The main result of environmentalism was killing fission and causing global warming. The main result of biosafety research was engineering the pandemic. The main result of AI doom advocacy was supercharging the research they fear. Many causes do the opposite of what they claim.

I will never be able to express enough gratitude to LessWrong & Bay Area rationalist culture for making it high status to publicly admit you were wrong and changed your mind This is unbelievably advanced cultural technology. It is fragile & must be protected

Being smart is basically pointless unless you’re at peace. “Any amount of intelligence can be overridden by: ego, insecurity, immorality, bad incentives, or impatience, usually in that order.” — Morgan Housel

Hate is like any other emotion. It's perfectly healthy to feel sometimes; it will destroy you if you make it your world; trying to eradicate it inside yourself will mess you up.

It is both an honour and a privilege to love the man whom you respect and admire. It becomes a devotional act of listening to him, for in a culture that encourages the quashing of the voices of men, it is in the moments where you sit with the man you love in total presence, in

Love exists because it makes us irrationally brave. At its purest, it has the capacity to inspire realness, courage, and truth over comfort and convenience. And once felt, the same emanates and translates to other facets of life, we begin to become more fearless, more tenacious

i think it’s important to be courageous in love and make yourself look like a fool at times. so many ppl are so concerned with being stoic it blocks true connection and vulnerability. be a little crazy in love actually.

Gifting a book you’ve already read, loved, and underlined is such an intimate experience. You’re letting a loved one see the sentences you paused on, the words you hoped to return to. It’s like giving them access to a part of yourself they otherwise would never have.

Everything from a job offer to a marriage proposal is a yes to one thing and a no to hundreds of thousands of other opportunities. It’s easy—the universal default—to get pulled into the quicksand of half-hearted yesses and promiscuous overcommitment, ending up stressed and

This is one of the most extraordinary things you will see, by Marula Eugster Rigolo

If you have to control or contort it, it was never yours to begin with. The need to do so is an unconscious admission of such. The soul adores resonance because it enables freedom and flow, and thus provides fertile ground for deep coherence to emerge organically.

Surprisingly few people can knowingly choose the lesser of two evils without ~immediately psyopping themselves into thinking it’s actually good.

Karl Popper: "A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in

"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?" - Omar El Akkad.

Sometimes, don't trust your eyes

Grandpa took it too far😭😭😭

This is stupidity of the highest order taking into account the fact that the election in issue is not one for women by women.

Why you should never pour water on an oil fire

After all those public killings and watching young people’s brains spilled on the road, you still choose to side with him? Every time I see Kasmuel,I have to vomit.

The biggest luggage in Raila's quest for presidency is Oburu Odinga. He advises Raila wrongly and is a liability to him and the party.