nostr:note1fhv4cver0v3rxkg08g4r86wa88c5qd0xhjd94mz653h5y5cjpuwqwxtv87Haha. I'm actually reading Sowell's Basic Economics book right now.
From Atlas Shrugged:
"I mean that there is no way to disarm any man," said Dr. Ferris, "except through guilt. Through that which he himself has accepted as guilt. If a man has ever stolen a dime, you can impose on him the punishment intended for a bank robber and he will take it. He'll bear any form of misery, he'll feel that he deserves no better. If there's not enough guilt in the world, we must create it. If we teach a man that it's evil to look at spring flowers and he believes us and then does it —we'll be able to do whatever we please with him. He won't defend himself. He won't feel he's worth it. He won't fight. But save us from the man who lives up to his own- standards. Save us from the man of clean conscience. He's the man who'll beat us."
I should have left academia sooner than I did. No regrets about studying philosophy though. Social anthropology, on the other hand, was when they tried to feed me nonsense and activist propaganda from a fire hose. Having studied philosophy before actually made me more resistant to their crappy arguments.
We are few, but we do exist.
Can't. My wallet requires an activation code to turn on experimental features.
Bread and circuses.
Because price ceilings create shortages. Recommended: https://mises.org/library/forty-centuries-wage-and-price-controls-how-not-fight-inflation
I'm looking forward to LLMs specializing in plowing through pages and pages of legalese, and succinctly summarizing in plain English all the ways the contract/agreement aims to screw you over.
Interesting project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DePDzfyWkw&t=2
Nah. He just hates pets apparently. I believe he called them "high-time preference child replacements" or something like that. There's a tweet somewhere out there.
I’ve now read a couple books on cognitive behavior therapy. Allow me to distill their advice in one sentence:
Face your fears.
Their job hinges on not understanding it.
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My #psychology article on seed phrase memorization is now on habla.news Let me know if you would like to see more or have questions.
Abstract:
I have two goals for this article. 1) Show how you can easily memorize a 12 or 24 seed word using only pen and paper. 2) Demonstrate some general principles of learning that you can apply to almost any skill.