The fact that it is so difficult and time-consuming to move through old tweets proves why this needs to be done: twitter is an inappropriate place to put ideas I'd like to come back to later.
In any case, I had moved through two year's worth of re-tweets, and here are some that I thought were interesting enough to share.
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“Lindy” “SITG” “Antifragile” - these concepts have changed our consciousness. Taleb is etched in history for this.— Pat Stedman (@Pat_Stedman) December 26, 2018
But as I noticed months ago (w Kav), the man’s a narcissist. Never align yourself with these people - it’s about them. If they can’t use you, they’ll discard you. https://t.co/4oUDU9YplI
Focused attention is not interchangeable with distractible attention. It’s like regular stomach versus dessert stomach. You can be full and still have room for dessert. And when you are regular hungry, dessert won’t do. You’ll want a savory protein.— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) December 3, 2018
Imagine learning to drive a car by manipulating trigonometric symbols on a piece of paper. This is how we teach math to children. Future generations will regards us as barbarians.— Ardian (@rdntola) October 26, 2018
I love other people who play the lottery. #voluntarytaxation— JC (@CaroseljJ) October 16, 2018
My son was beating me in chess.— Kuwuakeda (@kuwuakeda) September 18, 2018
Son: "Wow, I thought you were good at chess."
Me: "I'm only good compared to little kids; as you get older, you see my limitations."
There might be a metaphor in there somewhere.
@elonmusk does a bunch of stupid shit I don't agree with, but I can name five billionaires in this instant who are far, far worse.— Sindre (@Triquetrea) July 13, 2018
But they don't tweet, so apparently opposing their globalist-scale predatory behavior is less interesting?
Hmm...
Thought: right-leaning bias complexes are likely much more easily machine-learnable than left-leaning due to greater internal consistency/cohesion. Recommender systems converging on right-wing conspiracy content are a first indicator.— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) June 27, 2018
The singularity will be Trumpist 🤣
friendly reminder that you don't *have* to consume horror-news. it's not a requirement for good citizenship— Mark (@haircut_hippie) June 19, 2018
History is just another content farm, though passed through the spam filter of legacy storage economics— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) April 15, 2018
In short: I don't think human beings have become more 'empiricist' in the past 500 years, perhaps apart from an extremely small section of the elite. I think most people have switched *one* of their sources of blind and unquestioned authority to Science and Technology.— Pseudoerasmus (@pseudoerasmus) February 17, 2018
Shower thought: being in nature is relaxing because nature no longer asks anything of us. In a city we are surrounded by things our identity is created through relationship to - other humans, cars, homes. We no longer use natural things; they don’t define us, so it feels quiet.— '*•:Ḟreyjạ:•*' (@utotranslucence) August 19, 2018
Signaling values and signaling status are both good.— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) June 4, 2018
Signal values to make friends/enemies.
Signal status to set expectations reflecting real, dumb-to-ignore asymmetries.
It’s when you conflate them that things get bad. Don’t signal virtue to establish status or vice versa.
