DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
No bio...
User ID: 460
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
· Edited 1yr ago
Friday 12/30 Wordle
Remaining word count by Scoredle, par 4.
14,855
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I switched my third guess from
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
There are community standards and legal reasons which both need to be upheld.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
Saturday 12/24 Wordle:
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Vocabulary time! For once, Scoredle had a lot of decently popular words for me:
-
prise: use force in order to move, move apart, or open something . -
peise, peize: to weigh something down; to poise it for measuring on a balance scale). Pronounced "peese". -
poire: French for pear, also pear-shaped things, also pear brandy or a beef cut. You can pair poire with poire for dinner, then have poire for dessert, right before things go poire. Like my fourth guess.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
Friday 12/23 Wordle:
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
This was one of the toughest Wordles I’ve faced, simply due to not getting the placement of any letters. It was also the first time I’ve had over a couple dozen words still possible after these first three guesses in particular.. It was only when I
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
Vitamin D 5x daily, a zinc tablet (not lozenge) after each meal, walk outside in sunlight 30 ft away from everyone 30 min per day, drink 1/2 cup tonic water (w quinine) with the zinc.
Walgreens store brand vitamin D if you can.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
24d ago
I’ve heard it said that Rust is the new C++ but Zig is the new C.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
27d ago
have you tried taking vitamin D in the morning? I would really love a bigger sample size than just me suggesting that vitamin D has positive mood effects.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1mo ago
Terminology: Natural Selection is an emergent effect, like traffic patterns or centrifugal force. It is the name we give to an orderly effect which seems directed, though we can find no such concrete thing in the system from which it emerges.
The survival instinct is, similarly, borne of a system which contains both the drive to escape pain and the desire to feel pleasure/esteem/accomplishment. Lack of fulfillment of the latter leads to misery; of the former, suicide. Where both can be fulfilled, thriving happens.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1mo ago
I interpreted it as being sarcastic, as in “agency is right-coded by the left, who worship victimhood.” Is that how you interpreted it?
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1mo ago
You’ve just given me another thing to keep in mind next time I reread Cerebus The Aardvark.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
2mo ago
In such a universe, “free will” more properly means the ability to consider multiple courses of action, and to reject any given potential choice based on conscious reasons, such as moral principles. In practice, our human wills are constrained by unconscious (“subconscious”) reasons, and not perfectly free.
FYI, I’ve had great success consciously removing unwanted reasons from my unconscious using Fourth Step tools from the Twelve-Step recovery method. I feel more free now than ever before.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
2mo ago
It’s hilarious that we as a society take far too much melatonin and far too little vitamin D, seeing as they both regulate sleep. I’ve found myself sleeping like a morning person (not tired for three hours if I wake at 7am) since starting on D before work. (I don’t take melatonin at all, and drop off within five minutes of bedding down.)
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
3mo ago
Visible damage usually causes suffering. Visible distress, such as this man’s doomed attempt to hold his last breath or George Floyd’s struggles as he died of overdose under an officer’s grip, is the hangup. Distress is easily interpreted as a sign of damage, but the obvious is not always the underlying truth.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
3mo ago
The three unique essences in Triessentialism are The Physical, The Logical, and The Emotional. They deal with reality, truth, and value (good/toward vs. bad/away from); change, ordering, and incentives is another perspective on these, as is The What, The How, and The Why.
Science, philosophy, and psychology are fields concerned with pairs of essences: truth and reality, values and truth, and reality and values, respectively. Morality/ethics is the combination of all three, the uniquely human realm in which choices interact with other choices. Draw up a Venn diagram of three intersecting circles, the moral view of the world is at its center.
The value categories of experiences, utility, and esteem are all morally valuable things people can choose to seek for, and so the very choice to seek things of value does itself have value. We can call this choosing by several names: freedom, choice, control, interface, power, reach, and so on. It is valuable enough that people are willing to give up their very lives just to have the assurance of having a freedom they possibly will never have to use. Thus I class it as the fourth of the three categories of value.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
4mo ago
I independently derived it, and chose a different location and name for the new month, but it’s fundamentally identical to the IFC, yes. I chose the name Leftober because it’s made from the leftover 2 or 3 days from the other months. Also, from the article:
Every year has 4 equal-length quarters of 91 days, each 13 weeks or 3+1⁄4 months long.
13 is my favorite prime number and 91 my favorite nonprime. It’s 7x13, a semiprime, and the only composite below 100 which can’t be factored by tricks and must be memorized:
- Multiples of 2 and 5 end in 0,2,4,6,8 and 0,5 respectively
- Multiples of 3 and 9 have their digits sum to 3,6,9 and 9 respectively
- 49 is the square of 7 and is typically memorized in the square sequence 0,1,4,9,16,25,36,49,64,81,100,121,144
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
4mo ago
Which is why, as a cat owner, this moment in X-Men 2 is hilarious because it's true.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
4mo ago
I was trying to figure out how I would teach my niece chess, and I realized I would start by having us play matches with only one specific piece at a time, such as all four knights or all sixteen pawns. We would build up to using the pieces in full games.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
4mo ago
Ah. As a Gen-X American, I still think in meatspace events. I assumed “an intensive chess program” for two hours a day wouldn’t be computerized.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
6mo ago
Waste half his life? The man was at the cutting edge of alchemical research-gathering and experimentation at the stage just prior to what we consider modern chemistry. He had proven the heavens to be run by math, and he was trying to do the same for materials.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
7mo ago
Alcoholics generally don’t drink because they “want to drink,” they drink to fulfill one of the behavior functions (attention, escape, access, and sensation) because they can’t fulfill a different emotion elsewhere in their life.
