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Metacognitive note-taking for creativity

84 points by tsthename 4y ago

chatterhead 4y ago
>>Avoid information overload by keeping the system focused. Then it uses headlines and toggling for further reading. I like when I see something doing what it says. Combined with Bisociation: (A blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated patterns of thought into a new pattern.) Which seems like what happens non-stop when you're on LSD; everything seems connected. The explanation of what this is and how it creates "serendipity" is rather spot on for what manic states feel like, too. The layout and aesthetic choices of the site/content is really pleasing and it has references. Nice job, T.
raydiatian 4y ago
> bisociation Is this like a club for buffalo or something?
- k__ 4y ago
  It's where buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
- scubbo 4y ago
  > Bisociation works by attempting to form a connection between a target concept and a random stimulus concept. > * Pick a target concept. > * Randomly pick a stimulus concept. > * Attempt to form an association or connection between the concepts.
- layer8 4y ago
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bisociation https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bisociation
avgcorrection 4y ago
Metacognition seems like a technical term which isn’t defined. This is just dozens of bullet points. Is it when you have a thought about a thought? Seems too pedestrian for that.
- teek_xyz 4y ago
  Don't think it's deeper than that, it does just mean thinking about thinking. Which is exactly what the author is doing in this post.
  - avgcorrection 4y ago
    Grand word, pedestrian practice.
- layer8 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition
  - avgcorrection 4y ago
    Thank you for the Wikipedia link.
    - layer8 4y ago
      To be honest, why don’t you look up terms you’re unfamiliar with yourself first before asking such a question? It doesn’t take more than 10-20 seconds.
      - avgcorrection 4y ago
        Yes, I was sarcastically thanking you for linking to Wikipedia, a practice that people do out of spite and condescension. “Meta” is such a signal for armchair pseudo-technicality in the blogosphere. So no, I won’t just read Wikipedia because I don’t trust that some random, unprompted bullet list will adhere to standard references; they could just as well be referring to whatever term they invented on their blog about 200 blog entries ago. What makes matters worse is that the apparent meaning here is “thoughts about thoughts”. Which is useless considering that thoughts often follow each other in a train of associations (train of thought). So what then distinguishes thoughts from metathoughts? They’re all associated with other thoughts.
itisit 4y ago
The whole page feels like the output of a stream of consciousness writing exercise, complete with the expected qualities of being incoherent, maundering, abstract, and hollow. There can be pleasure in imagination and invention, of course, but in my view this is onanistic drivel. I would not be surprised if this came from GPT-3.

84 points by tsthename 4y ago

>>Avoid information overload by keeping the system focused. Then it uses headlines and toggling for further reading. I like when I see something doing what it says. Combined with Bisociation: (A blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated patterns of thought into a new pattern.) Which seems like what happens non-stop when you're on LSD; everything seems connected. The explanation of what this is and how it creates "serendipity" is rather spot on for what manic states feel like, too. The layout and aesthetic choices of the site/content is really pleasing and it has references. Nice job, T.

raydiatian 4y ago

> bisociation Is this like a club for buffalo or something?

k__ 4y ago
It's where buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
scubbo 4y ago
> Bisociation works by attempting to form a connection between a target concept and a random stimulus concept. > * Pick a target concept. > * Randomly pick a stimulus concept. > * Attempt to form an association or connection between the concepts.
layer8 4y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bisociation https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bisociation

avgcorrection 4y ago

Metacognition seems like a technical term which isn’t defined. This is just dozens of bullet points. Is it when you have a thought about a thought? Seems too pedestrian for that.

teek_xyz 4y ago
Don't think it's deeper than that, it does just mean thinking about thinking. Which is exactly what the author is doing in this post.
- avgcorrection 4y ago
  Grand word, pedestrian practice.
layer8 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition
- avgcorrection 4y ago
  Thank you for the Wikipedia link.
  - layer8 4y ago
    To be honest, why don’t you look up terms you’re unfamiliar with yourself first before asking such a question? It doesn’t take more than 10-20 seconds.
    - avgcorrection 4y ago
      Yes, I was sarcastically thanking you for linking to Wikipedia, a practice that people do out of spite and condescension. “Meta” is such a signal for armchair pseudo-technicality in the blogosphere. So no, I won’t just read Wikipedia because I don’t trust that some random, unprompted bullet list will adhere to standard references; they could just as well be referring to whatever term they invented on their blog about 200 blog entries ago. What makes matters worse is that the apparent meaning here is “thoughts about thoughts”. Which is useless considering that thoughts often follow each other in a train of associations (train of thought). So what then distinguishes thoughts from metathoughts? They’re all associated with other thoughts.

itisit 4y ago

The whole page feels like the output of a stream of consciousness writing exercise, complete with the expected qualities of being incoherent, maundering, abstract, and hollow. There can be pleasure in imagination and invention, of course, but in my view this is onanistic drivel. I would not be surprised if this came from GPT-3.