Will Newsome

A fitness landscape with fitness seas beneath fitness clouds, dotted with fitness trees, host to fitness herds and growing fitness cities.

Ask me anything that can plausibly be answered with a tweet or three. #twitterama #thiscouldbefun

Reflectively playing chess trains you to determine whether you are or aren't justified in thinking you understand your opponent's thoughts.

People self-conception-servingly underestimate the necessary depth of understanding, & thus prematurely discount others' words & intuitions.

You must have some understanding of both X and Y and the relation between them for you to really engage with or learn from anyone.

You can't look at their statement X and determine they must be thinking Y, likewise you can't be sure they're thinking Y and thus discount X

What people say is merely a highly distorted hint at what they actually think and feel.

∀∀∃∃::∈∈ "for all upside-down A there exists a back-front E such that colon is in epsilon".

When a human asks you a question he is often actually requesting that you confirm his biases.

wow, lot of misinformation here. can tell i'll need to write quite a Comment to correct this. I should be back in 2, 3 days with a Comment

Million-dollar idea: KICKSTOPPER. People chip in money to stop something from happening. Not sure of specifics, but clearly a winner.

Renowned simulebrity @willnewsome staggered through the Gallery of the Possible. He lunged for the nearest history he could see, a Leibniz.

If you hear hoofbeats, and see stripes, think zebras, not horses.

If you follow me but not @aristosophy , you're retarded. #ff

Mind projection heuristic.

Going meta is a skill you can train no matter what you're doing.