How about nondeterministic classical geometry? Like, constructions that can be verified with a compass and straightedge.

I wonder if you could absorb information faster with an audiovisual language? To understand it you must listen and read subtitles simultaneously. Each "word" is a (logogram, sound) pair, either element of which is shared among many different words. x.com/TetraspaceWest…

When it's raining on Earth, does it rain on the sun?

People say life started in the oceans. But then what did the first organisms eat? It couldn't have been bread, because there's no fire for ovens underwater. So did they eat rice, or pasta?

If there's a thing that most people think is bad, but you know it's good, then maybe you can make a lot of money.

1 meter should be 101.59366732596474 centimeters.

Which is worse?

Programming language feature: some way to declare a mathematical approximation. Like, say I want a function that computes a definite integral of f(g(x)) dx, but using a linear approximation for g. My current approach is to just put the whole derivation into a comment block.

If you do something, then you do do something. How far does this generalize?

I predict that future people will define some really weird mathematical structures.

Who do you believe about salt? The nutritionists, or the cooks?

"Correctness first, then speed" vs. "speed first, then correctness."

It's pretty funny to approve a PR, and then right after they merge it you say: "Wait!"

What if all the traffic lights got stuck, so e.g. you can only go north-to-south and never east-to-west? Humanity would split into thousands of divergent cultures living in 1d "street worlds." We'd see each other as aliens if the traffic lights were ever fixed, millennia later.

Maybe the idea of a "tech moat" also applies to writing science fiction. Like, if you start with a difficult idea, and then think really hard about how to make it work in your story, you'll end up with a more distinct product than if you just wrote a story using simple tropes.

We rule out polytheism by Occam's Razor: it's absurd to accept multiple gods before proving the existence of even one. Now consider monotheism. It's equally absurd to say that a single god could create the whole universe, with all its varied complexity. Therefore no gods exist.

Maybe it's better to be OK with some degree of selfishness, rather than making epistemology worse to justify selfish behaviors as moral. x.com/ZyMazza/status…

Which skills do you think have the best feedback loops for rapid improvement?