capricious dilettante 💅 • human wordsmith • avatar by @suchaone
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Mar 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
for some reason "what if I just die" is a comforting thought even though I don't want to die. it's like, I could, and then I wouldn't have to exist anymore, and that's nice to think about
what if I stop holding myself together and decohere and drift apart like dust spreading through a sunbeam
Mar 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
great interview with @LauraBehrensWu on @stratechery, talking about shipping as a crucial vector of ecommerce strategy: stratechery.com/2022/an-update… [paywalled I think]
I interviewed Laura when I worked at Inc. (so like five years ago now... shit) and it's super impressive how the company has scaled up since then
Mar 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
after vibecamp I'm completely giving up on following a reasonable number of people
unexpected effect of the event is that I'm enjoying Twitter again
Mar 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
sorry to be a total bitch putting this person on blast but the perceptual deficits of vibecamp haters are hilarious to me
it takes a village to raise @babymoonbot you know 💗
Brooke has repeatedly blown away my expectations — I love internet weirdo gatherings so I was excited from day 1, but also skeptical that first-time event organizers could tackle something this big and pull it off
well: there were wrinkles ofc, but overall a SLAM DUNK
Mar 11, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I'm curious whether /r/Catholicism will survive on Reddit, given that Catholic dogma on homosexuality and related matters conflicts with burgeoning progressive notions of (un)acceptable speech. Reddit's "Anti-Evil Operations" is in play... reddit.com/r/Catholicism/…
seems like a @roddreher column in the making...
particularly excited that @gnostiquette remixed previous contributions by @strnglft and @Polyducks — that's exactly the magic that Wanderverse is *for* 😍
Mar 1, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I think it's tragically under-acknowledged that your epistemological approach *ought* to be different depending on your goal(s)
in other words, what you *should* identify as truth, versus discard as false negative or false positive, depends on the endeavor that you're pursuing
for example, I don't think that atheists are *wrong* per se, but they've foregrounded a salience framework — a paradigm of what is most important, epistemically — that I disagree with and consider misguided. this is because we have different priorities re: how to order world-data
Jul 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
please stop being surprised that you can't outsource your judgment
listen to podcasts to find out what other people think, not (necessarily) what is true
this is a large reason why I don't talk about object-level politics very often
I know that I can't outsource my judgment, and I'm usually not willing to do a five-hour deep dive on the primary evidence concerning whatever the controversy is
Jul 7, 2020 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
it's more performant to believe — or at least say — that you never incur collateral damage in pursuit of your righteous cause. so people do! the falsity doesn't negate the advantage
if there's an advantage to belief X or rhetoric Y, the truth value will be treated as irrelevant instrumentally — but all the while paid lip service with apparently earnest fury
Jul 1, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
"propriety for me but not for thee" ain't gonna fly anymore 😏
Lorenz: "The whole idea that the very ethical and talented women who write these stories (who she basically demeans) do so for 'clicks' is misguided and wrong."
3) OTOH, I do believe that you're a sincere useful idiot
Mar 27, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
poetically tragic that Kelsey Piper took a job at Vox to popularize effective altruism and completely squandered the opportunity to be, y'know, an *effective* altruist
lel — "What it felt like from the inside was that the implications of my beliefs were too ridiculous for me to feel comfortable committing them to public scrutiny." archive.is/dLd1i
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