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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Feb 2019
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    When somebody asks you, “what are you thinking about these days?” wouldn’t it be nice to just hand them a “thought” they can load into their own head, rewind, rethink, and extend for themselves? This is really the problem I’m working on these days: portable thought streams

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Feb 2019
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        My hypothesis is that this is the dual problem to the problem of psychohistory, and once you crack portable thought streams, you’ll have a viable attack on psychohistory.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Feb 2019
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        Think of it as memetic cloning. In the limit, transferring all active thought processes to another mind. Not upload to cloud, but pass-forward, like a newton’s cradle momentum transfer. I wrote about a restricted version of the idea (memory transfer) here https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/03/06/immortality-in-the-ocean-of-infinite-memories/ …pic.twitter.com/LfPtwBX9Ya

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      2. Harry Heymann‏ @harryh 19 Feb 2019
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        Isn't this what good writing is?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Feb 2019
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        *Some* kinds of good writing is *sometimes* a special case of portable thought streams. Music is probably the best simple example.

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      1. Ceasar Bautista‏ @Ceasar_Bautista 19 Feb 2019
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        Check out the research of @mljmljmlj . She’s solving this

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      2. David Nicol‏ @tipjar 19 Feb 2019
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        It's nice that you have friends who like to ask what you are thinking about, that you have pleased them with describing your thoughts, to where they want more. Also, you just described a zine. Print zines, carry them, hand them out.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Feb 2019
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        What can print zines do on this front that blogs don’t do much better? I genuinely don’t get the appeal.

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      2. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv 19 Feb 2019
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        visa is working on his ebook Retweeted visa is working on his ebook

        Approximating this is a big part of what I like about twitterhttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1097973508028547072?s=21 …

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        Morning! Woke up at 5am with Victor Wooten’s “it’s so simple, but we make it hard” quote on my mind
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      3. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv 19 Feb 2019
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        visa is working on his ebook Retweeted visa is working on his ebook

        https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1097733446514880517?s=21 …

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        visa is working on his ebook @visakanv
        Wish more people tweeted about their lives like this https://twitter.com/MauiMescudi/status/1097710377230651397 …
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      1. You and 52 others‏ @bahstgwamt 19 Feb 2019
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        I call these thoughts "questions"

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