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My quotes, moved over
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In times like these, I think it is more important to find what is beautiful than to think about what it is important.
Whereas competition is good for the brain, domination is terrible for the brain, let alone the soul.
The problem with the Matrix's choice of pills is that it is a discrete choice -- one and done. Instead, the system channels rebellion, so you need constant, boring, and, sigh, eventually frustrating vigilance.
Shakespeare was able to invent so many words in part because he didn't have a computer telling him each coinage was wrong.
I am deliberately trying to ignore the macro-level. While I have failed often, I think my secret weapon is the Spring.
As a general rule, don't let people show contempt for what they don't understand. And since most people don't really understand anything. . .
Three things on the internet fill me the most with existential dread: dark humor from tribe-D, dark humor from truthful environmentalist, and the techno-optimists . . . How privileged do you have to be to think rendering humans obsolete will go well for you?
When you read other's words you are under a spell. When you write, you break your own spell.
If someone drops that they went to Harvard in a conversation, ask them what their favorite lecture and/or lesson was. They may recover, but they'll be confused for a good, long moment.
Boycott news. . . Why die tense?
Dumbledore's incompetence lead to the radicalization of Slytherin.
Books are never dipshits to me. Your move, internet.
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The best tweets of others
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No individual presided over making Earth such a hellhole. Much destructive behaviour is just individual survival tactics that scaled poorly.— Sindre (@Triquetrea) September 1, 2017
We keep electing sociopaths because what we want from our leaders is impossible and only liars would promise it to us— brainsturbator (@brainsturbator) September 26, 2014
It is very difficult to make unsexy topics sexy. Traits that make it hard to create good conversations: things change slowly and gradually with no big breakpoints, vast information gap between small core of deep insiders and large apathetic outside world, no Hero’s Journey arcs— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) January 10, 2018
At a high enough rate of change, nothing stands still long enough to maintain the illusion of permanence.— Sindre (@Triquetrea) January 3, 2018
Great for personal transformation, awful for social cohesion.
Punishing enemies and wrongdoing, moreso than free markets or religious morality, is the most common element of a right-wing argument.— Arthur Otke Keim (@ArthurOtkeKeim) January 12, 2018
Nothing is more viscerally offensive to a rightist than seeing outsiders prosper by a bad act.
i reject any vision of the world in which victims are blamed when someone deliberately victimizes them— Gravis (edited) (@gravislizard) January 10, 2018
I'm glad to finally be at a place in my life where I no longer suspect I need to learn to code.— Ariel Greenwood (@greenwoodae) January 22, 2018
The uniquely American fetishization of cars is both a symptom and a cause of our social dysfunction. It’s one of the big contributors to the growing polarization and tribalization of our country.— Alan Cooper (@MrAlanCooper) January 20, 2018
...by the late 2010s, talking ape societies oriented around "telepathy stone" technology could no longer cope with sharing minds... pic.twitter.com/xAKSq9xliI— Ian Willey (@Ian_Willey) January 27, 2017
For liberalism to survive and eventually thrive again, it basically *has* to solve problem of low-income housing in cities in medium term— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) February 16, 2017
I wonder if you can actually train people to not think of elephants when someone says "Don't think of an elephant."— Chris Johnson (@spiderfoods) January 18, 2018
Future of entire world may rest on that question.
AIs will never match humans at problem-solving through intuition, love, humor and spirituality.Those are dumb meatbag ways to solve problems— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) March 10, 2016
Diversity is not a problem to be solved, it is the precondition for the existence of any interesting behaviour e.g. innovation & resillience— Sonja Blignaut (@sonjabl) January 17, 2018
@leashless literacy had a fairly good run but it may be a blip in the arc of humanity. Back to storytelling now.— KarmicResonance~🏴 (@bhangakhana) March 4, 2017
If your response to experiencing a pattern you despise is to replicate that pattern a thousand times more, you have no memetic immune system and have become a host.— niftierideology (monky) (@niftierideology) January 13, 2018
Alas it's quite difficult to publicly not spread memes so that others can learn from your example.— Durchlass Kilometer 5,698 (@emareaf) November 21, 2019
