David Chapman

@Meaningness

Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    Mar 14

    🆕 Tech startup cofounders developing into meta-systematicity (“stage five,” “fluidity”). The same themes as meta-rationality, manifesting in the domains of relationship and organizational leadership.

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    Jun 26

    So I don't know what I was expecting to find with this "experiment". It was half a joke. The other half was basically "I wonder what will happen". But I *did* find something. Something really interesting. *Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself*

    Social experiment: Do NOT read the replies to this tweet before you reply to it
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    Jun 26

    I wrote a page about a revelatory no-God formative experience I had when I was fifteen:

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  4. Jun 25

    Apply moderate meta-systematic skepticism to all claims about meditation. We don’t have a good epistemological basis to rely on, but multiple interpretive frameworks may be useful in practice. Part of an on-going dialog prompted by

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    Jun 24

    This is unexpectedly good, considering he wrote it before the internet (i.e., he treats computers as data processing and not a purveyor of media). It's also very (VERY) dense. I think I got the recommendation from or someone in his orbit.

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    Jun 24
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    IIRC, Cybersyn had no *functioning* computers - it worked by telex and handwritten transparencies responding to the push of a button - so, rather wonderful that it was a mechanical turk in a way! And the reason it looks like the starship Enterprise control room is - SAME CHAIRS

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    Jun 24
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    nice set of namechecks. Stafford Beer was also a very early yogi, having picked it up along with a lot of other orientalism in India - must ask his surviving partner if she knows if he was into buddhism too!

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    Jun 23

    Let's see... I think it'll be easier to make this into a thread. For context, Matt wrote: "Kegan 5 isn't letting go of judgement, its' superpowered judgement." I'm wanting to explore that more, especially what we mean by "judgement". 1/

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    Another attempt; To inhabit an ontology, you should be able to viscerally feel its' perception of good and bad. If you hold yourself at arms' length by "understanding how people could see that as good/bad" while simultaneously holding yourself in a state neutral, that's a crutch
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    Apr 20

    I want to debate not for philosophy but because it would sound like kermit the frog having a psychotic episode

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  10. Jun 24

    🆕🎙 Impromptu 19-minute audio on historical connections between cognitive science and Buddhism. Cybernetics, anti-representationalism, enactivism, Shambhala, Heidegger, Winograd, Dreyfus, … Text & hyperlinks if you don’t like listening to blather.

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    Jun 23

    "startups have shamelessly re-branded rudimentary machine-learning algorithms as the dawn of the singularity, aided by investors and analysts who have a vested interest in building up the hype. Welcome to the artificial intelligence bullshit-industrial complex."

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    Jun 23

    "For a while, we resisted the A.I. label… Eventually we gave up and just decided to kind of go along with the hype. The market wanted us to be an A.I. company so we chuckled and decided to call ourselves one.”

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  13. Jun 21

    Convergent evolution is so common on earth that it seems likely that other planets with multicellular life will have recognizable bats, whales, and moles.

    Yi qi is a dinosaur that evolved flight seperately from birds (& is unrelated to pterosaurs), with both feathers & bat-like wings. (Credit: Emily Willoughby)
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  14. Jun 21

    Statistical analysis of pervasive digital surveillance *is* a major threat—and maybe that’s what “AI” means now. Deploying the real evil on the pretext of a defense against the imaginary one that shares its name is quite ironic.

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  15. Jun 21

    This is nuts. I can’t help feeling a bit of schadenfreude regarding those who made “AI is an imminent threat” a mainstream belief based on unrealistic sci-fi scenarios, though.

    I'm starting to hear proposals that governments should have backdoors into any sufficiently large assemblage of computing power, on the grounds of AI safety.
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  16. Jun 21

    🧵 on the misuse of “AI risk” rhetoric to justify technology/speech (mis)regulation , by

    Ok, I'm a little scared to put my reputation at risk by saying this, but I think it's important and I think there's a chance I have enough of a platform that speaking up can matter. So here goes. I'm concerned that the meme of "AI risk" is being perverted to destructive ends.
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  17. Jun 20

    Department of Things You Wish You Didn’t Know About pH. Again. h/t

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    Jun 19
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    I will claim to know what I'm talking about only in that I have plenty of experience yelling at them and buying replacement electrodes. My electrochemistry skills are adequate to maintaining an industrial anodizing line, but not to *understanding* a pH meter.

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  19. Jun 19

    Here’s an interesting thread from someone who actually knows what they are talking about (I assume):

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    And they exhibit both short-term and long-term weird behavior. Storing them properly can fix minor issues. The better meters store not just a recent calibration point, but a calibration *history*, which it uses in some silent and undisclosed fashion.
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  20. Jun 19

    I tapped out while trying to understand a long, vitriolic, hyper-technical argument about whether pH meters actually measure H+ (per the undergrad definition) or H3O+ (which is what you get in aqueous solution) and whether it matters.

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  21. Jun 19

    pH meters are peevish as hell and give maliciously wrong readings unless you are extremely polite to them. You have to recalibrate them before every measurement in case they are in a bad mood.

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