40. Id theory of narrative animationhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1331673021367480320 …
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41. Futurecast 2071.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1333473709659570176 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrUS history as synecdoche for world history really begins in 1854. Not coincidentally that was peak UK too. Everything before that is mostly provincial backwater prequel stuff. Bleeding Kansas, Perry in Japan, US tech at London world fair (1851) were the turning points.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
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42. Data personhoodhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1338237296164814850 …
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43. Rant about lack of covid-fallout financial damage maps leading to the mooting of a new religion, Stackocentrism.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1341099812687466496 …
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44. Selectorate theory of creative workhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1344414044027981825 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrIf you write fiction, you have to choose names for characters and places even if they are not critical to the story. If you do engineering, you have to choose names for variables, and details like shaft diameters even if specific bindings don’t matter. Therein lies a rhyme.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrEverytime I tweet non-trivial thoughts, I get a flood of links/pointers to work by others that people think I ought to be familiar with/connect to. I appreciate it, but without specific hooks I’ll likely ignore it. If I followed all such leads I’d get no thinking of my own done.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
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46. Societies evolve to normalize psychopathic self-presentationhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1309988191114416128 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrObservation: psychopaths are often charming/reassuring and can put you at ease in a trusting, vulnerable state. Hypothesis A: Psychopaths learn to fake norms of trustworthiness and reassurance Hypothesis B: Societies evolve to normalize psychopath behaviors as norms for allShow this thread1 reply 1 retweet 3 likesShow this thread -
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47. Caring about moneyhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1314983875546767362 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrIt really is very hard to care about money past the point it stops being a source of immediate anxiety. People capable of caring enough to solve for money past their personal anxiety point have a kind of superpower. It might even be the defining trait of entrepreneurs.Show this thread1 reply 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread -
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48. Wealth and protocolshttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1322666563107917824 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrYou can comfortably shake hands with anyone between 0.5x to 2x your height, but beyond that, it starts to get tricky. If people’s heights were in proportion to even log of their wealth, I would not be able to shake hands with Bill Gates. He’s in the 10^11 range and I’m in 10^5
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49. Abandoned thread on 2020 election cold-take questionshttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1324124260382568454 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrThis QT is my election livetweet thread. Now that things are winding down into a tight endgame with a cloud of murky lawsuits and doubt-merchanting hanging over them... I hereby declare the excruciating lessons learned meta-thread open. Muahahahaha. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1323779406750314496 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread
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50. 3D printing metathreadhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1300671637486841857 …
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