Legibility privileges https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-23-09:37.html … The way we talk about marginalisation strongly centers marginalisations that we can easily communicate, which misses the long tail of messy and hard to communicate ways that people can be marginalised.
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All knowledge is connected https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-24-10:37.html … Why you can't really understand gender without also understanding nuclear war and phenomenology.
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How to make decisions https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-25-10:39.html … All decision making processes need to be obviously better than tossing a coin, and many of our idealised models of decision making aren't.
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The fastest way to learn something is to do something https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-26-16:07.html … How to avoid overplanning when trying to solve a problem.
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Supersaturation of knowledge https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-27-17:48.html … When you read a metric tonne of books per week, weird things start happening in your brain.
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Culture is deeply contingent https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-28-06:33.html … Why people step left vs right, how culture evolves, why most of it is arbitrary, what to do about that.
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Have you noticed how strong the social norms preventing you from being good at things are?https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-29-10:30.html …
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There are no deterministic voting systems. https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-03-01-08:04.html … It's not a question of whether to use a nondeterministic or deterministic voting system, but of how to manage the nondeterminism intrinsic in voting.
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Legibility is a property of a relationship with a system, not of the system itself.https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-03-02-09:31.html …
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Your emotions are valid but probably wrong https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-03-03-09:07.html … Emotional reactions are learned responses, and you learned a lot of them as a kid, but your life as an adult is totally unlike your life as a kid so reactions learned then are no longer at all adaptive.
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Open Project:
Feynman Diagrams of emotional processing.






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