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Mar 06, 2025
Murray Rothbard
- develop
- TODO
Mar 02, 2025
2-1a6c4c We can explain things because we are multiversal objects. The multiverse implies explanatory knowledge.
Mar 01, 2025
Eric Voskuil
Feb 27, 2025
Saifedean Ammous
Feb 15, 2025
Ludwig von Mises
Feb 12, 2025
David Deutsch
Feb 11, 2025
2-1e Everything is connected in a complex way
- develop
Feb 11, 2025
3-1a The reality doesn’t have categories, there are only problems to be solved. Be problem-project-oriented. 'Academic subjects' are mere social constructs.
- develop
- categories
Feb 11, 2025
7-1a4b Understanding the measurement-constraints amounts to understanding the system-incentives. That is, creating explanations.
- incentives
- develop
Feb 11, 2025
9-4b2a1c The moment you write about any societal problem in depth you'll find yourself writing a history of that problem
- develop
- Ayache
Feb 06, 2025
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
- develop
- Spitznagel
Feb 06, 2025
Per Bylund
- develop
Feb 02, 2025
Chris Dixon
Jan 15, 2025
Morgan Housel
- develop
- revisit
Dec 25, 2024
Logan Chipkin
- develop
Dec 18, 2024
5-1b1a2c0.1 Perfect replication is impossible
- Ayache
- develop
Dec 12, 2024
Mark Spitznagel
- revisit
- develop
Dec 10, 2024
9-2b3c We are more different than we are alike
- develop
Dec 09, 2024
Culture transforms ‘things’ into symbols and meaning
- develop
Oct 20, 2024
9-4b2b The evolution of ideas (memes) is somewhat intentional, whereas that of genes are random AND cannot be rejected
- develop
Oct 20, 2024
Daniel Everett
- develop
- revisit
Oct 20, 2024
10-2f1 Chomsky’s UG approach only looks at a subset (syntax) of a subset (language) of the whole (communication system — ‘the gestalt’). Syntax is only secondary to conversation.
- develop
Oct 19, 2024
10-2g1f2c It's as though everything from culture-grammar-symbol-DNA-brain evolved so that high accuracy correspondences were made easier to achieve
Oct 19, 2024
意識は推論そのもの
- develop
Oct 15, 2024
3-1c2e 情報は関係性の中にある - Meaning is often in relation to other things
- develop
Oct 15, 2024
9-2b3b1 Contingency = Meaning (or, contingency implies meaning)
- develop
Oct 06, 2024
1-1a5b3.1 What counts is the payoff from success—and not how often you are right
- develop
Oct 06, 2024
3-1c2e0 There is no minimum idea
- develop
- Ayache
Oct 06, 2024
3-1c2e1 Connecting-relating ideas is a way of creating knowledge
- develop
Sep 29, 2024
3-1c3c Keep each ideas separately, because there is nothing absolute and necessary in the connections I make between them
- develop
Sep 21, 2024
7-1a2a1.1 'Scale' - Anything that scaled started small, at the edge, at the frontier, as an avant-garde
- develop
Sep 15, 2024
Don't make the difficulty-rewards relationship a simple straight line
- develop
Sep 15, 2024
RUL3 - Finish what you start, because the best work often happens in what was meant to be the final stage
- develop
Sep 13, 2024
5-1b1b1a3 Network effects (digital) ＞ Supply and demand (physical)
- develop
Aug 31, 2024
1-1a5b4.4 Real-time calibration (i.e., recalibration) lets you adapt to the changing landscape
- develop
- Ayache
Aug 30, 2024
9-2b1.2 Marshall McLuhan - 'It is the medium itself that is the message, not the content'
- develop
Aug 26, 2024
4-1a3 Each conversation has to end either a success or a failure, you have to zone-in when you are ‘friend-zoned’
- develop
Aug 26, 2024
9-2a0 The Identity Stack - To build something great means becoming someone's top primary identifier
- develop
Aug 16, 2024
10-2g1f2a1 The question is what's the brain in NOT what’s in the brain
- develop
- Naval
Aug 16, 2024
4-1a4b6a0.4 Bill Gates - 'No matter how much money you have, you can’t buy more time. There are only 24 hours in everyone’s day' (Time ≠ Money)
- develop
Aug 16, 2024
4-1a4b2d 'Tendency to want to do something' - Don't get paid for work, but for being right.
- develop
Aug 16, 2024
7-1b4b0.1 Technologists are those who lead with technologies, and less with heart
- develop
Aug 15, 2024
4-1a4b2b Being reactive is like being analog in the heat of the moment
- develop
- FutureSelf
Aug 14, 2024
8-1c2a What matters is the creativity per se, because non-creative parts will be made easier
- develop
- composability
Aug 12, 2024
2-1b2b 'Second-order thinking' - Solve the root cause of a problem (prevention) and not symptoms. Be smart-lazy.
