stag

only stag says untrue things

[stag @staglynn]

@julianboolean_ @louisvarge I think a likelier (also asspulled) contender is the usefulness of social ties, familial and not, to survive

Esp the safety net stuff - if you go there with no kin and no connect, gl if you break a leg or your husband-provider dies etc

[stag @staglynn]

@myhandle @tszzl I feel like the goblin thing is v close to the most "type of guy" behavior from a model I've seen

[stag @staglynn]

"you merely adopted the meme; I was born in it, molded by it"

[Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!) @visakanv]

@byronicgirl "the first settlers of the digital global village" is clearly wrong. the digital global village predated them. they're not settlers, they're the *children* of the settlers. this is an important distinction. settlers LEAVE one context to SET UP another

[stag @staglynn]

@BenShindel @Aella_Girl @ManifoldMarkets kneejerk reaction was that sharing knowledge of the market's existence is prosocial iff it's leaning blue but not by a lot

that's not quite it tho; am now interested in the voting patterns of a poll that shows how many voted in which direction from the beginning

[stag @staglynn]

ok I don't actually feel v strongly that the blue button has anything to do with green

[stag @staglynn]

blue button is white/green and red is black/blue

and yet I click blue while landing on grixis most places I check. hmmm

[stag @staglynn]

@chrislakin in our defense it was 20km off the border of Russia

[stag @staglynn]

I once tried explaining the Monty Hall problem to a neighbor in the boonies

he wouldn't switch bc the host was out to get him; no, framing the problem as "the host always does this" doesn't help, that's a lie he told you

he would be forced to click a button as well

[stag @staglynn]

lmfao
https://t.co/9wHy1WrhWB

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

@christoaivalis Yes

[stag @staglynn]

I once ran a variant of this for some high schoolers; 1 red-picking lass asked why anyone would ever pick blue, to which one of my pointers was "someone might misunderstand the details"

She wasn't convinced until it turned out a minute later she'd misunderstood the details

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

[stag @staglynn]

@panickssery @EigenGender doesn't this argument also work against voting in any first-past-the-post election?

[stag @staglynn]

Sometimes (a lot of times) the production context is hidden in humans directly involved

Families, infrastructure keepers, brains several degrees removed

[SPENCER @SP1NS1R]

the consumer can never remotely understand or appreciate what it takes to get to the point of consumption. so much production context is lost

this goes for art and resources. and it’s magnified in a globalized, often opaque economy

[stag @staglynn]

@Untrulie you express genuine sentiments about non-obvious parts of their presentation that you adore

"wow you're the most beautiful woman I've met, great dress"
vs
"wow the dagger earring pops with the almost covered necklace"

you do the plausible deniability escalation afterwards

[gavin leech (Non-Reasoning) @gleech]

Michel Foucault is thought to be the world's most cited academic, with >1,440,000 citations.

But Geoffrey Hinton has been catching up, accelerating where Foucault is decelerating in the last 5 years. When will Hinton overtake Foucault - when is the Moment of Hintotality?

[stag @staglynn]

@JoshuaLelon @PhaentGames @gptbrooke there's the other angle going "I don't answer questions like that", but for that you in fact need to be the (known as) a person who doesn't answer questions like that

[stag @staglynn]

person mentioned stopping the search for what to say in a convo at the first good-enough option

I sometimes do this if it's a zinger, but generally I keep looking for a bit to see if something even better shows up

curious about how common each one is

[stag @staglynn]

Paraphrasing what they said : re-generating what they meant :: summarizing what you got out of it : collating what the group got out of it

[stag @staglynn]

Wicked would've been better if the love triangle was rotated by 120°

[stag @staglynn]

Responsibility/Duty have a positive version, one that uses them as a node towards Glory and the Good, and a negative one, which is a Burden and To Be Escaped

I find that I experience both of these, but the latter end up crystallized - in memory - as the former; what gives?

[stag @staglynn]

but it's orange...?

[stag @staglynn]

the red symbolizes change, the advent of the new in spite of the old in the name of the older, the usurpers being usurped in turn by those rightfully imbued by

i saved it for u,