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12 Aug 2023
I don't want to kill my ego I want to cuddle it
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👏 World models are instantiated ON TOP of your nervous system 👏
Jun 13
and remember this is about your nervous system and not world models. World models are instantiated ON TOP of your nervous system, and sometimes the only way to talk about or access parts of your NS is to talk about the world models built on top of that.
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shill's right
this is a good essay. really good
it echoes a lot of the thoughts I've been having over the past decade, about my childhood and adolescence, which I haven't been able to articulate
homosabiens.substack.com/p/t…
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Jun 11
life can actually be quite fun when you assume other people are taking this same approach
like the person who cuts you off on the highway, your reaction can be "oh, you're playing a game where getting to your destination is the absolute most important thing in the world, and you get to act all stressed & angry... that's a neat little game"
and then notice the games that *you're* playing, the things that you are pretending are of existential importance, and decide whether you actually like those games
Jun 11
two frames we want to be able to shift between:
1) life is fun, joyful, an exercise in abundance. at the highest level, there are no real stakes, or none that we know with certainty. there is no objective "should", no punishment for living a bad life. you are free to be as you are. life is an infinite game
2) creating the life you want is an exercise in scarcity. there is limited time & energy, and the stakes are real: it is possible to get it wrong. there are things you should & should not do, when it comes to your concrete objective. life as a finite game
when we're caught up in #2, life feels very unpleasant. but when we choose to enter #2 from the broader frame of #1, it's like getting very involved in a game of tennis: we are very intense in our focus, we cry when we lose, we smash our racket on the ground... but then we walk away, and remember it's not the end of the world
too much of #1, on the other hand, feels ungrounded, directionless, dull. stakes are fun! creating something bounded is exciting! a refusal to take on real stakes is the puer aeternus archetype, and it leads to a drifting through life
engage with scarcity & risk, but remember what you are. that's the dance
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Jun 2
It is much easier to be famous than to be right, and much easier to be right than to make a difference.
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May 16
There is no difference between "insensitive to" and "robust to" something
Except there is all the difference in the world
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May 15
"I'm at Kegan 4 mostly"
My friend, the 4 was superfluous.
You're at Kegan. That's it.
May 15
"I'm an Enneagram"
Enneagram what?
No just the type of person who likes Enneagram
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May 15
"I'm an Enneagram"
Enneagram what?
No just the type of person who likes Enneagram
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how you feel about each Winnie the pooh character probably says a lot about you
pooh: naivety
piglet: anxiety
eeyore: bummer
owl: education
rabbit: control
kanga:?
tigger: chaos
roo: childhood?
CR:?
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You are looking for the Seat Of Consciousness
I am looking for the Lamborghini Of Consciousness
We are not the same
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a complaint for the UX department of everywhere:
Hey, I Was Reading That
...is my biggest problem with any UX, and it's everywhere. i'm in the middle of reading some text and it scrolls away, gets covered, etc.
please, I beg of you, design your thing so that this Never Happens
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May 7
Only people with ADHD truly understand what it's like to be AGGRESSIVELY uninterested in something like so uninterested you're angry
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I swear this era of inept text generation tells us something deep about vision-language models but I can't make it out.
I bet @repligate et al would have something interesting to say on it.
22 Oct 2023
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It is a deep privilege when your kids still talk to themselves out loud unselfconsciously.
That window will close and never reopen 😭
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Small talk lover here: Small talk sets the tone for the interaction. Most communication is non-verbal, you see. What you say is nothing compared to how you say it. It’s a vehicle to transmit a vibe. Getting good at small talk is getting good at connecting to people.
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Vonnegut: I wrote Cat's Cradle as a warning
Materials Scientists: we are making progress towards making Ice Nine from cat's cradle
quantamagazine.org/physicist…
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Told a grumpy gym employee who never smiles that i liked his shaved head. He said “thanks, I shave it every year to honor my son who died of cancer”
Normally this would throw me off and I would awkwardly apologize for bringing it up, but I thought of the grieving parents on here who have said over and over that they enjoy talking about their kids, so I asked about his son.
He absolutely lit up and told me all about what a wonderful man he grew into, obviously just happy to share his memory. So thanks, everyone, for sharing. It makes a difference irl
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For most things, the optimal strategy is satisficing, not optimizing. Not quadruple-guessing every decision doesn't just save you trouble, it also makes you more dependable.
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This was a fun experiment. I wonder how phenomenological twitter experiences this?
Apr 29
I found it not binary at all, more a gradual re-emergence of mental activity. Somewhat like the volume gradually turning back up - and so the answer partly depends on what counts as a thought.
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Apr 26
Vgr argues humans love managing: basically the go-to free time activity. But that it’s done as “play” bc of the cost of coordinating others. But, given AI, coordination costs are tiny so now we can dedicate our free time to management that isn’t just play.
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