The mistakes wannabe centrists have been making 2015-19, leading to them getting pwned by one side or the other, is they try to be stiff pillars of what they consider moral rectitude instead of going boneless. Strong views, weakly held = pwnage.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1210266878255325186 …
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There are risks to the boneless way. Recall in the case of the Ents joining the war in LOTR, they only cut short extended slow debate and acted after seeing a bunch of forest already destroyed. Still, when a real-urgency time constraint became evident, they did act to speed up.
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One of the risk-management disciplines in applying the boneless way is learning to tell real urgency emerging from a situation apart from false urgency (or lack of urgency) created by an adversary attempting to alter your tempo of deliberation/action.
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Two kinds of errors: type A: believing false urgency manufactured by an adversary is real, and type B: believing real urgency is false and manufactured by an adversary. The boneless way btw, is to not try to correct anyone's urgency errors except your own.
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Upon googling, I find I've cited Bartleby in the domestic cozy blogchain rather than mediocratopia one. There's an intersection here. Domestic cozy bonelessness is retreat based and tends to cede agency. Strategic mediocrity bonelessness tends to protect and preserve agency.
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Hmm. Wonder if this is worth writing up as a stand-alone blog post outside the blogchain matrix.
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If I had to distill this into a single principle it would be this: be very suspicious of anyone who wants you to spend energy without paying you. Even if you don't care about getting paid. When wealth and power are concentrated, human energy is the default currency.
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Recall that currency serves 3 classical purposes: medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account. When it gets too concentrated, and accounting retreats to high-trust networks, something else has to step in for transactional uses among relative strangers. Solution: energy.
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In nature, we find energy conservation as a general principle of emergent organism design, but that's not what we're talking about here. This is energy defense. Take "battery", "inductor" and "capacitor" aspects of your psyche offline. Only your "resistor" side has a public API
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This partitioning I think is very hard for a lot of people, which is why they go entirely offline (waldenponding). I like to take my energy circuits offline, but that doesn't mean I'm in low-energy conservation mode. It just means it's not available by default to others.
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