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[a f @anself]

🙋‍♂️absolutely one of the best perks of intermittent fasting is enhanced enjoyment of food. If the fast is unusually long, I’ll often take a moment just before breaking it, with the food in front of me, to revel in the anticipation of the deliciousness that is just moments away.

[Robin Hanson @robinhanson]

Nothing makes food taste better than not eating for many days before. Yet how often do supposed "foodies" use this time-tested trick to achieve max food pleasure?

[a f @anself]

The person who made this photo did not have writers block

[✨🖤🗡️Nicole Catherine Lindsay 🗡️🖤✨ @NicoleCLindsay]

i cant explain it with science but this is what writers block feels like

[Javi @rameerez]

I FINALLY got everything off the cloud

I'm now paying 10x LESS money for BETTER infrastructure

My AWS bill was ~$1,400/mo

I got it down to less than $120/mo for literally better, beefier servers

Fear of managing servers has a price: 10x your monthly infra bill

[a f @anself]

Someone has ADHD and just reached for the nearest writing implement on the day they happened to be reading that passage. Dont judge

[Alex Kaplan @alexkaplan0]

Why are there five different annotation colors in the span of 2 paragraphs

[a f @anself]

Cool, what if you’re 46?

[Rand @rand_longevity]

If you are under the age of 45, plan on living past 150.

[a f @anself]

We brought the liquidity in Dubai and now we’re Amplifying it in #Token2049Singapore

[a f @anself]

@bendreyfuss It’s not gullibility it’s called being a civilized, cooperative person. There’s a system there for a reason. You like to break the rules if you can. There are many people like this, and it makes everything a mess unnecessarily. Is it really that hard to just wait your turn?

[a f @anself]

There's a point beyond which it's not longer useful to the situation at hand in the first-order sense. Beyond that, it becomes practice, like taking the stairs instead of the escalator. It's also fun. How is it counterproductive?

[octo @the_octobro]

@anself @ManifoldMarkets My point was that extensive discussion of how to handle edge cases can be quite counterproductive and people stick with it out of the emotional satisfaction of feeling smart enough to think about the edge case.

[a f @anself]

It *is* smart to think about weird edge cases, at least in high-stakes situations. They do happen sometimes, and when they do it's really important. Thinking through unexpected edge cases is one of the useful real-world capabilities that @ManifoldMarkets helps to strengthen.

[octo @the_octobro]

@_Mira___Mira_ @ManifoldMarkets You don't because people like debating weird edge cases. It makes them feel smart that they think about the weird edge cases. You're essentially non-intentionally nerd-sniping people.

[a f @anself]

If Democrats cannot replace Biden as nominee without him consenting to it, that’s authoritarianism. By definition. #democracy #biden #Election2024

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Kling AI is wild.

Memes and arts are coming to life.

8 wild examples:

1. Distracted boyfriend - Stop him?

[a f @anself]

When will we get Valhalla? #java

https://t.co/Bce7EfH6B7

[a f @anself]

Sounds right first glance but I think it’s not. Even an immortal species can experience selection if there’s differential reproduction happening, no? The orig. nonreproducing population fades to insignificance over time

[Egor Riabov @imobulus]

@robinhanson We will escape natural selection when we stop dying

[a f @anself]

solution I haven’t seen before (because if so I’ve already rejected it), so tell me how you solve it in a unique way. After that it’s hard to generalize except that it’s all about product excellence

[a f @anself]

Intrusion is rude. Don’t intrude, but be present in a relevant context. Then, show me the problem you’re solving as quickly as possible, so I can quickly match against my problem set. If it’s one of my problems, I’m looking for more. Then I want to see if you’ve got a… 1/2

[a f @anself]

Don’t do that. Unfollowing, sorry dude. That’s dishonest, even if you post this later.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

NOTE: VIDEO WAS FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY - NOT OF CURRENT SITUATION

[a f @anself]

I feel like nuclear weapons would be a better example. It’s a bit cyclical to use the unproven secret to prove secrets can be kept. We know there are lots of nuclear secrets that have been kept pretty well.

[Christopher K. Mellon @ChrisKMellon]

It’s good to see Ross Douthat’s support for efforts to clarify what our government knows about the origin and nature of UAPs. However, I don’t share his doubts that such a powerful secret could be kept for decades. For starters, the UAP issue has been effectively leak-proof because, at least until recently, mainstream media organizations wouldn't give UAP whistleblowers or witnesses the time of day. (1/2) https://t.co/KijYcwJgVN

[a f @anself]

What specifically do you mean when you say family structure is intact? Like, how would I know whether my family structure is intact in my own family? What’s the litmus test?

[Toby Cunningham @sircryptotips]

@MarioNawfal Portugal decriminalized drugs. I’ve never seen one homeless person here. Portugal has their family structure in tact. Canada threw that out a while ago

[a f @anself]

I don’t romanticize hunter-gatherer lifestyles (for sure there was lots of suffering and misery) but I’d bet that you’re projecting modern values onto them. They could well have had a culture, e.g. where humans are not fully “souled” until they grow older - a metacog strategy

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

"Hunter-gatherers... had much higher rates of child mortality, and losing a child is one of the most terrible things that can happen to a person – as, of course, is dying oneself as a child. It's easy to romanticize the hunter-gatherer lifestyle."

[a f @anself]

Next they’re going to say you shouldn’t do a 48-hour movie marathon https://t.co/HOECnIddfY @CWRUFilms