@Everyone and Choosing Violence
@everyone shatters the mindlessness of doom scrolling. It forces you to be mindful.
Repost: ThinkChina on baizuo (white left)
The Chinese have a word for the ‘white left’
Repost: Noam Chomsky, "The False Promise of ChatGPT"
“the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.”
It Costs $$$ To Be Kind
In most countries, restaurants exemplify the kindness tax. Kind people tip, so kind people spend more.
Choosing Your Unique Sensabilities over Common Sense (Gator River)
I can’t afford common sense. It gets in the way of logic and reasoning. Common sense told Billions that the Earth is flat, despite other planets being globes. It meant human flight was impossible.
Gold-Plated Passports to Pompous Pedagogy: The Luxury Express Lane to the Ivory Towers"
Why schools should let rich families buy their way in.
Repost: Robin Hanson, "Women As Worriers Who Exclude"
I do not agree with the author. The book he cites references female competition with other females. He brings up #metoo, missing that #metoo was focused on exposing men. His analysis is wacky at best.
Repost: Philip Ball, "A New Idea for How to Assemble Life"
“assembly theory provides a consistent and mathematically precise account of the apparent historical contingency of how things get made — why, for example, you can’t develop rockets until you first have multicellular life, then humans, and then civilization and science. There is a particular order in which objects can appear.”
Repost: Radimentary, "Pain is not the unit of Effort"
Oftentimes the defining difference between the protagonist and the antagonist is that the antagonist did not have enough pain tolerance and allowed the (unbearable physical) suffering in his life to drive him mad.