niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

I think I expected adults to have a model of the world, and at least one unified coherent worldview. I was naive to do so, since that couldn't have explained why most adults are boring — but I'm still surprised by how little most people have thought about the world

"but" is the most suspicious word in the English language

Nominative determinism: The "sandwalk choreographer" in the new Dune has the last name Millepied

Opposition to publicly speaking ABOUT own IQ as a countermeasure for people to Schelling around it

I don't see it as a competition, I see it as something to ignore

Sie instrumentalisieren die Wälder

It's fair to say that Emily Riehl without a Twitter account is the perfect human

"there is no alpha left in words having meaning"

Using "alpha" like other people use "Dopamine"

How much a system is in equilibrium is determined by the variance of gradients in that system.

There is no alpha left in biological life

if you have a universal recommendation

your model of humans is probably too narrow

lw sequences movie adaptation