.Krys Boyd: You disagree with the notion, made popular by Stephen Hawking and others, that free will is, in fact, a sort of illusion. Can you talk about that? David Deutsch: Yes, this is the idea that because we are made of atoms, and atoms are subject to laws of

Moving to a surf town in Panama changed my life. It made me & my family 10x healthier and happier. Now I am building a village here so more families can take part in this amazing place. Here’s my story >>

Mostly true

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People often ask me why they should read this book. Tristan said it best: “This book is a force multiplier for personal agency.” If you read it, you’ll realize that pessimists and doomers of all kinds are simply wrong. People who seek to curtail your freedom to pursue the

I found this hard to believe, but it's really true. The movement against plastic straws began with a mistaken statistic in a 9 year old boy's school project that went viral. How can plastic straws still be banned anywhere?

the goal of state-run education is to keep intelligence and self-efficacy low it’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s an obvious incentive mechanism- keep the herd dumb to maximize the number of welfare-recipients and uninformed voters, who then further enlarge the state democracy

"The child does not wait to be taught but learns by inventing and testing its own theories about the world; education should build on this natural curiosity rather than suppress it." — Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, 1972, p. 346.

Eat sugar Don’t recycle Burn the rainforest Microwave your food Patriarchy doesn’t exist Organic food sucks Oreos dont Humans don’t cause extinctions Scientific studies aren’t that reliable Believing ppl are npcs makes you one

A second clip from my recent podcast with Chris Williamson . Full episode releases Monday.

Was there today and saw it live — definitely a step in the right direction 🇵🇦 But real crypto adoption in Panama (and LatAm) will happen when it’s actually accessible. Right now, banks still make it hard. Even Towerbankintl has work to do. Apps like Lulubit are pushing

If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out.

It’s the culture, condensed in the artist, encoded in the art.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Nada mide mejor la estupidez gubernamental que la guerra contra los carrizos plásticos.

Elon Musk Roman Helmet Guy Both those explanations are too low-level. Many problems must have contributed. Rather than try to disentangle them, it's better to wonder why they weren't solved. The fundamental thing was lack of innovation. If the Romans had had the Maxim Gun, all those other factors would not

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe. – BoI

Rabbi Poupko Not everyone. Some in the world stand up and forthrightly contradict the libels. Yes, very few, proportionately. But as far as I know there has never been such a movement as theirs in all the millennia of the Pattern.

Not getting this is similar to not getting relativity. Reality check

Saved from doom by specious ones also.