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this needs more exploration vibe is a huge part. you're always filling in the infinite gaps in someone's content with what you perceive their vibe to be. when you're new to a domain/text/culture you've only got coarse stereotypes to guide you https://t.co/FQQhtSleNW
vibe needs more splitting. "someone's vibe" highlights the part that's intrinsic to them, but i also want to use "your concept of someone" to highlight your part in this your concept of others can be hella persistent, because it fills in the cracks, and reaffirms itself
depending on your topic, if you want to really make your point, you need to disrupt other's concepts of you. EY has major STEMlord vibes, made it harder for me to notice when notice when his writing WILDLY DIVERGED from spergy STEM doctrine
i often want think of rewriting the sequences (parts on changing your mind, noticing confusion, original seeing, and language) can i write more lucidly than ey? nah do i have a different enough vibe that a whole nother swath of people might get it? YAH
also: there's a skill to noticing what will and won't be utterly mindblowing/foreign/impossible to [audience]. If ur stemy, the idea that math doesn't give "Absolute Truth" is CRAZY, and so even if it takes a paragraph or two to explain, maybe make a bigger deal and draw it out
^ specifically talking about this "how you'd prove 2 + 2 = 3" first time i went, "huh, sure", didn't really think about it, forgot, and then did NOT update at all https://t.co/PLt5zCu0qp
. @ESYudkowsky https://t.co/8heu4S4GWh EY: inf certainty is not a thing me: yeps! u so right dawg EY: even for math (but i'd bank on it more than almost anything) me: ...... yeah, of course.... (doesn't buy that shit) (...4 years later...) https://t.co/FwQsQ78Xev
Smullyan disrupted my concept of him. first knew him via a puzzle book on logic then turns out he's also a magician and a taoist philosopher he's convinced me that I don't already understand him and should pay careful attention https://t.co/fSTRYiD5an
damn, scooped by epictetus 🙃 venerating a thinker seems to induce the same trap. if you're super eager to adopt someone's views, you start ignoring all of the "wait, wtf did they say?", so even if they are correct, you smoosh it into something more palatable
another angle where hero-worship turns out to not be helpful. it's breaks communication, you learn less, and the creator get's less quality feedback https://t.co/qGDLXAq2lq
"Reading philosophy charitably is akin to choosing the interpretation of the text that most fits your modern understanding of things. That's a shitty way to grow and gain perspective, so don't." https://t.co/6gChG3YIY4
@nosilverv @natural_hazard I found a rough chaotic outline/pile of notes I took probably a couple of years ago of what I'd find most important to be included The sequences were about how to think about AI-grade problems; a book about how (& why) not to be a r-word in your daily life could be a lot shorter https://t.co/HGID5ws5Po
