December 20th, 2021
- the PCT books and Unlocking the Emotional Brain have some interesting cross-connections, which I talk about in the convo I had with Eva de Hullu
- meanwhile, some stuff that Book/Controlling People talks about dovetails interestingly with David Deutsch and The Secret of Our Success...
- if one asks the question, from PCT, why don't people reorganize better already? why do we get worse at reorganizing as we age, given that that seems non-adaptive?
- DD: The Evolution of Culture by David Deutsch says a bunch of stuff about cultural evolution, which also connect potently with The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich
- which explains why this is
- and if one asks the Deutsch-inspired question of how this happens neurologically, or even something like what is necessary to achieve this, neurologically?, Unlocking the Emotional Brain and PCT both have some answers
- Controlling People in particular talks a lot more about the reorganization system, and so if you want people to not try to outsmart culture then it would naturally be necessary to keep people from consciously inspecting certain things!!!
- comb jelly, I make you jealous in all the colors of the rainbow, not just green
- How can we incentivize people not to goodhart?
- Factorio as a metaphor for being a consciousness in a control system hierarchy
- (ooh this dovetails with the PCT "consciousness as the twiddler")
- this is why your character doesn't need to eat — the character isn't so much a person as a manifestation of awareness and agency
- the factory just keeps doing what it was set up to do, you don't have to DO the factory
- but then if something's not working, you'll notice, because it'll be not working
- (I bet you could make a game even more like being a consciousness in a control system hierarchy.... but it would be hard for it to be a better game)
- I wonder if more control systems could be added to factorio... like you can currently make some logic using circuits and so on..... hm
- sass as a service
- Misc thoughts while on flight:
- So, flat-earth theory....... when a flat-earther from the US has a video call with a flat-earther from Australia, what sense are they making of the fact that it's a different time of day in each place?
- like where do they think the sun is?
- I can't type for more than like 20 minutes on this laptop keyboard without a muscle in my arm getting sore...
- no wait, that's partially because I'm cramped up in this airplane seat
- oooh, putting the seat back helps