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Venkatesh Rao
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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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      We often fetishize ignorance (stuff we’ve never yet known) by performing some sort of pious humility to exhibit our consciousness of it. But curiously, we have no cultural attitude towards stuff once known but now lost. Or at least stored in ways requiring restorative work.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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      Temporal partitition of known-unknown: Once-known unknown: Stuff you used to know that’s now degraded Could-be-known unknown: Stuff you know is out there that you could know, like apartments you could rent Never-knowable unknowns: Stuff you know is beyond your learning reach

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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      Thing about knowledge degradation is that it is arbitrary and has only a weak relationship to retention desires. “It’s like riding a bike” effect. Ancient environment of evolutionary adaptation dictates that my somatic hardware retains bike-riding knowledge weirdly well. Shrug.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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      2x2: Knowledge you’d like to retain/lose vs knowledge that actual sticks vs degrades. Aptitude = Stuff you’d like like to retain and naturally does get retained, making maintenance cheap (it sticks with little/no reinforcement like bike-riding, which I actually do want to retain)

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Tahsin Mayeesha

      Curious that people find this to be a tragic line of thought. I find it liberating and am not really upset by it. In fact I kinda appreciate knowledge being naturally lossy. https://twitter.com/tahsin_mayeesha/status/1272191000803336193?s=21 …https://twitter.com/tahsin_mayeesha/status/1272191000803336193 …

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      Tahsin Mayeesha @tahsin_mayeesha
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      Why would address book be full? You are probably just down because of corona. Your lifelong learning is just starting!
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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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      “Use it or lose it” has a hugely important corollary: how much you have to use something to retain it varies enormously from “riding a bike” (afaict that’s once every decade after acquisition) to “must use every week and will be lost in months/years if not” like advanced math.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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      Your knowledge degradations form a unique fingerprint that create a signature style of how how you do new things. Like the gold seams on a kintsugi bowl uniquely identify its past of cracks and breaks. It still holds stuff, but in a unique way. Your brain is a kintsugi bowl.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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      Writing is a good example. Everybody retains/loses particular preferred/not-preferred words/idioms/usages that form a particular unique “voice” ... one that could be identified by an AI classifier and reproduced by gpt-2 type algorithms.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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      Feels like Homo sapiens is ready to evolve past uncritical fetishization of knowing for the sake of knowing (Homo... studentus?) to actual “sapiens” ("discerning, wise, sensible") by treating knowing as a commodity rent/buy decision for the most part.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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      There is certainly a kind of pleasure to learning and acquiring knowledge, whether to rent or own. But uncritically maximizing that pleasure is a kind of hedonism. We just don’t notice because society approves of it morally, and rewards it economically.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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      Erudition: What you know Wisdom: What you know about what you know Humbletalebry: What you don’t know Prowess: What you can do Nihilism: What you must do Scholarship: What you know about who knows what Craft: What you’ve forgotten Artistry: What has irreversibly degraded

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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          Religion: What you refuse to know Tribalism: What you refuse to do Bureaucratism: What others must know Imperialism: What others must be able to do

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 14
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          Previous 2 tweets are an inventory of epistemic identities

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        1. Matt Diamond‏ @mattdiamond Jun 14
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          I’m confused about the Nihilism one... why would Nihilism be linked to an obligation (“must”)? it seems like Nihilism would represent the death of obligation maybe I’m misunderstanding the concept behind this list

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