Ethnorainbolt

Skeptic, optimist, present. Panpsychist, empiricist, anti-moralist, life-affirming. Conservative. High OCA, low EN (Big 5). 1600 SAT. Immigrant. Statistician.

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

The therapy myth: therapists (profession not selected for intelligence or insight) have exclusive answers to fundamental human problems that they reveal in personal, private sessions. They also understand every unique situation and have immediate, correct courses of actions.

[Cam 🇨🇴 🇵🇸 カム ⍟🌹⍟ @calidosocam]

My therapist told me that this is normal and that you can't rely on your youthful energy to drive your motivation forever. You have to find another source of power from within.

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

The inability to accept the inferiority of many civilizations despite the vast historical and current data is a wonder of the modern world

Whether that’s an indictment of culture or of genetics is irrelevant & discomfort about this question prevents the facing of obvious truths

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

8 years ago, Senegal announced plans for a $6 billion Wakanda mega-city to show off African ingenuity

Project plans vs final result:

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

@Steve_Sailer I don’t watch soccer but even I know that players have positions…

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

Long horizon predictions seem more difficult than any other intellectual task. Everyone is wrong, no matter how smart (though the smartest refrain from predicting). Climate and AI are the most glaring examples. Treat every such prediction with skepticism and you'll prob be right.

[Daniel Kokotajlo @DKokotajlo]

In AI 2027, we predicted that AI would take over the world or irreversibly concentrate power.

In AI 2040: Plan A, we've laid out our positive vision for what should happen instead.

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

Vagueposting gets high interactions bc people with various interpretations think you agree with them, rather than just one

It’s indicative of a larger problem on social media: people form opinions via sentiments. This is antithetical to clear thinking, which commits to a meaning

[Chocolate💋 @favoritel8dy]

Ik what this mean lol pray for her while you at it

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

Although there’s always something to be aware of when making criticisms like this: I’m focusing on the behavior of 20 commenters and ignoring the behaviors of 700+ likers and thousands of viewers, who probably understood the content/joke etc.

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

Twitter users can be so dense when reposting content from other platforms. Not only does no commenter understand what the ‘we’ means (she’s talking to her younger self), they’re also missing the obvious joke that it’s edited (look at the profile picture).

[Joe🇹🇷🇭🇺 @joelover123__]

Imagine ur girl posting this

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

All poker players sound like this. Everyone’s tired and ranting about each other all the time. Miserable community, miserable game.

[Joshua Arieh @JoshuaArieh]

Pro tip to all the “studied young pros”

Your ROI vs Merv from W. Virginia is much higher playing more hands, than it is spending 30 seconds every decision getting your bet sizing perfect down to the .1

Just play fucking poker!

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

@alz_zyd_ Frame problem. It’s supposed to edit the code. Same reason Chatbots can’t shut up when they should be shutting up. They’re supposed to respond. It’s intelligence + a specific role, and the role creates bias.

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

A big step in deconstructing broken belief systems (e.g. ones that make you neurotic or believe in socialism) is the Humean ideas from impressions / Nietzchean genealogy of morals practice of tracing the roots of the things you say. This lets you discard the broken beliefs.

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

It just requires a massive revamp of everything you believe.

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

Neuroticism. You can defeat it.

[gnorp @gnorpe]

how it fucking feels

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

My current belief is that China is totally unimpressive at entrepreneurship. Even India is better, although not by much.

[Aleph @woke8yearold]

Tbh there is an insane amount of cope about the US clearly winning in AI. Especially from China maxxerz. Fable being released punctured it but only for about a week

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

@ryjlocal Neurotic people worship that false god

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

I can never accept Bayesian epistemology. Beliefs and credences are not the building blocks of human cognition as it presupposes.

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

Brazil demonstrating the perfect loser's mentality. No one willing to step up to the moment (neither superstar taking the first penalty?). Theatrics ready upon elimination.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

Neymar's teammates come to console him after Brazil's Round of 16 exit at the FIFA World Cup 🇧🇷

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

No, only winning matters.

But losers will keep trying to justify losing.

[Admiral Bear @AdmiralBear01]

Cape Verde is one of the best counterarguments in sports history to the misguided concept that only championships matter.

The presumption that there are no meaningful accomplishments in sport short of winning everything is an overly simplistic, toxic mentality that has to die.

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

Since every immigrant is commenting on what America is about, I might as well join. I think America is about freedom, success, and delusional confidence. More the latter 2 than the former. And America is decidedly not about equality.

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

@naplestheartist @JadeAtrophis If we’ve done it so many times, we must have convincing, easy answers by now. Surely..

[Ethnorainbolt @ethnorainbolt]

Accurate today. The modern equivalent of newspapers being neurotic leftist social media headlines (no one actually reads newspapers).

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

— Thomas Jefferson