Thiiis trend is going to start kicking out some actual humans soon, if it hasn't already, and that's not going to be a pretty conversation. Less pretty than conversations about difficulty reading weird letters; this *looks* like an intelligence test.

I find it fascinating how many rationalist and rat-adjacent people I otherwise admire are assuming Huberman was being irrational. The assumption being that it is the mark of a sophisticated man to control your basic desires and “behave yourself”.

Agreed

Precisely

The decline of the headphone jack has released an epidemic of braindead mouthbreathers playing videos in public spaces. Airpods are expensive but even if you manage to get them they're easy to lose (easier if you're dumb). So tech companies increase profits as people buy more of

Buddhism be like: suffering? Skill issue

Zelensky hearing “HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT PEANUT” in the middle of a conversation about the survival of his country

Rationalists blocking the likes of Andrew Tate are dumb AF. MF is more instrumental than you will ever be, epistemology is worthless if you don’t act. Rationality should all be about absorbing “powers you know not”, instead of falling to a childish as hominem and discarding power

It only works if you don’t have game,you find her repulsive or anomalously low libido. Otherwise, you will tap it.

Every day I see something I am sure I hallucinated.

I just had the sunk cost fallacy explained to me by ancient wisdom from Japan

Based

Guys, this is how we can beat the gorilla

“Some pathologies are best treated with epistemic correction, not just medication or emotion regulation. Belief revision can be a form of healing.” Correct AF.

I obsessed with perfecting my back posture during the WHOLE movement of deep body squats. Once I achieved that, it started permeating to other exercises and my daily life.

Their own tools weaponized in the other direction, but the basic principle still applies. Cancel culture shouldn’t happen, no matter how retarded the comment.

This is a great example of a perverse form of adhominem bias. It’s tempting to discredit knowledge when the author sucks as a person, even worse when he fails at the thing he teaches irl. However, knowledge must be judged by itself, not by who teaches it.