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Thread of advice I distilled for myself after ~ 4 years in the ‘real’ world
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Eowyn Dean【 R'dam 】
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Eowyn Dean【 R'dam 】
@dernhelm7
I have odd ideas sometimes. Experience design XD https://t.co/VUfjzctkl8
Katılım Ocak 2009
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The grooves of loneliness were well worn, and as I try to visit them I notice confusion, resistance, the sense that I should reject wholeness -- it upsets my identity of resilience, of strength in the face of tragic loss!
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Everything in my life was adapted to being mistress of my social world when I chose to be present. But I was fundamentally alone, and I wrapped my Self, as an artist and as an entity learning to connect with the world, around that.
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@LydNot Ahhhh haha yea
The specific thing it was reacting to was my life goal of having a bathtub standing one line away in a lost from "meta-questions about legible impact" XD
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@dernhelm7 ahh i misread it as "it's ok that ur abstractions don't survive contact with your groceries -- don't worry -- most people's don't" lmao
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"Very few people's abstractions can survive contact with their own groceries."
generated by Fable 5 in analysis of my private corpus of written works
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@LydNot Second level: it found a pretty mundane goals list in amidst my poems and interpreted it as profound. Vibes of an art critic finding a pile of garbage in a museum and thinking it's an exhibit...with sympathy as I find art in a lot of places where it's not intended. But still
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@dernhelm7 what? can you give more context? i think my abstractions & most people’s are fine at this
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Alexander Technique-ing is just impossible, so I prefer 'Lexing'.
As in, "I'm lexing right now" / "Are you lexing?"
Malcolm Ocean 🏴☠️@Malcolm_Ocean
@m_ashcroft give it a new name doesn't have to be Ashcroft Technique seriously consider just making up a new word how about awarkeness it's like awakeness and awareness, together! you can have that one for free, lmk if you need more help 🫡
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@tenobrus China is not traditionally into the concept of copyright. Imitation is the root of how you learn and become a master. There's no deep ingrained instinct to protect from the copy - iterate - improve - innovate cycle.
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it looks like this might be the answer to my question today. maybe this really is about "soft power", in the sense that china is seeing america positioning itself as the increasingly isolationist hegemon who's eager to deploy its advantage in ai at the expense of other nations, and views this as an opportunity to become a strong ally to... basically every other country at once. coming out with strong rhetoric denouncing american choices around keeping tight control of frontier ai, continuing to release open models and collaborate tightly with other countries, puts china into a globally cooperative position its really never been in before. it changes the dynamic from "multipolar where the US is one strong pole and china is a weaker one" to "multipolar where the US is one pole and everyone else is the other"
it's unclear to me that this will in fact work, it's very unclear to me how this policy will land wrt the damage open models can do, and i still basically think this stops as soon as capabilities cross really serious thresholds, but it does seem coherent as a long term international diplomacy angle?
i realize several people were trying to point basically this out to me earlier and it didn't quite click, thanks for trying anyway
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex
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Of late I made an internal commitment to (only?) retweet poetry. It's made me feel more comfortable with retweeting, and more aware of how I (can) interact with reality.
[I interpret poetry loosely and personally here; as an enabler not a judgement]
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@NinaPanickssery @QiaochuYuan 100% false, or just picking vulnerable targets is critical but being some level more persuasive is part of the equation?
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@QiaochuYuan Seems false, they are just strategically picking vulnerable targets
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i think cult leaders are 1000x more persuasive than the average person. if you don't think this you've never met a real cult leader. some people have dedicated their entire lives to persuasion and gotten good at it the way people get good at anything
Adi@adi_baradwaj
There's a recurring pattern that I keep seeing in work coming from the apocalyptic branch of the AI safety community, and it goes something like this: 1) Pick some intellectual "talent" that might be attributed to a person (e.g. persuasiveness, discernment, charisma, etc.) 2) Model this "talent" as a scalar quantity that is primarily determined by factors endogenous to the individual, as opposed to environmental/situational factors 3) Assume that this scalar quantity can be made arbitrarily large 4) Use this model to make predictions about the future of AI You can see this here with AI 2040's insinuation that "superhuman persuasiveness" is an idea we should be taking seriously It's not obvious to me at all that "persuasiveness" is a human talent, as opposed to a sociological random process that we retroactively perceive as a human "talent" To be clear, certainly it's true that a star debater might be marginally more "persuasive" than someone who's not! But I don't think a cult leader or a popular politician is 1,000x or 1,000,000x more "persuasive" than an ordinary person Rather, they're perceived being "persuasive" because they happen to be the figureheads for a complex sociological preference cascade. Their "persuasiveness" isn't really a thing you can causally influence at the individual level, and definitely not in an unbounded way In general, I think a lot of the AI 2040-style forecasting work does a poor job of dealing with this kind of irreducible complexity inherent to the universe. They usually just like to pretend it doesn't exist Not a huge fan of this pattern
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Twote: past tense of "to tweet"
Thus twote Methuselah...
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Useful work comes from finding and changing beliefs—undoing childhood rites feels like recognizing and changing Values.
Values run deeper and defend themselves from change. They feel like moral Truth. But if you see how you chose your values and that you can choose again...
QC@QiaochuYuan
a surprising amount of inner work or whatever involves this type of activity i’ve never heard anyone name, which i would describe as undoing surprisingly powerful spells you cast / wishes you made / vows you swore when you were younger that are sort of ruining your life now
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@RichDecibels This gadget is effective, I use it constantly. But Why did they put the light on the opposite side from the bite? In a dark room a light to guide you to the bite would be perfect, and it's *right there* ...on the wrong side
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do you know about the mosquito bite deleter?
press it onto the bite. push button. beep. gets hot for a few seconds. boop. protein is cooked under the skin. itching stops immediately & permanently
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Eowyn Dean【 R'dam 】 retweetledi
this is obviously a biorisk defense project in a thin disguise
preventing the common cold and flu is nice; but the real goal is to prevent what comes next
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Bill Gates are putting $500 million in funding into a new organization called Intercept. Intercept's goal is to prevent the common cold and the flu, and eventually eliminate all respiratory viruses completely.
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Eowyn Dean【 R'dam 】 retweetledi
I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/whe…
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Eowyn Dean【 R'dam 】 retweetledi
the child follows me to the master bathroom. on the counter i have a small brass sculpture. it's a bit abstract and very worn and maybe the most treasured possession i have. he points and says: mommy i like that thing. i swell at him noticing it. i pick it up and say THIS? and get ready to tell the story. he says no. THAT. and points at the electric toothbrush
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"The chatter has so little to do with anything
that is the matter."
【 poetrykanto.com/issues/2006-is… 】
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