shanusmagnus

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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
I'm not the author, but obligatory "not sure why this is being down-voted." I've been wondering about Graeber for a while, since his work seems suspiciously close to "messages certain people desperately want to hea
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
This was like the perfect HN recommendation -- something I never would have thought of, with enough context to show why I should care. Will read both these, thank you.
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
I tried to read The Goal and bounced off due in part to the aforementioned writing style, which seemed super trite and straw-mannish. Does the fact that you keep re-reading the books suggests that you haven't found a better way to re-
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
Thank you for teaching me a new word! (limerence)
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
Obligatory critique about Why We Sleep, in case you haven't seen it. https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
I guess you're right, the logic you describe is simple, but I submit that there's a more fundamental logic: If the folks who split away pull people out of the original community, it means there was demand for the things that promp
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
Haha, yeah, that's not a bad comparison. Adults intoxicated to a helpful degree behave kind of like children before the modern world grinds away their joy.
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
FIRE is a good cautionary example, but I think it makes the point I wanted to get at: people start out as little meaning-making machines. They connect deeply with each other, interact easily, enjoy their lives. Then we ruin that. The FIRE
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
My conviction is that there are literally infinite ways to be useful, and always will be, even if the robot overlords work perfectly, which they won't. My other conviction is that people find their own meaning with absurd ease when the
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
I hope you find someone to love you.
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
This strikes me as a similar technique to trying to jailbreak an LLM to answer your questions without all the safety neutering -- you're trying to convince the judges to eval your new rules of debate, and then interpret your utterances
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
Just one of many problems :)
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
I don't (and didn't) think creativity was simple, but the task was super simple (alternate uses task). The fact that people couldn't agree on how creative the answers were to such a simple task was the insight, although mayb
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
Another way to think about it is that up till now, if you had subscribed to The Atlantic, you would have got him + a bunch of other writers in the bundle. To me, what the a-la-carte model has revealed is what media-savvy people had always
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
Good paper on this topic: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4046264 Chater, N., & Loewenstein, G. (2022). The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
I get more excited at the prospect of popping into some random cafe, SSHing from my iPad into some vast.ai server and setting loose this giant AI brain on whatever stuff. Feels badass.
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
Ugh, when I was doing my PhD work we were studying creativity in an experiment, and we needed an assessment for how creative different solutions were, and trying to get inter-rater reliability on this quite simple thing was just agonizing.
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
A lot of random noise, for sure. But also as much signal as there is to be had in this world. And even noise is usually interesting when it's so highly personalized. Which maybe means there is far less noise than people think?
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
I've stumbled onto a similar algorithm, trying to pay attention to when I feel strongly about things, good things and bad things. Then I try to dig into what's under there (if it's bad) and figure out how to go further into
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
Can you say more about this? Why Welch specifically, vs other important execs over time?
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
I've gotten a long way in life never using Excel except to type things in cells for my idiot former company which used it as a word processor, which made me hate it with all my heart. And yet I assume, based on the slavish devotion to
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
You're very welcome. I'm jealous of you, having James to look forward to!
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
Well my friend: Everything (really) by Erving Goffman. A beautiful synthesis is [1] which I might recommend over the original material (sacrilege!) if you were only going to read one thing. We (as Western Civilization, maybe) have still (i
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
On a similar journey, just came across sociocracy as one such trying to keep the flame alive [1]. What was interesting for me was to recognize the pieces of such a structure informally existing, in a giant mega-company I worked for. In a
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
I read an article on exactly that premise -- how to destroy a group by making sure that it accomplished nothing -- and your strategy was implicit in there. I tried to link it but I can't -- oh wait, it's part of a CIA field manua
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
This kind of thing is exactly my jam. I read Becker about a year ago and it set off a landslide that has still not settled. Much appreciate the others, I have made note of them.
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
Thanks so much for this list! I'm always on the prowl for things to read that changed how people see the world, but explicit attempts to solicit examples have proved surprisingly unsuccessful. And here you just volunteered it :)
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
The fact that "the author" is Ben Thompson is worth something.
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
I've been very interested in this method for a while. How do you find the math that would solve them? Is it well-understood, or is it easy to figure out in practice? Would love to hear more about how this looks for you practically.
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by shanusmagnus 3y ago
LogSeq has suffered a lot, imo, since they took venture funding. Their focus has wavered drastically since then, shipping features nobody is asking for that I can only assume are viewed to be differentiating for other PKMs (e.g., canvas) v

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