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Dan Allison

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Dan Allison

@danallison

Drawing pictures and building about.harmonic.social

Seattle

Joined March 2008

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Dan Allison
@danallison
Nov 24, 2025
BOOK LAUNCH 🎉! My new book of drawings is now available for purchase. It includes over 250 of the 680+ drawings I've posted here on twitter over the past 2 years. Link is in the replies, plus some example drawings and some kind words that people have shared about my drawings.
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Dan Allison
@danallison
Mar 16, 2025
This is a good example of a false question, i.e. a question that implies a false premise.
Santiago Ortiz
@moebio
Mar 16, 2025
Love this puzzle
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Dan Allison
@danallison
Jul 6, 2025
You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.
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Dan Allison
@danallison
Apr 15, 2025
Scrolling social media makes it harder to read books because it trains your brain to discard previous context in order to understand the next thing, whereas understanding the next thing in a book requires retaining previous context.
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Dan Allison
@danallison
Mar 16, 2025
Replying to @RonenV
If b is different than the others, then that makes it is just like the others. It’s the liars paradox.
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Dan Allison
@danallison
Mar 16, 2025
Replying to @danallison
Another example, but with the implied premise being deceptive rather than strictly false.
Θωμᾶς del Vasto
@Thomasdelvasto_
Mar 4, 2025
very weird seeing one of my moots reposted in a FB group I've been a part of for 5+ years...
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Dan Allison
@danallison
Mar 16, 2025
Replying to @danallison
People saying that the answer is b because its difference is abstract/meta are making a value judgement that abstraction is somehow more special than size or color or whatever. The abstraction dimension is just another dimension.
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Dan Allison
@danallison
Dec 2, 2023
Whatever you think of Sam Altman, he is absolutely correct about this. There’s an insidious kind of socially reinforced learned helplessness that is the default mindset for almost everyone (myself included, honestly; unlearning is hard). Something I think about a lot is what
Brian Ji
@brianjji
Nov 2, 2023
Sam Altman: "A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are. People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt,
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Dan Allison
@danallison
Jul 16, 2024
There are two tweets that together have unlocked something for me that I wasn’t really able to do before. It’s essentially how I now interpret the woo expression “raise your vibration”, which previously made zero sense to me. Tweets quoted below.
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Dan Allison
@danallison
Jul 10, 2025
twitter stats vs bl*sky stats
Dan Allison
@danallison
Jul 6, 2025
You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.
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Dan Allison
@danallison
May 6, 2025
One failure mode that I’ve repeatedly fallen into is thinking “surely someone smarter than me must have already figured this out” when in fact no one has.
Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
May 6, 2025
Replying to @KelseyTuoc
If you are smart, competent, a fast learner and willing to really throw yourself into something, you can answer a question to which our civilization does not have an answer with weeks to months of work. You can become an expert in months to years.
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Dan Allison
@danallison
Jul 7, 2025
You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.
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Dan Allison
@danallison
Oct 19, 2025
I’ve been going through a lot these past few days and was starting to really spiral after receiving some difficult news about a close family member. Somehow I found these old index cards with grid lines and decided to do a meditation practice that I used to do years ago where I
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Dan Allison
@danallison
Apr 2, 2025
If group coordination is the bottleneck for so many problems, then why aren’t we better at it? Well one reason is that the experience of being highly coordinated with others can actually be kinda spooky and unsettling. Weird things can happen that are difficult to explain. …
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