Lo and behold my pleasure at seeing something that’s been swimming around in the back of my head for at least a month put out in excellent writing. I found this post valuable for several reasons:
1.) This describes what may be an extremely worthwhile meta-skill. The whole sentiment of “take an idea seriously” seems to have a lot of recursive power. As one takes the singularity mindset seriously, they are in-fact practicing the singularity mindset. This not only gives itself a positive feedback loop, but allows other potentially helpful concepts or ideas to piggyback on the loop and offer utility in other ways. Your example of “More Dakka” made me realize I read that post neigh two months ago and have little to show for it. That’s not for lack of the concept’s usefullness, but more for my own lack of trying to find an application for it. There is also probably a sub or synergistic skill of identifying which concepts are worth really working at.
2.) This isn’t quite as related to the meat of the post, but it is still a very valuable aspect to me. There’s something to be said for narrativemancy and the aesthetics of trying to act like an x or y or organic improving AI. It’s just low hanging utility fruit that one gets from conceptualizing themself in a certain way.
Lo and behold my pleasure at seeing something that’s been swimming around in the back of my head for at least a month put out in excellent writing. I found this post valuable for several reasons:
1.) This describes what may be an extremely worthwhile meta-skill. The whole sentiment of “take an idea seriously” seems to have a lot of recursive power. As one takes the singularity mindset seriously, they are in-fact practicing the singularity mindset. This not only gives itself a positive feedback loop, but allows other potentially helpful concepts or ideas to piggyback on the loop and offer utility in other ways. Your example of “More Dakka” made me realize I read that post neigh two months ago and have little to show for it. That’s not for lack of the concept’s usefullness, but more for my own lack of trying to find an application for it. There is also probably a sub or synergistic skill of identifying which concepts are worth really working at.
2.) This isn’t quite as related to the meat of the post, but it is still a very valuable aspect to me. There’s something to be said for narrativemancy and the aesthetics of trying to act like an x or y or organic improving AI. It’s just low hanging utility fruit that one gets from conceptualizing themself in a certain way.