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Relive the 2011 world cup final with your Twitter timeline during that time on https://t.co/dyLKS4NYmH

#WorldCup2011

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@vikaspgoel Literally thought about this for 15 mins. Finally, decided on first name.lastname just to ensure noone else impersonates.

Though I see edit username option as well, so can rethink about this 🙂

[PS @dostoevesque]

There’s no need to be afraid of any scenario in life, because it isn’t personal and it isn't the first time some has found themselves in such a scenario. It’s structural. The ego wants dramatic suffering. It wants its pain to be mythic. But most suffering is procedural. It’s part of the design of being alive.

You are not uniquely cursed. You are not cosmically targeted. You are simply next in line. Because if your problem is not divinely customized, then it is ordinary. And if it is ordinary, it is survivable. Millions before you have stood in this same queue. They felt the same dread. They thought it was the end. It wasn’t.

[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.

[Sub-Pharmacist🍏 @subpharmacist]

1. Whenever you’re in doubt about what to eat, eat hard-boiled eggs.
2. Whenever you’re in doubt about what to drink, drink water.
3. Whenever you’re in doubt about what to do, read a book or exercise.
4. Whenever you’re in doubt about where to go, go to sleep.
5. Whenever you’re in doubt about how to feel, be grateful.
6. If you’re in doubt about what to do next, repost.

[Eddy Quan @waronweakness]

The root cause of anxiety

[ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY @adgpi]

अविचल संकल्प, निर्णायक प्रतिकार।

Unwavering Resolve,
Decisive Action.

#OperationSindoor
#JusticeServed
#IndianArmy

[Sajcasm @sajcasm_]

A humble request!

Just for a few likes and some validation, you’re insulting Islam and God. Have you ever stopped to think how deeply it hurts when an Indian Muslim reads something like this? It’s obvious now your hate isn’t toward a country, it’s toward a religion. Because a true Indian, one who truly loves this land, would never speak with such hatred about another faith.

You claim to stand for India, but your words are doing the exact opposite. You are dividing us with your hate. You’re the one weakening our unity. What would you feel if a Muslim from India spoke in the same disgusting way about Hinduism or Hindu gods? Wouldn’t it tear you apart inside?

We stay silent, we stay strong but don’t mistake that for not being hurt. I open my feed and see so many of my own people my friends, my mutuals mocking and abusing Muslims and Islam without a second thought.

Our fight has always been with Pakistan not with Islam. Pakistan does not own Islam, and Islam does not stand for Pakistan.

Please don’t hurt the hearts of your own countrymen, your friends, your brothers/sisters.
We are as Indians as you.
And this is a heartfelt request to remember that.

We need to be united and stand brave with our Indian Army, pray for border state friends and keep checking them!
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@KapilGuptaMD Happy Diwali sir. Thank you for everything!

[Fund Techie @FundTechie]

@cmohry @PMOIndia @cmohry @PMOIndia
Dear Sir, Replied on the above given email id as well to bring notice of our area Sector 57 Gurgaon issues which are being ignored from last so many years by Rigoss or MCG teams.
@MunCorpGurugram @OfficialGMDA

[Naresh @TopDriverIndia]

I post this once every few months in the hope it reaches every driver in India someday!
90% get this wrong.
Please share of you have already seen this.
Thanks

#RoadSafety
@nitin_gadkari

[Augustus @AugustusDelano]

Flirting is a way of life. Do you smile at the pretty girls, compliment the older ladies, or wink at the moon? How about the birds, when they sing, do you whistle back in tune?

Or what about when driving, do you have a smooth touch & no fear of pushing your car to its limits? In business, do you dare to demand what you want? Are you bold with your plans? Does risk excite your spirit?

In conversation, do you say what you mean & speak with your chest? Do you deliver the risky joke without qualms who will take offense?

Do you stroll with your head held high - do your steps feel weightless? When you stand, are you relaxed or are you tense?

Do you treat strangers like you’re reacquainting with an old friend? Do you ever dare to divulge your well kept secrets? Are you present, there in the moment, or are you living in your head?

Do you breathe romance into everything you do, see the beauty in the mundane, & leave a trail of unrelenting positivity wherever you venture? You see, flirting isn’t just what you do to have someone fall for you - it’s what a healthy spirit does when they’re in love with life, & I will continue flirting into the afterlife

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@championswimmer 204 no content

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@_shortarmjab_ @wrognxvirat Here it is
https://t.co/DlS3BrWvzM

[Sachin Tendulkar @sachin_rt]

Chak De India!!!! 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳💙🏆

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[Axel Deussen @AxelDeussen]

„A monk decides to meditate alone. Away from his monastery, he takes a boat and goes to the middle of the lake, closes his eyes and begins to meditate.

After a few hours of unperturbed silence, he suddenly feels the blow of another boat hitting his. With his eyes still closed, he feels his anger rising and, when he opens his eyes, he is ready to shout at the boatman who dared to disturb his meditation.

But when he opened his eyes, saw that it was an empty boat, not tied up, floating in the middle of the lake. At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization and understands that anger is within him; it simply needs to hit an external object to provoke it.

After that, whenever he meets someone who irritates or provokes his anger, he remembers; the other person is just an empty boat. The true source of the anger is inside himself.“

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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@1PayIndia I had raised a complaint more than a week back about sending me a fastag linked to some other vehicle. This is gross negligence and violation of privacy. Please fix this ASAP. Ticket ID - 836968.

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@harsh_vardhhan @aakash_rewari Hey Harsh, do you have any blog post/vlog about Bali? Itinerary, forex card, etc. BTW love your posts about SEA.

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@Paytmcare I ordered HDFC fast tag from PayTM and you sent me a fast tag linked to someone else's car. This is gross negligence! I raised a complaint on the app last week and no response on it yet!