August 22nd, 2023
- #2tweet weird idea: a social network where all posts must start with "I seem to think" or "I feel" or "I noticed" or "I wonder" or something like that. cultivate a vibe of I-statements. not actually ideal but interesting to think about.
- weird idea: a social network where all posts must start with "I seem to think" or "I feel" or "I noticed" or "I wonder" or something like that. cultivate a vibe of I-statements. not actually ideal but interesting to think about.
- interesting how "I think" is sort of an assertion but "I seem to think" is an observation
- fragments from gnosis post
- If it’s obviously false, that obviousness will become clear to those attempting to find out, as we explore it. One might justify this by saying that some people don’t want to actually find out what’s true, they just want someone to blame… but if so this issue cannot be solved in general by injunctions against saying obvious things or asking obvious questions. If saying the obvious is outlawed, only outlaws will have access to some truths, and then the law will have egg on its face! Likewise with people positing things where the official position is that “there is no evidence”. Any claim that there is “no evidence” of something is evidence of bullshit. There is no No Evidence.
- People grappling with the tension of how to support free speech while not supporting calls to violence might find it helpful to distinguish observations about ones’ own experience from calls for collective agreement about generalizations.
- #2tweet phenomenologically, please describe what felt-senses you experience when you consider this:
28+32=50- phenomenologically, please describe what felt-senses you experience when you consider this:
28+32=50
- for me the first sensation is that the left side doesn't fit. it's bursting, it's overflowing, there's an extra 10 that wants to fall out or pop out or get split in two so it can send 5 to the other side.
very visceral experience of imbalanced quantity
- if I focus on the "=", it wants to become a ">".
if I focus on 50, it feels too small. maybe it want to become a 60, which I feel like could be done by stretching it or sticking 10 more on
- let's try another one. how does it feel to look at this:
7×7=50
- for me there's a kind of gaping hole, a missing 1 on the left... or a weird extra 1 on the right that wants to fall off
and also a kind of ticklish sense of wrongness factor-wise... the 7-ness of the left side is such a non-fit for the 5&10-ness of the right