Cinder on Twitter: "@mwiik @radix42 I am extraordinarily low in conscientiousness as well (and not in any other prosocial trait, except the subtrait politeness maybe). Growing up around academics, I've had most of my life lessons in this area as an adult. I'm sure I've climbed a standard deviation or so since." / Twitter

Oct 12, 2018

Reading 🏭 'Psychological Origins of the Industrial Revolution' ❝…some of these psychological traits…are likely to increase the rate of innovation❞ 📄 cambridge.org/core/services/ (pdf) See what others are tweeting 🐦 twitter.com/search?f=tweet I'm quite intrigued by this chart:

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Is this chart suggesting a high positive correlation on each side of the column? Intriguing, if so.

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@mwiik

Oct 12, 2018

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Good question! The chart is intriguing to me since my mind immediately began spinning off tangential thoughts likely unrelated to the actual paper content.

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That seems to be how your mind works with everything. A fascinating property.

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@mwiik

Oct 12, 2018

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I had a friend who often wondered why progress was so slow. His go-to example was of a water droplet on a leaf, how it clearly magnified what was under it & yet this quality seemingly unexploited for millennia

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A huge question, surely. Clearly it has something to do with iteration and the need for intermediary steps. But only something.

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@mwiik

Oct 12, 2018

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Didn't JBP claim that the median person has never done a single creative endeavor in his or her life? Like write a story, compose a song, paint a painting?

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His "median person" has been so thoroughly brutalized by school, it is hard to say how it would look otherwise. But it's certainly a real phenomenon, yes. Depending on how you define creativity.

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I’m glad my father was an artist, he encouraged creativity and wide ranging curiosity I’ve tried to nurture the same in my kids, fairly successfully so far

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Lacking conscientiousness, I tend to think emphasizing that would lead to better outcomes Having this thought that the weight of responsibility began as a physical weight: one's shield in a phalanx Education was (is?) to inculcate resistance to morale shocks (riffing off Gatto)

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I am extraordinarily low in conscientiousness as well (and not in any other prosocial trait, except the subtrait politeness maybe). Growing up around academics, I've had most of my life lessons in this area as an adult. I'm sure I've climbed a standard deviation or so since.

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I really never cared a whit for my own wellbeing, only now suffering the costs. I'll die as the world ends. Enough to make me a solipsist (or think we're in a computer simulation, on repeat) ❝It is sweet to draw the world down with you when you are perishing.❞ —Seneca

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Oct 9, 2018

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It's not like this wasn't expected. Supposedly, about 105 billion people have ever lived. The people still alive in 2040 or so will get to see how it all turns out. Kind of neat to be here now at the end of all things, isn't it? Like, what are the chances? twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/st…

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I like how the estimates of people to ever live are between "less than the current population before 20th century" and "would cover the earth like locusts today".

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