In thinking about the ideas of zettelkasten versus wikis, one of the bigger structural differences is in the size of their ideas and how they grow over time.
Ideas start out atomic in zettelkasten and then grow or they are later aggregated together into longer writing.
In wiki settings, ideas are more often aggregated together into bigger pages over time and then potentially split out into smaller sub-topics as they become bigger and more complicated.
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Something interesting about the idea of steelmanning as a means of making one’s arguments stronger.
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The steel man argument (or steelmanning) is the exact opposite of the straw man argument. The idea is to help one’s opponent to construct the strongest form of their argument. This may involve removing flawed assumptions which could be easily refuted, for example, so that one produces the best argument for the “core” of one’s opponent’s position. 1
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mentioned in Roam Book Club 5, session 1↩︎‘Nobody is ever convinced by someone else’s argument, except in very rare cases. The thing about human psychology is that when you put for out arguments, you commit yourself to that argument in a way that precludes you saying “I see, you’re right”’ – Lord Sumption #Steelmanning
— Nico Macdonald (@Nico_Macdonald) January 14, 2021
Where are the empty spaces on the internet? How can we design them into existence?
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As I wrote in January, silence is effectively impossible on the contemporary internet, where “voids are just filled by other people’s content, and thus vanish instantly.”1
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Offline we exist by default; online we have to post our way into selfhood.1
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This same sort of illusion also occurs in email where we’re always assumed to be constantly available to others.
Is it because of the asynchronous nature?
Why do we make these assumptions?
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A platform like Twitter makes our asynchronous posts feel like real-time interaction by delivering them in such rapid succession, and that illusion begets another more powerful one, that we’re all actually present within the feed.1
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I saw the book title When Einstein Walked with Gödel by Jim Holt (didn’t even bother to pick it up and look at it, thought it might be worthwhile later for evidence)
This fits into the recurring idea I see about walking and thinking.
Perhaps the concentration required by walking helps to force diffuse modes of thinking as described in Learning How to Learn.
There’s also the idea of going for a walk to “clear one’s head”
This could also be tied into the idea of flâneuring!
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Saw book title When Einstein Walked with Gödel by Jim Holt at Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse
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