this has long been a pet peeve of mine, and interestingly enough, is a great example of sticky frames & unknown unknowns. the chefs are unaware of the existence of the frame they're in, not realizing there's even a question to be asked. good veg cuisine requires a paradigm shift.
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When high-end restaurants sometimes charge the same for comparable meat and vegetarian items, where the meat is clearly a more expensive ingredient… are t…
https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1432390185182920713
in the real world, however, there are no true closed systems; every abstraction leaks eventually, and if your frame cannot handle exceptions, it fails to be useful at these edge cases. this failure manifests in a variety of ways, but it's always stressful
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the notion of an abstraction being "leaky" means that it does not perfectly conceal the idiosyncrasies of the underlying layer from the one above, without which it …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1368352534750957571
cognitive frames are optimizations, simplifications our minds make of our sensory inputs in order to do more sense-making w/ less energy; they are tools, force multipliers. as w/ any tool, it is critical to know their limits, to know when to put them down
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similar to how your vision is filtered & shaped by your perceptive apparatus, your beliefs and observations are interpreted through your epistemic exoskeleton, ie y…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1398727989282627584
often, we may be unwilling, or even unable to, let go of a frame which has served us particularly well, if we are either unaware of its existence, or if it has become load-bearing and calcified into an inextricable part of our cognitive architecture. this is a degenerative state.
cognitive calcification is a natural part of the lifecycle; once you've figured out a general algo & have settled into a comfortable routine, there's seldom a need for maintaining this sort of mental flexibility, and so, many stiffen up; it's just easier.
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thinking about future shock today, and more generally, calcification and stagnation of self
why it happens, who it happens to, whether its inevitable
collecting s…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1387420773657288705
the problem with cognitive calcification is that its generally a one-way state transition; dead players do not often become live once more. while there are exceptional cases, optionality of frame tends to be ergodic in nature, possessing terminal states.
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the function of your primary ideological frame should be to ensure psychic ergodicity, avoiding memetic calcification and maintaining metacognitive optionality; this…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1398735589525098505
while one's culinary paradigm has much lower stakes than certain other domains, its still important to remain flexible; how you do anything is how you do everything, and omnivore is but a particular cognitive metaframe.
when in an environment created by those inhabiting a certain frame, every design decision is made w/ the same optimization criteria; the paradigm, the way of thinking, is fractal, showing up at different levels in the same ways. so long as the system is closed, this suffices.