July 24th, 2024
- maybe reply dis here if nobody else does
- it's land. obviously scarce and currently effectively subsidized by the government in the sense that once you own it the amount you have to pay to keep it is absurdly lower than the amount you would naturally have to pay to defend it.
- one could argue that if that were not outlawed by counties then people could be building more apartments, making more usable surface area for living... which is true but another one of the reasons nobody is building is that you can make money by just holding land
- and also if LVT were implemented to the point where landlording weren't particularly profitable (from rent or from just buying, holding, and reselling) then people would start buying land only when they had something useful to do with that land, and if that's way fewer people then woooo the prices go way down without having to build more stuff
- another writing day!
- @ 10:17 - offline journalling in the park
- I'd like to be a bit less tunnelled on the 2×2 of 100% confidence + 100% humility
- although I would also kinda like to finish it or get it to a point where it only needs minor edits
- but yeah
- I maybe want to do a bit more mapping out of different pieces and how they depend on each other
- like I have a sense that a bunch of them maybe depend on my two modes of intersubjectivity
- and I sort of feel like maybe I've got a bunch of post-gnosis-related reflections
- there's also a sense of like... maybe I can produce some onepagers about these
- huh, I could make like icantell.nonnaivetrust.dance or something and it's just a tiny ebook on I can tell for myself made of the posts
- probably not today but it's neat to think about
- yeah, I think I want an attitude of like... work on the posts, and when I encounter a desire to link to something I haven't written, explore writing at LEAST a onepager on it!
- I'm also pretty excited to write something that would go into the LSA scene
- also kind of excited for the patch post... laying out my best model of the theory of change / praxis of LSA and how my new theory of change is different as of 2020
- but that might benefit from waiting til I've read more Book/Brain Talk
- oh yeah, I noticed just now something about how the "choose the mindset" move is umm... like in that lil sept 2016 clip, attempting to make that choice from anything other than your own "I can tell for myself" is fundamentally self-undermining even if it locally produces some sort of synergy
- huhhhh relatedly, there's a DIFFERENT punishment vs consequences piece that I would write up for LSA deliberate "negative reinforcement" is punishment even if you don't call it that
- oh yeah relatedly, the addiction to co-flow piece
- would also be kinda fun to make a video or two today
- could record a lil one in this park before I leave
- there's such a temptation (w vids too) to try to make my ideas or articulations perfect
- and there's definitely something to be said for such optimization
- but also I have just such a font of ideas and I want to get them oouuuut
- I love how I'm now doing a bunch of writing not spurred by beeminder
- mmmm spurred, what a great word for this 🏇
- similar to HWGT
- anyway, my sense is that I'm sorta ready to do some writing
- and the main other thing I want to get in touch with before heading back to the house or whatever is...
- ...what's the purpose for the writing? why write this?
- some of it is clarifying my thinking
- in practice that's a large fraction of the effect, given how little readership I'm getting
- I'm reflecting that maybe also I'd be more motivated to write if I were doing a better job of promoting my writing
- that hadn't occurred to me before last week
- I'd like more people to get the NNTD insight etc, but I'm also not hugely optimistic about that happening via more blog posts
- I'd like to be able to link to {something, something really solid} on all of my main NNTD talking points
- but why?
- to seem smart/prepared
- to hit people at the right moment
- ooh I like this
- to give people many ins to my ideas
- ....for a more specific piece I'm sure my answers will be better
- mmm yeah I can already feel that and how it'll increase and aim my motivation
- I'm very inclined to do that journalling, but I notice I seem to want to head back?
- hm, some other part of me doesn't totally trust/like that
- I think.... I'm very much enjoying being in the dappled sun/tree situation, but my back is sore from using my laptop on the ground
- okay, new option. take car, drive home, pick up that adjustable desk, bring it back here
- kinda tempting ngl
- that WOULD be some amount of solution to THIS tradeoff situation
- but it introduces new costs, in terms of wrangling that desk
- I could probably carry the thing without the car
- and it has the additional benefit of making it likely that the car ends up back in the wednesday spot after street cleaning
- oh crap. on the gripping hand, is the fried chicken lunch plan
- which means I do want to head back soon and won't be coming out just yet
- although I could take the car back now ish and then just put it in the wednesday spot when done
- @ 11:03 why write?
- because it's a super cool thing I've noticed and I want to share it
- because it's a key piece of the physics of why "I can't trust that" works
- (I initially had "engine", then changed it to "physics" because I felt like I was mostly trying to point at something about fundamental types of forces like tension/compression or something)
- and therefore I want to be able to cite it repeatedly
- also want to cite this one regularly
- both
- in my writing, in general
- in situations where people aren't sufficiently acknowledging they've switched modes
- I also want to clarify my thinking here, for sure
- ...this has me thinking of my synergic mode piece, which indeed does feel really relevant
- and also thinking that maybe I just want to send that draft to the LSA 50+
- I feel a bit of aggression in relation to writing this piece, ngl
- a sort of "dispel bullshit" energy
- but yeah this one definitely makes more sense in light of the synergic mode stuff
- maybe there are some short excerpts of that piece that I want to publish?
- the most alive thing here is wanting to share this with the host body
- but also there's a sense of like, this operationalizes a bunch of the NNTD stuff in a way that I expect will be transformative for some people
- there's also a question of like, how to frame this post such that it's really helpful as a reference to link to
- @ 11:31 - ...hm. that was kinda helpful/satisfying but not as much as I'd hoped
- time to go back, methinks.