oh yeah that would be cool. I actually kind of hate allotted time at events for filling out feedback forms because I actually love giving a lot of detailed free text feedback and don't want to be doing that on my phone on a time limit, but yeah doing a quick version first would probably work.

(though another reason I don't like filling out feedback forms while I'm still at the event is that while I'm at the event I want to be in "enjoying the event" mode, not in "judging the event" mode, especially if some of the feedback I want to give is socially sensitive)

"relevant creams" is a great phrase. "Beverage Research" is a great party name.

I'd say Google Maps only mostly lives in physical reality, it does also contain things like political borders and the names of restaurants and such, and there are various pressures on the reviews displayed, and location data in China is slightly fuzzed, and maybe there's other things like that. This is a nitpick, though.

I really like the comparison with literally fictional worlds, and the mention of "should" worlds. (I think I live in a superposition of social reality and normative reality more than I endorse.)

...also I think it is in part my paranoia-based epistemic strategies that cause me to violently bounce off of a lot of LLM output, which is a pretty disabling amount of blinding myself for the current environment, I guess

Good post.

A thing that's not mentioned here but is super salient to my personal experience of navigating an untrustworthy world is reputation-based strategies - asking your friends, transitive trust chains, to some extent ratings/reviews/forum commments are this-ish too. This is perhaps a subset of "blind yourself" (I often do kind of blind myself to anything not recommended by friends, when I can afford to). And I guess this kind of illustrates how even though we're in an age where anyone can in principle access any information and any thing, it's common to restrict oneself to what one can access through one's personal network, as though we were village-dwellers of centuries past.

But I think more concretely, I think it motivates a principle I hold very dear to my heart: "Do not be the kind of actor that forces other people to be paranoid". 

I'd enjoy a follow-up post going into more detail on this.

curious how you handle the hemisphere issue! do you do it in December or in June?

Seems fine to just link to Eventbrite, but currently it says Partiful, which is confusing

Is there a Solstice afterparty, and is it gated on Unconference tickets?

oh also, another next step is "see if I can make this task more pleasant/tolerable". (sometimes "assign this task more time and recruit help" helps achieve this too. but there can also be separate steps like "fix any current sensory annoyances" and "make some nice tea")

Yeah this is relatable and familiar. When I do this my next step is usually some flavor of "set aside some time for the task" - can be "I will work on this for the next pomo" or "I will set aside a day to work on this specifically" or "welp I guess I need to make an entire project of this/I think I will not make progress on this unless it is the ~main thing in my life". For the medium- or larger-scale things, also "see if I can get other people in the loop".

Will also note that one less intuitive type of task this can apply to is "deal with my emotions about this thing I'm trying to do". Ideally this would happen trivially and I could just do the thing, but sometimes I notice I am stuck and then I need to add an action item of actually looking at the emotional blocker before I can proceed. (And sometimes the emotional blockers are large enough to turn into their own project.)