30 chunks · 20 episodes
...on, taste. You can steer quite a bit when you curate. In a world of cacophonous background noise, the raw signal is never seen, it's what is curating your view. The curator has a massive amount of leverage to steer you.[gm][gn][go]
...ained) and the higher the rate of information emitted, the more cacophonous the background noise. Everything within the boundary coheres to the centroid average point; things that are away from the centroid are impossible to hear. Boundaries allo...
...ng grabs your attention, not what's most important. Your email is a cacophonous background noise of things competing for your attention. Many of which are not important. The important things get lost in the noise, or loom in the background as the...
...s advantage of the Free Energy Principle. Flood the zone with shit, to make the background noise an unpredictable cacophony. Everyone will constantly be burning significant mental cycles trying to make sense of what is happening, which tires ever...
...pes of people can read and find compelling enough to make it stand out from the background noise of other approaches and say "yeah, I can believe this is a good next step." In the doc you want the most surface area to be devoted to the most concr...
...easily. As everything gets louder the picture gets flattened to get through the background noise better.
...nteresting mush. Interesting means something that stands out prominent from the background noise. The bad form of consensus is about averaging. The enlightened version of consensus is one that seeks disconfirming evidence and interesting eddies o...
... if it's huge. We only see things that change, if they don't they fade into the background noise, we don't recognize them. There's tons of friction that is invisible to us because we don't even realize it could be different. ":shrug: That's just ...
...n fundamentally comes from interestingness. Interestingness stands out from the background noise. Innovation is a selection pressure over the interestingness, applying some judgment or bar to clear to harvest just the useful interestingness.
.... All of the incremental input is already fully captured in the model. Generic, background noise, status quo.
...And yet what else could we possibly do? If it were just a cacophony of swirling background noise we'd be frozen in place unable to sense or decide anything, and thus unable to do anything with intention. Narratives are our way of grabbing on, of ...
...cause the variance is aligned across multiple entities, they stand out from the background noise strongly. Not strength of the variance, but the alignment. In particular in Ouija, the indicator starts off moving randomly, but the people moving it...
...ive model isn't used to seeing negative/"without" words, so they're effectively background noise to it that it ignores. As you get increasingly emphatic about what to remove, it still doesn't sense the negative word, so all it sees is "wow, he se...
...humans in the loop implicitly with small bits of signal that stand out from the background noise Humans are a form of ground truth, pinning down what's valuable / useful. If you have humans in the loop and the signal can pop out of the general no...
... folksonomy. People use a word that others understand (that stands out from the background noise of other words) and the more people that understand that word to mean that, the more effective the word gets for that use, and the harder it gets to ...
... over multiple rounds. The random noise now stands out a bit, distinct from the background noise. The narrativization makes us as agents more likely to lean into the distinctiveness and accentuate it. As long as those extensions are still viable,...
..., if it's consistent then with enough instances the signal pops out against the background noise. Even long feedback loops, as long as the signal is threaded through like beads on the string, it can work. A small but consistently different alignm...
...h things around you. Agency makes you stand athwart the entropy pulling towards background noise. It goes uphill. It separates you from the things around you, you stick your neck out. But if others also go in a similar direction as you, if you st...
...ou want to surf. You'll create a coherent wave to surf out of the directionless background noise.
...selected out. If they aren't actively useful, they erode and fade back into the background noise, averaging away into nothing. Useful things are conserved This is true no matter how they originally came to be. Useful just means they help out the ...