Any thoughts on the fact that the Tates haven't yet commented on the Diddy arrest? (Per Grok)

I asked Grok about research on the link betweeen the learning hormone dopamine, lack of learning in schools and drug abuse. Have a look, this is interesting: https://x.com/i/grok/share/684W0iUC5KrdeBTseaGqZSMND

If I was an all-powerful psychopath, I would keep most of the world's people, group A, as illiterate and poor as possible, and extract their natural resources using their cheap labor. To the extent other people, group B, would benefit from this or from technologies they created, I would gradually tax them to death and steal their savings with inflation, while I in parallel would use their schools to dumb them down as much as possible. Keeping everyone dumb and docile would be necessary to avoid any counterplay against me. And if my income from group B started falling because of a collapse in productivity or some destructive event, I would bankrupt them, flood their country with people from group A, and extract group B's natural resources using everyone's cheap labor. While this went on, I would allow some of the people in group A to develop skills and increase their productivity, while I gradually taxed them to death and stole their savings with inflation. I would rinse and repeat until the NPCs realized that I was playing with them, and developed strategies to fight back against me. I would worry about this, because I would know that almost every strategy to fight against me would be a winning strategy for them. In fact, it would probably be more than enough enough that a small group of NPCs turned into active players. By f***ing around and trying they would soon find out what worked and not. And that would be the end of it for me.

Did you know that dopamine also is known as a learning hormone? When you learn something new, especially if it's challenging or you've been anticipating it, your brain can release dopamine. This acts as a reward signal, reinforcing the behavior that led to the learning. I heard this just recently, but it makes sense, in many ways. Some of the greatest joy I have felt, was when I understood new ideas. An even better I experience I've had a few times, was when I met someone who had a different idea than mine, and our two ideas melted into a new, third idea. This felt almost like magic. I'm pretty sure my brain was showered in dopamine when it happened. The reinforcement that dopamine creates can motivate you to continue learning or to repeat the behaviors that led to the learning experience. It's probably addictive. I suspect that one of the reasons why so many kids turn to drugs these days, is that they learn too little at school. They need dopamine to be happy, and when they can't get it naturally, they take drugs to get it. If you are aware of any research that investigates the relationship between lack of dopamine release naturally as a result of too little learning and drug abuse, let me know.

I miss the good old days, when my people crowned a dog name Saur as their new king.

Politics is the noise of destruction.

GM! Watching Night on Earth directed by Jim Jarmusch is highly recommended if you just want to escape from a slightly insane world for a while.

What do you miss the most that you had been taught in school, but weren't?

Must-reads

Did you ever ask yourself why the schools didn't teach economics or money to you, and why they don't teach economics or money to your kids?

Even the dumbest village idiot understands this is caused by the primitive forces of the free market.

Kult å bli kjent med Gyda og Martin før de blir allemannseie og høye på pæra 😁

Polticians are a large number of people with high time preference controlled by a small number of people with low time preference. Few.

While evil ideas are the root of evil actions, it's monetary monopoly that makes the most evil ideas actionable.

We can to a great extent blame this mess we're in on the corruption of the word "freedom."

Statement of 12 September 2024 from Florida state health authorities on the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines: "Additionally, the federal government has failed to provide sufficient data to support the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 boosters, or acknowledge previously demonstrated safety concerns associated with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters... Based on the high rate of global immunity and currently available data, the State Surgeon General advises against the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines."