Typo 3 tweets up: O_DA, not O_ODA
A non-orienting OODA loop. Like “learning” to solve sudokus at 70 while comfortably retired is stimulation seeking, not learning in hard sense lifelong learning people act like they’re doing. You could call that lifelong learning but it’s weak.
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Only 3 kinds of people believe in lifelong learning
Young people who aren’t done learning yet and don’t realize winter’s coming
People growing richer (or otherwise succeeding in life-adaptive ways) faster than they’re aging, outrunning the growing pressure
okayable boomers™
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“I’m under a lot of pressure,...selection pressure....” twitter.com/joeld/status/1…
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This is not growth mindset vs fixed mindset. That theory has weaknesses of its own, but I’m not arguing for the superiority of fixed mindset.
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My claim is roughly that whether you’re growth or fixed mindset, in the median case, life pressures will balance and eventually overwhelm your motivation to learn. You can only hope you’ll level off in a good place by then. Again, when, not if.
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Joke interlude. This is the only original joke I’ve made up in my life.
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Replying to @literalbanana
Doctor: you only have a few hours to live I’m afraid, how would you like to spend them?
Patient: Bring...me...startup...podcast...at...8x...speed
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This whole thread plus original snark inspired by noticing how little learning the learning LARPers are actually doing. They’re creating an illusion of learning. There are derpy people I know who are the same they were 10 years ago who claim to be “constantly learning”
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Some replies asking me what definition of learning I’m using. You’re welcome to your own, but if you’re not changing in ways that alter your adaptive fit into your environment, you’re not learning by my definition. You’re larping learning or seeking stimulation.
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It’s odd that it’s okay to be a champion of excellence as “meritorious” or a champion of the left-behind/oppressed as “unfortunate”, but noticing the conditions and adaptations of the vast middle is taboo. Mediocrity, self-delusion, finite learning... modalities of the middle.
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What if you’re old enough to be reasonably free of gross self-delusion, and know you’re mediocre and likely incabable of learning your way up to the next evolutionary niche? Isn’t there some sort of Plato’s cave consolation?
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If you can convince yourself you’re in that state, you’ve won life 🙂

