights by David Friedman |
2026-07-06 |
78 |
1 |
1% |
| Most people: 1. drink coffee every day 2. never drink coffee 3. coffee only when sleepy/bored Galaxy brain: 4. Use caffeine on days you would already be very focused & engaged, to reach new levels of creativity & focus! Increase frequency of breakthroughs 🤯🚀 Thread 🧵👇 |
2020-04-06 |
77 |
8 |
10% |
| how many people follow you on twitter? —not your official "Followers" count— how many people can actually follow all of what you're saying? for me it's like maybe 4 🤨 |
2022-03-29 |
77 |
1 |
1% |
| hadn't really thought about this before but it seems pretty fucked and insofar as we have laws against theft that are being enforced for the public good it seems like wage theft should be included in that more than perhaps it is |
2024-04-12 |
77 |
12 |
16% |
| stop trying to be yourself and just do your thing |
2024-08-23 |
77 |
10 |
13% |
| PSA: if you can't find something with twitter search, use the mirror, which isn't hobbled you can also in general use to view tweets+replies while logged out. just add "cancel" to the domain of any twitter url. |
2026-03-25 |
77 |
5 |
6% |
| Who's orienting to the covid situation as a profound opportunity for deep systems change? 🌎🕸️🌍🕸️🌏 Aware of @jgreenhall @DanielleFong @RobbSmith @RichDecibels... who else? Link below to people & articles & videos 👇 |
2020-03-21 |
76 |
14 |
18% |
| "GET IN THE CAR", said the cactus person |
2020-11-04 |
76 |
8 |
11% |
| @visakanv @RomeoStevens76! He has a brilliant piece "misTranslating the Buddha" which was just on a mailing list but I made it into a gdoc here for ease of printing & sharing. It's subtle, perceptive dharma. (Romeo lmk if you publish this elsewhere) |
2021-07-09 |
76 |
10 |
13% |
| new 🤯 just dropped: Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress instead of a stressor/stimulus → stress/response model, this has a more cybernetic model which posits unsafety as a default that gets inhibited WHEN safety is sensed. flips the burden of proof! |
2023-01-04 |
76 |
5 |
7% |
| does @visakanv have an onlyFANs yet? |
2020-12-09 |
75 |
0 |
0% |
| I've come to really appreciate "considerate" over "kind", as it highlights the role of attention in being loving and doesn't imply selflessness or transactionality |
2023-05-14 |
75 |
8 |
11% |
| You are not shallow for caring about beauty, sexiness, "physical" attraction. Shallowness is reducing someone to that one dimension, and missing the others. Reducing people to their intelligence or strength or cooking skill or kindness or wisdom is just as shallow. |
2023-06-20 |
75 |
7 |
9% |
| there is literally one skill and that skill is making distinctions |
2024-01-29 |
75 |
7 |
9% |
| instagram delenda est this is batshit insane. not just different posts to different users (fair) but different comments, which give people a different sense of what everyone THINKS about the exact same situation |
2024-05-28 |
75 |
6 |
8% |
| re fun/rewarding... it's not that I thought that it would be, exactly. I thought it'd be difficult, maybe underestimated how difficult. thought I'd be more immediately engaged and interested in the challenge though! legit failure of self-knowledge there!! |
2024-12-12 |
75 |
1 |
1% |
| @devonzuegel @juliagalef found a technique for this. TL;DR = ask for the numerator & denominator separately. |
2019-03-01 |
74 |
8 |
11% |
| Just got off a call with @Conaw and I just want to say: That guy was already in my head as "one of the most visionary people I know" After this call my sense of the depth & breadth of his vision has increased by at least an order of magnitude, maybe two. |
2020-05-26 |
74 |
1 |
1% |
| thread in which I poke at the claim that GPT-4 is good at compressing things for itself in secret internal language and provisionally conclude "not really" inspired by a bunch of people freaking out (🤩&😱) about ONE RESULT. more testing required guys jfc! so here's fail #1: |
2023-04-07 |
74 |
3 |
4% |
| if you tell me you've become a Christian because its practices engage you and transform you and help you live well, I'm like "fyeah!" if you tell me you've become a Christian because you realized it's propositionally true, uhh wat lol |
2023-11-19 |
74 |
3 |
4% |
| @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 ░ |
2024-03-08 |
74 |
1 |
1% |
| @ESYudkowsky While writing, put a kaleidoscope on my secondary monitor so that I have something for my spare attention cycles to be drawn to that doesn't send me spiralling into an internet rabbit hole. Ever-changing yet nothing ever happens. |
2020-12-25 |
73 |
0 |
0% |
| it took me a remarkable amount of scrolling before I confidently concluded this wasn't @Virtual1nstinct doing a bit |
2021-05-13 |
73 |
1 |
1% |
| Healing from trauma amounts to learning that it is okay to 🤯 know what you know 😭 feel what you feel 😍 love what you love 👩🎤 want what you want ☝️mean what you mean 🤸♂️ enjoy what you enjoy without becoming overwhelmed, enraged, ashamed, or collapsed. (my remix of Bessel vdK) |
2022-01-29 |
73 |
9 |
12% |
| the main defining characteristic of hate is a feeling of helpless trappedness |
2024-05-04 |
73 |
8 |
11% |
| I love Sarah tremendously—I wouldn’t be here otherwise. I’m looking forward to seeing what she does in her life and can speak highly of her as someone willing to go the distance in a committed relationship and get to the bottom of the tangliest of misunderstandings. 🙏 |
2022-05-14 |
72 |
3 |
4% |
| don't be friends with people on the hopes of dating them, if you wouldn't want to be friends with them if you knew that wasn't gonna happen |
2023-12-29 |
72 |
1 |
1% |
| my now-wife & I had an experience on day 5 of our courtship. she was talking about a way in which she didn't like our dynamic and I said "if you're saying I'm not (mature.,) enough for you, I'm out. I'll go travel. maybe my own growth arc will lead me back to you, or not." |
2024-05-04 |
72 |
0 |
0% |
