day 5 on twitter dot com and i am already unfollowing people for cluttering my feed with poorly given advice
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(meanwhile i am optimizing for sounding as interesting as possible to attract the attention of interesting people, i hope it's pretty clear this is what i'm doing, i am in no way trying to hide this)
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generally speaking i wish that instead of giving me advice people would tell me the experience that the advice is coming from. like instead of "i learned that you really have to listen to people, y'know" tell me about how you finally started listening to your gf
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i am hungry for stories. i am a reinforcement learning algorithm and i want some goddamn reinforcement learning episodes to update on. state, action, reward, state, action, reward, i live for that shit
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OTOH there's a thing like advice that doesn't have to be framed as advice that i really value, which is when a person crystallizes an experience i've already had but didn't have good concepts / words around. i love when that happens and i love doing it for others too
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okay maybe the thing i'm actually annoyed about is 3) i don't like it when people try to tell me things i think i already know
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I feel the exact opposite about stories. I just want the short version of why, i.e. "listening to people is good because..." so I can think of where to apply (or where I could've applied) the advice for myself. No anchoring, and easier to filter out "benefits" I don't want.
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Hmm. I think short versions promise a lot of value but mostly don't deliver. E.g. feels like I could write a book on why listening to people is good, and reducing it to "listening to people is good because they feel understood" or w/e doesn't really communicate the thing.
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