modern atomization isnt due to wanting “the perfect village” - because that desire and its gap with reality has always existed. it’s because: what is a grandparent? what do they do? its up to you. you decide. every relationship is like this now, which is impossible to navigate.

if LLMs were really PhD level we’d be seeing tons of new scientific discoveries which we are not

This is a major, major scandal.

The problem with men admitting weakness is it makes other people they provide for feel unsafe and insecure. You have to be relied on. So, keep it to yourself.

I always envisioned creating a new campus, putting in no sidewalks, then paving the social paths.

This is a controversial claim, but in my experience, more than 90% of the time, when people bring up neuroscience during explanations of psychological phenomena, the neuroscience adds nothing of value to the explanation other than making the explanation *seem* more authoritative

Wow, I did NOT know this: Buddhist logicians had discovered the Gettier problem c. 770 AD:

The fact that I was unable to proceed until I understood things like this is what convinced me I was bad at math. Everyone else seemed to get it so much faster than I did.

True story: I was involved in deplanetizing Pluto, and it made me a little sad, but I can't be sorry about it. The whole flap started when somebody at the International Astronomical Union noticed that there didn't seem to be any definition of what a "planet" is other than "these

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Ross Ulbricht was supposed to be protected by section 230, as he is not responsible for what other people did on his website. This is why Mark Zuckerberg for instance is not in prison for the CP and trafficking on Meta. But what happened to Ross doesn’t really have anything to do

Ok 𝕏 geniuses: Can anyone explain the argument against transparency in regard to government spending? Why is it bad to open the books and show people where their tax money is being spent? Can anyone explain why some are upset by this? I get why politicians involved in

Donald Trump: "If elected, I promise to dope Elon Musk up with amphetamines and trenbolone and send him rampaging through the federal budget office with a blessed chainsaw forged from the souls of martyred accountants." Voters: "Yay! We want specifically this thing! At once!"

Understand that millions of your fellow Americans are opposed to having this information come out We live in two different universes

Na me, no fear. Personal anecdotes are data, they're just a small n with higher likelihood of selection bias

Start saying barbecue sauce is a right and passing thousands of pages of barbecue sauce regulation and see what happens

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I'm less fussy about what's in the canon than about the fact that we need a canon. When I visit even elite colleges now, it strikes me that the kids have fewer and fewer common references. They don't recognize bible quotes, don't recognize Shakespeare, don't recognize Dickens ...

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