In my emotional era…
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"Enhanced rationality in autism spectrum disorder"
Review article found that people with autism spectrum disorder are better at avoiding several classical fallacies and biases - like the conjunction fallacy and sunk cost bias - than neurotypical people.
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I feel quite confident that (1) I can find excellent technical meditation guides, that (2) I can't as easily find ethical / moral guides ("spiritual fathers"), and (3) that I need the latter much more than the former.
One of the weirdest upshots of this thus far — I'm not sure Adler talks about it — is that I've become… weird.
Like… if you read Impro by Keith Johnstone you realize how social interactions basically always are status transactions. I play high you play low and then vice-versa.
This is esp. obvious in service: you are being served and they play low. (This is what makes Dick's Last Resort and Karen's Diner possible: restaurants where the usual status hierarchy is subverted, wink wink — you're still paying.)
But if you don't play high while the server plays low, if you don't play at all then you can see them throw a 404 status error. Blue screen of death. Suddenly you're weird and therefore — potentially — dangerous as you're not predictable.
And there just is an element of danger to it: the commons way people relate seems to be not just status-based but quite "enmeshed." There seems to be a subtle pact going on: "I give you the power to affect me in exchange you give me the power to affect you. Now our incentives are aligned: if you hurt me I hurt you, and vice-versa. So I won't. And trust that you won't either."
But if you're not playing the game, if you're not default enmeshed, if you're simply "in your lane" then you stick out like a sore thumb.
Super interested in this… I'm sure there's cool research to do here… Drugs seem like an obvious way to affect it…
"Manipulation of procedural outcomes" ← The medium is the message.
Brainrot ← The medium is the message.
Discourse, as such ← The medium is the message.
Donald Trump ← The medium is the message.
>you should focus on unbottlenecking the exposition of these complete, accurate, models
funny thing: i spend tons of time writing (obv.) and still feel like i'm mega-bottlenecked on disclosing my models lol
I like it!
A tangent:
One read of your thesis is something like:
- there are people who are quite busy, have thought about interesting topics in great depth, but are bottlenecked on the last 10% of exposing this
- you should focus on unbottlenecking the exposition of these complete, accurate, models vs on getting new smart writers to develop interesting models
- In the past i’ve appreciated Erik Torenberg’s podcast network as being the best of this, ie:
- you’re a busy substacker, you think about a lot of things, some which are better suited to podcast than essay
- this free intellectual byproduct is really valuable
- but, setting up a podcast sucks. you need to coordinate guests, plan episodes, sponsors, hire people to mix audio, design graphics, post clips on media, etc etc
- OTOH - Erik Torenberg can say “hey i’ll just chat with you 2h a week, ask you questions, find guests, and i’ll handle everything else, we split money”
- so many episodes (esp w eg noah smith) really feel like this - Erik has figured out how to provide a configurable option that at the limit can maximally move work away from his counterparty
- very cool “late in the stage of creative output unhobbling” there
- the podcast episode already exists in your head, very valuable to elicit, just needs a counterparty to pull it out.
- thus: would be fun to think of your idea X% more towards this too
- what’s an offering you could build for people that are extremely embedded in a context, clearly have the bones of a very important essay, but no time or writing chops to polish it?
- could this work as an editing service, a co-author, opinionated hosting, social media & publicity?