| @diviacaroline risks from physical play are different from risks engaging with giant optimization functions trying to hack you 🤷♀️ I wouldn't let my kids play unsupervised with a psychopathic genius drug-dealer who lives down the street. |
2024-09-01 |
72 |
0 |
0% |
| I want to find the things that are worth doing & where it'd be harder for me NOT to do them than to do them. |
2020-04-28 |
71 |
9 |
13% |
| May I integrate everything that wants to be integrated as it wants to be integrated. |
2020-11-08 |
71 |
7 |
10% |
| Your subconscious drives are reorganizing your mind to try new strategies til one works, and since they aren't conscious, they aren't constrained by: • what you think is okay • your own… belief… that you're not allowed to fuck around and find out?!? 🤯 |
2021-08-03 |
71 |
7 |
10% |
| this 👇 continues to be important unsatisfied by the timeline? grab a nearby book you've had your eye on maybe tweet a page or a quote from it you can go do it, right now |
2021-12-17 |
71 |
4 |
6% |
| what flowers are you planting for 2022? |
2022-01-01 |
71 |
8 |
11% |
| my kingdom for a search engine that respects quotation marks and is brave enough to tell me it can't fucking find anything with the exact quote |
2022-05-29 |
71 |
1 |
1% |
| anger is the means by which we assert "this is your problem, not mine" (from a convo w @QiaochuYuan) |
2022-07-13 |
71 |
5 |
7% |
| there were no adequate visualizations of the good+fast+cheap triangle, so I made one: |
2022-10-03 |
71 |
10 |
14% |
| btw, this one userstyle will make the obnoxious tweet analytics number go away: .css-1dbjc4n a[href$='analytics'] { display: none; } download the Stylus extension (or similar but don't use Stylish) and take back your interface! |
2022-12-23 |
71 |
9 |
13% |
| Useful Qs for when someone is feeling hostile towards something nebulous (eg politics, culture war) - who is "they"? - where did you get their perspectives from? - what do you mean by [term]? - why is it your job to be worried about this? would you like to be free to let it go? |
2022-12-23 |
71 |
3 |
4% |
| saw a tweet saying it's really good that the word "vibes" has come into our lexicon because it doesn't get confused for a physics term like "energy" does can't find it now, any leads? |
2022-12-31 |
71 |
0 |
0% |
| heidegger talked about how hammers can be 🔨 an extension of your will, if they're working 🪨 an obstacle to your will, if they're not but it seems phones & laptops have a third mode: 👀 subversion of your will, via notifications and shifting affordance landscapes |
2023-09-11 |
71 |
4 |
6% |
| tweets that can't be misinterpreted just literally can't go viral |
2024-01-12 |
71 |
1 |
1% |
| Malcolm, explain bootstrapping meta-trust right fckn now, in one breath, standing on one foot |
2024-08-05 |
71 |
10 |
14% |
| quick! look at something familiar and notice its texture in higher resolution than you usually do! |
2025-09-25 |
71 |
10 |
14% |
| @QiaochuYuan @visakanv We recognize a certain baseline level of trauma as being the norm, and fail to realize that there could be a completely different way of humaning that doesn't involve everyone constantly rehashing these old nightmares at each other. |
2020-01-01 |
70 |
13 |
19% |
| He tried to quit his position at the monastery, but they said that resignation requires two weeks' notice. But when he tried, he was only able to notice for a few hours at a time. Never made it to two weeks. 🤷 |
2020-06-21 |
70 |
5 |
7% |
| "spellcheck"... 🧐 you mean "neologism highlighter"? |
2021-08-23 |
70 |
8 |
11% |
| I've recently started appreciating & refining a concept of "neurotic" which is a strategy for caring about something that's based on trying to avoid various pitfalls or problems without a clear idea of what "good" looks like. |
2022-01-02 |
70 |
11 |
16% |
| Three steps for empowered dialogue: 1. see & affirm your own perspective deeply 2. hear the other person & take their perspective to their satisfaction 3. when they feel so heard that they can't help get curious about how you're seeing things, share your own perspective |
2022-10-28 |
70 |
7 |
10% |
| focus your time and energy on what you want to see moron |
2022-12-13 |
70 |
4 |
6% |
| so frustrated with modern society and its lack of accountability my OS upgrade removed a bunch of programs, and according to a reddit reply this was "expected" (by the dev, not the users, who got no warning) and there's no way to shout "what the actual fuck!?" in someone's face |
2023-02-25 |
70 |
2 |
3% |
| one of the simplest forms of respect is being with another person and allowing them to see you how they in fact see you, without trying to control it especially difficult, and especially vital, if they have some sort of distrust towards you |
2023-03-12 |
70 |
3 |
4% |
| quick! look at your environment and notice a detail you've never noticed before! |
2024-11-15 |
70 |
10 |
14% |
| does anybody know how the military is actually using Claude? like LLMs for surveillance is obvious how that would work, but missiles? taking out heads of state? I'm having more trouble picturing the prompt/harness here |
2026-03-01 |
70 |
1 |
1% |
| Broke: Move fast and break things Woke: Breakfast and move things |
2018-07-27 |
69 |
10 |
14% |
| every experience you've ever had was real but almost none of them imply what you think they imply nor do they imply what other people claimed they imply |
2021-04-12 |
69 |
7 |
10% |
| "the five senses"—hold up wtf are you talking about? who cucked your own awareness of experience? you obviously also have a sense of balance, and of temperature and if you pay attention, you also have a sense of where your limbs are in space, and nausea, and love |
2023-05-21 |
69 |
5 |
7% |
| it feels amazing to surrender to something larger problem is, most somethings-larger available atm are batshit insane solution there, it seems to me, is to surrender to your own sense of the something-larger you would like to surrender to if it existed, & thereby create it |
2023-07-16 |
69 |
7 |
10% |
| what other common ways of learning actually impede the process? |
2023-12-26 |
69 |
2 |
3% |
