Reid Johnson

Building @pokketcoach. Previously @cloud9, @ESL, @astranis. 10x national & world champion. Competitor.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

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Number one.

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@CathyYoung63 "Can young people, who spend most of their social lives writing messages to their friends, read?"

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@alexbronzini Man. I come from pro esports where you're immediately and intensely ostracized if you're caught cheating. It's easy to forget that it's so rampant elsewhere

That disparity implies cheating is downstream of culture, but I'm not sure how you would fix it. Harsher penalties?

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@IsaacKing314 Gell-mann amnesia is surely at its most useful when reading children's books

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@tascobar @malmesburyman It's the first Sci-fi book that I would put in the "literature" bucket

The Canterbury structure? The constant shift in genre? Keats interwoven throughout both the story and meta-narrative? The homage to Oz at the end, leaving behind their black-and-white thinking?

Stark

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@narayanarjun CHOAM
Cloud Hosting, Operations, & Analytics Management

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@nataliestwt "When will the internet surpass the bandwidth of the postal service?"

https://t.co/Dz0aQOE8k8

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anger stems from the violation of expectations

the deeper these expectations are rooted in fundamental beliefs, the stronger the emotional reaction. consider the rage a competitor exhibits after losing to a "weaker" opponent

are they reacting to the loss? or rather to the violation of a belief that the "better" player should always win?

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@gleech @gwern Worse than useless is such a tragic moniker. There is beauty and value in the mundane. Even Caesar and Napoleon took time to write fiction, study poetry, attend the theater.

"We’re dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go do something." - Kurt Vonnegut

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@jparkjmc https://t.co/BNtzD2hcpJ

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https://t.co/4J0muk5GYU

are three all pretty goated, especially for applying to transformer-based models

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Pedigree this, nepotism that

Frederick Douglass started as a slave who literally couldn't read. If you're blaming your circumstances, you're ngmi

[nour @0CEANKNIVES]

famed anecdote from val kilmer's memoir about tony scott crying about getting the sunset on film

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@sdamico Iain Banks remains undefeated

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@MattPolProf I'm partial to Freedman's Strategy: a History

Not traditional "intellectualism", but it's a top contender, in a domain often overlooked

[蒔島梓@バ美肉お絵描きVTuber @azusa_maxima]

カロリーはともかくバーガーくんの不健康部分ってだいたい横にいるポテトくんのせいな気はする

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@FrankPepper12 @thogge Alcibiades kicking and screaming right now

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@coachlandry0 @OliverWikdahl @DenisUhrik @codyvalo Good luck!

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No, I hate the environment, and I actively pursue harming the world's poor. I dump my toxic waste into the tenderloin whenever possible

Haha of course, you're more likely to help someone with whom you share history, relate, connect. And for all of our altruism, we have an equal capacity for violence and war. Yet in what universe is running into a burning building to save a stranger's cat racially or socioeconomically dependent?

Society is a complex place with endless incentives pushing us into antisocial directions. Collaboration is the only way to overcome them, and we often lose. But we win, too, and the world is better when we do

Not only that, the world today is only possible because, for millennia, we have chosen to coordinate. There are infinite local minima we could have fallen into; instead, we banded together and marched on. So when I meditate on Moloch, I try to remind myself that people have chosen, at times haltingly, at times paintfully, to collaborate and trust one another since the dawn of time

It's not likely to stop now

(though there's something to be said about bad actors having such an outsized influence now due to social media & technology, but that's kind of a different discussion!)

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@Ruesavatar @weqimon @oliveegger @undeniableverve Not a chance. We're the most prosocial creature on earth. We literally run into burning buildings to save non-humans

I hate this cynicism that's taken such deep root. We're made to coexist and collaborate, not to be game-theoretic sociopaths

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@MLSophist Historically, people would actively betray their friends and family for saying the wrong thing (Greek Stasis, Parisian Terror, etc.)

But our current level of social trust is suddenly and structurally unrecoverable?

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