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Drake Morrison
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name three examples.
(You’ve said you didn’t want to get into this, so I’d consider it understandable if you don’t. Maybe that’s a later post you intend to write, or have already written? I just want to push back a bit on the implicit consensus of “community elites” without examples)
Immediate taxonomy of subskills that came to mind:
designing for consumers vs designing for producers
technical breadth vs technical depth
managing up vs managing down
Physical strength vs physical dexterity
Dang it, now I wanna read/write posts for all of these
If It’s Worth Arguing, It’s Worth Arguing With Whiteboards
If You’ve Never Bought a Tool You Didn’t Need, You’re Not Buying Enough Tools
Carpathia Day
Plans are Not Promises
You’re referring to the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism?
Meaningful Questions Have Return Types
Uninterrupted Writing as Metric
I ended up here in desperation after trying a couple of other ways to write up my thoughts as posts. I tried narrating, stream-of-consciousness style, into Claude hoping it would help me, but then it wrote a whole essay itself. It was too much Claude, and not enough me. I didn’t like it. I did find the structuring work that Claude did useful, so I asked it to do this instead. I found it much easier to respond to questions that are already structured than to extemporize right out of my head the heap of chaotic thoughts about a topic.
Claude Interviews Me About Writing
The original, best interface for using a computer. The terminal! Let’s go back to when computers were good, and you didn’t have to bother with that stupid mouse accessory.
I agree it seems bad for a quick take to immediately collapse if as few as five people downvote, but I do think the downvotes mean something important.
I don’t want to hesitate to downvote a quick take that I think should be downvoted.
Would it make sense to have the auto-collapse happen after 24 hours? Or perhaps a time-discounted thing based on number of votes?
I like the collapse feature in general, and think it’s great for hiding bad comments/not drowning bad comments in downvotes.
Here’s my vote for Epistemic Roguelikes. It seems like a riskier path, but with a lot more upside.
I really like A Crisper Explanation of Simulacrum Levels as another way to explain simulacrum levels.
I found this to be the most concrete post from the feedbackloop-first rationality sequence. I really appreciated the empiricist sort of frame of actually going out and trying to do a simple toy experiment to test some assumptions. Hope is blinding, and I remember more often to double-check my thinking for it after reading this post.
I consider this idea essential social technology on the level of “the map is not the territory.” super basic, but it’s everywhere once you learn to see it. I think about and make use of this concept on a weekly basis. Definitely seems worthy of consideration for Best Of to me.
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