The βMarketplace of Ideas' really turned out to be a 'Spirit Halloween of Grievancesβ hey
People think they want 'unbiased news.' What they actually want is a news source that shares their exact priors but has a slightly more neutral vibe so they feel intellectual while reading it
Outside of memoirs // academic works, most non-fiction books could be 25,000 words.
I am once again asking for a separate internet for people who understand what 'median' means
Free will is an illusion, which is very convenient because it means this bag of Doritos was inevitable
Stoicism is great until you realize that 'accepting what you cannot control' applies when someone on the internet is wrong
guy who's really into stoicism but only the "control your emotions" part and not the "also you should probably accept death calmly and live virtuously" part and also sucks at controlling his emotions
Fun fact: 100% of life advice that starts with 'just' is given by people who have never tried to 'just' do the thing they're recommending.
'Just stop caring what people think'
'Just be yourself'
Maybe just stop simplifying everything according to your priors.
Drug development costs $1-3 billion and takes 10-15 years to prove a drug is safe // effective, then 30% of Americans immediately decide it's poison because a guy in Macedonia pretending to be from Massachusetts said so on X...
The QWERTY keyboard was designed to reduce mechanical jamming in early typewriters.
We kept it for computers. Which don't jam.
How many of our systems are just preserved solutions to problems that no longer exist?
And how would we even know?
