Society can save you Make you or break you You can save you Make you or break you Both can be true The potential of individual to save himself does not refute the value of creating a society which thrives, and thus in which individuals thrive, and are “saved”, when they get …
Tag: Accountability
The Way You’re Wrong Reveals Your Truth-Seeking Process
Falsification gets us closer to knowledge than corroborating evidence. We know more about others through their failures and flaws than through their virtues and accomplishments (all that is old) Likewise the way someone is WRONG is often more philosophically, epistemically interesting — than the way they are right You can be right, or rather, …
Fake Acceptance; The Problem vs. The Attitude
There’s something in you, around you, near you, about you, that’s LESS than desirable Maybe that undesirability is clear — maybe less clear Maybe it’s justified, maybe it’s a fair trade-off — maybe not But your attitude to that thing is what really matters There are many attitudes to take The …
When You’re a Public Person You Should Keep Your Mouth Shut
When you’re a public person — you probably ought to shut your fucking mouth No, not because you’re a coward, and scared of owning up to your beliefs But because you’re wise enough to understand that your cute little opinions are not so fucking important AND YET, may be misleading to others and …
Contrarianism Is Downstream From Being Right
Are you a contrarian? Or just a fool? The question to ask is: Are you MORE OFTEN RIGHT than others? If not — then you’re just a fool, aren’t you? Of course there’s the question of payoff Maybe your scepticism makes you unduly reject prevailing wisdom sometimes, And maybe it makes you susceptible …
Arrogance Reappears at Every Level of Ability
Every level of intelligence and ability has to solve the problem of ARROGANCE anew When you’re stupid you’re arrogant because you don’t know that you don’t know. Your stupid and wrong explanations fool you into false confidence You’ll take the dumbest explanation to the most complex problem, because you have no ability to discern …
Modest In Understanding, Cautious In Action, Yet Utterly Arrogant In Speech
-your relation to most things is that “YOU DON’T KNOW” -and you know that you don’t know — because you could test it -you could test your understanding by making predictions -you could BET on your predictions -but you don’t. You know you’d lose Every action you take is a bet on certain state …
UNLUCKY Overstate The Role Of Luck — LUCKY Understate The Role Of Luck
The unlucky overstate the role of luck The lucky understate the role of luck It boils down to incentives, and even to epistemology (theory of knowledge) On the extreme — the extremely lucky has NO DATA invalidating the role of HIMSELF, and something SPECIAL about himself — in his exceptional outcomes He is, …
Act Like God, View Yourself as Scum
Act like God View yourself as no more than scum View yourself as no one, as a scum Scum that no one cares about Scum that people only deign to look at because they’ve still some benefit to obtain from you An animal to devour, an animal to mate with Act like god …
The 3 Questions For 3 Losers
You must look around and ask yourself “the 3 questions for 3 losers”: -are they a loser? -am I a loser? -are you a loser? You want: -REFERENCE of a loser is -awareness of LOSERS in your life, losers you tolerate -and also acceptance of yourself likely being a loser Loser means simply …