May 12th, 2021
- > what's the deal with people noticing that everything is vibrations and then deciding that means they should become vegan or collect crystals instead of learning signal processing theory
- reflections on Discomfortable episode with Nathan Vanderpool
- broadly dug the whole thing
- felt like there were still some confusions
- eg they concluded a certain thing was just a semantic difference (whether something was "fear" or "shame") when as far as I could tell there was still a really important question unclarified:
- is X {shame, fear, ...} a story or a pattern of sensations?
- (they seemed to somewhat agree these were different but they left it really unclarified )
- fucking love the musical-lyrical part of the technique
- and the "sing it with other people"
- important to have shared meaning, not just new personal meaning
- I'm recalling May 2018 and the middle-bit, and me thinking there should be a song written about that (partially thinking there already would have been)
- those words are just the last piece of the puzzle, so they don't adequately capture the structure of the meaning outside of context, but yeah
- self-love, although I think there's something confused about it also
- relevant
- found myself thinking something like... similar to how if someone owns all the water they can charge absurd prices for it (as long as they can avoid getting stolen) ...similar to stuff with drug prices
- there's something where like, there are few enough companies that roughly they can all collude to offer non-livable wages? hm
- The systems analysis community has a lot of lore about leverage points. Those of us who were trained by the great Jay Forrester at MIT have all absorbed one of his favorite stories. “People know intuitively where leverage points are,” he says. “Time after time I’ve done an analysis of a company, and I’ve figured out a leverage point — in inventory policy, maybe, or in the relationship between sales force and productive force, or in personnel policy. Then I’ve gone to the company and discovered that there’s already a lot of attention to that point. Everyone is trying very hard to push it IN THE WRONG DIRECTION!”