"I'm a Bayesian" = I do arithmetic on my unprocessed feelings.

Cf rat love for empirical (lol), quantitave (lmao) race science.

That's an altogether too sane and healthy take.

Wyst delivered as uncathected request can destroy a man in seconds. You really do need to prepare for a meltdown if you employ it.

Also reliable if you're up for eliciting something betw toddler tantrum and ragetilt is to say, mildly, "Will you stop talking [please]?" and then when they don't "Oh. I guess you won't" and then deny attention.

10y ago at wsop event Layne Flack is having a more or less pleasant but largely one-sided conv with tourist rec (burly white guy) who after 5m politely bows out and dons giant "don't talk to me" cans.

Flack: "I can't deal with that" and *lifts up the guy's left earpiece* to continue

Rec: wtf man

Apple and Google have had continuous time data on precisely how fast each of us drives for nearly 20y now.

But it would be considered intolerable abrogation of "freedom" to receive a speeding ticket on your phone.

Comes with a handy fold out chart: www.cuke.com/pdf-2015/lin...

Zen's propaganda about Zen is that it's "a special transmission outside the scriptures". In the essential, yes, but Zen's own canon consists of a long literary tradition. Imo a necessary backgrounder for allusions and refs is Andy Ferguson's _Zen's Chinese Heritage_.

"more sympathetic to" is an odd survey question framing re:right wing kid in chronic pain vs actuarial Stalin

Ik economics is the most racist discipline after philosophy but still surprised that Tyler Cowen gets a complete pass on this