Public Problems

Ants vs. Spiders highlight the way that some organisms favor individual behavior whereas others are more dominated by group behaviors. This is phenomenon used by Tim Urban in The Story of Us.

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And a longer discussion of the Ants vs. Spider phenomenon and other related ideas here: https://youtu.be/Plgk6eUPnpU

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Emergence Tower is the description of emergent phenomenon used by Tim Urban in The Story of Us.

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A concept taken from the this blog post: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/fire-light.html

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concept taken from this blog post: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/fire-light.html

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A concept taken from this blog post: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/fire-light.html

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The idea of meditation as intentional cognitive defusion is described in more detail in this blog post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mELQFMi9egPn5EAjK/my-attempt-to-explain-looking-insight-meditation-and

Flinching, as described in this blog post:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mELQFMi9egPn5EAjK/my-attempt-to-explain-looking-insight-meditation-and

Mr. Question Mark Man

"But we hit the crazily futuristic year 1700 AD and most humans were living as a cell inside some human giant where the rules, the rights, and the resources were inflicted by a few people at the top on everyone else below.

What that meant for almost everyone was that while your destiny in life would be partially shaped by your biology, upbringing, choices, and luck—it mostly depended on the Mr. Question Mark Man who happened to sit at the top of your giant and whatever Question Mark story happened to rule over its culture.

How the Question Mark ruler and Question Mark story felt about things like freedom, fairness, or your particular ethnic group would determine everything about how you were able to live. It was like drawing a card from a deck and hoping it was a high card. If you happened to draw a jack of hearts and be born the child of a noble in one of the dictator’s deemed upper castes, you might live a safe and enjoyable life. But more often, you’d find yourself with the 7 of clubs and spend your one life as an in-the-shit peasant, or you’d draw a 4 of diamonds and spend 40 hard years as a slave, or you’d draw a 2 of spades and be thrust at the age of 13 into the front lines of one of Mr. Question Mark Man’s foreign exploits and that would be that for you. Even if you did draw a decent card, you were always one heart attack or assassination of the leader away from a new queen bee taking control of the giant and reshuffling the deck."

Check out the full story here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html

And a longer discussion of the Mr. Question Mark Man phenomenon and other related ideas here: https://youtu.be/Plgk6eUPnpU

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Looking, as discussed in this blog post:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mELQFMi9egPn5EAjK/my-attempt-to-explain-looking-insight

A little reminder that, the inanimate is, in fact, often alive.