November 1st, 2022
- #2tweet some communication difficulties are because we don't know how to <skills>
others are because if we communicated clearly we'd discover we don't want to be together, and we're not emotionally ready to discover that
few understand this- some communication difficulties are because we don't know how to <skills>
others are because if we communicated clearly we'd discover we don't want to be together, and we're not emotionally ready to discover that
few understand this
- #2tweet Oh!!! Yeah, that urge had no known purpose. Like unlike if I'm like "oh lemme message Nathan about Jakob's contact", where I know if I've completed it for now and can then readily die again, the impulse to check twitter was open-ended! now ofc sometimes one gets distracted while executing a closed-ended impulse as well, or whatever, or sometimes a closed-ended impulse ends up taking 100× as long as you expected and you need to recognize that and abort...
it's not that open-ended impulses are bad, but I want to understand them. what are they in PCT terms? what error is being addressed? like I just want to listen more closely to them. I guess in this case the error was something like "I don't know if Friend has tweeted/DM'd in the last 1-2h, I want to go check" which in principle is totally closed but in practice the way I execute such impulses almost always results in scrolling twitter or whatever.- Oh!!! Yeah, that urge had no known purpose. Like unlike if I'm like "oh lemme message Nathan about Jakob's contact", where I know if I've completed it for now and can then readily die again, the impulse to check twitter was open-ended! now ofc sometimes one gets distracted while executing a closed-ended impulse as well, or whatever, or sometimes a closed-ended impulse ends up taking 100× as long as you expected and you need to recognize that and abort...
it's not that open-ended impulses are bad, but I want to understand them. what are they in PCT terms? what error is being addressed? like I just want to listen more closely to them. I guess in this case the error was something like "I don't know if Friend has tweeted/DM'd in the last 1-2h, I want to go check" which in principle is totally closed but in practice the way I execute such impulses almost always results in scrolling twitter or whatever.