«•Airship🪼Evangelist•»

Many things cannot be expressed succinctly. And many things cannot be expressed at all.

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

You need to be friendlymaxxing. You gotta be joking and smiling and loving everything the person you're talking to says. You absolutely have to be doing things that trigger eusocial reward mechanisms and ingrain you more deeply in the human hivemind.

[Loopy @strangestloop]

You need to be funmaxxing. You gotta be smiling and laughing and filled with delight. You absolutely have to be doing things that make your heart sing and light your soul on fire

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

@MarkChangizi Cubes: flipped

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

@ftlsid Rare example where bottom right quadrant isn't butchered

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

@rocketalignment ...based?

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

Hmm, in monkeys but suspiciously close to 7 slot working memory

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

New results! The prefrontal cortex uses a low-dimensional “coding space”. Info can be captured in just 3–6 dimensions. The brain compresses what we remember.

Low-dimensional prefrontal representations of objects during working memory
https://t.co/kUONPmdNnD
#neuroscience

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

@rajlearns @Neoth69 Overwrought

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

Larp into being:
https://t.co/nwcUBMegjp

[tom bombadil @Authw8]

the basic cognitive machinery for understanding stories is built to assume that a story is a real thing that happened to real people at some time in the past. fiction piggybacks on the mental machinery we use to understand nonfiction.

so even when we engage with explicitly fictional stories, the part of our brain that processes the story is treating it like it's real. this is necessary because stories basically always require us to bring in a lot of our own external knowledge about how things work in order to understand what's going on.

this is why stories need to "make sense." when it becomes clear that the action in a story is motivated by external storytelling needs rather than any sort of in-world logic, the whole illusion disintegrates. without the illusion of reality, the stakes disappear. nothing in our brain is built to care about what happens to made-up people from a world with no connection to our own.

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

What I really want is statistically significant life experience

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

https://t.co/mpDXohWX3H

[River Kenna @the_wilderless]

"small talk is an audition for authentic connection" was a really helpful reframe

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

@1thousandfaces_ He does not drop the ball in the sequels

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

Everything is momentum

[aut0 @aut0m8d]

if you have a toddler, you learn that they generally dislike transitions. like they'll resist going to take a bath, and then they'll also resist getting out of the bath. then you realize that transitions just require energy and adults don't like them either

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

Symmetry theory of coregulation

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

two principles about anger someone explained to me are: if your family smokes, and you stop smoking, they’ll get mad at you. and: if you tell someone else they have agency when they have a problem, they’ll get mad at you. this completely reframed my conception of what anger is.

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

Common rationalist failure mode: conversing with the goal of a solution so complete it silences the table

[Jessica @jessicamalonso]

Reminds me of this good metaphor about attunement I heard - in an orchestra, if a violin falls out of tune, the worst thing the in-tune violins around them could do is stop playing

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

I live in menu systems

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

There are some beautiful objects to organize and manipulate

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

I don't like the reinforcement structures I am around

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

@tenobrus

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

@samswoora Do NOT ask Claude about this or rip day

[«•Airship🪼Evangelist•» @repost_offender]

@ATinyGreenCell Hell yeah