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What part of your thinking did David Chapman influence? Hard to imagine enjoying his tech criticisms while still throwing caution to the wind with AI. I remembe

What part of your thinking did David Chapman influence? Hard to imagine enjoying his tech criticisms while still throwing caution to the wind with AI. I remember enjoying his breakdown of Technological Determinism back when I was looking into it.

fwlr 4y ago
In no particular order of importance, and likely in far too much detail: You Need More Lumens (https://meaningness.com/sad-light-lumens https://meaningness.com/sad-light-lumens) prompted me to put lots of really strong LED lights in my living and working spaces. Subjectively this has improved my QoL and productivity by at least as much as taking prescribed amphetamines, a very surprising result. Nutrition: the Emperor has no Clothes (https://metarationality.com/nutrition https://metarationality.com/nutrition) convinced me to disregard essentially everything I’ve read about nutrition and instead to pretty much only trust self-experimentation. This freed me to try objectively insane things like avoiding wheat completely because I read a paper once (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4809873/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4809873/) or only eating beef for a month because a YouTube personality said it was good, with largely positive impacts on my health and thus QoL and productivity. Nutrition Offers its Resignation (https://metarationality.com/nutrition-resigns https://metarationality.com/nutrition-resigns) neatly crystallized the two previous experiences into a gut-level understanding that institutions have completely orthogonal goals to yours, and if it serves their goals to hijack yours by claiming your goals as their own, they will do so without hesitation because that is simply their nature. This dramatically refined my distrust of establishments - I realized that doing the opposite of what they say is no better than doing what they say (“+2 and -2 are equally distant from 2i”, as someone once offered as the most concise summary and illustration of this realisation). Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths (https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths) brought an immense amount of clarity to previously anxiety-inducing changes in my beloved subcultures. Developing Ethical, Social, and Cognitive Competence (https://vividness.live/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence https://vividness.live/developing-ethical-social-and-cogniti...) introduced me to Kegan’s body of work and was invaluable in helping me develop a robust theory of minds, something I had struggled with up to that point. The central thrust of the early parts of his “Meaningness” web-book (maybe https://meaningness.com/an-appetizer-purpose https://meaningness.com/an-appetizer-purpose and https://meaningness.com/preview-eternalism-and-nihilism https://meaningness.com/preview-eternalism-and-nihilism) that try to reject both “complete chaos” and “crystallized order”, in favor of “nebulous and patterned”, have been very influential. On one of those pages he rejects ”meaning is objective” and “meaning is subjective” in the same sentence; it might seem trite but that sentence did more to help me see hidden dichotomies and experiment with rejecting them than anything else I’ve read. That’s a common theme throughout the site - “these two views form a dichotomy, and you find interesting things if you try rejecting that dichotomy”, and it’s served me very well. There’s more, but this comment is long enough (and already uncomfortably autobiographical).
- undershirt 4y ago
  Oops, I’m sorry. I was thinking of Daniel Chandler[1] not David Chapman. [1]:http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/tecdet/ http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/tecdet/

fwlr 4y ago

In no particular order of importance, and likely in far too much detail: You Need More Lumens (https://meaningness.com/sad-light-lumens https://meaningness.com/sad-light-lumens) prompted me to put lots of really strong LED lights in my living and working spaces. Subjectively this has improved my QoL and productivity by at least as much as taking prescribed amphetamines, a very surprising result. Nutrition: the Emperor has no Clothes (https://metarationality.com/nutrition https://metarationality.com/nutrition) convinced me to disregard essentially everything I’ve read about nutrition and instead to pretty much only trust self-experimentation. This freed me to try objectively insane things like avoiding wheat completely because I read a paper once (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4809873/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4809873/) or only eating beef for a month because a YouTube personality said it was good, with largely positive impacts on my health and thus QoL and productivity. Nutrition Offers its Resignation (https://metarationality.com/nutrition-resigns https://metarationality.com/nutrition-resigns) neatly crystallized the two previous experiences into a gut-level understanding that institutions have completely orthogonal goals to yours, and if it serves their goals to hijack yours by claiming your goals as their own, they will do so without hesitation because that is simply their nature. This dramatically refined my distrust of establishments - I realized that doing the opposite of what they say is no better than doing what they say (“+2 and -2 are equally distant from 2i”, as someone once offered as the most concise summary and illustration of this realisation). Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths (https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths) brought an immense amount of clarity to previously anxiety-inducing changes in my beloved subcultures. Developing Ethical, Social, and Cognitive Competence (https://vividness.live/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence https://vividness.live/developing-ethical-social-and-cogniti...) introduced me to Kegan’s body of work and was invaluable in helping me develop a robust theory of minds, something I had struggled with up to that point. The central thrust of the early parts of his “Meaningness” web-book (maybe https://meaningness.com/an-appetizer-purpose https://meaningness.com/an-appetizer-purpose and https://meaningness.com/preview-eternalism-and-nihilism https://meaningness.com/preview-eternalism-and-nihilism) that try to reject both “complete chaos” and “crystallized order”, in favor of “nebulous and patterned”, have been very influential. On one of those pages he rejects ”meaning is objective” and “meaning is subjective” in the same sentence; it might seem trite but that sentence did more to help me see hidden dichotomies and experiment with rejecting them than anything else I’ve read. That’s a common theme throughout the site - “these two views form a dichotomy, and you find interesting things if you try rejecting that dichotomy”, and it’s served me very well. There’s more, but this comment is long enough (and already uncomfortably autobiographical).

undershirt 4y ago
Oops, I’m sorry. I was thinking of Daniel Chandler[1] not David Chapman. [1]:http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/tecdet/ http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/tecdet/