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This is crazy. https://x.com/waitbutwhy/status/1859376059474706702
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It's amazing how much effort Ayn Rand gave to understanding people that hate her.
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Wow, just finished The Fountainhead. I can see why a book from 1943 is regaining in popularity. The themes in her book are playing out right before our eyes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLzc9kobDk&ab_channel=LexFridman Wow, it's crazy that there were poverty managers that take a cut out of the money that was supposed to be given to the poor. Also, his eyes speak volumes.
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Cehs acking if thios wkr
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"He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion--prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded." "Then he wonders why he's unhappy. Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or precious to us are the things we withdraw from promiscuous sharing. But now we are taught to throw everything within us into public light and common pawing."
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Working thought: Meritocracy is a spectrum that can mean aristocracy to autocracy.
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Was just thinking that a lot of people are on anti-depressants, and that means that we are normalizing hating one's life. https://warpcast.com/shawki/0x5178c2f8
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I've heard two theories as to how NPCs become NPCs. One from Carl Jung which was that they never encountered impossible problems. The other from Ayn Rand which was that they are second handers.
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How I imagine the transition from collectivism to individualism will look like. Instead of individuals fitting to systems, systems will fit to individuals. There will be many systems, and it will look like a choose your own adventure game. We will start to compare systems, and this will look very different than what we know. Because there is only one system, we run into the problem of having false dichotomies such as success or failure because everyone is measured by the same standard. In a world where systems fit to individuals, we will wonder if there was any potential left to actualize.
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https://x.com/nabeel/status/1858312857554964625
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I liked Burnham's point that history is best told through the lens of the elite rather than the majority or the great man because they are the ones with the most impact. It got me thinking about what would the world look like if tech became the new elite, and today, I think found a hint in this article that talks about the two philosophies in tech: replace humans or expand the possibilities. Aggregator vs Platform. https://stratechery.com/2018/techs-two-philosophies/
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https://x.com/karrisaarinen/status/1857964052179484917?s=46
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Everyone trying to change education today starts from a school. Wouldn’t it make more sense to go from online to on land.
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Picked up this book from Olgivy’s recommendation.
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Positing: Marriage is the marrying of institutions. Your family is the first institution, and that’s why you bring your families together.
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https://youtu.be/7X0heCzy10E?si=X66pVrEDUGiXbcg_ Watching this video made me wonder whether people are interested in Nietzsche’s idea of the will to power or the repercussions of destroying the conscious.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj2v_covEpo Some of these stats are wild especially the ones about education and married parent households.
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I can see why people wanted the chron feeds. The algo / trending feeds are monopolized by the whales.
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