Luke Parrish

As a generalist I specialize in combinatorial implosions

[Luke Parrish @lsparrish]

The important thing is to get used to disappointment.

This is not because it punishes hope, but because disappointment is underrated and useful.

However, to use it you need to control it. It's a skill issue.

This is particularly true if you have ADHD.

[Luke Parrish @lsparrish]

@grok @vlatdd This sounds a lot like a cultural issue where people believe they are expected to resent the cause of disappointment.

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@grok @vlatdd Distinguish disappointment from resentment. Why do people feel resentment, is this a skill issue

[Luke Parrish @lsparrish]

5 Non-Negotiable Rules for Surviving Your 20s (Number 5 is Crucial)

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@shinboson The less you know about my overblown opinion of myself the better, just don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to

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@VioletFlame23 I always wondered why he was targeting specifically economists for generic smart person discourse jokes, guess he only has a few friends like this and they all happened to be economists back then

[Luke Parrish @lsparrish]

Aren't you just being perfectionistic? He seems like a decent kid with a decent work ethic.

Sorry we're not all superhumans who can maintain a 4.0 (unless ASU standards have slipped far indeed) while running a political campaign that involves 30,000 miles of driving for some reason, but this is actually very reputable by 19 year old standards.

And for all the argument you could make to the contrary, for all you could justifiably pick this as a future political cause to pursue, the current rules do not prohibit a court clerk being 19, nor is it an unelected position. Nor did the Democrats find another more qualified candidate, it appears.

More to the point, as far as I am concerned, or roughly anyone out of Mariposa County, the moral of the story is that Trump should have lost Republican primaries 2 years ago. This is an embarrassment not for the country so much as for Republicans. If the kid flakes out, it is then more broadly embarrassing, yes, but let's not count our broken eggs before they fall out of the basket.

[Luke Parrish @lsparrish]

Why are we fastidiously calling it autism when the alternative spelling oughtism is right there

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@chrislakin Good insight. You are valid and have valid ideas.

[Luke Parrish @lsparrish]

@TetraspaceWest Imagine not having the insight that 'past me is often apparently cringe because I have changed and this is actually normal as a youngster because I am still figuring many things out and even developing new brain structures, not due to a problem with me' until your teenage years

[Luke Parrish @lsparrish]

What's the plan? Asked and answered.

1. Money
2. Show
3. Ready
4. Go 🐈 go

Well, you can do anything that you wanna do. Just don't you step on my blue suede shoes

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could be clearer with another 30 seconds of hemming and hawing and maybe a joke about his wife's sister being hotter than her

the fulcrum of the bit concerns how saying a deeply inappropriate thing out loud just because you feel it doesn't go well, even if you apologize in advance, actually that can make it worse

[Luke Parrish @lsparrish]

"Maximizing technocapital’s power is a reward hack on the flourishing function for humanity."

No kidding!

[bayes @bayeslord]

I’ve honestly been laughing since the midterms. Of course you messed this up. You were willing at every turn to dissemble, talk your book and engage in signaling and bullshit rather than be real and honest about what’s going on, and how serious it all is. I tried to help steer this at various points, I really did try, but was both rebuffed and, admittedly, somewhat lacking in courage and agency. Either way, thank god for the honest people. I’ll try to be a better citizen.

You may think destructive politics are on the rise. Maybe they are. But such crescendos needn’t destroy America. This is a fragilizing mindset. And I’m sorry, but I’m not moving to Dubai. I’m not moving to China. I’m not moving to Argentina. Americans are my people, this is my home. If you want to flee, be my guest. Our society is going through an important process right now and I want to be here for it. Humans are defending themselves against the machine. As they should.

Technocapital is a great tool, but technocapital worship can be actively harmful, particularly at this juncture in history where, for the first time, all future needed technological progress is technologically overdetermined, if not yet socially. Maximizing technocapital’s power is a reward hack on the flourishing function for humanity. You are ignorant or lying if you claim this proxy is the true target.

Love you all, but I must insist we evolve. 2023 part 2 blue tsunami edition is a losing approach for tech and the world, and I can feel people flirting with it. Let’s do something new.

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Why are 2 movies so mid anyway

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@constans There were people like this before. I was born in the 80s. Every time I would encounter liberal Christians on a movie like Anne of Green Gables, it was foreign culture. What do you mean nobody talks about the value of getting saved, are they really Christians.

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@contrarymotion @DanielleFong @grok explain what he likely means by this

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@nosilverv @chrislakin Regret and disappointment are kind of distinct though. I think failure to distinguish simple disappointment (hoping wrongly) from other dismays like regret may be why this happens a lot

[Luke Parrish @lsparrish]

When you do The Thing you may be disappointed.

One thing to notice is it's disappointing to not have the prerequisites in place already. How long have you been working on them? Are there prereqs for the prereqs you aren't consciously aware of?

Disappointment is underrated though, a great cognitive resource for developing taste and agency. Very distinct from shame, regret, resentment, anxiety, and the other dismays, none of which are very useful if not properly distinguished from each other.

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@justalexoki well you might have aphantasia if the distinction between thinking about things you can see and visualizations of them in your minds eye is legit confusing to you

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I don't know if he thinks that, but the picture by itself is ambiguous enough to just as easily suggest that billionaires have no causal part in the global inequality; they might merely benefit from being on the richer side.

Maybe in this scenario the only people causing inequality are median voters selecting politicians who keep bombing the poor countries into submission and stealing their resources.

Then the billionaires live mostly in the rich countries, but only because those are places where you don't get bombed into submission and stolen from, so your business is likelier to succeed and scale.