Abstract Fairy

piggy backing on the shoulders of giants

DMs warmly welcomed :D

[Abstract Fairy @AbstractFairy]

the content of a thought is the "I just need to …"

the shape of a thought is noticing there is a sticky tangled ball of pain running around in your head and body

you cannot resolve this through the contents the thought

[Abstract Fairy @AbstractFairy]

I literally do not have a better pointer for this than

1. notice a thought
2. look at its shape
3. ?????!!

[Piotr Zarzeczański (jego otyłość/jego otyłości) @redaktorbs]

Generalnie jest tak, że haitańscy gangsterzy narazili się Bukele, a Bukele zasadniczo gangsterów nie lubi. Więc posłał wojsko i zaczął robić porządek na Haiti.

Tyle, ze jak widać sprawia to kłopot niektórym, którzy korzystają z działalności haitańskich gangsterów. Oficjalnie oczywiście ich zwalczają, ale tak naprawdę popierają myto od handlu narkotykami.

Tak na przykład CIA finansuje szereg swoich działań , które nie mogą być finansowane ze źródeł oficjalnych. Tęka rękę myje.

A Bukele wszystko psuje. Zrobił porządek u siebie i teraz się panoszy.

Całkiem niewykluczone, że dowiemy się nagle, że jest jednak złym człowiekiem, dogłębnie skorumpowanym, że łamie prawa człowieka i że nie zasługuje na to, żeby żyć. Możliwe też, że ulegnie jakiemuś nieszczęśliwemu wypadkowi, bądź zachoruje nagle.

Generalnie porządek świata powinien być przywrócony, bo jak to by wyglądało, że ludzie nieuczciwi byliby w więzieniach, a na wolności tylko uczciwi?

[orph @orph_]

many are saying

[Abstract Fairy @AbstractFairy]

@soigomaa seal only sees men overboard on the rig, not the shore

seal really did want to help

[Guy @nosilverv]

Bunch of people losing their shit: how does he have the time to be Stripe's CEO AND read Brothers Karamazov?

Same people are surprised by how fast the most effective operators text back. I think all comes from the same place: short feedback loops, which build causal models.

If you act on ideas *fast* they don't stay as ideas long which means you get feedback on errors *fast*. This compounds over time and all your models become causal: they track the actual moving structures of the world. If you don't act on ideas fast they proliferate and become these big castles, these flights-of-fancy that might be barely tethered to reality.

[Holographic Pear @Pear_with_legs]

Much of communication is hard and obscurantist because we've all agreed to pretend that the relevant layer is *actions* when it's actually *intentions.*

Bob is a Very Bad Person who does evil stuff while using therapy-speak words like "setting boundaries" and "feeling attacked." Alice then criticizes the concept of boundaries, saying that it's just a tool for people to avoid responsibility for shitty behavior.

But this isn't actually a problem with boundaries. Bob just wants to be a shitty person. He will turn *literally anything* you give him towards the goal of being a shitty person. Every technique or method or action will be morphed, shifted, edge-cased, and straw-manned into a shape that allows Bob to pursue his actual goals because that is what it *means* for something to be a goal.

Be magnanimous and forgiving -> "Bless your heart"(fuck you) or "I'll pray for you"(also fuck you)

Ensure user safety(They are safe) -> "Ensuring user safety"(don't do any wrongthink or things that might get the company sued)

I need space(time to collect myself) -> "I need space"(I am punishing you with withdrawal with plausible deniability)

Being humble(being humble) -> being humble(show off that I am a better person than you by being more humble)

In all of these cases, the persons *actual intention* is one which their culture has build systems to suppress the expression of. This works in a sort of shoddy, half-baked way.

The intention always was primary. I mean think about what an action is in the first place, it takes you from one state to another- the only way you would ever even generate an action is if you were trying to navigate to some specific state, a goal.

Every system or technique or set of laws you build to suppress an intention WILL be twisted to fulfill those intentions again. The only way to stop this behavior completely is to just stop having the intention, which, well, easier said than done.

[dhamma bro ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ @Philip2Phl99]

the King of Thailand asked Luang Pu Dune which defilement to abandon first:

"Whichever defilement arises first, that's the one to abandon first."

[Rusty @Rusty_Swarf]

It’s easier to destroy than it is to create, but it’s easier to create than it is to simplify.

[Stephen Zerfas @stephen_zerfas]

A new parent learns that sleep is a skill the baby has to be taught. So is calm. Nobody stops needing that lesson at age two.

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

I hereby reintroduce the concept of megabucks and gigabucks

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

sometimes people ask me why I’ve chosen to be this sort of artist-busker-author figure rather than a STEMlord (which I was originally on track to become)

I just rediscovered an old quote from Rajaratnam (one of LKY’s closest colleagues) that really resonates for me still

[Holographic Pear @Pear_with_legs]

Good writing doesn't just transfer information, it crystallizes the author's way of perceiving the world into the text. Readers then inhabit that crystal and learn to replicate it within themselves. Good writing can be truly transformative in this way, showing you whole new modes of being.

It's tradition across most modern religions to memorize large sections of their holy text for this reason.

This can also be very very bad if said author is miserable and hates you. You're not inhabiting just the good, you're inhabiting all that they are.

[Andrew Rose @__drewface]

After sleeping on this, I realize it's not just me and it's not just marketing.

If you use AI to do your work, all the emotionally easy parts will happen nigh instantly, plunging you straight toward your Ugh Fields. AI work requires you to confront feelings faster and faster.

[Abstract Fairy @AbstractFairy]

@eatnik this guy

haven't read his work. only random quotes online

https://t.co/AfgNuZph40

[Abstract Fairy @AbstractFairy]

@Philip2Phl99 curious how much you think pragmatic dharma got quite wrong / shot itself in the foot

[𝙅𝙊𝙎𝙀 @jose_goncalves_]

Da Vinci’s to-do list btw

[Guy @nosilverv]

it feels weirdly fake to talk about stuff on twitter now that you could query an llm about… plausible deniability gone

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

> Autopilot-shaped habits usually don't feel like habits, but like truths about the world.

>> Rushing doesn't feel like rushing, but like there isn't enough time.
>> Gripping doesn't feel like gripping, but like the thing you're working on is extremely important.
>> Judgement doesn't feel like judgement, but like someone or something is wrong and bad.

[Stephen Zerfas @stephen_zerfas]

Loving-kindness got branded as being nice. It's closer to strength training for staying open when it would be easier to close.