Matthew Allen Fisher

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

In this post we believe:

Excellence is mundane, daily, repeatable, intrinsically rewarding.

Greatness is not planned, it is the residue of private obsession.

Effort that requires willpower indicates wrong habituation, wrong obsession, or both.

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[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

@arcticinstincts It's a fun story to consider but IQ is all you need to explain the discrepancy. China becoming wealthy was over determined, it taking so long is the part that is abnormal. India's wealth is exactly what one would expect with an average IQ comparable to Kenya.

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

I really admire people who want to live forever, I think most people who don't need to fix something about themselves and their life.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

From mini-pigs and organ printing to cryotherapy and genetics, Vladimir Putin has turned antiaging research into a Kremlin priority. 🔗 https://t.co/n0J1MwCZAg

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[Eöl @maraudershields]

@Andr3jH The only successful Democratic tickets this century have had a Biden.

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

@brianluidog Understanding Anthropic is almost effortless if you model them that way.

Someone told me last month that a friend of theirs who works at OAI thinks "Anthropic is a secret EA cult" whispered as if it was a conspiracy. I thought that was basically the advertising.

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

sad, i keep trying to understand how people end up with absolutely no friends in this world

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

A new niche of influencing has emerged on social media recently — and it’s defined entirely by what its creators lack: friends. These POV videos are titled “you live alone in NYC and have no friends so your nights look like this” or “you’re single, have no friends, live alone and won’t be having kids so this is your Friday night.”

The built-in captive audience that has flocked to these accounts has naturally attracted more and more content creators to loneliness influencing.

Devon Noehring, a full-time influencer based in Phoenix, said: “I did a vlog about a Friday night. I don’t have a lot of friends that live near me. I almost feel ashamed of not having some fun, crazy plans. So I spilled my guts. I was being vulnerable, and that video blew up.” Noehring now posts “single introvert” content to 357,000 Instagram followers.

Whether the audience is other lonely people seeking assurance or voyeurs simply looking to raise a superior eyebrow, it’s clear that social isolation is now a bankable way to build a brand.

But it can also be hard to believe. Since this trend is playing out on TikTok and Reels, it’s natural to wonder whether the isolation on display is hyperbolized in order to draw clicks and generate revenue. The concept itself feels somewhat disingenuous: How introverted can a person be while also making public-facing content about their private lives?

Rachel Pick explores the appeal of solitude captured on camera, and speaks to loneliness-focused creators about the driving force behind their videos: https://t.co/9tUy2sd2pd

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

@nosilverv You do subtly suspicious things to be falsely voted out to establish in the public consciousness that when people accuse you of being guilty you are in fact innocent.

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

@abelian_groupie

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

Defender Part 2 - Court Case https://t.co/Pi3iTvaN3y

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@nosilverv @DefenderOfBasic @IaimforGOAT @tomschloegel Planning on it, anything specific you want asked?

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

@brianluidog What does Paul G need forgiveness for?

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

@arcticinstincts the Lexical Hypothesis (analysis of english langauge which derived the Big Five), when run on Chinese, could not recover "Openness" as a personality factor and additionally yielded "Interpersonal Relatedness" as a factor that english big five did't have.

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[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

@mimi10v3 "It's the damn phones" is my eigenvector for the birth rate crisis. Nothing else fits so well.

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

@PrinceVogel Erich Fromm and David Deutsche are the ones I like who most love man.

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Love this timeline

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@juliezhanggg @CodyZervas Yeah, always the current one.

My concepts of my 10 and 85 year old self are always hallucinations of or interpretations by the current self anyway. Thinking you can serve or even understand them is the main illusion.

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

After reading @CodyZervas's blog post below I realized I have very little loyalty to and very low opinion of my 10 year old and 85 year old selves. I don't live for them, I don't make decisions to please them.

https://t.co/NyCJZKhI8N

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

@voooooogel @AmandaAskell is this by design?

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

I feel like people should really have to earn another remembering their name.

I would prefer to normalize people sharing names once at the end of a conversation and not having others be expected to remember their name until after like 3-4 conversations if ever.

The whole name remembering thing is a form of artificially inflating people's egos as a social etiquette and ends up taxing those who are more genuine and playing to the strengths of the sycophantic.

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

@Polymarket @crumbl My #1 diet advice to people is stop having anything with added sugar

[Matthew Allen Fisher @mathyouf]

I think there's a certain kind of slimy bait and switch to people who do these public doxxing of rationalist behavior.

They are often exactly the kind of people that only that community would ever take in given their absolute strangeness.

And those people get to act in their own bizarre ways without censure or exposure.

And then the community does strange things back to them, clearly within the expected overton window of behaviors, and they decide to defect from the mutual anonymity completely.

And the funniest part to me is the rationalist almost never publicly attack them in response.

They have made a community for the kind of people who desperately need one and can't get one through traditional routes. Those for whom normal marriage and weekend meetups for sports and pickelball and church doesn't work. And those same people then are flabbergasted when the community is full of weirdos like them.

I personally had an experience that was not quite in line with what I would have expected in a high trust community by my cultural expectations, but it was entirely in line with what was advertised from the start. And I have adjusted my expectations. I think for some with truly nowhere else to go this makes them more bitter, and so they post the annoying doxxing letters, or invent the sneer club.

Love the group for the special thing it is, and accept it for the normal thing it isn't.