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I wrote an article about how I learned to think for myself Or as Geoffrey Hinton would call it: "developing my own framework for understanding reality" https://t.co/UtVvRZAxyo
@DefenderOfBasic Even though our contexts vary wildly I do think part of my own journey to think for myself coincided with yours. https://t.co/Zm1vhusnei Congratulations, defender, you've earned it! š„³š
@DefenderOfBasic this is awesome, iāve been feeling the same way the past ~year itās not that everything suddenly makes sense and definitely not that i understand things more than others, but that iām seeing things as examples of broader frameworks and so things are now more connected
@DefenderOfBasic it feels really dumb/pretentious to say irl but certain things that werenāt clicking for me previously are clicking much more easily now maybe this is what itās like to finally develop a prefrontal cortex
@latentjuice part of my motivation for writing this has been to find others who are on the same path, that is awesome!!! I am happy for you!! and also very eager to hear what it's been like for you, if you get a chance to write up your own experience!!!
@latentjuice it'd be cool to see like a "here's something I'm trying to articulate" as a thread and work from there into a post! I like the idea of posts as evergreen collections of things I figured out in tweets/in conversation
@DefenderOfBasic the big flaw in my longer form writing imo is that i try and over-explain, which drastically blunts the idea length constraints of a tweet require the message to be sorta nebulous and as a result more meaningful (if less faithfully āaccurateā) but yes iāll try and post soonš«”
Obsidian in general reminds me of this. It, as well as starting to explore āsystems thinkingā, has allowed some of this feeling to start developing in me too, and I finally feel confident and comfortable talking about certain things in specific domains, whereas in the past I was always particularly bad at talking about everything and though I wouldnāt be able to ever about anything. But see all this specific stuff that is relevant to this: (From Justin Sung) The part about this video that talks about tackling problems from many different angles and frameworks and getting comfortable with tackling new novel problems and stuff. What I Learned after 5000 Hours of Mind Mapping - YouTube This in general (from Zsolt): Part 3: Double-Bubble Map - Thinking Maps with Excalidraw in Obsidian - YouTube (A small aspect of this, i.e., the ācounterfactualā research / search queries.) (from David Shapiro) GPT Prompt Strategy: Brainstorm, Search, Hypothesize, and Refine - THIS is the FUTURE!! - YouTube That same example and context is also is mentioned in this one (from David Shapiro): GPT Prompt Strategy: Latent Space Activation - what EVERYONE is missing! (He also talks about systems thinking a lot. He even has a channel dedicated to it.) ā This GitHub page about knowledge representation and reasoning (from Kirill Brylev): notes/Knowledge Representation and https://t.co/Lz3v9nJKk9 at master Ā· brylevkirill/notes
@DefenderOfBasic What's funny about me is that I've been converging on doing something like this, and in the moment (about a month ago) that I made this account, I was of the mind that humans are often stochastic parrots, and so I made my username @imitationlearn š
@DefenderOfBasic Obviously (I think (lol)), this doesn't condemn me to parrot others forever, but it was a funny realization given that I thought I was doing one thing (learning how to interpolate opinions) on Twitter, when in reality I was doing another thing (forming and testing models).
@DefenderOfBasic I just want to say that I appreciate your thinking and writing a lot and you are one of the main reasons that Twitter has been positive for me!Given how you talk about your models, I strive to be like you (still imitating a lil ig š ) in the way that I interact with info!Thx!
@DefenderOfBasic I literally tweeted this 30 min before reading this piece lolhttps://t.co/zFhjRCvz3I
@DefenderOfBasic And this lol:https://t.co/XgpNmUMGex
Dang I have to take responsibility cus I'm getting older, but then I realize that I GET to take responsibility (which is kinda made-up) and that I have agency (which I can choose to use or abuse) and I'm on the path towards actualization (but then I forget this and realize again) https://t.co/n3EaAeHg9f
@DefenderOfBasic You would probably get much value from this book -- the author described a very similar experience he had (rapid evolution of his thinking skills over a few months) https://t.co/dNFLsCPKJ4 @DavidDeutschOxf is also good to follow
@vanjajaja1 no, they were right: the important things come back. You sort of integrate the insights. Things escape my conscious cognition but I still know them, the information is compressed. Treating my ideas as a river that I sample from, not a bucket. It's always flowing
@DefenderOfBasic Super inspiring read! Definitely want to make more predictions on smaller things than just the "big question" stuff Can't tell if I'm skeptic people can understand others, if I specifically can, or if I'm overly pessimistic in my own ability to understand others
@DefenderOfBasic It's all about developing your own frameworks. So far I've developed 25 high level frameworks in my second brain. Including : GPT prompt engineering, category design, customer development, product development and more.