本文作者探讨了个人知识管理和信息获取的方式，批判了Twitter和其算法对思考的负面影响，并推崇Shortforms平台作为构建个人知识网络的工具。他认为，将个人思考和创作形成一个有机整体，并通过互相引用和迭代的方式，可以更有效地影响个人的认知和思维方式。作者还强调了控制数字生活的重要性，避免被算法操控，并构建一个健康的能量循环，将思维能量引导到有益的创作和思考中，最终形成一个持续更新和迭代的个人知识网络。

🤔 **批判Twitter的算法和信息环境：**作者认为Twitter的机制鼓励碎片化内容和浅层思考，缺乏对优质内容的奖励和对错误信息的惩罚，导致信息质量参差不齐，难以进行深入的探讨和交流。

📝 **Shortforms平台作为个人知识网络的构建工具：**作者更倾向于使用Shortforms平台，因为它允许以较低的门槛发布未经打磨的思考，并通过构建一个中心节点，将多个Shortforms文章串联起来，形成一个互相引用的网络，从而促进知识的积累和认知的更新。

💡 **构建健康的能量循环，控制数字生活：**作者认为，数字世界中的信息和行为都受到算法的操控，这不利于个人的身心健康。因此，他提倡构建一个健康的能量循环，将随机的思维能量引导到有益的创作和思考中，而不是沉迷于算法推荐的娱乐内容。

🔄 **反馈回路的重要性：**作者强调，一个有效的知识网络需要建立反馈回路，即后期的思考和创作可以反馈到之前的知识节点，促进知识的更新和迭代。文章的中心节点将作为反馈回路的枢纽，推动整个知识网络的演进。

🚀 **持续更新和迭代的个人知识网络：**作者希望通过这种方式构建一个持续更新和迭代的个人知识网络，不断完善自己的认知和思维方式，并从中获得持续的动力和满足感。

Published on November 19, 2024 8:09 PM GMT

Links to all my Shortforms:

personality( ground_truth ) --> stated_truthFeature-level thinking is natural, yet deeply wrongCognitive workspaces, not end-to-end algorithmsWhen is philosophy useful?Posts as nodes -- what's beautiful about LessWrongMemetics and iteration of ideasHow to do a meditation practice called "metta"

Links to all my posts:

AI alignment via civilizational cognitive updates(draft) Cyborg software should be open (?)

 

Why

I believe that writing things is only useful to the extent that you can actually tell that they've had an impact.
Either by directly remember them, or by being able to that they've shaped your current way of viewing things, even at an intuitive level.

The easier it is to find your writings, the more likely it is that you re-read them, and that they have an impact on you.

Also, I just enjoy the feeling of having a grand project I'm working on, rather than writing stuff off the top of my head.

 

Twitter sucks

It's also a rebellion against how Twitter works, where people just write shit with barely any consequences. The format itself is designed for writing things off the top of your head, without anything to reward good ideas or punish bad ones.
(Except for people following or unfollowing, but this is an extremely weak signal)

The solution to Twitter sucking, is not to follow different people, and DEFINITELY not to correct every wrong statement (oops), it's to just leave. Even smart people, people who are way smarter and more interesting and knowledgeable and funny than me, they simply don't care that much about their posts. If it's thought-provoking, you can't even do anything with that fact, because nothing about the website is designed for deeper conversations. Though I've had a couple of nice moments where I went deep into a topic with someone in the replies.

 

Shortform sucks less

The above dynamic is also a danger with Shortforms, to a lesser extent. But I really like writing Shortforms, I don't like the pressure of a post having to be polished before I can publish it, and I don't enjoy polishing them. Assuming I'm not changing my laziness, Shortforms are simply the best way for me to make progress on ideas, because getting things out is really important.

By making a holistic kind of post like this, they get referenced more often (by me), which means there is incentive to polish them over time. It also allows ideas to become interconnected, which was my main reason for writing on LessWrong to begin with. Simply making ideas visible, is a big deal.

 

Defeating addictive algorithms -- healthy energy funnel

An excerpt from something I wrote once:

Youtube doesn't want you to be happy, or motivated to get back to work, or to leave you satisfied after you get some joy from a video. It wants to keep you on the website for as long as possible.
The algorithm is not your friend, and the developers aren't either.

Most of life takes place in the digital world.
The actions you can take are designed by other people, the objects you encounter are chosen by algorithms designed by other people, and so is the shape that those objects take.

I want control over my digital life. I don't want it to be in the hands of the people who create apps and websites, nor in the Eldritch tendrils of the recommendation algorithms.

Simply having a healthy funnel for my random bursts of mental energy and random thought-avenues, is a huge deal for mental health, because the algorithms, predictably, don't make me happy.

This post has the chance of being the central hub of a long term project that is really good for me, and that I'm constantly excited to return to,  that extracts energy from me more powerfully than other addictions do.

 

Root node -- feedback loops

One important thing that distinguishes a feedback loop from a mess, is that in a mess, the subcomponents don't influence future events: they are only outputs of the system, not inputs to it.

This post creates a way for my posts to update my way of thinking. By referencing them here, they're also more likely to get edited as a result of my progress at the "root node".

 

Why publish

Since this is fundamentally designed to be an evolving post, I doubt it'll ever be polished, so I'll just make it available right from the start, lol.

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