Lots of change and creativity can spring from: 1. Understanding the complex system you’re working with 2. Adding some interesting new ingredients 3. Letting them interact in unfamiliar and unpredictable wayspic.twitter.com/96w5WVAgNC
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This model is applicable to all kinds of generative and/or divergent activities, but recently I’ve been thinking about it a lot in the context of friendship and intersocial identity formation
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I enjoy building close relationships, and think I would be pretty happy hanging out forever with just a partner and my 5 closest friends This is how a lot of people actually tend to behave, and I suspect this situation is a kind of Schelling point for human relationshttps://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1222292627732586496 …
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Humans seem to enjoy creating closed memetic loops (i.e. culture), which can provide safety and comfort, but which probably aren’t optimal for stimulating growth and change
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chad donkey from shrek 2 Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
And we want growth! We want change! Many of us want to add lots of novel stimuli to our systems, especially before we get older and our identities feel more fixed/congealedhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1183437518638682112 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrEmpirically people don’t really seem to grow much after 40. Maybe 1 in 10 will adopt a truly different mindset. Maybe 1 in 100 will develop a new life-shaping ability (not a hobby). Maybe 1 in 1000 will take on a fundamentally leveled-up Act 2 that will top Act 1.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Tribal social organization and tight-knit families served us well for a very long time, but we now have far more effective social technologies than our ancestors (nearly universal literacy, high-fidelity multimedia recording, broad access to mass communication, etc.)
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We are currently using most of these advanced social technologies to maximize advertising profits and consolidate political power However, I think it’s also possible to use them to create new (previously infeasible) local maxima for human connectedness and meaning-making
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On an evolutionary scale, many of our tools and social schema are brand new, and there’s no blueprint for a tech-enabled utopian tribal community But if you believe this kind of social transhumanism is possible, then it’s hard not to be excited about experimenting with itpic.twitter.com/PE101cir6r
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