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William Gibson is so good
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why don't i have any desire to explore ar/vr
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more thai pop
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not-knowing is a dynamic state — being conscious of not-knowing always prompts action that moves toward knowing (of something) which also means the thing not-known is continually changing. but only if not-knowing is a conscious state. a bit like a daily yoga practice.
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we've gone through succession of ages defined by revelation of artificially/incorrectly cheap X where X has been - human lives in general - human time - some human lives (slaves/women/children) - oil/gas - soil - information - money more Xs to come - clean air - water - species diversity
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yea i think the counterintuitive idea is that meaningmaking is a particular kind of work that reduces disorder (reduces entropy in the sense of chaos and disorder)
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there's also a point of view that intelligence creates order and can also be anentropic (which is not to say that intelligence can also be a disordering principle) i think meaning-making is an order-creating act: https://vaughntan.org/what-makes-us-human-for-now
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the borg always want you to believe that resistance is futile
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want to know if you find any
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unpack more pls! v interesting
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now-ish: https://vaughntan.org/now-ish
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🙏🙏 🙏 the mechanism i discovered in field research (wrote about it in the book) the specific prompts and delivery format of idk was a combo of self-test/test on people i consulted for + remembering the eno/schmidt oblique strategies
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i agree and continue to believe that discomfort and desperation can be productive (though usually only if designed mindfully) — so our inclination to always make things more comfortable, predictable, convenient is sort of stealthily self-defeating also: https://productivediscomfort.org/
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I just posted a summary and discussion highlights from an Interintellect salon a few weeks ago about appropriation of the word "uncertainty" in AI/ML. Take a look: https://vaughntan.org/not-knowing-discussion-5-false-advertising-summary
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I wrote about how our responses to not-knowing seem to cluster at two unsatisfying extremes — false confidence and uncritical capitulation — and tried to articulate how a more productive third way of relating to not-knowing could look. Check it out: https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/finding-third-way
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is anyone at capital camp?
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are there any airports with good, interesting f&b offerings?
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