July 3rd, 2021
- Malcolm > blindspot
- Mark > layering = any change to system that locks in existing system organization, blocking further change and occludes layers underneath
- subset = counteractive layering
- change that's made is in opposition to the layers below
- Mark > IFS is almost purely for dealing with counteractive layering, so is Feeding Your Demons
- buddhist "fabrications" seem to map almost 1-to-1 with layering
- talking about "right effort" - "wrong effort" = layering
- system blindspots at all scales
- Mark > writing about domain-specific knowledge
- a single system can find everything up to the data it's collected
- Mal > do you think it's possible to collect enough data to be confused about something, but not enough to understand it?
- Mark > yeah. gets stuck in agnostic state
- then you have to go out in the world and get more data (deliberately or serendipitously/intuitively)
- J > circling has a bunch of cool blindspot feedback
- Mal > and thus a lot of layering?
- probably depends somewhat but seems likely
- J > yes, definitely
- especially since people try to copy teacher moves, while not being as awake/compassionate
- J > Domain Focusing: focusingnow.com/domain-focusing-self-guiding-form/
- includes checking if move safe
- design for when unwanted stuff happens, not just the ideal case
- nope button as a specific instance of that
- in complice, this means things like the chillstreak
- I read something about emotional disability on twitter and drafted this tweet but decided not to send it, in context
- when I read "emotional disability" I think sociopathy (a mind configuration unable to experience most ordinary human emotions) which I don't think is quite what they had in mind 🤔😅😬
in a sane society though, sociopathy would be straightforwardly an impairment tho
- huh Speaker John Ash has a whole manifesto I didn't know about!
- initial thoughts
- my response to skimming the preamble
- but most of the frame shear is in relation to other stuff
- > "It is clear that to succeed in our struggle against the forces which destroy the freedom of those around us, or our own freedom, we must secure the autonomy of all minds."
- our struggle against
- doesn't have a May I integrate what wants to be integrated as it wants to be integrated vibe
- we must secure
- sounds graspy and the sort of thing likely to justify weaponization
- > We reject forces that would seek to control not only the Internet, but the Minds communing there.
We Who Think, Declare Ourselves Free.- having trouble articulating what feels off about this to me exactly, but like, "we who think" does a weird frame thing in relation to those not signing the manifesto; has a very us/them quality
- and the whole thing about the internet feels naive to me, like, what exactly is being meant by the internet, and how do you draw that boundary and all sorts of other stuff
- it's almost like I want two modes for using my device, one where I have access to any notifications/todos/anything, and the other that's completely blank slate and I can only do one thing
- because like, for my day off I close all my tabs the night before, but there's still notifications in eg slacks I might open, and it would be fun to have