The problem with making decision theory explicit - even in such very simple concepts as "expected utility maximization" - is that the top 5% of wise hearers get 20% wiser from hearing it, and the bottom 40% of fools get 60% more foolish. For the Wise could mostly solve those

Another judge puts himself in charge of the Pentagon. This is a judicial coup.

Pat Buchanan has been treated like nuclear waste for as long as I've been following politics. I felt edgy when I bought this book in 2016. But when I read it, I encountered a smart, normal guy who cared about his country and wasn't tip-toeing around political correctness.

The world says: “Follow your heart.” God says: “The heart is deceitful above all things.” (Jer. 17:9) Your heart is a traitor. Christ is the King. One leads to death. The other conquered it. Choose wisely.

One tactic often taught in churches is the “don’t offend” method of evangelism: never bring up anything contentious, never disagree with a lost person. The goal is to avoid alienating them so maybe they’ll be open to the gospel someday. This mindset is exactly why Christians

One of the most taxing things I’ve noticed even great mothers commonly do is to be SO concerned about their adult children’s well-being that now their child is soothing them about their own stresses, or fighting w them to relax about a necessary risk/ tough choice they’re making

Canada is unreformable. Ottawa is stuck between a rock and a hard place. For every one of Alberta's demands that it fixes, it triggers a new problem somewhere else. That's the problem with building a country based on a patronage network instead of using liberty or national

14 Rules to Become Absolutely 𝑼𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆: Master these and nothing will shake you. 1. Look into people's eyes no matter who they are.

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listening to a great podcast on bone/ our skeletons. good time to remind everyone that the loads kids' bones bear in childhood define their bone density as adults. it's INCREDIBLY important for kids to walk, jump, move a lot. their bones need to get thicc

Step on the neck of your enemy and modern men will say “don’t let your emotions get the best of you!” Y’all have grown soft

i simultaneously think 1. animal suffering is morally significant 2. it is not possible for humans to live in a way with no adverse collateral impact on animals so i think both species-chauvinism and vegan abolitionism is wrong

Joe Rogan just had fitness expert Jillian Michaels on his podcast. She revealed uncomfortable truths about our health system that the $4.5 trillion industry doesn't want you to know. Here are the 7 biggest bombshells about health and longevity:🧵

Prolonged fasting is the greatest internal healer. I do four 3-day fasts every year. I highly recommend it for gut reset, cognitive performance, and detoxification. Here's my exact prolonged fasting blueprint: 🧵

In 1972, this Stanford professor put a marshmallow in front of 4-year-olds with a simple choice: Eat it now, or wait 15 minutes and get two. Then he tracked them for 40 years. What he discovered shocked everyone and changed our understanding of success forever:

ok I'm now reliable enough at leading clients to the "dreamlike deep-parasympathetic nervous system state from within which body tissues spontaneously self-organize" that I will probably want to name that state. this is hard since I want to properly respect it. any suggestions?

if you’re someone who judges what other people want, your subconscious is more likely to hide your true desires from you

The Trotskyite NeoCons have long employed the method of smearing their rightwing opponents with terms related to psychological instability. This was what Bill Buckley did to Pat Buchanan and others. It's what the rabid creators of the "Woke Right" label are trying to do at this

“The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and