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They have many criticisms, and few observations: they can tell you what is bad and missing from a novel like Finnegans Wake, like proper spelling, but not what is good and present. And so they can never be transformed by a game.
Video Games as Art · Gwern.netThis problem is not easy to fix, but it’s not impossible either. I’ve mostly fixed it for myself. The direction for improvement is clear: seek detail you would not normally notice about the world.
Reality has a surprising amount of detailBefore you’ve noticed important details they are, of course, basically invisible. It’s hard to put your attention on them because you don’t even know what you’re looking for. But after you see them they quickly become so integrated into your intuitive models of the world that they become essentially transparent.
Reality has a surprising amount of detailSo, having a better vocabulary for a given medium doesn’t just make you sound smart, it increases the resolution of your enthusiasm.
How to like everything more - by Sasha ChapinReading Save the Cat will make the skeletons of Hollywood movies almost intolerably visible, although I find that this has simultaneously increased my respect for films that are still satisfying even when the mechanisms of satisfaction are entirely comprehended
How to like everything more - by Sasha ChapinBut it also works with people you’re talking to (what is fetching about their outfit or pronunciation)
How to like everything more - by Sasha ChapinIt’s almost impossible to have an easy life and be interesting. Suffering is what gives people texture.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsMuch of life, and increasingly so, is a battle against superstimuli encroaching on your mental autonomy.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsThere is no grand unifying theory of morality, nothing that doesn’t break down in any edge cases — so avoid totalizing ideologies
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsLearning to love the upsides, if undertaken with clarity and gentleness, also creates more space to address the downsides.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsKnowing when to quit is one of the most valuable skills in the world.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsThe people who make real change in the world are those who live on the knife edge between optimism (everything is really going to be okay) and pessimism (but everything is bad by default).
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictionsmany great works have been produced at the altar of social status.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsThere is no such thing as enough dopamine.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsAt the same time, the point of engaging with all that stuff has to be to become more functional, not to develop an identity as a victim
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsPsychic cost is the integral of cognitive load over time — so do the things you most want to avoid first.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsLots of variance in opinion about whether an idea is good means there’s a good chance the idea is good; lots of variance in opinion about whether a person is good is a warning sign.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsYou should pay special attention to the thoughts that gnaw at you despite them being against your self-interest to think.
50 things I know - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictionsthere were far more people who needed something to believe in and caught wind of whatever religion was spreading at the time and never looked back afterwards. i worried about ending up like that - swept up in the dreams of other people, locked into the orbit of ideas that were alien to me
ALIGNMENT - by vincent huang - a slice of my mindthere was no way of lessening the pain without also ruining what i admired most about you
ALIGNMENT - by vincent huang - a slice of my mindwas it my job to keep you company as you carried it out? or was it my job to set you free?
ALIGNMENT - by vincent huang - a slice of my mindFinally, I must at least address the question of whether greatness is worth the large effort it requires. Those who have done really great things generally report, privately, that it is better than wine, the opposite sex, and song put together. The realization that you have done it is overwhelming.
Dr. R. W. Hamming's Advice on ResearchThere is, apparently, an ocean of kooks with their crazy ideas; however, if there is a great step forward it probably will be made by one of them! If you listen too much to them then you will not get any of your own work done, but if you ignore them then you may miss your great chance. I have no simple answer except do not dismiss the outsider too abruptly as is generally done by in the insiders.
Dr. R. W. Hamming's Advice on ResearchThis constant effort to understand more than the surface feature of a situation obviously prepares you to see new andslightlydifferent applications of your knowledge.
Dr. R. W. Hamming's Advice on ResearchDeep emotional commitment seems to be necessary for success. The reason is obvious. The emotional commitment keeps you thinking about the problem morning, noon and night, and that tends to beat out mere ability.
Dr. R. W. Hamming's Advice on ResearchGreat scientists all spend a lot of time and effort in examining the important problems in their field.
Dr. R. W. Hamming's Advice on ResearchHe specifically mentions that solo daily brainstorming sessions haven’t proved fruitful in his career. The best way to make progress, he says, is to talk to someone and explain where you’re starting from all the way up to the point where you get stuck.
The Case for More Ambition - Jack Morrisif you’re half-committed to some ambitious project, a huge amount of your cognition will be devoted to fantasies of escape, to dreaming of ways out of the discomfort
Tying yourself to the mast - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictionsif I’m not willing to implement a forcing function, it’s often a good sign that I actually don’t care that much about a given project.
Tying yourself to the mast - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsEverything beautiful demands maintenance.
why are we lying to young people about work? - by MaalvikaHere’s the pain I see behind this person’s desperate action
People Lash Out When They're SadThe faucet of ideas can only dispense what it is supplied.
request for social technologies - by Anson YuPeople are intellectually lonely, live under an illustion of self-sufficiency.
request for social technologies - by Anson Yuthe Budapest House of Music was actually so astonishingly beautiful
2024 as observed by the Prague Astronomical Clockproblems like '9.8 < 9.11'
2024 as observed by the Prague Astronomical Clocklike you're using your phone to summon a 3000-pound metal pokemon
2024 as observed by the Prague Astronomical Clockit was because of me that we spent two hours sideways.
NotepadMaybe the eight years I spent practicing was all so that we could play together that afternoon.
NotepadComedians that use the world as their stage
request for social technologies - by Anson YuThe untrained eye sees a romance novel, and a careful observer sees meticulous map of how people interact, relate, and love. Even still, examining interiority is often filtered through the lens of romance.
request for social technologies - by Anson YuIf imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, invention is the sincerest form of criticism!
request for social technologies - by Anson YuJoyce seems to have relished his book's obscurity, saying he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality".
Ulysses (novel)Jamie is, of course, just one of a group of evangelists, people who don’t have clear job titles like CEO or director, but who—while they can—are on relentless missions to try to make something better, something livable happen.
Geothermal Everywhere: Finding the Energy to Save the World | WIREDthe fatal flaw of the wife trial is that it negates romance. it scoffs at the audacity of seduction; as IF you need to be seduced in order to want someone! you already know what you both want so, here! have it!
the fall of the wife trial | arielle lokthe combination of strong moms and silly dads seem to raise deeply empathetic, strong-willed, and curious children. in turn, they grow up without any hesitation around the feeling of being loved.
arielle lokwe are openly expressive about our feelings and intentions and it just feels too easy sometimes.
friendships, play, and love | arielle lokthe goal that we share outweighs the friendship itself. we are both willing to die on the hill of achieving this goal even if it means destroying something wonderful, and this is wonderful in itself.
friendships, play, and love | arielle lokan unfiltered shot of Pure Delusion straight to my brain
friendships, play, and love | arielle lokBy encoding the entire debate into the humor, you get the benefit that reader only receives as much as of the debate as they are capable of understanding.
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Long-awaited Shtetl-Optimized Barbenheimer post! [warning: spoilers]Figure out who you’re trying to convince, then use the right tribal signals Your role model in this (and in nothing else) should be Donald Trump. Think about it. He supports Planned Parenthood, doesn’t want to cut entitlement programs, condemns Dubya and the Iraq war, supports affirmative action, supports medical marijuana, etc. If somebody were to tell you last year that a man with those policy positions would not only be leading the Republican primary, but leading even among the most conservative voters, you’d think they were crazy. The rest of the country has been trying to convince conserv…
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