@PhilWMagness@Plinz "There seems to be an interesting law: bad an pretentious language drives out good and simple language"
Or: words are used to manipulate, not communicate
@dwarkesh_sp@Ada_Palmer Devil’s advocate: not giving away the secrets inspires folks to critically think for themselves, to come up with their own solutions
@Falliblemusings@naval ‘The Beginning of Infinity’ is one of the most incredible books I’ve ever read if only for Deutche’s explanation of optimism: problems are inevitable and all come from a lack of knowledge, and all problems can be solved by creating knowledge
@bitcloud@katie_dey Opposite for me. Tiny tiny tiny balls rolling around below on the bowl shaped floor, then one rolls up and boom unbelievably big, like getting punched in the face by infinity