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An explanation of how I use peg lists, major memory, journaling, and Anki as one big, happy system.
Answering whether "stupid" is an ablest slur.
Response to someone claiming "science is the new god" so it was the job of scientists to tell us more things we didn't want to hear (but only the way the user wanted it done).
Aphorisms/Shorts
You are overhead for the technosphere. Prepare to be more human or prepare to be liquidated. Actually, prepare for both.
I'm not sure of much, but someone as sure as you is probably wrong.
The first step is to have someone read harder than they would read regular life. But you cannot neglect having something of value to give if they go to the trouble.
For $10,000 -- $5,000 upfront -- I will rewrite War and Peace into a Infinite-Jest-style narrative for you, footnotes and all.
Life is so much more interesting when you are learning new stuff instead of being told that you are going to like what is exactly like something you have enjoyed before.
If you met my 83 year-old Grandma you wouldn't be saying 100 is the new 80 (not even getting into the fact my other 3 grandparents are dead). Rather, the new selection bias is the old selection bias.
We live in a society that thinks it has no time for politeness markers, but then wonders why everyone is angry at each other.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by twitter.
