Anything people say before the “but” 1) doesn’t count, 2) is a sign of weakness & should be avoided in straightforward prose.
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OK,OK, will add a few steps. The Orthodox fast (too many carbs) makes one lazy.
I made a deal with John Gray where I would stop writing nontechnical books and just promote his as they read as if I wrote them myself.
Education & intellectualization make people think in Universal terms for local problems, with no awareness of Scalability. #SkinInTheGame 2) Love of humanity doesn’t force you to open your living room to ALL passers by. But you may invite a few. Complex systems are stratified. 3) Humanities academics are rejects w/no common sense substituting thinking w/universal slogans, destroying student’s discernment, reasoning
A. Tversky once said he didn’t care about *artificial intelligence*,he studied *natural stupidity*. I prefer to study *artificial stupidy*. Artificial stupidity comes w/ overriding the Lindy-compatible in favor of some bias invented by some ignorant nerd like @r_thaler
There is no worse vice than one that imitates virtue; worst of all is the one that claims virtue: virtue signaling. 2/ Virtue signaling is virtue without courage, without skin in the game, which is why it is getting more common. 3) I am procrastinating w/ *Skin in the Game* as I can’t find *virtue signaling* in classics (#Lindy),nothing beyond hypocrisy. Is it new? 4) “Bullshit vending” was present in the classics, as more politely “Smoke vending” “Vendere fumum” Compiled in Erasmus (Adagia, I, 3, 41 )
Mr Abdulla I came here running away from intolerant Salafis like you & separation of ch & state. No chasing me here.
In 1960s, Cyprus, Lebanon & Malta had similar wealth, genes & culture. Cyprus & Malta embraced the West. Lebanon tried “Arabism”. Disaster.
Mr Abdulla I came here running away from intolerant Salafis like you & separation of ch & state. No chasing me here. We Christians have been made uncomfortable & not at home in the Levant; we feel at home with Western values & want to keep it as such.
Greene is CLUELESS abt risk/probblty.”Odds” are NOT past frequencies for fat tailed distributions ! Only thintailed
