Alin Matei

Explorer. Creator. Flâneur.

[Alin Matei @alinm]

@Ellunes Îmi place ca la capitolul probleme a început cu fotbalul. Asta înseamnă să îți cunoști prioritățile.

[Alin Matei @alinm]

@Ellunes Are genul de probleme psihice pe care le căutam în adolescență.

[Alin Matei @alinm]

@ContraPoints Or, or, "You wouldn't believe the original title of this book!"

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

His real aptitude lately is for making you feel like a massive fucking idiot for ever having taken anything seriously

[Alin Matei @alinm]

@naval While the right is on a project to enforce unnatural inequality.

Hanging on to inequality generated by artificial means, blocks naturally superior individuals from evolving.

An obese functionally illiterate hoarder of capital is just a reversal of the natural values.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

*More ethical than the IDF and Police.

[Alin Matei @alinm]

@TheChrisLambert I liked the dynamic of the shot too. Wide, with events inbetween. I want a movie in that style.

What I’ve learned from your tweet is that people can’t stand someone actually liking something, for some reason. They could have just shrugged and moved on. But no.

[Alin Matei @alinm]

We are reducing the variety of our thoughts.

The mimetic contagion of the algorithms recommending the same, most popular content, reduces the ideas present in public debate to a few.

This reduction in variety is the opposite of what our minds need to develop.

[Alin Matei @alinm]

@piticu21 Cred că ai nimerit coincidental vreo linie de cod, că i-ai activat pe toți.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"Only in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"We need to feel a little bit lost somewhere, physically or intellectually, at least once a day." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

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[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Friends, my new paper on #Lindy. These are the proofs for error detection.

[Alin Matei @alinm]

@nntaleb Most people I know cancelled their plane tickets awhile ago. The US is everything but welcoming nowadays. You guys have fun with the world cup.

[Alin Matei @alinm]

Stop and consider: what is the point of this entire action? What special strategic purpose do these men achieve, besides instilling terror?

At the very end, the Israeli military is paid to push a pile of cardboard over the counter. Embarrassing.

Whan can we do to stop this?

[Alin Matei @alinm]

People don’t want inequality, yet inequality continues. People don’t want war, yet war continues. And almost all this strong disagreement is manifested online.

1. What does this say about this medium?

2. What does this say about our leaders?

3. What does this say about us?

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

I couldn’t see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.