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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 17 Nov 2019
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      In everyday activity, you can almost always SEE or HEAR what to do next. The possibilities are inherent in the perceptual environment. Formal notation is a collection of tricks for making the same possible in abstract realms. It’s all our brains can do. https://meaningness.com/metablog/rational-pcr …pic.twitter.com/ZbCShOXASt

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    2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 17 Nov 2019
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      A related story from Fermi:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1098098218565390337 …

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      Note taking is curiously underrated. pic.twitter.com/0qqvr5rXwt
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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 17 Nov 2019
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      Something I’ve been incoherently wondering about in recent years is the extent to which my peculiar cognitive style rests on a peculiar memory control unit. It seems to be much more content-addressable than most people’s, supporting some sort of fuzzy match.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 17 Nov 2019
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      I’m not particularly good at memorizing facts, but there’s vast quantities of conceptual stuff in there from every field imaginable, and it constantly throws up more-or-less relevant things I read decades ago and hadn’t thought about since.

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 17 Nov 2019
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          Maybe the fuzziness of the match means that I effectively have access to much more stuff than someone else who’d read the same material but carefully indexed it. Which has both benefits and costs.

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        3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 17 Nov 2019
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          I've worried a lot about this very particular point, for the obvious reason (I worry that memory systems may damage creativity). Can make a pretty case in both directions, without anything particularly dispositive.

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        2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 17 Nov 2019
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          Associative across-the-board pattern matching seems relatively more common, at least among my acquaintance. Still a niche group, though. Curiously, I'd say - very speculatively - it's anticorrelated with output.

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        3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 17 Nov 2019
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          Ie, if I think of two people, A and B, who seem similar in many regards intellectually, but A is far more associative/generative-across-the-board, then A is (weakly) less likely to produce lots of output. This may be an availability bias error on my part.

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        2. Joel Loong‏ @aPigCurious 17 Nov 2019
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          Never quite realised about the low-output phenomenon till this thread. My experience is very similar, but why is this the case? Looking back, it seems like I get easily side-tracked by interesting-but-only-tangentially-related ideas.

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