🏄🏻‍♂️ Luke Cheng Yes, that's the form of the short-term version. Relatively simple problem for which the relevant expertise isn't available locally. Example here: metarationality.com/meta-rational-…

I've been collecting a list of recently-built places with good urban fabric. Here are some of my favorites:

1. Las Catalinas is a hill town overlooking an ocean cove in Costa Rica, built just over a decade ago with the bones of a classic Mediterranean hill town (Las Catalinas)

Hmm, well, so far it appears that embedding a link as text in an image is not an overwhelmingly successful strategy...
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Why did so many hunter gatherer groups around the world nearly-simultaneously and in an unconnected way develop agriculture?

This has been a kinda problematic question in human prehistory.

It may have been solved... by an economist?

Studying the economics of... Earth's orbit?

'In our theories, we rightly search for unification, but real life is both complicated and short, and we make no mockery of honest ad hockery.' -- I. J. Good

James Heathers (Alfalfa Male) David Chapman Adam Savage (Mythbusters) has a brilliant line, 'There is a huge difference between not understanding something and not understanding it yet' wired.com/2012/10/ft-sav…

David Chapman ... you repeatedly find yourself in situations where you are *quite sure* that local received wisdom is hopelessly blinkered, and the local fields are ploughed with salt, and yet you get to watch people proudly plough them with a teaspoon and call you an idiot troublemaker.

David Chapman Now, this is interesting.

If you like investigating bad research (and being deeply difficult about it), you find yourself very quickly in other people's 'circumscribed rational system'.

It's very good for your epistemic humility. But also...

Twitter keeps increasing the penalty for linking to a platform they consider dangerous competition. I'm experimenting with new ways to get around that :(

They aren't actually competition; the functionality is nearly non-overlapping.

It's petty. x.com/Meaningness/st…

🆕 'Fluid confidence is active enjoyment of uncertainty as to what may or may not be possible, when exploring a situation in which all expertise might be irrelevant.'

From David Chapman: For decades after Copernicus's work, heliocentric models of the solar system were considered mere mathematical curiosities that made calculations simpler. Actual physical heliocentrism was not considered viable
metarationality.com/remodeling

David Chapman stream.syscoi.com/2024/02/17/oh-…

Why is it worrisome if alignment-is-easy advocates equivocate between current evidence showing that 'AIs won't have goals or plans' or that 'AIs are being easily aligned to their creators' values'? Isn't it human nature to want to have things both ways?

Yes, but engineers who

Invictus

Fluid competence: the ability to apply any field of knowledge, setting aside your accredited expertise.

'Technical education is a factory for manufacturing expert professionals for industrial use.'

Full post coming Monday!

Sara To me meditation seems like something more all encompassing than only experiencing altered states. David Chapman 's essays on opening awareness and it's objectives seems on track! vividness.live

Snarky tweet but I would love to live in a world where meditation is not synonymous with experiencing jhanic states, but multiple people in my replies this week simply refuse to play along with this. To each their own.

Kenneth Folk I do hope I never lose my ability to appreciate 'adolescent inanity'
I think there's beauty about the expressions that appeal to a molting spirit living the wracked by the pains of transformation, forced to spin its own initiation rituals in a world that has lost touch with

Moving.

How soon can we send bigger better longer-lived copters? x.com/NASAPersevere/…