Knowledge is overrated Knowledge will not redeem you, knowledge will not be your salvation And knowledge won’t do shit for you, you have to DO things yourself Knowledge is UNDERRATED Knowledge is underrated too Most people are ignorant cunts Most people are incompetent dilettantes KNOWLEDGE HAS VALUE Knowledge is USEFUL I wrote …
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Gentlemanly Lessons From Chess
“Play stupid games — win stupid prices”. Chess is no exception Even if you’re a grandmaster — quit chess, it’s a waste of life Gods are embarrassed with you That’s one lesson of chess — don’t waste life on fake games, fake competition, and fake prices Ok, there’s one more lesson to chess …
How The FAKE Will Look MORE Legit
It’s not just that the FAKE, the advertised, the scammy — look BETTER than the real thing It will often even look more LEGIT More legit than the real thing Is a Ferrari the most telling indication of material wealth? It’s not a horrible indication. Even renting a Ferrari requires a dollar or two …
Morality of Profiting at the Expense of Others
Should you profit at the expense of others? If others don’t matter — then it doesn’t matter if you profit at their expense or not. Just like it doesn’t matter if you satiate your culinary desires by eating succulent steak, at the expense of some cow But if you claim that others matter …
About Reliability
There are 3 levels of RELIABILITY: -perfect reliability -solid reliability -and unreliability Unreliability is near useless Solid reliability is acceptable Perfect reliability is twice as good as “acceptable”… or 10 times as good, or 100 times The only reason one would ever compromise on reliability, OBVIOUSLY, is if: -there’s some other benefit e.g. …
True Wisdom Is Advantage Anywhere
True wisdom is an advantage anywhere In any endeavour No, being a scholar, an academic, an egghead, a nerd, a know-it-all — is NOT an advantage anywhere It’s rather a disadvantage An einstellung effect, You have some clue about some narrow nonsense made up fragment of reality — and you believe it gives you …
Supply and Demand of Your Psyche
The law of supply states that as demand raises — supply will also raise Could we hypothesise that similar principle could govern one’s soul? =The more one wants something — the more one strives to obtain it CETERIS PARIBUS the more one wants something — the more one strives to obtain it. Assuming no …
Intelligence Is Inseparable From Action Is Inseparable From Will
Let’s define intelligence in terms of cause and tangible effect It doesn’t have to be perfect cause and effect The point is that we get an effect at the end — which can be measured — and which adheres to the previous intentions This would be intelligence Let’s NOT define intelligence as mere coherence …
The REAL Game Of Life
“To not improve is to deteriorate” “There’s no neutrality, you either improve or you deteriorate” No it’s not so simple When you’re going from points A to B — and point B is your goal, then getting closer to point B is considered an “improvement” and getting further away from point B is considered …
Unless You’re Extraordinary — Why Should Anything But Ordinary Apply To You?
There’s the ordinary — and there’s the extraordinary. There’s ordinary men, taking ordinary actions, getting ordinary outcomes. And there’s extraordinary men, taking extraordinary actions, getting extraordinary outcomes. It anything wrong with that logic? Only one thing. It’s not set in stone, obviously. There’s the element of luck Quite a significant one. You can have …