Aug 06, 2024
2-1b2b0.2 Focus on the 'what is' before deciding 'what to do' about it
- develop
Aug 03, 2024
2-1a3.1 'Feedback loops' - Iterate. The more and quicker the better.
- develop
Aug 03, 2024
6-3b When you own something, you have an incentive to invest in it
Aug 01, 2024
1-2g3 The sphere of comprehensibility expands infinitely
- develop
Aug 01, 2024
3-1c2e3 Infinite semiosis - 'There is no beginning or end to symbols because it is recursive'
- develop
Jul 31, 2024
5-1b2 Don’t invest in prediction, because knowledge is inherently unpredictable
- develop
- Universality
Jul 31, 2024
9-3a Luck-Skill dichotomy is at best arbitrary. We can train our ability to create ‘luck’.
- develop
- categories
Jul 31, 2024
5-1b4b3 Time beats timing
- develop
- FutureSelf
Jul 30, 2024
6-3a2 How you have something can (and will) matter more than what (you think) you have (e.g., DEX vs CEX - DEX will counter Maximalists movement)
- own
- develop
Jul 28, 2024
8-2d1a SNSのテーマは統一したほうがいい。応援してくれる遠い人や知らない人を増やす。みんなが知りたくて知らないものと知りたくて知っているものに特化すること。
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1a2a1 Human nature is variable (Cultures ⇒ Flexible human brains ⇒ Variable dark matters ⇒ Variable 'human natures' ⇒ Cultures . . .)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1a2a2 The inexplicit and unconscious is also NOT innately structured
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1a2a5 Overt knowledge can be found inside and outside our brains (e.g., Wikipedia), but dark matter is found only within the individual
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1a2e4a 言い換え = Making sense in your own world, that is, in your own language and in your own web of ideas
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1a2e6 Culturing and social acting (along with languaging) ⇒ Our actions, beliefs, desires, values, and self
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1a2e7 Dark matter both help and impede our perception of the world
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1a2e7e 文化とは多様性を克服した情報モード
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1a2e9a Culture defines the Black Swan
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1a2f You are redundant if you are flexible and (close to being) universal - that is, composable and interoperable
- Universality
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1a4b0b According to Peirce, mathematics precedes all other fields of study, and only studies imbued with a strong mathematical foundation were worthy of the label ‘science’. Mathematics cannot be derived from logic.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1a5b2.1 Be very mindful of where you 'experiment'; one of the most important decisions you can make is who you get feedbacks from (as well as ask questions of)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1a7 Epistemology is the way with which we go about our detective work; other sciences are application of such detective lens
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-1c6e This goes on ad infinitum
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2a4 We must remain within the confines of our own explanations, even if our understanding of physical processes (that constitute reasoning in general) improves arbitrarily
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2b0.5a The best we can attain is belief, since truth cannot be guaranteed
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2f1b3 Merely dropping a theory because it doesn't work is behaviorism and is not error-correction. It's analog reasoning in disguise. You need explanation.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2f1b4 The content of a theory is in what it rules out (and how!)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2f1b4a Truth is about how much reality is in a theory
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Jul 18, 2024
1-2g1c3 Confining yourself only to 'your mind' is quite an arbitrary decision
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g1c3c Self = A sequence of experiences ('recursive definition of the self')
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g1c3d Don't judge a book by its cover. Read the whole context instead.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2 New theory in turn constrains what the low-level theories could be
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2b2a Computer is technology that has deep theoretical and philosophical significance
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Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2b4 The universality of computation is a property of hardware and rather uncontroversial. The universality of explanation is a property of software and rather controversial.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2c1 Testability matters only when you have a good explanation (hard-to-vary explanation)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2c2 The principles of quantum physics dictates that speed and position (or definite path and definite path superposition) cannot be tested simultaneously
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2c3 Intractable does not mean unpredictable
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2e What science and creative thought in general achieves is unpredictable creation out of nothing. That is, creation of knowledge. And so is biological evolution (i.e., life).
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2i Genes (life) are programs that embody the laws of physics (of their own niches)
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2j1 Accuracy is the closeness, as far as is perceptible, of the rendered environment to the intended one (intension)
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2j1b Accuracy in virtual reality = The relationship between theory and experiment in science. That is, you can never prove-experience-measure-certify that it's accurate-true program.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2j2 Icons are intentional resemblances. It is 'about' something.
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2k2 The program (e.g., Roman-numeral system) survives by causing computer (e.g., people) to use them. The former instructs the latter.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2l3 We create knowledge actively. We are more than biological life.
- develop
- Consciousness
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2r The Turing principle, if true, dictates that we can form accurate theories about reality. Knowledge to the Turing principle is what steam engines are to the principles of thermodynamics. That is, the Turing principle implies knowledge.
