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  1. Jan 24

    New excuse for a non-newsletter, A Very Slow Takeoff

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  2. Retweeted
    27 Dec 2019

    Neat, an online museum of hacking ht

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  3. 6 Dec 2019

    New podcast episode: Inventing Time (10 minutes)

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  4. 8 Nov 2019

    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 Podcasts

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  5. 18 Oct 2019

    New podcast (15 min): Spacewalks and the Species

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  6. 11 Oct 2019

    New newsletter issue (not podcast): The Ascent of Conflict

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  7. 4 Oct 2019

    New podcast episode: Charisma Neutrality (17 minutes)

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  8. 27 Sep 2019

    New podcast episode: The Direction of Maximal Derangement (16 minutes):

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  9. 21 Sep 2019

    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.

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  10. 20 Sep 2019

    What twitter-native stuff would you like this account to tweet besides links to podcast episodes?

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  11. 20 Sep 2019

    New podcast: Like Riding an AI Bicycle (20 min)

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  12. 6 Sep 2019
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  13. 30 Aug 2019

    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

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  14. 30 Aug 2019

    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 myself

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  15. 30 Aug 2019

    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.

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  16. 30 Aug 2019

    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.

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  17. 30 Aug 2019

    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.

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  18. 30 Aug 2019

    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:

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  19. 30 Aug 2019

    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.

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  20. 30 Aug 2019

    A few furtherthoughts on this week’s podcast...

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