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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 Feb 12
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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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      Joke interlude. This is the only original joke I’ve made up in my life. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1227428115967725568?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1227428115967725568 …

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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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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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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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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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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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      Societal grand narratives are driven by a wishful hobbesian false Darwinism. A world of absolute winners and utter losers. No hanging on, treading water, sinking to training, surviving, good-enoughing, wing-and-prayering. The great 1-sigma blindspot in societal self-images.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” — Edward Abbey. Original context was an environmentalist critique of the logic of capitalism. “Lifelong learning” is actually the same ideology at a personal life level.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      It’s even a contradiction in terms. Immortalist learning would be a better term. By definition “life” is finite, with non-learning boundary conditions. Lifelong learning implies a sawtooth wave discontinuity at the end of life. As in my joke a few tweets up.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      The arguments against endless-growth capitalism are different (resource limits, mounting externalities) but that too is endless learning. But at least there it’s kinda well-posed since the economy might be immortal for all we know. The market might really be an eternal learner.

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    10. Tristan Homsi‏ @homsiT Feb 12
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      Replying to @vgr

      It is! Man you should really read some @DavidDeutschOxf

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      Replying to @homsiT @DavidDeutschOxf

      Don’t wanna learn. I just ask @niftynei my deutsch expert when his ideas come up.

      8:33 PM - 12 Feb 2020
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          Replying to @vgr @DavidDeutschOxf @niftynei

          that's annoyingly efficient maybe your ideal strategy is to be a "lifelong learning outsourcer"

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