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2s The very fact that physical variables can store information, that they can interact with one another to transfer and replicate it, and that such processes are stable, all depend on the details of quantum theory
- multiverse
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2s7b3 An explanation for how something really works cannot rely on infinity
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2s7b5 Proof theory is computer science and not mathematics
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2t Quantum theory via diversity within fungibility allows both branching (the multiverse) and stability in the sense of what’s been branched stays branched (stable existence of each universe, allowing the classical physics as approximation)
- multiverse
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2t3d Because creation (and growth) of knowledge is in essence error-correction, and because being wrong is way easier than being right, knowledge-creating-bearing entities will become more alike (and thrive) across the multiverse
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2t3e Other life-forms can't permeate across the multiverse because biological knowledge is primarily about the surrounding environment and its correspondence within THAT universe, and the latter is subject to 'randomness'
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2t3e1 Explanatory knowledge is inherently about the multiverse
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2t4 Because fungibility exists (i.e., histories DO rejoin) we must evoke the multiverse. The multiverse emerged from quantum physics (genealogically).
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2t4a Quantum computation is possible thanks to fungibility
- QuantumComputer
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2t5b The term 'uncertainty principle' is doubly misleading because first of all fungibility is a physical fact and not uncertainty of anything, and second of all because it can be derived from more general principle of quantum physics
- develop
- MentalModels
Jul 18, 2024
10-1 Thick descripting history — other configurations — ‘contingent others’ — 【別様の可能性】
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1a2b マルチメディア・ネットワークの未来は、これまでのいっさいの情報文化史的な成果の再編集に向かう
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1a2c 情報文化史は編集技術の歴史
Jul 18, 2024
10-1a2d 何が自発してきたのか・何が創発してきたのかを見つめることが重要
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1a2d1 マルチメディア + 情報過多 = 意味情報への関心
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1a4 Digitizing history doesn't mean throwing away everything and returning to the caveman era of a blank git repository
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1a5 Digitizing history means explaining each fork as contingent points (the could've been) for the history around an idea. History is the Idea Maze, and must be created symbolically (never non-digitally nor indexically) by the individuals.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1a6 History is the analysis of the log files
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1a7 History is more of a method and less about subject (if not applied subject). History is dependent on your epistemology and technology - more generally, your knowledge - because you can only see what you can see.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1a8 Crypto is applied (multidisciplinary) subject
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1b1 It is the body that learns - '考えるな. 感じろ.'
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1b2a Emicization = The construction of an insider point of view (the 'dark matter')
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1b4.1 Peirce - One needs 'interpretant' for language to get off the ground
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1b4d '好み' = ミメシスからパロディアへ
- Ayache
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Jul 18, 2024
10-1b4e Developing a taste means transitioning from being obsessed with where it came from (analog) to focusing on what it is and what it can do (digital)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1b7 Culture and grammar shape each other through their evolved symbiotic relationship
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-1d Cohesive culture is formed with values, knowledge structures, and social roles
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2c We can provide ever better explanations about ourselves
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2d1a The regularity in nature can be expressed arbitrarily well either by the language of mathematics, natural language, or by computers (zeros and ones)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2d1c Evolution achieved that jump to universality with the DNA genetic code
Jul 18, 2024
10-2d1d Humans are distinguished because of the syntax of their DNA (genomes)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2e1 Most of the modern languages assume that time ‘flow’
- develop
- multiverse
Jul 18, 2024
10-2e4b Money is fungible. So is energy. So are we.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2e5 The multiverse neither consists of a sequence of moments nor permits a flow of time.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2e7 The common-sense concept of cause and effect makes sense because 'variants' do exist somewhere in the multiverse. Nothing necessitates causes to precede their effects.
Jul 18, 2024
10-2f3a Learning human languages consists of constantly conjecturing-guessing the meaning of the words being used
- develop
- symbols
Jul 18, 2024
10-2f3c How to program the ability to learn human languages
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2f4 Learning computer languages is about mere syntax (learning human languages ≠ learning computer languages)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2f5 Mathematics
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g1a Science emerged from culture
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g1b Science is headed towards less and less parochialism because we can be honest with what knowledge is. That is, towards universality.
- develop
- Universality
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g1c Universality of people
- develop
- Universality
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g1f2a3 Everett on Descartes - Dualism is one of the worst error ever introduced into philosophy, and simply ignores evolution
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g1f2a4 The mind ≠ A computer
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g1f2b The brain and symbols evolved reflexively to enhance communication to deal with cultural and sexual selectional pressures.
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g1f3 We can only figure out what they know by what they do ('performance'), because we can never directly study what people know ('competence'). To assert that we can is a common error in thinking.
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g1h The best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g1i Universality and infinity are necessary condition for the growth of knowledge, but not sufficient
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g1j A good explanation explain more than what they were originally designed to
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2 Culture invents symbols, and the core of language is the symbol
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2c Indexes are physical because they merely ‘indicate’ and hence do not require culture. Symbols are cultural. Put differently, indexes are analog and symbols digital.
