alex @alexthecamel@schelling.pt

support for the all-or-nothing theory of poly!
i am a fan of the all-or-nothing theory of poly

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RT @Aella_Girl
Some monog people are like "Ugh I tried poly and it was horrible", or "I know poly people and their lives are horrible".
My hypothesis is that they're seeing ppl who are *partially* poly. Full poly people are rarer, and in my data rate their relationships better than full monogs. https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1630716…
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1630779638615248896

:o
can we teach people to be shape rotators?
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RT @sashachapin
I cured my aphantasia, so I’ve got that going for me, which is nice

https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/i-cured-my-aphantasia-with-a-low
https://twitter.com/sashachapin/status/1630331871145123842

the rest of this metaphor is an exercise for the reader

ppl keep confusing "wokeness" for a memeplex when its really a Cambrian explosion of memes
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RT @eigenrobot
rather, by understanding the causes of its sudden dominance, we might alight upon some means of displacing it, and of mitigating or preventing a future recrudescence; and perhaps some tools to avoid the emergence of an even more unsalutary memeplex

fin
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1629760075089756160

@niplav nah polyamory is based

tfw psychiatry accidentally invents gender dysphoria without the gender but has absolutely no literature noticing this fact
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RT @pawnofcthulhu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder
also jesus why isn't there a
ddx: gender dysphoria here
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1629426927542083587

"am I doing this right" is an important question that a lot of working mathematicians are bad at asking!

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RT @pawnofcthulhu
I find this thread/anecdote pretty surprising -- to me this type of thinking is quite native to my style of mathematics, and it's Terry Tao!
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/109633672161867361
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1614811496009064449

i honestly suspect that the difference between me and like, a lot of (esp. women) with math trauma when it comes to math is
when I ask myself "am I doing this right" I come up with a way to check
when they ask this they go to an authority figure
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RT @QiaochuYuan
anyway, in case it helps to hear me say it: anyone is capable of doing math. some of you have, for lack of a better word, "math trauma," and that trauma can be resolved, an…
https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1423033434239168515

like
it is a good idea to be familiar with relationship styles before you try them!
just don't mistake your confusion about how it works for a lack of actual rules.

also guys: it's not that poly is this complicated untested shiny new thing, you're just not familiar with it.

i think i'd previously suspected that there was something of the order of multiple sd of gain in math education to be had, if we were willing to spare the labor for personalisation
probably should have checked whether 'just try khanacadamy' was good enough

i mean there's a thing about education innovations in that they tend to be very impressive for the first few people who try them
at the same time...

uh
wow
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RT @AustinScholar
According to nationwide MAP testing, the average high school student in the United States learns… nothing. 👇
https://twitter.com/AustinScholar/status/1626706736890494977

i stg the more galaxy brained sex-negative y'all get about this stuff the more likely you actually are to weird people out

https://imgflip.com/i/7c5hx6

i feel like i need to create a midwit meme here

why am I getting into arguments about casual sex on the EA forum
are you *trying* to convert me to Objectivism?