even wilder that you can sit and close your eyes and just cogitate and """choose"""" different ways to muck up your neural configuration forever
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our understanding of the physical and chemical universe seems decent but I'm pretty sure we don't have shit figured out about personal and social reality
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things that would be fun to see: 1. education studies that are worth anything, most of us are pretty good at learning but as a practitioner it's just hacking around with a black box education outside of structured programs especially interesting maybe most learning is nonformal
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2. Stopping this random social change shit We cant learn anything this way Every social movement needs to be pre-registered with clear success criteria and guardrail metrics and launched with a backtest
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I dunno I spend a lot of time running experiments on a (comparatively) simple system with social and economic components A LOT of experiments, with fantastically thorough and clean datasets and incredible compute resources at my disposal And still my understanding is p thin
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What I'm trying to say is that strong empirical beliefs past chemistry are maybe a mistake There seem to be some cases where they work I guess Auction theory anyone Ok having gotten up early I should actually work now but one last thing have you every thought about writi
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actually i already forgot your tweet... now
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but every like notification resurfaces his tweet to caress your mind.
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Me at my recent panel: “Of course you don’t have to be hypnotized to take in information: that’s how school works. In fact, that’s how talking works. Giraffe.” *pause* “Unless you have aphantasia*, you just pictured a giraffe.I made you do that. And you’re not even hypnotized.”
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*okay I couldn’t remember the word “aphantasia” so I said “that thing where you can’t visualize”
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