Pensare “provare non costa nulla” è inaccurato. Un tentativo genera un’aspettativa, e l’aspettativa è una sorta di valuta psicologica: tentare implica contrarre un debito con la percezione di sé stessi. Non che non vada fatto, ma bisogna essere consapevoli del prezzo.

#Germania “We were wrong”, “Avevamo torto” - Dibattito nella Linke tedesca, per anni filo-russa e ostile alla Nato, è molto forte di fronte a guerra #Ucraina. Questa analisi di Daniel Marwecki sul sito della fondazione Rosa Luxemburg accende la discussione rosalux.de/en/news/id/461…

xxx Aggrapparsi analiticamente solo alle colpe occidentali è il canto del cigno del privilegio occidentale, frutto di un'illusione capovolta di onnipotenza che non è pronta per le molteplici accelerazioni+scissioni+mutazioni del mondo multipolare

Nel momento in cui Kiev dovesse cadere, e Zelensky catturato o ucciso, l'entusiasmo verso una 🇪🇺 brava che "finalmente agisce" subirebbe una frenata. Finiremmo per chiederci se non avremmo potuto fare di più per impedirlo. Aggiungiamo questo elemento ai nostri dibattiti.

I think the shame is not entirely on the fact that charlatans like Orsini are invited on talk-shows. It's the subtile talk-show setting that in centered on their psychotic point of view and does not offer enough fact-checking or rhetorically powerful guests to prove them wrong.

Excellent decision! I can't understand why #Germany will not do the same. Choosing coal over nuclear is inexcusable. #nuclear #ClimateAction

Vi ricordate di Giuditta Pini, che è stata da me al Podcast? Tutti i discorsi sull’importanza di stare dentro al Partito Democratico 🇮🇹 🇪🇺, cambiarlo dall’interno, i giovani ecc? A quanto pare è stata messa fuori lista dal partito. Lo ha scoperto da un articolo di giornale. 🔝

Piano Shape 🎹 A lot of pianos looks like an exponential because for waves on a string, doubling length means reducing a music pitch by an octave (2x the frequency).

Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed.

The only rational move is to ignore all such pronouncements, much like you should have ignored all such pronouncements in 2021 and 2022. News worth paying attention to is not deliberately formulated to induce strong (negative) emotional responses.

Behavior is the most real form of communication.

Most people don't want the truth. They want their beliefs reinforced. The truth is appreciated by those who have control of their ego. Who are invested in reality even when it makes them uncomfortable.

The impact (good or bad) that you have on people through your teaching and mentoring will likely be greater than the impact of your research on society.

I distinctly recall a time back in 2022 when various people tried to convince me that this guy was an intellectual heavyweight.

perry That passing off "whoa dude, what if intelligence is an emergent property of matter?" as a profound insight is rather cringe, and illustrative of a broader lack of intellectual curiosity. Spinoza said this stuff back in the 1600s. Some people have bothered to think a bit more.

Twitter used to be my favorite place on the Internet. I've derived enormous value from it in the past 16 years. Not true anymore. Most of the people I enjoyed reading have left. My feed, which used to feature art and science and technology and humor, has become constant

That only works if you’re not actually crazy, I’m afraid.

A mathematician Pope going up against a machine god superintelligence is the most cyberpunk thing ever.

Calling c the "speed of light" completely misses the point. Rather, c is the "spacetime exchange rate": how many units of space you can exchange for one unit of time. In actuality, everything travels at the "speed of light", just not necessarily through space alone... (1/4)