Log 2020-12

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Interesting

Highlights of the month – what tickled my fancies with the largest, ticliest mental feather

• [[../www/Sinnsyn]] - Psychology podcast in Norwegian
• [[The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand]]
• [[../www/become the one message loop person]]
• [[../www/moving in 3d and navigating mathematical theorems use the same cognitive machinery]]
• [[../_inbox/inbox-2020/inbox-2020-12/rokos basilisk]]
• [[Gnosticism]]
• [[../www/Cosmology]]
• People and sources
  • [[Buster Benson]]
  • [[Paul Graham]]
  • [[melodysheep]]

Notes

• [[Steelman argument]]
• [[A neurotypical has FOMO towards ADHD]]
• [[Wardley maps]] came up recently. Never hesrd of it before. [[Baader Meinhoff]]
• [[../www/q.deciding to publish is like deciding that a painting is finished]]
• [[Ramsey Numbers]]
• [[Psychedelics, innovation and entrepeneurship]]
• [[Conor White-Sullivan]] – creator of [[sw.Roam Research]]
• [[../www/Quantum Mechanics]]
• [[Quantified Self]]
• [[Galls Law]]
• [[../_inbox/inbox-2020/inbox-2020-12/The internet is an ocean that we invent as we explore it.]]
• [[The map is not the territory]]
• [[../_inbox/inbox-2020/inbox-2020-12/covid culture cottagecore]]
• [[../www/And all I see is little dots]]
• [[physicists measure the magic fine structure constant]] Guellati-Khélifa has been improving her experiment for the past 22 years.
• [[building a system from ground up is far far less efficient than building on top of existing tech stack]]
• [[../_inbox/sw.obsidian.graph usage]]
• [[buddhism and christianity]]
• [[Notes/the Eschaton]]
• [[why were the greek so mysterious]]
• [[notable autistic people]]
• [[melodysheep]]
• [[the amoeba way]]
• [[billion]]
• [[metrology]]
• [[synchronicity-journal]]
• [[elephants should have their trunks pointing towards a window]]
• [[../_inbox/inbox-2020/inbox-2020-12/Highly Potent Drugs as Psychological Warfare Weapons]]
• [[../meta-x]]

Science

• [[shadow biosphere]]
• [[parthenogenesis]]
• [[long and short scales]]
  • [[billion]] / [[milliard]]
  • [[metrology]] has come up a couple times lately, hadn't heard of the term before. Goes in the [[synchronicity-journal]]
• [[../_inbox/inbox-2020/inbox-2020-12/Reference class problem - Wikipedia]]
• [[Notes/The Feynman Method]]
• [[q.the lesson of quantum mechanics is that nothing is determined certain or predictable, there are only popensities]]

Cosmology and Astronomy

• [[../www/Cosmology]]

  • [[q.Everything Has its Wonders, Even Darkness and Silence]]

• [[cosmology rooted in physics is monistic]]

  • [[Notes/Our universe gives life only a brief moment to shine]]
  • [[ten times as many galaxies as we previously thought]]
  • [[space missions]]
  • [[habitable zone]] / [[../_inbox/inbox-2021/inbox-2021-08/goldilocks zone]]
  • [[exomoon]]
  • [[enceladus]]
  • [[titan]]
  • [[Kepler-62F]]

• [[shadow biosphere]]

Mind, cognition, productivity

• [[Wellness habits and personal review of the year]]
• [[../www/moving in 3d and navigating mathematical theorems use the same cognitive machinery]]
• [[the amoeba way]]

Articles about our world

• [[Notes/The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand]]
• [[how to spot misinformation online]]

Logical Fallacies, Cognitive Biases etc.

• [[../_inbox/inbox-2020/inbox-2020-12/Newcombs Paradox]]
• [[../www/become the one message loop person]]
• [[typical mind fallacy]]
• [[Steelman argument]]
• [[../_inbox/inbox-2020/inbox-2020-12/Traps to avoid]]
• [[../_inbox/inbox-2020/inbox-2020-12/rokos basilisk]]
• [[Information Hazards]]
• [[Notes/narrative scripts]]
• [[../_inbox/inbox-2020/inbox-2020-12/Inductive versus deductive reasoning how to make stronger arguments]]
• [[../Notes/q.You do not know yourself until you have seen into the eyes of a non-human quote]]

Philosophy

• [[the akashic record]]
• [[Notes/www/_posts/gnosticism was influenced by buddhism]]
• [[The dizzying feeling of immense scale]] #biographical
• [[humans might be descendants of aliens]]
• [[Notes/the view from above]] #stoicism
• [[christianity]]
• [[../_inbox/inbox-2021/inbox-2021-01/aliens in the bible]]
  • [[the bible origins]]
  • [[anunnaki]]

Quotes

• [[../_inbox/inbox-2020/inbox-2020-12/Failure is a feature, not a bug]]
• [[in python its ok to make assumptions as long as you clean up your mess if they are wrong]]
• [[q.The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason]]

Words and Terms

• [[Overton Window]] has cropped up a bit lately.
• apocryphal
• [[../_inbox/Roam Import/rhizome]]
• [[sui generis]]

Thoughts and Writing

• [[../www/commonalities in cognition]]
• [[evolution happens in bursts]]
• [[i used to envy friend groups]]
• [[long term optimist short term pessimist]]

Sources, people

People I found out about, sources to information/entertainment

• [[melodysheep]]
  • [[a.TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE - A Journey to the End of Time]]
  • [[a.LIFE BEYOND Chapter 1. Alien life, deep time, and our place in cosmic history]]
• [[../_inbox/inbox-2020/inbox-2020-12/Nick Bostrom]]
• [[Buster Benson]]
  • [[Rough Notes Loosely Organized]]

Paul Graham

• [[Paul Graham]]
• [[../Notes/a.How to Think for Yourself]]
• [[../Notes/a.Good and Bad Procrastination]]
• [[Notes/Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule]]
• [[a.Keep Your Identity Small]]
• [[Notes/The Top Idea in Your Mind]]
• [[../Notes/a.Having Kids]]

Most Influential

• [[../www/Lex Fridman Podcast]]
• [[../Notes/sw.obsidian]] – Helped me take a lot – a lot – of notes.
• SlateStarCodex
• LessWrong

What I'd like to revisit

Things I just got to glance at that I'd like to delve deeper into

• [[../_inbox/inbox-2020/inbox-2020-11/Can History Predict the Future - The Atlantic]]
• [[meta-x]]
• Table of contents | Meaningness
• Wiki workflow - Everything I know
• How to Intentionally “Slow-Boil” Into Your Desired Future Self | by Benjamin Hardy, PhD | Mind Cafe | Medium #tickler via:: Obsidian’s “Daily Note” is the Swiss Army Knife of Data Capture | by Brooke Harrison | The Brave Writer | Medium
• Make Decisions Today That Will Impress Your Friends In 20 Years via:: Google search for How to Intentionally “Slow-Boil” Into Your Desired Future Self

Thoughts and Writing

• [[Software with fantastic philosophies]]

Breadcrumbs

PinealWeb http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/pinealweb/ via:: Cosma's Home Page

Encountered https://www.robotstxt.org/norobots-rfc.txt #seo

http://www.viridiandesign.org/ via bactra.org