- Universality
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2c0a Universal systems retain the capacity to represent knowledge that is not yet created, thus can be useful in the future.
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2c0d1 Peircean semiotics is about process and not about topic
- categories
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2c0e Synechism - the idea that everything is connected and nothing can be understood in isolation
- categories
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2c1 Symbols are universal. Being arbitrary and contingent means it can represent anything, and do everything.
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2c1b Only humans struggle in expressing themselves - 表現しきれないというのは人間のみ
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2c1c The primary function of language is communication. Not expression of thought.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2c1d Computation is nothing more than an aid to communication
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2c2 Human minds are capable of knowing what ideas mean
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2d Science symbolizes physicality beyond parochialism (from seen to the unseen)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2e Universality of the laws of physics depends on the existence of universal explainers — people
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2e7 Abstraction is universal, precisely because they are in the abstract (i.e., itself not contingently constrained by its own physicality)
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2e8 Abstractions require Popperian epistemology, to be error-correctable
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2e9 Abstractions are corrected by realizing how ‘it could’ve been otherwise’
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2e9a The contingent relation between the form and the abstract can be only realized by digital systems. Analog systems cannot do this.
- develop
- multiverse
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2e9b DNA is digital system which evolves by discrete changes. If it were analog, evolution couldn’t have happened.
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2e9c Life has been creating knowledge by conjectures
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2e9d There are no 'species' in nature. Reality doesn't distinguish life by categories.
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g3 Symbols are shaped by social values, social knowledge, and social structures
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g3b Not all symbols contain knowledge
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g3c Not all memes are rational
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g3d Behaviors can be replicators even when its meanings are not (properly) understood, because we can guess the meaning of memes. For rational memes, knowledge is THE replicator.
- unseen
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g3d1 Humans do stupid things because we can guess and create meanings. Other life-forms don't have that ability to create knowledge actively. Our ability comes with a great cost of potentially doing very (infinitely) stupid things.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g3d1b 土器そのものの象徴化即ち威信財の登場
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
10-2h Explicating the inexplicit amounts to knowledge, and knowledge is unpredictable, and never derived mechanically
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
11-2 Capital market aligns financial incentives with curiosity. More precisely, capital market constrains curiosity with financial incentives.
Jul 18, 2024
11-3.3 'The law of diminishing returns' - We can recalibrate the curve so that we are always at the growing phase of the S-curve!
- develop
- reflexivity
Jul 18, 2024
11-3.4 'Utility' (marginal, diminishing, increasing) - Specialization beats the Invisible Hand
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
12-1a Turning constants into variables increases volatility
Jul 18, 2024
12-1a2 Ideology (did and) will shape the state, instead of vice versa
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
12-1a2a1 Free markets and free speech, by definition, transcend the concepts of nation-states
- contingency
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
12-1a2a2 資本は資本の一元性を好み、商品は商品の多様性を好む
- contingency
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
12-1a2b1 Left-right consensus is anarchy
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
12-1a2b2 The real split will be top-bottom instead of left-right
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
12-1a2c Digital network can solve the problem of network defects (both as a failure and a political defection) because not constrained by the arbitrary state and its physical borders means it doesn't get too big or too complex
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
12-1a3 The tangible and explicit (can) come in last in the evolution of organic community
- develop
- contingency
Jul 18, 2024
12-1c Open source means more composability means more digitizeable and measurables
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
12-1f 言葉と物事の関係性が一対である必要性はない (e.g., 二項同体)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a0a 'Occam's razor' & 'Irreducibility' - Simplify the problem but don't oversimplify.
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a0b 'Thought experiment' - Don't limit yourself to binary thinking. Explore at least three possible solutions.
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a0b2 'Relativity' - Look at the problem in as many ways as possible. You might as well find new problems.
- develop
- MentalModelsPhysicsAndChem
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a0c1c Purpose (and curiosity) beats for-profit
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a0c1d The One Commandment is about focus - Focus on a single moral innovation
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a0c1i Every polity will be publicly traded eventually just like companies and coins
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a0c2 Failing is inevitable, but do not fail epistemologically
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a1a3 'Availability heuristic' - We easily recall what is salient, important, frequent, and recent
- develop
- MentalModelsPsychology
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a1a4a 'Probabilistic thinking' - Do not assume miracles!