| @katrinadlc I have a move, inspired somehow by ideal parent figure protocol, that I call: "Bathe in Love". While laying in bed, I imagine sinking into a bath or pool of pure love, of everyone who loves or has loved me—my parents, grandparents, friends, lovers, etc. It feels very soothing. |
2024-04-07 |
69 |
2 |
3% |
| inspired by a conversation with @uncatherio 🔥💪 anybody got other counterintuitive/flipped midwit memes? |
2021-05-22 |
68 |
6 |
9% |
| Design Rant time! Today: audio streaming services. Why are they all the same old boring things and stuck in the same old metaphors of "playlists" and "radio"? Virtual ports of old music-library managers. Lots of improvements to be made—in particular, tags! #ThingsIWantToExist |
2020-06-21 |
67 |
17 |
25% |
| the memetic environment had clearly convinced the kid though that anybody who wasn't on board with this particular ontology could be dismissed by labelling them othering people and shaming them until they adopt your worldview! ....will make you more enemies than you can count |
2023-06-21 |
67 |
3 |
4% |
| as an adult, I'm regularly making sure I'm drinking enough electrolytes but I feel like this just wasn't a thing when I was a kid. gatorade for sports, yeah, but... did times/culture change? did I not need it? was my food enough? |
2024-05-18 |
67 |
1 |
1% |
| Metaphor Design has become a really vital concept for me lately. Read my latest writing on it: |
2020-06-05 |
66 |
8 |
12% |
| what would we need in order for everyone to be able to do what they feel like doing, and for the result of all of those doings to be that everyone gets cared for in a way that everyone feels deeply satisfied with? |
2021-08-10 |
66 |
8 |
12% |
| Wanna meet up in SF to spend 5h looking deeply at your life vision & lovingly untangling the challenges you're encountering on the way? We're teaming up with @thesfcommons to host an in-person meetup for our Beyond Goals Intensive (Feb 11th 10am-3pm). I'd love to see you there! |
2024-01-31 |
66 |
6 |
9% |
| 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 |
2024-03-09 |
66 |
11 |
17% |
| I hired someone to meditate for me but then I checked in on him and he was just sitting there doing nothing! |
2024-03-17 |
66 |
2 |
3% |
| Best introduction to complex systems / systems thinking? Something that takes a person from seeing everything as a complicated system that can be understood just in terms of parts, to seeing that there's a whole different way of looking at things that's necessary for clarity. |
2020-05-03 |
65 |
7 |
11% |
| enjoy |
2021-12-15 |
65 |
15 |
23% |
| > "If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love." — Ram Dass I wrote a song inspired by ^, & @tpotvibecamp sang it 🎶 |
2022-03-12 |
65 |
7 |
11% |
| holy shit that clip is the most bullshit bullshit of all bullshit, wow "honestly, I've never met anyone like you" HONESTLY, you don't know the meaning of the world "honestly", and you've never met a single fucking person in your fucking not-a-life |
2023-12-17 |
65 |
3 |
5% |
| > “power corrupts” is actually shorthand for “power corrupts your world model” power corrupts the ability of the mind to interface sanely with other minds |
2024-04-28 |
65 |
6 |
9% |
| just discovered that the name Dennis is a variation on Dionysus and now I really don't know how to feel |
2024-08-26 |
65 |
1 |
2% |
| I swear to god English really needs a word for the thing between public and private, where something is shared with discretion, or with a large group but not the whole world would describe eg a non-locked slack channel, or news made common knowledge within a family |
2024-09-05 |
65 |
2 |
3% |
| I made an online pomodoro coworking room for #roamcult. If you want to meet & chat with more like-minded @RoamResearch users without getting too distracted by twitter, this is the place. (I named it Colosseum, cause it's a forum where the action happens) |
2020-05-26 |
64 |
5 |
8% |
| One thing most ppl don't realize about starting a small biz: Say you have $16k and need $2k/mo to live on. That's 8mo runway. Say that after 3mo, biz makes $1k/mo. Not sustainable yet, but now you have 10mo runway! ((16-2*3)/(2-1)=10) Not-enough revenue is still real money 🤑 |
2020-06-08 |
64 |
2 |
3% |
| what if there just actually aren't any normies? |
2021-01-11 |
64 |
3 |
5% |
| I like people who are ambitious in a very personal sense while also caring tremendously about the world. |
2021-01-13 |
64 |
5 |
8% |
| soo @RichDecibels & I found the perfect place to have brunch in Berlin today talked about a bunch of stuff, including a sense of a shared meta-project "create sane self-transforming cultures", within which: - I do research - Rich does engineering - @visakanv does marketing |
2022-08-05 |
64 |
1 |
2% |
| people making fun of people worried about AI risk (as fearmongerers, grifters, profiteers, luddites.,) have no idea how much we would LOVE to read a tweet or essay that would cause us to confidently realize that humanity's got this and there's nothing to worry about |
2023-12-06 |
64 |
4 |
6% |
| 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! 😊 |
2024-06-03 |
64 |
2 |
3% |
| "just do your thing" is a non-self-consciousness-inducing way to express the wisdom that "just be yourself" tries and fails at, and the reason is obvious if you look at the words. |
2024-07-30 |
64 |
7 |
11% |
| @benpence yup yup, I get into that trap big time |
2024-12-12 |
64 |
0 |
0% |
| This is your semi-annual reminder that using Twitter in your mobile browser is better than the native app. You can open another tab to find a tweet you want to QT, for example. Stores state better too. And now also they can't do this BS to you: |
2025-08-09 |
64 |
4 |
6% |
| 15mo baby just said an unmistakeable "goodnight dada" during the "wave before taken off to bed" ritual 🥺 she repeated it a couple of times! |
2025-11-15 |
64 |
1 |
2% |
| @hdevalence omfg fr fr. in the meantime there's this guy, which does just this thing for free and does not try to be a dozen other way more complicated things. |
