Practicing perpetual positive regard and missing weird Twitter.
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humanity itself is the answer to the ultimate question and we are accurate down to the atom
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Half of parenting is learning to regulate yourself, not your child. Realizing that humbled me.
the point of consciousness is to optimize wellbeing. God is probably real and represents the collective intelligence of all life at the end of time. it's talking to us about sin which basically means avoiding local maxima of wellbeing. we are all in class together, learning this.
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Nobody ever talks about this, but the reason you have to go to college is A, because Griggs v. Duke Power Company made it illegal for presumptive employers to IQ test, and B, inner city High-Schools basically aren't allowed to fail a student as long as they physically show up.
So you end up in this trap where a High-School diploma that you worked very hard for means nothing, because a kid who did coloring books and addition and subtraction got a paper saying he has the same qualification. Ok, then just give me an intelligence test, oh wait you cant, thats also illegal because it causes "disparate impact". So now the only proxy for basically literacy and ~105~ IQ is a 4 year meaningless degree that costs 10s of thousands of dollars.
But wait, now they hand those out to anyone, (1/4 of 4yr grads have an IQ of or below 95), so now you need a Master's, or specialty training, or a million other bullshit things. So you get them, but wait, a diploma mill in Hyderabad cranked out 100M guys who also have a Master's on paper, and will work for 1/3 the price, so now you dont have a job. Ok, ill work construction, but wait, you dont live in a State with strong Unions, so any non-specialized construction work is done by slaves from Guatemala, so you decide to stay home and take Percocet instead.
Awesome system we've built.
leadership is a real thing and it doesn't require having all the answers. it's mostly about listening to people and saying the things that are true and hard to say.
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Democrats do not understand the leadership failures created by trans and equality of outcome. It's risky, but a leader can be both compassionate and honest.
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tough to feel excited about what's happening. what do Democrats stand for? it would be great to get investigations about the corruption, but what else?
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Watched YCSE knowing nothing about @nathanfielder. After watching some of the rehearsal, he's a genius. The point is that we all play these roles based on social context and this constrains our behavior. It's mostly unconscious and enables human civilization / our worst failings.
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it's pretty normal in America to vote for a single party in every election and this leads to pretty insane outcomes
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Yes, the institutions are corrupt. Yes, the currency is being debased. Yes, the culture is sick.
Now wipe your eyes and get to work.
God did not place you in this century by accident. He assigned you to this exact cultural battlefield because He expects you to exercise dominion right here in the rubble.
Stop waiting for a political savior to hand you an easy path.
You are the pioneer. You are the builder.
Take the risk, start the venture, and plant a flag in the dirt.
the biggest lies / tells in YCSE are what is not on screen:
- the complete lack of nannies or food preparers
- no discussion of Elizabeth's opinions about childcare or the kids' education while she is in jail
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it's a lie even if the liar claims to believe it. being confused about this fact is a defining aspect of the era
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ELIZABETH HOLMES: of course it worked. the lights turned on. it was on the cloud
NATHAN FIELDER: ok. but you know what feelings are, right? like you have them?
WEIRD COCAINE HUSBAND: [watching youtube at 2x speed] babe it says here the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
AI demand is clearly being inflated by the fact that no company producing AI is making a profit, which means AI is being offered at a huge discount (often free).
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