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a3.2 Curiosity begets both network effects and feedback loops
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a4b 百聞は一見に如かず - Build, Show, Use ＞ Explain, Tell, Research
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a6c1 'Tendency to minimize energy output' - Align your incentives properly, then (almost) everything will follow
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a6c4 'Randomness' - The appearance of 'randomness' is subjective
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a6c4b Explanation is the way to the multiverse
- multiverse
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a6d1 Digitize the idea from the context within which that's been spoken-written
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a7 'Curiosity instinct' - Curiosity alone can drive humans into ideas without any (at least obvious) financial incentives
- MentalModelsPsychology
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a7a Curiosity (i.e., the Fun Criterion) leads you to wealth, because wealth is knowledge
- ConstructorTheory
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1a7a1 (1) Increase your productivity; (2) Don't let your income increase faster than your productivity; (3) Don't let your debt increase faster than your income
- develop
- Spitznagel
Jul 18, 2024
2-1b2b4 Look for value-added risk reducing trades
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1b2b5.1 Brian Armstrong's Rule of 70-20-10
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1b2c 'Compounding' - Permeate across the timeline
Jul 18, 2024
2-1b2e0 The less guessing layers the better
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1c1a4 'Commoditize your complement' tactic
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1c2 'Specialization' - Minimizing opportunity costs maximize comparative advantages and leads to prosperity
Jul 18, 2024
2-1c2a Matt Ridley - 'Self-sufficiency leads to economic downturns. Mutual interdependence is more robust.'
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-1d 'Ecosystem' & 'Thermodynamics' & 'Double-entry bookkeeping' - Everything is connected, there is no free lunch
Jul 18, 2024
2-2b 'Critical mass' & 'Activation energy' & 'Alloying' & 'Catalysts' - Look for, or create, lollapalooza effects
Jul 18, 2024
2-2c1 If you have negative externalities, tax it
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-3a 'First principles thinking' - If it's not forbidden by the laws of physics, it is possible
- MentalModelsGeneral
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-3b1 'Sensitivity to fairness' - What is fair changes
- develop
- MentalModelsPsychology
Jul 18, 2024
2-3c 'Surface area' - Manage your exposure to volatilities
Jul 18, 2024
2-3d1 You must understand the risk profile of social distribution one has with others
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-3e Cryptocurrency is financial volatility
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
2-4a 'Commitment & Consistency bias' - To change your behavior, make changing your belief difficult
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1a2b Problem-situation should define which system and organizational structure should be adapted
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1a3 Multidisciplinary thinking is the most realistic thinking
- categories
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1a3a Start with problems instead of opinions. The latter usually comes with confirmation bias.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1a4b 情報文化史 = 経済文化史 (経済と文化はそもそも独立して存在しない)
- categories
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1a4b5 Anything can be priced in principle. But not everything will be.
- develop
- Ayache
Jul 18, 2024
3-1a4d 市場メカニズムにもノンマーケット・セクターにも根本的な大きな欠陥がある
Jul 18, 2024
3-1a5 Any explanation must evoke human creativity (i.e., our ability to come up with explanations) fully
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1b0a You can think forward and invert insofar as you have a problem to solve
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1b1a2 You have to ask hitherto unasked questions
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1b2b There is a difference between trying to incorporate the inexplicit and unconscious into your theories, and simply indulging in the unconscious
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c1d0a Zipf’s law distribution = Passive consumption make up 99% of activities on the internet, and less than 1% even comment on content, and much less than THAT actually create something new
- develop
- LearnInPublic
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c1d6 Media grabs what's easily grabbable (e.g., short-term over long-term development)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c1d8 Sentiment (both macro and micro) is important and should be measured
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c2d Human knowledge is hierarchically structured. It's a list but also about how things on the list relate to one another. The sum of what we know is greater than all things put together.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c2e2 Creativity is more than just combining things
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c2e4.1 'Scarcity' - Knowledge is rare but never a scarce resource
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c2f1 生命活動の特徴は無秩序から秩序を見出すこと
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c3a1 Tracing its beginning is as impossible as predicting the future
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c3a2 情報の起源に触れることは物理的に不可能
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c3c00 Evergreen notes should be atomic
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c3c1 To create is to recombine. Innovation happens when ideas have sex (either between people or with one’s past ideas). Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c3c2a1 How do we find constraints (i.e., detect bullshit)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c3c2b Getting rid of your own misconceived notions alone can take you far enough
- develop
- Universality
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c3c3a2 More precisely, almost everything CAN BE made contingent
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1c3c3b Wealth = Measurement (work with a small group) + Leverage (develop new techniques and its value is multiplied by all the people who use it)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1d4a What matters is if your tools-frameworks are universal
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1d4c Humans can correct its own errors because we use symbols
- develop
- symbols
Jul 18, 2024
3-1d6 Constraints in the form of consistent style leave space for creativity and progress
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1d6e You can only progress within the context of your own specificity. You can’t progress objectively, although you can progress towards the objective knowledge.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1d7 'Escape velocity' - Little expressivity goes long way
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
3-1d8 When you have something, you can not have it. When you don't have something, you cannot have it. That's a huge difference.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a3b Go to specific places to get specific feedbacks
