Find empathy with people that have weird and objectionable views, and look at your friends through their eyes. Let others challenge your convictions. Replace right/wrong with true/false. Be suspicious of moral feelings, trace them to their source. See politics as a computer game.
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Replying to @Plinz
Thanks, that's a good checklist! Do you think some kind of philosophy can help do it? I made up(discovered?) my own information theory and it seems to help make sense of my mind and my surroundings.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw
I am curios about your theory! And there is literature on cult deprogramming!
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Replying to @Plinz
My theory is several statements that relate to each other. The first one is: Information MUST be stored somewhere. I call it a philosophical theory because I have no proof of that statement, I simply can't think of another way for information to exist.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw @Plinz
The second: Information MUST flow. For me to acquire information it must make the journey from it's place of storage into my mind(brain). If you take a book you haven't read, you cannot know what's inside. You have to open the book and expose your eyes to it!
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw @Plinz
Maybe this sounds really obvious, but when you start to track the flows of information, you can start to figure out the things you know, and things you don't. I find this really profound.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw @Plinz
Information doesn't have a meaning of it's own. Information is some kind of differences interpreted to have meaning. The instructions of how to interpret information are themselves information!
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw @Plinz
There's a concept called projection in psychology(I think)? And when people bring it up it's usually in a negative context. But it's actually the only thing we can do when we communicate!
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw
My experience of the other is a predictive model. Problems arise when the confidence in the model does not reflect the probability of having found the ground truth
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Replying to @Plinz
And you can sort of correct the confidence of the model by counting how many flows of information you have absorbed. If you absorbed little, your accuracy is super low, if you absorbed a lot, it could be good.
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Flow is interpretation of observed state change as a result of cascading change in information along a graph. It helps if you discretize your intuitions to make them computable.
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