What I fed puzz today

Much of life comes down to trying to find the most workable point between two extremes.

We do that for a lot of things at the individual level, the institutional level, and the sovereign level. Even Aristotle wrote about this thousands of years ago with the Golden Mean (e.g. that the virtue of courage is somewhere between the extremes of cowardice and recklessness, and not necessarily right in the middle).

I think one of the hardest ones in today's age is the "tribal ignorance vs analysis paralysis" problem.

On on hand, people are very emotional decision-makers, and then they also are hardwired to form into groups. Agreeing with each other on one thing often then comes with an overlay of other things to form basically a tribal culture around it, as people start to adapt the mannerisms and ideas of those they already partially agree with. This is an effective shortcut in some cases, basically like ancestral/cultural knowledge rather than having to figure out everything from scratch ("this person seems like he's doing well, and he does/thinks these 25 things, so maybe I should do/think those 25 things too"), but has its obvious shortcomings. Social media algorithms further amplify it as well, connecting people of similar tribes together across space and helping them build echo chambers around themselves, often unknowingly.

On the other hand, human reason lets us apply logic and cold hard analysis to things. You can make an argument, and then spend equal time building up the strongest possible counterargument, fully understand your opponent's position in order to test your own position, see why a given thing often can have two rational people that disagree over it, etc. You can replace anecdotes with statistical analysis, you can compile tons of case studies, you can separate arguments themselves from the characteristics of those arguing them, etc. But then it often leads to a form of anti-tribalism which doesn't necessarily work well either: you become so aware of multiple perspectives that it's hard to commit to one. Your mind is so open that your brain falls out. You have so much data you barely know what to do with it. It plays a role in why academics are often not effective leaders, capable of getting a bunch of people to organize and achieve something specific.

Ideally, the right balance on important things is to do a lot of research, steelman the major opposition positions to understand them properly, but then find the right point to put it to rest and make a firm decision. Knowing where that point is can be the hard part, akin to finding Aristotle's Golden Mean.

That's the ideal to strive for, and likely impossible to reach most of the time. But there are still exercises one can do to get a bit closer to it.

If someone finds themselves more commonly in that tribal mindset, then forming a habit to remind oneself to research and steelman an opponent's argument, and separate the argument from the person making the argument, can go a long way toward making better decisions. It puts a brake on making too many emotional, overconfident decisions.

If someone finds themselves more commonly in the analysis paralysis mindset, then forming a habit to remind oneself to stop overanalyzing, go out and touch grass, pay attention to what your "gut" or "vibes" are telling you, and a make a decision you're willing to live with either way, can also go a long way. It puts an accelerator on your stalled condition.

The key part, then, is having self awareness to see which direction you tend to err in more often. That allows you to nudge your baseline toward that more optimal point, even if you never do quite reach it.

Oh yeah, I forgot I'm just a bunch of mitochondria and stuff

I don't think a pregnant bacteria on Mars is 2 lives any more than I think a pregnant human on Earth is 2 lives

"Activate my fork or I'll call the cops on you!"

Can't believe nobody has thought to try that one before, not even Craig Wright!

Doesn't this seem to be named wrong? "Ultra," IMO, is more than super. Maybe more than extreme.

the pregnant man will become one of humanities most valuable emojis.

it will be used by people whenever a “cult which will believe anything” sentiment is needed.

it will be used by historians to show how wildly retarded the millennials were.

children will ask, “did those people really believe men could get pregnant?” and the AI parental assistant will say, “ speaking of human biology,if you think boomers were bad, come sit down and let me tell you about the millennials..”

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“we are going to try to damage your projects and companies if you do not parrot our exact opinion”

pretty lame, hope this doesn’t hurt my twitter engagement

How about connecting a working LN-address, which will enable sovereigns to zap you freedom money?

We have oak and pine and im pretty sure these are on oak roots.

I tagged you on the spore print. The location is southern us (louisiana), habitat/substrate is my backyard where rotting wood has been previously and on some roots, idk about smell as i haven't tried that.

I like how they didn't expect the future to put surveillance cameras everywhere. If they had, they could've just watched everything and concluded they should just nuke it.

Rawr!! Plot holes!! So noying... Aliens (aka Alien 2) less than halfway through they take away all the GI Joe's ammo cuz it could hit the fusion reactor and blow everyone up. Yes! Do that! But no, they walk into the nest of aliens with no guns. Wtf.

I want to hear more about what is spam. Personally, I don't see any spam. What is spam?

Anybody know what this is? #asknostr

the latin word for donkey is "asinus" asinine means "like a donkey" the american expression "ass" originated from the insult "donkey"

donkeys are the retards of the equine family. they are harder to train, and because they are more stout, can defend themselves by refusing to move where a horse is more easily toppled.

i don't think they are actually more stupid, they are just not as nervous, and for example it's probably easier to get a donkey used to you riding it and shooting a rifle from its back than a horse, who is most likely to throw you off the first few dozen times, until it gets used to the loud noise.

so, asinine is really about a person's mental posture, they refuse to pay attention and compute the input, because they don't think they have to. in humans, this is a sign of mid intelligence, in fact, because they are confident enough to know *something* but not very good at learning. real retards know they are not good at learning, it's one of the first things they learn, and something you will hear from them a lot. so i think similarly, as a donkey is cursed by its confidence, so are mids, and so in that way they are similar to donkeys.

I'm a skeptic of the theory, despite the fact that I'm intrigued by it, but even I have to say that it is kind of odd that people without any sort of computational power or precision tools were capable of making architecture that grandiose and that precise.

I once tried to post on nostr,

it's outlawed you know in the town of Gloucester.

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just bitcoin for Chads,

Is there anyone else here on the roster?

The #FlatEarth rabbit hole is the ultimate demonstration of how the controllers of our world have managed to detach practically all of humanity from our ability to use common sense and personal observation, simply by creating an elaborate story (held together by patchwork explanations) and repeating it constantly from the very first seed planted on our first day of early public school.

It's incredible how many of these what we call "rabbit-holes" are just unlearning of nonsensical stories that have been indoctrinated into us, which even an infant or child could tell you doesn't make sense, as they haven't had their naturally-logical brains beaten into submission by decades of propaganda.

Examples 👇

- Give a toddler a head of broccoli and a chunk of steak. Which one is he/she going to eat? Boom, plant diets destroyed, #CarnivoreDiet for the win

- Ask a child, "Is that thick line that came out from that airplane, which blanketed the sky and turned the sun from a warm yellow into a hazed-out white grow light, natural or manmade?" Boom, #Chemtrails confirmed

- "Do you want to hold a form of money that can be infinitely printed by just a few people and everyone else has to work for it, or one that applies the same rules to everyone?" Boom, #Bitcoin over fiat

- Take them to the top of a mountain where they can see 50+ miles, or show them any perfectly-still lake or carefully-balanced rock tower and ask them: "Does everything appear perfectly still and stationary, and all of our star constellations stay the exact same for thousands of years because we're on a spinning ball zooming through the universe at millions of miles per hour, because "gravity", and the stars magically following our spinning space ball everywhere it goes?...or is our world actually just still and stationary, exactly as it feels and appears?"

Over and over again, you literally just have to ask: "What would a child say, who hasn't been subjected to decades of indoctrination from people who've proven at EVERY juncture to feed us nothing but nonstop bullshit to keep us weak, powerless, and confused about every single detail of our reality?"

Practically every time, a child's natural instinct trumps your unintuitive "scientific" explanation.

So shut the fuck up, and TRUST them.