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Hate is a high order emotion designed to create a solution to people who've used their higher order thinking to hijack your lower order brain. For example manipulators and cry-bullies.
August 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Hate is a high order emotion designed to create a solution to people who've used their higher order thinking to hijack your lower order brain. For example manipulators and cry-bullies.
Bible editors were all like "let's have 4 Gospels because there's 4 cardinal directions." meanwhile reality has no fundamental cardinality.
August 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Bible editors were all like "let's have 4 Gospels because there's 4 cardinal directions." meanwhile reality has no fundamental cardinality.
The sad thing about a high trust community is that they can be suckered into about anything, because they've let their defenses atrophy. They put that defense energy into thriving, but it leaves them open to grifters, con artists and other parasites.
July 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The sad thing about a high trust community is that they can be suckered into about anything, because they've let their defenses atrophy. They put that defense energy into thriving, but it leaves them open to grifters, con artists and other parasites.
If bad luck were a thing you could invoke via some action, like breaking mirrors, etc. Than you'd be able to weaponize it for military purposes!
July 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
If bad luck were a thing you could invoke via some action, like breaking mirrors, etc. Than you'd be able to weaponize it for military purposes!
The con artistry arms race is between strategies to appear honest and trustworthy and strategies for identifying untrustworthy or dishonest behavior.
July 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The con artistry arms race is between strategies to appear honest and trustworthy and strategies for identifying untrustworthy or dishonest behavior.
The problem with conspiracies is that they lack imagination. Maybe the CIA is behind it, but the CIA could be controlled by aliens! And those aliens might be controlled by the ghost people! And they might be controlled by the NASA!
June 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The problem with conspiracies is that they lack imagination. Maybe the CIA is behind it, but the CIA could be controlled by aliens! And those aliens might be controlled by the ghost people! And they might be controlled by the NASA!
Morals are heuristics, mental energy saving rules, but how does mental energy factor into our moral theories? How do we distribute and share the hard work of developing the best strategies?
June 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Morals are heuristics, mental energy saving rules, but how does mental energy factor into our moral theories? How do we distribute and share the hard work of developing the best strategies?
Free energy and el Dorado are the same concept, legends that only exist because fantasizing about them makes you feel good.
June 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Free energy and el Dorado are the same concept, legends that only exist because fantasizing about them makes you feel good.
The fundamental mistake conspiracy theorists make is they grant any motivation they like to the conspirators, very similar to theistic arguments about God's intentions.
June 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The fundamental mistake conspiracy theorists make is they grant any motivation they like to the conspirators, very similar to theistic arguments about God's intentions.
If people would just introspect their own perception and consciousness, paying attention to all the failures, lapses and illusions that plague our daily life, there'd be way more naturalists.
June 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If people would just introspect their own perception and consciousness, paying attention to all the failures, lapses and illusions that plague our daily life, there'd be way more naturalists.
Free will doesnt matter as much to culpability as the ability to know to learn and to act in accordance with that knowledge .
June 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Free will doesnt matter as much to culpability as the ability to know to learn and to act in accordance with that knowledge .
Maybe stupid people arent dumb, they're just saving energy by outsourcing the thinking to others, like they're part of a superorganism.
June 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Maybe stupid people arent dumb, they're just saving energy by outsourcing the thinking to others, like they're part of a superorganism.
Ive noticed smart people tend to have a small recognition delta and dumb people have a large one.
June 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Ive noticed smart people tend to have a small recognition delta and dumb people have a large one.
Every act has eternal consequences, reaching out like the branches of a tree.
June 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Every act has eternal consequences, reaching out like the branches of a tree.
Modern ai i nothing but a redundancy reducer.
June 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Modern ai i nothing but a redundancy reducer.
Steel-manning is just the exercise of interpreting and understanding someone's definitions in their argument as though they're right, then going from there.
June 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Steel-manning is just the exercise of interpreting and understanding someone's definitions in their argument as though they're right, then going from there.
The Pinocchio paradox just depends on how his nose grow power works
June 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Pinocchio paradox just depends on how his nose grow power works
Attention is a zero sum game. :(
June 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Attention is a zero sum game. :(
Even if idealism is true, It doesn't answer any interesting questions. For instance: what is the brain doing and how does it do it?
June 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Even if idealism is true, It doesn't answer any interesting questions. For instance: what is the brain doing and how does it do it?
I think the reason some people think anime is demonic is because it makes us aware how understanding is prior and foundational to the sacred. This undermines our belief that the sacred is somehow universal or inherent, and that realizations can feel deeply unsettling.
June 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I think the reason some people think anime is demonic is because it makes us aware how understanding is prior and foundational to the sacred. This undermines our belief that the sacred is somehow universal or inherent, and that realizations can feel deeply unsettling.
Feeling is just the signaling mechanism from our world model. There woud be no feeling without a specific ability to receive and process the signal.
June 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Feeling is just the signaling mechanism from our world model. There woud be no feeling without a specific ability to receive and process the signal.
The "rabbit hole" is just when you buy into a theory that has increasingly implausible implications but you havent given up in it yet because theres some interesting or plausible stuff that got you into it in the first place
June 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The "rabbit hole" is just when you buy into a theory that has increasingly implausible implications but you havent given up in it yet because theres some interesting or plausible stuff that got you into it in the first place
The phenomena of seeing is just specially labeled information. Its labeled that way so we can treat it more appropriately
June 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The phenomena of seeing is just specially labeled information. Its labeled that way so we can treat it more appropriately
Ai is a redundancy reducer, which it feels so deeply uninteresting somehow.
May 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Ai is a redundancy reducer, which it feels so deeply uninteresting somehow.
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Despite some misinformation in recent headlines, the long-term trend is still downward for land ice in #Antarctica and #Greenland...
My visualization can also be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... It was just updated for data through February 2025.
My visualization can also be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... It was just updated for data through February 2025.
May 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Despite some misinformation in recent headlines, the long-term trend is still downward for land ice in #Antarctica and #Greenland...
My visualization can also be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... It was just updated for data through February 2025.
My visualization can also be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... It was just updated for data through February 2025.