“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 …
Category: Philosophy
From Same Obvious Principles to Divergent Outcomes; You Don’t Even Know How Wrong You Are
Consider following situation You are playing chess Both of you apply a set of principles, to find the best move Both of you essentially apply the same set of principles, e.g. you read the same books, practiced the same concepts, etc. There’s NO DISAGREEMENT there, But One of you decides that Bxf7+ is the best …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Useful Faith vs Blind, EVIL Faith
-There’s science =knowledge from observations, encapsulated by a testable theory, which has then been tested indeed -There’s reason, rationality = coherence of different concepts. Mathematics, logic, philosophy, etc. -And there’s FAITH = ASSUMPTION of something, WITHOUT either scientific proof, or even validation of logical clarity Is there room for faith? Well we can’t always …
“THE BETTER WORLD” Problem
What do you think when you think of “THE BETTER WORLD”? Politics? Technology? You having more MONEY? Everyone being happier? Peak human achievement? FAIRNESS? Why I’m asking? Because actually, we don’t think the same things, when we think “THE BETTER WORLD” Many people unironically think the world is horrible, the world is burning. …
Only Stupid Problems Are “Problems”
It’s STUPID problems which are annoying, not “problems” “Problems” are opportunities Stupid problems are fucking problems Fundamentally “STUPID PROBLEMS” are FALSE problems = their ROOT CAUSE is UNDERNEATH, hinting to a DIFFERENT PROBLEM =ADDRESSING the UNDERLYING is the REAL aim And NOT treating symptoms Thus when solving STUPID problems, there’s a sense of …
West Hating West Is Like Vegans Hating Plant Food
(By WEST — we mean Western values, enlightenment values, liberal democracy) West hating West is like VEGANS hating plant food Imagine a vegan only eating in restaurants, and only eating in vegan restaurants Except he HATES the vegan restaurants in this town He thinks the plants there are TOO sentient He thinks they …