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peer pressure and self-censorship out of fear is the death intellect

https://m.primal.net/KuwN.mp4

We train computers to be intelligent, but how much time and effort do we devote to making our kids more intelligent?

Just taking them to school doesn't cut it.

Is it because we lack the capacity ourselves?

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nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx out here zapping casual 5k sats. Big power move.

Big Sack of Sats Energy

Bhutan owns 13000 BTC.

El Salvador owns 5750 BTC

If you meditate before sleep you become an insomniac and may lose it. Meditation is best practiced early in the morning.

Because I don't think he's coming to #Nostr any time soon, I'm copying a post of Erik Voorhees from X:

"The "left right political spectrum" is a woefully inadequate model to understand political ideology. It leads to a great deal of confusion.

This quadrant model is much better.

"Left" tends to mean "willingness to coerce economically"

"Right" tends to mean "willingness to coerce socially"

The left and right both believe they are relatively pro-freedom, and both are relatively wrong... their moral premises happily permit coercion, so long as it is of their type.

Top left would be someone who would do anything to control economic outcomes.

Top right would be someone who would do anything to control social outcomes.

Hitler/Stalin/Mao all belong top center.

I'd be interested to know of any famous extreme authoritarians who were solely concerned with economic coercion (left-authoritarian) or social coercion (right-authoritarian), but not the other.

Bottom left would be someone who strongly advocates for certain economic outcomes but generally abstains from using coercion (ie the state) for achieving it. (Gandhi?)

Bottom right would be someone who strongly advocates for certain social outcomes but generally abstains from using coercion (ie the state) to achieve it. (Jesus?)

imho - the best humans are found toward the bottom, regardless of ideology. The worst are found toward the top. Toward the bottom one becomes more peaceful and tolerant as a human (though this doesn't mean pacifist necessarily, indeed radical libertarians are always the best armed).

To overgeneralize: The average American used to be in the bottom halfโ€”emerging/escaping from a culture of European coercionโ€”but today is in the top half (but not the extreme top). The average European has always been in the top half (again not the extreme top). Obviously exceptions apply.

"Capitalism" exists in the bottom right quadrant

"Socialism" exists in the top left.

Interestingly, those with socialist tendencies (being in the top left) generally see themselves as being in the bottom left, for they lack the self-awareness to recognize their reliance on violence/coercion. Those in the top right quadrant, generally referred to as fascist, aren't as deluded about their embrace of coercive means. I'm not sure what's worse.

would have said the need, but not even that, rather the want, water vs diamons

the want

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marketing

How to initiate an attack from the inside. ๐Ÿ‘‡

Ask: "Who am I?".

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Some words of wisdom from Steve Jobs before he died.

https://m.primal.net/JxeT.mp4

That's it, I tap out. Society has become a circus, everything is a scam. It's fish and chips for me from now on. The sound of waves, beautiful clouds, and the horizon. ๐Ÿซกโ˜ฎ๏ธ

The greatest threat to humanity was and always will be the midwits.

Unfortunately, this includes 98% of modern scientists.

True scientific savants like the Newton's & Tesla's of the world understood that there was a difference between the study of matter, and the study of what matters.

The former is empirical in nature, and progressive. You're always improving, adapting, refining, deconstructing and evolving.

The latter is Lindy and timeless. The most important principles of life rarely change. Dominic Venner's definition of tradition comes to mind here:

"Tradition is not the past, but that which does not pass"

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Trying to apply methodologies from the former onto the latter is not only stupid, but will yield sub-par results. Look no further than the lockdowns and transgenderism.

Likewise, applying methodologies of the latter onto the former doesn't work well. See the tribes of aborigines who still think the world was created by a rainbow snake.

There is a middle way, or more accurately put - a synthesis between both approaches - that requires knowing which questions are best answered (or even asked) in which broad domain.

People like @ylecun cannot see beyond their own paradigm and they are prisoners to it. Ironically, this leads them into creating new religions and dogmas like "scientism" and keeps them of the wisdom and answers they purport to seek.

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One of the biggest issues we have today is the reverence and authority given to people like this.

He's "chief of AI" at Meta - which people think makes him super smart. So they go ahead believing the dumb things he says (like go get boosted), and then to not feel like they were lied to, double down on their support of these new dogmas and become part of the NPC army.

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Ancient leaders knew where to put the scientists and technologists. And it was not in positions of ultimate authority, UNLESS they were men like Aristotle who could weave the two dimensions.

And even then, it was Alexander who ruled, not Aristotle - and Aristotle today is only known thanks to the spirit and conquest of Alexander.

Something to think about....

Wow, what a cunt. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ I'm not surprised he's at Meta.

Over $2.9 trillion has been wiped out from major indices and stocks this morning due to growing fears of a global recession.

This is the worst day for stocks since March 16, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic fears.