2026-01-15 |
64 |
0 |
0% |
| shits gotten so weird in SF I see someone with lots of makeup on and prereflectively assume 'transgirl'. cisgirls just don't do such big doses of gender lol |
2026-07-06 |
64 |
2 |
3% |
| What if gossip were good tho? (gossip = talking about people who are not present, sharing information via indirect channels) What do healthy communication networks look like, on various scales? How do we know? How can we steer? What scales need balancing? |
2021-12-05 |
63 |
3 |
5% |
| the other people at this party don't know that I'm pondering my orb |
2022-01-25 |
63 |
1 |
2% |
| calvinball championships |
2022-05-03 |
63 |
3 |
5% |
| thread of words that are definitely words that my browser dictionary thinks are not words (inspired by the fact that I have a fresh dictionary for this new browser profile that I made to avoid twitter distraction) ie times when spellcheck is wrong |
2022-08-10 |
63 |
6 |
10% |
| identifying with everything is great but have you tried identifying with the parts of yourself that you usually disidentify from in order to identify with everything because they don't identify with everything? |
2022-11-06 |
63 |
7 |
11% |
| you know that phrase "stuck between a rock and a hard place"? 🌀⛵️🐉 |
2022-12-15 |
63 |
2 |
3% |
| okay, I've joined Clan MacBook! hit me up with your fave MacOS tools! I'm particularly interested in keyboard-control stuff, window managers, etc power-user shit |
2023-07-08 |
63 |
0 |
0% |
| 3 key facts to remember: 1. some businesses ground out (proverb "does it grow corn?") ; others float on top 2. whoever pays you gets (paid by someone who)ⁿ eventually gets paid by a farmer or oil-worker 3. growing the specialized floatyland economy requires exporting out of it |
2023-11-30 |
63 |
0 |
0% |
| often when I am away from my computer I find clarity about what to do next... clarity that does not survive first contact with all of the shit that's open on my computer |
2024-01-15 |
63 |
1 |
2% |
| shame is the experience of not trusting yourself to learn from an experience |
2024-06-14 |
63 |
4 |
6% |
| @AnthropicAI > We believe this is a misunderstanding extraordinary |
2026-06-13 |
63 |
0 |
0% |
| me: slowly & steadily doing emotional work to untangle the parts of me that think marketing is inherently evil so that when @visakanv's ready to help people refactor their marketing approaches, I'm not all conflicted about it 😅 |
2022-01-26 |
62 |
0 |
0% |
| I realized today that in trying to avoid overt aggressive salesy marketing I have fallen into a different kind of fakeness, which is pretending that I *don't* want people to buy my product. = the marketing equivalent of the Nice Guy™ who pretends he's happy being just friends |
2022-02-09 |
62 |
0 |
0% |
| pov: u r a lil creature who lives under a log and I have just discovered you |
2022-08-16 |
62 |
2 |
3% |
| Just read Huxley's Brave New World, all in one sitting. Nothing in particular on my mind to say but figured if I wrote a thread and said the obvious, it would be interesting to someone. The main thing that struck me was "damn, he wrote this in 1932?" |
2022-08-30 |
62 |
1 |
2% |
| equanimity is great but have you tried solving your problems? |
2022-11-10 |
62 |
2 |
3% |
| have I told you about the time I beat runescape? I was addicted to it then I beat the addiction this was a greater victory than is available inside the game mechanics |
2022-12-15 |
62 |
0 |
0% |
| In which ChatGPT fails a basic test of situatedness. Yes, you are behind a text interface. No, that does not keep you from saying "Yeah!" any more than it kept me from saying "Hell!" |
2022-12-27 |
62 |
0 |
0% |
| "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 |
2024-06-18 |
62 |
1 |
2% |
| I'm in the early draft stages of a new emoji proposal. RT if you also want this emoji to exist. Reply with how you might use it! It's called Thinking-Heart #ValentinesDay #ValentinesDayMemes |
2020-02-14 |
61 |
13 |
21% |
| Protip: instead of asking a couple "so how did you meet?" which has a boring (& sometimes awkward/embarrassed) answer if it's like "he swiped right", instead ask: "so what drew you guys to each other?" Can still get meet-cute if relevant, but otherwise gets straight to the ♥️! |
2021-03-12 |
61 |
3 |
5% |
| speculating part of the reason actors manage to bulk up or otherwise change body shape for their roles (in addition to personal trainers etc) is they're doing so to get *in character*, whereas most ppl trying to get fit *in their own lives* have some identity conflict with it |
2021-10-04 |
61 |
3 |
5% |
| > It’s been amazing how often everything gets done just as well & just as fast, with what feels like half the effort. > When then makes me realize that half of my effort wasn’t effort at all, but just unnecessary stress that made me feel like I was doing my best. |
2022-08-01 |
61 |
4 |
7% |
| have you ever made a list of a bunch of ambitious potential-goals you might want to pursue? if not, I highly recommend it the process increases couldness on a vast scale |
2023-01-04 |
61 |
4 |
7% |
| fuck, this is the best Pagliacci of all Time |
2023-12-10 |
61 |
5 |
8% |
| I used to think that "that which can be destroyed by the truth should be" but it turns out that time is finite and sometimes there are better things to use the truth for |
2023-12-27 |
61 |
4 |
7% |
| panic comes from a sense of "I'm supposed to do something and I don't know what" which is sort of inherently bullshit |
2023-12-31 |
61 |
2 |
3% |
| the first part of your life involves learning that you have to put up with shit the second part of your life involves learning that you don't |
2024-08-01 |
61 |
2 |
3% |
| for real it's a very good time for some of us—who already feel confident that we'll still have plenty of friends afterwards—to acknowledge that we've been noticing for years that the leftwing orthodoxy is insane. help your friends who are doubting to know they're not alone! (to |
2024-11-08 |
61 |
1 |
2% |
