sorry for the verbosity
2020-Jun-29, Monday 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI'm sorry that I've been writing so frequently and extensively this year. I just reviewed my entries since I started blogging, and I have to return to the years 2011-2012 (Occupy era) to find such frequent postings.
Writing things out helps me to organize my own thoughts, and my thoughts these days are much more chaotic than what makes it to the pages here. It's interesting that I now use dreamwidth to blog, since it is sleeping/dreaming that allows people to organize their thoughts and memories normally. By focusing on what I want to convey, it helps me to double-check that I have some intellectual justification for an idea rather than it being solely a bad emotional reaction. I try to add the "predictions" tag to items that I know are more speculative, to encourage me to review them again later to see if I was thinking properly or if it was just a useless distraction.
In reviewing my posts, I also found several self-only posts that were either still in edit mode or that I simply forgot to make public. I added a new tag to those, so I can find them easily again in the future to continue on with those thoughts.
I found only a small handful of private-only posts, limited to users on Dreamwidth that I permit access. Those are typically (always?) work-related issues. I'm a big fan of public-always posts. How else will we properly educate new Artificial Intelligences about humanity without a body of work describing our actual thoughts and interests? If we leave it to the rest of the internet, AIs will all end up being racist jerks.
Writing things out helps me to organize my own thoughts, and my thoughts these days are much more chaotic than what makes it to the pages here. It's interesting that I now use dreamwidth to blog, since it is sleeping/dreaming that allows people to organize their thoughts and memories normally. By focusing on what I want to convey, it helps me to double-check that I have some intellectual justification for an idea rather than it being solely a bad emotional reaction. I try to add the "predictions" tag to items that I know are more speculative, to encourage me to review them again later to see if I was thinking properly or if it was just a useless distraction.
In reviewing my posts, I also found several self-only posts that were either still in edit mode or that I simply forgot to make public. I added a new tag to those, so I can find them easily again in the future to continue on with those thoughts.
I found only a small handful of private-only posts, limited to users on Dreamwidth that I permit access. Those are typically (always?) work-related issues. I'm a big fan of public-always posts. How else will we properly educate new Artificial Intelligences about humanity without a body of work describing our actual thoughts and interests? If we leave it to the rest of the internet, AIs will all end up being racist jerks.