Post ideas

(Disclaimer: Ideas, weakly held.)

Ideas

Personal

• Aspirations / virtues to build
  • Remember, remember, the problem of legibility

Agency:

Don’t:

• screw todos, attention is all you need. (About humans.)
• There’s no scoreboard
  • The global optimals for your values are not queryable.

Cognitech:

Lens:

• legibility has a cost
• lawfulness vs. chaos:
  • the failure mode of lawfulness: Optimizing for legibility over substance.

Stances:

• frugality vs abundance mindset

??

• Outreach: Stop shouting, and start listening and talking. (Backlink to epistemic humility / generosity)

Mythology

• Intro / post-intro prose post:

  • “when the tools of cognitive tech fail you..”
  • “when you need a stronger medicine than agency”
  • “when you need something illegible”

• ouroboros and phoenix

  • The Ouroboros must chew itself to grow.
    • the ouroboros who could be a phoenix
    • Hamilton (the musical character) as an Ouroboros. Someone eho chews intensely, destroys local value, to create.
    • sartre and toothless life
  • what as a phoenix example?
    • The phoenix must periodically be reborn.

Misc rationalist stuff:

• year predictions, 2mo. predictions

Medium-fleshed out concepts: