Luigi Mangione
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M.S.E. and B.S.E. in Computer Science @ Penn
Honolulu, Hawaii
Joined April 2016
7 years ago, I gave my hs senior speech on this topic: “Today, I will be talking to you about the future, about topics ranging from conscious artificial intelligence to human immortality. Likely, you’ll dismiss all this pretty quickly as interesting, but just science fiction…”.
I don't know if the future is going to be utopia or dystopia. But it's unlikely to be anything in between.
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@G_S_Bhogal This is why Jordan Peterson always bothers me. Overcomplicates everything he says aloud, wasting everyone's mental bandwidth in having to decipher it. The best teachers are the best communicators: clear, succinct, simple language.
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Modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal. The solution to falling birthdates isn’t immigration. It’s cultural. Encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness and spirituality:.* ban Tenga fleshlights and “Japan Real Hole”.
Immigration won’t solve anything, it’s maybe a short term solution at best. Japan will be fine as long as it stays Japanese.
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@oldbooksguy “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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horror vacui (nature abhors a vacuum). relevant read, "Christianity's decline has unleashed terrible new gods": "New Atheism assumed that, as people abandoned Christianity they would embrace a sort of enlightened, secular position. The death of Christian.
Richard Dawkins when he disproves God and within 2 decades his side is worshipping at the DEI shrine, using made-up pronouns like religious mantras, and firing professors for saying men cant get pregnant
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"Cellular agriculture is where solar power was 20 years ago, and EV batteries were 10 years ago.". 👇Free, ethical money for anyone who's paying attention. This succinct, 5-minute article by The Telegram overviews Agronomics and the current state of cell-agriculture.
Lab-grown food may be the next great investment boom – and save the world in the process
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@minordissent so you’re saying this question doesn’t haunt you. also you don’t have a doghouse.
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These are phenomenal. Took me years to learn on my own.
I've been going to the gym for 10 years. Here are 50 things I wish I had known from the beginning:. 1. A gym membership is cheaper and more effective than antidepressants.
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Part 3/3.If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems,.If 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species,.Then what topics does the 21st century mind explore?.I'd say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks.
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@minordissent This always baffles me too. Not a difficult concept. When I was 15, I wrote a paper about Christianity's rise over (secular) Roman Paganism due to fitness-enhancing benefits for the plebs:
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"Being smart makes you more prone to confirmation bias. In retrospect, it shouldn't have been surprising. Confirmation bias is what happens when the little lawyer in your head takes control of your thinking process—and smart people have a very smart little lawyer in there.".
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Part 2/3.But now I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would've had access to.
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@minordissent I should have added some context with that clip. I wasn't trying to contradict you, but rather bolster your point. Tucker is spot-on in recognizing that modern architecture kills the spirit, but his very first line "post-modern architecture is designed to demoralize and hurt.
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Part 1/3.I used to get bummed in math class when learning theorems: "All the low-hanging fruit has been solved before I was born! If I was alive at the time of Pythagoras I could've easily derived the Pythagorean theorem and etched my place in history!".
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“When we understand just how fast the rate of human progress is increasing, a revolutionary near future isn’t unbelievable, it’s actually the only logical conclusion.”
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“…Or worse, you might simply think I’m crazy. But, if you just stay with me for these next eight minutes, I’m confident I can convince you not only of my sanity, but also that the next hundred years of our future are going to be unlike anything humanity has ever seen before.”.
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“Finally, be excited for what the future holds for us. We may have been born into one of the most exciting times on earth, regardless of the singularity. We might not recognize it in our day to day lives, but the world is changing fast.”
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It’s 2022 and we live in the future. What a wild time to be alive.
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@DTOM76Gadsden @oldbooksguy “When the population gets dumber these systems break down which in turn means the population decreases”… I see no logical reason why this follows. You underestimate the power of how a few intelligent people + robust systems can keep all the idiots afloat.
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@waitbutwhy When I first became agnostic I was almost anti-religion. Thought religious people were wasting precious time trapped in a delusion. But now, I see no problem with it if they aren’t pushing their beliefs and it helps them cope with death, etc. I’m kinda jealous actually.
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I believe this book will go down in history as the most important philosophical text of the early 21st century.
My book What's Our Problem? is now available. The book introduces a new framework for thinking about our chaotic political environment. With 303 drawings, it's a toolbox for understanding our societies, our group dynamics, and our own minds. Get it here:
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@G_S_Bhogal This is true when comparing 2 choices in a vacuum, but when there exists >2 choices, we actually tend to find more similar choices easier to compare. Great excerpt from Dan Ariely's "Predictably Irrational":
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@CostelloWilliam Utilitarian Ethics vs Virtue Ethics:. Utilitarian: The action is good if the consequences are good.Virtue: The action is good if it’s what a virtuous person would do. Poll results indicate respondents’ moral frameworks. Homicide: worse consequences.Rape: worse virtues.
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric".
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@ChrisWillx "Drug abuse" isn't fair criteria imo. The most intelligent, open-minded individuals I know all manipulate and push the buttons of their pysche via *specific* drugs. "Drug abuse" should distinguish psilocybin, marijuana from addictive soul-suckers like meth, fentanyl, etc.
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@oldbooksguy Have you seen the movie Idiocracy? It predicts the opposite of what you suggest: the overall dumbing down of humanity with the entire bell curve shifting left due to reproductive dynamics. It's obviously satire, but I've always worried that's the direction we are heading.
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@minordissent Wdym. You don’t believe depression has a genetic component? The issue with this guy is that he’s discounting “nurture” so hard he’s voluntarily ending his own bloodline.
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@Gabe_Swan_a11y @RealChrisLangan Does he really think twitter is going out of their way to "shadow ban" him?.The much simpler, and obvious explanation is that no one wants to hear him complain ad infinitum into the void. Schizo ramblings produce nothing of value. As if Twitter devotes time and resources to.
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@minordissent Maybe because there is overlap in these problems? (fixing society vs fixing the self) E.g.: observing how smartphones negatively impact on a societal level helps me understand how mine impacts me on a personal level + how I can fix my own use.
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Tucker Carlson: "Moscow has not been degraded by postmodern architecture that destroys your spirit". Chris Cuomo: "You believe postmodern architecture is designed to kill your spirit?!". Tucker: "Of course." Cuomo: "Why?". Tucker's answer will blow your mind. A rant for the ages:
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@johnnyxbrown Just saw that you are a Legion athlete. Makes sense!.I was thinking this thread was a great compilation of the best ideas from Bigger Leaner Stronger, Huberman Lab, and direct learned experience.
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@waitbutwhy @waitbutwhy.Tim, you perpetually waste time on Twitter (you're a long-time Twitter power user) and you're also a big thinker on group dynamics. Do you have an idea for what monetary/political forces are mainly driving the unrelated content spam?.
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@ChrisWillx But if we're screening soldiers, maybe we don't want free-thinkers so "drug abuse" should remain vague as to capture both maverick thinkers and dopamine junkies.
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@ChrisWillx That 23% eligibility is initially scary, but remember we do want a population of diverse thinkers, not a factory-line of identical soldier drones. What remains concerning is that such a massive % of men fail physical standards, which in no context is advantageous to the group.
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@Gabe_Swan_a11y @RealChrisLangan Self-important and bizarre. "X is clearly folding, spindling, and mutilating the metadata.".
Being throttled like this isn't doing much for my morale. 66K+ followers, but just 2.3K views after over 3 hours . no, it simply doesn't add up, especially given the (very low) mean quality of writing on this site. X is clearly folding, spindling, and mutilating the metadata.
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@waitbutwhy @waitbutwhy do you think one day this could be taught in school curricula? What would that take?.
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@minordissent I.e.: the same problems + solutions exist across the progressive levels of the emergence tower:
Emergence is the phenomenon of things combining together into something that's more than the sum of its parts. A single human is really just one layer within a big tower of emergence. Groups of humans are like giant organisms. Tribalism is when those giants don't like each other.
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@ChrisWillx Evolutionary mismatch of homo sapiens and its 21st century living environment is unfathomably immense. Is it surprising to see so few well adjusted individuals?.
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@datepsych @datepsych "overwhelming consensus" in psychology?. Seems contrary to your tweet from ~1 year ago:. "Only about half of social psychologists believe that Darwinian evolution applies to the human mind.". Has consensus shifted rapidly or am I missing smth?.
Only about half of social psychologists believe that Darwinian evolution applies to the human mind.
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@datepsych Part 7/7.Then, I recall a worldwide study on human dreams, tracking the most common nightmare in each country. “Snakes” and “spiders” are overwhelming at the top of the list. Seems to follow that human aversion to snakes is similarly ingrained.
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@datepsych Part 1/.When someone denies that human psych is evolved, I start with the initial logical statement “evolution is real” and then try to build up to “the human mind is evolved” through a series of lemmas (stepping stones).
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@KickStarter60 @michaelpollan Actually, the graph shows that Americans prefer to cook in! At all points on the graph, % of spending on groceries is at least ~57% of total spending. This graph is just confusing by using two vertical axes with different scales.
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@datepsych Nuts that last graph doesn't match the first. People have a hard time grasping that the mind evolves like the body.
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@waitbutwhy The day has come! iOS 16 just released today with this feature. Go update your phone.
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@PsyPost @datepsych these differences seem intuitive. I wonder to what extent they are a product of nurture (the landscape an individual is born into affecting their personality) vs nature (mobility allows individuals to choose their preferred environments - schelling's model segregation).
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@datepsych Part 5/7.If someone disagrees with (2.5), I bring up an animal study in which newborn birds raised in isolation in a lab flip out when introduced to a black/red stick (characteristic of predatory snake in their natural environment) but not other colors/shapes.
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@datepsych Part 6/7.Basically, their behavior to avoid snakes is hardwired. I can’t remember where I heard the study, or if I’m recalling it exactly, think I heard it in an old uni lecture.
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@datepsych Rereading your tweet and noticed this poll asked *social psychologists*. I thought these were figures for the general population. Crazier than I thought.
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@datepsych Part 3/7.This poll is similar, it asks "do you believe…” and finds:.1) animals AND humans evolved via darwinian evolution? ✅.2) humans evolved by darwinian evolution? ✅.3) human behavior evolved? 🤷♂️.
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