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1 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
progress on making humans more virtuous has been really lacking for the last several thousand years
you’d think we’d have figured out some more reliable techniques by now
then again there also isn’t a serious tradition of training rationality, which seems like another no-brained
basically i’m thinking of stuff like craft skills, where there’s a long tradition of development by experimentation and iteration over thousands of years, until you get to what we have today, which is super useful

could have been applied to more abstract stuff

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1 Oct
some people really think individualism and community are mutually exclusive smh
i am in favor of strong, agentic individuals AND strong, deliberate communities which support and empower those individuals
individualism as taking personal responsibility, recognizing, developing, and thoughtfully exercising your power

that’s actually how you get good communities, not by everyone waiting for someone else to take charge
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1 Oct
i like this thread and agree with most of its points

one thing i’d add: ‘social skills’ is a pretty vague term, and encompasses a lot of different skills, only some of which have to do with communicating to other people or presenting yourself
now, i’m something of an autist myself, and i feel pretty satisfied with my output-related social skills. i.e. i’m good at presenting myself the way i want to present myself

if i wanted to manipulate people more or control my presentation more, i wouldn’t be good at that
but i definitely have shortcomings wrt actually figuring out what’s going on inside other people’s heads (input)

idk how good the median neurotypical is at this, but i suspect people on the spectrum tend to have a harder time
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30 Sep
~2 month update: at this point i’m pretty sure most of my lack of confidence in my executive function and mental stability is self-fulfilling prophecy
there have been points in the past when my mental health was much worse and that lack of confidence was more accurate

but lately i’ve just been holding myself back for no good reason
also the part where instead of making plans that have allowances for a sudden deficit of executive function or mental stability, i just avoid doing anything that might require those things even when it looks like i’ve got them? that’s just dumb
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28 Sep
there’s a certain pattern i fall into where

1. i am very determined to improve myself and change my life, and come up with ambitious goals to do this
2. i fail to meet these goals and feel shame about it
3. eventually everything completely falls apart, i get super depressed, i am no longer making an effort to improve my life or be strategic in any way
4. things get better, i am now capable of being functional, but i don’t make an effort because it’s easier not to, and because…
…i’m still somehow afraid of that shame. i.e. there’s some part of me that thinks ‘if i try to change things, i’ll fail, and i’ll feel shame about it, i can avoid this by not trying and not thinking about being strategic at all’
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22 Sep
new frame: you can look at the knowledge/meme lifecycle/pipeline of various domains of knowledge
e.g. social science
0. reality itself: platonic, beautiful, the territory
1. social science research: i.e. the experiments, data, and analysis, before further filtering—close to reality, but distorted by flawed methodology, also influenced by what people choose to investigate
2. scientific literature: builds upon the research but it gets filtered and distorted—publication bias, some papers get more attention than others, meta-analyses and literature reviews filter and synthesize and sometimes distort—also this is the point at which fraudulent papers…
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22 Sep
idle musings about how i would redesign twitter:
- skip the peripheral shit, focus hard on hypertext/threading/network-of-thoughts and network-of-people
- search should be good by default but also have lots of options for power users
- more and better options to filter notifications and timeline, for power users
- network visualization features built in (i.e. to understand how tweets or accounts connect to each other, @ollyrobot’s twitter graph thing was a good start)
- neue haas grotesk, probably
- more stuff to help you discover new people
- if there’s to be some peripheral shit stuck on, it would be focused on connecting people—basic dating app functionality could be good
(as an aside, i think twitter has been focusing too much on *content*—fleets, spaces, etc.)
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