A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
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A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
6d ago
But not sword canes?!
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
8d ago
Cialdini's Influence is about why people don't listen to advice. Hickman on Twitter wrote:
Many times, "advice-giving" has little to do with advice, and more to do with posing thought experiments that expose weakness in men.
The guys with energy, who got "the juice" say OK, you're right, go try it. The low-energy types just get madder than hell, seethe over the advice, say it's "bad advice" but can't say why -- and the guys who don't need the advice are perfectly secure, well-aware they don't need it.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10d ago
How do you know of this cousin but not reversed? Why don't you reach out? I have many distant cousins who I've only gotten to know in the last few months, it's a rather nice experience!
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10d ago
Fair enough! Not badgering, but curious: At what point would you be comfortable investing additional resources into this as a vanity business? And why do you care about status effects like being published considering the fallen state of these "institutions"? Is this an issue of living a "double" life where you care about public respectedness and signalling though you private disagree with it?
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10d ago
Why do you worship jackpots?
Build more edge rather than risk more size. Don’t kill yourself chasing the jackpot. Log wealth is what matters. Maximize the 50th percentile outcome. Make your own luck. Avoid drawdowns.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
11d ago
Self publishing is much more profitable:
My old publisher pays me 10% royalties on net profit of books sold, which ends up being more like 5% of the sale price. Leanpub is paying 80% on sticker price as royalties. One copy of LfP sold nets me about as much as 15 copies of Practical TLA+.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
17d ago
If the shot at a successful and independent life means that I could also, with equal or even higher probability, end up destitute, i'll take the deal so long as I am in control of myself
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3xjgM7hcNznACRzBi/the-jackpot-age
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
19d ago
I read it like Chsterton's:
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
19d ago
We do not want to be like the Greeks, powerful and prosperous wherever we settle, but with a dead Greece behind us - John Buchan
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
rural physicians
https://youtube.com/watch?v=haPcdobyINc?si=ncLFUNKgJeahFTyU&t=10
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
trying to negotiate an accounting identity ... which is precisely the thing Trump says he wants them to stop doing
And is now firing people for similar! If he wants Powell to lower rates, bad job numbers would help...
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
The early draw of reddit for me was learning fuddlore from different communities.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
Tucker Carlson
He interviewed the ex Nikola motors CEO, Trevor Milton.Trevor tried to play all the cards, claiming democrats went after him, big oil was out for him etc. But he pumped a company to $60B by claiming it had a factory with thousands of employees, making working trucks etc. In reality, 20 employees and they made cardboard models of trucks, which they pushed down hills for demonstrations and commercials. And the investigation started in the Trump admin. The fraud was about the same size as Madoff's, but it only cost him $1.7mm to buy a pardon from Trump.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
This is a very nice article related to this: https://happyfellow.bearblog.dev/computational-tyranny/
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
There are no more assyrians or chaldeans or zoroastrians
Both exist, today!
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
Yazidi or Armenians or Copts because they were successfully extinguished as viable populations
All 3 currently exist. There are millions of the latter 2.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
2000 year old grievances
There was no conflict until, at the earliest, 140 years ago. Praytell, what "2000 year old grievances" do the Palestinians harbor and wage war over?
He called Israel unwelcoming to Christian organizations and then met with the Palestinian authority yesterday.
Letter from him qua ambassador: https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2025/07/IMG_0737-merged.pdf
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
This doesn't make sense in context. There are constant offer of peace talks, constant public praise and hit pieces, years of rumor around Zaluzhny's political future etc. Seymour Hersh is a joke with negative alpha.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
native underclass
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
Spectating, voyeurism is bad, robs you of life, time.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
pied piper of Hamelin
What's the moral of the tale, to you? (This is a 20 year mystery for me.)
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
while the left fetishizes education and high-class culture
Since when? In them I see no love for wisdom and erudition, no study in perfection.
Interesting. Digging I only find stuff like:
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