ivadim

truth is not zero-sum

[ivadim @ivadirn]

https://t.co/wCOIRoii6F

Life is too short for bullshit.

[ivadim @ivadirn]

@RyanHoliday The Unbearable Lightness of Being,
Skin in the Game,
The Tao Te Ching,
Waking Up,
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running,
Immortality

[ivadim @ivadirn]

Stoicism is nothing but using the mind to control the mind.

Sorry, @hubermanlab 🤷‍♂️

[ivadim @ivadirn]

> Talk is infinitely easier than the walk
> You are the easiest person to fool

[ivadim @ivadirn]

So many stoic techbros in the world now, I’m even meeting them in my gym sauna😰

Confusing though, because they tell me how they want to change the world then they tell me about the crazy party in Lebanon they just got back from 🤔

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Do the thing

[ivadim @ivadirn]

Risks aren’t that scary once you take them.

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

5. The causes of death most reported by the news (natural disasters, wars, and terrorism) jointly lead to less than 0.3% of deaths worldwide.

[ivadim @ivadirn]

The future suddenly looks bright

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is what a city full of electric vehicles sounds like

Shenzhen, China.

[📹 frankcohen2000]
https://t.co/yBwxvcovcW

[ivadim @ivadirn]

It’s insane how much your understanding of life can be improved with literacy in statistics

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

Incredibly, the placebo effect is (mostly) not real.

It is a result of statistical confusion. Whenever you have a group with extreme values, they tend to exhibit regression to the mean. Eg. on average, sick people tend to become more healthy over time.

Thus if you give one group medicine, and one group placebo, the placebo group will also tend to get better over time, because of regression to the mean.

People have then misinterpreted this to think that it is the placebo pill that actively does this.

If you want to demonstrate a placebo effect, you have to construct a study where there are three groups:
• A. treatment
• B. placebo
• C. no treatment, no placebo

If B and C get different outcomes, that would demonstrate a placebo effect.

When this has been tried, mainly there has been no provable placebo effect. See the paper in the screenshot. (There is some evidence for an effect for pain, but this get's into a slightly different debate.)

The fact that the placebo effect is mainly not real, fortunately frees us from having to come up with convoluted explanations, as to why the placebo effect would work even when we tell the patient that it is a placebo, as in the quoted tweet.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Underrated asset: a circle of thoughtful, open-minded friends, with whom you can share ideas about any imaginable topic, without any fear of being judged and without any hidden agenda, besides maybe the pleasure that comes with expanding your own mind with other curious minds.

[Leonardo Da Vinci | Artist & Genius 🎨 @LeonardoQuot]

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

[ivadim @ivadirn]

NNT suddenly makes sense…

[ivadim @ivadirn]

This

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A cross section of a eukaryotic cell, a 3d rendering by Evan Ingersoll & Gael McGill visualising the complex molecular choreography the pathways and processes enabling life

Made using data from X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance & cryo-electron microscopy

[ivadim @ivadirn]

If anything, consciousness is itself a subset of this system’s complexity (or equivalent to it, who tf knows 🤷‍♂️)

[ivadim @ivadirn]

@afomer_ Gotta try out my jiu jitsu moves some time 🤷‍♂️

[ivadim @ivadirn]

@afomer_ Good list. I’d also add convincing professional victims that they have agency 💥

[ivadim @ivadirn]

@ChrisWillx Oh and maybe most importantly, taking long (slow) walks, carrying nothing and going nowhere.

[ivadim @ivadirn]

@ChrisWillx Starting jiu jitsu
Gym minimum three times a week
Reaching out to people more
Doing things if they scare me
Journalling

[ivadim @ivadirn]

@StoyanVelikov88 @Plinz @cantstoplovin__ It’s by definition a limitless space