Which I recently added a Part 2 to...https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=78cbbb7f2882629a5157fa593&id=098f100576 …
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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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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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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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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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Final final point. I flagged conversational media eating authorial media. This has been my personal ego challenge. It is hard to admit, having spent 10y building up an identity/vanity around my longform, that my conversational thinking embedded in the GSCITC is better quality.
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People kept telling me I would enjoy Ribbonfarm, but my attention span was at an all-time low and I couldn't find a good entry point (despite your 'For New Readers' page). Started following you on Twitter instead, until I had absorbed some of the mindset; then finally read RF
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