"sticky" frames are powerful and dangerous tools; they tend to become all-encompassing and to infect every belief they come in contact with

our psychic immune system, when it detects a threat to the hard won homeostasis, reacts with extreme prejudice

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these frames feel compelling, sticky, & hellish all for the simple reason that they are miscarried dimensionality reductions, attempts to reduce complexity by folding r…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1389706149734359045

the most dangerous frames are the unfalsifiable ones, those w/ a built-in excuse-making mechanism, which can be deployed to disarm any potential frame violation; an unfalsifiable frame is based on an article of faith, an axiom

this axiom tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy

as such, frame falsification is a rather critical criteria when evaluating the utility of your mental models; if there's nothing which could possibly convince you that your sense-making apparatus, well, doesn't, then you're vulnerable to quite a few catastrophic failure modes

one of these is the illusion of control, which is something I like to call the Great Cosmic Joke

much of our suffering comes from a desperate attempt to simply WILL our minds into a certain shape, to magically jump the state space minima btwn where we are & where we ought to be

being a strict determinist, my relationship with free will is somewhat complex

in one sense, it clearly doesn't exist, and yet, the concept does seem to have explanatory power

my take is that we simply mistake its temporal status

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agreed that it's mostly an irrelevant rabbithole of an infohazard, but for those that enjoy thinking about this, my answer is:

while physical determinism is true, it doesn't have any impl…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1309246772380921861

we do not have control over the present; the great universal state machine is entirely predetermined & we are but mere observers watching its clockwork, raging all the while against inevitably

the Great Joke is that we try so hard to control that which it was never possible to

most ironically, it is that very struggle preventing us from achieving our goals; the intensity of our efforts is inversely proportional to their success

the Joke is that if we stop trying in this way, we usually get what we want

nondoing is a bitch

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some call this wu wei, some call it the Alexander technique, some call it action gradient descent through simulated annealing, but at its core all it is is shutting the…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1314436053021884417

in short, the key insight of Buddhism is that we can study our own phenomenology to arrive at meaningful and harmonious epistemics

consuming the stream of mental events reveals just how hollow the illusion of self is, which motivates the design of a more robust cognitive frame

thanks to @RomeoStevens76 for originally writing this up, @Malcolm_Ocean for formatting and posting, and @selentelechia for helping me come across it today