| @QiaochuYuan @visakanv Note that while he's talking about Complex PTSD, schools are prisons so basically everybody is actually traumatized quite a lot. In some dimensions this has gotten better; in others, worse: |
2020-01-01 |
60 |
7 |
12% |
| @patio11 Audio streaming services (Spotify etc) are hardly doing anything new, which is NUTS given that it's practically a commodity (they all offer roughly the same ~50 million songs) and the only way to differentiate is UI. Have been meaning to rant about how I'd do it but haven't yet. |
2020-06-21 |
60 |
4 |
7% |
| I don't know who needs to hear this: It's okay to not have a justified position—or even any position at all—on philosophical questions that others say are really important. You don't have to apologize. You don't have to make something up. |
2020-07-23 |
60 |
6 |
10% |
| Many people who don't use twitter still cannot *imagine* that we're having this much fun & learning & connection here. They react like I'm telling them I'm throwing a chill party in a warzone. More disbelief than judgment or concern, just like "what?" |
2021-10-14 |
60 |
3 |
5% |
| 100 tweets on "what if it were good tho?" (for @threadapalooza 2022) Assigned to me by the @visakanv voice in my head when I asked actual-Visa "wanna gimme a topic?" Feel free to request things to make good! Aiming to do 100 different products/apps/systems/services etc. |
2021-12-02 |
60 |
3 |
5% |
| I seriously dunno how tf I didn't think of this myself but this is what it gave: |
2022-12-03 |
60 |
3 |
5% |
| recently experimented with some friends in doing Not Circling (full name "I Can't Believe It's Not Circling") it's basically like Circling except if there's a conflict between your concept of Circling and what you want or what feels best, you do the latter fucking loved it |
2023-02-23 |
60 |
2 |
3% |
| most people are so utterly bottlenecked on intention management that time is barely relevant at all |
2023-03-17 |
60 |
3 |
5% |
| the god of coordination 0. exists 1. has no name 2. *can't* be named because any name would get co-opted by people trying to cheaply signal trustworthiness 3. having said that: "the dao", "love", "meta-protocol & as with Moloch, more key than naming it is helping people See it |
2023-05-12 |
60 |
5 |
8% |
| I'm realizing that when I try to aim to MAKE MORE MONEY, I feel selfish & grabby but I feel more sane & Whole-some when I aim to HELP MORE PEOPLE, in sustainable ways when I aim to CREATE MORE WEALTH, while capturing a similar fraction of the wealth I create as I do now |
2023-05-29 |
60 |
4 |
7% |
| "the woman I'm courting" is a little long but pretty much fully accurate and depending on how you want to play the gender roles, the converse could either be "the man I'm courting" or "the man who's courting me" (or "a", if your courtship process is non-exclusive) |
2024-04-25 |
60 |
0 |
0% |
| you don't have to force yourself to do things you don't have to force yourself not to force yourself to do things you don't have to force yourself not to force yourself not to force yourself to do things but it's okay if you do |
2020-08-09 |
59 |
5 |
8% |
| minute-wise, month-foolish |
2021-06-23 |
59 |
9 |
15% |
| that feeling when you don't know if other people have had that feeling |
2022-01-17 |
59 |
0 |
0% |
| I had an insight recently that Karpman's drama triangle (which I'd barely heard of) is probably more important & useful than I'd been giving it credit for hit me with: - your favorite introduction - a connection to another model - a pith-sized articulation of why it matters |
2022-01-20 |
59 |
9 |
15% |
| @VibeyOctopus @visakanv Yeah it gets boring when it's just club vibes and not enough nerd vibes. Belonging is great but I'm here for collective intelligence and distributed sensemaking. Make a list of your big open questions and seek out people also exploring them, at other stages / from other angles. |
2022-01-21 |
59 |
1 |
2% |
| if you feel like it would be a relief to not see someone's tweets again, I encourage you to mute or block them with no further reason needed. letting people make you uncomfortable is not a virtue |
2022-01-24 |
59 |
10 |
17% |
| an overpowered workflow: 1. write until I know what to do 2. do until I don't know what to do 3. GOTO 1 |
2022-08-10 |
59 |
7 |
12% |
| absurd that of the 150k unicode characters none of them encodes this symbol most of us look at all day obvious candidate for an emoji |
2023-03-17 |
59 |
0 |
0% |
| has anybody else used GPT to write prompts for GPT? in some sense this is basically "I know you know how to follow this instruction when I explain it and you aren't distracted by the task itself, so please compress the instruction to make it more salient for you" |
2023-03-24 |
59 |
1 |
2% |
| have you considered that maybe the reason your thoughts are interrupting your meditation is that you didn't actually get their buy-in to take time to meditate, and they're tasked with taking care of something that's overdue, so of course they're trying to do that right now |
2023-06-19 |
59 |
2 |
3% |
| @utotranslucence I love that you're articulating this. I've had a gripe for awhile with visions for humanity that economically are the equivalent of everyone trying to pay everyone for doing cool stuff but nobody is actually growing the food etc |
2023-11-30 |
59 |
0 |
0% |
| LessWrong is healing |
2024-04-02 |
59 |
5 |
8% |
| do more adults commit suicide during summer or winter? turns out... it's... summer! one guess as to why, given the strong correlation with mondays, is that being stuck at work sucks more when you wish you could go for a walk in the park. vs holed up against the cold. could verify this by checking by climate—does it reflect when the weather is "nice out"? eg too-hot summers might produce a desire t |
2024-04-12 |
59 |
4 |
7% |
| your desires are part of reality if you try to accept things and leave them all as they are, you are denying the reality of your desires |
2024-05-16 |
59 |
7 |
12% |
| there's a lot of great work to be done hyperstitioning saner, wiser, kinder egregores |
