David Chapman @Meaningness
Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value. meaningness.com/newsletter Joined September 2010-
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Adequate illumination is not a good reason *not* to look under the lamppost. Try the most obvious approach first.
🤖 I find chatbot interpretability research fascinating more for what it reveals about the ways people talk (and presumably think) than about AI technologies. It seems there is a single general "harmful" axis in human talk, which all chatbots pick up on. x.com/littlefish3625…
🤖 I find chatbot interpretability research fascinating more for what it reveals about the ways people talk (and presumably think) than about AI technologies. It seems there is a single general "harmful" axis in human talk, which all chatbots pick up on. x.com/littlefish3625…
@Meaningness ive seen amateur funky cars way cooler than this even!
The power of street art - a thread 🧵 1. Patrick Commecy
Here are seven amazing tips that will totally revolutionize your life using meditation. 🧘 1/9
First time I’ve seen a cybertruck. It looks even more like something thrown together by an amateur mechanic in their backyard than I expected. No accounting for taste, I guess!
@Meaningness My approach to strategic planning and reporting for midsize corporations is basically the same as plotting and writing fictional narratives for this reason. Really this is what everybody does, I just enjoy the fictional aspect instead of getting freaked out by it!
The origins of meaning – from pragmatic control signals to semantic representations osf.io/preprints/psya… - in which I argue that it is more helpful to think of meaning as being evoked by patterns, than "contained" in "vehicles"
A few quick observations about this process (YMMV). These are really observations for myself. Many are obvious; it's surprising how difficult I find it to follow them + Sometimes you can just start, and write down a "spine" (in William Goldman's great phrase). That's what a…
An idea I've been finding very helpful: my draft essays are *places I go to think*. In particular, they create a context for me to think better thoughts. A coevolution goes on, between the quality of the ideas I can have, and the context provided by the essay Something…
I can finally post This Land Is Mine on my own X account. For those who don't know, I made this in 2012.
Greenpeace and its allies just won a court case in the Philippines blocking Golden Rice from reaching millions of vitamin A-deficient young children. If this isn't a crime against humanity, I don't know what is. Avoidable deaths could total 100,000s. More: spectator.co.uk/article/childr…
Ayo @Meaningness wrote really brilliantly about emptiness, Dzogchen, and ethics. Read the piece a few years back, appreciated it then, appreciate it more now. Check it if you haven't already read it:
Ayo @Meaningness wrote really brilliantly about emptiness, Dzogchen, and ethics. Read the piece a few years back, appreciated it then, appreciate it more now. Check it if you haven't already read it:
@ilex_ulmus @KennyEvitt It's not that it's impossible, it's that it's inadmissible, as a social fact. If you are engaged in supposedly rational work, you don't talk about the aspects that aren't. And, very often, this is a useful social convention: metarationality.com/meaningful-act…
If you have to justify your work to rationalists—i.e., people who think rationality is the only worthwhile form of thinking and acting—then you must present it as if you did it rationally. How far your fictional history must diverge from reality varies from case to case.
@literalbanana And the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test is another one of the objective behavioural measures. Here’s what me and my colleagues have to say about it: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Everything we need isn't found within. That's a Myth of Individualism. We need relationships, we are made up by them.
Everything we need isn't found within. That's a Myth of Individualism. We need relationships, we are made up by them.
The limits of expertise. @EricRWeinstein, ten years ago, explains expertise as only one of four modes of human achievement. Rhymes with my current "Sorcery" post. edge.org/response-detai…
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@paul_hundred it looks like dall-e trying to be racist
My 8yo: "why isn't Pluto a planet when the Vatican is a country?!" I'm not sure how to answer that.
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@ssica3003 @Malcolm_Ocean Let us thank evolution for giving us annoying wrong people, without whose stimulus there would be no human progress
@Meaningness Looks like someone got a new metal brake.
@DoTheWeirdStuff @Meaningness So, the claim is basically that the first circuit in the the Leary/Wilson "8 circuit model" is really detectably there in a coherent and unified way, in RL+LLM entities? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-cir…
@Meaningness That certainly feels true! It feels even more contextual: Jailbreaking benefits from establishing vibes. Not only can ~every question be answered in a "good stuff"-enough setting, but I suspect most every question can be refused in bad-enough conversation. Just like us, fr!
w.t.f.
Must have missed this. Many will find it surprising. danariely.com/wp-content/upl…
There is a time for everything. A time to try whatever might work, and a time rest and think.
@Meaningness Minecraft inspired. Their market is just now coming online…
I hate the discourse around this tweet so much, not just the vitalists but much of the Christian response to it. I really don't think this is that hard, people. Strength is better than weakness, & we should strive to be stronger instead of weaker. But making an idol of either…
The axiomatic error undermining much of Western Civilization is “weak makes right”. If someone accepts, explicitly or implicitly, that the oppressed are always the good guys, then the natural conclusion is that the strong are the bad guys.
The Eagles warming up backstage before a performance, 1977
Instead of saying someone spoke, Anglo-Saxon poets would sometimes say he ‘unlocked his word-hoard’—𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘤. Think of what that might mean to a civilization at the dawn of literacy. To most people, a stirring speech could only be carried in the heart, and…
Twitter is a great place to encounter the dumbest thing you’ve ever read and then learn the person who said it is a professor at like Harvard or Oxford
Before you become an academic, consider this: you will be competing with people who’ve come up with the worst ideas ever conceived. Are you sure you can come up with worse ones?
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