Tweets
- Tweets, current page.
- Tweets & replies
- Media
You blocked @breaking_smart
Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @breaking_smart
-
New excuse for a non-newsletter, A Very Slow Takeoffhttps://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/a-very-slow-takeoff …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Breaking Smart Retweeted
Neat, an online museum of hacking ht
@scrivenix https://hackcur.ioThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
New podcast episode: Inventing Time (10 minutes)https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/inventing-time …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Here are two guest appearances to make up for me slacking off on my own podcast in the last couple of weeks. Econtalk and Zion 2.0 Podcastshttps://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/econtalk-and-zion-20-podcasts …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
New podcast (15 min): Spacewalks and the Specieshttps://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/spacewalks-and-the-species …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
New newsletter issue (not podcast): The Ascent of Conflicthttps://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/the-ascent-of-conflict …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
New podcast episode: Charisma Neutrality (17 minutes)https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/charisma-neutrality …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
New podcast episode: The Direction of Maximal Derangement (16 minutes):https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/the-direction-of-maximal-derangement …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
AI mirror test: An AI capable of recognizing itself in human mimicry of its behavior. Humans can generally recognize when they are being impersonated, with or without mocking exaggeration. Can AIs? Examples: robot dance, formulaic language use, satirical faux-bureaucratese.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
What twitter-native stuff would you like this account to tweet besides links to podcast episodes?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
New podcast: Like Riding an AI Bicycle (20 min)https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/like-riding-an-ai-bicycle …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
New podcast: Technological Charismahttps://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/technological-charisma …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
So very ironically, the way to break smart and actually be special and make the transition to a cyberpaleo ethos, you have to seek out that which makes you ordinary. To be special is to be ordinary To be ordinary is to be special
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
This looks like rewilding in the short term. A sort of retreat to paleo stocks of human traits. In the longer term, it also means reinvesting in cyber traits. Hence the idea of a cyberpaleo ethos, which I wrote about in 2017, but only just grokked myselfhttps://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/the-cyberpaleo-ethic-and-the-spirit …
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
The key idea in my podcast was that breaking smart, viewed from a software-eaten world perspective, is about going long on your clod-nature. The broader macroeconomic metaphor is capital flight. Humanity withdrawing human capital from its industrial nature to reinvest elsewhere.
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Breaking smart understood through an Industrial Age lens is pursuing the vector of your specialness. An investment in your inner precious snowflake. You are your own alpha. You win if you win. You lose if you lose. This is the most perfect misunderstanding possible.
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Your clod-nature is your investment in the index fund of humanity. Not a creature of a particular era of civilization, but a creature of a broad, species level genetic heritage. As a cold you represent nature’s investment in blue chip evolutionary stocks like opposable thumbs.
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
A system reaches peak perfection just before it unravels. The ultimate Specialized Human is the precious snowflake. The antithesis is the Clod. A piece of undifferentiated humanity. I wrote about snowflakes vs clods in this ribbonfarm post:https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/09/17/how-to-be-a-precious-snowflake/ …
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
We’ve recognized for 250 years since Adam Smith that Industrialization= specialization. Yet we rarely talk about how the obvious psychological program there was to make everybody feel special. Ironically this created Ortega’s “mass man” archetype. Creature of mass specialization.
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
A few furtherthoughts on this week’s podcast...https://twitter.com/breaking_smart/status/1167510809334837248 …
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.