Repetition & Difference
Noise to Signal #10
An Internet of tunnels; a city of rooms:

Believing there’s only one kind of repetition, or that signals are easy to contextualize, is a classic mistake. (L=A=N=G Po types RT this every time.)

I’ll take “useful frames to delude yourself into” for $100:

Oral history thread on surrogation and degenerate effects in Skyrim:


Medium-rare type of guy:
Introducing “psychotechnology”:

First good Yud tweet in years:

Peter Sullivan @PeterSullivan4
NEW: Democrats are considering cutting back on new funds for *pandemic preparedness* in the reconciliation bill to make room for other priorities, sources say, prompting an outcry Ex-CDC head Tom Frieden calls it "stunning" https://t.co/jExwVC4iDHWhat we talk about when we talk about “intent” is literally just a predictive algorithm for future behavior:
On astrology as a form of entropy generation:


Examples wanted:

(But seriously send us your examples of anything you find well-captured by an example, we want them)
The people around an idea are its embodied representation, and our representations for groups of people are… idiosyncratic:

The new gossip girl knows its stuff:
As soon as red flags are codified, they’re avoided. Evaluation regimes are always adversarial:

Thread on villages:



Kevin Focke on his own ideas around surrogation and selection games:

Self-deception is inherently limited by cognitive load, but not just because it’s “hard” to keep things in mind:
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