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Pro tip: avoiding the signifiers of commonly-understood identity constellations both allows you to shape your identity beyond cliche & jams the signal used by advertisers to classify you.

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I feel like I’m repeating myself when I say: knowing the ideological diversity of your enemy is TACTICALLY USEFUL because, when observed closely, any group large enough to be politically powerful is full of hidden fault lines and tense cease-fires

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Hot take: EVEN AT BEST, cyberpunk is a diagnosis & not a prescription. The ‘heroes’ in the genre are flawed for a reason: they shouldn’t be emulated without consideration!

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In a thousand years, we’ll all have protruding foreheads because of the growth of the prefrontal corpus, a dunbar number of 10,000, and internet forums with polite behavior despite lack of active moderation.

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Are there good studies on the neurochemical basis of variation in succeptibility to numinous or spiritual experiences within normal (non-clinical non-drug-induced) ranges? (I.e., not temporal lobe epilepsy)

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Hot take: even statements about physical objects, because they are about classes of objects the definitions of which have unclear borders, are almost always ambiguous as to their truth even when tested.

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Hot take: almost all ACTUAL statements encountered in daily life are untestable except in an ad-hoc & ambiguous way, because their referents don’t map well to physical reality.

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Hot take: the space of all possible understandable statements is composed almost exclusively of references to complex & abstract ideas with a tenuous relationship to any physical reality & unclear test conditions

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Remember the good old [hellenic] days, when political parties were sports teams and were also named after their jersey colors, and politicians were elected via lottery?

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Cognitive ease is the enemy: if something makes sense, that’s an indication that you have done insufficient research or applied insufficient consideration, because nothing real makes sense.

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PMJ, Pomplamoose, the Surfrajettes, and other cover bands keep demonstrating that shitty pop songs often at their core are competently constructed and become great if you change the arrangement & instrumentation.

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Chris Espinosa, quoted in the final chapter of Fire in the Valley, says that when Jobs came back to Apple his screaming fits were ‘for show’. What’s worse: a manager with no emotional control or one that fakes it for emotional manipulation?

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‘It’s more fun to be a pirate than join the navy’ is accurate, but Jobs failed to mention that any BUSINESS is a navy in this metaphor. A small navy is at a disadvantage. Naval officers who act like pirates are called war criminals.

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