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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 11
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      I’m clearly on to something here. Almost ratio’d. I may have discovered the vent in the hustleporn Death Star 😮https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1227123633086009344 …

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      Lifelong learning is bs People who do that are really boring
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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      When @literalbanana tweets shit like this, she gets elevated to sainthood When Taleb says he’d rather live happily in a world he doesn’t understand he gets philosopher of century award Me, I get the hustleporn police writing me tickets for demotivation

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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      * composes and deletes tweet about Charlie Munger fans *

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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      The real purpose of seeking fuck-you money is to stop learning. Interesting and ironic that many self-professed L3s also seek FU$.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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      I think I could be happy doing absolutely nothing if I got FU$ 🤔 Most people appear to have Plans for the condition

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Delta State Softball

      This is sort of what I mean by being against lifelong learning. What most people actually end up with is a kind of limited life training. A finite bag of tricks that stabilizes by ~35 and backstops you under the mounting pressure of a median life. https://twitter.com/deltastatesb/status/1227352699248750592?s=21 …https://twitter.com/DeltaStateSB/status/1227352699248750592 …

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      “When you’re under pressure you don’t rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training.” -Navy Seals saying
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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      Life is growing pressure. At a certain point, it collapses your learning curve, and you are a robot governed by your “training” — conditioned already learned adaptive behaviors. Every OODA eventually turns into an O_ODA. It’s a when, not an if.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      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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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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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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    10. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Feb 13
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      wait, why define it that way? learning that *changes* you sucks, but you can consume new info at a steady rate your whole life while it changes your opinion less and less with every new data point.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 13
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      because I think that's what best captures the intension of the term as commonly and imo meaningfully used... learning as embodied change and growth. Your definition is very... rationalist. Most learning has almost nothing to do with explicit beliefs/opinions imo.

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        2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Feb 13
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          I would think common usage basically means "taking in information." Like, reading, having new facts at your disposal, etc. That's not a niche subcultural thing, right? Like, a doctor would say "I'm always learning, there's always new literature to keep up with."

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        3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Feb 13
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          That's an actual thing doctors have said to me, anyhow. They do read a lot! But they don't totally rearrange their lives or their practices over and over again. Anyhow, c'mon, don't diss me because I'm into *book learning*. That's silly. I'm not going to let that get to me.

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        1. Mike Elias  💡 📈‏ @harmonylion1 Feb 13
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          Would lifelong learning be analogous to a tree becoming a 200 foot sapling — is there a structural utility point you’re making here, or more of an aesthetic one (“they’re boring” etc)

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        1. Quantum1000‏ @QuantumSeany Feb 13
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          I have heard this "common usage" maybe once. Maybe you should do a poll, because that could explain the response.

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