Guy HAS FINISHED WRITING THE BOOK (BETA)
@nosilverv
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Ok, so I have two things to say to myself. The first one is this:…
oh yea update: im in SF btwn August 5 - Sept 8, aiming to meet as many of y'all and co-organize a small event mutuals pls hmu anytime or be sure i'll ping you before im in town 😆
my SF trip has some dates! Aug 2-4 until Sept 3-5, hoping to get to meet as many of you that are local! 1st is finding a place to live so thankful for any suggestions/recc's from mutuals😁 other optional activ could be fun for a full exp trip, exploring how they can happen atm
This tweet, but “opposite” is too simple. It’s more like look everywhere in the possibility space except your default. If you aren’t happy why are you buying your psychology’s default ideas about what will make you happy? x.com/nosilverv/stat…
FUCKED UP how you always need the opposite of your inclination: gym rats should go to therapy and therapycels should hit the gym, I fucking love sciencers should get into woo and hippies should study logical argument, …
This is bi modal right? Some people get got, some bounce off, floods normal social media which kills it which means back to cozy garden irl friend media?
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Kowalski, enhance on the tail
Pikachu, from Pokémon Red and Green (1996)
Ooooh this explains what I’ve seen in the Spanish subreddits
Spain has the highest youth unemployment rate in Europe, making it really tough for young people to start families. Can someone please explain the logic of Spain taking the most immigrants in Europe last year?
This video!!! This is the thing I said I remembered being top results for Biden in YouTube just until he was inaugurated at which point it was impossible to find
Bidens a Pedophile
> these "thought experiments" don't help you think, they lock you in a frame that prevents intelligence ❗️
"would you press a button that sucks off 6 bees to save 10^100 shr..." stop it. there's no such button. if there was, you should freak the fuck out instead of doing arithmetic. these "thought experiments" don't help you think, they lock you in a frame that prevents intelligence
"Okay, so imagine a magic button." "I'm imagining the button." "If you press the button—" "What color is it?" "It's the only button. It doesn't matter what color it is." "Nah, I ain't falling for that again. Last time there was a red button and a blue button—" "That's a…
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
The “very obvious and reasonable” answer gets correctly ignored because it proves itself ignorant by ignoring the implicit conditional “…while still doing whatever the fuck we want”. The real question isn’t how to address it simpliciter, it’s how to manufacture it despite.
Politicians: How can we address the decline in public trust? Public: Stop doing the opposite of what we want. Columnists: What could explain the crisis of democratic legitimacy? Public: Stop doing the opposite of what we want. Think tankers: How to reverse the collapse in ...
I <3 atomic pieces like this btw. This is the sort of fixed points you can build a worldview from!
What a great point: people adjust their behavior to keep tolerable crime rate “the same” which means crime rate statistics are always fake unless you can measure crime-avoidance behaviors
*Goggins doing his 1001th ultra-marathon and never once looking into his emotions*
after i quit my job i literally did the opposite of everything i did in my twenties this is why success bros are so boring, they just want you to double down further away from the way you really need
I repeat: In 1971 the federal minimum wage was $1.60 per hour That’s 1.82 oz of gold per week in 40 hours Today that would translate to approx $150.00 per hour and $6000 That’s what they stole from Americans
America in the 1970s Probably afforded this lifestyle on one income
What a great point: people adjust their behavior to keep tolerable crime rate “the same” which means crime rate statistics are always fake unless you can measure crime-avoidance behaviors
> “Crime is out of control” doesn’t necessarily mean “I’ve been mugged” it means you have to carry the cognitive load of avoiding it Wonderful point!!
The thing I forgot to mention in this thread is that it won’t show up in the data, but people adjust their behaviour to stop being victimised. “Crime is out of control” doesn’t necessarily mean “I’ve been mugged” it means you have to carry the cognitive load of avoiding it
I have new ideology called Correctism it’s where we think logically and are always correct If someone disagrees with us, they’re “anti-correct”
Who has that meme that kinda looks like this about misunderstood causality like “kids that come from families that have big libraries have great grades, so having libraries helps grades!” but it’s actually a third factor that causes libraries and good grades
When you gaze upon the abyss the abyss also gazes unto you? Reflexivity.
“CEO”? Oh you mean the guy in charge of aligning everyone’s maps
Who could have foreseen that when they made a guy who does shady stuff the head of product, that they would start doing shady stuff.
Update: they’re not “ads” anymore, now they’re “boosted posts”