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
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.
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.
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.
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