Nietzsche

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• Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged was appealing, in part, because it gave the message that it was okay to be, not just good, but better than others
  • but it also said that the reason for one's own failure is the "looters" who don't approve of that excellence, and that there is a conspiracy of mediocrity
• Rationality can be seen through a reasonableness-based view or a winning-based view
  • the reasonableness-based view silently blames the rest of the world's unreasonableness for failures
• Rationality should adapt to others' strategies and not depend on them
• when faced with a probable failure, some people will start to impose handicaps on themselves to give an excuse for failure
• this does not mean that there aren't legitimate barriers to success, but it can also mean that failure is partially self-created
• "...what good does a sense of *violated entitlement do? At all? Ever? What good does it do to tell ourselves that we did everything right and deserved better, and that someone or something else is to blame? Is that the key thing we need to change, to do better next time?
  Immediate adaptation to the realities of the situation! Followed by winning!"

a commonly held set of beliefs in young Americans:

1. A God exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on earth.
2. God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions.
3. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself.
4. God does not need to be particularly involved in one's life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.
5. Good people go to heaven when they die.

• "moralistic" because it teaches that the goal is to be a moral person rather than to follow divine tenets
• "therapeutic deism" because the God is distant and only intervenes when needed to solve a problem

therapeutic usefulness of religion vs orthodox christianity

How Tagging Works in the GVSI

Everything should have at least one tag from the list of top-level tags. More than one top-level tag is allowed (and recommended if applicable). Tags should always be in lowercase, unless referencing a proper noun or acronym like PIM (things like Christianity don't count and will be lower-case).

• politics - applied philosophy, policy debate, politicians, polarization
• philosophy - rationality, gender, morality, existentialism, economic theory, political science
• psychology - psychiatry, mental illness
• technology - hardware, software, security
• language - linguistics, Japanese, German, Russian
• religion - christianity, shintoism, spirituality, magic
• art - music, architecture
• history
• education - personal information management (PIM), Anki/SRS, learning, blogging
• medicine
• food
• games - (video games)

Specialty Tags

• utilities - (tools that are interactive, not just writing)
• ae0 - ...
• shopping - (places to buy items of XYZ type)
• css

The easiest way to apply tags is to give the top-level tag followed by sub-tags, then another top-level tag and it's sub tags. For example, food in middle-ages Christian monasteries might be:
religion christianity food history middle_ages

Meta Tag

Only things related to GVSI or related works should be included in the meta tag.

One thing I like about rationality is that it is flexible. It does not prescribe any particular object-level belief or action.

1. Use as few tags as possible.
2. Limit yourself to a self-defined set of tags.
3. Tags within your set must not overlap.
4. By convention, tags are in plural.
5. Tags are lower-case.
6. Tags are single words.
7. Keep tags on a general level.
8. Omit tags that are obvious.

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   And my own addition: never allow a "general" or "misc" tag because everything is "general" or "misc". It just highlights the areas a tagging system is lagging.

A useful object-level introduction to Anki

When I ask them about their blogging adventures, they readily admit that they only write when they’re out of work to promote their freelance work. That’s not a blog. That’s corporate sales. Things like Blogging For Devs make my stomach turn. I’m glad it helps people get into blogging, but please, stop thinking about SEO and how to “build a resume”. Again, that’s not blogging. That’s corporate sales. Sure, nothing wrong with a bit of self-promotion, but if it ain’t nothing but that, to me, it’s not worth reading it.

3d scans of art and architecture of the world, ready for 3d printing

Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.

• "if, over your lifetime, you will spend more than 5 minutes looking something up or will lose more than 5 minutes as a result of not knowing something, then it’s worthwhile to memorize it with spaced repetition."
• "don’t use spaced repetition if you need it sooner than 5 days or it’s worth less than 5 minutes"

At Black Hat USA 2015 this summer (2015), I spoke about the danger in having Kerberos Unconstrained Delegation configured in the environment. When Active Directory was first released with Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft had to provide a simple mechanism to support scenarios where a user authenticates to a Web Server via Kerberos and needs to ...

Not only is any sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic; any sufficiently advanced technologist seems like a magician. In order to write the new version of this life description, I need to imagine a version of myself who, by definition, I cannot understand. If I understood her she wouldn’t be magical.

Trying to envision magicians feels less clear, at least for me. My vision is likely to stem from a combination of a bunch of people or concepts I’ve encountered, so the same strategy applies as for finding magicians (giving my brain a lot of examples to work with). Questions I like to ask myself include:

• ‘What is the most capable version of me that I can imagine?’
• ‘What would I be like/spend my time doing if all my current major problems had been solved?’
• ‘What are the things I say I value but don’t act as if I value, and what would my life feel like on inside if I actually acted as if I valued those things?’
• ‘What am I afraid of doing, and what would my life be like if I wasn’t afraid of doing those things?’.

You can’t keep your gaze tightly fixed on the outcome you want because it will lock your mind onto the strategies you currently have for meeting them, which by definition probably don’t work (otherwise you would have succeeded already and you wouldn’t need to use the strategy).

and we live in hell

With the “balletcore” hashtag trending on TikTok and Gen Z reinterpreting the aesthetic, ballet fashion is being reclaimed for a new generation.

In Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker, a series of Culinarian quests calls to mind Silicon Valley meal substitute tech like Soylent and MealSquares.