Locate an animal, mimic its expression and movement for two minutes. If there are no other lives around, observe an object and be it for two minutes. Do it regularly. – Apichatpong Weerasethakul via Hans Ulrich Obrist
My name is Paweł or “pav” for short. I am scheming how to improve epistemics and collective coordination using technology. I am currently working at AI Objectives Institute on Talk to The City. I do UI / UX design, wrote AI Revolution 101 and have a background in art. Below are the values and directions I care about.
One of the main efforts of my learning is to figure out how to minimize Cognitive Biases. I am sure I suffer from many, especially from the mother of all My-side bias and her children Confirmation bias Hindsight bias Expert trap 🎨 Typical mind fallacy Creator’s bias 🎨. So pleassssse help and send Feedback. What truths about myself people are trying to avoid telling me?
I want to be what loves becoming—what laughs, friends and has fun. But I don’t want to force myself into any particular mold. I want to grow organically that means discovering my intrinsic values and further listening in, distilling, shedding, and figuring what’s mine and what’s not.
“I am sorry that I didn’t have time to write a shorter letter” – Pascal. I try to distill knowledge into as few words as possible. I think this is one of the most important and neglected ideas about knowledge.
This is a ****Polish expression meaning to communicate in the simplest possible terms. Knowledge is often a signaling tool—a vehicle for climbing a homo sapiens hierarchy ladder. "Look at my complex vocabulary!", "I belong to this type of people", "I am smart". I feel this force is largely active in our culture and in me. The best trick to counteract it is Richard Feynman’s learning method:
"If you can't explain it simply you don't understand it well enough".
I will prioritize precision over persuasion. I think the form and the flow of writing is important but it shouldn’t compromise the precision of arguments. I aim to include Epistemic status in my writing and include my confidence tags
Stylistically things may feel off. English is not my native language. On top of that I am also softly dyslexic. I believe it’s a feature not a bug, thanks buddy!—as dyslexic brains are organized in a way that maximizes strength in making big picture connections at the expense of processing speed and parsing fine details)
New knowledge is both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing when you compare medieval to contemporary findings in medicine, ethics, physics. It is also a curse because we have a Recency bias . I try to resist the new and select the knowledge that has a long expiry date.