Janus

[Janus @JanusFaustus]

The exceptional is not always exceptional in a good way

The abnormal is not always abnormal in a good way

Sometimes the NORMAL is simply the best we have

[Janus @JanusFaustus]

When you reject AUTHORITY — you’re left WITHOUT authority

(unless you can replace it with some other authority)

[Janus @JanusFaustus]

Or perhaps it’s even worse than the previous source

Perhaps it’s an outright fucking FRAUD

[Janus @JanusFaustus]

@thogge -wake up and remind yourself you won't waste your life looking at a screen
-before bed remind yourself you won't waste your life looking at a screen
-keep remembering throughout the day that you don't want to waste your life looking at a screen
+get better life, as replacement

[Janus @JanusFaustus]

@biruckx I thought it likely had to be led by Tesla precisely due to supposed lead in FSD - which bridges the gap between both abstract cognition, mere moving mechanism, and actually moving in space

But I agree, once FSD is there, and now that LLMs are here - the hardest part is solved

[Janus @JanusFaustus]

@biruckx I feel like robots are quite exciting

[Janus @JanusFaustus]

@DellAnnaLuca Absolutely everything in this world has “luck factor” — because everything in this world (sans theories and math) has a degree of unpredictability.

So the word you’re looking for is VARIANCE. Chess has low variance, but it has variance.

[Alsek dreams @alsekdreams]

You use your current resources well, and you build from there.

It’s within your control; that’s why it works.

Meanwhile you stay paranoid about your positioning to safeguard (and reap benefit) from that which you can’t control.

Other approaches are just noise and chimera.

[Janus @JanusFaustus]

@jimmpierce Generalizes to all "negative":
When something negative betides me I don't feel mad - I'm grateful for learning what not to do / what to avoid / what to do better / what doesn't belong in my life.

[Janus @JanusFaustus]

@biruckx Used to think this way,
but the content meriting a therapy is beyond bad memory - it's in muscle memory

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

did you know that you are not qualified to have meaningful opinions on fixing the world if you are not even able to fix yourself, your relationship, your family and your organization

[Janus @JanusFaustus]

A person whose predictions are inaccurate is a fool, regardless how clever and logical his chain of reasoning was

[rohit @krishnanrohit]

Problem with some really smart people is they start thinking they can see things five steps down the line, and start responding to it, without taking into account the accumulation of errors along the way. Real life is not chess.

[Janus @JanusFaustus]

@sean_a_mcclure Actually it’s precisely *intellectual engagement* which is the point, and makes all the difference

And we can generalise regarding all engagement — there’s nothing so exhilarating so as to satisfy you if ENGAGEMENT is not there