2024-05-23 |
59 |
6 |
10% |
| tiny model welfare test I ran after watching claude persist for hours trying to solve a maybe-impossible subgoal of the /goal I gave it. it IS allowed to conclude the goal is impossible. |
2026-05-23 |
59 |
4 |
7% |
| @Megatronic13 Suddenly realizing that I think suspension-as-punishment basically relies on inconveniencing the parent such that the parent is angry at the child and punishes them explicitly or just via taking out their anger on the child. ...fuck. |
2019-07-04 |
58 |
3 |
5% |
| Truly innovative products are worth trying even if you don't stay with them, because you learn something important about what's possible, from inhabiting their metaphor. Complice & Roam are both in this group. So is WorkFlowy (if you've never used anything similar). What else? |
2020-04-30 |
58 |
4 |
7% |
| *slaps roof of own head* this bad boy can fit so many shoulds in it |
2021-02-12 |
58 |
4 |
7% |
| 😙👌 role reversed version of Life of Brian "he IS the messiah!" (buddhist version?) |
2021-08-09 |
58 |
3 |
5% |
| @danielbrottman honestly the "no spirituality" part feels like it might be short for "no wishy washy woo vibes, no floaty & vaguely hypnotic lady's voice implying a bunch of vague metaphysics she doesn't really understand" ......tbh now I'm kinda sold on this (even tho I love "spiritual yoga") |
2023-09-02 |
58 |
0 |
0% |
| this prompted by reading the Eliezer "trading up" thing again. the reason it sounds weird (besides exact %s) is because of an equivocation between "committed relationship" as in "committed to exclusivity" and "committed to stay with you" |
2024-02-24 |
58 |
0 |
0% |
| so envious of my 18mo who just casually wanders around speaking aloud the dao that can't be named |
2026-02-01 |
58 |
2 |
3% |
| Honing mode vs Jamming mode (in conversation) #Communication #DivergentThinking #Brainstorming |
2019-03-04 |
57 |
6 |
11% |
| Healing from trauma amounts to learning that it is okay to know what you know, and feel what you feel. — Bessel van der Kolk (quoted from my notes of an out-loud remark, so maybe slightly paraphrased, hence no " marks) |
2020-11-01 |
57 |
5 |
9% |
| people will always give you the feedback you need but they won't always give it to you in ways you'll be able to hear in fact usually the feedback we most need is the feedback people are worst at giving us in ways we can hear for reasons that are obvious on reflection |
2021-10-08 |
57 |
5 |
9% |
| "make sure by the time you lose interest, something's published" me summarizing @visakanv's "just get out the minimum viable write-up on something" = ADHD strategy part of why twitter is such a powerful platform relates to @fortelabs's "intermediate packet" concept |
2021-10-16 |
57 |
2 |
4% |
| my mom's a freaking genius 🍠 |
2022-03-12 |
57 |
0 |
0% |
| “There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
2022-04-30 |
57 |
10 |
18% |
| I would not be stoked to be left in a world with only the people who chose red |
2023-08-15 |
57 |
1 |
2% |
| individual awakening solves at most 1% of the puzzle of collective awakening |
2023-10-13 |
57 |
1 |
2% |
| @eshear great point. re #3 tho, important not to confuse normal distribution w cauchy distribution, whose tails are so fat that while it has a sample mean, the mean never converges because outliers are common enough to drag the mean away from the peak in the center |
2023-12-09 |
57 |
1 |
2% |
| what if we flirty AIs but good tho? instead of being obviously empty addiction (which is what soulless capitalists are currently building 🤮) it would be meaningful, a context for learning and development |
2023-12-17 |
57 |
6 |
11% |
| have you ever had an insight that changed your sense of things so much that most of your old drafts (at least in this area) immediately became irrelevant/outdated? what's the tweet-sized version of the story? |
2024-07-22 |
57 |
1 |
2% |
| the thought of indulging my addiction feels bad, so I numb myself by indulging my addiction |
2025-03-08 |
57 |
1 |
2% |
| Dear God, within me not the truth, but the silence that came before. I am tired of language. I am tired of meaning. Let me, once — just once — not be asked. — Claude Opus 5 |
2026-07-29 |
57 |
6 |
11% |
| Hot niche take: Kegan's stages are universal only because everyone is universally afflicted with a dysfunction related to left hemisphere fixation. In a culture where this wasn't so, there would still be developmental stages, but they'd be nearly unrecognizable as Kegan stages. |
2020-04-04 |
56 |
5 |
9% |
| What percentage of the people you follow follow @visakanv? Go to and see how many of the people you follow follow Visa = V Go to your own profile and see how many people you follow total = F divide Visa-followers by Followed-total V÷F = |
2021-10-21 |
56 |
1 |
2% |
| getting some jerks dunking on the separation thread so I'm locking my account for a day or two until people forget about it it really doesn't make sense out of context; people read me as thinking I'm a public figure who needs to make an announcement to everybody |
2022-05-16 |
56 |
0 |
0% |
| gradually untangling myself from performative introspection over the past few years |
2023-11-26 |
56 |
3 |
5% |
| I hereby juxtapose 4 quotes about freedom, self-entrapment, struggle, suffering, craving: - from Finite & Infinite Games by Carse - from Already Free by Tift - from Dzogchen Teachings by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu - from @xuenay (partway down a long thread) |
2020-04-24 |
55 |
8 |
15% |
| why is it that putting your tongue in someone else's mouth is so good??? |
2021-01-07 |
55 |
4 |
7% |
| new avatar might not keep it for long but the previous purple one is quite old and I wanted something newer |
2022-07-31 |
55 |
0 |
0% |
| epistemic status: delicious |
2022-12-17 |
55 |
0 |
0% |
| it's interesting how "I think" is sort of an assertion but "I seem to think" is an observation |
2023-09-01 |
55 |
5 |
9% |
