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CRAZY NOISY BIZARRE TOWN

[Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo]

I got out of the rat race when I looked around me and realized that even the winners were miserable.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"In their same-sex friends, men and women prioritized personality and social intelligence. In their opposite-sex friends, however, men placed greater value on attractiveness, whereas women placed greater value on economic resources and physical prowess" https://t.co/Us38BMT2Ik

[Mighty Kaos aka Coach Williams 🏈 @mightykaos41]

Most people get the phrase "You only live once" wrong.

They assume that means take a ton of risks.

No. It means you only get a chance at this thing called life one time. Pick your spots and don't fuck things up.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Anyone who thinks that sex differences are entirely due to learning has lot of explaining to do... https://t.co/FnuukyyR96

[Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo]

@JamesMarsh79 @levelsio @normonics James, you're starting to talk like the American businessman in the story of the Mexican fisherman :)

[Clown World Today @cwt_news]

🤡🌎 “this is extremely dangerous to our democracy” https://t.co/Qn2RKthEh8

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Percent of people in relationships who say they are certain their partner has been faithful:

45% of women, 36% of men

Percent who say they are certain their partner has cheated:

41% of women, 28% of men

Percent unsure:

14% of women, 36% of men

https://t.co/IIpboKfoAD

[Naval Quotes @NavalQuotes247]

"You’re offended when you fear that it might be true."

@naval

[Mo Zarrinsadaf @MoZarrinsadaf]

"The real problem of humanity is the following:

We have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology."

- Edward O. Wilson

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Hammurabi's code: He who falsely accuses someone of a crime is to be penaliized as if he committed it himself
Applies to all: right,left,...

[Balaji @balajis]

If you haven’t studied something in depth, your mental model of it often implicitly reduces to a few scenes from a Hollywood movie.

[Adam Lane Smith | The Attachment Specialist @AdamLaneSmith]

People pretend we’ve evolved past the Neolithic age but the moment they’re alone they use their pocket supercomputer to:

Look at naked people
Laugh at crude drawings
Find their tribe
Yell at the enemy tribe

[Valoric Fire @GorhamHarland]

People overwhelmingly prefer to be ruled by experts. This means rule will continue to flow from those capable of verbally representing themselves as experts.
https://t.co/bkqitq5aLp

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

If the Singularity’s event horizon is when we no longer understand our technology, as Kurzweil says, then we’ve already passed it.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

It's finally here!

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[𝐒𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐚 𝐑𝐚𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐚 ζ(1/2 + i σₙ )=0 @SrinivasR1729]

“Until now, everyone thought that the Dirac equation referred directly to physical particles. Now, in field theory, we recognize that the equations refer to a sub level. Experimentally we are concerned with particles, yet the old equations describe fields..

[Mises Institute @mises]

The government accepts no legal obligation to provide specified law enforcement services in exchange for the taxes it forcibly extracts from the citizenry. | Lee Friday

https://t.co/TrNjjnL6fY

[Mises Institute @mises]

Socialism and capitalism offer radically different solutions to the problem posed by scarcity. | Hans-Hermann Hoppe

https://t.co/MA6abMmqAF

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Linguist John McWhorter: "Socialism" has such contradictory meanings (USSR? Market-friendly Norway?) that it should be retired. "Liberal" isn't much better: Lefist or (w "neo" prefix) Libertarian? "Progressive"? As I've shown, progressives hate progress. https://t.co/i73L5aqKKf