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sr. pm @ something new | prev: @peerspace @airtime | reading a young lady's illustrated primer | learning to see | making & maintaining beautiful things
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“...take the trouble to do all that, and you do it carefully, then it may begin to have the quality which has no name.”
the tensions between incentives, value capture, and the subtleties of our core identity-based values:
@robinhanson I'm struggling to parse this, please bear with me
Is the implication: to ground the cultural drift that began in the 1900s into a common good--we need very strong points of convergence, and a trusted mechanism that make one responsible for a tiny part instead of the whole?
a gripping worldview that influences the imagination of a culture —
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Three functions of a world model:
“…trying to articulate the peculiar beauty of games, the value of play, and how game designers are a unique kind of artist who use scoring systems to shape our desires and our actions into something beautiful.”
@winnie4prez This is very kind and generous of your mother - a true blessing 🤍
The ideal heuristic for a value, one that casts the most beautiful form when followed in the long term:
developing and deepening a holistic view:
@andy_matuschak If it's any consolation, I spoke to someone who used to work on the Substack product - the team is actively thinking about this problem
Revisiting the classics. This is from “Inspired” by Cagan:
“In many ways, art is the soundtrack of my life. I am constantly looking for it, seeking to surround myself with it... Another reason I’m drawn to observing art is because it forces you to value something totally subjective…To me, that acknowledgment and appreciation of what an artist has achieved is, in and of itself, a step toward excellence.”
A feedback loop for a well-designed life:
This is also how I’d approach it too—all of the essential areas are reasonably maintained all the time. One aesthetic method is to put a beloved object there so it increases the probability of you wanting to reset/remake it nicely:
“Many student interested in asking essential questions about how things work turned to software, not just to describe those things but also to make them, and not just to make them, but also to think through them.”
game designers who design both the “practical environment and the details of the in-game agent”
Aesthetic qualities of harmony:
gazing at the “agential center of gravity”
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