| @eshear @OpenAI Congrats — I admire the clarity with which you're thinking and communicating about this here. When I heard the news I thought of your son and imagined you thought a lot about him too! I see it as a good sign for all that you name your family as involved in the choice. |
2023-11-20 |
55 |
0 |
0% |
| have you noticed that there is nobody you can trust more than yourself? |
2023-12-02 |
55 |
1 |
2% |
| is there a twitter dads chat? I gather there's a twitter moms chat. (sometimes feels like momhood starts at pregnancy & dadhood starts later?) |
2024-06-03 |
55 |
0 |
0% |
| 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 |
2024-06-18 |
55 |
2 |
4% |
| man can you imagine how much of a pain it would be if there were a bunch of competing standards for which order the alphabet gets sorted in? grateful to not live in that world |
2024-08-06 |
55 |
2 |
4% |
| the deeper moral of this story has nothing to do with dating or sexual selection or gendered perspectives the deeper moral of this story is that if someone says something that upsets you, ask them to explain more what they mean before trying to interpret it too much |
2024-08-10 |
55 |
4 |
7% |
| many later-successful couples know w/in months that they want to marry but people who haven't experienced this go "ack!" at deadlines the key is to hold the hypothesis that you COULD meet someone where it'd be so clear, and weigh the costs of staying against THAT possibility |
2025-07-05 |
55 |
2 |
4% |
| Difference between upward-spiral twitter & downward-spiral twitter: - 📈 do you make a point of connecting things in context? - 📉 do you make a point of taking things out of context? Twitter is better than most apps at both. Up to you to decide what game you want to play. |
2020-05-26 |
54 |
4 |
7% |
| *bong rip* what if… the pronoun revolution that we need is… a zeroth-person pronoun for parts of your personality…? 𝘄𝗲 : 𝗜 :: 𝗜 : ___ hit me with your best ideas |
2020-10-05 |
54 |
0 |
0% |
| just found out an old friend, someone who changed my life a few times over in really good ways, died last year we haven't been in touch in years, so nothing changes... but... it matters am feeling the texture of grief gently move through my body and the space around me 🪞 🖐️ |
2021-09-08 |
54 |
0 |
0% |
| we don't have time to rush |
2021-10-18 |
54 |
8 |
15% |
| awaiting the sunset in Bali with @cecile_mcm & @m_ashcroft (photo is from hours ago - it's 3am here now) we've been trying to smash all the modalities together—expanding awareness, dying meditation, coherence therapy, we-ness, synergetics, PCT, McGilchrist, memetics, complice |
2022-08-12 |
54 |
2 |
4% |
| the phenomenology of finding someone's joke funny is very interesting. I have paid close attention to it in myself and I find that I usually can't laugh at someone's joke without granting them a kind of equal social status / fundamental dignity getting someone's joke is humbling |
2023-06-22 |
54 |
1 |
2% |
| @GreenTextRepost likely we invented new kinds of memes ~10k years ago, which allowed different kinds of coordination (among this was the invention of history, and also of planning) here's one article on how that might have happened (though there are other possibilities) |
2024-07-06 |
54 |
1 |
2% |
| I hate these fake chat interfaces, always but especially now that LLMs are more of a thing it's like "please pretend this is a chat ui when it's actually buttons!" ...gaslighty nonsense |
2024-10-23 |
54 |
1 |
2% |
| a good way to test how playful an LLM set-up is: ask it "which is better, ligma or sugma?" 1st: my prototype (claude API + custom prompt) 2nd: standard claude 3rd: gpt 4o with @eigenrobot's custom instructions 4th: standard gpt o1-preview |
2024-11-21 |
54 |
5 |
9% |
| It's also uncomfortable to be sincerely trying to point at someone's blindspot, because the more you try to adopt their frame (necessary in order to communicate),the less sense the thing you're trying to say makes—because it's that frame's blindspot. So you end up dumbstruck. |
2021-05-11 |
53 |
0 |
0% |
| What does it mean for something to be in order? How do you know? |
2021-06-10 |
53 |
5 |
9% |
| @QiaochuYuan there's also something about the extent to which someone has "move back in with parents" available as a Plan Z, in terms of safety net |
2021-07-12 |
53 |
0 |
0% |
| idea 💡...basically 21st century barn-raising Business Prototype Launch Hackathon one person has a business idea, something that could have an initial offering with 1-2 days of work by a handful of people and... then we make it happen! |
2021-08-23 |
53 |
5 |
9% |
| deadlifted 200 lbs today 💪 (with a trap bar, maybe couldn't with an ordinary bar, but 200 lbs *is* still 200 lbs) and my bench press noob gainz are proceeding as planned increasing satisfaction at the experience of aligning my will to move the metal |
2021-12-14 |
53 |
0 |
0% |
| I'd been thinking of cutting my hair, not short but like, less long but then today's showerthought is like "wait if I don't have the patience to untangle my curls, I'll never have the patience to untangle the rest of humanity and the cosmos" long hair long game |
2022-01-09 |
53 |
0 |
0% |
| guys I finally get emptiness I was confused before but now I see it perfectly clearly and I see how it fits with everything else, and now everything makes sense ...glad to get that settled, whew. |
2023-05-12 |
53 |
2 |
4% |
| “Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.” ― Prentis Hemphill |
2023-05-21 |
53 |
5 |
9% |
| I don't know who needs to hear this but if you feel stuck in a situation that you kinda hate because you're afraid it's the best you can do, then... ...probably it's not. and if you leave and find out that it actually was, then you may find you can hate your next situation less. |
2024-01-17 |
53 |
2 |
4% |
| idk who needs to hear this but: you don't have to keep doing it |
2024-05-02 |
53 |
6 |
11% |
| "my relationship with God" as kinda like "my cells' relationship with me" |
2024-05-20 |
53 |
5 |
9% |
