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[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton was PREACHING in this segment with @NDFootball about Creating Evidence. A must watch regardless of title, age, or industry:

👮‍♂️ You start with BELIEF, you stand on EVIDENCE. Facts don't care about feelings. When you get there, nobody cares HOW you got there, they care about how you can HELP.

👨‍⚖️ One Rep ➡️ One Day ➡️ One Week ➡️ One Game ➡️ One Year. At the end of the year, you're graded and judged by the evidence of your WORK. Evidence doesn't just arrive, it's acquired and accumulated everyday. It’s never one moment, it’s the accumulation of all of them.

🏷️ Let Proof Override Labels. Creating Evidence isn't about running from the truth, it's about creating so much proof that past labels become irrelevant.

🧵 Everything matters. Every rep has meaning. Even when you can't see it. Too tired, too emotional, too worn out to see or hear it, but it still means something. So you must TIE meaning to it. The smallest action either adds to your case or subtracts from it, tie purpose to all of it.

🖋️ Facts are permanent, but they do not define who you are, or who you have to be in the future. The truth is the starting point, not the ceiling. Face it, use it, and build forward, the obstacle is the way.

[Roko 🐉 @RokoMijic]

A Wireheader's Apostasy

If you really understand philosophy of mind it is clear that David Pearce's quest to end suffering is misguided at a logical level and also at an ethical level.

Suffering is what negative feedback feels like from the inside.

You can't end suffering without ending negative feedback. There can't be a clever technical fix for this, because the suffering is the negative feedback in the same way that a rainbow is sunlight reflecting off water droplets.

You can't run a brain on "gradients of bliss" and have it feel blissful all the time but also produce the same distribution of outputs across all environments because feeling blissful occasionally serves a function and that function is not supposed to be on all the time - you become a wirehead.

Feeling slightly less blissful will simply not motivate you to move your hand off a burning hot plate the way the burn qualia will.

This is borne out empirically when you look at people born without pain receptors: they break all their bones, burn themselves, bite their own tongues off, and often die young.

People who take drugs stop doing normal-person things, they turn into zombies who just seek the drug and nothing else. Why? Because the drug is a massive, artificial superstimulus of all positive reward signals that your brain's reward architecture is not designed to handle. It drowns out the subtler reward signals you get from smelling a nice flower or having a social event with friends, so you stop doing those things. This is probably why homelessness and drug addiction go hand-in-hand - if you are homeless, it's hard to fix your life and get positive feedback from normal life stimuli, so you start taking drugs to feel something. But once you are on drugs, the reward of the drug is so much bigger than the reward you could get from a normal life activity that it's not that compelling to give up drugs for those activities.

It's also deeply immoral to try to turn off all negative feedback, because doing so will turn the world into a sh!thole. I would even include things like political correctness in this, as I think that is best thought of as a form of collective social wireheading.

It is actually a really good thing that sick people suffer terribly. It is good that death is often painful and frightening. It is good that romantic rejection stings and makes us feel bad about ourselves.

Why? Because if these negative events didn't come with negative qualia, we would not be motivated to avoid them.

To be a true transhumanist you must not ask to suffer less, you must ask to suffer more accurately, to be punished more when you fail to live up to your goals and to feel a sweeter reward when you do. And to be a true humanist you must embrace suffering as a force for good in the right circumstances.

[Pat Basil @pbasilstrength]

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[Coach Johnny Croyle @CoachCroyle]

➡️Preparation...

From a couple of days ago - Coach Saban goes through their weekly schedule..

[JJ @JDMAN85]

@themindlessrae He is I’m sure of it :p

[JJ @JDMAN85]

@themindlessrae Ummm where can one purchase bulletproof space suits

[JJ @JDMAN85]

@PFTCommenter They must live in Edson

[Zach Wilkie @zach_wilkie]

Was nice being back on campus for the @UABearsFootball & @GoElks Coaching Clinic. Can’t wait for spring ball! 🏈

[JJ @JDMAN85]

@popnmosh I’ve been meaning to get into it! I’ll be your practice dummy!

[JJ @JDMAN85]

Spending the past year teaching on one of Albertas indigenous reserves I’ve grown a deeper appreciation for what this man means to this community and all young indigenous athletes. Continue being an amazing role model!!

[Edmonton Oilers @EdmontonOilers]

"I'm here to stand up to this behaviour... I'm proud of where I come from. I'm proud to be from Ochapowace First Nation. I'm not just doing this for myself. I'm doing this for all people of colour & for the next generation."

Ethan Bear's statement in response to racist comments.

[JJ @JDMAN85]

@PorksDork @rachelmarievv Literally what I did!

[JJ @JDMAN85]

@rachelmarievv Crocs ain’t a phase it’s a damn lifestyle!

[JJ @JDMAN85]

The 3-2-1 Thursday newsletter by @JamesClear is full of wisdom and practical insights. This weekly email will become a highlight of your inbox: https://t.co/tA9WPrzKTg

[JJ @JDMAN85]

@popnmosh @jockowillink He probably voted but there is work to be done ground level and this BAMF is getting the fuck after it

[JJ @JDMAN85]

@imaclean67 @Edm_Huskies You guys got any openings for 2021 on your staff 😜

[JJ @JDMAN85]

@rachelmarievv You and me both

[Dwayne Reed @TeachMrReed]

No student should be forced to go through years of school using their “Starbucks Name” just because their teachers can’t get their real name right.

[Edmonton Oilers @EdmontonOilers]

Bear's Cree name bar looking great. 🙌

#BattleOfAlberta | #LetsGoOilers