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Post by kaoD »

sdwr wrote: post #18
makeitdouble wrote: post #7

hmm, starting with these two so high in the list makes it difficult to properly read the rest. > 2. Doublespeak: People often say the opposite of what they mean > 4. Preference Falsification: People lie about their true opinions Are we supposed to apply these to the 48 other ideas that he pitches as his guiding lights ? Otherwise I think more than the ideas themselves, it's a good reminder that anyone having seen eno…

#2 is the truest statement ever stated. Other examples of the form are "people say things about themselves that are really about you", or "things about someone else that are really about themselves". Indirection (and proxies!!) are cornerstones of human communication. I've found it reasonably helpful to test all strong statements through those 3 lenses.

I don't think this is a human trait but rather something ingrained in your particular culture.

This doesn't feel right at all from my culture's perspective. We are not indirect at all.

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Post by tpoacher »

blowski wrote: post #92
Ensorceled wrote: post #83

I found the biases revealed by some of the examples fascinating, for example: > 16. Russell Conjugation: Journalists often change the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax Why did they choose “journalists” when the “death tax” narrative was created by politicians, a much better example…

The Overton Window works as a concept when we all talk to each other. But we now have three separate echo chambers - "Left", "Right", "Center" - and they each have their own Overton Window.

That's because what was described above isnt the overton window. It's a quote by Noam Chomsky.

The actual definition of the Overton window exactly predicts what you both describe. See wikipedia for a better description.

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Post by npteljes »

flappyeagle wrote: post #2

We would all benefit from remembering this one > 23. Gall’s Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

I think a much more profound one is that in complex systems, there are usually workings that are not obvious to the observers. And so, by manipulating these systems, they will fail in unexpected ways. I'm not sure why OP can't think of a complex system designed from scratch - how did, for example, the Large Hadron Collider get designed? Starting from a nice and simple particle collider, and evolving from there?

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Post by prakhar897 »

Sorry for being rude.

The above article sounds like written by GPT. Also, the author's tweets look like this:

"If you really wanna learn about somebody, skip the 60 minute interview and have them drive you through New York City for 15 minutes."

And then this person calls himself "The Writing Guy" on his twitter bio and unironically sells a writing course.

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Post by punnerud »

prakhar897 wrote: post #104

Sorry for being rude. The above article sounds like written by GPT. Also, the author's tweets look like this: "If you really wanna learn about somebody, skip the 60 minute interview and have them drive you through New York City for 15 minutes." And then this person calls himself "The Writing Guy" on his twitter bio and unironically sells a writing course.

ChatGPT/OpenAIs detector does not agree: “The classifier considers the text to be very unlikely AI-generated.”

I pasted first half of the article into it.

https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier

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Post by aconsult1 »

gagege wrote: post #23
mif wrote: post #11

One idea that changed my life is stop believing that other people have changed their lives based on ideas. The only way of change is by habit.

I very much disagree. Some of the biggest changes in my life were driven by the reading or hearing of a few words which suddenly made everything click. These moments led to huge behavior changes.

I definitely relate to that. I only started saving money seriously (with proper planning) after reading about FIRE (financial independence retire early) in a blog. Reading about that idea completely changed my mind about the true purpose of putting money aside while I was still young.

Before reading about FIRE I thought the idea of retiring silly because I was 100% sure I'd never stop working, even after turning 65. So saving money never made sense to me.

The blog about FIRE explained with a total different point of view which is not about retiring really but it's about having the choice to do only the work you really want to and being independent to make your own choices regardless of needing a paycheck.

That idea completely changed (part of) my life.

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Post by layer8 »

npteljes wrote: post #99
Ensorceled wrote: post #83

I found the biases revealed by some of the examples fascinating, for example: > 16. Russell Conjugation: Journalists often change the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax Why did they choose “journalists” when the “death tax” narrative was created by politicians, a much better example…

>Why did they choose “journalists” when the “death tax” narrative was created by politicians, a much better example group for this conjugation. I think for the same reason people blame web developers for how websites are built, ignoring that the web developer is not the product manager.

“I was just following orders.”

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Post by layer8 »

ulnarkressty wrote: post #63
wenc wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually changed my mind based on some simple ideas. Carol Dweck wrote a book called Mindset, which talks about two mindsets: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. The idea is super simple, and you don't even need to read the book to know what it is. But just knowing that idea changed my entire motivation to do things, and now I believe that even if I'm not talented at something, I can get surprisingly far. (for in…

How do you get past the feeling that nothing you do actually matters?

Maybe by understanding that “mattering” is a subjective, internal thing, not an objective property in the world.

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Post by _l4jh »

ulnarkressty wrote: post #63
wenc wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually changed my mind based on some simple ideas. Carol Dweck wrote a book called Mindset, which talks about two mindsets: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. The idea is super simple, and you don't even need to read the book to know what it is. But just knowing that idea changed my entire motivation to do things, and now I believe that even if I'm not talented at something, I can get surprisingly far. (for in…

How do you get past the feeling that nothing you do actually matters?

I give it value.

Value is just some human made up currency after all. "Is it worth the time?" etc.

If I were to approach life with the mindset "well everyone I know is going to die some day and humanity will die out so what's the point?" I'm not going to have a very positive outlook to life.

But I figure I'm here. I get 90 years or so if I am lucky. I might as well enjoy them while this combination of atoms is me.

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Post by jutrewag »

blowski wrote: post #92
Ensorceled wrote: post #83

I found the biases revealed by some of the examples fascinating, for example: > 16. Russell Conjugation: Journalists often change the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax Why did they choose “journalists” when the “death tax” narrative was created by politicians, a much better example…

The Overton Window works as a concept when we all talk to each other. But we now have three separate echo chambers - "Left", "Right", "Center" - and they each have their own Overton Window.

I wish there was a sizable center echo chamber, unfortunately there isn’t really one.
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