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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 May 2019
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      One reason I haven't invested in building as strong a BASB as many is simply that my comfort set-point is mostly near the gonzo edge. I need the full 2+ year foresight potential of the GSCITC for the thinking I'm most effective at. If it means continuous partial PTSD so be it.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 May 2019
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      One sign of the cost of this tradeoff. Though I can see this thread would be nice to put into a blog post, I don't feel like I can conjure up the energy to do it. It will likely remain in this context, only accessible and grokkable to people who are also in a roughly gonzo place

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 May 2019
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      And also, I need a better term than GSCITC... but something without baggage. Hive mind, borg, AGI, efficient narrative marketplace... all the terms I've been able to think of have inappropriate or misleading connotations.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 May 2019
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      For those who came in late... this train of thought began with my Against Waldenponding newsletter last yearhttps://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/against-waldenponding …

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 May 2019
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      Which I recently added a Part 2 to...https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=78cbbb7f2882629a5157fa593&id=098f100576 …

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 May 2019
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      The Waldenponding newsletters were Oct 2018 and April 2019. I think I first broached this topic even earlier in this newsletter. Your Passport to the Metabrain (Jan 2017). Shit, this has been on my 2nd brain for a long time.https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=78cbbb7f2882629a5157fa593&id=0f299f9100 …

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 May 2019
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      The cost of being in gonzo mode online is admittedly quite high. The effect on more retreated modes of production (essays, books, products) is very noticeable. My best thinking in the last few years has been on twitter, but the reach is far lower than my blog or newsletter

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 May 2019
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      Final point: you are almost certainly overvaluing information from history and undervaluing information being processed live in the GSCITC for *any* project you take on. Why do I think that? At some point AlphaGoZero discarded all human history of Go playing and went full gonzo

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 May 2019
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      This is a form of temporal egotism. We have identities anchored in personal/collective history, and we like to think distribution we are attached to is the distribution of input value. Chances are, an AI approaching any given problem you take on will throw away most of history.

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    10. Cow Tongue‏ @cowtung 5 May 2019
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      One of my peeves is when knowledge of history is presumed to be informative in today's wholely alien context. Anybody who discounts something named X's efficacy because something somewhat similar named X "failed" 50 years ago gets immediately written off by me.

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      Yeah, that's one of my major red flags. "Nothing new here, Ogg and Grogg had this covered in 10,000 BC in their cave inscriptions"

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