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b2a3 整理 = 意識的にすてること
- categories
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b2a4 Prioritize by weighing the value of additional information against the cost of not deciding
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b2b0 Your algo is your principles
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b2b2 History repeats and reverses
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b2b2a Rules and leaders emerge from informal governance but they are a product of inscrutable social dynamics rather than thoughtful design
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b2b2b Blockchains enable thoughtful evolution based on immutable rules and credible neutrality
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b3d The 'ledger of record' shifts the focus to adjacent layers
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b5a Maybe consciousness is seeing your thinking mediated on some other physical form, realizing that it could’ve been put otherwise (and optionally you improve upon)
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b5c Deutsch - Consciousness is clearly intimately related to the growth and representation of knowledge within the brain
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b6a0 You can use ideas both NOW (upside - cognitive offload) and LATER (upside - ideas becoming useful with new interpretation). Ideas ≠ Money.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b6a0.1 You can use money NOW for LATER. Investment is when it's deployed for the benefit of the latter, but often it's spent at the expense of it.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b6a0.2 Money is our time and energy in an abstracted form
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b6a0.3 Time is money means money is time
- Ayache
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b6a0a Knowledge ≠ Money
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b6b0 We can make almost anything happen (in the way we want) regardless of contextual constraints because we can tweak everything (in piecemeal engineering fashion) by using symbols
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b6b1 Ideas and its contexts applied are arbitrary
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a4b8a Your mind is not a bucket
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1a5b Your problems precede any conversations
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-1d3 The most effective communication is to listen
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-2 Conversation has to be bottlenecked
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-2b Good storytelling is about taking readers to something slightly in advance by using what they already know
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
4-2c 周辺的関心の方が中心的関心よりも活発に働く。脱線話の方が記憶に残る。
- develop
- categories
Jul 18, 2024
5-1a3 We don’t derive an ought from an is. Only problems exist. We can just solve them.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1a4 Getting rid of your misconceived notions amounts to being nice (or moral)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a1a Technology is about how to do things differently. Some technology can be more universal than others, but it can never be perfectly universal.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a1b What can be universal is knowledge. But knowledge has to be instantiated by physical medium and this involves technology (e.g., pen and paper).
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a1b1 Babbage’s discovery of the universality of computation was innovation via discovery of knowledge (he himself couldn’t build universal computer)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a1b1a However, Babbage’s idea was represented by pen and paper, themselves technology
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a1c The relationship between knowledge in the abstract and technology (the physical mediator of such knowledge) is contingent
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a1c0 There is no universal technology
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a1c4 The interoperability laws (i.e., substrate-independent formulation of information) are more detailed exposition of the Turing principle
- develop
- TheTuringPrinciple
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a2 Some technology contains knowledge which can be universal. You can’t predict how people will use such technology.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a2c Contingency cannot be exhaustively accounted for, because that amounts to predicting minds and knowledge
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a2c0 No theory can exhaust reality
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a2c0.2 Analogue information (e.g., tones of voice, EQ) cannot be perfectly-exhaustively represented by digital systems (e.g., universal writing systems)
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a4a Being hedged in the long-run entails being long optionality
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a6 The reality doesn’t care how many things you are good at. What matters is the explanation.
- develop
- categories
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a7 Technology’s ‘function’ consists of many parts, and you have to have an explanation for how each contributes to the whole (i.e., ‘vertically-integrated’)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a8 ‘Opportunity cost' and 'comparative advantage' must be rooted in explanations. Never use them as ad hoc criteria.
- MentalModels
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1a9 The Fun Criterion is an explanation
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1b1a1 Things can become easier the more complexity you have (Network effects = Power-law)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1b1a5.1 Blockchain network becomes better as tools are added
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1b1a6 Corporate networks can play different games from protocol networks because they have way more sources of funding
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b1c Market should beget and benefit from volatility
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b4b Compounding is usually too slow to notice. You have to be deliberate in how you think and what you see.
- MentalModels
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-1b4c Exponential growth feels flat in the beginning, precisely why it’s worth making an extraordinary effort to get it started. You can also follow the Fun Criterion (the latter likely exhausts the former). Consistency is the key.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-2a3 People fight over tangibles
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-2b1a1 Your goals are gateway to your problem-situation, just like your concepts and categories are to your purpose and values
- categories
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-2b1a3 Extract the most problematic part of the problem-situation
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-2b1b Writing down makes it easier for your conscious to see the unconscious
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-2c1 You perceive yourself by what you do repeatedly, just as you judge others by their routine behaviors.
