Great initiative! 🤟
This is a great read.
“You don’t have to ask anyone. You don’t have to get a building permit or be a professional. You can just create. This too is a big change from the pre-internet era, and incidentally the reason I became a programmer. I wanted to make things, school did not offer avenues to create, but Geocities did. In fact it was one of the only sources in my childhood simply saying, you don’t have to wait for professionals to tell you how to make stuff, you can just make stuff. Start typing.)”
https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/the-most-precious-resource-is-agency
💯 Children have a need to build things and learn by doing in areas where their eyes light up and they are motivated, even obsessed.
Art, writing and music are appealing because there is a mind within the creation. There is someone there on the other side.
A sovereign soul explored and wrestled with existence, filtered it through the prism of their mind and iterated and obsessed upon ideas until they finalized the exploration.
A channel of communication across time and space. An artifact gleaming with stars on the beach, unearthed and laboriously excavated.
The Twitter Pompous Influencer strategy, chapter 1: I can't refute your statement with arguments so I have to pretend that your sentences make no sense.
Dirac Delta is somehow easier to remember in my opinion.
?cid=2154d3d7nsf0jgph26ops971o2yxc70g976rtd7xexgmoyev&rid=giphy.gif&ct=gHave a good week Buddha, stay Zen. ☀️
💯 Often they just want to vent and any solution will be disregarded.
Learned helplessness; some people are desperate to be human tumbleweed blown about without free agency.
Cool little game. Takes some time to learn what the icons represent. (Admittedly, I died quickly)
I submitted a free filter for dungeon generation recently at FilterForge. The code has some flaws but typically works well with the correct slider settings.
I believe all individuals attempt to solve problems. However, unethical methods indicate malice.
As I described earlier, malice is about knowingly harming innocent individuals, regardless if the perpetrator believes they are achieving some 'greater good'. Belief in doing good does not eliminate objectively harmful impacts.
Even if the world benefitted from harming some innocent individual X, Y or Z, it would still be unethical and malevolent to harm them or subject them to high risks of harm.
Socrates observed that there are objective properties to health. His use of terms like good or evil were designated to describe and differentiate between beneficial vs harmful. Poison for example is objectively harmful to us. A poorly tested mRNA treatment have a known risk of being harmful since we lack data and have limited understanding of downstream risks.
Example: playing Russian roulette with someone against their consent is malicious. The perpetrator knows that there is a risk of harm involved even if they may attempt to evade the fact that it can be deadly.
I wrote a thread on Aristotle and art some weeks ago. If it doesn't show then at least it's visible on Nostrgram.
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Until you can make a compelling argument I'm going to ignore you, deservedly.
There is both incompetence and malice involved and they are not mutually exclusive. Liars are often incompetent so I'd say there is a natural overlap between malice and incompetence.
Malice involves intentional harm and governments are prone to reason along the lines of the Trolley Problem; there is a willingness to sacrifice the lives of some for a believed or imagined 'greater good'. Typically the arguments involved just happen to expand the power of government.
On the moral level - if a person pulls a lever, or enacts a government policy - that with certainty will harm innocent people, that behavior is clearly a form of malice. It doesn't matter that the person falsely believes that they are helping the world; knowingly harming innocent individuals is unethical and malevolent.
How do we know that governments knowingly harm innocent individuals? Because of their track records. From forced sterilizations and physical lobotomies to chemical lobotomies and cruel experiments. Brief references would be Vipeholm in Sweden or the Tuskegee experiments in Alabama, US.
Vaccine mandates and the government-sanctioned discrimination of individuals based on vaccine-status was not merely a result of incompetence, but of direct malice; to willingly force or coerce individuals into injecting poorly tested and potentially harmful products.
In a free market, consumers purchase products they trust based on the understanding they have of their own risks and their personal medical condition. In a centrally planned society, governments collude with big pharma, orders large quantities of poorly tested treatments that there is no free market demand for and then force, or coerce individuals to inject these products while censoring and/or outlawing competing products.
Don't get me started on the U.N. Agenda 2030 that clearly depends on herding people into a feudalist system of CBDCs and social credit scores in order to implement net zero carbon and carbon allowances. Very few people would willingly be trapped in a social credit score system, so governments know fully well that they have to use herding, coercion and removal of better options to achieve the Agenda2030 goals.
The fact that CO2 is essential for plant growth and not a driver of global warming is obvious from the data. Government lies and propaganda informs us that their motivations are about control rather than proclaimed climate concerns.
Good observation. In Norway I paid 32.5% income tax while a colleague doing the same work paid 20% income tax, due to him having children + loans. The more the government attempts to even out outcomes, the more injustice and discrimination it creates.
Agreed, I was also against this dumb Twitter algorithm. Blocks are easily gamed en masse via block lists and are not a reliable heuristic for unserious behavior. As Plato observed: democratic voting can't determine truth and reality.
Personal Lists are the simplest ways of focusing high signal content in chronological order without algorithms.
Heh, but you have to attempt to be a mindreader to guess intentions, which leaves the metaphor as a neutral interpretation.🙃
Relating to Stephen Chow, ENFP was my third strongest score at 56%, below my 61% for INTP. ENTP was second at 59%. Lowest was ENFJ at 40%.
From past MBTI tests I assumed that I would fall in the INTP category, which I did.
MI score: 61% INTP
Grant-Brownsword score: 70% INTP.
Overall interesting test. Many questions are not opposites but rather overlapping. Some questions are formulated in a way that there appear to be bias in the questions themselves, making it hard to navigate toward an argument I would like to make. Example: I view reality as objective, yet people will experience reality differently. These can both be true at the same time.
💯 Governments typically herd people by eliminating options, which gives the illusion of voluntarism and choice. Any perceptive observer who can spot the trick can then be discredited as 'conspiratorial'.