Think of it as adaptation reserves. It’s a race to accumulate as much as you can before the pressures of human condition turn you into a non-orienting robot. If you’re lucky, your learning curve cruising altitude will be comfy one with jet stream tailwind. FU$ is a good altitude.
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If you’re *really* lucky you’ll be able to preserve the illusion that you’re still learning.
Nah. If there’s no open-ended adaptation stakes with non-diminishing marginal risk, you’re just chasing pleasant stimulation, not learning.
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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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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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Trying to learn chinese right now. Learning is pretty crappy in reality.
No one really wants to be in this state continuously.
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If you had enough money you could hire a permanent Chinese translator. Money solves learning if it’s only a means rather than an end in itself.

