Sister Sarah

@sarahdoingthing

~cryptosalience~ contributing editor of ~~~~read Christopher Alexander, do rituals~~~~

Joined September 2013

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    taste is superior knowledge of what works, or what will work but is untried

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    In which draws a load-bearing analogy between etiquette and UX

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    Most people who call themselves socialists are actually just prosocialists.

  4. Calm down, witchcraft belief is super interesting

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    You can't escape connotation. But you can escape denotation. Goes to show the nature of the signals underlying conversation.

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    Humph. You make a bunch of hominids in an attempt to create an interesting fantasy world and they all interbreed the moment they meet.

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  8. medium of exchange of prestige vs. store of prestige

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    the two must not directly equate one another otherwise their relative values would disappear.

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    Continuing with the analogy then 'Money' flows from a consensual reality hallucination. Prestige then by similar mechanism

  11. preliminary thoughts on money & prestige

  12. All the new thinking is about compression

  13. Sister Sarah followed , and
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  14. But education is Not About learning; children easily see through culturally mandated illusions if you let them, laughing at naked emperors

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    Give them facts they can compress to truths (not fictions they can compress to falsehoods)

  16. Now the most interesting systems are other children, you have to come up with really good ones to compete for their attention

  17. If you think about it it's rewarding a particularly useful & natural kind of laziness

  18. A Schmidhuber theory of education: STOP TELLING KIDS FACTS give them systems in which they can discover compressions

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