Thomas
The rules had been constructed long before I was born, and I did not know yet I was allowed to break them or redefine them or ignore them entirely.
— Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet Youfrom The Satisfaction of Practice in an Achievement-Oriented World
Sparks 👁️ and Re-Framing
- The physical world and the cognitive worlds become linked through metaphors.
from Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis by Victor MacGill
- A metaphor is formed when two aspects of the world become linked together in a meaningful way. For example, we talk of a stormy meeting. We take the turmoil and chaos of a storm and make correspondences with the turmoil and chaos of a conflicted meeting.
from Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis by Victor MacGill
- Lakoff reminds us that metaphors are the fundamental building blocks we use to make sense of our world and provide a framework for acting in the world
from Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis by Victor MacGill
- While all layers are always present and all are vital to understand any situation, Inayatullah (2003b, p.6) places a “higher” value on the mythic/metaphor layer because it informs all the other layers. Meadows (2008) similarly believes the most effective leverage point in a system is one that “transcends the paradigm”. For Meadows the “highest” lev... See more
from Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis by Victor MacGill
what do you have “unreasonably”high standards for?
- Easy to spot a yellow car when you are always thinking of a yellow car. Easy to spot opportunity when you are always thinking of opportunity. Easy to spot reasons to be mad when you are always thinking of being mad. You become what you constantly think about. Watch yourself.
- I have long been a subscriber to the idea that any intelligence needs to be embodied and situated. The very first problems a baby has to solve are, How do I move my body? How do I move around in the world? Those tasks are entirely missing from existing large language models. And, as many people noted, the phrase “large language model” is a misnomer... See more
from Developing AI Like Raising Kids by Alison Gopnik
- To be platform-pilled means that one’s conception of truth is the version that best serves the platforms' goals.1 What we think of as popular, trustworthy, engaging, or even virtuous is filtered through the platforms' logic.
from "Wait, I think you're platform-pilled" by Tara McMullin