LINDY LINKS THREAD — posts I find myself still thinking about at least a year after reading them
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2. Gears in understanding (2017) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/B7P97C27rvHPz3s9B/gears-in-understanding … Great metaphor illustrating a property of a good mental model: clarity around _exactly_ how different parts of the model interact. Don’t be content with mere correlations — look for gears!
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3. Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution (2015/@Meaningness) https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths …
“Scenes” are fueled by geeks until they become attractive to MOPs/laypeople, then they’re milked by sociopaths. Simple, sticky model for how subcultures grow, mature, and decay.
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4. A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (2010/
@vgr) https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/ … Legibility is a surprisingly interesting and important concept. E.g., insiders often deliberately pursue *illegibility* to make it harder for outsiders to control them. I think about this all the time.Show this thread -
5. Politics is the mind-killer (2007/
@ESYudkowsky) https://lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-is-the-mind-killer … This post makes a simple but powerful point: that politics, while important for other reasons, is corrosive of epistemic health. Be mindful of how much attention you pay to this domain.Show this thread -
6. How big a deal was the Industrial Revolution? (2017/
@lukeprog) http://lukemuehlhauser.com/industrial-revolution/ … To answer the question posed in the title: It was THE BIGGEST DEAL, at least in terms of improvements to human welfare. This is now my go-to/definitive post on the impact of the IR.Show this thread
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Stickiness is a concept I'd like to get back to with y'all at some point.
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Why not now?? Btw Meredith, are you still writing longform anywhere? I haven’t seen anything in a while, but just _love_ your writing. (When Nerds Collide is another post of yours I think about pretty often.)
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A more individual psych-level hypothesis re: subculture collapse: People seek communities in which threatening upward comparisons are below some set personal threshold. Creatives tend to have a particularly low threshold. 1/?
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This is what lies behind the passionate search for un- or underexplored niches in which to cultivate value. As subcultures grow and competition intensifies, more thresholds are reached and more creatives bail (and even repudiate) 2/?
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I mean, when you put it like that, 'most everything is invented /fueled by geeks until mainstream, then milked by sociopaths. The web, social media spring to mind..
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