November 5th, 2021
- oh huh, I could use meta-protocol as the concept for the commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets post
- tho it's not published yet 😅
- thinking of commissioning a portrait or something
- epically long thread about obesity (summarizing a series of 5+ articles I think)
- Romeo Stevens call re thinking that rejects other thinking (recorded)
- verb-heavy languages are better at not making as many abstraction-level errors
- less modular
- but more context-preserving
- because more process-based
- choice of loss function
- R > this goes doubly true if the thing you're talking about is something that's not able to be cached
- what's not able to be cached?
- R > when your compression libraries get really good, you start running into the same problems as the daoists, but you can't explain it to anyone
- R > Twitter is closer to a market [than Fb]. Markets approach a frontier, then start being unpredictable and interesting.
- Why...? Clearing mechanism... which is same as FB but faster? critical threshold?
- M > twitter is a market for remixable ideas, not just ideas
- because QTs and smallness
- M > different network structure
- twitter is self-organizing in terms of followers etc
- FB you're interacting with whatever subset of your friends gets FB the most ad-revenue
- R > oh and twitter has alts etc
- and those different profiles are ignoring different things
- R > ignoring type errors is one of the ways that the mind is getting a bunch of stuff done, so it ignores the fact that it's ignoring type errors
- internal economy of the mind
- a bunch of shady exchanges, but they know locally which ones are fine, but run into problems when they try to scale
- good critique by R re legal theory, apportioning costs
- R > novel definition of individual
- = a system that has privileged access to the intent about that system
- one of the proper purviews of legal theory in a good society would be investigating this question
- the phenomenon Beeminder talks about, of if your error system reports something that doesn't require immediate action, the immediate action is to fix the false positive
- R > buddhism - suffering is such an error system
- M > maps onto David Deutsch's irrational memeplex
- thinking that rejects other thinking is an error-correcting meta-meme, but it can't listen & can't synthesize
- memetic immune system
- R > you don't want things to scale too fast
- part of you knows more about the world than another part
- but the other part needs to ignore that knows-more part in order to get the understanding it needs
- M > the word organize
- R > "cardiovascular health of a tribe" might be a reasonable concept
- R > double entendre in "active ignorance"
- recognizing that it's happening, help the process along
- similar to shielding children from things
- "if they already knew how to hold those truths at the same time, they'd already be there. they're not, so don't try to force it"
- you can't force someone to do something they don't know how to do
- pointing a degree of freedom out to someone is not the same as grabbing their arm and moving it along that degree of freedom
- R > crazy wisdom
- M > seems to me that thorough awakening would be very viral (though maybe still slow)
- R > modern stuff can possibly record the whole path better, so people aren't just going by what the teacher said
- channel 9 (as working name for a channel of wholesome interactions (business meetings, therapy sessions, etc) that anyone in the world can get a taste of)
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Malcolm podcast appearances
- November 5th, 2021 on Curious Humans with Jonny Miller
- talks extensively about my ribbonfarm essay Questions Are Not Just For Asking