things we need better language for
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November 5th, 2021
- 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
February 24th, 2021
- things we need better language for - the ones below are all broadly related to PCT
- intersubjectivity
- Trinley Goldenberg > another thing we need language for is this distinction between
- everything you're aware of is your own perception / in your head
- there's still a territory though