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Podcast summaries
- Keywords - cooperation & defection aren't as obvious as they might seem (they depend on frame) IFS collective agency untangle self-authoring social technology is more of a bottleneck than material technology intentionality everyone is always doing whatever makes the most sense to them partswork Coherence Therapy everything makes sense Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings self-trust comes from respecting distrust Learning how to trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too safety psychological safety Alfie Kohn punishment is goodharting waiting to happen protectiveness is damage control deliberate "negative reinforcement" is punishment even if you don't call it that intrinsic motivation adulthood An Everyone Culture in general, people don't not-care. they care about many things and don't know how to care for all of them together (PCT) reward is just the temporary relief of punishment scarcity much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly what is culture? how do we make groups with the union of their individual wisdoms rather than the intersection of their individual wisdoms? list of common schemas learned in school School is fake averagerianism post-average
- 45:49 - 55:04 - How do we inherit goals? How do we differentiate between our own goals and goals set for us? How can we do this in a useful and effective way? how to think about goals Everything is a Remix individuation list of common schemas learned in school School is fake averagerianism post-average
November 12th, 2021
- Read this very post-average article on the implications of PCT
- I was kind of disappointed by it
- it's mostly taking a fairly academic stance
- which I guess makes sense in context
- but I was hoping for a bunch more of the societal implications, which are sort of in there but buried under academic frames
- the other thing I noticed about it was that it was still so so reactionary against behaviorism
- and there's value to this but I find myself wanting an articulation of PCT that barely references behaviorism, and instead just talks about how much sense the theory makes, on its own terms
- and then maybe sort of after conveying its whole frame in such a coherent way, it spends some time talking about how behaviorism is confused?
- idk, there's value to Ruling Out Everything Else
- Book/Making Sense of Behavior is pretty good at this, though it does spend a little time discussion the confusions of behaviorism
December 20th, 2020
- great article on surveys being mostly meaningless