John Hoang

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I saw some tiktok mention that One Piece is the Illiad or epic of our times, and I can't get it out my head. Each of the main characters symbolize a different country, and all of them are unified in the pursuit of freedom and prosperity.

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From Steve Jobs “You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life.” “If this was the last day of my life…”

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Something that’s been bothering me for awhile now is Thiel’s talk with Peterson where he mentioned that being irrational isn’t the way to go. Just hit me that he talks about Zuck’s irrationality when he rejected the 1 billion acquisition offer, and essentially saying that founders need this kind of irrationality to break through.

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In other cultures, there is a ritual for a boy to become a man, but I've been curious as to why there isn't one in the West. I realized that the manual for becoming a man and the path out of the self harm we are doing is in the Bible. In this cast, I mentioned that a worldview fractured, and when this happens your psyche is split into two because the thing holding you together is gone. When this happens, you lose your grounding which makes you uncertain. At some point, the idea that it's easier to forgo life altogether appears, and one part of your psyche turns on you. The internal struggle you experience during this is just manifest in the real world because in some people, one psyche is winning. That said, the way out of this isn't to defeat the so called devil, but rather to choose love because the only way out is to replace a false idol with a true idol. That's why the Bible says Jesus saved you because we would be caught in this loop otherwise.

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Kind of crazy how you can only be for or against racism. The opposite of racism is not anti-racism, but individualism. Part of this belief is that good ideas are paramount, and good ideas can come from any individual. That’s why we rank ideas based on their merit and have science to force out bad ideas.

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Isn't a better measure of marriage whether or not the marriage had a form of self-actualization, rather than time together? Moving to this as a standard is a lot better than reverting to traditional norms of bread winner and house caretaker. I'm not sure what it means for a marriage to self-actualize, but I think a hint lies in the difference between give-give and give-take relationships. A lot of marriages are in the give and take zone, which is better than the take and take zone, but not as good as the give and give zone.

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There's a lot of nootropics out there purporting to make your brain better, but if you consider changing the ideas in your brain, you might unlock exponentially more lol.

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A situation where you can seek truth while being open and not be a totalitarian is fallibilism.

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I’ve come to understand the red pill movement and the recent surge in religion as a search for masculinity.

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what's a good ship to yap ratio?

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My thesis of how we got here is shifting to the idea that the reaction to the world wars is ending because it reached a tipping point where preventing totalitarianism eventually led to totalitarianism. The reaction was to have a bias towards being open, but being open to everything eventually led to being open to nothing. All of this rests upon the original problem of the death of God, which in its modern formulation are questions like what is Good, Truth, Beauty, and Morality. https://youtu.be/-lNDgLR_DSI?si=H5xAJwYG1JDWh5oD

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It's time to fuck around and find out what else is achievable without the bureaucracy.

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Sorry for the garbage writing, I wrote this as a mental note for myself. In this cast, I was indefinitely optimistic, but I would like to turn it into definite optimism. Here's how we reroute around the bureaucracy that is the Academia. - AI is automation which produces a need for higher expertise. - The current institution is terrible at training for expertise because the way they force us to learn runs directly counter to building expertise. - Build the infrastructure to build expertise and use the internet to distribute infinite copies of the infrastructure. - Exit at a fraction of the cost.

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https://x.com/davidsacks/status/1929951203015659571?s=46 Lmaoo

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Who do I call for false advertisement? The sign says “free kisses”, but the cat never lets me approach it.

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https://youtu.be/18H_DIhDhUo?si=gdJxF8l7X5bk_9gp Sort of mind blown by this discussion because it’s the first I’ve heard of this kind. They talk about manliness, family, and the return of strong gods. It really hit me that I came of age in such a weird time. I want to add to the list of differences between manly men and gentlemen. One walks like he has nothing to lose, and the other walks like he’s ready to lose everything.

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To me, the woke left and the woke right just want to be loved. The problem is that the woke left wants to be adored without lovability, and the woke right wants to be admired without merit.

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A lot of people draw connections between the Fall of the Roman Empire with the US. After reading Rubicon, I can see the similarities in the decadence and the political events, but one difference is that I think the Roman Empire fell due to being dependent upon slaves which was not increasingly productive. The US is facing similar problems due to bureaucracy which is also a large class that is not increasingly productive, but the difference is that we have technology which can reroute around this class. You can build your own audience, create movies, learn, and earn without having to depend on bureaucracy. I think will lead the US into a different outcome than the Roman Empire.

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My premonition is that once we solve aging, we’re going to learn that dying is easier than changing.

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just finished listening to a lecture on youtube on my walk, and it really brings back memories to a time where I had to sit through an hour of professors intellectually masturbating.

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