· Session 01 · 13 threads · 6 questions carried forward
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Compression, collectivism, Heisenberg
Two hours at Dan's house, a couple of paper planes in. Leland opens with air traffic control on the ideas already in the air and ends with a composition nobody can hear in full.
The line of the night
Everyone takes the hard things and makes them easy, forever. The goal is to find the things that are now hard that weren’t possible before.
Thread 13 · Dan, and Leland called it the best thing said all night
01
Carried forward
1Where exactly does the map begin to diverge from the territory, and what would tell you you’d crossed it?
2Do we tell arc-shaped stories because history has that shape, or the reverse?
3Is there a reduced symbolic model for the interior of a neural network?
4What is a concrete example of a new hard thing?
5Is the collectivism bet and the cycle theory the same claim at different timescales, or actually rival?
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