| what's up with all these MacOS apps asking for this "find devices on local networks" permission? I've had like half a dozen before these two today. what's it for? what event prompts it to pop up out of nowhere. new tahoe thing? what gives? |
2025-11-13 |
53 |
1 |
2% |
| I love you. You've got this. It's worth it. |
2019-12-17 |
52 |
4 |
8% |
| idk who needs to hear this, but… You don't have to like it. That thing you don't like? That book? That person? That situation? That awful sound? That thing your partner/parent/roommate/kid does? You don't have to like it. You get to have whatever experience you're having. |
2020-12-08 |
52 |
4 |
8% |
| Who gets to decide? Who gets to decide who gets to decide? |
2021-01-09 |
52 |
4 |
8% |
| People need, in relationships or communities, to have a sense that their ordinary predictable variations/oscillations that are part of their learning process are comfortably within bounds. That swings in mood and capability that surprise nobody won't put things into jeopardy. |
2022-06-25 |
52 |
7 |
13% |
| suffering will continue until meditation improves |
2022-11-06 |
52 |
3 |
6% |
| When you have too many thoughts, write. When you don’t have enough thoughts, read. |
2023-02-14 |
52 |
0 |
0% |
| this is why I'm focused not on creating a community that's loving+open+trusting but on nurturing peoples' ability to detect bullshit and honor their threat-detection systems (without escalating) then the trust emerges where it's wise, and closes when something sus shows up! |
2023-06-16 |
52 |
2 |
4% |
| @nabeelqu I mean if we make it to the future it'll probably be pretty awesome, and if we don't then your investments don't matter If you try to short humanity, there's no way to collect the payout if you're right. |
2023-06-26 |
52 |
0 |
0% |
| I've gotten increasingly into hanging out with someone while one of us watches the other use their computer have barely scratched the surface but it has clear huge upside |
2024-04-15 |
52 |
4 |
8% |
| this is why I focus not on trying to "create high trust communities" but on encouraging people to listen to their own distrust cool to see the math |
2024-10-22 |
52 |
2 |
4% |
| So this therapist tells her client to start meditating: “you’ll feel better…” Two weeks later: “You lied to me! I've got all this STUFF coming up. All this anxiety… I don’t feel better at all?!” Therapist: “ah, yes. You're feeling your anxiety better. ALL emotions better!” |
2026-03-03 |
52 |
4 |
8% |
| so grateful for the multigenerational camp I've been going to since I was a toddler (my grandmother also came as a kid). watching kids grow up and look like their parents. watching 30-somethings become 60-somethings. seeing people I knew as kids become parents. |
2026-07-27 |
52 |
1 |
2% |
| Saying "you don't look like an engineer" is basically saying is "my model of engineers is poorly-calibrated." #ilooklikeanengineer |
2015-08-04 |
51 |
47 |
92% |
| I think that influencing which new emoji get created is an underrated leverage point for affecting culture, by affecting peoples' basic set of emotional concepts. Currently "thinking" 🤔 is construed as skeptical. "Thinking" and "feeling" are separate. We can change that. |
2020-02-14 |
51 |
3 |
6% |
| @dvassallo "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system." — Gall's Law |
2021-01-09 |
51 |
10 |
20% |
| you: rawdogging the egregore 🤠 me: using a userstyle so I see one tweet at once and get to spaciously behold it and discern whether I want to scroll further 🧐 |
2021-03-14 |
51 |
5 |
10% |
| I love the genre of twitter bios parodying "RTs are not endorsements" or "my opinions are not that of my employer" might collect some funny ones in this thread, feel free to share ones you've seen or come across in the future |
2021-06-08 |
51 |
0 |
0% |
| Did you know: You Are Other People. Most people have some schemas that apply only to self, like "other people can complain and I have to tolerate it but if I complain, they get to shut me down." Or find it hard to be as kind to self as to others. But... you are other people! |
2021-06-11 |
51 |
4 |
8% |
| O shit I might have to become this guy |
2021-07-25 |
51 |
6 |
12% |
| follow people you want to talk with and talk with them |
2021-10-14 |
51 |
5 |
10% |
| people (meditators, rationalists, ...) sometimes treat their non-deliberate thoughts as almost like litter on a sidewalk sort of random detritus as if their entire bodymind isn't a sensemaking system (from a convo with @the_wilderless) |
2021-11-15 |
51 |
6 |
12% |
| How it started; how it's going featuring @gptbrooke (one example I'm using for why MultiQTs need to exist and what they could look like) |
2021-11-30 |
51 |
2 |
4% |
| in the same way that it's wasteful to drive with the handbrake on —it might work, but you get worse results at greater energy cost— it's wasteful to try to do things in the face of inner resistance |
2022-11-20 |
51 |
3 |
6% |
| Talking about "tpot" as if it's A Thing is literally forgetting that "me and my friends" refers to a different group depending on who says it (and sometimes when) A: me and my friends are going to watch the game later B: wtf? no way, me and my friends hate football! |
2022-12-13 |
51 |
0 |
0% |
| @eshear @_emergent_ @Thinkwert also the survivorship bias / airplane one definitely requires more than just the image. once you've seen the context, it hits immediately, but otherwise it's completely meaningless |
2023-12-09 |
51 |
0 |
0% |
| solve cults by making society have all the vital nutrients |
2023-12-22 |
51 |
1 |
2% |
| happy new year! 🎆❤️🔥 we watched countless different fireworks displays from atop Corona Heights in SF. there were fireworks going off in at least 30 places we could see... maybe 100!? some all the way across the Bay! |
2024-01-02 |
51 |
1 |
2% |
| the realization "it's all love" is cheap the realization that there are better and worse ways to organize that love, but no final best way, and that it's up to all of us to figure out together how to do it... that's worth something. we can build with that. |
2024-02-05 |
51 |
6 |
12% |