Vincent @Taoofai

Armchair Tao philosophy. Thinking East & West. Training Judo & Bjj. Using this account to build and refine my ideas. Hopefully more hits than misses⭕️ ❌ Hong Kong/Melbourne Joined November 2022

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Vincent @Taoofai

17 hours ago

The structure of change, the significance of nothingness 👇

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17 hours ago

The study of boundaries is the study of change. It separates the two systems of “what is” and “what is not”, then defines their trade-offs of more and less.

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Vincent @Taoofai

6 days ago

A empty container gets filled, the filled state, becomes the new empty container… this continuous stacking of layers … where does it occur and what’s a good word to describe it?

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Here’s the metaphor: so there’s a big storm brewing, one which we’ll likely navigate through blindly. To sail across this unknown, we choose a vessel carefully, one that carries forward the ideas of pairs.

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a week ago

The yin-and-yang dynamic is everywhere… every foreground implies a background. If you keep using the same five cliché examples, you are really missing out on it.

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2 weeks ago

If we pay more attention to the quiet background, we can see how everything is tied together through positive/negative feedback loops. We’d all act more thoughtfully and responsibly.

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2 weeks ago

12 year olds these days are trained on snarky top YouTube comments, not looking forward to them growing up 😓

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Vincent @Taoofai

a month ago

In a world of digital hyperconnectivity, without walls to separate/protect us, misalignments could trigger subtle feedback loops, haunting us across platforms like the Asian folklores of ghosts and spirits. Scary thought! 🎃

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Vincent @Taoofai

2 months ago

@morallawwithin It’s just one extreme point on a spectrum of moral trade-offs. What matters is 1) internally, the rational behind our answer that carries forward to other decisions 2) externally, the greater contexts (peers, communities, environment) that will judge, reward, punish our choice.

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2 months ago

Many long-term causal relationships become apparent only through an equilibrium perspective.

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2 months ago

@ai_ctrl Aligning AI to humans is a technical problem, but aligning humanity to superintelligence is a philosophical one.

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2 months ago

When societies become too fixated with visible, surface-level consequences, “for charity” acts like a free pass to everything.

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2 months ago

Accumulating wisdom will be more important than accumulating facts, knowledge, or intelligence.

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Cimmerian Pervert @cimmerian_v

2 months ago

Lmao just realized this

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Vincent @Taoofai

2 months ago

Social media politics aside, it’s the only cryptocurrency that makes sense.

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2 months ago

Social media politics aside, it’s the only cryptocurrency that makes sense.

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Vincent @Taoofai

3 months ago

Responding quickly on your phone used to be a flex.

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3 months ago

Alignment in scaling realities isn't about rigid control but leveraging sweet-spots and avoiding beatings from missteps. It's like judo but with the greater whole.