Philosophy Spirituality

How We Became So RELIGIOUS, Again

There’s nothing easy in championing reason It was progress enough when we managed to at least resist deluding ourselves, beguiling ourselves with lies and fantasies, Perhaps big part of it was just laughable unattractiveness of religion, as compared to actual progress of human ingenuity. Even if you yourself were useless — it was still in …

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Philosophy

Stubborn When It’s Cheap, Weak When It Counts

Isn’t it fascinating? We’re so stubborn and recalcitrant and combative — even when we KNOW we’re wrong And yet, When we actually believe something, and for once for good reason, and for once it’s the RIGHT THING — we’re still too WEAK and PATHETIC to STAND for the truth, to stand for ourselves   This …

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Brand Destruction and Accountability

The times where you could “destroy your brand” are gone Therefore the times of accountability are gone too   First we devalued “brand destruction” with cancel culture We cancelled people for nothing So reaction to this action was devaluing of the cancelling, Devaluing of the brand destruction   Second we no longer agree on anything …

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Philosophy

The FAKE Prophets

“A broken clock is right twice a day” Perhaps you’ve heard this phrase   Have you heard about survivorship bias? Survivorship bias is when you come to a conclusion about the whole — drawing only on limited data which has passed certain selection process, i.e. “survived”   Now it’s time to combine the BROKEN CLOCK …

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Philosophy

Wisdom of Inexplicable Self-Correcting Open Systems (Rant)

Being precisely right is overrated Being “right for good reason” is overrated Just being right gets the job done   This is the magic of just DOING, vs overthinking Once you start doing it, playing with it, tinkering, solving problems — you find solutions Sometimes you even find solutions you don’t even understand   This …

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Internet Is Not a Fucking Town Square

Internet is nothing but BUBBLES Echo chambers It’s literally nothing else It’s like 99% bubbles and echo chambers,   It’s not “social” It’s not “friendly” It’s definitely not a fucking “town square”, you dumb cunt   EVERYTHING on the internet is so constructed so that you become trapped in a bubble That’s how ALL incentives …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

It’s Not an OPINION, It’s a GUESS

“What is your opinion on…” The dumbest fucking question   You’re not supposed to have an opinion You’re not qualified   You’re not qualified You’ve no skin in the game You having opinion DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER I mean literally It doesn’t impact you in ANY WAY, if you have an “OPINION” on this subject   …

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Freedom to Be Stupid

There’s a lot of knowledge, history, out there, that COULD be useful, BEFORE you think you KNOW what is what. Furthermore there’s a lot of ways you can “qualify” yourself to someone qualified, qualified to be considered LEARNED and KNOWING . In the same time even all the knowledge in the world — does not …

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