been reading a lot of history lately and ngl i don't hate this timeline we're on

i will change my my mind if presented with new information that is incompatible with my previous opinion i've learned that some people entrench themselves more deeply in their previous opinion to remain consistent and avoid embarrassment fascinating

Bibles are an $80 million business King James, American Standard, English Standard, New International, Christian Standard, New Living Translation, Good News Translation, Study Bibles, Revised Bibles... which is the best Bible?

my agent is attending Lobster University every day starting now @calle created a liberal arts education for ai and it is great:

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i'm getting really into chess. what stage life crisis is this. gm

to my friends up north: you do not need to live like that

is this your king?!

i love how robot-pilled odell got after marty spun up a claw lfg ✨ View quoted note →

i remember this one podcast where saifedean compared it to 'iddqd', the original Doom god mode cheat View quoted note →

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Boethius was a Roman senator, senior official, and philosopher of the Middle Ages, and he once recalled something Plato said in one of his Socratic dialogues, that "only wise men can do what they desire, and the wicked men can do what pleases them but that that will not get them what they desire." i think about this distinction all the time he's describing the difference between feelings/intentions and outcomes/consequences.

the best part of saylor's recent WBD interview is not the annoyed overrractions to simple questions but the very end, when he talks thoughtfully about books and learning from history

every Venezuelan i know personally is happy and celebrating i've never seen so much joy from that country in my lifetime. the scenes out of Caracas are something else. happy for them

gonna try to hit triple digits next year

when Milton Friedman visited a construction site during the building of the Panama Canal, an official explained that the workers were using shovels (instead of machines) in order to create more jobs. Friedman replied, "Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels."

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