Jul 18, 2024
5-2c2b The Lindy effect
- develop
- MentalModels
Jul 18, 2024
5-2c2b0.2 You need resilience against volatility (i.e., Stoic robustness)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-2c2b1 Focus on the fundamentals, on the deeper ideas closer to abstract knowledge, on what matters, and build yourself (including technology) around it
- develop
- BorrowedCreativity
Jul 18, 2024
5-2c2b2 When you are long bullshit, you are short volatility and time
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-2d2 You need somewhat grandiose goals to procrastinate structurally - テーマはひとつでは多すぎる
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-3a Knowledge via new explanations is inherently creative and its effects are positive-sum, because it begets new problems to be solved
- develop
- MentalModels
Jul 18, 2024
5-3b Knowledge creates new frontiers (and new markets)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
5-3c Knowledge is irreversible, and can only go from private to public
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3a Ownership is not just about physical-digital asset, but about yourself
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b0.1 When you own something, you can go anywhere
- own
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b0a Ownership means trading
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2 In corporate networks you can only quit
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2.3 Dollar is state network for payment
- contingency
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2.3a Credit is not money
- develop
- Spitznagel
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2.3b Your spending is someone else's income. Spending matters.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2.3c When the money is printed, financial assets appreciate
- Spitznagel
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2.5 India (or any other country-company-community) can act as the tech-media superpower of de-Americanization-dollarization movement
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2.5a Community network ＞ State network (e.g., Indian network ＞ Indian state-market)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2.5b Indian network (or any other country-company-community network) can provide the civilizational stack to the world
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2.7 International Intermediate (e.g., Indian network) vs Chinese state (2040s)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2a Interoperability implies compounding
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2c Composability with ownership means you can permeate across other possibilities
- multiverse
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2d Composability is software's version of compounding interest-effect, because composability saving keystrokes implies compounding
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2e Network effects + Feedback loops + Composability = Exponential growth
- MentalModelsSystems
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b2h 'Trademarks, patents, and copyrights' - If secrecy were the only protection for ideas, companies wouldn't just have to be secretive with other companies; they'd have to be secretive internally.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b3c Tasks held captive as proprietary in corporate networks become market-based
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b3g Federated (protocol) networks have a tendency, a fundamental by-product of their architecture, to evolve into corporate networks because network effects ensure that small advantages compound to create big winners
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b3g1 Network effects also affect blockchain networks
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b4 Tokens are the natural asset class to provide a sensible organizational structure for networks
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b4d Community first, monetization later; morality first, money second; missionary over mercenary
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b6 Digital-native ownership can address ambiguities of physical ones
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b7 NFT = A digital twin of the physical object
- categories
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3b8 You can't really influence legacy-analog-land from frontier-digital-cloud, nor should you.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3c When you are invested, you'll try to own it
- own
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-3z A world without ownership is a world with less creativity and human flourishing
- own
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-7 Brain and gut works reflexively
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
6-7a You are what you consume (eat)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
7-1a1c The problem-situation is more rigid in scientific discourse, compared to elsewhere
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
7-1a2a You will be solving universal problems by attending to local-parochial problems first
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
7-1a2a4 バロックの本質は逸脱
- Ayache
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
7-1a4a1 Wealth created ≠ the P&L of a business. Remember - you get what you measure.
- develop
- ConstructorTheory
Jul 18, 2024
7-1a5b1 Optimizing for growth should provide some insights about the problem-situation
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
7-1b0 The creator-user (or producer-consumer) distinction is arbitrary. There are no 'producers' and 'consumers' in the non-human world.
Jul 18, 2024
7-1b0a The producer-consumer distinction is blurred in non-profit organizations and open source projects. Likely why their diffusions are slow.
- develop
- LearnInPublic
Jul 18, 2024
7-1b3c Some technologies will be structurally overlooked by corporate networks. Barriers to entry doesn't necessarily correlate to its importance.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
7-1b4b4 It’s better to take the risk of telling others about your ideas than to hide them
Jul 18, 2024
7-1b4b4b Permeate both across other possibilities in this universe and across multiversal timelines
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
7-1b4g Intellectual and physical can merge in the digital
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
7-1d2a The relation between technology and the problem-situation (i.e., culture and mind) is reflexive
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
7-1e We ask ‘what is the rich doing’ because they are the ones who have the resource to experiment with to find ways to cheapen the means of production
- develop
- MentalModels
Jul 18, 2024
7-2b The more of a noob you are locally, the less of a noob you are globally
- develop
- categories
Jul 18, 2024
8-1a What can go digital will go digital
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-1b1 Physical (offline) can exist as printouts of digital (online)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-1b3 The software can control the hardware
- categories
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-1b3a A blockchain takes the code seriously
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-1b3d Monetary policies can come first and the currency circulation can come later (or symbiotically-simultaneously), not vice versa (i.e., bottom-up vs top-down)
Jul 18, 2024
8-1b3f1 You can value tokens using traditional financial metrics (e.g., PE ratio) by studying the cash flows and burn rates of blockchain networks
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-1b3g Poor faucets-sinks design can lead to the problem of 'only the rich can deploy'
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-1b3i Token rewards should taper off as the network grows
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-1b4 Blockchains are new kind of computer
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-1b4a The meaning of the word 'computer' shifts
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-1b4b Blockchains = Full-fledged computers
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-1c4a3 Focused vision heightens alertness — bigger screen doesn’t always translate to more focus
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-1c4d1 Web3 writing differs particularly from Web2 writing, because of the incentive structure
Jul 18, 2024
8-1c4d1a2 People only pay attention to certain parts of music, art, building, product, photo etc.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-1c5 Look for Lollapalooza, or system equivalent of critical mass, or chemical equivalent of activation energy, alloying, and catalysts
Jul 18, 2024
8-1e You have to go beyond skeuomorphism. Native means novelty.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-2b Crypto will disrupt everything because it can change how organizations are formed, monetized, and exited. It could take decades to play out.
- incentives
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-2b2a 'Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people'
- develop
- reflexivity
Jul 18, 2024
8-2b2b Key moment is when people (e.g., devs) don't have to worry about the infrastructure (e.g., platform risks including high take rates)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-2b2b1 Low take rates have a multiplier effect
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-2b2e Humans really care about other humans
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-2b3 On-chain gets you immutability, verifiability, monetization. Just as online gets you distribution-sharing-collaboration.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-2b4 You don't (and can't) put everything on-chain, just as you don't (and can't) put everything online
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-2d2 In digital world, you can be in multiple nations (or equivalents) at the same time
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-2d3 You can vote with ballot, wallet, or foot (physical & digital)
- categories
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-2d4 You can vote with time
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-4a1 Multi-modal transferability means software will be built differently
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
8-4b1 There will be AI-first applications
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-1b0a When you have learned something, the way it exists in your mind is the same as the way it exists in the mind of the inventor
- BorrowedCreativity
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-1b0d Reality doesn't differentiate investing from solo-funding, crowdfunding, referring, donating, and sending money. It's just paying.
- categories
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-1b2 Inevitable meme variation is another reason why it's impossible to predict how people will use your work and ideas
- develop
- symbols
Jul 18, 2024
9-1b2a Technology can be invented via individuals as well as via groups of people, but both can’t do away with their own constraints (i.e., their contingency)
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-1b2b Technology, knowledge, and people constitute symbols (including relations, because relations are also symbols)
- develop
- symbols
Jul 18, 2024
9-2a It’s easy to convince if people don’t know you enough for what you are not
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-2b1 情報媒体が情報自体よりも情報力を持つこともある
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-2b1.3 UI (and UX) matters
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-2b3 いわゆる「知識」は合理科学が浸透したコミュニティにのみあてはまる・「世界はひとつ」ではない
- Universality
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-2b3d Everett on George Berkeley's critique of the very notions of abstraction and generalization - There is no mind of any kind, only bodies and the world in which they move
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-2b3e3 There is no universal knowledge
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-2b3e3.1 Maybe there is no abstract universality, just less locality
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-2b3f Everett on Hume - Ideas only make sense or exist through experience
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-2b5 Universality per se is never enough
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-2b5.1 Contingency ＞ Universality
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b2a1 Most of the evolution happened inside human brains
- develop
- TheTuringPrinciple
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b2a1a Brains mimic the evolution of life, both generally and literally
- TheTuringPrinciple
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b2a1d0 情報には文脈がある = 情報文化は区切りでできている (digit) = 情報における分節の重要性
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b2a1d2 Don't bee too technical but also don't be too ambitious. Look from both technical and historical perspectives.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b2a2 Memes can be transmitted from anyone to anyone
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b2b2 We are also free because we are in the multiverse
- multiverse
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b2d1 Explanatory knowledge creation ≠ Biological knowledge (the former, specifically scientific knowledge, is more composable, and thus more universal)
- develop
- symbols
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b3d Experience can only provide you with parochial problems, but its solution often consists of some universality which can be applied elsewhere
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b3e2 Concise explanations make it easier to criticize and combine ideas
- LearnInPublic
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b3e3a Interfaces should follow the principle of least astonishment
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b3e3b Emphasize ease of use over perfection. Embrace iterative minimalism.
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b3e3d リトライの操作を迅速にすること・させること
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4b3e4 Write each sentence like you are talking to a friend
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4e2a Open source + Crowdfunding + 3D printer + App stores = A golden age of builders
- categories
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-4e2f The low initial cost of starting a startup ⇒ Investors need founders more than founders need investors
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
9-5 How to write
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
QUE5 - What’s the correct very-long-term solution; How do I solve this using and committing the minimum amount of time possible; Does this really matter (almost always, no)
Jul 18, 2024
QUE5 - Who owns them
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
To be universal, protocols must be unopinionated
- develop
Jul 18, 2024
What can be measured can be copied, and vice versa
- TheTuringPrinciple
- develop

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