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Amateur meaning-of-life researcher. Building something new for hospitals. Formerly built a distillery and a web video company. Prob reading CS Lewis rn.

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

Secret to hyper productivity for Man:

1. Get married
2. Buy a house
3. Have kids
4. Have all of them leave the house for three days

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Many non-religious people want to believe that their views of the world are based on reason while religious people’s views are based on blind faith. But all knowledge begins with faith. The scientist cannot prove her memory or cognitive faculties work without assuming they do. She takes on faith that she’s not in “The Matrix”. (There are no non-circular arguments for the case that our perception faculties are reliable).

The secular humanist cannot prove scientifically or logically that all people have equal dignity and equal rights and that to violate them is not just impractical but wrong. He/She takes it on faith.

At the same time, the religious believer cannot demonstrably prove to every rational person that God exists. Yet all of these ‘faith-starting points’ and ‘worldviews’ can be tested.

First, they can be examined for internal consistency—to see if they “smuggle” in truths and values that contradict their own premises.

Second, there are some parts—but never all— of the worldview that can indeed be tested empirically.

Third, there are ways to weigh which faith premises best account for what we see in the world and in ourselves.

Fourth, worldviews can be tested for ‘liveability’—which ones provide the best resources for purpose, identity, freedom, happiness, hope—things we cannot live a human life without.

All people necessarily operate out of worldviews (C. Taylor calls them ‘social imaginaries’) that are based on non-provable faith assumptions about reality and human nature. This levels the playing field for dialogue in a secular society about religion. No one can prove their worldview outright. So we should proceed with humility and respect toward others.

Worldviews CAN be compared and examined, and recommended to others—we must not neglect doing that. For those pushing back on the idea that all knowledge is ultimately based on faith see this.https://t.co/LFJcJQCZrU Accessible and elegant.

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

@lilbubbychild Rural King don’t carry that, but Old Dave might

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

@perrymetzger @BenPielstick This is a good discussion, guys.

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

I've used 100's of millions of tokens per month this year building things, and am leaning more towards this perspective. AI is very powerful, but it is a tool. And tools need people to wield them.

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

We have automated 99% of the physical and intellectual labor that we did 250 years ago. No one hand copies documents anymore, no one does accounting by hand, no one reaps the wheat fields by hand. And yet, there is no unemployment as a result of this.

I see no reason to believe that in the future, we will not automate 99% of the physical and intellectual labor we do now, but again, there is no reason to believe that that will result in any more unemployment than we have today.

The limit to the number of jobs is not the amount of work we have to do. The limit to the amount of work we can get done is the number of minds and machines and hands we have available.

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

Very common in F&B. Bad actors bend the rule until just before it breaks, which leads to their competitors being forced to either compete directly or work harder (expensive) to educate the consumer on quality. Enforcement is never punitive just “change this label before your next run”.

[Corey J. Mahler @CoreyJMahler]

If you think regulatory law doesn’t matter, stare at this bottle until you realize your error.

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

“I want the same thing I have always wanted. I want people to look at me and see a person.”

This is what all rational people want. Sucks that we have regressed so badly.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

https://t.co/iT7eNP2hog

[𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇 @pr0ud_americans]

@TheRabbitHole @elonmusk Thomas Sowell again: 'If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today.' Exactly why the double standard exists.

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

@JohnRLottJr @elonmusk My friend James is an electrical co-op CEO and founder of https://t.co/1vOIpkdFt7. His strategy is putting many smaller data centers in places like existing substations. Making some good progress.

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

@JeremyClarkson quick note after watching S03E01, put deposits on drinking glasses. We had to do this as all our copper mule mugs were being lifted.

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

@BrianRoemmele We have my old set of World Book right next to our tv. I make the kids look stuff up in there all the time!

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

@VCBrags He passed. But not because of the crap.

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

2010 NYC running late to pitch a larger family office, pigeon craps on my shoulder right outside the door. Just shook hands and said yes this is crap.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.

12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.

I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital.

You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious.

It's a dance.

And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious.

If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird.

No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there.

It is weird.

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

Arthur Balfour has the best writing about this. In a materialistic universe, a beautiful painting is nothing more than atoms colliding with cells in our eyes. He argued that humans can’t have a regard for art if they believe their aesthetic feelings are just chemical reactions. For beauty to have real worth, it must reflect a higher order.

Secondly, when we admire a magnificent work of art, our joy is tied to a shared emotional communication with the artist.
He extended this to the beauty of the natural world. Balfour argued that when we are deeply moved by the majesty of nature, we are unconsciously craving a connection with the personal, divine Mind that intended that beauty.

[Quirk 📐 @AdamCQuirk]

@brandil387292 @memeticsisyphus @InezFeltscher I think you are probably a bot but I’ll bite. The communism being discussed here is the broader platform of the left. Anti family, anti God. If you don’t see it you are inside it.

[Lomez @L0m3z]

Watched Marty Supreme, which was better than I was expecting, quite entertaining, funny, visually interesting, frenetic and uncomfortable in the way Safdie movies are. But it really leans into this sociological tic you often see in movies/books about successful people that the true artists, true geniuses, people at the highest levels of their field, must give themselves over to narcissism/sociopathy/cruel often self-sabotaging obsession. All of the main characters are some version of this. Possessed like heroin addicts by their pet passion, however trivial (like ping pong), and willing to destroy themselves and everyone around them in its singular pursuit.

Some highly successful people are like of this course, possessed by their goals in this self-destructive way, but this trope is mostly cope in my experience. The idea that to become truly successful one must become evil, one must make some kind of Faustian bargain, one must commit himself to misery in all other things, is a way for non-successful people, the less motivated or talented, to tell themselves their shortcomings are in fact an expression of their virtue and moral superiority over the guy who has made it to the top of the mountain.

In fact, the most successful people I know, rich, powerful, highly accomplished across a number of domains, while unique in their own ways, often weird, and even unusually obsessive, are not sociopathic or self-sabotaging at all and seem to be as satisfied and well-adjusted to the world as anyone else, and usually more so. The malignant narcissist, on the other hand, tends to flame out and self-implode well short of the summit.

[Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith @LGMicahBeckwith]

Sharia Law has absolutely no place in Indiana or anywhere else in the United States.

I urge anyone who disagrees with this statement to go live in a country governed by Sharia Law and let me know how that turns out.

[Caleb Gross @noperator]

https://t.co/gOSvgSg8kv