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@EpistemicHope
Jan 12 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
My takeway from this is that at least one of having skin in the game and/or having final decision-making responsibility is more important for learning that solving varied real-world problems.

Startup founders are very invested (literally) in their company succeeding...
...and the the final authority is with them.

For consultants, they're ultimately giving advice, and if they make the wrong call, it's not that big a deal for them personally.

So maybe they're less psychologically "hooked in" and committed to solving any given problem?
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Jan 9
In the GTF (if we get there), we'll regularly do mental operations that take thousands of symbols.

We'll think it is utterly bizarre and horrifying that the biological bootloader beings (us) could only only do mental operations on ~4 symbols at a time.
This is an insane bottleneck.
How many thoughts are we not able to think, because they would require consciously holding in mind the specific relationships between just _10_ concepts, where you can't do it by chunking because the way each concept relates to the others depends all the rest?
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Jan 8
I am very libertarian, but have become somewhat more conservative overtime in this sense:

I think it sensible for "society" to try to set social default norms that are healthy and sustainable.

But there HAVE to be ways for people to opt out of that if it doesn't work for them.
In fact, those things go together.

If there are ways for people to quietly opt out of the defaults, they don't have to rebel against those norms to create space for themselves to live lives that work for them.
I could totally imagine that poly works badly for most people society would be better off if it were generally socially discouraged.

But some people are obviously-to-me very dispoistionally poly—it actually does work better for them.
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Jan 5
I consider myself to "do philosophy", though what I mean by that has very little to do with academic philosophy or the "great philosophers" who I agree are mostly bad (with a few exceptions), except as examples of how different one’s worldview can be from what I take for granted.
By "philosophy" I mean "reflecting on the abstractions we use to make sense of and act in the world."
Philosophy is the domain that involves reflecting _on_ abstractions, reasoning about whether and where a particular abstraction is correct or useful, or whether and where a different abstraction would be better, etc.
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Jan 4
It's notable how many of the replies are variations of "yeah! Taleb sucks!" or "fuck that guy".

Distinctly in contrast to Bryan's recognizing Taleb's value and meeting-negativity-with-sincere-positivity.

Not all though! Some replies were "yeah, I want to embody that energy!"
It's interesting to me that some fraction of people's main takeaway from this interaction is

"Taleb got owned"

not

"fuck yeah, what a cool example of someone responding to social attack with sincere appreciation, by investing energy on what's good."
I think that's badass.

I want more of that attitude myself, and I want more of it in my local social space.
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Jan 3
The central event of the Christian religion is the crucifixion (and subsequent resurrection).

Presumably, it was not part of the actual Jesus of Nazareth's plan to be captured and crucified.
It's kind of crazy that the defining theological feature of Christianity (Christ dying for humanity's sins) is a recon of the actual Jesus's teachings, to address the cognitive dissonance of his execution.
But not only was that retcon apparently effective for resolving the cognitive dissonance of the purported messiah dying without, apparently, having ushered in the new age, it actually made the whole thing work!

Christianity is much stronger as a meme because of the crucifixion.
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Jan 2
Man, it's crazy how much the trajectory of the singularity, and the whole cosmic future, probably hinged on the windspeed in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024.

I guess that our measure split into two radically different timelines on that day.
(I wonder what the ratio was. How much of my measure went down which branch? Is most of me in the other timeline, dealing with a different situation?)
I think over the coming year, it will become more clear whether that was as much of a critical pivot point as it seems to me right now. We'll see if the US government changes in any substantial way, and we'll see if how fast we're accelerating into the singularity.
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