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Aspiring polymath.

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I’ll take your word for it.

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#oof #posiwid “The purpose of the system is what it does, not what it claims to do.” -Stafford Beer- #grownostr

If you were looking for another reason to give just a bit more heart and soul to your main gig, here you go:

“No matter how hard you study, if you do not become one with the art you pursue you can never truly be one with the universe and the “spirit of the thing” will always elude you.”

-Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings-

#quotestr #grownostr #musashi

Good guess. Try again.

Name the movie quote “No one cared who I was before I put on the mask.”

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Dad: “There is no such thing as a free lunch”

Girl: “Breathing is free.”

Me: “Someone hasn’t consumed enough Science Fiction…”

Dad: 😂

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“My dad is not a phone!”

Hehehehehe, ziiiiiiiinnnnng!

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Turns out he was an earlier archetype for court jesters. AKA the only people that were allowed to speak truth to power, back then.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

It's actually kind of shocking how polarized my Twitter/X feed has become.

So many people who were technical developers, capital allocators, thoughtful geopolitical commentators, etc are now just outright tribalists.

-Some of them are direct anti-Palestinian. Not just anti-Hamas, but outright against Muslims existing in Israel.

-Some of them are direct anti-Jew. Not just anti-Zionist in the sense of being critical of the modern state of Israel and its border rights. But instead just like, actually anti-Jew.

I hate to see this. The truth is not necessarily in the middle (ie "moderation" may itself be wrong by assuming the middle is correct), but perhaps more concerningly, many people can't even steelman their opponent's view. In the best of worlds, you should be able to explain the most intelligent version of your opponent's view, and then deconstruct it by explaining how it's wrong.

I see little of that. Hardly anyone can do it. My feed is now mostly like 90 IQ tribalist stuff, even from 120 IQ people. It's sad to see. I rarely see anyone who can steelman the Palestinian case and then explain why Israel is right, or steelman the Israeli case and explain why the Palestinians are right.

I have my own personal views, first and foremost toward the civilian children, and secondarily toward land rights, but perhaps my biggest view thirdly is to criticize the sheer polarization that has occurred. Everyone is sure, but few can particularly explain the dilemma in detail in such way that acknowledges their smartest opponents views and then builds their own case against that. Almost everyone is instead polarized and tribal now.

“Tribal War!

Jungle Law!

Follow me now!

Blood, of my, bloooooood!”

-Max Cavalera-

How was he not murdered YEARS before?

Diogenes was an ancient Greek philosopher that was best known for mocking people.

After observing an archer miss his target over and over again, Diogenes went and sat next to it, claiming that it was the safest place to sit.

Another time, Diogenes saw the son of a prostitute throwing rocks at a crowd. He went up to the boy and whispered, "Careful son, don't hit your father."

In another instance, when Diogenes asked for spare change, a man passing by said, "Yes, if you can persuade me." Diogenes replied back, "If I could have persuaded you, I would have persuaded you to hang yourself."

Diogenes was also not a big fan of Socrates and Plato, going so far as bringing food to their lectures and eating loudly to distract listeners. When Alexander the Great asked Diogenes why he was sifting through garbage, he responded, "I am looking for the bones of your father, but I cannot distinguish then from the bones of his slaves."

Diogenes despised the superficiality and hypocrisy of humans and preferred the company of dogs. He was often described (in an unflattering way) as "Diogenes the dog," but he took it as a compliment, saying, "I am Diogenes the dog. I nuzzle the kind. I bark at the greedy, and I bite the scoundrels."

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