Somewhere in their past, someone else made a bad choice which not only impacted their lives negatively, it also injured an instinct: the choice made them believe their world wasn’t how it should be and they’re just going to have to live with being personally screwed by a bad deal. It could be a bad identity: they’re born with the wrong skin tone or genitals. It could be a bad relationship: their teacher cares more about homework than understanding. It could be a bad imperative: they didn’t get something they needed because someone neglected them. Often it’s because one of their caretakers was neglectful or even abusive.
What’s key to understanding alcoholism is the compulsive nature of the disorder: they feel driven to drink, and they haven’t had the tools, the technique, the time, or the teachers to help them find and disarm the emotion which compels them.
Alcoholics Anonymous gives all of these things, in an atmosphere of nonjudgmental camaraderie, patience, and mentorship where people who realize they need help can find it. The program was so successful (compared to other things) that it became the model for recovery from other addictions, such as narcotics, sex addiction, and life drama addiction (CoDependents Anonymous).
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
7mo ago
There are three categories of emotions (per Triessentialism): Identities, Roles, and Imperatives.
- Identities can be stated in first, second, or third person, singular or plural, and carry positive (towards) or negative (away from) polarity. “I am an American” is an example identity of mine, a positive emotional component atop the bare fact. “I am white” is not an identity I have, positive or negative, despite its factuality, but “I am a descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims” is.
- Roles in perceived relationships can also be singular or plural, positive or negative. Unlike identities, they come in pairs which are either peers or unequals: student/teacher, boss/employee, husband/wife, lover/lover, brother in arms, brother/sister, etc. Roles have duties, explicit or implicit, which if neglected or denied will crater the relationship.
- Imperatives are best stated as wants and needs. Wants are for something, needs are to avoid something unwanted. I want dessert because I want the positive experience of eating it. I need food to keep my blood sugar up to avoid a crash, my metabolism churning to avoid a slowdown which would cause me to gain even more weight, and my organs nourished to avoid their dysfunction or death.
Each of these can drive compulsions in search of fulfilling or self-validating those emotions. The specific ones are so subjective to each individual's experiences and history that even guessing would be foolhardy.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8mo ago
Obama's birth certificate? Can of worms, here we come.
It is a PDF with embedded images on multiple layers. This could have been case closed if it had been a high-quality scan.
But...
- Affidavit by Doug Vogt, a printer by trade, who examined the layers more closely including the angles of the words.
- WorldNetDaily article on how it could have been forged - missing images as their image host appears to no longer work right.
- A critical rebuttal to Vogt starting with picking apart his credentials.
Now, document scanning was my professional trade for thirteen years. I'd made high-compression PDFs on a $200 all-in-one scanner/printer often enough to recognize how one looked at high magnification, and I had a tool which extracted the individual embedded images which indeed looked like the result of such a scan. Downloading it from archive.org confirms my original impression: although shoddy, it looks naturally shoddy, the kind made on an home/office scanner.
To people who haven't had the pleasure of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect first-hand, it's when you're an expert at something and you can smell the BS on a news article with a cursory glance. In my case, I could tell that it would have been far easier to forge the document with a 600dpi TIFF brought into Photoshop, edited, resized, and exported, than to deal with the tangled mess of a high-compression PDF generated by an algorithm built into a scanner or (in this case apparently) a similar high-compression conversion to PDF by software built into the Macintosh's operating system. Everything from the white haloing to the 1-bit scans of text right next to greyscale numbers is within my experience.
But to anyone else with a cursory knowledge of PDFs and image conversion, it looked like the worst forgery in the world.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8mo ago
That’s why I gave this example with salt and pepper shakers at a rationalist meetup as a conversation-starter.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8mo ago
Let’s try bringing the pills to this world of wallets and guns.
Would I rather live in a place where everyone is armed and can protect their own wallet, and because everyone knows armed robbery has a high likelihood of bloody death, nobody commits armed robbery?
Or would I rather live in a place where I have to rely on the police to a) keep everyone but the police from having guns, including organized people good at hiding secrets and doing crime, b) be close and aware enough to prevent all robberies (armed with a gun, armed with another weapon, or unarmed except for literal arms and hands), c) not accidentally shoot me or mine, d) not ever be corrupt robbers or tyrannical imprisoners themselves despite being the only armed people in the place.
Occam’s Razor suggests the simplest answer is the best. In the first place, I only have to rely on other people’s sense of self preservation. In the second, I have to rely on the competence, capability, capacity, and honor of people whose job is partly to prevent me from gaining the means to defend myself.
Saturday 12/31 Wordle
Remaining word count by Scoredle, par 3.
Scoredle 4/6
14,855
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜CHIME (577)
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜PLANK (3)
🟩⬜🟩🟨🟨MONAL (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩MANLY
Vocab words for the two wrong guesses:
More options
Context Copy link